Mahira Kakajiwala in her past lives, has been a marine biologist and a baker. She is now an educator, looking for ways to communicate the amazingness of the oceans and its critters to anyone who will stop and pay attention.

Stashia Dsouza is a photographer and psychology student based in Mumbai.

Radha Rangarajan is usually found lost in either a forest or a book. A photographer, Radhadabbles in filmmaking, art and writing. She’s a natural history buff and is partial to elephants, fungi, owls and trees.

Svabhu Kohli is an independant visual artist exploring the unique relationship our planet shares with its inhabitants. His work translates observations, conversations and experiences through visual art.

Rohan Arthur is a scientist with the Nature Conservation Foundation. He works on ocean and coastal systems in the Indian Ocean and (on occasion) in the Mediterranean.

Amyth Venkatramaiah runs a graphic design + film studio called Newsense in Bangalore, where he grew up. He lives with his family and 2 year old nephew who inspires him to keep curiosity levels high. Plants, animals, art and music make him happy.

Martin Stelfox is a biologist and conservationist currently in the final year of PhD at the University of Derby. He is also the funder and CEO of the Olive Ridley Project.

Kabini Amin is a communications designer and illustrator based out of Bangalore. Her current interests lie in exploring the intersections of scientific research, cultural interventions and active-ism within the context of sustainable living.

Hasmukh Dhumadiya is an Enviro-Legal Coordinator working in the Environmental Justice Program of Centre for Policy Research out of Devbhumi Dwarka district in Gujarat

Bharat Patel, currently work on the issues of coastal industrialisation and livelihoods of the fisherfolk in Mundra,
Gujarat. I am the General Secretary of MASS – Machchimar Adhikari Sangharsh Sangathan

Krithika Dinesh is a legal researcher with an interest in environmental issues. She is currently working out of Keonjhar, Odisha in an Environment Justice Program of Centre for Policy Research.

Isabella is an education enthusiast with a passion for environmental conservation. She is in her last semester at the Environmental Studies degree program at The New School and completed previous studies in art curating and criticism at Central Saint Martins. During the Summer she worked for The Klosters Forum and assisted in executing their 2018 Ocean Pollution conference.

Punit J Hiremath is a graphic designer and artist studying new media design and production at Aalto university.

Valencia Beckwith is a student at FSU studying the impacts of microplastic on marine turtles.

Mariana Fuentes is marine conservation biologist at Florida State University, whose research focuses on developing sciencebased solutions for the conservation and management of sea turtles.

Sarah Nelms is a PhD researcher at the University of Exeter and Plymouth Marine Laboratory interested in understanding the pathways by which anthropogenic activities may affect marine megafauna. Her work focuses on the interactions between plastic pollution and marine mammals, turtles and sea birds.

Archana Anand is an engineer and a biologist. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Hong Kong and
researches human impacts on water quality, marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Her other interests are dancing and painting.

Jennifer Powers is an ecologist at the University of Minnesota, United States. She has been studying tropical forest ecology in Costa Rica and other countries since 1995.

David Bartholomew is a tropical forest ecologist investigating the impacts of climate change on tropical forests. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Exeter in the Geography department, funded by the NERC GW4+ Doctoral Training Partnership.

Debangshu Moulik is a visual artist and illustrator based in Pune, India. He is mostly found painting on huge canvases or hunched over heaps of papers scribbling away.

Rohan Chakravarty is a cartoonist, illustrator and animation designer hailing from Nagpur. He is the creator of Green Humour, a series of cartoons, comics and illustrations on wildlife, nature conservation, environment, sustainability and all things green.

Iván Vera-Escalona is a Chilean biologist, PhD at Dalhousie University. He is interested in the historical and contemporary patterns of native species and the impact of landscape modifications and the introduction of invasive species on them.

Madhurya Balan is an artist, illustrator, experiential learning facilitator, gardener and re-wilder. She is a believer and practitioner in free thought, speech and choices.

Chrissy Henriques is a graduate student at Miami University studying biology with a focus on primate conservation and awareness. She completed this project as a part of her work with Project Dragonfly at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Sagarika Bhatia is an illustrator from Dehradun. She likes books by Ruskin Bond, and music by Bonobo. In her free time she likes to explore the country, read and catch up on some sleep.

Michael Adams is an Associate Professor of Human Geography at the Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Dhwani Shah is an illustrator and graphic designer from Mumbai. She studied design from Sir J.J. School of Applied Art,
Mumbai and National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She enjoys working on editorial illustrations, non-fiction comics and publication design projects.

Rachael Knight is the Senior Advisor for Land at Namati. She has been working to document and protect community land rights since 1998 when, researching the Zimbabwean land invasions, she understood that strong land rights are the basis of thriving, prosperous, ecologically-flourishing communities.

Priyanka Hari Haran is currently a research assistant at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
(ATREE). This piece draws on her master’s dissertation work with mixed-species flocks of birds in Kali Tiger Reserve