Name Frank Cuesta Role Television presenter | Residence Bangkok, Thailand | |
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Full Name Francisco Javier Cuesta Ramos Born 16 October 1971 (age 53) ( 1971-10-16 ) Leon, Spain Occupation Tennis coachAdventurerTelevision presenter Spouse Yuyee Alissa Intusmith (m. ?–2014) Children Zape Cuesta, Pepsi Cuesta, Zipi Cuesta, Zorro Cuesta, Zen Cuesta Similar People Yuyee Alissa Intusmith, Jesus Calleja, Pedro Francisco Garcia Profiles | ||
Francisco Javier Cuesta Ramos (León, Spain, 16 October 1972), better known as Frank Cuesta, is a Spanish adventurer, television presenter and tennis coach, who currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand for over 20 years. For the past 15 years Frank Cuesta has been fighting illegal animal trafficking and animal abuse in the southeast Asia. In 2012, after being infiltrated in Bear farms in Vietnam working as a vet, he showed to the world the dramatic images of how bears were abused daily, to get the bile. This report, pushed to the Vietnamese Government to make an official stamen where he compromised to abort these activities.
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He presented his first TV Show 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 La Selva en Casa and Natural Frank. In March 2013, Cuesta signed a contract with Discovery International in order to make the TV show Wild Frank which has been broadcast in more than 100 countries.
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Biography
Frank Cuesta studied veterinary medicine in the University. Frank was also interested to be a tennis player in his youth before he had a motorbike accident. Then he became a tennis coach instead signing up in the Nick Bollettieri tennis academy in Florida. He moved to Thailand to build his own academy, the Frank Cuesta Tennis Academy.
Throughout these years, his interest in herpetology led him to found an association to help reptiles in Thailand.
In 2010, the Spanish show Callejeros Viajeros's team met Frank Cuesta when they had some problems with a snake. His skills and knowledge led him to present his own TV show, Frank de la Jungla.
It received the Premio Ondas award on 8 November 2011 in the national TV category. The show brought him national fame along with the spin-off shows called La Selva en Casa and Natural Frank. In March 2013, Cuesta signed a contract with Discovery International in order to make the TV show Wild Frank which has been broadcast in more than 100 countries. He also received the award of "conservacionist of the year" in 2016 by the Southeast Asia animal rights confederation; granted fot his continuous fight against illegal animal trafficking.
In June 2014, his exwife Yuyee Alissa Intusmith was arrested in the airport Don Mueang in Bangkok, with 5 milligrams of cocaine and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Frank claims that his ex wife was convicted without proof and as a result of a set up to hurt his family by the animal mafias.
In 2016 his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/NATURALFRANK received the awards of most watched and best channel for natural conservation in Thailand.
Frank runs his own foundation since 2010, The foundation is financed by the revenue of his TV show. It doesn't accept donations, charity or sponsors.
Recently, somebody ask Frank in an interview, why he never accepted help in his foundation and why he kept fighting against illegal animal trafficking, when he knew he kept making very bad enemies. Frank Cuesta answered that the reason for not accepting money was because the animals were giving him the money by helping him when he films them in the wild and that money earned, should be going back to them. About why to keep his fight against illegal animal trafficking, his answer was very simple: BECAUSE ANIMALS DON'T HAVE LAWYERS.
Frank Cuesta's foundation has released more than 3,000 animals back into the wild since 2002.