Big Cat Week video: Warriors on a mission to help lions and humans coexist
Jeneria Lekilelei, a warrior from the Samburu tribe of Northern Kenya, has dedicated his life to wildlife conservation. In 2010 he founded Warrior Watch to encourage Samburu men to conserve lions....
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Elsie May Bell Grosvenor: ‘First Lady’ of the National Geographic Society
From early childhood to her last year at 86, Elsie May Bell Grosvenor was uniquely linked to the National Geographic Society, wrote Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor in a tribute published in the July 1965 issue...
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Sylvia Earle, Hero for the Ocean
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle is probably more at home under the sea than she is on dry land. At least, that’s where this National Geographic Explorer in Residence has made her biggest impact as a...
View ArticleJane Goodall, changing the way we view other primates
For more than half a century, Jane Goodall has been a researcher, conservationist and champion for one of the world’s most enigmatic primates, the chimpanzee. She started her career in 1960 in what is...
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Tierney Thys, swimming with giant sunfish
Named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2004, Tierney is a California Academy of Sciences Research Associate, expert for National Geographic Expeditions, Daily Explorer in Animal Jam (Nat...
View ArticleDian Fossey: Gave her life for the conservation of rare mountain gorillas
Dian Fossey was a National Geographic Explorer who devoted 20 years of her life — and may have indeed forfeited her life — to the conservation of Africa’s rare and endangered mountain gorillas....
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Amelia Earhart, first woman to receive National Geographic’s special medal...
Before one of the most distinguished audiences ever assembled in Washington, D.C., President Hoover presented Amelia Earhart with the National Geographic Society’s Special Gold medal for her solo plane...
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What Migrating Songbirds Tell Us About Our Planet
Top photo: Kristen Ruegg of the Bird Genoscope Project. Photograph courtesy of Kristen Ruegg. Songbirds roam every corner of our planet, and as global “canaries in the coal mine” could become our best...
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