David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author, and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. He is Companion to the Order of Canada and a recipient of UNESCO's Kalinga Prize for science, the United Nations Environment Program medal, the 2009 Right Livelihood Award, and Global 500. He is familiar to television audiences as host of the long-running CBC television program The Nature of Things. His written work includes more than fifty books, nineteen of them for children. Suzuki lives with his wife, Tara Cullis, in Vancouver.

Ian Hanington is a communications and editorial specialist for the David Suzuki Foundation.