As someone who loves wild, natural places, you’ve heard plenty of dire environmental alerts and communications. There are more tigers in people’s backyards than there are tigers in the wild. Rhinos are being poached to the point of extinction. The last Galápagos giant tortoise from Pinta Island has passed away. Plant species are disappearing at [...]
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Ten Things the Galápagos Islands Taught Me
If you’re a parent, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandparent, or friend, you probably know someone who was part of Graduation 2012. And at this time of year, young, degree-holding students are being bombarded with tips and advice during countless graduation speeches across the country. So in a Natural-Habitat-Adventures-kind-of-way, I’d like to offer my own list [...]
Starry Nights in Danger at Bryce Canyon National Park
America’s national parks give us the rare opportunity to see a star-filled night sky — a window on nature that most of us who live anywhere near a town or developed area have probably never truly witnessed. But even in the wilds of our national parks the experience can sometimes elude us, if the night [...]
Bald Eagle Does the Breaststroke
Eagle watchers — and just about all of us in North America — are familiar with the well-documented athletic abilities of our national emblem, the bald eagle. You’ve seen countless films of them, noiselessly swooping down upon unsuspecting fish, swiping them up with strong, sharp talons, and then soaring away for the land to indulge [...]
Bhutan Takes Measures Against Wildlife Poaching
By any measure, Bhutan is a spiritual place, known for how it assesses the quality of life of its citizens, phrased as “Gross National Happiness (GNH).” The term, in fact, was coined in 1972 by Bhutan’s then King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who used it to signify his commitment to social progress when taking stock of [...]
Play the Bird-ID Game
Ever wonder who creates those plant- or animal-identification, outdoor apps and how designers know which questions they need to ask in order to help you make a positive ID? Now, you can get in on the ground floor of producing such an app by “teaching” Merlin — an online, bird-ID tool being developed by the [...]
