Tipakson Manpati is from northeast Thailand. She is a researcher on the Mekong River and its tributary environment.

Paul Johnson is a west-coast based independent filmmaker and broadcast journalist. He has been making films on many topics for more than two decades. He is a former White House reporter for Canadian television and Beijing correspondent. He is also director of Last of the Ancient Rainforests: The Emotional Connection to Trees, a new feature film.

Carolyn Emms is a founding member of Rainforest Reserves Australia, based in Lake Barrine Far North Queensland, which she manages alongside a small group of passionate conservationists with different skill sets, including on-the-ground habitat restoration experts. Here Rainforest Reserves operates the Tablelands Cassowary Rehabilitation Facility in partnership with the Department of Environment and Science caring for orphaned and injured cassowaries, …

Julia Barnes is an award winning documentary filmmaker. She is the director of Sea of Life and Bright Green Lies. Her current work focuses on opposing deep sea mining. 

George Wuerthner is the former Ecological Projects Director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Currently he is the executive director of Public Lands Media. He is an ecologist and wildlands activist. He has published 38 books on environmental issues and natural history including such environmentally focused books as Welfare Ranching, Wildfire, Thrillcraft, Energy and most recently Protecting the Wild.

 Annette Smith of Danby, Vermont has been working to stop inappropriate development and the destruction of the earth in Vermont since 1999 when she co-founded Vermonters for a Clean Environment to stop a gas power plant and pipeline project.  Working with Vermonters throughout the state, she has successfully stopped destructive wind and solar, extractive industries, and industrial facilities from further …

MICHAEL LEVITIN is a journalist and co-founding editor of The Occupied Wall StreetJournal. He started as a reporter covering the Cochabamba Water War in 2000 for theEnglish language newspaper Bolivian Times. He earned his master’s degree from theColumbia Graduate School of Journalism and later worked as a freelance correspondentin Barcelona and Berlin covering politics, culture and climate change. His writing …

Robin Winkler was a commercial lawyer until 2001 when after having read some books, been diagnosed with a life threatening illness and time to reflect, flipped to the social and environmental justice side, gave up USA citizenship and founded Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association,Taiwan. Since that time he has been mostly involved in trying to understand: how to stop …

Beth Lowe is a mother of two living in the Midwest.  She is a signatory to WDI’s Declaration on Women’s Sex Based Rights, a member of the TERF Collective, and a parent who is fed up with gender ideology and is fighting back against the damage to our children.  Thistle Pettersen is a Singer/Songwriter and Feminist Newscaster living and working …

Tony Povilitis is a wildlife biologist, conservation activist, and founder of Life Net Nature, a “mom and pop” nonprofit devoted to wildlife research, voluntarism, and advocacy. For more than a half century, Tony has witnessed ongoing destruction of wildlife and nature in numerous countries. His conclusion: Efforts to mitigate human impacts have fundamentally failed. The only sane way forward is …