Sanjay Gubbi is the Assistant Director (Conservation Science and Policy) with the Wildlife Conservation Society-India program. gubbi@wcsindia.org

Divya Gandhi is a journalist at the Hindu. divgandhi@gmail.com

Neil Ever Osborne is a conservation photographer, an educator, and a consultant specializing in strategic visual communication platforms. He is an associate member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP).neophoto@mac.com

Deanna Del Vecchio is an educator, photographer, and environmentalist based in Toronto, Ontario, She is the manager of Tread Lightly, an international environmental education program run by TakingITGlobal.

James Gambiza is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Charlie Shackleton is Professor of Environmental Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

AS Raghubanshi is a Professor of Botany at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Gyan Prakash Sharma is at the Department of Environmental Biology University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

Mark Williamson is at the Department of Biology, University of York, UK.

Harold Mooney is at the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.

Charles Perrings is at the School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. Mail at perrings@asu.edu

Cherukuri Raghavendra Babu is Emeritus Professor at the Centre of Excellence Program, Center for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems, University of Delhi, India.

Amit Love is a Research Scientist with the Centre of Excellence Program, Center for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems, University of Delhi, India.

Suresh Babu is a Research Scientist with the Centre of Excellence Program, Center for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems, University of Delhi, India.

KN Ganeshaiah is at the Department of Forestry and EnvironmentalSciences, and School of Ecology and Conservation, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, India.

Gladwin Joseph, NA Aravind, and R Kannan are at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India.

R Uma Shaanker is at the Department of Crop Physiology, and School of Ecology and Conservation, University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore,India

Vikram Dayal is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.

Wieger G. W. Wamelink is a plant ecologist and space farmer studying nitrogen deposition and climate change.

Igor V. Bartish studies population genetics, biogeography and macroevolutionary trends in habitat types of regional floras.

Alec Christie is a conservation scientist currently completing a Ph.D. in Zoology at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom.

Sartaj Ghuman is a PhD student at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, India.

Eszter Deri is at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK.