By education and training I am a microbiologist and worked in the NHS and biotech sector. I finished my working career in clinical research and patient safety in the pharmaceutical industry, so am a firm believer in evidence-based science. I’ve been a member of the RSPB for many years and started volunteering for them when…
Category: Guest blog
Guest blog – What is a real country person? by Pete Etheridge
Pete Etheridge is passionate about nature, the countryside and sustainable land management. He has, in the past, worked in estate management, as well as for conservation charities and commercial ecological consultancies. He is shortly set to join a revolutionary farm in South Devon, where he will be helping to promote the principles of agroecology and…
Guest Blog – NHM threatens wildlife (garden) by Peter Marren
How many of you, I wonder, have visited the wildlife garden, nestled in the western corner of the grounds of the Natural History Museum? I must admit I hadn’t until last week, and was amazed at what I found. Created exactly twenty years ago as the Museum’s ‘first living exhibition’, it boasts a miniature chalk…
Guest Blog – The Asia vulture crisis, an update by Chris Bowden of RSPB
Chris Bowden is RSPB’s Globally Threatened Species Officer, and Programme Manager of the consortium of ‘SAVE’ partners – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction. Chris has worked for RSPB on various threatened species, (after his Woodlark and Nightjar research days on Thetford Forest), notably the Northern Bald Ibis based in Morocco (for which he still…
Guest Blog – Plenty more fish in the sea by Emma Garnett
Emma Garnett is an ecologist who is usually happiest when hiking through mountains. After graduating with a first in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 2011, she spent two years studying in five different countries for a Masters in Applied Ecology. She has a keen interest in marine conservation and for her thesis spent four months…