Through the years, ASIAN
Geographic has won a number of awards such as the Genesis Award 2001 ARK Trust International Award, Safra Photo Convention 2004, and Asia Travel & Tourism Creative Award 2006.
Silver Award at Pretigious
Creative Awards Show A photograph of an elephant bathing in the river near the Pinnawela Elephant Reserve in Sri Lanka, featured in Issue 6/2005 of ASIAN
Geographic, impressed the judges of the 2nd Asia Travel and Tourism Creative Awards (ATTA) and bagged the Silver Award for the Scenic Travel Photograph category. The photo was taken in 2004 by ASIAN
Geographic’s Field Editor Lester V. Ledesma.
Genesis Award 2001
ARK Trust International Award In its March-April 2001 issue, ASIAN
Geographic ran a feature entitled "Bear Witness" which highlighted the bear rescue efforts of Jill Robinson in Sichuan, China. The Ark Trust, Inc., a US-based non-profit organisation devoted to raising public awareness on animal-protection issues, honoured ASIAN
Geographic with the 2001 Genesis Award for chronicling the heartbreaking torture of Asiatic black bears in China.
