Rescue and Conservation Site Helps Elephants in India
Wildlife SOS, a company working towards saving India’s wildlife, is saving elephants who are injured and fighting against dancing bears in circuses.
Animals
Animals don’t travel like humans do, but they play a part in every human civilization on earth. Here are travel stories that involve animals and animal lovers.
Rwanda: The Land of a Thousand Hills
Travel to Rwanda for some of Africa’s largest biodiversity and home to hundreds of breathtaking species while adventuring throughout the country.
Museum of the Dog: Tributes to Man’s Best Friend
AKC Museum of the Dog will complement the existing AKC Headquarters in New York City with a new interactive museum about all breeds of dogs.
Aruba: Rescuing Street Animals
Aruba: The author goes on vacation to a beach resort and meets the people who run Sgt Pepper’s Friends…and winds up adopting a cat to bring home.
Fifty Years of Exploring the Treacherous Alaskan Arctic
Joe Wilkins made over fifty trips in remote regions of the Brooks Range. Check out his book, “Gates of the Arctic, Twelve Years of Arctic Exploration”
Alaska’s Tongass National Forest: Hiking and Bears
Pristine and beautiful, Wrangell, Alaska offers glaciers, seals, sea lions and orcas and hiking along the coast in Tongass National Forest.
Swimming with South African Sharks
In Gansbaai, South Africa, Shark Ventures takes tourists out into the ocean and places them in a shark cage, then tossed chum attracts great white sharks.
Down on the Farm: Farm Stays Around the World
By Ann H. Waigand Spending time on a farm can be strangely reassuring. After all, staying on the land provides a brief, but intimate, glimpse into the way things used to be and confirms that, somewhere in this technologically advanced world, there are communities still living quite well on what they cultivate from the land. […]
All Fish Faces: Volunteering in the World’s Oceans
A new children’s book, All Fish Faces,” shows what many different ocean fish look like and how they live, and a blogger traveled the world volunteering.
Kangaroo Cuddles in Kununurra, Western Australia
In Kununurra, Western Australia, there is a place you can go if you love baby Kangaroos, at the Kangaroo Haven Rescue, baby joeys are bottle fed and raised.
Tasmania’s Wild Animals: Platypuses and Many More!
By Joshua Clayton The only thing that I had set in my head was that I wanted to see a platypus. A real, wild platypus. I didn’t have any other specific goals in Australia except this. This was realized on an overcast, mild September morning crouched on the bank of a creek in the Tasmanian […]
Animal Encounters Around the World
Animal Tales: Sometimes the creatures are more interesting than the people you meet! By: Lori Veale Cherney The people you meet when you travel remain a treasure long after the end of any trip. There are so many fascinating homo sapiens on this planet that nearly every trip conjures up unique memories of our fellow […]