Mithra K is a visual artist was born and raised in Kozhikode, Kerala. She received her Master’s degree in Painting from M S University of Baroda in 2018. Her practice primarily involves painting, extended by sculptural installations and strongly influenced by miniature painting styles.

Raju Vyas is now retired after 30+ years of service as a Zoo Inspector, at the Sayaji Baug Zoo, Vadodara, India. Prior to this, in the early eighties, he worked as an Assistant Curator with the private zoo of H. H. Jamsaheb of Nawanager and The Peter Scott Trust, Jamanagar.

Amogh Bhatnagar is a graphic designer and visual artist. He typesets books, makes editorial illustrations and works on visual identities, and enjoys cooking and reading

Sebastian Brackhane researches human-crocodile interactions in Timor-Leste since 2014. He is an associated scientist with the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

Namitha Hebbal is an architect and a self-taught collage artist. She makes both analogue and digital collages which mostly depict surreal scenes set in dreamscapes.

Lorraine Miller is a zoologist and author, specializing in great apes and devotes her spare time to the animal health, welfare, and conservation charities she works with.

Sierra is a graduate student with Project Dragonfly at Miami University and San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. During her coursework, she studied cheetah conservation in Namibia.

Madhumay Mallik is a graphic designer, photographer and writer, currently engaged with the communications team at Wildlife Trust of India.

João Pompeu is a conservation biologist and independent documentary photographer. He portrays environmental processes related to his scientific research focused on climate change.

Alina Gabriela Monroy-Gamboa is a Postdoctoral and Adjunct Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S. C.

Victor Sanchez-Cordero is a Professor and former Director of the Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

Sahotra Sarkar is a Professor in the Departments of Integrative Biology and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Karyn is an educator and artist in Denver, CO with 14 years of teaching experience. She has an MA in Linguistics and an MA in Biology. She published multiple zines and is writing a book about insects.

Anirudh Nair is a senior feature writer with RoundGlass Sustain. He enjoys walking through the wilderness and is constantly in awe of wild nature.

Dominic O’Key is a researcher in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature: Narrating the War Against Animals (Bloomsbury, 2022). His current work explores the cultures and politics of conservation.

Dipti is an interdisciplinary research scholar studying Natural resource management by navigating pathways through political ecology and the power dynamics in the society. She is also interested in covering the stories of people and their relationship with nature.

Astha Chaudhary is trained ecologist,her work lies in documenting the local biodiversity,making conservation plans and understanding  human-non-human interaction through community lense. She also loves to write stories for children, You can read her recent Betwa walk series  in Chakmak.

Pavithran has a master’s degree in social work from Pondicherry University. He is passionate about environmental studies, particularly on human-wildlife interactions, indigenous cultures and practices, and traditional ecological knowledge of communities.

Bhavya is a book designer and illustrator based out of Germany, her themes of work mainly being cultural and natural heritage.

Swati Addanki is an illustrator and animator from Mumbai. She loves to take walks and talk about them.

Matin Qaim is a food systems and development economist. He is the director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF) and Schlegel-Professor of Economic and Technological Change at the University of Bonn.

Regina Birner is Chair of Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development at the University of Hohenheim, Germany. Her research focuses on policies, governance and institutions that are essential for global food security and agricultural development.

Ingo Grass is Professor for Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems at the University of Hohenheim. He aims to contribute to the development of farming practices that promote agricultural productivity, while sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Frédéric Baudron is a System Agronomist working as a Senior Scientist for the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) in France. He has previously worked as a Principal Scientist for the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT).

Thomas Daum is an Associate Professor in Environmental Social Science at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on sustainable agricultural transformation and natural resource management in Africa and Asia.

Jacob Eurich is a scientist focused on building healthy, equitable, and sustainable blue food systems by increasing the resilience of fisheries to climate change and other stressors.