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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,...
The Wild Idea That Began in Yellowstone
The first thing Carly Crow remembers is the cold. She was thirteen, far from home in southern Georgia, sleeping in a tent under a Wyoming sky as part of a Girl Scouts trip called Wyoming Wildlife Wonders, a journey through Grand Teton and Yellowstone. Then one evening...
Why I Talked About Gender Equity in Wildlife Guiding on the Soul of Travel Podcast
I recently sat down with the Soul of Travel podcast to talk about gender equity in wildlife guiding, what conservation travel actually requires to work, and why Her Wild Life exists in the first place. The full episode is worth listening to in its entirety, but three...
What I Learned Building Her Wild Life, Featured in Bold Journey Magazine
I recently talked with Bold Journey Magazine about work ethic, the qualities that have shaped this journey most, and how Her Wild Life came to exist. A few pieces of that conversation are worth sitting with a little longer, since they explain a lot about how we...
What Is Bird Watching and How Do You Get Started?
Bird watching is the practice of observing birds in their natural habitat, paying attention to species, behavior, calls, and movement. It is one of the most accessible wildlife activities in the world. You do not need experience, specialist equipment, or a long...