National Geographic is a popular American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners. Known for its photojournalism, it is one of the most widely read magazines of all time. It was founded in 1888.
The 142-page June 2019 issue of this magazine is available and as always, it does not disappoint.
The cover story is titled: Wildlife Tourism - It's a lucrative part of the booming global travel industry, fueled by social media users' love of posing with exotic animals. But what wildlife tourist attractions do to amuse humans can have brutal consequences for animals.
Some of the featured articles include:
Pangolins - The mammal is killed for its scales and meat.
The Brave Ones - These women rangers are shaking up the conservation landscape.
Pacific Ring of Fire - This 25,000-mile-long hot zone threatens growing populations.
Seaweed That Feeds - A stunning array of life fills the Sargasso Sea.
PROOF
On Hallowed Beaches - Over the decades, a photographer has returned to the shores of Normandy to capture a place forever defined by war.
EMBARK
THE BIG IDEA - In Search of the Kissing Bug - Though some 300,000 people in the U.S. have this parasitic infection, many don't know it.
GENIUS - Ma Jun - He gives people in China the power to fight pollution.
ALSO
Baby Planets
Popcorn Robots
Fluorescent Squirrels
EXPLORE
GETTING THERE - Trek to the Deep - In Vietnam, jungle and leeches greet hikers venturing into two of Earth's largest caves.
THROUGH THE LENS - Where Reptiles Rule - In a paradise on an isolated coral atoll, a photographer discovers he's just part of the ecosystem.
ALSO
Dragonfly Tricks
Movie Soundmaking
Queer History
On the Cover - A captive sloth peers out of a cage in Amazonian Peru. Sloths and other animals-elephants, tigers, dolphins-often suffer abuse in the thriving wildlife tourism industry.
This magazine has been read but is in fantastic shape.
If you were to purchase a back issue through the National Geographic Society, it would cost $7.00 with U.S. delivery.
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