If you’re familiar with Natural Habitat Adventures, you know we are a global leader in ecotourism. World Wildlife Fund has designated us as their exclusive Conservation Travel Provider, and we have also been selected as Conde Nast Traveler’s highest-rated Green List Tour Operator inductee, an award that rates us on our environmental policies as well [...]
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Happy Birthday, Global Warming
Happy 35th, global warming. No, I’m not implying that the earth started to warm up just 35 years ago, but that this month marks the birthday of the two-word term.
On August 8, 1975, Wallace Broecker published a paper titled Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming? in the journal Science. [...]
Biodiversity, By Design
We humans have drained half the world’s wetlands and fully exploited or overexploited 75 percent of its fishing grounds. There are other sobering statistics our behavior has caused: every day, 130 species of plants or animals become extinct — a rate that’s probably more than a thousand times higher than the number the Earth would [...]
The World’s Whales Need Your Help
Join me in the call to end Obama Administration support for the International Whaling Commission’s proposal to re-open commercial whaling — it is not a backdoor way to protect them.
Can Soccer Save the Planet?
In addition to making Natural Habitat Adventures a premier eco-friendly travel company, founder Ben Bressler has taken the same environmentally responsible philosophy to his love of soccer. By encouraging soccer teams to work towards a carbon neutral gameplan (through his non-profit organization Kick Global Warming), Ben hopes to reach the worldwide soccer audience and help [...]
“Rocking the Cure” for Climate Change
As each one of your incandescent light bulbs burns out, you change it to a compact fluorescent. You’ve promised yourself that you’ll never again buy water in a plastic bottle, and you dutifully refill your aluminum canteen from the tap. When you travel, you always buy carbon offsets. On a personal level, you feel you’ve [...]
