Shweta Basnett is a PhD student at ATREE and is interested in Evolutionary Biology. She is studying the flowering phenology of high altitude
Rhododendrons and its interaction with the pollinators.

Katie Badowski is a graduate student at Miami University studying biology with a focus in wildlife conservation. During her master’s
coursework she spent time in Sabah, Borneo working on communitybased conservation projects involving orangutans, reforestation, and
community education.

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

Dan Brockington directs the Sheffield Institute of International Development at the University of Sheffield. His research covers diverse aspects of conservation, agriculture development and celebrity entailing fieldwork in remote parts of East Africa and offices and events in central London.

Madhusudan Katti is Associate Professor for Leadership in Public Science in the Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He studies how an evolutionary understanding of cities as social-ecological systems can help us reconcile nature and biodiversity conservation with human development.

Ritwick Dutta is an Environmental Lawyer and Managing Trustee, Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment.

Georgianne Griffiths is a community ecologist who studies invertebrates in all their wonderful diversity. She is interested in finding out about
the things insects do that help us humans, from eating the pests that attack our crops, to recycling nutrients for plant growth. She currently works in New Zealand and the UK.

Aparajita Datta leads NCF’s Eastern Himalaya programme, under which research and community-based conservation with hornbills as a
flagship has been carried out for 20 years. She has been a member of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and a member of
the State Wildlife Advisory Board of Arunachal Pradesh. She has evaluated and critiqued proposed dam projects in Arunachal. Her interests
include plant–animal interactions, understanding human impacts on wildlife, and engaging with tribal communities for conservation.

Katie Shanks studies the combination of optics and solar power to develop more efficient technology made from novel materials. This has led her into areas of biomimicry and building applicable designs for maximum impact. She has always been interested in the self-sustainability of renewable energy and enjoys the mixture of creative design and problem-solving that comes with this cutting-edge technology.

Andrew Szopa-Comley is a PhD researcher at the University of Bristol, working on personality and predatorprey relations in freshwater fish.

Emmanuelle Briolat has recently completed her PhD at the University of Exeter, researching the striking warning colours of burnet moths.

Prashanth M.B. is a Research Associate at ATREE, who has studied birds in humandominated landscapes and grassland-savannas;
apart from harriers, he has also worked on inventorying and mapping waterbirds with the help of citizen scientists. Prashanth has worked
with Dr. T. Ganesh, who has led the project on tracking harriers to understand migration patterns and identifying key habitats.

Farzeen Kapadia is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. She’s happiest when she is illustrating children’s books, and more recently, birds. If she’s not drawing, you will find her curled up with a book and a cup of tea.

Dr Nestor Gregorio is a research fellow at the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre of the University of the Sunshine Coast. His research interest is in peoplebased forestry, and he is mainly involved in ACIAR-funded forest and landscape restoration research projects in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

T. R. Shankar Raman is a wildlife biologist and writer at the Nature Conservation Foundation (NCF) with interests in tropical ecology and conservation. His research and writing focuses on tropical forests, conservation of birds and other wildlife, and human connections to the rest of nature

Divya Mudappa is a wildlife biologist at the NCF with research interests in the field of tropical ecology, particularly of rainforests. Her work focuses on plant-animal interactions, animal behaviour, restoration ecology, and conservation biology.

Anand Osuri is an ecologist at NCF, presently a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York. His research interests are at the interface of tropical forest ecology and conservation, exploring the role of restoration in recovering and sustaining forest biodiversity and ecosystem functions in human-dominated tropical landscapes

Aindri C. is a communication designer specialising in animation and narrative illustration. She is a member of Kadak, an online collective of women graphic artists.

Pedro H. S. Brancalion is a professor of tropical forestry and restoration ecology at the “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Dr. Fangyuan Hua is a conservation ecologist with a research focus on understanding and conserving forest biodiversity. She is currently a Newton International Fellow of the British Royal Society, based at the University of Cambridge.

Chaaya Prabhat is an independent illustrator and graphic designer currently based in Chennai, India. Her work usually involves a combination of illustration, design and hand-lettering which she is passionate about.

Rhett D Harrison is a landscape ecologist with the World Agroforestry Centre, based in Lusaka, Zambia. He has diverse
research interests and has worked in over 20 tropical countries.

Sheena Deviah works as an Art Director at a children’s book publisher and enjoys working with her hands while surrounded by her three rowdy cats. She is constantly inspired by nature, both inside and outside

Robin Chazdon is a retired professor at the University of Connecticut, research professor with the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia,and adjunct professor at the University of Colorado

Shreya Sen is an Illustrator based out of Kolkata. Analyzing narratives, procrastination, comics, humour, imitating
people, making chai are some of her interests.