An authentic child of the wild, Leigh Kemp has spent most of his life on earth in the African Bush. He has researched, guided, managed lodges, and trained guides throughout East and southern Africa. For Leigh, The African Wildlife Guide (AWG) is the culmination of over 20 years worth of making notes and taking photographs of wildlife throughout Africa.

Leigh's other projects include private guiding tourists through East and southern Africa, working as an associate editor for the Go2Africa.com travel website, slaving over two unfinished wildlife books, and spending time with his wife as they explore the African wilderness together.

Ruan is the visual force behind the AWG. Whether designing every single web page of the AWG website or working on the AWG print media, Ruan tirelessly makes it all happen.

On most days, Ruan can be found in a quiet little corner of the office, listening to music with a set of broken headphones on his head, and rubbing his eyes at the two flickering flat screens in front of him.

When we approached Jonathan with the idea of creating a wildlife guide, he accepted on the condition that we made the cheques out to 'The Wolf'. It took us a short time to figure out why Jonathan referred to himself as Airwolf ('the wolf' to his friends).

Quiet, covert, determined, and extremely stealthy in his web operations, Jonathan is a finely tuned one-man-web-army.

Airwolf is responsible for pulling the thoughts, photographs and pages and pages of writing out of Safaris Leigh's head and making sure they all fit, work, and play happily in cyberspace.

Airwolf is environmentally friendly and runs on muffins, caffeine... and lamb-chops of course.

A self-confessed barefoot Bridget Jones, Catja Orford has explored a number of African countries, intimately encountering animals and people alike. She is the author of Tracking Bubu - a fictional work based on the 2 years she spent tracking an enigmatic Gorilla in central West Africa .

If you ever meet her, ask Catja to tell you the tale of the Mlungu and the Maasai - The remarkable journey which saw her smuggled across the Kenya-Tanzania border by a Maasai warrior, as the pair traversed two countries on bicycle and by foot on a quest to the warrior's home village.

Catja is one of the field experts the AWG relies on for first hand content on African wildlife.

Derek has devoted his life to the South African wilderness. He has studied nature conservation, worked as a field and research guide in the Kruger Park, and guided for South African safari tourism giant, Singita.

Highlights of Derek's wildlife experiences include handling pregnant buffalo, maintaining cameras on elephants for a wildlife channel, and extensive field research on wild dogs, fish, bush-fires, game capture, dung beetles and ticks. The result - a field expert that is able to share his conservation and wildlife expertise with the rest of us.

With years of online publishing experience behind him, Paul was calmly prepared for all the AWG staff's kicking, screaming and complaining over deadlines. Thanks to Paul, the site is now an online reality.

Paul can often be found hovering over staff member's shoulders and staring at their screens, with a whip in one hand and a bag of chocolate cookies in the other.