Tui De Roy

Tui De Roy is an award-winning wildlife photographer, naturalist, and author of many books on wildlife themes around the world. She is also an ardent conservationist who has combined her life’s three passions—wildness, photography, and conservation—into a successful career as a world communicator striving to sensitize her audiences to take better care of our natural planet. With this conviction at heart, she was a Founding Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP).

Tui is Belgian by birth, but grew up in Galápagos, where her parents took her to lead a pioneering lifestyle when she was two years old. She never attended school, being home taught, and is fluent in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and German. After more than 35 years in Galápagos, Tui relocated to the South Island of New Zealand 20 years ago. She runs The Roving Tortoise Nature Photography together with business partners Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite, working freelance under the logo ‘Images of Wildlife and Wilderness from Our Planet's Most Pristine, Uninhabited Regions’.

Published in more than 40 countries, Tui’s first articles appeared in major U.S. nature magazines when she was 19, followed a few years later by her first book. Many subsequent volumes cover not only Galápagos, but other natural wonders of the world, notably Antarctica, the Andes Mountains, and New Zealand.

Her most recent books include Albatross: Their World, Their Ways, an in-depth celebration of the world’s most endangered multi-species bird family, a sister volume Penguins: Their World, Their Ways, and Galápagos: Preserving Darwin’s Legacy, which represents a compilation of 50 years of science and conservation work.