Andrew L. Mack Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance and founding board member of Green Capacity, Inc., and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Biological Research. He has worked for two of the largest international conservation organizations and two large natural history museums in the United States. He appreciates what an exceptional experience he was fortunate to have, living years in a pristine rainforest with no connection to the outside world, and he shares that experience with the reader. He has spent many years in other rainforest camps studying birds and tropical ecology, and he has published more than fifty scientific papers. He is most proud of the many Papua New Guinean students he has mentored. The author now lives on a small tree farm in western Pennsylvania where he focuses on writing and conservation. Mack travels often to New Guinea to support national scientists, teach and continue research on a variety of topics.