Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches courses ranging from molecular biology to anthropology to biodiversity at both Bethlehem and Birzeit universities. He is the director of the Institute of Biodiversity and Sustainability and of the Palestine Museum of Natural History (www.palestinenature.org) at Bethlehem University. ||| Elias N. Handal is a graduate student in environmental biology and a staff zoologist at the Palestine Museum of Natural History, Bethlehem University.