Kevin Schafer is a professional natural history photographer who specializes in telling the stories of little-known and endangered species worldwide. He is a Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers, and spent two years documenting threatened eco-regions around the world for the World Wildlife Fund. Schafer was named the Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year for 2007 by the North American Nature Photographers Association (NANPA) and was the 1997 recipient of the Gerald Durrell award for Endangered Species photography by the BBC.