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.

Diya Das is a Masters student at Pondicherry University, India, diyadas.d@gmail.com.

Mark F Baumgartner is Associate Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, mbaumgartner@whoi.edu.

Kathleen M Stafford is Affiliate Associate Professor, School of Oceanography, University of Washington, USA, kate2@uw.edu.

Dipani Sutaria is an ecologist associated with James Cook University, Australia and a member of the IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group, Dipani. Sutaria@gmail.com.

Daniel Hoshizaki is a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, currently conducting research in Cambodia. His research focuses on the social and ecological impacts of hydropower development in the country. He is also working with a locally based environmental NGO, Mother Nature, to advocate for the rights of communities that will be affected by the proposed Chaey Areng hydropower project, daniel.hoshizaki@yale.edu.

Ricardo Finotti is a researcher and Associate professor at Estácio de Sá University. finottiricardo@
gmail.com.

Cecilia Herzog is researcher and lecturer on Green Infrastructure and Biodiversity, president of Inverde Institute, and Asssociate Professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, ceciliapherzog@gmail.com.

Ryo Kohsaka is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya City University, Japan, kikori36@gmail.com.

Divya Gopal is a researcher at the Institute ofEcology, Technische Universität, Berlin.

Germán Andrés Quimbayo R is an Ecologist at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá)

María Angélica Mejía P is Program Coordinator for Policy, Legislation and Decision Making at the Alexander Von Humboldt Institute for Research on Biological Resources, Bogotá, Colombia.