Contributors

Yvonne Ankerman is a South African artist with a background of sailing, boating and nature guide. She has worked as resident artist aboard expedition vessels in arctic and Antarctic waters. She shares her experiences and artwork of visitng some of the most exciting islands in the ice and snow polar regions.

Belén was born in Buenos Aires in 1966. She is author of the book “Esteros del Iberá” and “De agua, tierra y cielo”; She also participated with her photographs in more than 20 books, manuals and encyclopedias, among which She could highlight “Animals” and “Animals in action” both from National Geographic. She is the director...

Anay Sinha is an aspiring nature photographer from Stamford, Connecticut USA. He is in grade three at KT Murphy school. Anay enjoys spotting and identifying new bird species

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