Posted in Featured tours, Photography on Mar 31st, 2010 1 Comment »
© Meredith Lopuch/WWF “The Asmat men appeared in 30 or 40 war canoes, stretched across the width of the river. They were decked out in incredible headgear and war paint – even the one- and two-year-old boys. They used their oars like drum sticks to beat on the canoes, and their cries echoed in the [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Mar 29th, 2010 No Comments »
Escape on a one-minute, 47-second trip to the Galápagos and catch closeups of just some of the wildlife and marine life you’ll see on this summer’s Classic Galápagos Voyage with WWF. Explore the Galápagos with WWF: Family Galápagos Adventure, July 29-August 8, 2011 Classic Galápagos, August 5-15, 2011
Posted in WWF news on Mar 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Tonight at 8:30 p.m. local time, join WWF’s global call to action by turning off your lights for one hour. WWF is making progress in the climate change arena. We are promoting efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to implement measures that help nature adapt to climate change. Earth Hour provides a platform for [...]
Posted in Snorkeling on Mar 26th, 2010 1 Comment »
Alvaro Hernandez jumps at every chance he gets to dip into the ocean with whale sharks. As a former senior fisheries officer with WWF’s Mesoamerican Reef team, Hernandez is among the researchers and conservationists trying to learn more about the elusive, massively fish. We spoke with Hernandez from his office in Cancun, Mexico, about the [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife, WWF news on Mar 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
Travelers on WWF’s tour to China this summer will likely be among the first visitors to see two American-born giant pandas that returned to their ancestral homeland last month. Three-year-old Mei Lan, who was born at the Atlanta Zoo, and 4-year-old Tai Shan from the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., relocated to China in early [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Mar 19th, 2010 No Comments »
A new type of tundra vehicle has made viewing polar bears in Churchill, Canada, a smoother and more comfortable ride. The “Polar Rover” is a new and one-of-a-kind “drive train” that safely allows travelers to patrol the tundra in more comfort – a far superior experience than on the bumpy tundra trucks invented three decades [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Mar 17th, 2010 1 Comment »
WWF’s Elissa Poma accompanied our most recent Costa Rica for Families tour. Among what she learned: 8. Monteverde was founded by Quakers. Back in the 1950s, a group of U.S. Quakers avoided being drafted in the Korean War by fleeing into the lush cloud forests of Costa Rica. They chose Costa Rica because it was [...]
Posted in WWF news on Mar 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
Galápagos land iguana © James Frankham / WWF-Canon For more than 45 years, WWF has played an integral role in protecting nature in the Galápagos Islands. WWF’s goal in the Galápagos is to maintain a marine environment that supports its diverse and abundant native species – and the people who depend upon it for their [...]
Posted in WWF news on Mar 13th, 2010 No Comments »
A week from today, hundreds of millions of people will come together to call for action on climate change by doing something quite simple – turning off their lights for one hour. Earth Hour symbolizes that by working together, each of us can make a positive impact in this fight, protecting our future and that [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Mar 12th, 2010 No Comments »
Subject: Tragic lion and elephant calf interaction Location: Kalamu Lagoon Camp, South Luangwa National Park, Zambia Date: 05 August 2009 Yesterday afternoon, a guide and his guests were lucky enough to arrive just a few minutes after an elephant cow had given birth to her calf. Their initial joy was tempered by sadness as they [...]