Contributor: Julia Lloyd 📸

Julia Lloyd has spent more than three decades following wildlife through East Africa — underwater, through forests, across savannahs and occasionally into places sensible people might have avoided. After a year of scuba diving and traipsing through forests to compile biodiversity inventories in Tanzania, she moved to Uganda, working in habitats including Karamoja and Kyambura before returning to forest life with the Jane Goodall Institute and Uganda Wildlife Authority, working on chimp habituation and developing monitoring and ecotourism in Kibale National Park. Falling back to her love of small, much-ignored wild things, she eventually founded the indigenous NGO In the Shadow of Chimpanzees and Sunbird Hill Nature Monitoring & Rewilding Site. She lives just there with her eclectic multicultural family, on the edge of Kibale, Uganda. [bio updated: 2026-06]