Thorsten Gieser is Visiting Professor at Tohoku University (Japan), a Research Associate at the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Lecturer at University of Koblenz (Germany). He is the author of Living with Wolves: Affects, Feelings and Sentiments in Human-Wolf Coexistence (Transcript, 2024) and the forthcoming monograph To Kill and To Let Live: The Moral Struggles of Hunting Wild Boar (Transcript).

Ludek Broz is a researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, where he heads the Department of Ecological Anthropology and is the principal investigator of the BOAR project funded by the ERC (European Research Council). He is the author of Evil Spirits and Rocket Debris: In Search of Lost Souls in Siberia (Berghahn, 2024) and the co-editor with Daniel Münster of Suicide and Agency: Anthropological Perspectives on Self-Destruc- Tion, Personhood and Power (Ashgate, 2015).

Paul Keil is an anthropologist who engages in the field of multispecies studies, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies. His regional expertise is in NSW, Australia, and Assam, India, where he conducts ethnographic research on biosecurity practice, hunting, human–wildlife relations, environmental governance, and working animals. He is the author of The Presence of Elephants (Routledge 2024) and co-editor of Composing Worlds with Elephants (IRD 2023).

Erica von Essen is a human-wildlife scholar at Stockholm Resilience Center and the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, who publishes across disciplines on topics including hunting, urban culling, wildlife ethics, surveillance of nature and more. She leads several research projects that examine new relations and roles of wildlife in modern society.