Vitória Rech is a biology graduate student and a fellow at the Ichthyology Laboratory at UNISINOS (Brazil), working with the systematics of small neotropical catfish.

Ronaldo Libardi Widholzer, Bachelor in Biology, is currently a PhD student at the Ichthyology Laboratory of UNISINOS (Brazil), with the genus Ancistrus of southern Brazil.

PhD in Zoology and post-doc in Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Neotropical Fishes. Currently Professor and coordinator of the Laboratory of Ichthyology (Labictio) at UNISINOS, Brazil.

Anushree Vaze is a graphic designer, illustrator, painter. She works as a freelancer and likes exploring mixed media and working with different textures, colors and patterns.

Jared Stabach is an ecologist at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and the program coordinator for the Institution’s Movement of Life Initiative.

Robert Harcourt leads the Marine Predator Research Group, Macquarie University, & Australia’s IMOS Animal Tracking Facility and is interested in the conservation & ecology of marine predators.

Malvika Dwivedi is a Visual Designer. Her work spans illustration, animation and graphic design while being rooted in design research. She’s currently working as a motion designer at Animal.

Kristen Lear is an Endangered Species Interventions Specialist at Bat Conservation International, where she leads the organization’s bi-national Agave Restoration Initiative.

Kate Mansfield is the Director of the Marine Turtle Research Group at the University of Central Florida. She studies sea turtle biology and ecology, across all sea turtle life stages—from eggs to adults.

Liliana Colman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at The University of Exeter, UK. Her research currently focuses on the nesting ecology and conservation of leatherback sea turtles in Brazil.

Harikumar Nair is a visual artist who works under the alias hashlunar. Primarily focused on Animation, Motion graphics, Illustration and Graphic Design. Additionally, He also works in the fields of 3d design, Augmented reality and Virtual Reality.

David M.Hecht is a Ph.D. Candidate in Integrative Conservation (ICON) & Anthropology at the University of Georgia, a National Geographic Explorer, & a Fellow with the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Priyanka K is an illustrator with a love of graphic narratives and printmaking. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, and is creative director at the publishing project Anchovy Press.

Sahas Barve is an evolutionary ecologist and a Research Fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Vivek Chandran A is a passionate birdwatcher. He has immense love for all things living and pursues research on odonates because he believes they are the barometers of our environment. When not chasing dragonflies or photographing birds, he finds solace in nature writing.

Demeng Jiang is a postdoctoral fellow at Peking University who currently focuses on the trade-off between biodiversity conservation, carbon storage and timber production in landscapes important for forestry. 

Adam Gouraguine is a postdoctoral research associate at Newcastle University currently studying kelp ecosystems, their services and drivers of change.

Hilmar Hinz is a marine biologist of the Mediterranean Institute of Advanced Studies (CSIC-UIB) interested in benthic invertebrate and fish communities and their interactions.

Manuel Hidalgo is an ecosystems oceanographer at the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO, CSIC) interested in anthropogenic activity and climate variability impacts on ecological interactions.

Ivan Murray is a critical geographer at the Department of Geography of the University of the Balearic Islands and collaborator of Alba Sud (www.albasud.org).

Cati Torres is an ecological economist at the Applied Economics Department of the University of the Balearic Islands and member of its Interdisciplinary Lab on Climate Change.

Joan Moranta is a marine ecologist and conservationist at the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO, CSIC) and a founding member of Alimentta (https://alimentta.com/).

Anushka Kawale is an aspiring wildlife conservationist from Mumbai in pursuit of communicating wildlife science to the masses. 

Ivan Jarić is a researcher at the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and a lecturer at the University of South Bohemia. For more information visit www.ivanjaric.com

Diogo Veríssimo is a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford and uses social marketing concepts and theory to design and evaluate behaviour change interventions that help conserve biodiversity.

Leslé Jansen is the CEO at Resource Africa South Africa and has experience in resource rights and benefit sharing for communities.

Frowin Becker is a conservation scientist and doctoral candidate at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Gail C. Thomson has worked in Botswana and Namibia for in communal conservation areas and now runs an independent communications consultancy for conservation organisations.

Creature Conserve brings artists, creative writers, and scientists together to study, celebrate, and protect animals and their habitats.