Adventure on the Okavango: The Conservationist
Listen now
Description
(Part 1 of 2) Each year, conservationist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer Steve Boyes travels over 200 miles in dugout canoes down Botswana's Okavango River in an effort to track and preserve the region's diverse and endangered wildlife—while thousands of people around the world follow along online.
More Episodes
As a kid, wildlife cameraman Bertie Gregory preferred to spend his time looking at wildlife through his camera lens and learning how to get close to different animal species. When he was 17 years old, he got his first big break as a photographer when he was asked to photograph urban wildlife in...
Published 11/01/16
In part two, Charlie Hamilton James begins to realize that conservation is a bourgeois concept. He goes to live with more illegal loggers, travels to Brazil to live with people who are burning down the rain forest for farm land, and then comes back to his plot of rain forest with an idea that...
Published 06/01/16
In an effort to help protect Peru's Manú National Park from illegal logging, National Geographic photographer Charlie Hamilton James bought a section of rain forest on the edge of the park. What would transpire after this purchase would lead him on a quest for truth to better understand the...
Published 05/23/16