October • 2022
Great experience working with John, would collaborate with again!
Dakar, Senegal
2 reviews$400 - $1000 / Day
John Wendle is a shooting producer DP, DoP, cameraman, photographer and journalist based in Dakar, Senegal. Reporting on human and environmental conflict, science, and conservation, John creates video, photo and text story packages from some of the world's most remote and dangerous places. As a field producer for television, he employs a keen news sense and experience tracking down sources, as well as planning, logistical and budgeting skills to successfully complete shoots in remote or hostile locations. John has nearly 20 years of experience living and reporting in the republics of the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, and now West Africa. He has worked in almost 20 countries and speaks fluent Russian and French. John's work has appeared in National Geographic, PBS, Scientific American, TIME, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Le Monde, The Times, The Guardian, Outside, The Economist, UNHCR, the ICRC, MSF, and many others. John has a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, the Society of Environmental Journalists, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Reporters Without Borders.
October • 2022
Great experience working with John, would collaborate with again!
Populations of the big cats have increased threefold in some parts of the country, likely due to tougher stances on poaching and illegal wildlife trade, the Russian government announced recently.
Senegal's groundbreaking Covid test stick may revolutionize testing in Africa and around the world. CNN Marketplace Africa
In Morocco's Atlas Mountains, populations of the newly discovered African golden wolf are threatened by shepherds protecting their herds. Little is know about this wolf species. So researcher Liz Campbell, from Oxford University, conducted a "howling survey" in an effort to better understand how many of these wolves are left. Campbell also interviewed over 200 shepherds to learn more about their relationship with these mysterious animals.
Benoit Fader Keita's native language, Menik, is dying, with only about 3,000 speakers left at last count. He's using his music to keep it alive.
“I’m afraid to close my eyes - whenever I do, I see a burning tractor," says Valentina Marenkova, who's husband was killed by a landmine while tilling a field near Mariupol. ICRC is working to support those who have lost family to landmines as well as those wounded by mines in the country's east. After four years of conflict, Ukraine is one of the most mine-affected countries in the world. More anti-vehicle mine accidents have happened in Ukraine than in any other country for three years in a row, according to Halo. The majority of fighting has taken place near settlements, leaving mines and other ERW a direct threat to the safety of communities across the eastern part of the country, in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with well over half a million civilians affected in government-controlled areas alone. The full extent of the contamination is not yet known.
Illegal foreign fishing by Chinese, Russian and other trawlers in Senegalese waters is decimating fisheries and destroying the lives on Senegal's artisanal fishermen and across West Africa.
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