Haroldo Castro is an award-winning video director and producer, a photographer, a journalist and a communications strategist.  He has three passions: to tell stories through his chronicles, to document the beauty of the world and to be in nature. He is the founder of The Center of Travelology, an initiative that promotes the art and science of traveling. Since 2007, he writes a column (http://colunas.epoca.globo.com/viajologia) twice a week for the Brazilian Globo’s EPOCA magazine, focusing on sustainable travel and conservation. He also contributes for others Brazilian magazines. From 1990 to 2006, he worked at the Washington-based NGO Conservation International. As CI’s Vice President for Global Awareness, he was responsible for implementing conservation awareness strategies and directing video productions. His assignments have taken him near to 150 countries around the world, including 29 nations in Africa. By road, he traveled from Paris to Southern India in a 40,000 km journey and he crossed South America during a two-year media expedition. Haroldo has published thousands of articles internationally. He speaks four languages and holds three nationalities.

Mikael Castro is an anthropologist, communicator, and ecotourism-expert   passionate for conservation and travel since young, Mikael has visited close to 50 countries, exploring the cultural diversity of 5 continents. He lived in South and Central America and studied at natural resource management at the Centro Internacional para el Desarrollo Humano (CIDH) in Costa Rica. After graduating from the George Washington University with a major in Anthropology and Communications, Mikael worked as the manager of a newly opened ecotourism lodge in the State of Ceará, Northern Brazil. As the former director of special for The International Ecotourism Society (TIES), Mikael Castro has organized three international conferences focusing on bio-cultural conservation through tourism. Mikael speaks four languages.