Posted in Wildlife on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Hungry for power – and food – Komodo dragons dominate the Indonesian islands they inhabit, prowling the tropical islands with a commanding ferocity. It’s no wonder the Komodo dragon has inspired some of the most fear-inducing monsters in Hollywood history.
Classified as a vulnerable species on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List, [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Snorkeling, Wildlife on Mar 8th, 2010 1 Comment »
Just how large is a whale shark’s mouth? Abraham Cantu, who lives on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, found out first hand, during one of his many experiences swimming with the world’s largest fish.
Cantu shared with WWF this stirring video he made while observing whale sharks feeding underwater near Holbox Island.
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Posted in Wildlife on Mar 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Beloved by birders and nature enthusiasts everywhere, puffins are one of the most widely recognized birds of the North. With a colorful bill that seems too perfectly painted to be real, puffins have a photogenic, cartoon-like appeal. Searching for them on an Arctic tour is a must.
10. Puffins only possess Technicolor bills – and their [...]
Posted in Photography, Wildlife on Feb 26th, 2010 No 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 Snorkeling, Wildlife on Feb 22nd, 2010 No Comments »
President and CEO of WWF-US, Carter Roberts, shares thoughts on his experience swimming with whale sharks.
We left Isla Holbox at dawn, transported by a local fisherman at the helm of a 20-foot skiff. We were off the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, where some of the world’s largest concentrations of manta rays and whale [...]
Posted in WWF news, Wildlife on Feb 12th, 2010 No Comments »
On February 14, the Chinese lunar calendar rolls into the Year of the Tiger. Unfortunately, the plight of wild tigers doesn’t call for much celebration. Three subspecies have been driven to extinction in the past century alone and experts estimate there are as few as 3,200 tigers left in the wild. The good news is [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Feb 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Brooke Edwards knows a thing or two about wildlife. As a former sea kayaking guide, rafting master and trail builder, the safari program director for Alaska Wildland Adventures has spent practically every day of the past dozen Alaskan summers fully immersed in nature.
Edwards could speak for hours about all of the wildlife she’s spotted over [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Jan 20th, 2010 No Comments »
10. The first panda came to the United States in 1936 – a cub to a zoo in Chicago. It took another 50 years before the States would see another.
9. A newborn panda cub is 1/900th the size of its mother and is comparable to the length of a stick of butter.
8. A panda’s paw [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Jan 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Moving through the bush in complete darkness, a leopard’s hunting success depends on utter silence – something that John Chibwantu learned first-hand one cool August night after dinner.
Chibwantu is one of the top safari leaders in Zambia’s Kafue National Park. Having led tours there for more than a quarter-century, he shared an excerpt from his [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Jan 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
The rain forests of the Amazon are home to millions of species including some of the world’s most unusual ones. The wildly colored and notoriously toxic poison dart frog is tiny, ranging from.8 to 1.6 inches; it is also one of the region’s most dangerous species. The loud distinctive call of the howler monkey—used to [...]