I thought I would just share a blog article I wrote when I worked as an Engagement Officer for the North Wales Wildlife Trust last year, it features some lovely prose inspired by the creative writing walk I led through one of the trust's reserves:
Michelle Payne
(She/Her)
Volunteer and MSc Research Student, N/A
I am a volunteer of one of the Wildlife Trust branches' local action youth forum, and in 2023 I worked as an Education and Community Engagement Officer for one of their local nature reserves, as part of a paid internship. I love wildlife and am deeply interested in helping people connect to nature for conservation and well-being. I seek a future role in the conservation and wildlife sector, and as grant writing is a vital skill for this sector, I decided to sign up to WildTeam for the Grant Writing for Wildlife Conservation course. I enjoyed the course so much, that I am continuing with the WildTeam's courses, starting with Project Planning for Wildlife Conservation.
I am currently finishing my viva corrections edits for my MSc Research degree in Biological Sciences at Bangor University, where I am researching variation in the vertebral column of rhesus macaques. I love primates, my favourite being lemurs, and I hope to see them someday in Madagascar.
I also love writing and hope to publish a novel one day. My preferred writing genres are fantasy and sci-fi (with a little nature thrown in too).
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Thanks so much for sharing, Michelle! It's so lovely to read all the creative pieces!
I do have another one to share, it had gotten lost just as I finished my contract with the Trust so it wasn't posted at the time it was written but we managed to find it and finally post it this week:
https://www.northwaleswildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/spinnies-aberogwen/wellbeing-and-writing
The event this blog article was about was a little more focused on wellbeing so that theme runs through some of the prose shared here :)