Emmanuel Joshua Gereta is currently an affiliated senior researcher at Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI). He has broad experience in conservation biology and worked as a guest researcher at NTNU. He received his Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway and his BSc and MSc in Range Science from Texas A & M University, USA. In 2005, Dr Gereta has been the Personal Assistant to the Director General of Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) for four years. Dr Gereta was formerly the Principal Ecologist and Head of the Ecology Department, now Ecological Monitoring Department for TANAPA.

Eivin Røskaft is a professor in evolutionary biology at NTNU. He received his Ph.D. at NTNU in 1984 on social behaviour in birds. He has a broad research interest ranging from avian brood parasitism, via evolution of human behaviour to conservation biology. Over the last 20 years Professor Røskaft has developed a strong interest in conservation of the biological resources in Africa and Asia. He is now involved in conservation research in these two fascinating continents, and has trained more than ten Ph.D. candidates from Africa and Asia to their final degree. Some of these students are authors of many of the chapters in this book.

"The environmental implications of the Grameen project flow from its impacts on both social capital and women's empowerment, strongly associated with conservation and sustainable natural resource management." -- Professor Mohammad Yunus, Bangladesh, Nobel Piece Price winner 2007