National Geographic Field Ready

Recently I traveled to the UK for National Geographic Society’s Field Ready program, a 7-month-long mentorship and training opportunity for Nat Geo grantees to advance their careers in natural history, science, exploration, and documentary filmmaking. With mentees from Colombia to Nigeria, India to South Korea, and elsewhere, Field Ready’s only third …

A Closer Look: South Korea’s Asian Moon Bear Restoration Program

(Text updated on Oct 24, 2024) In the early 2000s, the number of Asian moon bears living in the wild in South Korea had dwindled to an estimated 5 animals. With the bears being critically endangered by poaching and habitat destruction, the Korean Ministry of Environment and the Korea National …