Bryan Christy

For its 125th year anniversary, National Geographic called Bryan Christy's work one of ten ways National Geographic has changed the world. He is founder of the Special Investigations Unit at National Geographic, a National Geographic Society Fellow, an Explorer program television correspondent, and in 2014 was named National Geographic Society's Explorer of the Year. His Emmy-nominated film, Warlords of Ivory, in which he starred, was also a National Geographic cover story, Tracking Ivory, written by Christy, in which his team designed and built fake elephant tusks embedded with GPS systems to track terrorists smuggling ivory through central Africa. The film, which was shown at the United Nations, and launched the 2015 Jackson Hole Film Festival African Elephant summit, won numerous awards, including: 2016 Wildscreen "Green Oscars" winner: Best Presenter: Bryan Christy. 2016 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography In A Documentary (Toby Strong and JJ Kelley). The 2016 United N