The Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL) focuses on developing environmental law in Indonesia that foregrounds the needs of people at every level and advances social justice. ICEL uses three different approaches in their work: legal reform and policy advocacy, capacity building, and community empowerment. It works with government agencies and state institutions to increase awareness of the need for policy frameworks that benefit people across the country, as well as empowers communities on climate justice issues and helps them develop the tools they need to voice their rights within environmental protection systems.

• Difa Shafira is Head of the Forestry and Land Governance Division. She specialises in Environmental Law and Natural Resource Management, and is responsible for advocating community capacity building in the field of environmental law, environmental law monitoring and enforcement, and advocacy related to environmental democracy.

• Prilia Kartika Apsari is a researcher at ICEL, where she is responsible for advocating for strengthening the capacity of institutions and law enforcement systems, as well as strengthening laws related to biodiversity and environmental and natural resource governance.

The Last Great Ape organization (LAGA) is a non-governmental organization focused on wildlife law enforcement in Cameroon. Its goal is to fight commercial poaching and the related trade of protected species. It is a field-based organization designed to establish the effective enforcement of national wildlife law that is critical to the survival of the threatened animals, and is the first specialized Law Enforcement NGO in Africa.

• Ofir Drori is the founder and director of LAGA. Over the last eight years he has lived in 26 African countries as an adventurer, journalist, photographer, educator, and environmental activist. Ofir is driven by a powerful vision: to end the illegal trafficking of endangered wildlife and protect the natural world for future generations. He confronts this global crisis with courage and determination, leading undercover operations and working closely with law enforcement and governments to expose and dismantle criminal networks.

• Aime Frisco is Head of the Legal Department at the Last Great Ape Organization.

The Wildlife Trust of India (WTI) operates in service of India’s natural heritage. Their mission is to conserve wildlife and its habitat, and to work for the welfare of individual wild animals, in partnership with communities and governments. To achieve their goals, WTI maintains an approach undergirded by science and shaped by empathy, focusing on key areas including wildlife crime, species recovery, and human-wildlife conflict mitigation.

• Jose Louies is CEO and Chief of Wildlife Crime Control at WTI. A wildlife conservationist with more than fifteen years of experience, he specialises in wildlife crime prevention, capacity building of enforcement officials, and project management. He has experience in conservation technology development and deployment, and is an expert on snakes and snakebite mitigation across India.

• Lovish Sharma is a lawyer at the High Court of Delhi. He has a demonstrated history of working on diverse matters pertaining to Criminal, Constitutional & Environmental Laws. A member of the IUCN’s World Commission on Environmental Law, he also serves as a Law Enforcement Trainer with the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau, Govt. Of India, National Academy of Customs and Wildlife Trust of India.

Associazione per la Biodiversità e la sua Conservazione (ABC) was founded with the aim of establishing itself as a centre of research and knowledge on rare, threatened and endangered plants. The project is based around a collection of succulent plants and cacti that includes over 50,000 specimens belonging to thousands of different species. The association’s mission is to promote concrete action to protect and conserve biodiversity anywhere in the world, and to support actions to increase understanding and awareness about sustainable plant collections.

• Andrea Cattabriga is President of the Associazione per la Biodiversità e la sua Conservazione (ABC).

Greenhood Nepal is an impactful, respected, science-driven conservation organization dedicated to protecting Nepal’s most threatened biodiversity.

The organisation is best known for its work addressing illegal wildlife trade and conserving species that have been traditionally neglected in conservation. It is also recognized for its outspokenness on contentious conservation-development debates. Greenhood aims to empower others with knowledge, opportunities, and research to protect threatened wildlife and improve on-the-ground management, using science-based, people-centred approaches that balance the needs of human and natural communities. It works in collaboration with local communities, governments, researchers, and non-governmental national and international organizations as well as universities.

• Kumar Paudel is the Founder and Director of Greenhood Nepal. He oversees the overall operations of Greenhood Nepal, including research, program development and implementations, policy advocacy, quality control and supervision. His work primarily involves interdisciplinary conservation research covering law enforcement, wildlife trade, community-based conservation, conservation strategy and policy. He uses a range of outreach and public engagement to share conservation research in simpler ways and undertake interventions to inform conservation policy and actions on the ground.

The Environmental Law Institute (ELI) makes law work for people, places, and the planet. Its vision is “a healthy environment, prosperous economies, and vibrant communities founded on the rule of law.”

ELI’s Mission is to foster innovative, just, and practical law and policy solutions to enable leaders across borders and sectors to make environmental, economic, and social progress. ELI’s work includes efforts to build the skills and capacity of tomorrow’s leaders and institutions, research and analyze complex and pressing environmental challenges, promote and disseminate the best thinking through print and electronic media, and convene people with diverse perspectives to build understanding through robust debate.

• Carol Adaire Jones joined ELI as Visiting Scholar in September 2014, following a 30-year career as an environmental economist in both government and academia. She is co-leading ELI’s project on Tropical Environmental Liability – her focus is on the valuation of damage claims. Across her career, two major areas of emphasis have been valuing natural resource damages for federal and state environmental litigation, and conducting research to inform the design of environmental and resource conservation policy.

• Jay Pendergrass is Senior Advisor on Research and Policy at ELI and is an environmental and natural resources lawyer with broad experience in government, private practice, academic, and non-profit sectors. He has authored several articles, book chapters, and reports on climate change, energy, long-term stewardship of contaminated sites, nanotechnology, federalism, state environmental programs, hazardous substance cleanup programs, community management of natural resources, coal mining reclamation, National Environmental Policy Act litigation, international environmental law, and other topics.

​Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection is the first and only chimpanzee sanctuary and conservation center in Liberia rescuing chimpanzees who are victims of the illegal bushmeat and pet trades. Currently over 100 orphaned chimpanzees, most still babies or children, are currently under the care of Liberia Chimpanzee Rescue & Protection.

• Jenny Desmond is co-founder and director of LCRP. She is an animal welfare and conservation consultant, and provides guidance and support in a variety of capacities to international private and not-for-profit organizations.

• Dr Jim Desmond is a wildlife veterinarian specializing in emerging infectious diseases. He is a consultant with several international NGO’s including EcoHealth Alliance, Smithsonian Institution, Jane Goodall Institute, and the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA). As a consultant, Jimmy has worked in many countries around the world conducting field based infectious disease research.

The Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC) was founded in 1990 with the aim of empowering communities to safeguard natural resources and environment through developmental legal assistance, education, and advocacy. Viewing environmental protection, human rights and social justice as inseparable, ELAC combats deforestation, extractive and destructive development projects and coastal degradation by pursuing public interest litigation, shaping policy, and building local capacity. Its core work includes training community paralegals and forest, wildlife and fish wardens, strategic litigation on extractive and destructive development activities, and pushing for stronger environmental legislation and enforcement. Despite political pressure and corporate threats, ELAC’s team continues to pursue environmental justice and conservation projects that protect forests and marine biodiversity, urging local and global partners to join the cause.

• Gerthie Mayo-Anda is executive director of ELAC. She is an environmental attorney with over 25 years of field-based practice in environmental advocacy and community-based resource management work in the Philippines. She works on Seminars and Trainings organized by the Philippine Judicial Academy (Philja), Alternative Law Groups (ALG) and government agencies on environmental laws, new rules on the prosecution of environmental cases, coastal law enforcement, climate change and environmental governance. She is an author and co-author of various articles and publications on environmental policy, environmental governance, community-based resource management, mining, REDD+ and corruption risks.

• Raffy Pajeres is a Filipino environmental lawyer at the Environmental Legal Assistance Center (ELAC). He is also a member of the non-governmental network the Alternative Law Group (ALG).

• Natalia Muñoz Cassolis is a lawyer and conservation social scientist. She is admitted to practice in Colombia and Paris, France, and holds master’s degrees from Université Panthéon-Assas and the University of Kent. Her work focuses on the intersection of law, governance, and conservation, with expertise in legal and policy analysis, project management, advocacy, and social science research. Natalia’s work primarily explores the links between the illegal wildlife trade, organized crime, and corruption, as well as the interventions aimed at addressing these issues. She is a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution.

Justice Hive is a non-profit organization based in Kampala, Uganda focusing on access to justice and human rights issues within the East African region.  Its projects are geared towards improving access to justice, space for human rights as well as enhancing the rule of law.  The organization is composed of young professionals with a passion to improve the performance of justice systems of the various countries within the East African region. In execution of its work, Justice Hive works with various state institutions and civil society actors in the Justice Law and Order Sectors including the State Police, the Judiciary, the office of Director for Public Prosecution, Prisons and other stakeholder institutions in the justice sector.

• Blair Atwebembeire is an attorney at law specialising in Commercial and Natural Resources Law. He has extensive experience in commercial and corporate undertakings, public law and natural resource ventures (Oil & gas, Minerals and Tourism). He is also experienced in wildlife law and previously acted as lawyer for the Uganda Wildlife Authority.