Alissa is a science teacher, graduate student, and conservation advocate, who is passionate about education, sustainability, and inspiring future scientists, like her two children.

Aarushi is an ecologist, specialising in the evolution of flowers and pollination. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm for nature with a wide range of audiences and is developing her science communication skills.

Amolika (they/she) is an aspiring designer and illustrator. Their work draws inspiration from the natural world and that of fantasy.

Padma is a science and environment journalist with a strong grounding in both science and language. She has reported extensively on science policy and development in India and the Global South, contributing to publications like The Hindu, Nature, and Mongabay India, among others. A language enthusiast, she also explores ecology research through French translations at Current Conservation.

Marco Mangiacotti is a researcher at University of Pavia (IT). His research lines focus on
amphibians and reptiles’ conservation, ecology, ethology, and evolution.

Mishal Gudka is a Kenyan coral reef scientist working for CORDIO East Africa, a non profit research and conservation organization dedicated to marine and coastal ecosystems in the western Indian Ocean (WIO). He has led WIO data aggregation and analysis initiatives, including Red List assessments, and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of Melbourne. In addition to coral reef data analysis, he is involved in scientific coral reef monitoring and training, and marine conservation outreach.

Enzo is a conservation biologist and photographer researching the ecology and populations of endangered birds on islands to support conservation translocation efforts.

Jahnavi Chowdary Gutta is an undergraduate student at Flame University, Pune. She is fascinated by the world of butterflies and embraces a passion for adventure and exploration.

Justin French works in wildlife care dedicating their time to protect local species. They earned a M.A. in Biology and use their experience to support conservation in California.

Deepti Megh is a queer visual storyteller, illustrator and animator. She loves choc milk, forests, and is the co-founder of the visual storytelling studio, Paus.

Arghya Adhikary is an engineer and passionate nature and wildlife photographer. He is a contributing photographer to WWF-India.

Ritam Dey is a butterfly conservationist from Nature Mates-Nature Club, India. He works to spread awareness for insect conservation through his camera lens.

Reshu Singh is a visual artist and illustrator. She was one of three Indians amongst 100 women comic creators across the world whose work was curated and exhibited by Paul Gravett and Olivia Ahmed at House of Illustration, London in 2016

Founder of the Domestication Lab and the Wolf Science Center at the Vetmeduni Vienna, Friederike Range compares the cognition and (human) social interactions of dogs and wolves.

Sarah Marhsall-Pescini is a senior researcher at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, studying wolves’ and dogs’ socioecology and evolution in captivity and in the wild.

Specialized on Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Claus Lamm founded the SCAN-Unit at the University of Vienna to pursue cutting-edge research on Social Cognitive Neuroscience.

Svenja Capitain is a PhD candidate at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria, focussing on implicit and explicit attitudes in human-wolf / human-dog interactions.

Camila (she/her) is an agroecologist studying the effects of agriculture on people and wildlife. She is passionate about knowledge transfer through art,

Vidhatri works with the climate adaptation team at CSTEP. She is interested in the resilience of ecosystems and in her spare time, you can find her pondering over the fundamentals of nature- from Hawking’s radiation in black holes to the ebbs and flows of life

Harshad is a writer and poet from Chennai.

Hussain ‘Sendi’ Rasheed (known as Sendi) was the first PADI Instructor Trainer in the Republic of Maldives and a founding member of the Divers Association Maldives. Throughout his career, Sendi has collaborated with marine researchers and activists alike to raise awareness about ocean conservation in his country.

María Villalpando is a PhD candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on terrestrial and marine food systems. She is a coral and ocean lover, and a conservationist at heart.

Shivangi is a Science communications intern at Dakshin Endeavours. She is also an artist and a poet. She loves stopping every once in a while to observe the ‘nature’ that surrounds- whether it is the bulbuls nesting outside her house or butterflies fluttering past. She’s keen to explore the intricate human-nature relationships and make science engaging.

Fredrick Lala is the Head of the Arid, Semi-Arid and Savanna Research Center of the Wildlife Research & Training Institute of Kenya. He conducts conservation/management research on the effect of linear infrastructure on mammal populations, and is based in the Tsavo Conservation Area.

Joseph Bump is a Professor at FWCB and Director of Graduate Studies, Conservation Sciences program, University of Minnesota. His research program examines the conservation of mammals at the interface of population ecology, species interactions, and carrion ecology.