Posted in Featured tours, Q-and-A, Wildlife on Apr 30th, 2010 No Comments »
© Jürgen Freund / WWF-Canon Naturalist Rick Price awoke in Indonesia last month to a beautiful morning: A mirror calm sea, full sun, a few cottony clouds dotting the blue sky. The goal for the day was to search out a species considered as gruesome as the day was gorgeous: the fabled Komodo dragon. Price [...]
Posted in Wildlife, WWF news on Apr 26th, 2010 No Comments »
The largest cat of all, the tiger is a powerful symbol among the different cultures that share its home. But this magnificent animal is being persecuted across its range. Over the past 100 years, tiger numbers have declined from 100,000 to as low as 3,200. Among its threats: Poaching and illegal trade For more than [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Apr 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
© Jon Aars / Norwegian Polar Institute / WWF-Canon WWF’s podcasts let you hear straight from the experts on issues affecting the Arctic. Among them, Margaret Williams speaks in front of a Senate Committee on behalf of polar bears, Geoff York explains why people should care about the species, Martin Sommerkorn describes why Arctic sea [...]
Posted in Travel tips on Apr 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
© WWF-Canon / Richard Stonehouse Take a moment this Earth Day to check out our list of eco-friendly travel tips. We cover everything from packing smartly and recycling abroad, to conserving energy on an airplane.
Posted in Wildlife on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
A humpback whale jumping out of the water. © Sylvia Earle / WWF-Canon Habitat: Humpback whales make extensive seasonal migrations: Winters are spent mating and calving in warm sub-tropical waters and summer months are spent in colder waters feeding. Diet: Primarily krill, plankton and small fish. The humpback is a baleen whale, which means it [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Q-and-A, Travel tips on Apr 19th, 2010 No Comments »
What does WWF Galápagos Program Officer Irma Larrea stash in her daypack when she’s “in the field” in the famed Ecuadorian islands? “During my trips to the field, I meet a variety of people that work with us or support our different projects in the Galápagos Islands. So, I pack for inter-island trips, technical meetings [...]
Posted in Photography on Apr 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Soft corals covering a natural reef arch, Papua New Guinea. © Jürgen Freund / WWF-Canon Covering nearly 2.3 million square miles of ocean across all, or parts of, the seas of six countries in the Indo-Pacific—Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste—the Coral Triangle is a myriad of life forms [...]
Posted in WWF news on Apr 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Few places on Earth can match the breathtaking splendor of the Himalayas. Its towering peaks and secluded valleys have inspired naturalists, adventure seekers and spiritualists for centuries. Its diverse landscapes harbor such exotic creatures as red pandas, snow leopards and one-horned rhinos. However, the region is fragile and faces many challenges as a result of [...]
Posted in Special offers, Wildlife, WWF news on Apr 12th, 2010 No Comments »
We have a special offer you’ll want to bear in mind if you’re planning to visit Churchill, Canada, this fall to see the king of the Arctic. Read about it in the April edition of the WWF Travel enewsletter. Missed a past issue or two? Read them at our enewsletter archive. Or sign up to [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Apr 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
© International Expeditions The elegant gray and pink river dolphins that glide majestically through the chocolate-colored waters of the Amazon River aren’t always thought of in such glowing terms. In fact, many residents of the Amazon basin once considered them to be bad luck or even downright evil. “It is believed that these myths kept [...]