Russell Galt is Project Coordinator at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa, rgalt@btinternet.com

Thomas Elmqvist is a Professor at Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden. thomas.elmqvist@su.se.

Harini Nagendra is Professor at School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore.

Maria Tengö is a researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre and co-theme leader of the Stewardship theme, maria.tengo@su.se.

Maria Schewenius is a graduate from Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University and is interested in governance and management of urban social-ecological systems, maria.schewenius@su.se

Rohini Nilekani is the founder of Arghyam, a foundation dedicated to water and sanitization issues. She is also co-founder of Pratham Books. A dedicated philanthropist, Rohini is involved with a number of environmental and developmental organizations such as ATREE. She is also a writer of both fiction and non-fiction and has authored the novel, ‘Stillborn’.

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who builds game-theoretic models of animal behaviour.  His acrostic sonnets have appeared in Light, Lighten Up Online and several other journals.

Minakshi Seth is a storyteller and a nature communicator. She volunteers with nature and conservation based non-profits and development institutions. When not reading or writing, she follows the nature trail and dabbles in art.

Mrinalini Godara is an Environmental Studies and Sociology student at FLAME University, Pune, India. mrinalinigodara@gmail.com

Sohail Keegan Pinto is currently a Lecturer at St. Aloysius College (Autonomous), Mangalore. His interests lie primarily in the areas of taxonomy and evolution, although he does take a non-professional interest in animal cognition, as well. sohailkpinto@frontier.hokudai.ac.jp

Brett Clark is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah. He is the author several articles and books on socioecological processes including The Ecological Rift coauthored with John Bellamy Foster and Richard York, and the Tragedy of the Commodity co-authored with Stefano Longo and Rebecca Clausen.

Stefano B. Longo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. His research examines the relationships between social and ecological systems, and is author of The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans Fisheries and Aquaculture co-authored with Rebecca Clausen and Brett Clark.

Nico Eisenhauer is Full Professor for Experimental Interaction Ecology at Leipzig University and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany. They study global change impacts on ‘beasts’ (soil biodiversity) and how this relates to the functioning of ecosystems.

Erin Cameron is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Canada.

Vivek Philip Cyriac is currently a PhD student at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is an evolutionary ecologist whose research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that generate and maintain biodiversity. He is also interested in how species adapt to changing environments at ecological and evolutionary time scales.

1. Andaman and Nicobar Islands’ Environmental Team, Wandoor, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
2. Centre for Invasion Biology (C.I.B), Stellenbosch University, Matieland X7602, South Africa.

Noëlie M.A. Benoist is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southampton, UK, and is hosted by the Ocean Biogeochemistry & Ecosystems Division of the National Oceanography Centre, UK. Her research interests cover marine seafloor habitats and biological assemblages in both coastal seas and the deep ocean, focussing on research based on underwater imagery. E-mail: nb5g13@soton.ac.uk.

Barkha Lohia loves working on picture books, editorials and sometimes dabble in tattoo art. Apart from these, she can often be found loitering around jungle spaces of Delhi. Clicking, collecting and sketching away.

Zoya Tyabji has been fascinated with all things marine, and has studied sea kraits, coral reefs and elasmobranchs in India. She is currently the Project Associate of the marine team of Wildlife Conservation Society-India.

Riley Hamrick is an ophthalmic technician who recently completed a Master’s degree in Conservation Biology through Miami University. Her passion lies in resolving human-wildlife conflict.

Archana Bali was a conservation scientist who worked in India and Alaska. She received her Ph.D. posthumously from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA.

M. Vikas is a doctoral student at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Vikas can be reached at vikas@wisc.edu.

Harmeet Rahal is a Bombay-based artist, zine-maker & a proud mom of two dogs.

Shrujana N. Shridhar is an illustrator based in Mumbai. She writes and illustrates children’s books and is a co-founder of the Dalit Panther Archive