
Sandra King
Sandra supports our team delivering our strategy and leads our national policy programme, convening a coalition of stakeholders from farmers and anglers to conservationists and landowners.
An experienced charity leader, innovative thinker and convener. She is a passionate environmentalist who is driven to take urgent action on the twin climate and ecological crises.
Prior to joining Beaver Trust she was former Chair of Northumberland Wildlife Trust and Chief Philanthropy Officer and Deputy CEO at the largest Community Foundation in Europe, bringing philanthropists and grassroots charities together to achieve positive change.

Dr Roisin Campbell-Palmer
Roisin is a highly experienced field biologist and recognised beaver reintroduction specialist. She has authored over 25 peer-reviewed publications focusing mainly on beaver reintroduction, wildlife health screening, captive care and welfare. Roisin is also the lead author on the Eurasian beaver management handbook and completing her second book on beaver ecology, conservation and management.
Roisin is highly experienced in animal trapping and handling, biological sample collection, remote monitoring techniques, field sign identification, data processing and translocation. Roisin advises various conservation projects across Britain, including conflict resolution, mitigation techniques and training. In 2020, she was recognised for her exceptional contributions and won the Conservation Scientist Award at the Nature of Scotland Awards.

Eva Bishop
Eva leads our communications programme helping engage and inform the public and communities about river restoration and co-existing with beavers.
Eva is a passionate environmentalist dedicated to climate action, conservation and wildlife resilience. She has worked on large scale renewable energy programmes for the UK, involving environmental impact assessments and community engagement, run carbon offset schemes abroad and founded a major wetland conservation and catchment restoration initiative. Most recently she has developed a climate action app and materials for schools eco initiatives.

Helen Scribbins
Helen manages our financial planning and reporting, and supports our governance with the management team and trustees.
Helen is a financial and projects manager, interested in charity and community organisation governance. She grew up in Switzerland and Kenya, developing a love for wild places and travel. Having recovered from the culture shock of England, Helen has helped a range of clients including Artspec, Taunton Women’s Aid and a renewable energy company. She is Treasurer of The Milverton Trust and Chair of Wiveliscombe Community Swimming Pool Club.

Robert Needham
Rob helps coordinate on our Restoration projects. An experienced field biologist, he has worked with large carnivores in Norway and more recently, beaver related projects for over 10 years. He is currently at the write up stage of his PhD through the University of Southampton where he is investigating the interactions of beaver habitat modification on brown trout populations in Scotland.
Rob is experienced in animal trapping and handling, survey techniques, data collection and analysis, electrofishing, PIT tag telemetry and GIS. He has also authored and co-authored peer-reviewed publications.

Sheelagh McAllister
Brought up on her family‘s mixed working farm, Sheelagh developed passion and experience in animal welfare and conservation, before spending 7.5 years specialising in wildlife rehabilitation. Sheelagh has worked with most British mammal species including: beavers, otters, badgers, pine marten and red squirrels. She’s experienced in animal handling and trapping.
Sheelagh’s expertise and experience in the field is respected throughout the UK and internationally. Her skillset is often sought in an advisory role for animal welfare and husbandry.

Elliot McCandless
Elliot manages our communications and education, engaging the public and key stakeholders on our work to restore rivers and help people to live alongside beavers again.
Elliot was previously a Trustee of Scottish Wild Beaver Group before joining BT and is currently a Trustee of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.

Sophie Pavelle
Sophie coordinates our communications initiatives, producing our outreach and education content and sharing it with the public and communities.
Sophie is a zoologist, author and science communicator, based in Devon. Her passion for wildlife conservation has gained her a wide reputation across the science communication and charity sector. Praised for her wit, digital creativity and audience insight, Sophie has influenced a range of nature and environment projects since graduating in 2017, often invited to keynote and chair at AGM’s, university conferences and wildlife festivals.

Jolene Macnaughton
Jolene is Beaver Trust’s new Fundraising Coordinator. This is the first time Beaver Trust has had a dedicated fundraiser and she will play a central role in growing the charity’s income to support vital restoration projects.
Jolene is an experienced fundraiser, working in the charity sector for ten years across Salisbury, London and now Bedford.

Alasdair Harris
Alasdair is the founder and Executive Director of Blue Ventures Conservation. He is an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme, an honorary fellow of the University of Edinburgh School of Geosciences, Fellow of Ashoka and TED, and is widely published in peer reviewed literature and the wider media.

Andrew Simms
Andrew is Coordinator of the Rapid Transition Alliance, an author, political economist and activist. He is co-director of the NewWeather Institute, Assistant Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, a Research Associate at the University of Sussex, and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF).

Keith Shepherd
Keith is an accountant, who has worked in investment management for large private, public and third sector funds, where he was a keen advocate of responsible investing. He is now a trustee of two grant-giving foundations, John Ellerman Foundation and Dunhill Medical Trust, where he focuses on environmental and financial issues.

Nicky Saunter
Nicky supported setting up the charity and continues to advise on our strategy, programmes and fundraising.
Nicky is a social entrepreneur and environmental campaigner with a particular interest in business ethics, wildlife and the rural economy. She lives in Somerset on a permaculture plot that has been undergoing re-wilding for over a decade. She runs Learning From The Land, a sustainable business consultancy, and co-founded the west country coffee chain The Boston Tea Party and the natural acoustics firm The Woolly Shepherd.

Jenny Scholfield
Jenny has worked for over twenty years in nature conservation in the UK, with extensive experience of government agencies, local government and environmental charities. She is currently a regional director at the Woodland Trust, with a focus on leading an operational team and always focused on outcomes for nature.

Matthew Brady
Matt coordinates the accounting and administration of global programs for Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), based in Amsterdam. His professional focus bringing finance and technology expertise to non-profits includes years of enriching field work across Africa and India. Matt is also a former music artist with Atlantic Records in New York.

Victoria Heffer
Victoria is head of the institutional business at Artemis Investment Management LLP. As a trustee of the Artemis Charitable Foundation, she significantly increased grant making to environmental causes. She is a committed environmentalist and enjoys putting this into practice on a hill farm in the Black Mountains. She is a trustee of food poverty charity, City Harvest.

James Wallace
Former CEO and co-founder James set up the charity and continues to raise awareness of the important work we carry out as an ambassador.
James is a naturalist, archaeologist and social entrepreneur. He has established or transformed enterprises ranging from conservation and development in the tropics (Blue Ventures), deep-sea exploration and research (Nekton Foundation) and ecotourism in Europe (Sawday’s) to climate communications (Susten8), CSR and education (Global Cool), renewable energy (Empower Community) and clean technology investment (The Research Exchange)

Iain Beath
Iain supported setting up the charity and continues to support our fundraising efforts and raise awareness of Beaver Trust as an ambassador.
Iain is a cleantech entrepreneur and passionate environmentalist with 20 years experience in renewables. He has set up solar projects in the UK, Europe and Africa through Renewable Power Limited, aligning farmers, developers, investors, community groups and conservationists. Iain has supported numerous enterprises to halt and reverse climate change, including Engaged Tracking, Immersa and Argand Solutions.

Megan McCubbin
Megan is a zoologist and wildlife TV presenter. She joined the Springwatch team in 2020 and is soon to publish her debut book called ‘Back To Nature,’ in which she hopes to encourage a new generation of nature lovers to connect with the wonders of the natural world.

Mya-Rose Craig
Mya-Rose Craig (aka: Birdgirl) is an 18-year-old British Bangladeshi conservationist, environmentalist, writer, speaker, race activist and diversity expert. She is youngest person to have seen half of the world’s bird species and os the founder of pioneering equality/diversity project Black to Nature.

Brock Dolman
Brock is a co-founder of Occidental Arts & Ecology Centre where he co-directs the WATER Institute. He is a wildlife biologist and watershed ecologist. His work promotes Bringing Back Beaver, including to their historic range in California to restore native habitat and Coho Salmon.

Chris Sandom
Chris is a Senior Lecturer in Biology at the University of Sussex specialising in restoration ecology and rewilding, and particularly the role large mammals can play. Chris is also a Director of Wild Business Ltd helping businesses restore nature and benefit from doing so, and Chairperson of Rewilding Sussex, engaging young people in rewilding.

David Gilvear
David is Professor of River Science at the University of Plymouth. He has researched the physical habitat effects of beavers since 2003. He undertook the hydrological and geomorphological monitoring of the streams and lochs of Knapdale, Scottish Beaver Trial. Currently he is on the Board of the Plymouth Beavers Project and has recently overseen Masters students undertaking physical habitat studies on two Devon beaver sites.

Duncan Halley
Duncan Halley, originally from Scotland, has worked as a wildlife biologist in Norway since 1993, with a focus on conservation and restoration ecology. Research has included long-term study of the patterns and impacts of population development in beavers following reintroduction. He has also worked on the reintroduction of white-tailed sea eagles to Scotland and Ireland.

Emily Fairfax
Emily is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Resource Management at California State University Channel Islands. She uses remote sensing to study how beaver dams can help protect sensitive ecosystems during droughts and wildfires. Emily is passionate about teaching, and believes that communicating science is just as important as doing it in the first place.

Gerhard Schwab
Gerhard has worked as freelance beaver manager in Bavaria since 1996. Besides providing more than 1,000 beavers for European reintroduction programs, he also trained over 700 local beaver consultants in Germany. He is coauthor of the German “beaver book” and author of the “Beaver Management Handbook for local beaver consultants”.

John Gurnell
John is Emeritus Professor of Ecology at Queen Mary University of London. He is interested chiefly in the behaviour, ecology, welfare, and management of mammals and especially rodents and insectivores. He led the Natural England/PTES Feasibility Study on Reintroducing Beavers to England (2009), is a founder member of Beaver Advisory Committee for England and sits on the River Otter Beaver Trial Steering Committee and Management Group.

Joshua Larsen
Originally from Australia, Josh is a senior lecturer of water science at the University of Birmingham. Josh is focused on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and the feedbacks with aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Recent research has included the role of beavers in these interactions, across Switzerland, Germany, and now the UK.

Kate Lundquist
Kate co-directs the Occidental Arts & Ecology Center’s WATER Institute and the Bring Back the Beaver Campaign to optimise aquatic resource conservation and climate change resilience with beavers in California. She works with stakeholders to uncover obstacles, identify strategic solutions and implement beaver restoration practices.

Mhari Barnes
Mhari Barnes is Project Manager for Water for Tomorrow Project with Water Resources East. Previously, she was National Flood Management and Access Policy Adviser for the NFU, leading on coastal erosion, land drainage and flood risk issues. She has researched forest-related Natural Flood Management (NFM) and compared the impacts of engineered leaky dams to beaver dams on agriculture, farmer compensation and flooding, and developed the NFU’s Integrated Water Management Strategy.

Paul Kemp
Paul Kemp is Professor of Ecological Engineering at the International Centre for Ecohydraulics Research, University of Southampton. He has researched interactions between beavers and fish including trout in Scotland, provided survey and expertise to the River Otter Beaver Trial and researched the environmental impacts of human river engineering (e.g. dams and weirs).

Alan McDonnell
Alan is Conservation Manager at Trees for Life, overseeing practical rewilding projects, volunteer involvement and reaching out to stakeholders to build a wide range of perspectives into the charity’s work. He is an advocate for all that beavers can bring to the Scottish Highlands and for creating open spaces in which people can explore the issues and decide about beavers for themselves.

Alastair Driver
Alastair Driver is the former National Head of Conservation for the Environment Agency from 2002-16. Since Jan 2017 he has been Director of Rewilding Britain. He has been involved in beaver reintroduction discussions since 1985 and is a member of the Beaver Advisory Committee for
England and the River Otter Beaver Trial Steering Group.

Alexandra Jellicoe
Dr Alexandra Jellicoe, an environmental engineer and scientist, has carried out research for the United Nations and worked with aid agencies mitigating the effects of climate change on vulnerable populations and has lived and worked with remote and vulnerable indigenous tribes and small island developing states. She recently founded Monkey Wrench Magazine to create a broad and inclusive conversation about the environment.

Andy Carley
Andy has worked in education for over 30 years, specialising in experiential teaching and learning around character education and the National Curriculum outside the classroom. Through School Outdoor Learning, Andy helps over 300 state and independent schools with training, resources and transforming school sites to maximise their potential for learning in nature.

Anna Smith
Anna is a student going into her masters in Animal Behaviour at Exeter University. She has travelled and volunteered across the globe on various environment and wildlife projects, even running an expedition to unsurveyed rainforest in Madagascar. Anna spends alot of time in the UK outdoors, with a passion for bird watching, animal behaviour and ecosystem dymanics with how the flora and fauna all interact.

Archie Ruggles-Brise
Archie runs a 2000 acre arable estate in Essex and the first natural flood management project to employ beavers in eastern England. He has worked with the national Rivers Trust on natural capital, been a Regional Director of the Association of Rivers Trusts, and is a founding Trustee of the Essex and Suffolk Rivers Trust, improving water quality, flood risk management and aquatic ecology.

Ben Goldfarb
Ben Goldfarb is the author of Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. His writing on wildlife conservation and land management has appeared in publications such as Science, National Geographic, the Guardian, and Orion Magazine.

Carol Williams
Dr Carol Williams has been Director of Conservation at the Bat Conservation Trust for 10 years. She has worked in a range of conservation roles over the last 30 years including working for Natural England/English Nature and carrying out research on the lesser horseshoe bat. She is based in Cornwall.

Charlie Burrell
Charlie is a conservationist and owner of Knepp Castle Estate, the largest rewilding project in lowland Britain. He is Chair of the Beaver Advisory Committee for England and Foundation Conservation Carpathia, on the River Otter Beaver Trial steering group, and is Vice-Chair of Rewilding Britain, The Arcadia Fund, Ingleby Farms Environment Committee, The Endangered Landscapes Programme, Wildlife Estates England and The Oak Project.

Charnna Gilmore
Charnna Gilmore is the Executive Director for a non-profit organization in Northern California. Scott River Watershed Council was established in 1992 and their work focuses on holistic solutions to address the tensions around natural resources, especially water, within working landscapes. The use of beaver as a restoration partner remains a primary component in much of their work.

Cheryl Marriott
Cheryl is Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s Head of Conservation and lead’s their involvement in the Cornwall Beaver Project, a fenced trial run in partnership with Chris Jones and Woodland Valley Farm. Cheryl’s favourite quote from a visiting farmer “I came thinking I can’t possibly have beavers on my land, I’m leaving thinking I can’t possibly not!”

Chloe Sadler
Chloe is Kent Wildlife Trust’s Head of Wilder Landscapes, championing nature-based solutions including the beaver project at Ham Fen, the UK’s first beaver reintroduction (2001). She uses the transformational work of the beaver to enthuse organisations and landowners and chairs the East Kent Beaver Advisory Group on behalf of Kent Wildlife Trust, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Stour (Kent) Internal Drainage Board and Wildwood Trust.

Craig Shuttleworth
Craig is a Research Fellow at Bangor University and has spent 25 years undertaking mammal population restoration projects with a focus upon red squirrel and pine marten recovery. He believes passionately that local people and the land owning community should be at the heart of wildlife conservation decision making.

Danièle Muir
Daniele has had a lifelong interest in wildlife and over the past 20 years has worked as a Wildlife Guide and Countryside Ranger. Passionate about environmental education, she now runs Perthshire Wildlife, with a focus on beaver tours, swift conservation and native wildflowers. Educating people on the brilliance of beavers is the best job in the world!

David Stroud MBE
David Stroud has had a long interest in wetlands, promoting their conservation professionally through former employment as a government advisor, as well as with multiple national and international environmental organisations. He is a waterbird-obsessive in his spare time. David is Honorary Patron for UN AEWA and was recent Chair of Ramsar Scientific and Technical Review Panel.

Dominic Buscall
Dominic is a former strategy consultant and conservationist. He manages the 4000-acre Wild Ken Hill project in Norfolk, which combines rewilding, regenerative agriculture, and traditional conservation on one site. The site includes a 55-acre beaver enclosure, home to up to 15 beavers.

Duncan Pepper
Duncan is an environmentalist and runs Fishinguide Scotland, a small company with a focus on fostering a love for the wilds. He has worked with fisheries trusts and schools on river restoration projects and awareness raising agendas. Duncan also manages a small holding in Perthshire, where some rewilding started over three decades ago.

Ed Dean
Ed believes passionately that nature is our greatest ally in tackling climate change and a deep connection with nature will help us build a better world. Ed is the Director of Development for the climate charity Ashden. When at London Wildlife Trust he witnessed how enhancing river habitats can be transformative for nature and local communities. Ed is proud to be a part of the Beaver Trust alliance.

Fran Southgate
Fran is a landscape ecologist specialising in natural flood management, climate mitigation, wilding and the restoration of natural landscapes for the benefit of people and wildlife. She supports the Knepp Rewilding beaver release, and the wider restoration of these lost ecosystem engineers to our landscapes.

George Monbiot
George is an environmental and political journalist, author and broadcaster. He studied zoology, and has spent much of his career defending the living world. An advocate for rewilding and restoring Britain‘s rivers, George believes beavers are one of nature’s ultimate climate solutions.

Heidi Perryman
Heidi started Worth A Dam to defend the beavers in her home town of Martinez CA, and then started helping other cities learn how and why to co-exist with these important animals. Since 2008 they have organised an annual beaver festival and maintained an internationally respected website. As California faces more drought years they believe it is more important than ever to coexist with these important ‘water savers’.

Herman Wanningen
Herman founded World Fish Migration Foundation and the Dam Removal Europe movement to remove dams and protect fish populations in free-flowing rivers worldwide. He is an aquatic ecologist and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in fish migration and water management. Herman started “World Fish Migration Day” which will be celebrated next on 16th May 2020.

Isabella Tree
Isabella Tree is married to the conservationist Charlie Burrell. Her bestselling book ‘Wilding’ tells the story of the conversion of their failing farm in West Sussex to an internationally renowned rewilding project. It was selected in the Smithsonian’s top ten science books for 2018.

James Robinson
Dr. James Robinson is Director of Conservation for the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and has been involved in wetland conservation projects for over 20 years. WWT’s vision is a world where healthy wetland nature thrives and enriches lives and they are involved in beaver research and Natural Flood Management projects.

Jim Parkyn
Jim has been involved in many best loved animations, including for Aardman Animations, and the BBC. As a sculptor, model maker and character designer, Jim is the helping hand behind many classic characters including Wallace and Gromit, Shaun The Sheep, Creature Comforts and animated feature films and commercials. He has a life long passion for plasticine, wildlife and natural history.

John Jackson
John has a lifetime’s experience in ground breaking and pivotal roles in forestry, wildlife conservation, research and management, and training in Argentina and the UK. With key posts with the IUCN, WWF International, Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina and the Royal Forestry Society, his forte is engaging with stakeholders with a common but opposing interest in shared natural resources to obtain consensus.

Jonah Tosney
Jonah is a freshwater ecologist and Operations Director at Norfolk Rivers Trust. He has 15 years experience of researching and restoring rivers in Yorkshire, Scotland and Norfolk. Jonah’s particular interest in beavers is in their ability to bring life back to our damaged rivers.

Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director of Forum for the Future, has been green campaigning and a member of the Green Party for over 45 years, promoting solutions to our environmental crises – as Director of Friends of the Earth, Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, President of Population Matters and The Conservation Volunteers, and Chancellor of Keele University. His latest book is ‘Hope in Hell: a decade to confront the climate emergency’.

Kate Jones
Kate Jones is a professional coach, qualified lawyer, organisational psychologist and founder of Inspired Lives. Inspired Lives is a UK-based executive coaching and organisation development consultancy with international reach. She coaches board directors, senior executives and leadership teams in the private, public and not for profit sectors, particularly those with a passion for the environment.

Lee Durrell
American-born Lee Durrell received a PhD in Zoology from Duke University. She married author and founder of Jersey Zoo, Gerald Durrell, and spent 15 years with him writing and making tv programmes about natural history and conservation. Lee maintains a deep interest in her late husband’s legacy, receiving the MBE for services to conservation in 2011.

Mark Elliott
Mark manages the two Beaver Projects that Devon Wildlife Trust runs. Working as a wetland ecologist, he is particularly interested in the use of wetland habitats to reduce the effects of climate change and beavers are the logical conclusion of that. He has worked in wildlife conservation, and climate change and water policy since 1991.

Martha Otis
Martha is a fiction writer from Minnesota. Since 2002 she has worked at the University of Miami, teaching writing through nature and animal studies. Her students practice writing as a way of exploring connections and examining patterns of perception and thought. Writing, especially storytelling, can be a vital part of reconnecting to the land, and restoring (re-story-ing) habitats left traumatised by human activity.

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
Merlin is a cornishman with a farm on Bodmin Moor. After three combat tours in Afghanistan with the British Army and a career working in London he realise that we only have strong mental and physical health when we spend time in nature. He has turned his rewilded farm into a forest bathing retreat where people suffering from stress and anxiety can come to heal and grow amidst true wilderness. A beaver family are being released in Summer 2020.

Mike Callahan
Mike Callahan is founder of Beaver Solutions LLC and Beaver Institute. He has resolved over 1,900 beaver-related flooding problems using nonlethal water control devices. Mike developed the first professional flow device training program, including BeaverCorps professionals across North
America and hosts the international BeaverCON
conferences.

Mish Kennaway
Owner of Escot Estate, East Devon, Mish and his wife opened their extensive gardens to visitors in 1989 and started a collection of native wildlife, including the second walk through red squirrel enclosure in the UK. Beavers were introduced into a natural ¾ acre enclosure in 2007 - they built the first recorded dam in SW England for 400 years.

Neil Garrick-Maidment
Neil Garrick-Maidment FBNA is the Founder and Executive Director of The Seahorse Trust and has worked in conservation for 45 years, working on a wide range of projects (and lots of species) including designing and building wildlife ponds and wooded areas when he owned his own wildlife landscape company. He believes that conservation of the natural world is the only way forward.

Nick Bouwes
Nick Bouwes is owner of Eco Logical Research, co-owner of Anabranch Solutions, and an adjunct faculty in the Department of Watershed Science and director of the Beaver Ecology and Relocation Center at Utah State University. He is an aquatic ecologist who uses modelling, monitoring and adaptive management to understand riverscapes processes to inform restoration and management.

Nick Fox
Nick Fox is an unsuccessfully retired zoologist, having managed raptor conservation projects across Central Asia, the Middle East and New Zealand. He re-introduced Goshawks to UK in the 1970s, and reared 53 Red Kites for reintroduction in the 1980s. Nick farms in Wales and England and hosts three families of beavers at the Bevis Trust. He has authored books, films and papers on raptors, animal welfare and land management.

Nina Constable
Nina is an award winning self-shooting filmmaker producing films on a wide range of conservation projects from elephants to basking sharks. Nina has been documenting the Cornwall Beaver Project since 2016. She works regularly with the BBC, WWF, Butterfly Conservation & The Wildlife Trusts and her work appears on BBC Springwatch, Countryfile, Sky On Demand, Channel 5, ITV, CNN & BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Oly Hemmings and Pete Creech
Oly and Pete run the Argyll Beaver Centre in Knapdale Forest, home of Britain’s first beaver project, the Scottish Beaver Trial. They are passionate about inspiring people to become beaver believers and have been providing regular guided walks, face-to-face information, formal and informal education and outreach work for over 10 years.

Peter Cairns
Peter Cairns has been a professional conservation photographer and videographer for over 20 years. A long-term advocate for rewilding, Peter is Executive Director of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture and a trustee of Trees For Life.

Peter Smith
Peter Smith is a founder & Director of the Wildwood Trust and has spent 25 years helping to reintroduce Britain’s keystone species, including the first beavers in the UK. He is an ecologist, specialising in conservation genetics, population dynamics of endangered species, rewilding, land use economics and policy, conservation campaigns and restoration ecology.

Phil Haughton
Phil founded the award-winning Better Food Company and co-founded The Community Farm. A Soil Association member since the 70’s, he is a farmer, retailer, wholesaler, teacher and community builder. He helps people from all walks of life to connect with where their food comes from and the importance of organic farming in protecting our wildlife habitats.

Philip Lymbery
Philip is Global CEO of Compassion in World Farming, Visiting Professor at University of Winchester and Vice-President of Eurogroup for Animals, Brussels. He’s an award-winning author, ornithologist, photographer, naturalist and self-confessed animal advocate. His unquestionable passion for all animals and the countryside drives him to strive to achieve ever greater impact for animals.

Sara King
Sara is an ecologist, specialising in biodiversity assessment. She has been monitoring beaver sites in England and Wales for five years, focused on using technology to survey aquatic invertebrates, bats and mosses. She is passionate about using data to educate and change conservation practices for the benefit of people and wildlife.

Sarah Bates
Sarah Bates is Deputy Regional Director of National Wildlife Federation’s Northern Rockies, Prairies & Pacific region. She has taught public lands, water and environmental law and is a Senior Fellow with the University of Montana’s Natural Resources Conflict Resolution Program. Sarah is Senior Director of the Western Water programme, including restoring healthy headwaters with beavers.

Sarah Koenigsberg
Sarah is a filmmaker, photographer and educator whose work focuses on stories of art, environment, and community while exploring the interface of science and policy. Her award-winning documentary, The Beaver Believers, has played worldwide in film festivals including the Banff World Tour, International Wildlife Film Festival and London Eco-Film Festival. Her studio, Tensegrity Productions is based in Walla Walla, WA.

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