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Are Monarch Butterflies Endangered?
Are monarch butterflies endangered? By one measure, yes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the monarch as Endangered in 2022. By another measure, the answer is more complicated. In the United States, the monarch still has no federal protection...
Where Do Monarch Butterflies Go in Winter? Inside Mexico’s Monarch Migration
Where do monarch butterflies go in winter? Millions of them fly as far as 3,000 miles from the northern United States and southern Canada to a small cluster of mountain forests in central Mexico, arriving by early November and staying until March. It is one of the...
Bison Facts: The Ecosystem Engineers of Yellowstone
Bison are the animal most people expect to see in Yellowstone and the one whose actual impact on the landscape most visitors never hear about. Beyond the size and the horns, bison reshape the ground they walk on, and Yellowstone's herd is the reason wild American...
Fun Facts About Yellowstone’s Wildlife: Wolves, Bison, Bears and More
Yellowstone is one of the last places on Earth where an entire large mammal food web still runs the way it evolved to. Six ungulate species and seven large predators share roughly 2.2 million acres, and the relationships between them read less like a nature...
What to Pack for a Wildlife Trip to Costa Rica
Most guides to what to pack for Costa Rica are written for the whole country, offering one long list that covers the beach, the volcano, and the cloud forest all at once. This one is built around a single, specific trip, one of the Costa Rica trips for women that Her...
Scarlet Macaw Facts, Costa Rica’s Most Iconic Bird
Scarlet macaws are among the most recognizable birds on Earth, and one of the tropical birds Costa Rica is most closely associated with. The Osa Peninsula is one of the last strongholds where a wild, self-sustaining population has never disappeared. Here are the...
Fun Facts About Costa Rica’s Rainforest and Wildlife
Costa Rica covers just 0.03 percent of the planet's land, yet estimates place its share of the world's known species between 4 and 6 percent, with the country's own tourism board citing the figure at nearly 6 percent. These Costa Rica rainforest facts and the wildlife...
Best Time to Visit Costa Rica for Wildlife
If you have searched “best time visit Costa Rica”, “best time Costa Rica wildlife”, or “when to go Costa Rica”, the honest answer is that it depends on what you want to see. Costa Rica's wildlife season splits into two halves, and dry season and wet season shape Costa...
What Wildlife Can You See in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula?
The Osa Peninsula holds roughly half of Costa Rica's species across just 3 percent of the country's land, which is why National Geographic has called it the most biologically intense place on Earth. Costa Rica has protected more than 25 percent of its own land area in...
What Is Conservation Travel and How Does It Work?
What is conservation travel? It is travel where part of what you spend goes directly to protecting the wildlife and habitats you are there to see, through named partners and a donation built into the trip itself. That is the conservation travel meaning in practice,...
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