Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Jan 30th, 2012 No Comments »
Get a sense of what it’s like to experience our Southeast Alaska expedition during this video by Lindblad Expeditions, our tour operator for the program. Join WWF’s Alaska’s Coastal Wilderness tour: May 12-19, 2012 and June 9-16, 2012.
Posted in Featured tours, Wildlife on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
The pronghorn faces many challenges—both natural and manmade—during its seasonal migration from Saskatchewan, Canada to Montana. It is the only large mammal in the southern half of North America exhibiting long-distance migration, one of the most dramatic, yet imperiled, biological phenomena. WWF’s Dennis Jorgensen was recently featured on an episode of the PBS series This [...]
Posted in Special offers on Nov 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
Join WWF on our Exploring Alaska’s Coastal Wilderness expedition, June 9 – 16, 2012, and receive free round-trip airfare between Seattle and Alaska. Tour highlights include: Traveling aboard the Sea Lion, a small, specially outfitted, expedition ship. Exploring by foot, Zodiac and kayak. Searching for wildlife, including whales, sea otters and bald eagles. Learning about [...]
Posted in Q-and-A on Nov 1st, 2011 No Comments »
Dennis Jorgensen is a WWF Program Officer in Montana, working to save the species of the Northern Great Plains and the habitat where they live, and we’re thrilled he’s able to join part of our new Exploring Montana’s Prairies tour. Q: What originally attracted you to the Northern Great Plains? A: My first experience in [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Oct 6th, 2011 No Comments »
The Northern Great Plains region owes much of its historic biodiversity to the once-ubiquitous bison. An icon of the plains, the American bison once saw populations comprised of upwards of 60 million individuals. 10. Bison can persist in arid regions (Mexico) and in areas experiencing deep snow cover (Yellowstone National Park). Grasses and sedges form [...]
Posted in Special offers on Sep 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Yellowstone is a quiet reserve in the winter, and yet it comes alive as the crowds move out and nature shines. It is a sanctuary for nature lovers like us— a world filled with the mystical howling of wolf packs in the early morning light, shaggy bison foraging for food, elk congregating in vast herds [...]
Posted in Featured tours on Sep 9th, 2011 No Comments »
To provide the most flexibility and options to our members, WWF Travel is offering two departures of our always-popular voyage along coastal Alaska. The first departure runs May 12-19, 2012, and includes a $500 per person discount and free airfare between Seattle and Alaska. The second departure is during the high season, running June 9-16, [...]
Posted in Featured tours, WWF news on Aug 24th, 2011 No Comments »
Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark traveled through the Northern Great Plains and found an abundance of life rivaling the African savanna. Millions of bison, pronghorn and elk grazed an endless sea of grass, watched by prairie wolves, grizzlies and other predators. Immense flocks of birds colored the big, open sky. Join WWF in [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Aug 8th, 2011 3 Comments »
Habitat: Mostly wild and inaccessible areas in a very limited portion of their former range within North America. Diet: Deer and smaller prey, such as beavers and hares. Threats: Habitat loss and revenge killings for attacks on wild stock. Interesting Fact: Large paws help gray wolves distribute their weight evenly on the snow. See gray [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Jul 21st, 2011 3 Comments »
Gray wolves are considered to be elegant predators and highly social animals that form tight, nuclear packs. A symbol of the wilderness and the predecessors to our domesticated dogs, these majestic creatures are still plentiful in rural areas all over the world. 10. Once the world’s most widely distributed mammal, the gray wolf’s range has [...]