Christian Ziegler is a photojournalist and filmmaker specializing in natural history and scientific topics. He works for the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour in Konstanz as an outreach photographer. He is a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine and has numerous publications in other magazines such as GEO.

Christian's goal is to highlight endangered species and ecosystems and share their beauty and importance with a wide audience. Trained as a tropical ecologist, he has worked in tropical rainforests on four continents and he is a Communications Associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama since 2001. On behalf of STRI, he photographed ‘A Magic Web’, an award-winning illustrated book on tropical ecology, and published ‘Deceptive Beauties’, a book on wild orchids, and ‘Jungle spirits’, a visual celebration of the world's tropical forests. In 2022 he photographed a book about tracking animals from space, called ICARUS, with Martin Wikelski as an author. In 2023 Christian published a book about the bats of Barro Colorado Island book ‘Bat Island’. He is a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP.com).

Christian's work has been recognized in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year and European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitions, most recently in 2022, and in 2017 he was awarded the Outstanding Nature Photographer Award by the North American Nature Photography Association. He has also won four World Press Awards in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Christian lives part of the year on the edge of a rainforest national park in central Panama with his wife Daisy Dent and their two children Freya and Benji. For the rest of the year, they live in southern Germany, from where he sets off on his adventures around the world.