Bill Branch has been a wildlife biologist at the Port Elizabeth Museum, South Africa, since 1979, and has undertaken fieldwork from Ethiopia to South Africa, and Senegal to Madagascar. Bill is also a general naturalist and keen birder. He has described numerous new species and amphibians, received a grant from National Geographic to help fund his research on African reptiles, and published six books and numerous photographs and scientific articles. Bill will accompany the expeditions shown below.