Posted in Featured tours on Jan 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Wildlife viewing on safari is one of the few activities that knows no cultural or generational bounds. Few experiences bond travelers of all ages like watching a herd of zebras pass by or a lion on the hunt. Every member of the family will discover fascination, humor and wonder each day. Here are a few [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Iconic animal populations are at risk of habitat loss and poaching, with climate change emerging as the clear threat on WWF International’s Annual Watch List. This year’s watch list includes five species directly impacted by climate change, as well as the monarch butterfly, a species at the center of an endangered biological phenomenon. WWF complete [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Jan 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Naturalist Berit Solstad traveled to Scotland’s Orkney Islands during a 2009 expedition. Here’s what she wrote about this remote archipelago. Today was a study in contrasts: Neolithic dwellings, a castle, a circle of standing stones and a beautiful cathedral. Regardless of era, people build shelters, and many worship. The Orkney Islands are currently home to [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 10th, 2010 No Comments »
World Wildlife Fund’s staff was hard at work over the holidays adding even more destinations to our 2010 tour lineup. See which sets of far-flung islands and other remote destinations we’ll now visit this year in the latest edition of the WWF Travel Enewsletter. Missed a past issue or two? Read them at our enewsletter [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Q-and-A on Jan 5th, 2010 1 Comment »
Going on any style of African safari kicks your senses into high gear, but perhaps none revs them up more than a walking safari. Zambia is the African birthplace of this style of safari, and WWF will offer its first-ever Wild Zambia tour this August. The trip combines classic Jeep drives with walks on the [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jan 5th, 2010 No Comments »
WWF travelers and readers certainly like to go road tripping – or better yet, road “clicking.” Based on the thousands of hits to our blog since its inception in June, here are the most popular posts of 2009: 10. Big Bend National Park: A Birder’s Paradise What makes our tour leader, a master bander and [...]
Posted in Photography on Jan 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
“The art of dancing holds such an esteemed placed in all cultures, throughout all of time. That’s especially true of the Yapese — traditional dance remains a strong part of their identity. Every Yapese person, regardless of his or her place in society, is expected to know how to dance — in fact, as soon [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Jan 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
The rain forests of the Amazon are home to millions of species including some of the world’s most unusual ones. The wildly colored and notoriously toxic poison dart frog is tiny, ranging from.8 to 1.6 inches; it is also one of the region’s most dangerous species. The loud distinctive call of the howler monkey—used to [...]