Wildlife conservationist and animal behaviorist for more than four decades, Ketover became the first researcher to successfully accomplish the rehabilitation of a zoo-born baboon to a free living troop in Kenya, East Africa. Organized the Live-Aid era "Serving for Hunger" fund-raising effort for African famine relief, utilizing top professional tennis players and other celebrities, benefiting the Save the Children Fund.

Executive Producer and Host of the 1971 "Pet Set" television series based in San Clemente, California. Promoter of one of the earliest concert fund-raisers, held at Colorado State University in 1977, for the then fledgling ecology group Greenpeace. Publisher of the conservation oriented "Sun-News" weekly in SW Florida / Everglades.

Founder of the international Costa American Marine Science Center in Drake Bay, Costa Rica. Personally mentored by Dr. Jane Goodall and the late Dr. Bernhard Grzimek.

Randall Arauz is a Costa Rican biologist graduated from the University of Costa Rica in 1987. He is a founding member and President of PRETOMA, a Costa Rican NGO established to protect marine life in 1997. Drawing international attention to the inhumane and environmentally catastrophic shark-finning industry, Arauz led the campaign to halt the practice in Costa Rica, making his country the new international model for shark protection. For this, in 2010 he was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize (dubbed the "Environmental Nobels") for Central and South America.

Announced every April to coincide with Earth Day, the Goldman Environmental Prize honors grassroots environmental heroes from the six inhabited continental regions: Africa, Asia, Europe, Islands and Island Nations, North America, and South and Central America. The Prize recognizes individuals for sustained and significant efforts to protect and enhance the natural environment, often at great personal risk.

With a Ph.D in Experimental Psychology focusing on cetacean behavior and cognition, complemented by a decade and a half of full-time experience in the care and training of marine mammals, sea turtles, sharks, stingrays, marine fishes and invertebrates, freshwater fishes, elephants and birds, Dr. Trone has presented original research at conferences throughout the world and taught college-level courses in marine biology, cetacean behavior, physiological psychology, anatomy and physiology. She has coached interns and volunteers in the proper techniques of behavioral observation.

A qualified Dive Master who has logged more than a thousand hours of bottom dives in a variety of Caribbean locations, Puget Sound, deep-water oceanic wrecks, the Niagara River, various quarries and springs, and a borrow pond. Her diving expertise was also utilized to maintain open-ocean dolphin enclosures, to interact with dolphins as enrichment, to accompany dolphins on open ocean dives, and to feed and maintain coral reef and sting ray aquarium exhibits.

Jane Goodall is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 50-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

The genuine passion and spirit with which she has raised awareness in every corner of the world is infectious and has inspired legions of others to dedicate their own lives to conservation oriented endeavors. Such was the impetus for the creation of the Costa American Marine Center.

Jane Goodall: 'My job is to give people hope' - The Guardian

Bernard E. Rollin (B.A. CCNY, Ph.D. Columbia) is University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Professor of Animal Sciences, and University Bioethicist at Colorado State University.

Rollin's scholarly interests include both traditional philosophy and applied philosophy. In addition to numerous articles in the history of philosophy, philosophy of language, ethics and bioethics, he is the author of Natural and Conventional Meaning (1976), Animal Rights and Human Morality (1981, 1993 & 2006) and The Unheeded Cry: Animal Consciousness, Animal Pain and Scientific Change (1988 &1998) Farm Animal Welfare (1995) The Frankenstein Syndrome (1995) and Science and Ethics (2006). He has edited a two volume The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research (1989 & 1995). He is one of world's leading scholars in animal rights and animal consciousness and has lectured over 1000 times all over the world. He is a weight-lifter, horseman, and motorcyclist.