Tamara Eder, equipped from the age of six with a canoe, a dip net and a note pad, grew up with a fascination for nature and the diversity of life. She has a degree in environmental conservation sciences, and has written about wildlife in Bermuda, the Galapagos Islands, the Amazon Basin, Argentina, Tibet and India. An award-winning photographer, her photographs appear in numerous books, posters and online magazines.

Ian Sheldon is an accomplished artist, nature illustrator and ecologist, with a degree in ecology from Cambridge University. His studies have taken him around the world-throughout North and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and South Africa.