WildView™

Julie Larsen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Julie Larsen is curator and editor of Wild View, the Wildlife Conservation Society's photo blog which features posts from an international community of biologists, photographers, and other contributors.

Jonathan C. Slaght

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jonathan C. Slaght, Ph.D., is the Regional Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Temperate Asia Program, with oversight of programs in Russia, China, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, and projects in Central Asia.

Madeleine Thompson

Wildlife Conservation Society

Madeleine Thompson loves her position as Director of the Library and Archives at WCS.

Eric Januszkiewicz

Eric Januszkiewicz graduated in 2017 from East Stroudsburg University with three BS degrees in biology, biochemistry, and chemical biotechnology. He completed his MS in biology and is currently working on his PhD in biological education.

Chris Spohn

Chris Spohn is a 1997 graduate of the University of the Arts.

Tim Lewthwaite

Association of Zoos and Aquariums

Tim Lewthwaite is the editor for the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ CONNECT magazine.

Avishai Shuter

Wildlife Conservation Society

Avi Shuter is the Senior Wild Animal Keeper in the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo Herpetology Department.

Paul P. Calle

Wildlife Conservation Society

Paul P. Calle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and completed internships at Manhattan’s Animal Medical Center and the San Diego Zoo.

Sarah Markes

Sarah Markes worked on communications for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s East Africa, Madagascar, and Western Indian Ocean (EAMWIO) program.

Alys Granados

Felidae Conservation Fund

Alys Granados is a wildlife ecologist for Felidae Conservation Fund in California.

Martin Brogger

ProyectoSub Foundation

Martin Brogger is a marine biologist and an expert on echinoderms as well as other marine invertebrates.

Megan Maher

Clilnton Foundation

Megan Maher works at the Clinton Foundation as the Marketing and Digital Storytelling Coordinator.

Don Boyer

Wildlife Conservation Society

Don Boyer joined the Wildlife Conservation Society as Curator of Herpetology at the Bronx Zoo in 2011.

Ricardo Antunes

Wildlife Conservation Society

Ricardo Antunes is a post-doctoral fellow at the Wildlife Conservation Society based in New York. He is the Constantine S. Niarchos Fellow in Marine Conservation at WCS and has extensive field experience studying marine mammals across the globe.

Melvin Gumal

Wildlife Conservation Society

Melvin Gumal is director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Malaysia Program since 2003.

Jason M. Aloisio

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jason Aloisio is an urban ecologist and educator working at the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is the Manager and a co-Principal Investigator of Project TRUE (Teens Researching Urban Ecology).

William G. Conway

Wildlife Conservation Society

William G. Conway was a zoologist and conservationist. In 1956, he became bird curator for the Bronx Zoo, subsequently zoo director, general director, and president of the New York Zoological Society.

Micah Siegel

Wildlife Conservation Society

Micah Siegel is a wild animal keeper in the herpetology department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Natalie Ingle

Wildlife Conservation Society

Natalie Ingle serves as Management Advisor for WCS’s East Africa, Madagascar, and Western Indian Ocean Region.

Byron Towles

Byron is a former zoology major and retired architectural designer/draftsman, born and raised in New York City.

Sarah Rashed

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sarah works for WCS’s New York Aquarium as a marine mammal trainer for the Behavioral Husbandry Department.

Joe Nappi

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joe Nappi has been a Wild Animal Keeper the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo’s Mammal Department since 2011.

Kevin Torregrosa

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kevin Torregrosa is the Curator of Herpetology at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Sana Masood

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sana Masood is the Photograph Collection Manager and Processing Archivist for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Denise McClean

Wildlife Conservation Society

Denise McClean is the Facility Director of the Prospect Park Zoo.

John Stahl

John Stahl Galleries

John Stahl is a retired elementary school science teacher and amateur photographer with interests in nature, flowers, birds, and macro photography.

Tim Davenport

Re:Wild

Tim Davenport is an award-winning conservationist and formerly the Director of Species Conservation and Science (Africa) with WCS. He now works for Re:wild/DiCaprio and is also the Focal Point for Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) in Eastern Africa.

Samuel Bozeman

Wildlife Conservation Society

Samuel Bozeman is a Wild Animal Keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo in the Herpetology Department.

Sarah Markes and Tim Davenport

Sarah Markes worked on communications for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s East Africa, Madagascar, and Western Indian Ocean (EAMWIO) program. Tim Davenport is an award-winning conservationist who has worked across the African continent, involved in all aspects of conservation from research and monitoring, protected area management, and community conservation to education and law enforcement and trade.

Andrew Kathriner

Wildlife Conservation Society

Andrew Kathriner is a wild animal keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo herpetology department.

Kristen Avery

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kristen Avery is the Public Affairs Campaign Manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Stacy Ratel

Stacy grew up in the Bronx and sought out beauty in the natural world at every turn.

David Oehler

Wildlife Conservation Society

David A. Oehler is the Curator of Ornithology for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

Jennifer Rant

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jennifer Rant is the senior trainer for the Behavioral Husbandry department at WCS’s New York Aquarium.

Gail Rogers

Gail Rogers spends her time traveling, volunteering, and going to the zoo.

Heidi Kretser

Wildlife Conservation Society

As a Conservation Social Scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Global Conservation Program, Heidi Kretser improves the conservation of wildlife and wild lands by incorporating tools and perspectives from the social sciences into conservation practice.

Stephanie Graehling

Wildlife Conservation Society

Stephanie has been a marine mammal trainer since 2013 and currently is the Senior Trainer in the Behavioral Husbandry section of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium.

Natalia Hook

Wildlife Conservation Society

Natalia Hook is a Senior Wild Animal Keeper in the bird department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Kelsey Kovner

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kelsey Kovner is the Program Assistant for Digital Learning & Engagement at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Timothy Mohl

Wildlife Conservation Society

Tim Mohl started off at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo part-time in the Children’s Zoo in 1998. He has been a keeper in the bird department and is currently senior keeper at the World of Birds.

Sarah H. Olson

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sarah H. Olson, Ph.D., is an Associate Director of Epidemiology for the WCS Health Program.

Natalie Cash

Wildlife Conservation Society

Natalie Cash is the Wildlife Conservation Society’s executive producer. With three decades experience, Cash creates innovative programming about WCS projects for multiple platforms.

Ken Huth

Wildlife Conservation Society

Ken Huth started working at WCS’s Bronx Zoo part time in the Children’s Zoo in 2001. He has been full time with the zoo’s Department of Ornithology since 2004 where he currently works as department supervisor.

John Delaney

John Delaney is an Assistant Director of Communications at WCS.John Delaney is the former Director of Communications for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium and a current resident of Lubec, Maine, the easternmost town of the lower 48 United States.

Lisa Walker

Wildlife Conservation Society

Lisa Walker is a wild animal keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo where she is a proud member of the ornithology team.

Brent Atkinson

Wildlife Conservation Society

Brent Atkinson is a wild animal keeper for the mammal department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

John Scott

Wildlife Conservation Society

Born and raised in Connecticut, John’s passion for wildlife has existed from a very young age. He is currently a Wild Animal Keeper at WCS’s New York Aquarium.

Rhett Butler

mongabay.com

Rhett Butler is the founder of Mongabay.com, a popular environmental web site.

Harry D. Selsor

Harry Selsor is a retired Naval officer with 40 years of service. He enjoys photographing marsh birds and other wildlife along the Broward River from his dock.

Claudio Campagna, B.J. Le Boeuf

Wildlife Conservation Society, University of California at Santa Cruz

Claudio Campagna is a researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society with an interest in marine conservation. B. J. Le Boeuf is Emeritus Professor of Biology at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Alison Clausen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Alison Clausen was the country director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Madagascar Program and manages the program’s conservation interventions in the Mamabay landscape in the northeast of Madagascar, as well as marine conservation activities in the southwest and northwest of the country.

Dan Rosen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dan Rosen is the managing editor, digital, for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Kathy Brady

Wolf Eyes Photography

Kathy Brady was born and still live in the Bronx in New York. She also has a house upstate in the Catskill Mountains. Kathy loves taking photos of animals and nature and is self-taught.

Michael Butler Brown

Dartmouth University

Michael Butler Brown is a conservation biologist and researcher at Dartmouth College.

Julia Gallop

Julia Gallop is the Photography Production Assistant at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

George Amato

American Museum of Natural History

Dr. George Amato is the Director of the Sackler Institute of Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History.

Alex Wiles

Fontenelle Forest

Alex Wiles is an animal care specialist at Fontenelle Forest in Bellevue, Nebraska.

Leslie Scopes Anderson

As a lifelong adventurer and nature lover, Leslie Scopes Anderson enjoys learning about and sharing the wonders of the natural world.

Sarah Edmunds

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sarah Edmunds is the Manager of Interpretive Programs for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Patrick David Moldowan

Algonquin Wildlife Research Station

Patrick is a PhD student at the University of Toronto. His research is based at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station in Ontario, Canada,

Brandon Moore

Wildlife Conservation Society

Brandon Moore is a collection manager in the Mammal Department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Stephen Sautner

Wildlife Conservation Society

Stephen Sautner is the Executive Director for Communications for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Michelle Faber

Wildlife Conservation Society

Michelle Faber is the Guest Programming Coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Megan Maher and Julie Larsen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Megan Maher works at the Clinton Foundation as the Marketing and Digital Storytelling Coordinator. She has learned about wildlife at WCS in community service roles, part-time summer work, and internships. Julie Larsen is the sixth person appointed as staff photographer for WCS since it was founded in 1895.

Katherine Gomero

Wildlife Conservation Society

Katherine is associate video producer at the Wildlife Conservation Society. She also exercises her love for marine life as a member of the volunteer dive team at the New York Aquarium.

Jon Forrest Dohlin

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jon Forrest Dohlin, Director of the New York Aquarium, has been with the Wildlife Conservation Society since 1997.

Aniko Totha

Wildlife Conservation Society

Aniko Totha has been a Wild Animal Keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo’s Ornithology Department since 2015.

Caroline Catchpole

Wildlife Conservation Society

Caroline Catchpole is an archivist and a volunteer in the Wildlife Conservation Society library and archives.

Angela Yang

Global Center for Species Survival

Angela is a career conservationist who has lived and worked on five continents and with a range of species from platypus to penguins.

Peter Zahler

Wildlife Conservation Society

Peter Zahler is the Asia Regional Director, Training and Capacity Building, at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Michael Lieto

Wildlife Conservation Society

Michael Lieto is a wild animal keeper in the Herpetology Department at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo.

Cory Scott

Wildlife Conservation Society

Cory Scott is a Senior Wild Animal Keeper at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo currently overseeing the Discovery Trail.

Amanda Socorro

Amanda loves photographing animals, birds especially.

Sarah Grace Parker

Sarah Grace Parker is currently a senior keeper at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo.

Caitlin Bartlett

Wildlife Conservation Society

Caitlin Bartlett is a Wild Animal Keeper in the Sea Cliffs department at WCS's New York Aquarium.

Peter Hudson

Penn State University

Peter is a biologist working at Penn State University examining disease in wildlife including bats.

Christopher J. McKenzie

Wildlife Conservation Society

Chris proudly serves as General Counsel of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Jennifer Loveless

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jennifer Loveless is a Wild Animal Keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo where she has worked for the last six and a half years.

Scott Silver

Wildlife Conservation Society

Scott has been working in Wildlife Conservation Society zoos for 30 years. He is currently the Director of WCS’s Queens Zoo in Flushing Meadow Park.

Barbara Russo

Wildlife Conservation Society

Barbara Russo writes about animals and has always enjoyed caring for rabbits and other small animals as pets.

Alana O'Sullivan

Wildlife Conservation Society

Alana is a senior wild animal keeper in the ornithology department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Galo Zapata Rios

Wildlife Conservation Society

Galo Zapata-Rios is the science director for Wildlife Conservation Society's Ecuador program.

Tutilo Mudumba

Wildlife Conservation Society

Tutilo Mudumba is with WCS Uganda where he is the project manager of carnivore projects with an emphasis on law enforcement.

Bill Orrico

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bill Orrico is the senior wild animal keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo World of Reptiles.

Nina Holbrook

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nina Holbrook is Senior Program Manager for Central Africa and Madagascar for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Nichole Shelmidine

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nichole Shelmidine is the Supervisor of Animals at the Prospect Park Zoo.

Scott D. Gillingwater

Scott Gillingwater is a species at risk biologist/herpetologist from Ontario, Canada.

Antony Lynam

Wildlife Conservation Society

Antony Lynam joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1996. He has more than 20 years of experience implementing and advising wildlife conservation projects in Asia.

Deborah Albert

Deborah Albert is a pediatric surgeon that bought her first DSLR camera in 2010.

Emma Balunek

Emma Balunek is an 18-year-old high school senior, conservationist, animal lover, and photographer.

Leela Samaroo

Wildlife Conservation Society

Leela is a keeper in the Ornithology Department at WCS’s Bronx Zoo.

Kelvin Alvarez

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kelvin Alvarez is a wild animal keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo herpetology department.

Amanda Hackett

Wildlife Conservation Society

Amanda Hackett started at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo in 2012 as a part-time employee for Special Animal Exhibits. Currently, she is Senior Keeper for the Bronx Zoo’s ornithology department.

Anne Rivas

Birmingham Zoo

Annie Rivas completed her residency in zoological medicine and surgery at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Currently, Dr. Rivas is working as a veterinarian at the Birmingham Zoo in Alabama.

Claudio Campagna

Wildlife Conservation Society

Claudio Campagna is a researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society with an interest in marine conservation, particularly in open ocean protected areas, animal behavior, and the environmental ethics.

Samantha Gaeta

Wildlife Conservation Society

Samantha Gaeta is one of the newest members of WCS's Bronx Zoo ornithology department.

Craig Gibbs

Wildlife Conservation Society

Craig Gibbs is Assistant Curator of Animals for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Queens Zoo.

Steve Zack

Steve Zack is formerly the Coordinator of Bird Conservation for WCS as part of the Species Program.

Betelhem Petersson

Betelhem Petersson is a student at PS 184 Shuang Wen School in Lower Manhattan.

Payden Sra

Wildlife Conservation Society

Payden has been a wild animal keeper for the New York Aquarium’s Sea Cliffs team since 2015.

Anjuli Waybright

Anjuli Waybright is a global adventure traveler who has, for the past three years, lived onboard boats traveling the world's watery routes.

Michelle Medina

Wildlife Conservation Society

Michelle Medina began at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo in the Children’s Zoo while in high school. Returning in 1999, she is now a senior wild animal keeper in the mammal department.

Louis Candelaria

Louis has enjoyed photography for a long time. He began photographing animals a few years ago. The Bronx Zoo is one of his favorite places to take pictures.

Frank Ridgley

Zoo Miami

Frank Ridgley is a wildlife veterinarian and serves as the head of the Conservation and Research Department at Zoo Miami.

Joseph Gazing Wolf

Joseph Gazing Wolf (Lakota/Amazigh) is a PhD student at Arizona State University. His research interests germinate from his experiences as a tribal shepherd in the Nile valley and as a buffalo range rider in the Northern plains of the US.

Luke Hunter

Wildlife Conservation Society

Luke Hunter is the Executive Director of WCS’s Big Cats Program.

Ron Magill

Zoo Miami

Ron is Zoo Communications Director at Zoo Miami. He is a wildlife contributor for Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, Univision, and Telemundo networks. Ron is also host of HITN’s “Mundo Salvaje con Ron Magill.”

Gill Braulik

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dr. Gill Braulik is a specialist on whales and dolphins (cetaceans), with particular interest in conservation-focused research on endangered dolphins in the developing world. She is Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Whale and Dolphin Evaluation (WADE) project in Tanzania.

Geaner Parkes

Wildlife Conservation Society

Geaner Parkes is Executive Assistant to John F. Calvelli, Vice President of Public Affairs at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Mengey Eng

Wildlife Conservation Society

Mengey Eng is a communication officer for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Cambodia Program, and has been in communication roles for more than seven years.

Craig Piper

Wildlife Conservation Society

Craig Piper is Director of City Zoos and Central Park Zoo for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Martin Brogger, Claudio Campagna

Wildlife Conservation Society

Claudio Campagna is a researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society with an interest in marine conservation in open ocean protected areas, animal behavior, and the environmental ethics. Martin Brogger is a marine biologist and an expert on brittle stars as well as other marine invertebrates.

Melissa Ortiz

Wildlife Conservation Society

Melissa “MO” Ortiz is the licensed Veterinary Technician at WCS’s Queens Zoo.

Samantha Strindberg

Wildlife Conservation Society

Samantha Strindberg is a conservation scientist who provides statistical and conservation planning support to Wildlife Conservation Society field staff worldwide.

Nancy Gonzalez

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nancy Gonzalez is a Senior Wild Animal Keeper in the bird department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Danielle Hessel

Wildlife Conservation Society

Danielle Hessel is a senior wild animal keeper in the Bronx Zoo’s mammalogy department.

Kimberly Rollins Davis

Kimberly is passionate about natural resource management and conservation and making the world sustainable to protect wildlife. She teaches its beauty through photography and propels change through her work in New York City and Chicago.

Alexandra Greco

Wildlife Conservation Society

Alexandra Greco has been working at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo for almost a year.

D McAloose

Wildlife Conservation Society

D McAloose is a veterinary pathologist and head of pathology for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Jen Kepler

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jen is Manager of Volunteers and Visitor Engagement at WCS’s New York Aquarium.

William Hana

Wildlife Conservation Society

William Hana is the Director of Animal Programs at WCS’s New York Aquarium.

Tim Collins

Wildlife Conservation Society

Tim has worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society since 2002 focusing on cetaceans in Africa.

Joseph Gessert

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joseph Gessert is living the dream as Dive Safety Officer at WCS’s New York Aquarium

Judith Hamilton

Wildlife Conservation Society

Judith Hamilton spent thirty years in the information technology industry, most recently as CEO of several Silicon Valley based software and service companies.

Deborah Caponigro-Kahn

Deborah Caponigro-Kahn started taking photos when she received her first camera from her parents at the age of 10. Her passion is taking pictures of animals and nature.

Jonathan C. Slaght and Julie Larsen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jonathan C. Slaght, Ph.D., is the Regional Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Temperate Asia Program, with oversight of programs in Russia, China, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, and projects in Central Asia. Julie Larsen is the sixth person appointed as staff photographer for WCS since it was founded in 1895. She takes photos at WCS’s five New York-based wildlife parks, and the culture, wildlife, and wild lands that WCS aims to protect in more than 60 countries.

Jasmine Crowell

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jasmine is a wild animal keeper for Ocean Wonders: Sharks! at the New York Aquarium.

Kimberly Grendzinski

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kimberly has a Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science from the University of Connecticut. She has worked for the Wildlife Conservation Society as a Wild Animal Keeper for over three years at both Prospect Park Zoo and more recently at Central Park Zoo.

Nat Moss

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nat Moss is Executive Director for Strategic Communications at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Chip Weiskotten

Wildlife Conservation Society

Chip Weiskotten is the Federal Affairs Communications Manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Erin Mowatt

Wildlife Conservation Society

Erin Mowatt is a Wild Animal Keeper in the mammal department at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo and is currently the Vice President of the NYC AAZK chapter.

Petra Lahann

Wildlife Conservation Society

Petra Lahann is a biologist. Having started her career studying small nocturnal lemur species in the South of Madagascar for a couple of years, she now has returned to Madagascar and is working as Program Manager for WCS Madagascar in the MaMaBay Landscape/Seascape in Northeastern Madagascar.

Kate McMahon

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kate McMahon is a Senior Wild Animal Keeper for the Congo Gorilla Forest at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Charlotte Hollinger

Wildlife Conservation Society

Charlotte Hollinger is a veterinary pathologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Helen Solecki

Wildlife Conservation Society

Helen has been a wild animal zookeeper in WCS’s Bronx Zoo Ornithology Department since 2018.

Dale Miquelle

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dale Miquelle is the Country Director for WCS’s Russia Program, and coordinates research and conservation actions to protect large carnivores and the ecosystems upon which they depend, focusing mainly in Northeast Asia.

Lindsay Silverman

Lindsay is a former Senior Product Manager of Pro DSLR cameras for Nikon.

Sabrina Squillari

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sabrina Squillari is a senior wild animal keeper for the Congo Gorilla Forest at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Adria Lopez Baucells

Natural Sciences Museum of Granollers

Adria is a bat researcher and conservationist focused on habitat management and connectivity to improve bat conservation.

Andrea K. Turkalo

Wildlife Conservation Society

Andrea K. Turkalo works for the Wildlife Conservation Society and has been studying the forest elephant population at the remarkable Dzanga Clearing in the Central African Republic since 1990.

Samantha Pelletier

Northeast Wildlife DNA Laboratory

Samantha received her BS in biology from East Stroudsburg University in 2017. She is currently a lab technician at the Northeast Wildlife DNA Laboratory.

Kaleb King

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kaleb King is a Photography Assistant at WCS’s Bronx Zoo with a special interest in filmmaking.

Monika Stroeber

Wildlife Conservation Society

Monika Stroeber has been a Wild Animal Keeper at Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo for 20 years.

Francesca Banaag

Wildlife Conservation Society

Frankie Banaag is a Wild Animal Keeper for the Sea Cliffs Exhibit at the New York Aquarium.

Julian Fennessy

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

With a PhD on the ecology of the desert-dwelling giraffe in northwest Namibia, Dr. Julian Fennessy is the first executive director of Giraffe Conservation Foundation.

Harri Washington

Wildlife Conservation Society

Harri Washington works for the Wildlife Conservation Society Gabon Program.

Olivia Ries

One More Generation

Olivia Ries and her brother Carter are the co-founders of One More Generation, an organization that they started back in 2009. Their goal is to save endangered species and our environment for at least one more generation – and beyond.

Sylvia Alexander

onwatchingbirds.com

Sylvia is retired from the Foundation Relations team at the Wildlife Conservation Society, and now volunteers in WCS’s Library and Archives.

Graham Harris

Wildlife Conservation Society

Graham was born and raised in Patagonia. He graduated as a veterinarian from the University of Buenos Aires. Now a WCS Senior Conservationist, Graham began working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1992 and directed its program in Argentina until 2017.

Christina Manto

Wildlife Conservation Society

Christina Manto works in the Government and Community Affairs department at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Veronica Thomas

Wildlife Conservation Society

Veronica Thomas is an Assistant Animal Supervisor at Prospect Park Zoo.

Matthew Treppiedi

Wildlife Conservation Society

Matthew Treppiedi is a Wild Animal Keeper at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo.

Valeria Falabella

Wildlife Conservation Society

Valeria Falabella is a marine biologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society Sea and Sky project.

Kevin Hils

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kevin Hils is the Collections Manager for the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo Ornithology Department.

Andrew Plumptre

Wildlife Conservation Society

Andy Plumptre has been working for the Wildlife Conservation Society for the past 19 years, initially based in New York, but since 2000 he has been based in the Albertine Rift region, one of Africa's most biodiverse hotspots.

Bricken Sparacino

Wildlife Conservation Society

Bricken is Assistant Director of Live Interpretation for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Patti Cooper

Wildlife Conservation Society

Patti Cooper retired from WCS in 2019 after 30 years as a Wild Animal Keeper/Senior Wild Animal Keeper in the Bronx Zoo’s Bird Department.

Giulia Garbagna

Giulia Garbagna is a student from Pavia, Italy.

Kelly Stoner

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kelly leads the Wildlife Conservation Society Bison Program in its effort to restore wild, free-ranging bison in the American West.

Julie Larsen and Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers (CELC) Youth Summit Participants

Julie Larsen is the sixth person appointed as staff photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society since it was founded in 1895. The Coastal Ecosystem Learning Centers (CELC) network is a consortium of 25 aquariums and marine science education centers located in the United States, Canada, and Mexico and part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/US Department of Commerce. Recently, a group of high school students from some of the aquarium partners in the CELC network participated in a virtual youth summit.

Cassandra Paul

Wildlife Conservation Society

Cassandra Paul is the Library Assistant with the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Thomas Breuer, Marie Manguette, Jana Robeyst

Wildlife Conservation Society

Thomas Breuer is the Capacity Building Technical Adviser, Congo Brazzaville, and has been working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in northern Congo since 2002. Marie Manguette is the current site manager at the Mbeli Bai Study. Jana Robeyst arrived at the Mbeli Bai Study in December 2013 as a volunteer research assistant.

Tom Glass

Wildlife Conservation Society

Tom Glass is a research assistant and incoming graduate student with the WCS Arctic Beringia Program in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Stephanie Adams

Houston Zoo

Stephanie Adams has been a professional photographer for Houston Zoo for 14 years.

Ari Fishkind

Residing in suburban New York, Ari Fishkind enjoys photography with his 14-year-old son Marc, who schools him on the nuances of wildlife.

Andrea Galizzi

This photographer’s heart is in the mountains in search of its inhabitants.

Sosha Fusco

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sosha has been a Wild Animal Keeper at WCS’s Queens Zoo for nine years.

Graeme Patterson

Graeme Patterson, formerly Deputy Director of WCS Africa Program, hails from Britain but spent his early working life on a variety of conservation projects across Africa.

Susan Leiter

Wildlife Conservation Society

Susan Leiter is a Senior Keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Matt Nuttall

Wildlife Conservation Society

Matt Nuttall works for the Wildlife Conservation Society Cambodia Program.

Steve Harper

This Is Bonafide

Steve Harper is a New York-based creative director, designer and animator.

Cristiano Silva

Wildlife Conservation Society

Cristiano Silva is a Wild Animal Keeper for the Bronx Zoo’s mammal department.

Ashley Sawyer

Wildlife Conservation Society

Ashley Sawyer started volunteering at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo in 2016 with the Education Department. She is now a senior keeper at the Prospect Park Zoo.

Carmen Guzman

Wildlife Conservation Society

Carmen Guzman is the Animal Shipping Coordinator at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Jodi Hilty

Trained as a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkley, Jodi Ann Hilty's passion is focused on finding creative, science-based solutions to resolve critical conflicts between humans and the natural world.

Hans Walters

Wildlife Conservation Society

Animal supervisor Hans Walters oversees the daily care of a number of marine animals at the New York Aquarium.

Melinda Rekdahl

Wildlife Conservation Society

Melinda Rekdahl is a postdoctoral researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society that specializes in acoustics, behavioral ecology, and conservation of marine mammals.

Claire Bracebridge

Wildlife Conservation Society

Claire Bracebridge has spent over 15 years doing research and conservation in tropical ecosystems.

Nora Beirne

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nora Beirne is a Senior Wild Animal Keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Central Park Zoo.

Charles Gangas

Charles Gangas is a retired airline pilot who became interested in photography while flying with the US Marine Corps.

Stuart McKay

Stuart McKay is a self-taught naturalist and lover of nature. He enjoys nature photography with special interest in fine art landscape, birds, and mammals.

Neil DeMaster

Neil is an avid lover of wildlife who is trying to spot and photograph as many species he can.

Shweta Shivakumar

Wildlife Conservation Society

Shweta Shivakumar is currently working with the Wildlife Conservation Society India Program, mapping human-leopard conflicts in the Himalayas.

Kaitlyn Keys

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kaitlyn Keys is a wild animal keeper who started working in the mammal department at the Bronx Zoo in 2012.

Ania Tomaszewicz

Wildlife Conservation Society

Ania Tomaszewicz is the necropsy and molecular technician for the pathology department in the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Zoological Health Program.

Ramzi Talbi

Patagonia

Ramzi works for Patagonia Outdoor Clothing and Gear at the Flagship store in New York City’s Soho neighborhood.

Bill Klipp

After spending what felt like a lifetime in the financial services industry, Bill and his wife retired and turned their lifelong interests into their passion for photography.

Christopher Golden

Christopher Golden is formerly the Wildlife Conservation Society's director of the HEAL (Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages) Program.

Adam Rozanski

Adam Rozanski is an Australian motion designer and visual artist currently based in New York City. He finds creativity in the beauty and intricacies of the natural world around us and hopes that through his photography he can inspire curiosity and awareness.

Jeffrey Gross

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jeffrey Gross is a Wild Animal Keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Prospect Park Zoo. He joined WCS in 2017.

Robert A. Cook

The MayDay Fund

Bob works with the Mayday Fund as their Senior Science Advisor and is a Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Connor Gibbons

Wildlife Conservation Society

Connor Gibbons is a Senior Aquarist at WCS’s New York Aquarium.

Nicole Pisciotta

Nicole Pisciotta is formerly a wild animal keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society's New York Aquarium. She has worked with pinnipeds and other marine animals for the past 13 years.

Kathy LeBron

Kathy LeBron is an office manager by employment, director of a non-profit organization by calling, and a photographer by desire.

Alexandra Fernandes

Wildlife Conservation Society

Alexandra Fernandes first started at the Wildlife Conservation Society as an intern in the library and archives.

David Oehler and Julie Larsen

Wildlife Conservation Society

David A. Oehler is the Curator of Ornithology for the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo. Julie Larsen is the staff photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Stephanie Ahrens

Wildlife Conservation Society

Stephanie is a zoological medicine and surgery veterinary resident at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Elizabeth Benham

Wildlife Conservation Society

Liz works in the Global Resources department at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Angela Perry

Wildlife Conservation Society

Angela Perry is the licensed veterinary technician at WCS's Prospect Park Zoo. 

Tracie Seimon

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dr. Tracie Seimon is the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society Molecular Laboratory, based at the Bronx Zoo.

Marc Napao

Living with Lions

Marc Napao is a project biologist currently completing his MS at University of Nairobi. He works as a research assistant for the Laikipia Predator Project.

Dennis Ethier

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dennis Ethier manages a department of maintenance staff responsible for care and maintenance of HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and LSS systems throughout the 14 acre New York Aquarium campus.

Aili Kang

Wildlife Conservation Society

Aili Kang is WCS China Program Director. Her research and projects cover the saiga antelope, Tibetan antelope and Marco Polo sheep.

Scott Heinrichs

Flying Fox Conservation Fund

Scott Heinrichs was a animal keeper at Lincoln Park Zoo for 13 years. He started an organization called Flying Fox Conservation Fund, and this year we become a 501c3 not for profit.

Ricardo Antunes and Julie Larsen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Ricardo Antunes was a post-doctoral fellow at the Wildlife Conservation Society based in New York. Julie Larsen is curator and editor of Wild View, the Wildlife Conservation Society's photo blog which features posts from an international community of biologists, photographers, and other contributors.

Trevor Haynes

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dr. Trevor Haynes has always been fascinated by the expansive wild spaces of the Arctic. Trevor’s research with WCS focuses on the distribution of Arctic fishes and birds in coastal lagoons.

Chris Walzer

Wildlife Conservation Society

Chris Walzer is the Executive Director of Health at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York.

Lonnie McCaskill

Wildlife Conservation Society

Lonnie McCaskill is Curator of Animal Programs and Assistant Director at Prospect Park Zoo.

C. Drew Foster

Phoenix Zoo

Drew has followed a lifelong appreciation of animals and currently works as an Animal Curator at Arizona Center for Nature Conservation's Phoenix Zoo.

Rebekah Burgess

New York City Department of Parks & Recreation

Rebekah Burgess, PhD, is the Photo Archivist and Capital Archives Manager for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

Russell L. Burke

Hofstra University

Russell L. Burke is Department of Biology chair and professor at Hofstra University.

Ross Dorendorf

Wildlife Conservation Society

Ross Dorendorf is a research coordinator for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Arctic Beringia Program.

Now Sidu

Wildlife Conservation Society

Now Sidu has been a conservation educator for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Malaysia program since 2010.

Marcy Uhart

University of California, Davis

Marcy Uhart is an Argentine veterinarian at the University of California, Davis, Wildlife Health Center.

Thomas Breuer

Wildlife Conservation Society

Thomas Breuer is the Capacity Building Technical Advisor, Congo Brazzaville, and has been working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in northern Congo since 2002.

Margaret Kinnaird

Mpala Research Centre

Margaret Kinnaird, formerly a Wildlife Conservation Society senior scientist, lives in Kenya where she is Director of Mpala Research Centre.

Julieana Steiner

Wildlife Conservation Society

Julieana Steiner (Julie) has been working for the Wildlife Conservation Society for over two years.

Michelle Leppert

Michelle began her photography while attending Pennsylvania State University where she was the unofficial photographer for the men’s ice hockey team.

Adam K. Thompson

Zoo Atlanta

Adam has worked in the Multimedia department at Zoo Atlanta for 14 years as the photographer, videographer, and content producer.

Diane Berkenfeld

Nikon

Diane Berkenfeld is currently the Senior Consumer Content Specialist at Nikon Inc., educating consumers on how to take better photos and video.

Ryan Hawk

Woodland Park Zoo

Ryan Hawk is the Senior Content Producer for photography and video at Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

J.C. Carey

Nikon

J.C. Carey works for, shoots, and breathes Nikon. He has been a photographer for the last 30 years.

Mariah Wilson

Mariah Wilson has produced content for PBS, National Geographic, A&E, Animal Planet, Discovery, History Channel, MSNBC, VICE, Vocativ, and The Smithsonian.

David DeNardo

Wildlife Conservation Society

David is the General Curator/ Director of Animal Operations at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium, directing the husbandry and management of the animal collection for over 14 years.

Denielle Muoio

Wildlife Conservation Society

Denielle Muoio has been zookeeper at the Prospect Park Zoo since 2004.

Altangerel Sukhbaatar

Wildlife Conservation Society

Altangerel Sukhbaatar works as the assistant officer for the Sustainable Cashmere Project (SCP) at WCS Mongolia.

Amy Miller Cabot

Patagonia

Amy is an artist and musician, relocated from New York City to a small town in Connecticut where she loves to study the local wildlife.

Sandy Oduor

Mpala Research Center

Sandy Oduor is a research assistant at Mpala Research Center working on elephant monitoring.

Sue Chin

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sue Chin is Vice President of Planning & Design and Chief Architect for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Anne Cahill

Joe McNally Photography

Anne Cahill began her career in photography as a freelance photojournalist, then became a Professional Markets Technical Representative for Nikon.

Juliet Elkins

Wildlife Conservation Society

Juliet has been a zookeeper for 20 years, 15 of which have been at WCS’s Bronx Zoo.

Dana D. Vasquez

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dana D. Vasquez is a Senior Wild Animal Keeper at WCS’s Queens Zoo who has been taking care of the zoo’s collection for the past 23 years.

Gina Talarico

Wildlife Conservation Society

Gina Talarico is the manager of public progamming for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Michael Pawlik

Michael Pawlik is a pathology fellow at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Joseph Gessert and Katherine Gomero

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joseph Gessert is Dive Safety Officer at WCS’s New York Aquarium, where he swims with sharks and trains staff and volunteer divers. Katherine is associate video producer at the Wildlife Conservation Society. She also exercises her love for marine life as a member of the volunteer dive team at the New York Aquarium.

Natalie Cash and Jeff Morey

Wildlife Conservation Society

Natalie Cash is WCS’s senior video producer. Jeff Morey is staff videographer and video editor (and former web production associate) for WCS.

Carlos Durigan

Wildlife Conservation Society

Carlos Durigan is currently is the country director of Wildlife Conservation Society’s Brazil program.

Matthew S. Leslie

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Matt Leslie is a marine biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a researcher in the Marine Mammal and Turtle Division at NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

Stacia Stanek

Stacia Stanek is formerly Senior Officer for U.S. Policy at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Washington, DC office.

Kyle Kusa

Kyle has a passion for conservation and photography. He’s spent countless hours exploring Long Island’s various landscapes and the flora and fauna that live there.

Beth Rizzo

Beth is an amateur photographer living in Woburn, Massachusetts.

Brittany Motkowicz

Brittany has been a licensed veterinary technician since graduating from St. Petersburg College Veterinary Technician Program in 2012.

Mike Allen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Mike Allen is the Director of WCS’s Queens Zoo.

David Powell

Wildlife Conservation Society

David Powell is Associate Curator of Mammals at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Cindy Maur

Wildlife Conservation Society

As a native New Yorker, Cindy Maur grew up going to the Wildlife Conservation Society New York Aquarium and Zoos. Almost 10 years ago, she realized her dream and started working as a zoo keeper for the very organization that was a source of inspiration.

Elana M. Kopel

Wildlife Conservation Society

Elana M. Kopel is Assistant Supervisor of Animals at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo.

Peter M. Umunay

Yale University

Peter Umunay is a WCS fellow from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He received the Tellus Foundation scholarship through the WCS Graduate School Program in 2011 to pursue a higher level education in the US so that he can contribute to advanced conservation work.

Lucy Keatts

Wildlife Conservation Society

Dr. Lucy Keatts is a veterinarian with the WCS Health Program.

Joshua Mabonga

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joshua is a Research Coordinator with the Wildlife Conservation Society. He works in Murchison Falls National Park implementing conservation initiatives in Uganda’s protected areas.

Howard Rosenbaum

Wildlife Conservation Society

Howard Rosenbaum directs WCS's Ocean Giants Program, which aims to secure the future of whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and sharks.

Brian Kontio

Brian Kontio is a building contractor by profession and a nature enthusiast by passion.

Gary Smith

Wildlife Conservation Society

Gary Smith has led the Wildlife Conservation Society's Exhibit Shop since 1988.

Joel Berger

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joel Berger is a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society as well as a research associate for the Smithsonian Institution.

Daphne Revie

Wildlife Conservation Society

Daphne Revie is a wild animal keeper for the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Mintesinot Petersson

Mintesinot Petersson is a student at PS 184 Shuang Wen School in Lower Manhattan.

Lisa Eidlin

Wildlife Conservation Society

Lisa Eidlin is the Assistant Director of the Zoological Health Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Sarah Hezel

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sarah Hezel is Director of Interpretation and Graphic Design at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Melissa Nelson Slater

Wildlife Conservation Society

Melissa Nelson Slater joined the Bronx Zoo in January 2008, and is now their first Assistant Curator of Behavioral Husbandry.

Angela Gnagnarelli

Wildlife Conservation Society

Angela Gnagnarelli is a zookeeper at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo.

Michael Corrado

Nikon

Mike has been working in the photo industry for over 37 years and making photographs for over 40.

Tanya Dimitrova

Tanya Dimitrova is a science teacher and environmental writer. She lives in Austin, Texas and has reported wildlife stories from dozens of countries around the world.

Sheena Kalemkiewicz

Binder Park Zoo

Sheena Kalemkiewicz is a graphic designer at Binder Park Zoo.

Max Pulsinelli

Wildlife Conservation Society

Max Pulsinelli is Director of Communications for WCS’s zoos and aquarium.

Timothy Vourderis

Wildlife Conservation Society

Tim has been a Wild Animal Keeper on the New York Aquarium’s shark team since September of 2016.

Frank Greco

Frank M. Greco, former Senior Aquarist at WCS's New York Aquarium, has been into fishkeeping for over 50 years.

Amy Harclerode

Wildlife Conservation Society

Amy Harclerode is WCS’s senior development officer for corporate relations.

Derek Dunlop

Derek Dunlop currently travels the world photographing wildlife and their environments, with a particular interest in reptiles and amphibians.

Joseph Padilla

Wildlife Conservation Society

Joseph Padilla works in the Wildlife Conservation Society Information Technology division.

Keira Smith

Keira is just starting to get back into photography as a more serious hobby.

Lonnie McCaskill and Sitha Som

Wildlife Conservation Society

Lonnie McCaskill is Curator of Animal Programs and Assistant Director at Prospect Park Zoo. Sitha Som has spent his entire career working on the conservation of reptiles in Cambodia and Laos.

Tom Hurtubise

Wildlife Conservation Society

Tom Hurtubise joined the Wildlife Conservation Society in 1992 as the Curator of Education for the Queens Zoo.

Heather Tassler

Wildlife Conservation Society

Heather Tassler is a Wild Animal Keeper in the Mammal Department at Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo.

Christos Tufts

Wildlife Conservation Society

Christos Tufts has been the Media Production Assistant for the Wildlife Conservation Society based at the Bronx Zoo since October 2022.

Alina Bachmann

Wildlife Conservation Society

Alina Bachmann was production artist for the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Julie Larsen and Craig Gibbs

Wildlife Conservation Society

Julie Larsen is the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Staff Photographer. Craig Gibbs is Assistant Curator of Animals for WCS’s Queens Zoo.

Manoon Pliosungnoen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Manoon Pliosungnoen has been working for the Wildlife Conservation Society Thailand since 2009.

John Rowden

National Audubon Society

John Rowden is Director of the National Audubon Society’s ToyotaTogetherGreen program, which funds community-based conservation projects across the U.S.

Gleb Raygorodetsky

POLIS Project on Ecological Governance Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria

Gleb’s first “job”, after emigrating from the Soviet Union in 1988, was volunteering at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s World of Birds at the Bronx Zoo.

Kelly Marcoux

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kelly Marcoux has been a keeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo for over 5 years and is lead tapir trainer.

Carrie Asby

Carrie has been enthusiastic about photography ever since her high school years.

James Gottlieb

Wildlife Conservation Society

James Gottlieb began his career with WCS in 2004. For the past five years, he has been a keeper for the Prospect Park Zoo.

Bernardo Rodriguez

Syracuse University

Although Bernardo has been drawing since before he can remember, he developed his skills through his high school years. Bernardo is a student at Syracuse University in pursuit of a dual major in Communications Design and Fine Art.

Jameson Weston

Hogle Zoo

Jameson Weston has been the art director for Utah's Hogle Zoo for the past 25 years.

Shannon Kemp

North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores

Taryn Teegan

Wildlife Conservation Society

Taryn Teegan is the Senior Wild Animal Keeper of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo Bear Dens and Tiger Mountain exhibits.

Kristin Strough

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kristin Strough works at WCS’s Prospect Park Zoo.

George Schaller

Panthera and Wildlife Conservation Society

George Schaller is a field biologist who began wildlife research in Alaska in 1952.

Chris Sheppard

American Bird Conservancy

Dr. Christine Sheppard came to the Wildlife Conservation Society's bird department in 1978 as an intern. She retired as curator of birds in 2009 to lead American Bird Conservancy's glass collisions program.

Julie Larsen Maher and Jennifer Loveless

Wildlife Conservation Society

Julie Larsen is the staff photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Jennifer Loveless is a Wild Animal Keeper at WCS's Bronx Zoo.

Matt Baronak

Matt Baronak is a herpetologist and photographer.

Nathan Pyper

thewildlifeisee

Nathan is a university student studying Marketing Management.

Julie Larsen and Jennifer Rant

Wildlife Conservation Society

Julie Larsen is staff photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Jennifer Rant is the senior trainer for the Behavioral Husbandry department at WCS’s New York Aquarium.

Edison Araguillin and Alicia Srinivas

Wildlife Conservation Society

Edison Araguillin is a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Ecuador Program. Alicia Srinivas is formerly the Program Coordinator for the WCS Ecuador Program.

Jay Schoen

Wildlife Conservation Society

Jay Schoen is formerly the Assistant Supervisor of Special Animal Exhibits at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo.

Meredith Chait

Meredith graduated from the University of Kansas in May 2014. While there, she minored in Swahili.

Peter Zahler and Buuveibaatar Bayarbaatar

Wildlife Conservation Society

Peter Zahler is the Asia Regional Director, Training and Capacity Building, at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Zahler has over 30 years experience in wildlife conservation. Buuveibaatar, a lead for conservation science at WCS Mongolia, has extensive research experience in ecology of ungulates in Eastern grassland and Gobi desert ecosystems of Mongolia.

Julia Johanos

Julia Johanos is a professional musical theater actress, musician, outdoor enthusiast, and amateur photographer originally from Colorado.

Mike Owyang

Sacramento Zoo

Mike Owyang is an ambassador animal keeper and trainer at the Sacramento Zoo in California.

Enric Sala, Claudio Campagna

National Geographic and Wildlife Conservation Society

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala launched the Pristine Seas project in 2008 to explore and help save the last wild places in the ocean. Claudio Campagna is a researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society with an interest in marine conservation in open ocean protected areas, animal behavior, and the environmental ethics.

Kayla Bergman

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kayla Bergman has been in the field of marine mammal care for over 8 years.