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 7 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Q-and-A on Nov 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Q-and-A on Sep 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
WWF’s Ame Hellman accompanied our most recent trip to Borneo. She spoke to WWF Travel about her impressions of one of the wildest places on Earth. What was your favorite animal sighting? Seeing the pygmy elephants in the Kinabatangan River. We took a small boat to explore the river, and when we came around a steep bend [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Sep 21st, 2009 No Comments »
The second in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. All photos © Martin Harvey. The subjects of Martin Harvey’s photography are as varied as the African continent itself. But the South Africa-based photographer maintains one constant in all of his shots: good composition. We caught up with the frequent WWF photography contributor in [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A on Aug 27th, 2009 1 Comment »
The first in an occasional series about nature and wildlife photography. One of the biggest shames that professional photographer Steven Morello sees time and time again on nature tours is a traveler forgetting—accidentally or intentionally—to pack a camera charger. “I’ve seen many travelers purposely not bring their battery chargers because they assumed someone else on [...]