Biologist Adrian Forsyth is Strategic Advisor to the Andes Amazon Fund, Chair of Biome Conservation, and founder of conservation organizations and initiatives (Amazon Conservation, Osa Conservation, and the Andes Amazon Initiative). He has served as Vice President of blue moon fund, Director of Biodiversity at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Vice President of Conservation International. He worked as a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution and the Royal Ontario Museum, and was a faculty member of Arizona State University in the Department of Zoology.  Adrian is the author of nine acclaimed natural history books and has developed five biological field stations in the Amazon and in Central America. He received his Ph.D. in tropical ecology from Harvard University under renowned biologist E.O. Wilson. 

Eric served as Executive Director of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund, which works to promote “biocultural restoration” of the Área de Conservación Guanacaste in partnership with the Costa Rican government.  Eric was Senior Director of Forests at the National Wildlife and was an elected member of the international Board of Directors of the Forest Stewardship Council, a founding member of the national Forest Climate Working Group, an advisor to the American Forest Foundation, and an advisor to the Ford Foundation’s Rural Wealth Creation program. He has worked extensively on opportunities for minority and underserved forestland owners in the southeastern U.S. and on ensuring the sustainability of biomass energy. His international work emphasized the development of product certification systems and the role of agriculture in global deforestation. Eric has degrees in natural resource economics and public policy from the University of Vermont and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. An avid bluegrass musician, Eric lives on a small farm in Huntington, Vermont. 

Marcy is the Director and co-founder of the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo), which works Sulawesi, Indonesia and has forged partnerships with local communities to protect and restore imperiled species, tropical rainforests, and other natural ecosystems while supporting the dignity and self-sufficiency of local communities in a changing world.  Marcy has master’s in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from University of Maine and is currently working on a PhD at Newcastle University, U.K.  Marcy has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Switzer Foundation’s Fellowship for Environmental Leadership and the Maine Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence. For 13 years, Marcy worked as a scientist for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in the United States, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. She left TNC in 2006 to co-found AlTo. Marcy is a 4th-generation native of the islands of the Puget Sound, Washington., She loves to play, especially with animals, children, and old people.