Joe Zammit-Lucia is a conservationist and an award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in fine-art photography magazines and is included in The World's Greatest Black and White Photography. Organisations sponsoring his installations of words and images have included the United Nations; the National Museum of Natural History, Paris; and Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Coral Gables, Florida. He donates all profits from his work, including proceeds from this book, to environmental causes. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.