Shashank Dalvi is a Research Associate at the Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bangalore, India, shashank.da@gmail.com.

Amod Zambre is a project assistant in Maria Thaker’s lab, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, amodzambre@ces.iisc.ernet.in.

John Mathew is a visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of History, Duke University, USA, thoughtheybered@gmail.com

Matthew Godfrey works for the North Carolina Wildife Resources Commission and manages their sea turtle conservation programmes. He has over two decades of experience in sea turtle biology and conservation. mgodfrey@seaturtle.org

Wallace J Nichols, PhD is a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences. wallacejnichols.org This essay was first published in the Catamaran Literary Reader.

Jack Frazier is a research collaborator at the Department of Vertebrate Zoology–Amphibians & Reptiles, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA kurma@shentel.net

Rebecca Scott is a Future Ocean post doctoral fellow at the GEOMAR research institute|Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung, Kiel. beckyscott130@hotmail.com

Bram Büscher is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands, and Department of Geography, Environmental Management & Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. buscher@iss.nl

Manju Menon is Program Director of the Environmental Justice Program at Namati, New Delhi manjumenon1975@gmail.com.

Sourish Jha is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Sciences, Rabindra Bharati University(RBU), Kolkata. sourishjha@gmail.com

Sharachchandra Lele is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Environment & Development, ATREE, Bangalore. slele@atree.org

Gavin McDonald is a senior project researcher at UCSB’s Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab). His work includes using data and modeling to better understand the challenges facing small-scale fisheries, and to design effective solutions for overcoming these challenges. You may reach him at: gmcdonald@bren.ucsb.edu .

Meena Venkataraman is an independent researcher working on Asiatic lion behaviour and ecology, meena.venkatraman@gmail.com

Luke Hunter is President of PANTHERA, lhunter@panthera.org

Philipp Henschel is Survey Coordinator for the Lion Program of the global felid conservation organization PANTHERA, phenschel@panthera.org

Michael J Somers is the Director of the Centre for Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria. He is working on large carnivore (lions, cheetahs and wild dogs) and rhino reintroductions in the region. He has published widely on the subject including co-editing a Wiley-Blackwell book on the reintroduction of top-order predators with Matt Hayward, Michael.Somers@up.ac.za.

Matt W Hayward is a senior lecturer at the College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, UK, M. hayward@bangor.ac.uk.

Heather Gurd is a Conservation Consultant for Ewaso Lions and has conducted research studies with the project, including the evaluation study for the Warrior Watch programme, heather@ewasolions.org.

Shivani Bhalla is the Founder and Executive Director of the Ewaso Lions Project in northern Kenya (www.ewasolions.org), shivani@ewasolions.org.

Nachiket Kelkar is a PhD student at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Bangalore, India, nachiket.kelkar@atree.org.

Heather Goodall is Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney and a senior researcher in the Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre. She has worked closely in collaborative projects with indigenous people and with community members in social histories and life stories. Her current research is focussed on 20th century histories in the eastern Indian Ocean. While continuing collaborative projects with Australian aboriginal people, Heather is currently working on tracing transnational interactions between India, Indonesia and Australia at the end of World War 2, Heather.Goodall@uts.edu.au.

Elrika D’Souza is a Research Fellow in the Oceans and Coasts Programme at Nature Conservation Foundation. Her present research is on understanding the interactions between dugongs and seagrass habitats in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, elrika@ncf-india.org.

Vardhan Patankar is a Research Fellow with the Oceans and Coasts programme at Nature Conservation Foundation. His broad research interests lie in understanding animal behaviour, species interactions, socio-ecological resilience, and ecosystem level processes in marine environments, vardhan@ncf-india.org.