Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Jan 30th, 2012 No Comments »
Get a sense of what it’s like to experience our Southeast Alaska expedition during this video by Lindblad Expeditions, our tour operator for the program. Join WWF’s Alaska’s Coastal Wilderness tour: May 12-19, 2012 and June 9-16, 2012.
Posted in Featured tours on Jan 17th, 2012 No Comments »
Imagine a huge soup plate that slowly fills up with water and overflows in the rainy season, gradually empties during the dry season and then starts to fill up all over again. That image gives a good idea of what the Pantanal is like; a unique, rich, but threatened ecosystem located in Brazil, Bolivia and [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
The pronghorn faces many challenges—both natural and manmade—during its seasonal migration from Saskatchewan, Canada to Montana. It is the only large mammal in the southern half of North America exhibiting long-distance migration, one of the most dramatic, yet imperiled, biological phenomena. WWF’s Dennis Jorgensen was recently featured on an episode of the PBS series This [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Dec 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Where: In the central Mexican highlands state of Michoacán, a steep climb up from the mountain town of Angangueo. What’s there: Mexico’s only public Monarch butterfly sanctuary, which becomes carpeted, wallpapered and otherwise drenched in orange and black butterflies each winter. Why it’s notable: El Rosario is the most accessible of Mexico’s five protected wintering [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Nov 25th, 2011 No Comments »
WWF tours take you to exotic places around the world, and some of the spots where we lay our heads are even more interesting! Here’s a roundup of articles in our series on the most unusual accommodations on WWF tours. Ecocamp Patagonia: A model for ‘green’ lodging The Tundra Lodge, Canada: Sleeping with the polar [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Nov 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Where: Deep, deep, deep in the rain forest of central Guyana, in South America. What’s there: A 741-foot, high-volume single-drop waterfall sitting atop an ancient plateau that’s considered the oldest layer of rock in the world (more than 2 billion years). Why it’s notable: Sure there are taller waterfalls in the world. But the combination [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Nov 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Seldom considered a tourist destination, the coastal East African nation of Mozambique has a great deal to offer to the nature traveler. Here are ten reasons among the many to visit the “land of smiles.” 1. Pink sand and turquoise waters. Mozambique’s beaches are the definition of paradise, yet so few tourists visit them. Many [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Nov 10th, 2011 1 Comment »
The third largest island in the world, Borneo is home to the oldest rain forests in the world – 130 millions years old, to be exact. That’s a good 70 million years older than the Amazon. Other aspects of Borneo are equally impressive: 3,000 tree species, 220 different mammals, 420 resident bird species. And more [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Nov 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
A glimpse into the journal of National Geographic Explorer naturalist and photographer Jack Swenson during his June 2011 expedition in Arctic Norway … Through the sun-filled hours of the night we made our way southward from Isfjord along the western side of Spitsbergen Island. We were blessed with continued clear skies and calm seas that [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Standing on the verandah of your chalet at the Yala Safari Village, the sun rising over the cool blue of the Indian Ocean a short walk away, something rustling in the dry evergreen forest below catches your eye. It’s too big to be a bird, which number in the thousands at this national park in [...]