This troubling trend highlights how tourism can sometimes harm the natural environments and cultural treasures we visit.

Ancient people built rituals, beliefs, and entire mythologies around animals they viewed as sacred. Some were worshipped for their strength, others for their wisdom or mysterious nature.

This understanding of sacred was challenged by the Navajo Nation ... You cannot go to Dine’ People’s grazing area and take animals without our consent, permission or without proper notification and ...

The surface of the white snake, a sacred animal, is covered by white paper used for “shoji” sliding doors. Visitors can write their wishes on an orb-shaped piece of paper, which is meant to ...