Peter Gwin

Its elk and wolves are transplants, its fish are constantly managed, and humans have lived here for thousands of years—but the Gila Wilderness remains one of the country’s most spectacular landscapes.

Raising and training falcons in captivity can help conserve these beloved symbols of the Arabian Peninsula.

Ruggedly independent, the Tuareg struggle to survive amid the turmoil of North Africa.

Despite bountiful gold, diamonds, uranium, the Central African Republic has been mired in civil war and the legacy of colonization.

The Mystery of Risk

The German filmmaker on the magic of walking, the irrelevance of bucket lists, and his new documentary about Bruce Chatwin.

On Nat Geo’s wall of images, photographers ask: “So how do I get up here?”

Long overlooked by Western science, traditional Chinese treatments are yielding cutting-edge cures.

Honnold planned to climb Yosemite’s El Capitan without a rope. Chin would film it. But first they had to figure out how to talk about it.

If you’ve never been to Rwanda, the only thing you might know about the country is that there are two main ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. That’s really what the country boils down to, right? The Tutsis were the victims of genocide, and the Hutus were the perpetrators. So you get off the […]