Hello! I am a modern languages student, fluent in French and Spanish. My real passion has always been animals, in particular southern African mammals. My dream is to move to Botswana and work in conservation or be a guide.
I enjoy learning about how to effectively protect biodiversity and how to become more resilient to Climate Change with Indigenous partners. I am interested in the intersection of cultural inter dependency with ecology and how we as humans can become more reconnected to our natural surroundings and live sustainably within. This manifests itself in Protected area planning in Northern Canada at the moment with current role as an Advisor.
I am currently focused on investigating and taking action on international wildlife trade on social media, particularly in parrots and African birds. This includes identifying illegal trafficking facilitated by social media and advocating for companies to take accountability for illegal activity occuring over their platforms.
I currently work on a large Bats in Churches partnership project, aiming to help reduce human-wildlife conflict. As part of this I am organising and running a new citizen science survey and creating the training offer. My previous role was with British Trust for Ornithology, again working with citizen science surveys, and before that I worked for the National Trust where I worked in practical land management. I have an MSc in Applied Ecology.
Currently studying an MSc in Applied Wildlife Conservation at Anglia Ruskin University
After a decade of training to be a wildlife conservationist, I founded Lonely Conservationists to help conservationists thrive by providing a platform to be heard, employment pathways and a strong community foundation. As well as running Lonely Conservationists, I teach sustainability incursions and excursions to school students in a classroom, forest and marine park environments.
Félix is a 25-year-old conservationist and environmental activist from Luxembourg. He is the Biodiversity Working Group Facilitator at Generation Climate Europe, the largest coalition of youth-led NGOs at the European level, pushing for stronger action from the EU on climate and environmental issues. He is also the Liaison Officer on Biodiversity at Youth and Environment Europe, working to mainstream biodiversity throughout the European youth climate and environmental movement and to empower youth from underrepresented regions to participate in regional and global environmental policy processes. He firmly believes that biodiversity is the crumbling foundation of life on Earth and must be put at the center of decision-making processes to create a healthier, more equitable and prosperous future for all, especially the poor and most vulnerable. He previously interned at the Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) and the Convention on Migratory Species (UNCMS), and most recently at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC). He holds an MSc in Conservation from University College London and a BSc in Marine Science from the National University of Ireland, Galway.