World renowned intellectual and advocate for the preservation and celebration of biodiversity against genetic engineering and the negative impact of globalisation. She is an important voice in favour of people-centered, participatory processes; support to grassroots networks; women rights and ecology. Time Magazine identified Dr. Shiva as an “environmental hero” in 2003, and Asia Week has called her one of the five most powerful communicators of Asia.

Daiara Tukano, of the Tukano indigenous nation of the Upper Rio Negro, is an indigenous activist and artist. With a Masters Degree in human rights at the University of Brasilia, she is a researcher on the right to memory and truth of indigenous peoples. She is an independent communicator and coordinator of Radio Yandê, the first indigenous web-radio in Brazil. In her line of work, Daiara has surveyed the current indigenous panorama to build alliances to encourage the creation of strategies that can contribute to the protection of mother nature, cultural diversity and human rights across the vast region of the Amazonas.

Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is an environmental activist and geographer. She is the Coordinator of the Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) and served as the co-director of the pavilion of the World Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative and Pavilion at COP21, COP22 and COP23.

Chaz ‘Te Puehu’ Doherty is of the Tūhoe tribe. The Tūhoe have lived in Te Urewera, the largest Indigenous Forest in The Fish of Māui (Te ika a Māui) also known as the North Island of Aotearoa/New Zealand. The Tuhoe have lived here since the Mist Mother clothed the forest valleys. As a teacher, Chaz works with other Tūhoe people to rekindle and restore connections and return to a complete family with Nature (whānau).

Action researcher, community builder, and transformational leader. Nicolas works in the areas of ecology, human rights and nature rights.

Swati Foster is one of India’s best known environment journalists and director at Sea Change Project. Her solo outing as a filmmaker led to her making The Animal Communicator which has had over 6 million views on YouTube. Swati spends her time between India and South Africa and authored a book Born Wild: Journeys into the heart of India and Africa.

In her work, Eline combines her passion for anthropology, health, spirituality, and her intimate knowledge of the dancer’s body. She studied contemporary dance at CODARTS, Rotterdam, and also qualified as a teacher in Movement Medicine. This is an improvisation-based, meditative dance practice with roots in a shamanic paradigm.

Tawana is the cultural and spiritual leader of the Kariri-Xoco Fulkaxo, a group of three tribes of the Fulnio trunk based on the banks of the river Opara.

Yanda is a community leader in her Sapara Nation in the area of communication and economy, and in the field of indigenous media communication.

Haru is a Leader of the Kuntanawa Nation and recognized by many indigenous people of Brazil as one of the most influential young leaders of his time.

James Canton’s writing has been mainly concerned with the ties between nature, literature and the environment.

Charlotte Pulver has a background in natural healthcare, studying and practising various medical systems of healing for 20+ years specialising in women’s healthcare and mental health. Her love is rooted in making medicines for people which she sells through ‘Pulver’s Apothecary’.

Glennie Kindred is the author of twelve books on Earth wisdom, creating ceremony, native plants and trees and celebrating the Earth’s cycles.

A published author and poet, Angharad is also a storyteller who uses story as the starting point for deep enquiry and a source of timeless wisdom and healing.

Sioned is a renowned environmental activist and guerrilla rewilder based in Bantry, West Cork (Ireland).

Julia Adzuki works with transformative processes across the fields of visual, relational, performance and sound art. Her embodied enquiry explores underlying frictions of the human-environmental crisis through the sensuous relation of inner and outer landscapes.

Andrey is a leading Russian ecologist and environmental scientist based in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. He obtained a degree in Biology from Krasnoyarsk State University (KSU) and then a PhD in Ecology from the Sukachev Forest Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIRAS).

David is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World. Described as “revolutionary” by the Los Angeles Times, as “daring” and “truly original” by the journal Science, David’s work has helped catalyze the emergence of several new disciplines, including the burgeoning field of ecopsychology.

Natasha is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory, convener of the Politics of Evidence Working Group, co-founder of Toronto’s Technoscience Salon, and the Write2Know Project.

Quinquen is a renowned community of indigenous Pewenche people— literally, the people of the pewen tree or araucaria.

"I acknowledge and pay respect to every animal that lives deep in the ground, on the ground, in the air, in the trees, in the waterways, and those that are residing in all our human bodies" Dinnawhan White

Rosemary is a highly skilled and passionate leader with over 25 years of experience in local government - delivering significant results in service delivery, strategic financial and asset management, city, community and corporate planning, governance and risk, safety and asbestos management.

Juan Francisco Salazar is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker with a PhD in Communication and Media from Western Sydney University.

Alfred Brownell is a Liberian environmental activist and lawyer. He has advocated for more than two decades to protect native forests and human rights in West Africa. Alfred founded Liberia’s first environmental law non-governmental organization, called Green Advocates International (GAI).

Radiatu Haja Sheriff-Kahnplaye is a Liberian environmentalist. She works as Policy Advisor for the Natural Resources Women Platform and as Treasurer of Green Advocates International (GAI).

Daniel Kobei is the Founder and Executive Director of Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program (OPDP), a Kenyan-based NGO working to secure human and land rights of the indigenous Ogiek community and other Indigenous Peoples (IPs) across Kenya and Africa.

Janet Maro is a leading Tanzanian social entrepreneur and agroecologist.

Flay is a filmmaker and photographer of the Guajajara people in Maranhão, Brazil. He acts as Communications Coordinator for the Araribóia Indigenous Land.

Vanessa is a leading environmental lawyer and advocator based in São Paulo, Brazil.

Aldo is an environmental journalist from Asunción, Paraguay. He has been working in the field of environmental communication for more than a decade, having conducted major research and journalistic reports on socio-environmental issues in his country. He is a member of Connectas, a network of investigative journalists operating throughout Latin America that promotes the production, exchange, training, and free dissemination of information.

Ketty Marcelo is a renowned Asháninka leader, former president of the National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Women of Peru (ONAMIAP).

Eliana has founded several collective spaces for audiovisual work for and by Indigenous Peoples such as the Corporation of Audiovisual Producers, the Association of Audiovisual Creators of Indigenous Nations and Peoples, ACAPANA and CORPANP respectively. At the international level, she is a member of the Latin American Coordinator of Cinema and Communication of Indigenous Peoples.

Yesica Patiachi was born in San José de Karene in the Madre de Dios district, Peruvian Amazon.

Robertho is an award winning Peruvian photographer based in Puerto Maldonado, Peruvian Amazon. He is the recipient of the XXVIII Award for Jovenes Creadores of the Madrid City Council for his photographic work "He sentido el clima herido y tengo idea de que no aprendemos", based on "Madre Selva" by Alfredo Perez Alencart.

Boro Baski is an educator and community leader from West Benghal, India. Boro Baski is an educator and community leader from West Benghal, India. Born in a Santhal family of agricultural labourers, Boro Baski was the first in his village to obtain a masters and doctoral degree. Along with Sona Murmu and Martin Kampchen, he established an NGO named Ghosaldanga Adibasi Seva Sangha (GASS) to take forward the initiative to provide education to Adivasi communities in West Bengal.

Amal Dissanayaka is an action researcher from Colombo, Sri Lanka. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Ruhuna and a Certificate in Anthropology from the University of Queensland Australia, as well as an MA in Sociology from the University of Colombo. Currently, he is a Researcher at the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research and Training Institute (HARTI), based in Colombo.

Alastair is one of the world’s leading environmental campaigners, distinguished in his ability to join together the outer and inner life. His book Spiritual Activism explores such paths of reconnection of the inner and outer worlds, which he argues is nothing less than learning how to sustain the flow of life. If we don’t do this, he states, “then our work will fall on stony ground, we’ll burn out or we’ll sell out.”