Asad R. Rahmani has been Director of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) since 1997. He has written more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers in national and international journals, six books, and numerous popular articles and book reviews. He is Executive Editor of the Journal of the BNHS, and Editor of the Hornbill and Mistnet. He has been Principal Investigator of many prestigious projects of the BNHS, including the Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme of BirdLife Internationaland BNHS. M. Zafar-ul Islam is a field biologist with a deep interest in international wildlife conservation. His primary research areas include ecology and biology of globally threatened species such as Houbara, Arabian Leopard, Arabian Oryx, Sand and Mountain Gazelles, and threatened birds found in India.
He has published nine books with BNHS and BirdLife International. Khursheed Ahmad is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Mountain Wildlife Sciences at Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUAST-Kashmir) and State Coordinator for Kashmir in the IBCN programme of BNHS-RSPB. He has been associated with BNHS and SACON in different capacities for forest avifauna and waterbird related projects in Jammu and Kashmir for over 14 years. Intesar Suhail is Wildlife Warden, Department of Wildlife Protection, Jammu and Kashmir. He has been a park manager in several of the designated IBAs including Dachigam National Park, Overa-Aru WildllifeSanctuary and Hirpora Wildlife Sanctuary. He is an experienced birdwatcher and bird photographer. Pankaj Chandan is head of the high altitude wetlands conservation programme of WWF-India. He is an experienced wildlife biologist with over a decade of field experience.
He has a special interest in Himalayan wetlands and associated avifauna. Ashfaq Ahmed Zarri earned his Ph.D. in Ornithology from University of Mumbai while working at BNHS in a US Fish and Wildlife sponsored research project.He is presently IBCN State Coordinator (Jammu) and Deputy Registrar in BGSB University, Rajouri Jammu and Kashmir. He is also coordinating various Government of India funded awareness and extension education programmes in Jammu and Kashmir.