John Kurien is currently Visiting Professor at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. He has been associated with Cambodia’s community fisheries initiative since 2005

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

Annada Menon is a Visual Artist. She loves drawing the surrealistic beauty of nature and sometimes also imagining how it should peacefully coexist in the presence of humans.

Harry Dittrich is a graduate student in the Project Dragonfly program at Miami University studying the connection between communities and otters. He teaches middle school science at an inner-city school in Dayton, Ohio.

Paloma Bhattacharjee is a graduate in History from Delhi University. At present she works at the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. Her research interest is at the cusp of culture and ecology, with a focus on inter-species relationships.

Ariel Spanowicz is a Masters’ student at ETHZ in environmental sciences, working with Fernanda Teixeira from UFRGS, Brazil and Jochen Jaeger from Concordia University, Montreal.

Mischael Hardre loves to explore the amazing world of ecosystems. He loves all things wild, especially jungle cats, and spends his time seeking out unusual, interesting things in nature.

Parinita Dewan is an Indian architectural designer & artist based out of San Francisco, dedicated to eliminating
social+environmental issues.

Shambhavi Singh is an illustrator and visual communication designer based in Helsinki. She enjoys reading poetry and making bad puns.

Vance G. Martin is the President of the WILD Foundation and Wilderness Foundation Global.

Nyree Fea is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology at Victoria University of Wellington.

Alyssa Sargent is a Ph.D. student at the University of Washington, where she will study tropical hummingbird ecology. She is a field biologist at heart, who also loves writing, painting, and boxing.

Triparna Maiti is a visual artist who likes to draw and paint her little world of imagination. She is currently studying at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute Kolkata.

Michael Traurig is a current PhD student at Deakin University whose research focuses on exploring the relationship between threats to ecosystem health and the benefits they provide to human well-being.

Simone Stevenson is a current PhD student at Deakin University whose research focuses on evidence-based decision making for global conservation problems.

Manisha Kumari is a light-hearted researcher working in Arunachal Pradesh. She enjoys photographing stories from indigenous communities but sulks at the idea of writing them.

Rinki Sarkar is a solitary researcher intoxicated by mountain landscapes. She also enjoys teaching and sharing her field insights only to experience the sparkle of spell-bound eyes.

Dr. Carson Jeffres is a researcher at the Center for Watershed  Sciences, University of California, Davis who studies how native fish utilize and benefit from restored habitats.

Jonathan Stahl directs Adventure Programs and Experiential Learning at Washington State University, providing outdoor programs that foster leadership and environmental stewardship.

Amanda Stahl studies riverine ecology and conservation policy. She recently completed a Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University, USA.

Sana Bansal is an illustrator and visual designer, who draws odd humans, odd animals and everything in between. Her work is often influenced by folktales and magic realism.

Saloni Bhatia spends most of her time either working in or dreaming about the Himalaya. She hopes to eventually  build a cozy little nest for herself and her pets amid the snowy mountains.

Aashti Miller is an architect and illustrator. She is the sole force behind MillerInk, a graphic design and illustration studio. She ‘constructs’  her drawings in an attempt to unite her two seemingly disparate worlds.

Adithi Muralidhar works at the Homi Bhabha  Centre for Science Education, TIFR. She is a  nature enthusiast and has a keen interest in the  dynamics of society and the environment.

Deborah Dutta is a researcher and writer who likes collecting and sharing stories, seeds and recipes. Find more about her literary rambles at https://linktr.ee/deborahdutta.

Sonya Sankaran’s work as an artist, ecologist, and educator  connects people to art and nature as a means to improve human and environmental health.

Dr Manju Vasudevan Sharma is a pollination ecologist  who currently works on building NTFP-based enterprises with indigenous women, as a means to help assert community forest rights.

Shruti Sunderraman is a journalist, writer, and editor who has been working with culture, gender, and scientific commentary. Conservation has made a place in her life in different ways – sometimes, in how she invokes the ecology of living into her work, and many times, in how she engages with the world. At Current Conservation, she tries to find the most effective way to communicate the urgency of science and all that lives. To Shruti, personal is political, which is why she hugs trees. She lives in Bangalore in her garden, with her cat.

Subhankar Chakraborty studies animal behaviour and conservation genetics. mail.subhankarc@ gmail.com.