Christian Ziegler, a native of Germany, is a photojournalist specializing in biological and scientific topics. A tropical ecologist by training, he has been working extensively in tropical rainforests. Christian is an associate for communication with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama, the main focus of his work for the last 4 years.

As an assignment for STRI, he spent 15 months in the field taking photographs for a book on the ecology of tropical forests. A Magic Web, published by Oxford University Press in 2002, was named the best biology book by the American Association of Publishers.

Christian's feature articles are published internationally in leading magazines such as GEO, National Geographic, Smithsonian, BBC Wildlife, National Wildlife, and others.

Next to his editorial work, Christian has been working in educational projects with museums and with environmental groups such as the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

Christian's images have received several international prizes, including category winners in BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year and the GDT European Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

Single exhibitions of Christian's work include a travel exhibition produced by the Smithsonian Travel Exhibition Centre, an exhibit produced by GEO magazine.

Currently, Christian is working in Panama on several magazine articles and a museum project. Please see www.naturphoto.de for more information.