Sarah-Jane Gregori, Bedfont Lakes Conservation Volunteers Sarah-Jane is Communications Officer for the Bedfont Lakes Conservation Volunteers. She is promoting the country park on the Big Green London map, which GiGL is working alongside GoParksLondon to maintain....
Nathalie Mahieu When I was a kid and teenager, I spent a lot of time looking for fossils, fungi and berries. It didn’t occur to me at the time to try and put a label on everything, beyond whether it was useful or edible. It was much later that I became interested in...
Tony Wileman My desire for identifying wildlife started at a very young age, sometime between five and seven, when it was usual for me to be found crawling under school huts. A lot of my childhood was spent crawling around looking at invertebrates in my local park in...
Amelia Stodel In the late 1980s, I briefly worked for the Essex Wildlife Trust as a Phase 1 Habitat Surveyor recording the plants and topography throughout the county. A couple of decades down the line, you would find me working in the Western Cape, South Africa,...
Katie Boyles A writer by day, Katie is an amateur recorder who has fallen in love with her local green space – Warren Farm. Her relationship with Warren Farm has taken her from being a dog-walker to a key member of a community group working to protect it. We...