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.

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.

Juana Mariño D is an academic, architect and urban and regional development consultant based in Bogota, Columbia, jmarinod@gmail.com

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.