Born and educated in Switzerland, wildlife photographer André Bärtschi specializes in the natural history of tropical forests. He traveled to the Amazonian Peru and Bolivia for the first time in 1976. Since then he spends part of the year in the remotest places of the New World tropics. His work has been published worldwide in a number of nature books, including one about Manu National Park and in magazines such as GEO, BBC Wildlife, International Wildlife, Natural History, Smithsonian and National Geographic. His latest book "Where the Andes meet the Amazon" was recently published.

Several of his photos won awards in the annual BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition and in 1992 he was awarded the top prize in this largest and most prestigious international contest of its kind.

As a wildlife photographer, André strives to document the undisturbed beauty of tropical nature, but also the devastating effects of its systematic destruction, using his images as a powerful conservation weapon. André Bärtschi is based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, where he lives together with his wife Cornelia and their children, Manuel, Carla and Julian.