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Story 1 of 6 - May 10, 2022 - Seattle, WA, United States
National Geographic Society & the Pledge partner to fund Explorers
![National Geographic Explorers documenting the global climate crisis](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-hero-living-natgeo.jpg)
The collaboration will support National Geographic Explorers documenting the global climate crisis as part of the Society’s Global Storytellers Fund.
The Climate Pledge is collaborating with the National Geographic Society to support climate storytelling as part of the Society’s Global Storytellers Fund. Over the next three years, we will empower 15 National Geographic Explorers to document the global climate crisis through authentic storytelling and illuminate the challenges, solutions, and communities on the front lines. The collaboration will also support up to 45 mentees as part of the Society’s Second Assistant Program, which empowers early career women and storytellers of color by training them and placing them in the field alongside National Geographic Explorers.
The first five National Geographic Explorers to be supported through this collaboration include:
Climate resilience in communities facing glacier melt in the Himalayas, Alps, and the Andes
Peatland ecosystems globally focused on five significant peatlands in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Northern Europe
- Miora Rajaonary
Climate impacts on food supply and agricultural solutions to Southern Madagascar’s “Kéré,” or period of hunger
Traditional Indigenous methods of conservation land-management and climate change mitigation communities in Russia’s Bikin National Park and Palau
Climate and environmental justice in the Southern United States
![Explorers clockwise from top left: Miora Rajaonary, Ciril Jazbec, Luján Agusti, Kiliii Yüyan, Asha Stuart](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-text-image-natgeo-01.jpg)
Project Spotlight: Black Glaciers of Tierra del Fuego
![Left: Two horses at Andorra Valley, close to Uhuaia, Tierra de Fuego. Right: Portrait of Nair Salome, young inhabitant of Ushuaia, in the woods](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-text-image-natgeo-02.jpg)
![Left: Detail of flowers near the Andorra Valley.Right: Portrait of CADIC (Austral Center for Scientific Research) specialist Julio Escobar during a walk at Tierra Mayor Valley.](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-text-image-natgeo-03.jpg)
![Left: Portrait of Lara Gazzaniga, young inhabitant of Ushuaia, in the area of Andorra Valley, where there used to be a peat extraction enterprise that was stopped and abandoned some years ago.Right: Illustration of an archive image taken of two women of the original Selknam people who were inhabitants of the center of Tierra del Fuego Island, in an area of large peat bogs.](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-text-image-natgeo-04.jpg)
![Left: Aerial View of the area of Olivia River Valley.Right: Portrait of Nicolás Deluca, inhabitant of Ushuaia, in the coastal area of the city.](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-text-image-natgeo-05.jpg)
![Portrait of Rodolfo Iturraspe. Rodolfo is a renowned local hydrologist, researcher focused on hydrological regulatory systems of Southern Patagonia, especially glaciers and southern wetlands.](/content/dam/amazonclimatepledge/stories-assets/2022-may/article-text-image-natgeo-06.png)
Peatlands are a type of wetland with accumulation of organic matter in basins generally of glacial origin. They form when the deposited organic material exceeds the decomposition in a lagoon or swamp after glaciers left. Peatlands are considered one of the largest biological carbon deposits in the world. They are common in North America, Northern Europe, and Patagonia. The Island of Tierra del Fuego houses 95% of the peatlands of Argentina, including those of Peninsula Mitre, the largest in South America. Fuegian peatlands arose as a result of the decrease and disappearance of glaciers, and may be up to 18 thousand years old. Many times these peatlands are known as BLACK GLACIERS.
-Luján Agusti
National Geographic Explorer, Argentina
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