Douglas Main is a senior writer and editor for National Geographic, focusing on animals and wildlife. He has covered everything from solar-powered sea slugs to Florida panthers to environmental impacts of pesticides, and everything in between. He also fields pitches and assigns stories.

His freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and elsewhere. In the course of reporting he has happened upon locust swarms in the Middle East, trailed jaguars in Arizona, and located new spider species in the Peruvian Amazon.