Prof Sir Dieter Helm – former Chair of Natural Capital Committee. Author of two books highly rated by this blog; Net Zero (published 2020) and Green and Prosperous Land (published 2019).
Joan Edwards OBE – for services to Marine Conservation
Dr Alistair Burn MBE – for voluntary services to conservation in Cambridgeshire
Raymond Marsh MBE – for voluntary service to Wildlife and Conservation on Skippers Island, Essex
Michael Master MBE – for services to Wildlife and Conservation in Hertfordshire and Middlesex
Dr Stephanie Tyler MBE – for service to nature conservation in the UK and Africa. See Behind the Binoculars (pp146-57) for Keith Betton’s interview with Steph.
David Waters MBE – for services to Wildlife Conservation and to the Re-Introduction of Rare Native Species to the UK (that’ll be Great Bustards)
My eyes started to glaze over as I looked through the list, so please point out any conservationists I have missed, but I woke up when noticing that someone called Dr Hopps is a choreographer and Philip Larkin now works in counter terrorism…
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Dr Judy Webb has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to Conservation of Wildlife and Habitats in Oxfordshire.
Richly deserved – Judy is star!
You missed Dr Alastair Burn. Not a high profile name but the real deal. A bit of an irony that it appears he was not nominated by his employer.
Alistair – thank you, I remember Alastair as a good guy.
Good luck to WildJustice.
I’ll miss a lot of the blog.
An informative blog Mark, thanks, Good to see that David Waters (an ex police man I believe ) has been recognised for all his work on reintroducing the Great Bustard.
Chris Packham speaks very highly of him – I believe David put an awful lot of his own money (police pension?) into the Great Bustard reintroduction at the very beginning.
Jack Swan has been awarded the BEM ‘for services to wildlife and conservation in Cheshire’. He is one of the county’s finest botanists, and amongst other things, Jack designed, planted and curated the arboretum of 3,000 trees in the grounds of Jodrell Bank, the famous radio-telescope.