 In December 2008, CNN's award-winning documentary "Planet in Peril" featured Ling in the series' second installment, called "Battlelines".She was a correspondent that tracked excessive shark fishing in Costa Rica, elephant poaching in Chad, and gave people an inside look at the battle for the control over oil in Nigeria.In 2010 Ling co-founded the website SecretSocietyOfWomen.com, a forum for women where they can share their problems anonymously.