How fitting that Dame Virginia McKenna DBE has written the foreword and has the last word, with a poem she recently created ... the bookends to a love-filled book. A perfect antidote for these troubling times.
All these wonderful people have given their time freely to write and provide their art and photography for 57 chapters:
Julie Askew - artist
​Martin Aveling - artist
Pam Ayres MBE - poet
Lynne Chitty - poet - deacon
Angela Collins - founder and chair of Care 4 Cats Ibiza
Guy Combes - artist
Dave Currey - photographer- co-founder of the Environmental Investigation Agency
Nicholas Dyer - photographer - author - founder of the Painted Wolf Foundation
Peter Egan - actor
Pen Farthing - founder of Nowzad - dog charity based in Afghanistan
Robert Ferguson - co-founder and trustee of Explorers Against Extinction and Sketch for Survival
The late Robert Gillmor MBE - artist - co-founder of the Society of Wildlife Artists
Gary Hodges - artist
Heather Irvine - artist
Sangita Iyer - founder Voice for Asian Elephants Society, filmmaker and author
Pieter Kat - founder of Lion Aid
Diane Keen - actor
Emily Lamb - artist
Georgina Lamb - CEO of David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation
Karen Laurence Rowe - artist
Ashley Leiman OBE - founder and CEO of the Orangutan Foundation
Rula Lenska - actor
Dame Maureen Lipman - actor
George Logan - photographer
Joanna Lumley OBE - actor
Philip Lymbery - global chief executive of Compassion in World Farming
Nick Mackman - sculptor
Christine Macsween - founder of Lion Aid
Suzie Marsh - sculptor
Nigel Marven - wildlife filmmaker -TV presenter
Stella Mays - artist
John Nettles OBE - actor
Lesley Nicol - actor
Karen Paollilo - founder of the Turgwe Hippo Trust
Margot Raggett - photographer - founder of Remembering Wildlife books
Ian Redmond OBE - ape and forest elephant expert
Darren Rees - artist
Dan Richardson - actor - photographer
Derek Robertson - artist
Jill Robinson MBE - founder of Animals Asia
Chris Rose - artist
Jonathan and Angela Scott - photographers - artists - presenters - founders of the Sacred Nature Initiative
Jenny Seagrove - actor - founder of Mane Chance
Martin Shaw - actor
Angela Sheldrick - CEO of Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's 'Wildlife Artist of the Year' competition winners portfolio
Lauren St John - author
Caroline Strong - poet - actor
Richard Symonds - artist
Allan Thornton OBE - co-founder Greenpeace UK and co-founder of the Environmental Investigation Agency
Simon Trapnell - director of Nature in Art museum
Will Travers OBE - co-founder of Born Free
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