''Born to Be Wild'' is a

Philippine television Television in the Philippines was introduced in October 1953 upon the first commercial broadcast made by Alto Broadcasting System (now ABS-CBN), making the Philippines the first Southeast Asian country and the second in Asia to do so. Even b ...

travel documentary show broadcast by

GMA Network GMA Network (Global Media Arts or simply GMA) is a Philippine free-to-air television and radio network. It is the flagship property of publicly traded GMA Network, Inc. Its first broadcast on television was on October 29, 1961. GMA Network (f ...

. Originally hosted by

Romi Garduce Romeo Roberto "Romi" Garduce (born 1969 in Balanga, Bataan), sometimes nicknamed as "Garduch," is a Filipino mountain climber, a scuba dive master (since 2000), an environmentalist, writer, motivational speaker and works as an IT professional. ...

and Ferds Recio, it premiered on November 28, 2007 on the network's evening line up replacing '' Palaban''. Recio and Nielsen Donato currently serve as the hosts.

Overview

It features stories about wildlife and the environment and its hosts' weekly expeditions to the country's frontiers.

Hosts

* Ferds Recio * Nielsen Donato ;Former hosts * Kiko Rustia *

Mariz Umali Marie Grace Michelle Bade Umali-Tima (born March 4, 1979), widely known as Mariz Umali (), is a Filipina television news anchor and journalist. She is known for being the main newscaster of the weekend edition of GMA News TV's ''Balitanghali'' ...

Production

In March 2020, production was halted due to the

enhanced community quarantine in Luzon The enhanced community quarantine in Luzon was a series of stay-at-home orders and '' cordon sanitaire'' measures implemented by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) on the island of Luzon ...

caused by the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...

. The show resumed its programming on August 2, 2020.

Accolades

References

External links

* * 2007 Philippine television series debuts Filipino-language television shows GMA Network original programming GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows Philippine documentary television series Philippine travel television series Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic {{Philippines-tv-prog-stub