Contributors

Roel De Plecker joined the team helping in the fieldwork on Black[1]headed Bushmasters. As a reptile curator he has more than 15 years’ experience on breeding and keeping this species. This Belgian born nature photographer spends his free time exploring the mountains and rainforests of central and southern Costa Rica, involving local communities, collecting data...

Emily is a New Zealand conservation biologist with a passion for herpetology. She is working to spread awareness for species that people may not know exist, or are unlikely to ever see in the wild. Emily graduated from Massey University with a Masters in Conservation Biology, and gets paid for searching for herps.

Amartya Mukherjee, a Bangalore-based chartered accountant, is an award-winning photographer and a regularly published writer, whose initial grounding in image-making was in the pictorial and street photography genre of Kolkata. Subsequently, with the move to the digital medium just over a decade ago, he ventured into extensive outdoor photography, with a focus on natural history....

Peter Hudson is a scientist, photographer, and conservationist. He undertook his first scientific expedition to Africa at the age of 21 and has been a regular visitor ever since. Passionate about nature, he manages his own 36-hectare nature reserve in Pennsylvania which is home to bears, bobcats, and other animals. In his professional career, Peter...

Gabriel I. Baloriani. Scientific Illustrator and Naturalist. Teacher in Laboratory of Scientific Illustration and Naturalistic Art “Ernst Haeckel”, LICYAN

Vinod grew up near a forest, and courtesy his grandmother who used to care for injured wild animals, wildlife was close to his life from childhood. Photographing wildlife gives him the opportunity to observe them closely in their natural habitats and his work is widely acclaimed and awarded. Photographing wildlife gives me an opportunity to...

Esther and Thomas have been traveling together through everyday life and the wide world for several decades. They have been on the road with their truck since spring 2014 and traveling around the world is now their daily life. An everyday life full of surprises and discoveries, positive as well as negative, couldn’t be more...

Nili Gudhka is born and brought up in Kenya. She is a full-time wildlife photographer and safari planner for East Africa.