John Fanshawe is an author, curator and environmentalist based in north Cornwall. Over the last 35 years, he has worked on bird and biodiversity conservation in the UK, Kenya and Tanzania, primarily for the charity BirdLife. With Terry Stevenson, he is co-author of field guide, Birds of East Africa (2001, 2021), and with Nigel Redman and Terry Stevenson of Birds of the Horn of Africa (2009, 2016). With Mark Cocker, he edited and published the complete works of the author J. A. Baker, including The Peregrine, in 2010. He has an MA in Art and Environment from University College Falmouth and, since 2016, has been Curator of the Arts, Science and Conservation Programme (ASCP), for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI).