Richard Hanson, Managing Director of our top supplier of USA holidays, Grand American Adventures is a fount of knowledge about wildlife watching in national parks:

“Please don’t invade the animals' space. These national parks are not for us, they are actually for the wildlife, so let’s keep them wild. Follow the rules, stay on the path, don’t litter, don’t feed the animals and so on. As tour leaders we would really hit home about these points.”

“Taking photographs without actually stopping to look at what is out there is something that really bothers me. It is the Facebook culture thing. Watch the wildlife and just take it in.”

Martin Royle, Director of Royle Safaris, our supplier specializing in wolf watching holidays in the USA: “Make sure you have a good guide - invaluable when you are looking for an intelligent top level carnivore that is naturally elusive and shy. They also have huge territories and very rarely stay in one place for very long, so someone who knows the area is vital. Also someone who knows the wolves and the individual packs and pack members and subtle variations in temperature, weather and prey movements can affect where certain wolves and packs are likely to be. We use a Yellowstone ecologist for our wolf watching tours here and he has direct access to the wolf biologists who study the wolves on a daily basis.”