Most wildlife travel conversations start and end with the Big Five. But there are many properties around the world where you can have extraordinary encounters with wildlife right outside the front door. British Columbia's Spirit Bear Lodge, owned and operated by the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation, times its entire season around the salmon run, the event that draws the Kermode bear, a rare white-coated black bear sacred to the nation and found almost nowhere else on Earth, to the streams of the Great Bear Rainforest. In Cape Town, Tintswalo Boulders sits directly beside a colony of around 3,000 critically endangered African penguins on Boulders Beach. At Pikaia Lodge in the Galápagos, the giant tortoises roam freely across 76 acres of private reserve, land that was a degraded cattle ranch before the owner restored it in 2006, replanting over 10,000 native trees to bring the tortoises back. What makes several of these properties remarkable is that the conservation work is active and guest...