Jane Goodall, PhD, CBE has been working with and for Chimpanzees for more than 40 years. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation to conserve primate habitat; foster positive relationships among people, the environment, and animals; and promote activities that ensure the well-being of chimpanzees and other animals, both wild and in captivity.

Dr. Edward O. Wilson received his PhD. in biology where he has since taught. He is the author of two Pulitzer Prize-winning books, On Human Nature (1978) and The Ants (1990) and is the recipient of the 1977 National Medal of Science, the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (1990) and the Audubon Medal of the National Audubon Society (1995) just to name a few. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, and the American Museum of Natural History.

Djamaludin Suryohadikusumo, former Minister of Forestry, Indonesia was born in East Java in1934. He completed an engineering degree in forestry in 1961 and soon after entered the civil service working in the forestry sector. During his term as Minister of Forestry, he established many protective regulations and enforced them. He continues his conservation and protection efforts today by serving as a patron of the BOSF in Indonesia and by serving with the Gibbon Foundation. He was instrumental in detaching the Mawas region from the production forest designation. He works on a daily basis with Dr. Willie Smits to ensure that the orangutans and their ecosystems will not be lost.

Suwanna B. Gauntlett – Suwanna B. Gauntlett played a pivotal role in founding WildAid, and coordinates some of the organization’s most ambitious programs. A lifelong environmentalist, Gauntlett has dedicated her life to saving wildlife and forests. Gauntlett helped support the highly acclaimed ‘Operation Amba’ program that brought the Siberian tiger back from the brink of extinction in the mid-90’s, and founded the Gauntlett Group LLC, an environmental consulting firm dedicated to helping corporations including Nike, Pfizer and Alcoa Fujicoa to reduce pollution in operations worldwide. Gauntlett created WildAid’s Cambodia Conservation Program (CCP) in 2000 and resides in Phnom Penn. She and her team advise and assist the Cambodian government in applying a front-line, comprehensive approach to wildlife protection. To date, CCP has saved over 18,000 animals from the hands of poachers and provides protection to over six national parks as well as the Southern Cardamom range in Southwest Cambodia. CPP has also recently developed the Community Agriculture Development Project (CADP), which teaches farmers self-sustaining agriculture methods in order to reduce their dependency on illegal logging and poaching. Suwanna has received two gold medals from the Prime Minister of Cambodia in recognition of her conservation work. Her work has been covered by major media including the New York Times Magazine and the National Geographic Channel.