On a late night in February 2024, Udi Bornovski sat at a table at the Barracuda, a popular restaurant at the wharf in Koror, eagerly awaiting a meeting with National Geographic’s film team. They had just arrived in Palau, a remote island nation on the eastern edge of Micronesia, with one ambitious goal: to capture footage of dugongs with Udi as their guide. Few people know Palau’s reefs, seagrass meadows, and hidden corners as intimately as Udi.…
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