Social Impact Heroes: How National Geographic Photographer Michael George is using his art to promote animal conservation, rescue programs and support climate change legislation

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine
Published in
9 min readJun 21, 2019

--

Michael George photographing lemurs with their keeper in Zoo Berlin.

…Do not support shady wildlife tourism. When traveling (especially abroad), thoroughly research any activities you plan that bring you into contact with animals or wildlife. National Geographic’s most recent cover story outlines how deeply many of these animals are mistreated. Support your local zoo and aquariums and look into their conservation, research, and rescue programs. If you can, donate specifically to those parts of the organization. Support climate change legislation. Climate change is not just a threat to humans, but also all species natural habitats.

As a part of our series about social impact heroes, I had the pleasure to interview Michael George. Michael George is a photographer and writer based out of Brooklyn. His human interest and travel stories have been

--

--

Yitzi Weiner
Authority Magazine

A “Positive” Influencer, Founder & Editor of Authority Magazine, CEO of Thought Leader Incubator