You may have caught the news recently about a very special FedEx delivery to China’s Sichuan province: aboard the company’s custom-appointed 777 jet were two distinguished passengers, headed from the U.S. to the Chengdu Panda Base. They traveled in plexiglass crates accompanied by an entourage of caretakers, a vet, and a FedEx staffer. Their [...]
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NHA Founder Ben Bressler Interview on Eco-Tourism
Our own Ben Bressler was featured on Fox 31 in Colorado to share his thoughts on eco-tourism!
Kenya’s Zebra and Wildebeest Relocation Program
Kenya’s Amboseli National Park will be receiving a few thousand new animals in 2010. The park located in southern Kenya on the border with Tanzania suffered a major setback in 2009 with droughts that caused over 60% of the zebra and wildebeest population to perish. In 2007 a census was done and there were [...]
Protect Patagonia: Eat Sustainable Wild Salmon
The jagged coast of southern Chile is one of the most dramatic places on earth. A maze of fjords and islands, the topography is testament to the power of ice to shape a landscape. Massive glaciers wind down from the high Andes, calving blue icebergs into the frigid sea.
Patagonia’s crenellated western shoreline stretches more than [...]
Asian Countries Pledge to Double Tiger Population
A small ray of hope has given Asia’s dwindling tiger population a chance at recovering their numbers. A 13 country coalition has pledged to double the current paltry number of tigers in the wild (estimate at 3,200) in the next decade. You can read more about it in the AP article here.
As human civilization encroaches [...]
The Inventor Wore Feathers: Animal Designers
Dogs never lie. I suspect it’s because they have tails. Happy or sad, a canine instantly communicates his feelings by the aspect of his tail. I’ve often wondered why we don’t invent such a backside appendage for ourselves that could connect to our nerve endings, much as some prosthetic arms and legs do. That way [...]
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