Ann Nightingale is president of the Rocky Point Bird Observatory and Claudia Copley is the entomology collections manager at the Royal BC Museum. Both actively support the Victoria Natural History Society, as have the other naturalists and biologists who contributed to this book: Robert Cannings (dragonflies), Anna Hall (marine mammals), Gavin Hanke (fishes, reptiles and amphibians), Bryce Kendrick (fungi), Philip Lambert (intertidal life), James Miskelly (butterflies), David Nagorsen (land mammals), Leon Pavlick (plants), and David Stirling and Alan MacLeod (birds).