Dr. Leonid Averyanov, an orchidologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, holding a species of Coelogyne orchid. He has been working on Vietnamese orchids for more than twenty years, and is a long-time collaborator with the Institute of Ecology and Bioresources. He has seen many pristine forests cut or burned, and is working frantically against time (as are all his collaborators) to at least document what is still unknown before it becomes extinct.