Frank Cuesta, Television presenter
Links with the prefix "es:" are to articles in the Spanish language WikipediaFrancisco Javier Cuesta Ramos (born 16 October 1971), better known as Frank Cuesta, Jungle Frank (Spanish: Frank de la jungla) or Wild Frank (also in Spanish); is a Spanish adventurer, wildlife vet and a television presenter, who has lived all around the world. For the past 20 years, he has been fighting illegal animal trafficking and animal abuse in Southeast Asia. In 2019, after infiltrating into bear farms in Vietnam as a veterinarian, he showed the world the dramatic images of how bears were abused daily, to extract their bile for traditional alternative medicines and other curatives with no scientifically proven value. This report then pushed the Vietnamese Government to make an official statement where they promised to abort these activities.
He presented his first TV Show es:Frank de la jungla which was broadcast on Cuatro from 2010 to 2013. It received the Premio Ondas award on 8 November 2011 in the national TV category. The show brought him international fame along with the spin-off shows called es:La Selva en Casa and es:Natural Frank. In March 2013, Cuesta signed a contract with Discovery International in order to make the TV show es:Wild Frank which has been broadcast in more than 100 countries.