Destination: Wildlife

16/08/2025

This strange-looking animal is a critically endangered Aye-Aye, a tiny primate with long, skinny fingers and a lot of bad publicity! They are a lemur, but the only one of their genus. Can education cut through myth?

Read: 𝗜𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 Read https://zurl.co/WnoL5



Drawing: ©️Alain Rasolo Alain Rasolo

15/08/2025

A Malagasy artist named Rasolo, and Johanna, a young New York conservationist, have an idea that kids doing nature journaling can inspire the next generation of conservationists. They call their program and their nonprofit, 𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙉𝙖𝙡𝙖

Lemurs and 90% of the island's total flora and fauna are endemic to Madagascar, and they are all disappearing. Can the children help? oloNala says yes

Drawing: ©️Alain Rasolo Alain Rasolo

Read about it here https://zurl.co/7RDOY

90% of the wildlife and plants In Madagascar are endemic, and endangered or critically Endangered. Johanna Mitra and Alain Rasolo created the nonprofit oloNala to save this incomparable biodiversity, combining art and conservation.

14/08/2025

The Wolf Conservation Center is doing vital work to help wolves. Our annual Winter Wolf Watching and Learning in Yellowstone directly benefits their work and helps their supporters in the Greater Yellowstone area - yes, there are wolf haters there, too. We have one spot open for 2026. - See our Destination: Wildlife website, or DM me. Or sign up to get first notice for the 2027 trip - your support for wolves makes all the difference. for these amazing creatures.

14/08/2025

VERY COOL - wolf pup check up!

14/08/2025

These Mexican Wolf pups are one hope for the species' survival. Your donation to Wolf Conservation Center helps!! Thank you!

06/08/2025

The 𝙅𝙖𝙜𝙪𝙖𝙧 is an excellent swimmer! They are well adapted to wet environments and thrive in the Pantanal - in regions where they are not hunted. They hunt both day and night and are opportunistic hunters, preying on everything from Capybara to Caiman. The Jaguars who are fortunate enough to live in the protected environments of Brazil’s Jaguarland are habituated to folks in boats on the river – and are not bothered by those of us who are fascinated by these beautiful cats.

Join us for a wildlife-watching safari (Jaguars!) to the Brazilian Pantanal in November 2026. Part of your trip cost is a tax-deductible donation to (501c3) Felidae Conservation Fund for their work educating about, protecting, and researching big (and little) wild cats. Join us! Contact us for more information. https://zurl.co/Wrr4L

Many Thanks to SouthWild Travel a leader in wildlife conservation, for the use of their wonderful images.

04/08/2025

Conservation activism was taken to new depths when a magazine article inspired Oliver Rubbers to take rodent rewilding into his own hands – the 𝘽𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝘽𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧 is responsible for the re-beavering of Belgium. Fortunately, this "bombing" is good for people and the environment.

Read the story! https://zurl.co/xW6H9

31/07/2025

The 𝙃𝙮𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙖𝙬 is no wall-flower! This boisterous bird has a call that can travel up to a mile away! They are social birds and seem to enjoy the company of other Hyacinth Macaws. This big bird is one of the only ones that can crack Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts – and even coconuts! That makes them very important for the environment.

We are leading a wildlife-watching safari to the Brazilian Pantanal in November 2026. Part of your trip cost is a tax-deductible donation to (501c3) Felidae Conservation Fund for their work educating about, protecting, and researching big (and little) wild cats. Join us! Contact us for more information. We will be exploring the protected properties and waterways of SouthWild Travel
https://zurl.co/sBBRP

Many Thanks to Hotshot for the use of their wonderful image.

18/07/2025

Minnesota is a Winter Wonderland! Watch, learn about, and photograph wintering raptors & songbirds! https://zurl.co/WLaxb

Last year, Snowy Owls joined Great Gray and Northern Hawk Owls, Sharp-tailed and Ruffed Grouse, Snow Buntings, colorful Pine and Evening Grosbeaks, Common and Hoary Redpolls, Black-backed and American Three-toed Woodpeckers.

And boreal forest residents like Spruce Grouse, American goshawk, Canada (Gray) Jay, and boreal chickadee; nomadic winter visitors such as Glaucous, Iceland, and Great Black-backed Gulls; Northern Shrike, Bohemian Waxwing, Red Crossbill and White-winged Crossbill, Townsend’s Solitaire, and more.

11/07/2025

𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 are adapted to survive the extreme cold with smaller, more rounded ears than their gray wolf cousins. Their legs are a little shorter, too, and their bodies are stockier. Arctic wolves have a thick, double-layered coat with the outside hair being coarse and water resistant, the inside fur is dense and soft for super insulation against temperatures that average -38F / - 39C in the winter but can dip below -70F/ -57C

Read Destination: Wildlife's 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨, 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 for more about Marianne Barnett's thrilling adventure

10/07/2025

The 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙁𝙤𝙭 has a unique adaptation to help it survive average the winter temperatures on Ellesmere Island that plunge down to -38F / -38. It has thick fat surrounding its organs that builds up in the autumn and decreases in the spring. That fat, plus their thick winter coat, protects them. During blizzard conditions, the fox will curl up tightly with its head and extremities, and of course, the color helps them hide from Arctic wolves!

𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙩 In the southernmost regions of the Arctic Fox range, climate change’s warming effects are bringing the larger, more aggressive Red Fox into Arctic Fox territory. Arctic Fox is losing the competition for space and food. This little guy is scavenging an old Musk Ox skull. Perhaps there is a morsel left for him.

Our good friend, Marianne Barnett, visited Island recently and captured this image.
Read her story in Destination: Wildlife: 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨, 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙

09/07/2025

𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙚 is the largest in North America and lives in the harsh, cold conditions of the Canadian Arctic and some of the islands off Greenland. Arctic Hare is grayish-brown in the “warm” months, but turns stark white with perky black ear tips in the winter, helping it blend into the snow, which is necessary since it is a favorite prey of Arctic wolves.

𝙁𝙪𝙣 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙩: The Arctic hare can hop on its hind legs like a kangaroo, gaining speeds of up to 30 mph!

Our good friend, Marianne Barnett, visited Island recently and captured this image.
Read her story in Destination: Wildlife: 𝘼𝙧𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙒𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨, 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣'𝙨 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙀𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙