WIRE editor-in-chief and co-founder Rene Ebersole is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of writing and editing experience. She writes for Rolling Stone, National Geographic, the Washington Post, Audubon, and many others.

WIRE founding investigative reporter and editor Rachael Bale has reported stories revealing a transnational network of cheetah cub traffickers, the scale and impact of pangolin poaching and trafficking, and the sudden surge of jaguar poaching in the Bolivian Amazon that paralleled an increase in Chinese development projects in the county.

WIRE founding editor Oliver Payne was an editor at National Geographic from the early 1990s until mid-2023, where he recruited acclaimed journalists and writers and served as a founding editor of Wildlife Watch.