Explorers

Eugene Yu

Senior Advisor

Photograph courtesy Eugene Yu

Eugene Yu is Senior Advisor to the National Geographic Air and Water Conservation Fund and concurrently Senior Vice President of IDG Asia/China.

Eugene started his career as a Chinese diplomat in 1986. He left the government and joined the private sector in 1999. Over the past 13 years, he worked successively as the Vice President of Government Affairs and Business Development of American Standard (China) Ltd., Managing Director of Baker Donelson International, China, Country General Manager and chief rep of Motion Picture Association, China, and Senior Vice President of IDG Aisa/China.

Eugene enjoys reading, singing, meeting with people, and sports, especially table tennis and Chinese chess.

Out of Eden Walk

Where will Paul Salopek walk on his seven-year adventure? Find out as he updates us from the field.
Mongolia Wolverine Expedition

Follow along as Gregg Treinish skis roughly 400 miles to survey wildlife, with a focus on wolverine.
Desventuradas Expedition

Follow Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala as he sets off on his first big expedition of the year: to explore the remote islands of Desventuradas, hundreds of miles off the coast of Chile.
A Thousand Miles Across the Ice Age Trail

Sally Younger is undertaking a winter transect of Wisconsin's Ice Age Trail to interpret the land's worth and change.
Omagination

Young Explorer Kelsy Wilson's project provides cameras to Omani women artisans in order to see the evolution of their living craft heritage "through their eyes and in their hands."

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Celebrating 125 Years National Geographic

Explorer Moment: Naming Baby Parrots

While studying green-rumped parrotlets, Karl Berg discovered the adults appear to "name" their young.
Survival Guide: Dodging Locusts

Swarm behaviorist Iain Couzin has a toxic reaction to a locust at the same time his team runs out of food.

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