Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his team are on a mission to explore and protect some of the last truly wild places in the ocean. With up to five expeditions per year, they’re never far from their next scientific quest.

Explorer Steve Boyes and a team including Angolan, Namibian, and South African scientists are surveying thousands of miles of the Okavango River Basin with one goal in mind: to protect one of Africa's richest places for biodiversity.

National Geographic Photo Ark founder Joel Sartore is more than halfway to his goal of creating intimate portraits of every species in the world’s zoos and wildlife sanctuaries to inspire people to protect animals at risk.

Explorer Paul Salopek is walking across the planet, following the pathways of the first humans who migrated out of Africa in the Stone Age. Along the way, he’s covering some of the major stories of our time by giving voice to the people who inhabit them every day.

Explorers-in-Residence, and Big Cats Initiative founders, Beverly and Dereck Joubert are working with communities and innovative scientists and conservationists to develop sustainable approaches to big cat conservation.