Asia & Pacific Stories

The Significance of Tasmania’s Marsupials in Wildlife Conservation Tasmania, an island state of Australia, is located approximately 150 miles off the...

A seahorse is one of those evolutionary oddities that make you believe in unicorns, mermaids, centaurs and other cryptic chimeras. With an elongated snout ...

Did you know Borneo is where we find some of the world’s oldest and tallest virgin rain forests? They are some of the most biodiverse habitats on Ear...

Whether you’re a red panda fan because you’ve seen them at your local zoo, or because your tween has watched Disney’s “Turning Red” movie umpteen times, yo...

By Senior Adventure Specialist John Holahan The morning sun crested the eastern ridge of the Sham Valley, warming the contents of its path. It peered throu...

Spring forward from so-called winter woes into a season full of possibilities! From wildflowers to wildlife, this time of year offers travelers great weath...

Despite the challenges today’s world faces, Planet Earth is the gift that keeps on giving. That’s good news for scientists who relish the rush of discovery...

I’d been on Kangaroo Island for less than an hour when I spotted my first bit of wildlife: a koala perched high in the branches of a blue-gum eucalyptus tr...

The snow leopard has captured the interest of wildlife biologists, conservationists and the communities around northern and central Asia’s high mount...

A decade ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a call to action to raise awareness about endangered and near-extinct animals and help put an end t...

Cheetahs are the world’s fasted land mammals, able to accelerate from zero to 64 miles an hour in only three seconds. They are also one of the most ancient...

In New Zealand, Māori legends that tell the tales of how the landscape came to be abound. One such story describes a giant supernatural creature whose body...

Bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon that highlights the brilliance of the natural world—literally! Glowworms light up, fireflies flash and plankton spa...

Asian Elephant  The Asian elephant is the largest terrestrial mammal on the continent. Its size can be attributed to the gestation period, which is the lon...

The quintessential “big cat,” the leopard is the most generalized of the Pantherines. The four others—lion, tiger, jaguar and snow leopard—are more special...

Big, beautiful and brimming with life, Borneo is a “biological treasure chest,” says Court Whelan, Chief Sustainability Officer with Natural Habitat Advent...

Across the world, there are about six thousand coral species. Some species grow in warm shallow waters near coastlines, and others thrive on the dark, cold...

There may be no phenomena more magical on Earth than the aurora borealis and the aurora australis: the northern and southern lights. Although we know some ...