Posted in Featured tours, Q-and-A on Feb 17th, 2010 No Comments »
WWF’s Elissa Poma accompanied our most recent Costa Rica for Families tour. For more than a week, she and families with children ranging from 8 to 17 explored Poas Volcano, the Monteverde cloud forest and beaches at Guanacaste in the eco-friendly Central American nation. We sat down with Elissa to talk about her experiences.
Why is [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Q-and-A on Jan 5th, 2010 No Comments »
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 Q-and-A on Dec 28th, 2009 No Comments »
What does Drew Crandall, Manager of WWF’s Girls’ Education Program, bring with him when he’s in the field?
“My trips to the field focus on people living in remote places, so I pack for treks and village meetings.”
From remote villages in the Himalayas to fishing communities on the coast of Africa, Drew’s work puts him in contact [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Q-and-A on Dec 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
Like with so many aspects of life, it’s the little things that count – and the little things you remember long after your travels have ended. In our new feature “School of Thought,” we take a trip down memory lane with WWF staff to see what they remember learning in the places WWF has visited [...]
Posted in Active Adventures, Q-and-A on Dec 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
As an ecotourism planner, American Wendy Lama lived in Nepal for 15 years, helping communities, park staff and trekking agencies manage the impacts of tourism and promote improved local livelihoods and conservation of natural and cultural resources through community-based ecotourism.
Given her expertise on the region, we turned to Lama to help us design an ideal [...]
Posted in Active Adventures, Q-and-A on Nov 10th, 2009 No Comments »
WWF member Bill Hayden recently climbed Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. We asked him about his experience summiting Africa’s highest peak.
When did you first decide you wanted to climb Mount Kilimanjaro?
I was doing some trekking with friends about a year and a half ago in Nepal and I met some people who had just recently climbed Kilimanjaro. [...]
Posted in Q-and-A on Nov 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Peg Abbott, WWF’s naturalist guide for 2010’s tour of Big Bend National Park, is an expert on the conservation of migratory songbirds and other wildlife. She holds a master’s degree in wildlife and forestry and is a master bander (a researcher who tags and tracks birds). Peg first visited Big Bend in 1988 and has [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Oct 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The fourth in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Ron Magill
You come upon a scenic vista on the flat expanse of the Maasai Mara in Kenya. You have the shot composed in your mind, the wildlife is positioned ideally and the photo seems perfect. Perfect, that is, except for the [...]
Posted in Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Oct 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Bobbie Martin, a Program Manager for Zegrahm Expeditions, WWF’s tour operator for our Rain Forests and Reefs expedition, shares her thoughts on the voyage, which she accompanied in 2009.
What was the highlight of the expedition?
Panama! I am completely taken with this country. From the beautiful beaches of Escudo de Veraguas, and its endemic humming bird, [...]
Posted in Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Oct 1st, 2009 No Comments »
How many travel experiences can honestly, truly be defined as “surreal?” Few come close to the extraordinary experience of slipping into a quiet, dark lake with millions of marmalade-colored jellyfish on the rock island of Eil Malk in Palau.
Known locally as Ongeim’l Tketau, the isolated saltwater lake was once connected to the ocean by a [...]