MBT PRESENTS

Chris Morgan: A Life in THE WILD
From Pythons to Polar Bears


Friday | January 26, 2024 | 7:30PM


 



Dive into life among bears and other big carnivores with renowned wildlife ecologist Chris Morgan!


 

You’ll feel like you’re right there with Chris Morgan as he sloshes through jungles and crunches across the arctic sea ice pulling you into the fascinating and emotional stories of wonder and hope from our incredible planet. Morgan’s live event brings a captivating energy to the stage as he shares his work around the world as a conservationist, TV host, and podcast producer. His stories, stunning photographs, and beautiful film clips will leave you inspired, moved, entertained, and hopeful about the great things we can all do together for humans, other species, and our planet.

Whether Andean bears on the equator or Siberian tigers on the Russian frontier, this large carnivore ecologist, filmmaker, and global adventurer has spent over 30 years immersed in the wild. Morgan’s TV shows and hit podcast (THE WILD with Chris Morgan) have reached hundreds of millions of people around the world. During this event, you’ll hear stories from behind the scenes, experiences with other adventurous conservationists located across the globe, and peek into his frontline work as a grizzly bear expert in the Pacific Northwest.

Morgan has dedicated his life to learning about the world through the large carnivores he studies and telling stories that educate, inspire, and entertain. His approach to conservation is based on mankind’s connection to all living things. It is his mission to reconnect people with nature, so they fall in love with it and want to protect it.

Morgan has hosted, narrated and appeared on several Emmy Award-winning shows and stations including PBS’s Nature, BBC, National Geographic Television, the Discovery Channel, and The Late Show with David Letterman. Morgan’s year-long odyssey across the Arctic Circle by motorcycle was featured in the award-winning mini-series Bears of the Last Frontier, and in the feature film BEARTREK.

Morgan is the co-founder of Wildlife Media, the non-profit organization that produced BEARTREK and the accompanying campaign which continues to generate support and exposure for critical bear conservation projects worldwide. The headquarters for Wildlife Media is based in right here in Bellingham, WA.
 

Show Sponsor

North Cascades Institute

 


Production Genre: Speaker, Documentary, Conservation, Ecology