Ullasa Kodandaramaiah is Assistant professor at the School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram.

Shreya Dasgupta is a freelance science writer based in Bangalore, with a special love for conservation and environmental news.

Nitin Rai is a member of the Savanna Grasslands Working Group at the Ashoka Trust for Research
in Ecology and Environment, and is part of a long-term multi-institutional research effort, “Research and Monitoring in the Banni LandscapE (RAMBLE)” in the Banni grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat.

Abi Tamim Vanak is a National Environmental Science Fellow working on landscape mapping and conservation prioritisation of Indian semiarid savanna grasslands. He is a member of the Savanna Grasslands Working Group at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, and is part of a long-term multi-institutional research effort, “Research and Monitoring in the Banni LandscapE (RAMBLE)” in the Banni grasslands of Kutch, Gujarat.

Sandhya Sekar is a freelance science journalist who writes mostly on ecology, wildlife and conservation.

Steve Winter is a photojournalist at the National Geographic Magazine.

Sharon Guynup is a freelance journalist.

Janaki Lenin is a freelance writer with a special interest in wildlife and conservation issues.Although she writes about and admires people’s sanguine attitude towards dangerous animals, including venomous snakes, she doesn’t think she has a similar disposition.

Joshua Cinner is principal research fellow ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia.

Demian A Willette is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Tasneem Khan is the Assistant Director of the Andaman and Nicobar islands Environmental Team, India.

Elsa Reimerson is a PhD student at the Department of Political Science, Umeå universitet, Sweden.

Don L Hankins is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography & Planning, California State University, Chico, USA

Christine Eriksen is a social geographer with the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, Australia,

Charles E Kay holds a PhD in Wildlife Ecology and is a senior fellow at the Institute of Political Economy and a senior research scientist at the Centre for Public Lands and Rural Economics, Huntsman School of Business at the Utah State University, USA.

Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao is a David H. Smith Conservation Fellow studying migratory shorebird conservation governance at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington. He is also the vice-president for education and outreach of the Society for Conservation Biology and is an associate editor of Current Conservation

Prashanth N. S. is at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, and a PhD student in public health at Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. He works with the Soligas in BR Hills, Karnataka.

Peter Lindsey is at the Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

K. S. Gopi Sundar is a PhD student in the Conservation Biology Program at the University of Minnesota, USA,
and a Research Associate of the International Crane Foundation, Wisconsin, USA.

Tom Blomley was Senior Adviser to the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism between August 2003 and December 2007. During this time he supported the government to establish a national programme of participatory forest management.

Lucy Hawkes is a post doctoral research officer at Bangor University, UK; she was the Marine Turtle and Climate Change program coordinator for the World Wildlife Fund during the synthesis of this work.

Terre Satterfield is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES).

Joleen Timko is the Managing Director of AFRICAD (the Africa Forests Research Initiative on Conservation and Development) at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry

Alex Flynn is at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Keith Bosak is Assistant Professor of Nature-Based Tourism, Department of Society and Conservation, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.

Kristen Jule is a Teaching Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Exeter, UK.

Ariadne Angulo is currently the Focal Point for the IUCN Red List amphibian database (formerly the Global Amphibian Assessment), and is also the Focal Point for the IUCN Amphibian Specialist Group Red List Authority.