BEARTREK filmmaker Joe Pontecorvo films bear biologist Siew Te Wong with orphaned sun bear cub Cerah. Photo: John Prudente
On April 19th, the Bellingham Herald ran a front-page story on Wildlife Media and the work we’re doing. The article described how, through his bear conservation work and travels, Chris Morgan discovered that bear biologists everywhere struggle to raise funds for their projects.
This piece in the Herald is a great way to bring public awareness of Wildlife Media’s mission. The more attention we get, the more we can do to help save some of the most amazing and endangered animals on the planet.
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
Loaded for bear: Bellingham ecologist, Seattle filmmaker shoot documentary to save wild places
Kie Relyea- Bellingham Herald
Bellingham ecologist Chris Morgan is taking his BMW motorcycle on a journey to four continents in search of the world’s endangered bears – an epic adventure being made into a feature-length documentary called “Beartrek.”
The goal isn’t just to show the bears in their habitat, stunning as the wild coast of Katmai, Alaska, and the rainforest canopy of Borneo, Malaysia, may be when shot in high definition.
The idea is to raise money for conservation efforts by selling audiences on why wild bears in wild places should matter to people, to spin an entertaining tale that will do for conservation what Al Gore did for climate change in “An Inconvenient Truth.”
For the full article, visit The Bellingham Herald.
Jordan Green