Posted in Wildlife on Jan 26th, 2012 1 Comment »
No trip to China is complete without a visit to see the giant panda, the country’s unofficial symbol. But dozens of other wildlife species are found in China too, including these five that you may spot while on WWF’s tour. Red panda: The bear-bodied, thick-furred species has little resemblance to its distant cousin except for [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 13th, 2011 1 Comment »
Jennifer Gerholdt has been working as a Program Officer in WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) for more than three and a half years, helping to save the world’s remaining natural forests. But it wasn’t until this July that she had the opportunity to visit one first-hand. Gerholdt, along with members of the GFTN [...]
Posted in WWF news on Oct 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
The United States and Indonesian governments signed an agreement September 29, 2011 that will result in $28.5 million in funding to protect a large block of forest land in the Indonesian region known as the Heart of Borneo. WWF and The Nature Conservancy worked with the two governments to develop this innovative conservation financing approach. [...]
Posted in Photography, Q-and-A, Snorkeling on Sep 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Professional marine photojournalist Mauricio Handler has been capturing wildlife images for decades. It wasn’t until 2007, however, while leading a scuba diving outing in the Galapagos, that Handler, saw his first whale shark. Several years later he began photographing the world’s largest fish off the coast of Cancun, Mexico, where he sometimes finds schools by [...]
Posted in WWF news on Aug 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
WWF was awarded its largest-ever grant for work in one country — a $30 million grant from USAID for implementation of a conservation program in Nepal. The overall goal of the program, which is titled “Hariyo Ban Nepal ko Dhan” (“Green forests; wealth of Nepal”) is to reduce adverse impacts of climate change and threats [...]
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Jul 5th, 2011 No Comments »
The endangered blue whale is full of contradictions. It’s the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth, yet it’s quite timid. Its heart is the size of a small car, but it feeds on tiny krill. Traveling to the coast of Sri Lanka offers a unique opportunity to see blue whales up close. There [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jun 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Orangutan and pygmy elephant survival in the Heart of Borneo received a major boost with the certification of nearly 300,000 hectares of important habitat in the forest reserves of Ulu Segama-Malua and Tangkulap-Pinangah, in the Malaysian state of Sabah, Borneo. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) – an independent not-for-profit organization – certified the sites, which [...]
Posted in WWF news on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
We are now accepting bookings for our newest snorkeling adventure, in Indonesia’s Komodo National Park. The trip, which is aboard the well-appointed yacht Mermaid I, runs June 15-28, 2012. Komodo National Park is a place of raw natural beauty. Its islands are home to such exotic animals as the giant carnivorous Komodo dragon, and its [...]