Posted in Photography on Aug 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
The giant panda is the rarest member of the bear family and among the world’s most threatened animals. It is universally loved and has a special significance for WWF as it has been the organization’s logo since 1961, the year WWF was founded.
See pandas during WWF’s Wild & Ancient China tour.
Posted in Featured tours, Photography on Aug 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Filmaker Ken Burns discusses the beauty of Yellowstone National Park’s winter season in this short video.
Join WWF’s Wolves and Wildlife of Yellowstone tour, scheduled, January 8-11, 2011.
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Posted in Photography, WWF news, Wildlife on Jun 22nd, 2010 1 Comment »
Images of the near-extinct Sumatran rhino were recently captured by WWF’s camera traps in Borneo. Camera traps are simply everyday cameras armed with infrared sensors that take a picture whenever they sense movement in the forest. Pictures obtained from the camera traps help scientists to study wildlife and their habitats.
Experts believe the rhino caught on [...]
Posted in Photography, Wildlife on May 18th, 2010 No Comments »
“Around 6:45 a.m., we came upon a beautiful tiger lying in a natural water spring – a three year old, according to our guide. He had obviously been eating, based on the fact that flies covered his face – and they were really irritating him. He had a fresh kill nearby and leaped up to [...]
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 and [...]
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 trees [...]
Posted in Photography, Wildlife on Feb 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
Of all wildlife species in the Arctic, the polar bear is perhaps its most fitting icon. Its amazing adaptations to life in harsh Arctic ecosystems and its dependence on sea ice make the polar bear an impressive, yet vulnerable species. It’s an amazing animal to see in person.
See the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears, [...]
Posted in Photography on Jan 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
A voyage throughout the warm, calm waters of the South Pacific are just the antidote for the winter blahs. Let us take you there – if not aboard the expedition ship the Clipper Odyssey, then in the least through this photo slideshow.
Get there in person during WWF’s “Bridging the Equator: Micronesia to Polynesia” voyage September [...]
Posted in Photography on Jan 15th, 2010 No Comments »
“It was just after breakfast when our expedition leader called via the intercom and told us to come out to the observation deck. There was a large pod of common dolphins just ahead of the ship. They were jumping clear out of the water. Our naturalists, who were just as excited as we were, said [...]
Posted in Active Adventures, Photography on Jan 14th, 2010 No Comments »
The WWF /Freund Factory Expedition is an 18-month photojournalistic exploration of the heart of the Coral Triangle, investigating the connectivity between the wildlife and peoples of the region and the threats they face. Photographer Jürgen Freund and book/documentary producer Stella Chiu-Freund are leading the effort.
Our colleagues at WWF-International have posted a gorgeous photo gallery of [...]