Celebrating 135 years! Explore the 'cave of bones', rewild 500 baby sharks, and spend 2 years in the Amazon.

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A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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Since our founding in 1888, National Geographic has been dedicated to expanding our knowledge of the world through exploration. We’ve sent expeditions to the world’s deepest cave, across 2,000 miles of dense rainforest in the Congo, to shipwrecks like Endurance and Titanic — we’ve even been to the moon with NASA. We do all this, in part, because we believe that understanding our world is critical to inspiring a desire to protect it. And, of course, bringing you these incredible stories in words and images and video is what we love to do at National Geographic. For our 135th anniversary, we’ve just released a number of exciting stories about some of our most recent explorations: a dispatch from our two-year expedition across the Amazon, new findings about our human ancestors in caves in Africa, a groundbreaking project to rewild endangered sharks in Indonesia, and much more. This work is, for us, both exciting and important. And we couldn’t do it without the support of people like you. Join us as a Premium subscriber today and help us continue to tell stories like these about our wild, weird, and wonderful world.

Sincerely, Nathan Lump Editor in Chief National Geographic Media

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