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6 days ago | adventure.com | Sarah Baxter

Twice the size of the UK, the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (TFCA) is encouraging tourists to visit five countries (Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe) on overland, low-emissions trips that benefit local communities. Is this the future of the ‘responsible’ safari—or is it too ambitious to work? It was an unconventional theater: A few plastic chairs facing a patch of flattened grass alongside the sewage lagoons.

6 days ago | adventure.com | Kassondra Cloos

House Republicans have voted to sell acres of public land; land that was previously untouchable. What’s in store for the future of recreation access in the US? In an unexpected late-night ruling on Tuesday, the House Natural Resources Committee voted to allow the federal government to sell off thousands of acres of land in Nevada and Utah. It may be a minuscule proportion of the total amount of federal land in those states, but it’s concerning nonetheless.

1 week ago | adventure.com | Meera Dattani

After the success of the inaugural Diversifying Travel Media trip to Croatia in 2023, Intrepid Travel took four new mentees to Portugal’s Côa Valley in 2024. Why? Because it works. When you bring in writers from different walks of life, you see first-hand just how many perspectives come from one shared experience. That’s why it’s so important and why we champion it here. The Portugal stories by the mentees are now published on Adventure.com.

1 week ago | adventure.com | JD Murphy

JD Murphy traveled to Portugal’s Côa Valley to escape the trauma of a firefighting career and ended up passing swathes of land devastated by wildfires. But national reserves like Faia Brava are leading rewilding efforts in the region and he saw first-hand how they’re reducing the risk of disaster—by changing the land, and our relationship with it.

2 weeks ago | adventure.com | Kassondra Cloos

Job losses and funding cuts have already placed the National Park Service at risk. Now, DOGE wants to re-open a protected area (twice the size of Texas) in the Pacific Ocean for commercial fishing, placing endangered species, fish populations and habitats at risk. The tail end of National Parks Week in the US around the end of April is usually a time for celebrating and appreciating over 400 parks and monuments in the National Park Service.