tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44394078648769842552024-03-19T06:04:26.389+00:00birdgirlA blog by a young birder, birdwatcher, twitcher, naturalist, environmentalist & writer about birds, wildlife, nature, conservation & ringing (banding) who is an Ambassador for Survival International and a Charter Champion for The Charter for Woods, Trees and Peoplebirdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.comBlogger541125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-36851145428053748812021-07-26T16:30:00.002+01:002021-08-07T18:50:33.903+01:00Order my book - We Have A Dream<div id="collection-component-1628357923792"></div>
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<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: start;"></p><div id="collection-component-1623538405993" style="text-align: start;"></div><div id="collection-component-1623588501786" style="text-align: start;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am really proud to announce my first book, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial;">We Have a Dream: Meet 30 Young Indigenous People and People of Colour Protecting the Planet </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial;">(Hardback)</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; text-align: start; clear: both;"><div><div><h2 itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">by <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Search?Author=Dr%20Mya-Rose%20Craig" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig</a></span></h2><h2 itemprop="illustrator" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Illustrated by <a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Search?Contributor=Sabrena%20Khadija" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration: none;">Sabrena Khadij</a></span></h2></div></div></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUf0t6ZCC6A/YMYjKJT9I8I/AAAAAAAAJt8/ZwwXbSKH6kYtWZyU5utZZBc0YZ9cjptHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/9781913520205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AUf0t6ZCC6A/YMYjKJT9I8I/AAAAAAAAJt8/ZwwXbSKH6kYtWZyU5utZZBc0YZ9cjptHgCLcBGAsYHQ/w506-h640/9781913520205.jpg" width="506" id="id_5cba_60e4_a384_eb37" style="width: 506px; height: auto;"></a></div><br></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="descriptionWrap" style="border-bottom-style: none; box-sizing: inherit; grid-area: description / description / description / description; grid-column-end: description; grid-column-start: description; grid-row-end: description; grid-row-start: description; margin-bottom: 2rem; max-width: 100%; min-height: auto; padding-bottom: 1rem; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; width: auto;"><div class="description" itemprop="description" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Description</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Indigenous people and people of colour are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet often are not heard in global conversations.</span></p><span style="color: rgb(111, 168, 220); font-family: arial;"><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">As a British-Bangladeshi environmentalist and race activist, I was interested to hear and amplify the voices of young environmentalists of colour from around the world who are usually ignored. I spent months researching and locating 30 young environmentalists who were working on different types of projects, all over the world. I spoke to these incredible young people, many who had been campaigning since they were 8 or 9 years old, about what they think are the issues and what needs to be done to make change.</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font size="4">From wildlife conservation to clean water, air pollution to plastic waste, climate justice to climate strikes, the time has come to listen to a generation of young people of colour demanding urgent change for the world they will inherit.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Environmental and diversity campaigner Mya-Rose Craig aka Birdgirl speaks to 30 Black, Indigenous and People of Colour campaigners from around the world, including; Autumn Peltier, Vanessa Nakate and Lesein Mutunkei. These communities are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet often aren’t heard in global conversations. From wildlife conservation to clean water, from air pollution to plastic waste, from climate justice to climate strikes, the time has come to listen to a generation of young people demanding urgent change for the world they will inherit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.47999998927116394px; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: 0.47999998927116394px; text-align: start;">MEDIA REVIEWS</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">'Inspiring, enlightening and powerful'</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Chris Packham</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">'Extraordinary voices from around the globe'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Steve Backshall</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">'A moving and thought-provoking collection of stories'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Liz Bonnin</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">'If there was ever a book for now, this is it'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Gillian Burke</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">'Inspiring messages which are beautifully combined'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Mike Dilger</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">'Filled with power and hope</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Dara McAnulty</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">‘A vivid and magical showcase'</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start;">- Stephen Moss</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);"><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="letter-spacing: inherit; text-align: start; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">Information</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color);">Publisher: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color);">Magic Cat Publishing</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color);">Publication Date: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color);">05/08/2021</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">Pages: 64 pages</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.47999998927116394px;">Dimensions: </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: baseline;"><span itemprop="height" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">230</span> x <span itemprop="width" style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">180</span> mm</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); --darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color);">Category: </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; --darkreader-inline-color: #71addd;"><a href="https://www.hive.co.uk/Search/Social-issues-environment--green-issues-Child?fq=01120-1200001488-1214881489-1214891504-1215041505" style="caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">Social issues: environment & green issues (Child..</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd;"><span style="--darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color); caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">ISBN: </span><span style="--darkreader-inline-color: var(--darkreader-text--darkreader-inline-color); caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41);">9781913520205</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><br></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">About Birdgirl</span></u></b></div></span></div></div></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1430" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w446-h640/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" width="446" id="id_3703_c33d_4380_1d85" style="width: 446px; height: auto;"></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" id="id_1cb4_c654_44be_c8b6"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">19-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span><div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London, Bristol and Cornwall, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley and is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking four times at the Bristol Youth Strikes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition as well as speaking at the 2021 G7 Summit XR protests in Cornwall.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br></span></span><br></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people, The Guardian’s </span><span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>, BBC Radio 4 </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://bbc.in/3givwYs">Women's Hour Power List </a>, Women of the Future 2020 <a href="https://bit.ly/3pSFov5">Young Star Highly Commended</a>, MTM Awards 2020 Nominee, Global Citizen <a href="https://bit.ly/2U3EIHB">UK Hero Award</a>, Earth Day 2021 Green Hero, <a href="https://bit.ly/3zmh60U"> Dazed 100 2021</a> and The Sunday Times <a href="https://bit.ly/3vhDXY7">The Young Green Power List</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br><br></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" id="id_c578_9c62_82ab_ff6" style="width: 480px; height: auto;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and three high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d9d6d1; color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br></span><br></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. Her illustrated book <i>We Have A Dream</i> comes out on 5th August 2021 highlighting the work of 30 young POC environmentalists from around the globe and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds. It is suitable from age 8 and up to adult. She is also writing a biography about birds being published by Penguin Random House and Jonathan Cape in 2022, about travel and family and a children's book being published by Penguin Children in 2023.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br></span></span><br></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week plus much more.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br></span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Catalyse Change - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br>Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br></span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br>Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br>Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br>The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br></span></div><div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br>Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br>Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br>Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d3cfc9; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face="arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black;"><br></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br></b></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her media work, please e-mail media@birdgirluk.com and other work birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span></span></div></div></div></div>birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-29533703697970128632021-07-14T17:31:00.001+01:002021-07-14T17:31:33.629+01:00Camp Langaford Kit List 2021<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">CAMP LANGAFORD KIT LIST</b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Please note: This list is for guidance </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Please label everything with child's name<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><b>General</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Backpack to carry belongings<br />(no large suitcases, large bags or plastic bags)</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Completed and signed parent consent forms</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Torch (or this can be borrowed)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Meal times<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 drinks bottle (to carry a drink during activities)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Extra blanket for sitting on (if you have one)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Clothing (in addition to what they arrive in)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">The number of clothes must be sufficient for 2 days /2 nights with a spare set of clothes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Comfortable clothes for bedtime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 T-shirt<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Warm tracksuit-top / fleece / hoodie<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Outdoor trousers or tracksuit bottoms (jeans are not ideal but ok) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">2 pairs underwear and socks (thick socks if you are wearing wellies)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 item to swim in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Wellies or old trainers (as they might get muddy - or let us know the size)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Waterproof coat<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Cap (so no hair styling needed)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Other items<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 small towel or flannel<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Washing kit (minimum of toothbrush & comb)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Plastic bag (for wet/dirty clothes)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Suncream and hay fever medication as pollen counts higher in the countryside</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Medication – <u><span style="color: red;">must</span></u> be named, in a clear plastic bag and handed in or if needed kept in a safe place<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Do <u><span style="color: red;">not</span></u> take to camp:</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -11.3333px;">Any food items due to allergies including sweets/snacks</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Anything electronic such as electronic games, MP3 players, I-pods, etc. They are too easily damaged or lost</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Shell suits/nylon clothes - extreme fire injury risk</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Aerosols, matches, lighters, or any other flammable liquid or gas - these are dangerous</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Anything valuable</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">If you are not sure of anything on, or not on, this list, or do not have items then please ask Ayesha Ahmed-Mendoza, who can be contacted on officialblack2nature@gmail.com</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;"><a href="mailto:helenabcraig@hotmail.co.uk"><br /></a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;"><a href="mailto:helenabcraig@hotmail.co.uk"><br /></a></span></span><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yhPyWxL9StU/YO8QqUVvDgI/AAAAAAAAJ6k/Q-AUbknbww46yUwSZRnu3pfq8R6I-BBCACLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/on%2Bswing.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">19-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London, Bristol and Cornwall, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley and is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking four times at the Bristol Youth Strikes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition as well as speaking at the 2021 G7 Summit XR protests in Cornwall.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people, The Guardian’s </span><span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>, BBC Radio 4 </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://bbc.in/3givwYs">Women's Hour Power List </a>, Women of the Future 2020 <a href="https://bit.ly/3pSFov5">Young Star Highly Commended</a>, MTM Awards 2020 Nominee, Global Citizen <a href="https://bit.ly/2U3EIHB">UK Hero Award</a>, Earth Day 2021 Green Hero, <a href="https://bit.ly/3zmh60U"> Dazed 100 2021</a> and The Sunday Times <a href="https://bit.ly/3vhDXY7">The Young Green Power List</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and three high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d9d6d1; color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. Her illustrated book <i>We Have A Dream</i> comes out on 5th August 2021 highlighting the work of 30 young POC environmentalists from around the globe and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds. It is suitable from age 8 and up to adult. She is also writing a biography about birds being published by Penguin Random House and Jonathan Cape in 2022, about travel and family and a children's book being published by Penguin Children in 2023.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week plus much more.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Catalyse Change - Advisory Board member</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br />Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br />Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br />Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br />The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br />Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br />Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br />Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d3cfc9; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face="arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div>Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br /></b></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her media work, please e-mail media@birdgirluk.com and other work birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span></span></div></div></div></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><br />birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-26178299998838049452021-07-11T13:51:00.001+01:002021-07-11T13:51:39.902+01:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">Black2Nature</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Camp Langaford, Newton Abbott July 2021 (14-18)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xPSUwTcO-A0/YMd6-526qaI/AAAAAAAAJuQ/eZuwYg15fxQL0WgbuJ3u79L0O7-rcJr6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2878%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="348" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xPSUwTcO-A0/YMd6-526qaI/AAAAAAAAJuQ/eZuwYg15fxQL0WgbuJ3u79L0O7-rcJr6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w464-h348/IMG_2878%2Bcopy.jpg" width="464" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Camp Avalon 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A nature camp for teenagers aged 14-18, who will love </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Relaxing outside & camping with friends old & new</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">BBQ fun</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Fish & Chips and ice creams where possible</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Trying new things like toasting marshmallows </span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Having fun outside in nature & trying new sports</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; 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font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Oi8k3VKTXo/YMelBqOkLgI/AAAAAAAAJvc/rIaxXQVELNkjpMTf3rCHVs3F87HpRUV9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/989875b6-77e2-475a-bbce-966d42f48979.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Oi8k3VKTXo/YMelBqOkLgI/AAAAAAAAJvc/rIaxXQVELNkjpMTf3rCHVs3F87HpRUV9wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/989875b6-77e2-475a-bbce-966d42f48979.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Camp Chew 2021</a></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">How to Book</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Book on Eventbrite</span></li></ul><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: left;">21st - 23rd July - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camp-langaford-21st-23rd-july-tickets-162889566077</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">23rd - 25th July - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camp-langaford-23rd-25th-july-tickets-162950572549</div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b></b></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Text or call Ayesha on 07595295634</span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">E-mail officialblack2nature@gmail.com</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Free 14-18 years</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Free transport from Bristol</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Food all vegetarian (or halal fish and chips available for lunch where possible)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Location - Langaford, Newton Abbott</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Teens supervised by DBS checked adults</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">About Birdgirl</span></u></b><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1430" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w446-h640/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" width="446" /></a></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">19-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London, Bristol and Cornwall, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley and is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking four times at the Bristol Youth Strikes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition as well as speaking at the 2021 G7 Summit XR protests in Cornwall.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people, The Guardian’s </span><span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>, BBC Radio 4 </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://bbc.in/3givwYs">Women's Hour Power List </a>, Women of the Future 2020 <a href="https://bit.ly/3pSFov5">Young Star Highly Commended</a>, MTM Awards 2020 Nominee, Global Citizen <a href="https://bit.ly/2U3EIHB">UK Hero Award</a>, Earth Day 2021 Green Hero, <a href="https://bit.ly/3zmh60U"> Dazed 100 2021</a> and The Sunday Times <a href="https://bit.ly/3vhDXY7">The Young Green Power List</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and three high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d9d6d1; color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. Her illustrated book <i>We Have A Dream</i> comes out on 5th August 2021 highlighting the work of 30 young POC environmentalists from around the globe and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds. It is suitable from age 8 and up to adult. She is also writing a biography about birds being published by Penguin Random House and Jonathan Cape in 2022, about travel and family and a children's book being published by Penguin Children in 2023.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week plus much more.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Catalyse Change - Advisory Board member</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br />Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br />Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br />Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br />The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br />Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br />Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br />Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d3cfc9; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face="arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div>Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br /></b></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her media work, please e-mail media@birdgirluk.com and other work birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span></span></div></div></div></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-8310463075017406722021-06-12T15:00:00.010+01:002021-06-15T11:30:03.450+01:00Camp Chew for Teens - Wed 16 - Fri 18 June 2021<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Black2Nature</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Camp Chew 2021 (14-19)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xPSUwTcO-A0/YMd6-526qaI/AAAAAAAAJuQ/eZuwYg15fxQL0WgbuJ3u79L0O7-rcJr6ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_2878%2Bcopy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="348" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xPSUwTcO-A0/YMd6-526qaI/AAAAAAAAJuQ/eZuwYg15fxQL0WgbuJ3u79L0O7-rcJr6ACLcBGAsYHQ/w464-h348/IMG_2878%2Bcopy.jpg" width="464" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Camp Avalon 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A nature camp for teenagers aged 14-19, who will love </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Relaxing outside & camping with friends old & new</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">BBQ fun</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Fish & Chips and ice creams at Chew Valley Lake</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Trying new things like toasting marshmallows </span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Having fun outside in nature & trying new sports</span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; 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text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="color: black; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">19-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London, Bristol and Cornwall, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley and is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking four times at the Bristol Youth Strikes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition as well as speaking at the 2021 G7 Summit XR protests in Cornwall.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people, The Guardian’s </span><span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>, BBC Radio 4 </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://bbc.in/3givwYs">Women's Hour Power List </a>, Women of the Future 2020 <a href="https://bit.ly/3pSFov5">Young Star Highly Commended</a>, MTM Awards 2020 Nominee, Global Citizen <a href="https://bit.ly/2U3EIHB">UK Hero Award</a>, Earth Day 2021 Green Hero, <a href="https://bit.ly/3zmh60U"> Dazed 100 2021</a> and The Sunday Times <a href="https://bit.ly/3vhDXY7">The Young Green Power List</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and three high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d9d6d1; color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. Her illustrated book <i>We Have A Dream</i> comes out on 5th August 2021 highlighting the work of 30 young POC environmentalists from around the globe and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds. It is suitable from age 8 and up to adult. She is also writing a biography about birds being published by Penguin Random House and Jonathan Cape in 2022, about travel and family and a children's book being published by Penguin Children in 2023.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week plus much more.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Catalyse Change - Advisory Board member</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br />Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br />Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br />Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br />The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br />Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br />Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br />Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d3cfc9; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face="arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div>Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br /></b></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her media work, please e-mail media@birdgirluk.com and other work birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span></span></div></div></div></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0Compton Martin, Bristol BS40, UK51.3115849 -2.66095423.001351063821154 -37.817204 79.621818736178852 32.495296tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-35894708719844358642021-06-12T08:00:00.003+01:002021-06-14T20:32:37.806+01:00Camp Chew For Children 2021<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><b>Black2Nature</b></span></p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: center;"></span></b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Camp Chew 2021 (for Children)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Fri 18 June 2021 - Sat</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 19 </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Jun 2021</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> (7-11 years)</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Sat 19 June 2021 - Sun</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 20 </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Jun 2021</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> (7-11 years</span></div></span></span></div><br /><div></div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uUto0kBR2oI/YMeLEgbkmDI/AAAAAAAAJuc/Bejn2OeJ4hQjetGNvBkjakXCwr0g5tsKACLcBGAsYHQ/s827/910f56f3-b54c-4726-9195-4787311f3394%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="827" height="323" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uUto0kBR2oI/YMeLEgbkmDI/AAAAAAAAJuc/Bejn2OeJ4hQjetGNvBkjakXCwr0g5tsKACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h323/910f56f3-b54c-4726-9195-4787311f3394%2B3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Camp Chew</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> 2019</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">A nature camp for children aged 7-11, who will love </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Having fun outside in nature </span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Using the outdoors to get fit & healthy </span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Trying new things like camping </span></li><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220);">Relaxing with old and new friends</span></span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">How to Book</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Book on Eventbrite</span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Fri: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camp-chew-june-2021-tickets-159221906007">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camp-chew-june-2021-tickets-159221906007</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Sat: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camp-chew-june-2021-tickets-159222208913">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/camp-chew-june-2021-tickets-159222208913</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Text or call Ayesha on 07595295634</span></li><li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">E-mail officialblack2nature@gmail.com</span></li></ul></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">£10 per child (£5 per siblings) with free places offered (please get in touch) 7-11 years</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Free transport from Bristol</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Food all vegetarian (or halal fish and chips available for lunch)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Location - Compton Martin Amenity Field BS40 6JN</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Children supervised by DBS checked adults</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><b data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">About Birdgirl</span></u></b><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; color: black; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1430" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w446-h640/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" width="446" /></a></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">19-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London, Bristol and Cornwall, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley and is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking four times at the Bristol Youth Strikes</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition as well as speaking at the 2021 G7 Summit XR protests in Cornwall.</span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people, The Guardian’s </span><span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>, BBC Radio 4 </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="https://bbc.in/3givwYs">Women's Hour Power List </a>, Women of the Future 2020 <a href="https://bit.ly/3pSFov5">Young Star Highly Commended</a>, MTM Awards 2020 Nominee, Global Citizen <a href="https://bit.ly/2U3EIHB">UK Hero Award</a>, Earth Day 2021 Green Hero, <a href="https://bit.ly/3zmh60U"> Dazed 100 2021</a> and The Sunday Times <a href="https://bit.ly/3vhDXY7">The Young Green Power List</a></span></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); clear: both; color: black; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and three high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d9d6d1; color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. Her illustrated book <i>We Have A Dream</i> comes out on 5th August 2021 highlighting the work of 30 young POC environmentalists from around the globe and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds. It is suitable from age 8 and up to adult. She is also writing a biography about birds being published by Penguin Random House and Jonathan Cape in 2022, about travel and family and a children's book being published by Penguin Children in 2023.</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week plus much more.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Catalyse Change - Advisory Board member</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br />Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br />Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br />Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br />The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 12.8px;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #5095cc; color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br />Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br />Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br />Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div data-darkreader-inline-color="" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #d3cfc9; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face="arial, sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #e8e6e3; color: black;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div>Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br /></b></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br /><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span data-darkreader-inline-color="" face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="--darkreader-inline-color: #71addd; color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her media work, please e-mail media@birdgirluk.com and other work birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span></span></div></div></div></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-76679899095495835812021-06-11T15:26:00.001+01:002021-06-15T15:45:13.296+01:00Kit List Camp Chew June 2021<p> <b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;">CAMP CHEW KIT LIST</b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Please note: This list is for guidance </span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Please label everything with child's name<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><b>General</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Small backpack to carry belongings<br />(no large suitcases, large bags or plastic bags)</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Completed and signed parent consent forms</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Torch (or this can be borrowed)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Meal times<u><o:p></o:p></u></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 drinks bottle (to carry a drink during activities)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Extra blanket for sitting on (if you have one)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Clothing (in addition to what they arrive in)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">The number of clothes must be sufficient for 2 days /1 night with a spare set of clothes<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Comfortable clothes for bedtime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 T-shirt<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Warm tracksuit-top / fleece / hoodie<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Outdoor trousers or tracksuit bottoms (jeans are not ideal but ok) <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">2 pairs underwear and socks (thick socks if you are wearing wellies)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 item to swim in</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Wellies or old trainers (as they might get muddy - or let us know the size)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Waterproof coat<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 Cap (so no hair styling needed)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Other items<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">1 small towel or flannel<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Washing kit (minimum of toothbrush & comb)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Plastic bag (for wet/dirty clothes)<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Suncream and hay fever medication as pollen counts higher in the countryside</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Medication – <u><span style="color: red;">must</span></u> be named, in a clear plastic bag and handed in or if needed kept in a safe place<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Do <u><span style="color: red;">not</span></u> take to camp:</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -11.3333px;">Any food items due to allergies including sweets/snacks</span><br /><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Anything electronic such as electronic games, MP3 players, I-pods, etc. They are too easily damaged or lost</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Shell suits/nylon clothes - extreme fire injury risk</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Aerosols, matches, lighters, or any other flammable liquid or gas - these are dangerous</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large; text-indent: -8.5pt;">Anything valuable</span><br /><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">If you are not sure of anything on, or not on, this list, or do not have items then please ask Ayesha Ahmed-Mendoza, who can be contacted on officialblack2nature@gmail.com</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;"><a href="mailto:helenabcraig@hotmail.co.uk"><br /></a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: large;"><a href="mailto:helenabcraig@hotmail.co.uk"><br /></a></span></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vYRfU_t2yns/XJyeR3-vJDI/AAAAAAAAImw/V26OgiGjAJoGsj_g9wNXEbGok2g75HkYgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_8192.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vYRfU_t2yns/XJyeR3-vJDI/AAAAAAAAImw/V26OgiGjAJoGsj_g9wNXEbGok2g75HkYgCLcBGAs/s640/IMG_8192.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Camp Chew 2017<br />Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig<br /><br /><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"> <b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">About the Author</span></u></b></p><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1430" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w446-h640/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" width="446" /></a></div></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: black; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="color: black; font-size: medium; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">19-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">. Women of the Future 2020 Young Star Nominee.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br />Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/">World Shorebird Day</a> - Ambassador</span><br />Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br />Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br />The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br />Ecostreamz - Ambassador<br />#Togetherband - Ambassador<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Catalyse Change - Ambassador<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br />Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br />Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br />Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her work, please e-mail birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span></span></div></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div>birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-57627966389221418042021-01-24T10:58:00.014+00:002021-04-11T09:32:26.353+01:00Tree Planting Events March 2021<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bUF9Cpahn04/YGIyHxtV34I/AAAAAAAAJmk/77jlRkg0tlMLUhcoasIKJcjG8CeASJzyQCLcBGAsYHQ/0c79424c-8c94-49ae-93c7-9c7831020f20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="652" height="640" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bUF9Cpahn04/YGIyHxtV34I/AAAAAAAAJmk/77jlRkg0tlMLUhcoasIKJcjG8CeASJzyQCLcBGAsYHQ/w435-h640/0c79424c-8c94-49ae-93c7-9c7831020f20.jpg" width="435" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Tree Planting Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V-YJxpIwC_k/X_THEiL5LMI/AAAAAAAAJdg/UhWf3d8JwJMo_5sy__8WnTpNSSAxz0Q2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5134.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V-YJxpIwC_k/X_THEiL5LMI/AAAAAAAAJdg/UhWf3d8JwJMo_5sy__8WnTpNSSAxz0Q2wCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_5134.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Tree Planting Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8cG_2NtxMo/X_THEg00hMI/AAAAAAAAJdo/hGo98B9wI3ERWXRakaC0hLSkA73qEhUpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5137.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8cG_2NtxMo/X_THEg00hMI/AAAAAAAAJdo/hGo98B9wI3ERWXRakaC0hLSkA73qEhUpQCLcBGAsYHQ/w480-h640/IMG_5137.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Tree Planting Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am President of an organisation I set up called Black2Nature, which I set up when I was 14 years old and is Visible Minority Ethnic (VME) led. We campaign for equal access to nature for all but concentrate on VME communities who are currently excluded from the countryside. We run nature camps, arrange nature activities, organise race equality in nature conferences and campaign to make the nature conservation and environmental sectors ethnically diverse.</span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w457XqyRqQ4/YGIzaGt3q5I/AAAAAAAAJm0/WTzDvQDLKMsFnlXODpCJ5Mrha7YLhls0QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6726.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="2048" height="288" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w457XqyRqQ4/YGIzaGt3q5I/AAAAAAAAJm0/WTzDvQDLKMsFnlXODpCJ5Mrha7YLhls0QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h288/IMG_6726.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: small;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Black2Nature in partnership with Strode Valley Land Project supported by Chew Valley Plants Trees are holding four separate tree planting days, all based at different locations. We are looking for volunteers on Saturday March 27th, Sunday March 28th, Monday March 29th and Tuesday March 30th. Each day will be an individual event.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Chew Valley Plants Trees can be found on the following website:- https://www.chewvalleyplantstrees.co.uk<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have managed to obtain 420 trees from the woodland trust as a tree champion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The saplings have arrived, we need to plant these as soon as possible and have a piece of land set aside for this in the Chew Valley near where I live.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="line-height: 19.26px; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are holding four 1 day events with bubbles of socially distanced volunteers arriving by car however we can also organise </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 19.26px;">taxis or a minibus.</span></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Volunteers need to be able to spend a day 10am-3pm with a break for lunch where lunch will be provided. Planting trees will benefit both the landscape and also the climate.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px;">We are keen that visible minority ethnic people come to take part and look forward to seeing those who are particularly interested in gardening or being outdoors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However no experience is needed and we are really looking forward to people just coming, trying something different and having a good time. Particularly when living in the city and having no access to outdoors in this lockdown.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HgsraDwbD9k/YGIzoiKTdKI/AAAAAAAAJm4/xj69tQaTJCUWCXZy2rm8isHQjPQNYTZzgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_6669.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1829" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HgsraDwbD9k/YGIzoiKTdKI/AAAAAAAAJm4/xj69tQaTJCUWCXZy2rm8isHQjPQNYTZzgCLcBGAsYHQ/w358-h400/IMG_6669.jpg" width="358" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19.26px;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"> Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span><o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 19.26px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px;">The location of each tree planting site will be based in the Chew Valley at four different locations. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px;">The dates the planting days will be held on are Saturday March 27th, Sunday March 28th, Monday March 29th and Tuesday March 30th, please indicate your interest by emailing ayesha.ahmed.mendoza@hotmail.com </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px;">Saturday tickets - <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-270321-tickets-138134065709" style="text-align: left;">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-270321-tickets-138134065709</a></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: justify;">Sunday Tickets- </span><span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-280321-tickets-138136075721">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-280321-tickets-138136075721<br /></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: justify;">Monday Tickets - </span><span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-290321-tickets-138136402699">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-290321-tickets-138136402699</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-290321-tickets-138136402699"><br /></a></span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: justify;">Tuesday Tickets - </span><span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-300321-tickets-138136599287">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tree-planting-day-300321-tickets-138136599287</a></span></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large; line-height: 19.26px;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">I am really excited about this project and particularly as it is something different.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><u><span><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><u><span><br /></span></u></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">About the Author</span></u></b></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1430" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fsWotmcQilM/YFdIalDqiPI/AAAAAAAAJmI/cr02_M-cujkbAe1PWaDMrXMfNs5UeTnWQCLcBGAsYHQ/w446-h640/MYA_ROSE_EDIT_047%2Bre%2B3.jpg" width="446" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: left;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"></span><br /></span></div><div class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">18-year-old young British-Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Expertise in birds and nature</b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the world's birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Climate Activist</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Conservation work</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b>Awards</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">. Women of the Future 2020 Young Star Nominee.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Honorary Doctorate</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest Briton to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Connecting with children</b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="color: #181818; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Race Activist</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Her first conference was in 2016, which </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">aimed to increase the ethnic </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">diversity in nature by looking</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Articles, interviews and books</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Talks</span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span></span><br /></span><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Television and Radio</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>, 3 episodes of Countryfile, The One Show, BBC Sunday Am Breakfast and two episodes of One to One, the first of which was chosen as Radio Four's Pick of the Week. </span></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Ambassadorships</span></b></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These are her Patron's and Ambassadorships:</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">RSPB - England Committee Member</span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Creative England - Trustee</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Summer Camps - Trustee</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Resilience Trust - Advisory Board member</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(61, 133, 198); color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Tony Trust - Patron<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a> - Patron<br /><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a> </span>- Patron<br />Backyard Nature - Patron</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Froglife - Patron</span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a> - </span> Ambassador<br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"> </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/">World Shorebird Day</a> - Ambassador</span><br />Beaver Trust - Ambassador<br />Swarovski Optik - Opinion Leader<br />The Wildlife Trust - Ambassador<br />Ecostreamz - Ambassador<br />#Togetherband - Ambassador<br /><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/4439407864876984255/3522646652907246575#">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a> - Ambassador</span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Catalyse Change - Ambassador<br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Sustainable Fashion Week - Diversity Lead<br />Bristol City Council - Sector Leader Committee Member<br />Bristol #WasteNothing Challenge Partner<br />Youth for our Planet - Diversity lead on Advisory Panel</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="color: black;"><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><br /></b></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b>Social Media</b></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her work, please e-mail birdgirl.uk@gmail.com.</span><br /></span><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div>birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-55441226530685582612020-11-11T18:52:00.035+00:002021-01-24T10:26:05.374+00:00Tree Planting<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKpu6AQFbXA/X_THEhjV3YI/AAAAAAAAJdk/jORMOUNEhqYTQCjh_t9uuivERyU8Fs01QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5111.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rKpu6AQFbXA/X_THEhjV3YI/AAAAAAAAJdk/jORMOUNEhqYTQCjh_t9uuivERyU8Fs01QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h300/IMG_5111.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Tree Planting Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V-YJxpIwC_k/X_THEiL5LMI/AAAAAAAAJdg/UhWf3d8JwJMo_5sy__8WnTpNSSAxz0Q2wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5134.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V-YJxpIwC_k/X_THEiL5LMI/AAAAAAAAJdg/UhWf3d8JwJMo_5sy__8WnTpNSSAxz0Q2wCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/IMG_5134.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Tree Planting Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8cG_2NtxMo/X_THEg00hMI/AAAAAAAAJdo/hGo98B9wI3ERWXRakaC0hLSkA73qEhUpQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/IMG_5137.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M8cG_2NtxMo/X_THEg00hMI/AAAAAAAAJdo/hGo98B9wI3ERWXRakaC0hLSkA73qEhUpQCLcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/IMG_5137.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Tree Planting Day</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;">Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am President of an organisation I set up
called Black2Nature, which I set up when I was 14 years old and is Visible
Minority Ethnic (VME) led. We campaign for equal access to nature for all
but concentrate on VME communities who are currently excluded from the
countryside. We run nature camps, arrange nature activities, organise race
equality in nature conferences and campaign to make the nature conservation and
environmental sectors ethnically diverse.</span><div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220);"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="319" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H3kaO9sL8bQ/V8cYusUPblI/AAAAAAAAGXM/MQKJagGC48Yg6knpANOWGPODYRM1ktyGQCPcBGAYYCw/w239-h319/146.jpg" width="239" /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Black2Nature would like to have two
tree planting days, alongside Chew Valley Plants Trees, for volunteers on Thursday, December 3rd and Saturday, December 5th.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I have managed to obtain 420 trees
from the woodland trust as a tree champion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The saplings have arrived, we need to plant these as soon as possible
and have a piece of land set aside for this in the Chew Valley near where I
live.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I propose having two 1 day events
with bubbles of volunteers/socially distanced volunteers arriving by car however
we can also organise </span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;">taxis or a minibus.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-H3kaO9sL8bQ/V8cYusUPblI/AAAAAAAAGXM/MQKJagGC48Yg6knpANOWGPODYRM1ktyGQCPcBGAYYCw/s960/146.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: large; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">Volunteers need to be able to spend a day 10am-3pm
with a break for lunch where lunch will be provided. Planting trees will benefit
both the landscape and also the climate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">We are keen that visible minority ethnic people
come to take part and look forward to seeing those who are particularly
interested in gardening or being outdoors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However no experience is needed and we are really looking forward to
people just coming, trying something different and having a good time.
Particularly when living in the city and having no access to outdoors in this
lockdown</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJvhiRoOF8w/X6wyUwiCp7I/AAAAAAAAJZ0/rWEH-ZuL4pE9aXTuFacDl_KnayEW0mXNgCPcBGAsYHg/s2048/mothing1.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rJvhiRoOF8w/X6wyUwiCp7I/AAAAAAAAJZ0/rWEH-ZuL4pE9aXTuFacDl_KnayEW0mXNgCPcBGAsYHg/s320/mothing1.JPG" /></a></span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"> Photograph copyright young birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The location of the tree planting site is Whitling Wood Farm, Chew Stoke, Bristol, BS40 8BN, which is the nearest postcode. Whitling Wood Farm is marked on a green box at the start of the farm track, which comes off an elbow bend on Whitling Street. Whitling Street can be found on Google maps, and the elbow bend is the only turn like it. The Strode Valley Land Project is at the very end of the farm track, past the horses, and Strode Valley Organics.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">The dates the planting days will be held on are Thursday 3rd December and Saturday 5th December, please indicate your
interest by emailing ayesha.ahmed.mendoza@hotmail.com</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I am really excited about this project and
particularly as it is something different.<br /><br /></span></span></p><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">About the Author</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BjAuokPCnhg/XJy2w0ylxWI/AAAAAAAAIng/tgAY_UIpeuw3vCOMJ81ThFbmWhdotq4kwCLcBGAs/s1600/M87051_HELENA_CRAIG_DS-35%2Bcopy%2B2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BjAuokPCnhg/XJy2w0ylxWI/AAAAAAAAIng/tgAY_UIpeuw3vCOMJ81ThFbmWhdotq4kwCLcBGAs/s640/M87051_HELENA_CRAIG_DS-35%2Bcopy%2B2.JPG" /></a></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig </span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Copyright Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig</span></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/">Birdgirl Blog</a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Expertise in birds and nature</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow">BTO Bird ringing licence</a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs">BTO Nest Record Scheme</a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Climate Activist</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</a> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, Kevin McCloud and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</a>. In February 2020, she <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</a>, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Conservation work</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html">American Birding Association Blog</a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. </div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Awards</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/">Bristol's most influential young people</a>. She was nominated in the <a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a>. In 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</a>, was nominated in the <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</a> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, was included in the <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/">Bristol Powerlist 2020</a>, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>. </div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Honorary Doctorate</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</a> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #6fa8dc; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yy8_CXCwC8o/XotNVk7EkcI/AAAAAAAAJEQ/9MobK-7rhiQjWp25A2Akoa0Fx3WjM2VGgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/4cc1cf06-283f-40ed-a0d3-6c4b672b6077.JPG" /></a></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Connecting with children</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. As President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html">Black2Nature</a> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST">Camp Avalon</a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020. She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Race Activist</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Her first conference was in 2016, which aimed to increase the ethnic diversity in nature by looking at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Articles, interviews and books</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576">BBC News Online</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz">The Times</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight">The Sunday Observer</a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/">The Sunday Telegraph</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html">The Independent</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/">The Metro</a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change">New Statesman</a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/">Big Issue</a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/">New Internationalist</a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender">Friends of the Earth Magazine</a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause">Triodos Bank Magazine</a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig">The Willowherb Review</a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html">New Networks for Nature</a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds">Red Sixty Seven</a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Talks</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/">Millfield School</a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Television and Radio</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f">BBC Springwatch</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate">BBC Countryfile</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s">BBC The One Show</a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s">ITV West Film Feature</a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156">a second</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5">third</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</a> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, short videos for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Ambassadorships</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/">Earthwatch Europe</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/">World Shorebird Day </a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/">Leica Optics</a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a>.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Social Media</div><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></p><div style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;">Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a>. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her work, please e-mail helenabcraig@hotmail.co.uk.</div></div>birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-35226466529072465752020-10-12T17:00:00.009+01:002021-03-24T11:27:09.676+00:00Black2Nature & me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">I have organised twelve nature camps for inner-city almost all VME children and teenagers, getting them engaged with nature by making it relevant to them and having plenty of VME role models. The most popular sessions are those where the young people can get close up to wildlife like bird ringing, mothing and even bio blitzes. The young people are all individuals and so, as such, like different sessions. The camp for teenagers is called Camp Avalon and is 2 nights and takes place on the Somerset Levels near Glastonbury. The camp for primary age children is called Camp Chew and is for 1 night and takes place in Compton Martin in the Chew Valley. Other activities are birding, nature sketching, nature photography, making nest boxes, looking for Nightjar, bats, mammal traps and camera traps.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220);">In 2020, we were due to have two camps for teenagers held in partnership with the RSPB funding them and helping with volunteers. However, due to covid, these could not take place but we did hold two one day nature events for families including nature activities like birding ringing and birding, as well as having halal fish and chips in our local pub and ice creams at Chew Valley Lake. These parts of the day are very important as families are very badly impacted by covid and so treats that they can't afford are an important part of the enjoyment of the day.</span></span></div>
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We ensure the young people attending our camps come from a variety of backgrounds including different VME backgrounds and religions, some White British young people from areas of deprivation within the city as well as a few from affluent backgrounds in the countryside where they have little contact with VME young people with strong customs faiths. It is really important for community cohesion for the young people to mix together and spend time with people they do not normally get time with, to break down barriers and reduce radicalisation on all sides.</div>
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After my first nature camp in 2015, I wrote to the CEO's of the four biggest nature conservation NGO's starting a conversation about the lack of diversity in their organisations, whether Trustees, staff, volunteers or members. I had a positive response from them but I decided that due to school I needed to meet them all together and save time!</div>
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The <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/790828/Monitor_of_Engagement_with_the_Natural_Environment_Children_and_Young_People_report_March_2017_to_February_2018v4.pdf">Natural England's Monitor of Engagement with the Natural Environment (MENE) Report March 2019</a> looked at how often children visited green spaces. 73% of none-VME children visited frequently, which drops to 57 % for VME. 75% of children from higher socio-economic groups (A & B) visited frequently whilst 65% for lower socioeconomic groups (C & D). Therefore, clearly, race and ethnicity have a larger impact than poverty, although this does have an impact.</div>
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I have interviewed VME elders about their lives growing up “back home”. All talked about their rural childhoods, swimming, being out in nature and helping on family smallholdings. However, their grandchildren’s generation mistakenly thinks their heritage is urban, however, we can still engage them by referring back to their country of ethnic origin.</div>
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83% of British people live in cities, with a disproportionate number of VME living in bleak inner cities. NGO's must, therefore, start to communicate with people from all ethnicities and backgrounds. The starting point is for their HR, IT and Finance teams to become ethnically diverse, which leads to improved performance.</div>
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Therefore, these discussions led me to organise a conference in June 2016, called Race Equality in Nature Conference kindly sponsored by Bristol Zoo which I opened and then with the Key Speakers being Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy, Stephen Moss, Dr Richard Benwell, Monira Ahmed Chowdhury, Rachel De Garang & Jini Reddy and lots of experts in race equality, diversity and inclusion. Those who were there commented that it was the first time that those working in conservation had met and discussed the issues with those from BME communities or experts in racism. We had workshops on what were the barriers to VME people getting out into nature, what could be done to overcome the hurdles and creating VME role models.</div>
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Since 2015, I have been leading the campaign to make the environmental sector diverse. Of environmental professions, only 0.6% are VME the second-worst sector for diversity after only agricultural ownership. I have had meetings with many of the leaders of conservation organisations, speaking at conferences and writing on the topic. This is an article that I wrote for the <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/">Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management</a>. I was also the Minister for Diversity in Conservation in <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Peoples-Manifesto-Download.pdf">Chris Packham's People's Manifesto for Wildlife</a> and was the first speaker at his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg">People's Walk for Wildlife</a>. </div>
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I and Black2Nature organised another conference with <a href="https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/EmmanuelAdukwu">Emmanuel Adukwu at UWE Bristol</a> which took place on 2nd October 2019 called Race Equality in Nature: The Next Gen 13-30. As set out above and would like to invite you to take part. The speakers including Asher Craig (Bristol Deputy Mayor), Cleo Lake (Bristol councillor for the Green Party), Zakiya McKenzie (Black & Green Ambassador), Lara Lemi (Bristol University STEM student and organiser of BMEinSTEM Conference, Chris Packham (Nature presenter), Stephen Corry (CEO Survival International) and Becky Speight (CEO RSPB)</div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">. In</span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">was included in the</span><span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #6fa8dc;">. Women of the Future 2020 Young Star Nominee.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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"The Great Rising brings us to the dramatic climax of this, the third volume in the Mowzl Trilogy. Having learned ‘purling’ – how to dream into Mowzl-sized woollen pouches – the children purl in the Glade talking the wild talk with creatures of all kinds. Their purling then takes them on adventures worldwide, discovering Wild Nature for themselves. Their eyes and hearts are opened; the wild web is revealed as alive and aware – as something they are intimately part of; they see the terrible damage to Wild Nature and feel it as wounding to themselves. Shocked, they resolve to act urgently to transform the way grown-ups see Nature. Their enthusiasm spreads throughout their school, where they start projects which soon spread from their school to other schools across the country; these projects, and the art of purling, spread around the world – and the Great Rising begins"</div>
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Two Thousand & Nineteen was a memorable year for Paul Thornycroft with the publication of all three of his Mowzl books, books for children and anyone interested in reading a dramatic children's story about climate breakdown and the ecological crisis.</div>
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These books are Mowzl's gift to children, for them to enjoy fabulous stories while glimpsing innovative and original insights about Nature, wildness, and what their future holds.</div>
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Volume One: Little Humans</div>
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Volume Three: The Great Rising</div>
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All three Mowzl books are now published for all to enjoy fabulous stories while glimpsing innovative and original insights about Nature, wildness, and what the future holds.</div>
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Read a dramatic children's story about climate breakdown and the ecological crisis, a story daring to look deep, asking the questions we all avoid asking.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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· Over one third of Brits (37%) feel pressure to have the perfect garden during the lockdown.</div>
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· Over half of Brits (53%) would like to learn about how to increase wildlife in their garden. </div>
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We may feel closer to nature during lockdown but too much time spent finessing our gardens could be doing more harm than good. A new survey* commissioned by <a href="https://jordanscereals.co.uk/">Jordans Cereals</a> has found that half (49%) of us are gardening more during the lockdown and we are fencing, mowing, preening and trimming our way to ‘perfection’ with the nature in our gardens paying the price. </div>
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Over a third (33%) of people admit to being garden perfectionists during the lockdown. 49% per cent are weeding more than ever, with 30% spending extra time mowing the lawn and 21% have trimmed hedges and bushes back – all of which are important homes for wildlife in our gardens.</div>
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To mark International Biodiversity Day and to highlight this important issue, <a href="https://jordanscereals.co.uk/">Jordans Cereals</a> and <a href="https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/">The Wildlife Trusts</a> have launched a ‘Leave it Wild’ campaign, calling on people to embrace nature and protect wildlife by leaving a wild patch in their garden or growing pollinator-friendly flowers on their balcony/window ledge.</div>
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Jordans' farmers work in partnership with the Wildlife Trusts across the country to nurture wildlife and leave at least 10% of their land wild to boost biodiversity. Rather than reaching for the lawnmower or hedge trimmers, Brits are being encouraged to follow in the Jordans farmers’ footsteps this bank holiday weekend, leave it wild and engage in a spot of un-gardening as wildlife may have already made a home in the places people are clearing up.</div>
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The UK’s renewed obsession with manicured lawns and perfectly coiffed topiary comes at a time when biodiversity in the UK is at risk – with a staggering one in seven native species facing extinction and more than half (56%) in decline. As a result, the UK is now one of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/14/one-in-10-uk-wildlife-species-faces-extinction-major-report-shows">most nature depleted countries in the world</a>. </div>
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But the nation is ready to help. Almost two thirds, 65% of Brits would support wildlife if they thought they could make a difference and over half (53%) of people surveyed would like to know more about how to increase wildlife in their garden.</div>
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Mia Hartwell, Sustainability manager at Jordans Cereals, said: “Over-gardening can actually do more harm than good, so Jordans and The Wildlife Trusts are encouraging people to #LeaveitWild and follow the lead of Jordans' farmers, who commit 10% or more of their land for wildlife. </div>
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“Biodiversity supports all life on earth so we must do everything we can to protect it. Let’s take the pressure off ourselves to be perfect and celebrate natural beauty, not preened perfection!”</div>
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Dr Craig Bennett, CEO of The Wildlife Trusts, added: “The UK is one of the most nature-depleted places in the world and yet we know how important it is, as so many people during lockdown are seeking comfort in nature, connecting to wild places and wildlife close to home. That’s why we’re keen to support Jordans’ #LeaveItWild; by leaving a corner of your garden a bit messy, not mowing the lawn or growing wildflowers in window box you can really help to provide food, shelter and stopping places for butterflies, bird and bees where you live – and by acting together we can start to bring wildlife back.”</div>
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“It’s also the perfect fit with our own nature challenge, 30 Days Wild, which kicks off on the June 1st and encourages everyone to do something wild every day of the month. Creating space for wildlife, or simply letting it create itself, is the perfect random act of wildness!”</div>
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1. Only cut the grass once a month with a ‘Mohican’ cut style trim to help bees, pollinators and butterflies. </div>
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2. Forget five-star hotels, build your bugs a hostel from old loo rolls, sticks and dry leaves. </div>
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4. Cut a hole in your fence for hedgehogs and other small animals to get through. </div>
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People can get involved in the campaign by sharing their own #LeaveItWild patch to be in with a chance of winning a year’s supply of Jordans Cereals. </div>
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Jordans cereal farmer Stephen Honeywood has dedicated 12% of his farm for wildlife and created wildlife-friendly habitats to attract rare species such as lapwings, brown hares, silver wash fritillary butterflies and barn owls.</div>
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“We’ve been farming here for over 100 years and are focused on protecting the environment for future generations. By creating diverse habitats and planting special crops, we have ensured that we can provide valuable food for birds in winter and early spring. Ten years ago, we rarely saw a barn owl and now we now have over 70 species of birds! You can have a big impact by gardening with wildlife in mind, so I urge people at home to join the #LeaveItWild campaign.”</div>
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* The survey of 2,000 British adults was conducted by 3Gem between 8 – 10 May 2020 and balanced demographically by age, region and gender.</div>
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Jenny Briggs 07542 566437</div>
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Maria Bowler 07714358978</div>
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Jordans Cereals is part of The Jordans, Dorset & Ryvita Company, whose parent company is Associated British Foods. Founded in 1972, Jordans Cereals make over 25 million packets of breakfast cereal a year and employ over 300 people in their hometown of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.</div>
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When it comes to provenance and sustainability, Jordans Cereals is committed to supporting British farming and continuously exploring new and safe ways to source ingredients, whilst taking the right measures to protect wildlife and biodiversity. </div>
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Jordans has been committed to protecting British wildlife for over 30 years. Since 2016, Jordans has worked with The Wildlife Trust, and their British farmers help look after their land for wildlife, helping threatened species survive and providing their year-round habitats for creatures to thrive. </div>
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Jordans Cereals works with 34 arable farms across the UK, pioneering a new model for sustainable farming, ensuring that at least 10% of farmers’ land is enhanced for biodiversity, in collaboration with The Wildlife Trusts, LEAF and The Prince’s Countryside Fund – this is known as the <a href="https://www.jordanscereals.co.uk/about/farm-partnership/jordans-farm-partnership">Jordans Farm Partnership</a>.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br />
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It was based on 'From What If to What Next' which asked listeners sent in their 'What If' questions about the future we can create going forward from now, and then Rob found myself and Sam to discuss it, to explore what in their mind the future would be like if that thing were to come to be, what the benefits would be, and how we might get there. </div>
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The first one was "What if the birdsong were so loud it drowned out the traffic?" which I was talking about.</div>
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David wrote "As a bird lover, I enjoyed this podcast very much. One of the reasons why I joined XR is because I am so afraid that one day there will be no birdsong. I think that would lead me to die of a broken heart. In the beginning, I wasn't sure about the continuous birdsong in the background, but I loved it. I didn't distract or disturb at all. It was beautiful. Thank you for this podcast and everything you do."</div>
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Jessica wrote "Loved it: exactly what I needed to listen to today. I closed my eyes and imagined what my town would be like if bird song drowned out the traffic and it brought a huge smile to my face. Thank you :)". </div>
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Greta wrote "Beautiful, thank you Rob. Mya's work engaging young BME people is so important and inspiring and Sam's description of nightingale song and sitting round a campfire sounds so appealing right now as I stand washing dishes in a suburban flat with a view of next door's wall! I love the line at the end, equating getting to know nature as being like growing old with a lover. Great first podcast!" are urged to ‘leave it wild’ for International Biodiversity Day - Friday 22 May 2020.</div>
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17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/">Birdgirl Blog</a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </div>
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She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow">BTO Bird ringing licence</a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs">BTO Nest Record Scheme</a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </div>
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Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</a> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, Kevin McCloud and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</a>. In February 2020, she <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</a>, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</div>
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As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html">American Birding Association Blog</a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. </div>
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In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/">Bristol's most influential young people</a>. She was nominated in the <a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a>. In 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</a>, was nominated in the <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</a> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, was included in the <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/">Bristol Powerlist 2020</a>, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</a>. </div>
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In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</a> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</div>
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Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. As President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html">Black2Nature</a> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST">Camp Avalon</a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020. She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</div>
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Her first conference was in 2016, which aimed to increase the ethnic diversity in nature by looking at the barriers to Visual Minority Ethnic (VME) people going out into nature, what can be done to overcome these barriers and how we can create VME role models. Speakers included Bill Oddie, Kerry McCarthy MP, Stephen Moss and Dr Richard Benwell. She also organised a second conference, Race Equality in Nature: The Next Generation 13-30 in October 2019 with Speakers Chris Packham, Bristol Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, Green Party Councillor Cleo Lake, RSPB CEO Beccy Speight and Survival International CEO Stephen Corry.</div>
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She has also set up Black2Nature in 2016 with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of VME people and is President. Please connect with her on LinkedIn (Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig) so that she can invite you to join the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group and be part of the change. </div>
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She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576">BBC News Online</a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz">The Times</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight">The Sunday Observer</a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/">The Sunday Telegraph</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html">The Independent</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html">Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/">The Metro</a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change">New Statesman</a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/">Big Issue</a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/">New Internationalist</a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender">Friends of the Earth Magazine</a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause">Triodos Bank Magazine</a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig">The Willowherb Review</a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html">New Networks for Nature</a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds">Red Sixty Seven</a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</div>
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She has appeared on TV and Radio including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f">BBC Springwatch</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate">BBC Countryfile</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s">BBC The One Show</a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s">ITV West Film Feature</a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156">a second</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5">third</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</a> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, short videos for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>.</div>
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Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig">Burns Price Foundation</a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/">Earthwatch Europe</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374">Survival International</a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/">World Shorebird Day </a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/">Leica Optics</a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</a>.</div>
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Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</div>
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Please like her <a href="https://www.facebook.com/myarosebirdgirlcraig?ref=hl">Birdgirl Facebook Page</a>, follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/BirdgirlUK">Birdgirl Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/birdgirluk/">Birdgirl Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mya-rose-birdgirl-craig/?originalSubdomain=uk">Birdgirl LinkedIn</a>. If you would like to contact Mya-Rose about her work, please e-mail helenabcraig@hotmail.co.uk.</div>
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Many friends who have joined me in the Kalahari for a Bushmen cultural experience have remarked on the behaviour of Rain-child and the other children of the clan as they never seem to need disciplining and never appear to be unhappy. The children seem to take pride in helping the adults in their domestic duties and when not helping the adults they will happily amuse themselves with a dry Tsama melon, guinea fowl feather, or similar. It does not take long for visitors to become aware of this ‘unusual’ child behaviour prompting the question “how can these children always be so happy and content even though they have nothing?”</div>
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When the question is posed to Bushmen parents, they express surprise, replying “but why should they be unhappy, children only need to be given love and safety as they are already happy?”</div>
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Does this suggest that in our modern world we have in some way taught our children how to be unhappy? Have our children been taught that happiness can only happen in association with a destination, event or reward?</div>
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As a parent and ex-teacher I have always had an interest in child development and it is with special interest that I have tried to study the interaction between Bushmen adults and their children in order to try and establish an answer to this question. Making this study even more relevant are two other factors regarding the Bushmen: Firstly, that they are considered the most successful society in human history, and secondly, that their remark- able survival lasted for tens of thousands of years, until the arrival of modern man - so what are the secrets of their success?</div>
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Trying to understand their education methodology is therefore of ongoing interest to me and what has become clear is that child raising involves the entire community, and at a very young age inculcates the philosophies which shaped the Bushmen culture of survival.</div>
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Parents concentrate on providing love and making their children feel safe. This love is demonstrated through their caring, empathetic and compassionate relationship with others and through their respect for animals. The rest of the community helps with general education and survival skills with spiritual leaders contributing to the understanding of love by developing the understanding that all thoughts associated with love contribute to the most powerful energy in the universe, the life-force, which they call N/lom.</div>
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Details of their education processes are not necessary for the purposes of this article except for one practice ofspecial significance which incorporates most of the principles of the Bushmen culture.</div>
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The ritual can better be described as a preventative and holistic healing process aimed at maintaining physical, psychological and spiritual health, as well as to maintain community well-being, the health of their environment, and connection with the natural world.</div>
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This description provides some insight into Bushmen behaviour and practices which form the basis of their culture. The healing dance purpose basically encapsulates what could be considered the ‘mission statement’ for the education of Bushmen children.</div>
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From a very young age children soon learn about the benefits of egalitarianism, sharing, giving and serving community - in essence, how to be human.</div>
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• They learn to love the natural world, and as they explain, “you cannot harm what you love”.</div>
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• They learn to suppress ego in order to avoid the social and environmentally destructive effects associated with superiority, power and greed.</div>
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• They learn to connect with the energies of the universe and to benefit from universal intelligence.</div>
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Dare we compare the education of children today with that of Rain-child?</div>
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While today education focuses on what children can be in the future, how much focus is placed on ensuring that there will be a future? I share the story of Grace which illustrates the effectivity of our education system in terms of preparing children for the future.</div>
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Grace, not her real name, was 13 years old at the time and a pupil at a very prestigious UK School when a teacher asked the class to create picture boards of what they wanted their lives to look like in twenty years time. Grace’s board displayed the typical big house, cars and exotic holiday’s but one thing that caught the teacher’s eye were the words “no more climate change”. When the teacher explained that all her wants were not compatible with ‘no climate change’, she went silent, and asked “why, is there no way around it?”</div>
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‘Grace’ represents an average child who could be attending almost any School on the planet, so the question which needs to be asked of any person involved in education, from assistant teacher to senior education planner is “How is it possible that a child who has been in the conventional education system for approximately 8 years, does not understand that having a surplus of material possessions as well as ‘no climate change and environmental degradation’ is impossible?</div>
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How is it possible that Rain-child’s predecessors in 50 000BC understood this better than did Grace in 2019 AD? Is it because this truth would conflict with the modern global economic system dependent on growth and consumerism? Do children believe that it is possible for all 7 billion people on the planet to achieve what appears on their ‘picture board’? If not, who must be excluded and why?</div>
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One of the ‘costs’ of today's consumer-driven society is the lack of quality time parents are able to enjoy with their children.</div>
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We are told that this is the price of progress - but progress towards what?</div>
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What is the ‘deemed goal’ towards which humanity is supposedly progressing? Without knowing this goal/s, how is it possible to say that progress is being made?</div>
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Parents, are you educating your children to achieve goals which celebrate humanity, the environment and the sustainability of both or do you consider this the duty of educational institutions?</div>
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Teachers, if you had to write your ‘mission statement” for humanity on your classroom wall, one which cuts across all curricula and addresses the sustainable well-being of all humankind, what would it say? How much of your mission statement would be addressed by your current subject curriculum?</div>
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As we are in an age of multiple crises, fake information and questionable leadership is it not time for each and every person to use their own logic, reasoning and freedom of choice to make the changes necessary to ensure sustainable well-being for all humankind and planet.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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● The UK is performing well on 24% of the Sustainable Development Goal targets and could enhance this if they were used to frame the UK’s recovery from Covid-19 </div>
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A letter sent to the Prime Minister on Tuesday 9th June calls on his government to use the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to frame Covid-19 recovery plans. </div>
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The letter references a statement made by the Prime Minister at the Financing for Development event on 28 May where he called for "fairer, greener and more resilient global economy" after Covid-19. He said that we must ‘work together to get shared goals back on track including [...] the Sustainable Development Goals’. </div>
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The letter supports this and states ‘we do not need to reinvent frameworks or agreements, we can instead use the global goals as the basis for a socially just and green recovery in the UK and abroad’. </div>
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Early evidence from the Business and Sustainable Development Commission showed that if implemented the SDGs create at least US$12tn in business opportunities in just 60 market hotspots and estimates this could be 2-3 times bigger across the whole economy. </div>
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The letter has been coordinated by the UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development (UKSSD) and the United Nations Global Compact Network UK (GCN UK).</div>
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Signatories include leaders of Leonard Cheshire, Natwest Group, Nestle UK & Ireland, Linklaters, Clifford Chance, The Body Shop, SSE, HSBC, Standard Life Aberdeen, Mott MacDonald and Unilever; filmmaker Richard Curtis; the Mayor of Bristol; Chairman of the Local Government Association and Dr Mya-Rose Craig (aka Birdgirl). </div>
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The SDGs are part of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and give a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future”. There are 17 Goals at its centre, encompassing climate action, education and health.</div>
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Unfortunately, the UKSSD Measuring Up report found gaps in policy or inadequate performance for 57% of targets, and 15% where there is little to no policy in place to address it, or where performance is poor. It anticipates that this situation will be worsened by the societal and economic impacts of Covid-19. </div>
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“The COVID crisis has shown more than ever that we must work together to secure a better future. The Global Goals are a powerful tool to help us do this; they provide a common vision and a practical blueprint for collaboration. The breadth of support for this letter demonstrates a commitment to working with the UK government to deliver healthy lives, healthy societies and a healthy planet for everyone. We can only build back better together and I hope that the Government will use the Goals to help them do this”</div>
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"The Sustainable Development Goals are an important framework to ensure governments and businesses are pursuing the long-term public interest, so we hope the Prime Minister will use them as a foundation for the UK's post-COVID recovery plans.</div>
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"As chartered accountants, we think it's vital businesses look beyond profit and have a wider social purpose, and we're pleased to have so many organisations join our call to government to put these goals front and centre."</div>
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"The SDGs define a universal framework for governments, businesses, and civil society to work together and create the future we want. We’re only 10 years away from the deadline to achieve the goals, and the Covid-19 crisis risks worsening inequalities and slowing down progress made. The SDG agenda must be used by the Government to ensure the UK recovers better, recovers stronger, and recovers together”.</div>
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“Covid-19 has placed a spotlight on inequalities in our society. We have an opportunity to make sure our recovery from this crisis is fair and just so that people and places across the UK can prosper. This does not have to be in conflict with our net-zero carbon ambitions and the SDGs help us work together to create social and environmental outcomes, so all people have a happy life on a healthy planet”. </div>
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The Business and Sustainable Development Commission report ‘<a href="http://report.businesscommission.org/report">Better Business, Better World</a>’ identified a US$12tn market opportunity in 60 market hotspots and the potential to create 980 million jobs. They estimate the opportunity would be 2-3 times bigger across the whole economy. </div>
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Goal 5 Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls: </div>
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About the UK Stakeholders for Sustainable Development (UKSSD) </div>
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Through collaboration and access to new insights, UKSSD brings organisations together to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the UK. UKSSD was launched in April 2016 and has grown to more than 1,000 network members, representing most sectors and industries in the UK, from grass-roots community organisations to multinational business. </div>
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We work with our partners to use their cross-sector voice to influence government and organisations on their approach to the SDGs. With shared expertise and leadership, we support them to learn from each other, develop their activities and identify new opportunities for collaboration, such as our new Food Systems Programme which launched in January 2020. </div>
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About the UN Global Compact Network UK</div>
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Launched in 2000 as a special initiative of the UN Secretary-General, the United Nations Global Compact provides a framework for developing more sustainable and responsible businesses. Today, the UN Global Compact is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 10,500 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories based in over 160 countries, and more than 60 Local Networks. It is a call to companies everywhere to align their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption. Its mission is to mobilise a global movement of sustainable companies and stakeholders to create the world we want.</div>
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The UN Global Compact Network UK delivers an extensive programme of activity to support UK-based UN Global Compact participating organisations. The Network promotes practical sustainability leadership, shares knowledge across sectors, and actively shapes the responsible business environment to create a world we want to live and do business in.</div>
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About the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals</div>
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, or “the Global Goals”) are an initiative of the United Nations.</div>
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Together, the Global Goals set out an ambitious agenda for a better world by 2030 – fairer, safer, healthier, more prosperous and in better balance with nature. The goals have been described as “the closest thing the world has to a strategy”.</div>
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The Global Goals were born out of a vast consultation process and were ratified by 193 global leaders in September 2015. There are 17 goals, with 169 targets sitting underneath them, covering every facet of life on Earth – social, economic and environmental. </div>
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Unlike the Millennium Development Goals which preceded them, the SDGs are not primarily focused on developing countries; they are about sustainability everywhere.</div>
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The SDGs are a common blueprint for a sustainable future - as relevant to communities, households and individuals as they are to governments, businesses, and NGOs.</div>
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SW1A 2AA 9 June 2020</div>
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Building a better future through the COVID-19 recovery programmes</div>
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As the Government plans for the UK’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the signatories of this letter write to ask that the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are used to consolidate and future-proof these plans.</div>
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We recognise that we must work together to recover from the pandemic and build a better future where all people in the country have a good life on a healthy planet. The SDGs can help us to do this and there is already widespread support across UK society, including the business community, for the future the global goals define.</div>
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We welcome your recent statement that we need a 'fairer, greener and more resilient' global economy’ and to ‘build back better’ after the coronavirus crisis. We acknowledge the letters you have already received that ask for this. However, we also support the statement you made on the 28th May that ‘there is a need for us to work together to get our shared goals back on track including [...] the Sustainable Development Goals’. As you said, we do not need to reinvent frameworks or agreements, we can instead use the global goals as the basis for a socially just and green recovery in the UK and abroad.</div>
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Together the 17 Goals provide us with an internationally agreed framework, which also works at national, regional and local levels, alongside and reinforcing existing plans and commitments. They enable the Government to work cross-departmentally and with stakeholders to create programmes and policies that are coherent with the needs of our economy, society and environment both domestically and internationally.</div>
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Use the SDGs to unite all sectors behind a plan to build a stronger and more resilient economy</div>
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It is clear that many aspects of our lives will never be the same again. Some industries may never recover from this crisis. We must use this challenging situation as an opportunity to work together with our global and national partners alike, to build a stronger and more resilient economy with the SDGs at its heart.</div>
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Use the SDGs to prioritise the most vulnerable in our society and level-up regional and societal inequalities.</div>
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COVID-19 has exposed the depth of inequalities and risks exposing more families to income deprivation and its consequences. We welcome the Government’s commitment to levelling up prosperity across the UK and urge a similar focus to overcome wider societal inequalities. The SDGs provide us with a framework which can help us prioritise health and wellbeing, alongside prosperity and GDP, as a measure of the nation's success. We need to ensure that our recovery from the pandemic leaves no one behind and puts the health and wellbeing of current and future generations first.</div>
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Use the SDGs to build coherent policies for a healthy planet and to aid the transition to net-zero</div>
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COVID-19 has highlighted the risks our society faces because of biodiversity and habitat loss, and climate change. We must balance social and economic needs with the needs of our planet, protecting and managing nature and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. These goals do not have to be in conflict. The SDGs provide a way to create co-benefits through the Government’s commitment to net-zero by 2050 and coherent policy design.</div>
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We recognise that the scale of recovery will pose many challenges for the Government. But the COVID-19 crisis has shown that businesses, government, and civil society can and will work together to create lasting and positive change. We believe the SDGs should be used to establish the level of ambition for the UK’s pandemic-recovery and a future that ensures all people in our country live a good life, prospering on a healthy planet.</div>
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We want to build the future we want with the Government and are ready to support you in this endeavour.</div>
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Joe Anderson, Mayor of Liverpool Lord Harris of Haringey</div>
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Jonathan Pell, CEO, Adam Smith International Gary Waite, Portfolio Manager, Alpha: r2 Ltd Peter Simpson, CEO, Anglian Water</div>
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Jane Fiona Cumming, Director and Co-founder, Article 13 Dervilla Mitchell, Chair, UKIMEA Region Board, ArupHarriet Lamb, CEO, Ashden</div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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The closest park to McCormick is Baker Creek State Park, which lays adjacent to Lake Thurmond and right next to the Monticello neighbourhood of Savannah Lakes Village. </div>
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The park features 3 excellent trails where you can explore the forest and watch out for wild turkeys, waterfowl, snakes, and deer. Baker Creek State Park is also a great place to access the 71,100 acres of Lake Thurmond for <a href="https://www.outsidepursuits.com/best-fishing-kayak/">fishing and kayaking</a> adventures. </div>
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The longest trail is accessed beside the kiosk near the park office. It is suitable for both hiking and mountain biking. This trail incorporates 10 miles of dirt trails that form 2 connecting loops. </div>
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You’ll pass through mature pine and oak woodland and walk alongside Baker Creek. Keep your eyes open for an especially large poplar that is said to be the biggest in South Carolina. </div>
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The loops are arranged in such a way that you can choose between a longer or a shorter hike. So, if you’re visiting the park with your family and young kids, you can select the smaller loop.</div>
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This short 0.7-mile trail is popular for sightseeing. At first, the trail descends into a hardwood forest near Lake Thurmond. Later, the trail ascends into a pine forest and offers panoramic lake views. </div>
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This short 0.8-mile trail is especially popular for families with small children and nature lovers. Bikes are not allowed on this trail, and the pine-needle-coated track offers an easy path if a little steep at times.</div>
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The trail features scenic views of the woods and passage through a dense pine forest. You may meet snakes, birds and other woodland critters. </div>
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This park is situated on the western shore of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Strom_Thurmond">Lake Thurmond</a>, which is just over the state line in Georgia. A highlight of the park is a replica of Elijah Clark’s log cabin furnished as it would have been circa 1780. Clark was a frontiersman and hero of the Revolutionary War. Hikers can benefit from the mature pine and hardwood forest and 2 clearly marked trails.</div>
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This trail is signposted from the gravel parking lot beside the mini-golf course. It leads you down through an area of new pines and then into more mature woodland. The main feature of this hike is its spectacular views across Lake Thurmond. </div>
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This is an easy, short trail for family groups. As it’s only a 0.8-mile return hike, this is ideal for young children. The path is an out-and-back trail that leads to a picnic shelter and features a variety of plants and local wildlife along the way.</div>
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On the eastern shore of Lake Thurmond, Hickory Knob is a combined South Carolina golf resort and state park. The park is conveniently located close to the Savannah Lakes Village Recreation Center. </div>
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An unusual historic feature inside Hickory Knob State Resort Park is a double-pen log house with an exterior stone chimney built by Andre Guillebeau in 1764. The Guillebeau House was moved from its original location in New Bordeaux to its current position inside the park in 1983.</div>
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This is a short but challenging trail that offers hikers the opportunity to see snakes, squirrels, birds, and other wildlife in their natural habitat. The 1.7-mile trail twists and turns through mature hardwood and pine forest. You’ll have to scale steep hill and ford streams to complete the route. </div>
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This 2.5-mile out-and-back trail provides fantastic views across the lake. The path is relatively rough, with rocks, roots, sinkholes, ditches, and streams. Under the shade of oaks and pines, watch out for birds and snakes.</div>
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This is a fantastic 7.2-mile loop trail for hikers who prefer more of a challenge. The dirt path is especially rugged with steep slopes, close trees, rocks, and roots. </div>
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Nature lovers will appreciate the variety of trees here, with open grassy inlets, hardwood and cedar ridges, lofty pine stands, and young oak woodlands. Take along your camera to snap stunning pics of deer, snakes, birds, and other wildlife. </div>
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During the summer, the quiet sandy coves along the lakeshore are great places to access Lake Thurmond for a cooling swim. Alternatively, ascend to the highest points along the trail for breathtaking lake vistas.</div>
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Augusta is internationally famous for hosting the Masters Golf Tournament in spring. It is also a fantastic location for riverside and canal bank trails.</div>
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There are 9 hiking trails within the heritage area, including the River Levee Trail, the Mill Village Trail, the Towpath and the Headgate Loop. All are connected in some way with the history of the Augusta Canal and the Savannah River. </div>
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Within this park, you can take your kids on the short Savannah Rapids Loop Trail and then let them blow off more stream in the adjacent playpark.</div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0Bristol, UK51.454513 -2.5879151.296248 -2.9106335 51.612778 -2.2651865tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-43786516569271305672020-05-01T18:25:00.000+01:002020-05-23T20:43:36.109+01:00How to stop your kids driving you mad on lockdown - 1st May 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then go for a walk with your children and look out for nature, birds, bees and butterfiles above and around you. Look into your nature area that you have created and pause in any green space outside your home. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Back home, look and listen through your windows and just be aware of what you can see or hear. This spring has been full of wildlife, not having to fight to be heard by mates above the traffic. Make the most of it, as I imagine that nature may never be happier, unless you fight for this thing that has happened. This positive nature has fought back and made itself heard and seen to us all.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0Bristol, UK51.454513 -2.5879151.296248 -2.9106335 51.612778 -2.2651865tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-12136519034286711182020-04-30T15:02:00.000+01:002020-05-23T20:23:49.511+01:00How to stop your kids going mad in lockdown - 30th April 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220);">Try looking on Google Earth to find some different routes, that are out of the way, green, with wide footpaths and interesting. Once you are managing to go for walks look out of things that are alive, anything. You dont have to know what they are, just that they alive and part of nature, part of you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <span style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</a>, </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">short videos for <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08bd9bd">BBC2 Front Row Late</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0Bristol, UK51.454513 -2.5879151.296248 -2.9106335 51.612778 -2.2651865tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-56043699788188187362020-04-28T18:22:00.000+01:002020-06-10T12:47:50.298+01:00How to stop your kids driving you mad in lockdown: 28th April 2020 with my BBC2 Front Row Late appearance<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is really important for everyone especially primary age children to get outside daily, to take in the air, watch the clouds, to absorb nature - the trees, grass and flowers. As humans were are part of nature and have developed to live as part of it. It is really important for your physical and mental health to relax, calm and reduce anxiety & fears and that is exactly what connecting with nature helps us do.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> and short videos for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br />
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birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0Bristol, UK51.454513 -2.5879151.296248 -2.9106335 51.612778 -2.2651865tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-84063022847838271612020-04-27T18:00:00.000+01:002020-05-23T18:16:15.887+01:00How to stop your kids driving you mad in lockdown: 27th April 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, for many people, life under lockdown is even more difficult. Now think about children living in deprivation in our inner cities, especially those who are Visible Minority Ethnic (VME). Parents waiting for universal credit to come through so children living off 'free school meal' food hampers.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is really important for everyone especially primary age children to get outside daily, to take in the air, watch the clouds, to absorb nature - the trees, grass and flowers. As humans were are part of nature and have developed to live as part of it. It is really important for your physical and mental health to relax, calm and reduce anxiety & fears and that is exactly what connecting with nature helps us do.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is really important for everyone especially primary age children to get outside daily, to take in the air, watch the clouds, to absorb nature - the trees, grass and flowers. As humans were are part of nature and have developed to live as part of it. It is really important for your physical and mental health to relax, calm and reduce anxiety & fears and that is exactly what connecting with nature helps us do.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is really important for everyone especially primary age children to get outside daily, to take in the air, watch the clouds, to absorb nature - the trees, grass and flowers. As humans were are part of nature and have developed to live as part of it. It is really important for your physical and mental health to relax, calm and reduce anxiety & fears and that is exactly what connecting with nature helps us do.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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birdgirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05274427576606325094noreply@blogger.com0Bristol, UK51.454513 -2.5879151.296248 -2.9106335 51.612778 -2.2651865tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439407864876984255.post-76051305473752298262020-04-24T17:16:00.000+01:002020-05-23T17:57:17.204+01:00How to stop your kids driving you mad in lockdown: 24th April 2020<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">17-year-old young British Bangladeshi <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mya-Rose_Craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Dr Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl</span></a> from the Chew Valley near Bristol is a prominent birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, race activist, writer, speaker and broadcaster, writing the <a href="http://birdgirluk.blogspot.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Birdgirl Blog</span></a> since January 2014 when she was 11 years old, which is extremely popular with both adults and children and now has over 4 million views. She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples. She </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">writes posts about birding, nature, stopping climate breakdown, conservation and stopping species loss, other environmental issues and racism from around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has been birding all her life with her parents and sister as well as birding abroad. She is passionate about birds, obtained her <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/ringing/about-ringing/permit-allow"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Bird ringing licence</span></a> at the youngest possible age of 16, takes part in the <a href="https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/nrs"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BTO Nest Record Scheme</span></a> and became the youngest person to see half the worlds’ birds when she was 17 in Brazil in August 2019. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose has been highlighting the urgent need to tackle climate change since she was 8 years old, raising the issue with pupils, teachers in school and local people. She continued with her campaigning from January 2014, blogging about climate change and quickly building a huge following and reaching 1 million views. In 2015, she was recognised for her climate campaigning work by being made a</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://bristolgreencapital.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bristol-2015_annual-review.pdf"><span style="font-kerning: none;">Bristol 2015 European Green Capital Ambassador</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> along with Miranda Krestovnikoff, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kevin McCloud </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">and Simon King and spoke at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1adcIbVb5E"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Climate Change Rally Nov 2015</span></a> in front of 3,000 people. She continued writing, speaking and campaigning about the need for governments and big businesses to take urgent action to stop a climate catastrophe, particularly within the context of Bangladesh being at the top of the list of countries that will be most affected, the need for Global Climate Justice and a fair transition. In 2019, she camped and protested at Extinction Rebellion uprisings in London and Bristol, appeared in the video that launched the successful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwpB6aLOnVU"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stop Bristol Airport Expansion Campaign</span></a>, set up XR Chew Valley, is a Bristol Youth Strike organiser, speaking three times at the Bristol Youth Strikes in March, May and July 2019 and sits on the Bristol Mayor’s</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bristolonecity.com/environment/the-environment-board/"><span style="font-kerning: none;">One City Environmental Sustainability Board</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">. In February 2020, she</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://youtu.be/RLxyfpYr8mw"><span style="font-kerning: none;">shared a stage with Greta Thunberg in Bristol</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, speaking in front of a crowd of 40,000 youth strikers. Mya-Rose also campaigns and gives talks arguing for global climate justice and a fair and just transition.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">As well as educating people about the benefits of nature Mya-Rose has also campaigned to protect species from extinction and fight against environmental damage since she was 8 years old, then in January 2014 starting to blog about conservation issues such as palm oil, GMO, pesticides and other issues, for instance, campaigning for the immediate clean up of a devastating oil spill in the Unesco World Heritage site, the Sundarbans mangroves in Bangladesh, writing in the <a href="https://blog.aba.org/2015/01/open-mic-help-needed-for-sundarbans-oil-spill-response.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">American Birding Association Blog</span></a> and raising $35,000 for the cleanup in 3 days. </span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She has travelled all her life, visiting all seven continents when she was 13 years old, giving her a global perspective on conservation and the needs of indigenous peoples.</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2014 Mya-Rose was listed with singer-songwriter George Ezra and Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams as one of <a href="https://www.rifemagazine.co.uk/2014/12/24-influential-people-bristol-24/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's most influential young people</span></a>. She was nominated in the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.birdgirluk.com/2016/01/birdgirls-highlights-of-2015.html" style="font-family: Arial;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2015</a> </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the Blogger of the Year category and she was the runner up after Mark Avery and was</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"> nominated in the <a href="https://www.voscur.org/content/nominate-your-young-bristol-heroes">Bristol Young Heroes Awards 2016</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">. In</span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 2017 she won the <a href="http://bit.ly/2qYOVox"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Royal Bath and West Show Environmental Youth Award</span></a>, she was the Minister of Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's <a href="http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/A-Peoples-Manifesto-for-Wildlife.pdf"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">A Peoples Manifesto for Wildlife</span></a>. In 2019, she was listed in <a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/bristols-bme-powerlist-2018-revealed/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol's BME Top 100 Powerlist</span></a>, The Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/14/we-cant-afford-to-stand-by-and-do-nothing-10-everyday-heroes-fighting-to-save-the-planet"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">10 everyday heroes fighting to save the planet</span></a>, </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was nominated in the </span><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/birdwatch-magazine-birders-choice.html" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Birdwatch Magazine Birder's Choice Awards 2019</span></a> <span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 168, 220); color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Conservation Hero of the Year with Sir David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot. coming joint second after Greta Thunberg, </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">was included in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/features/bristol-power-list-2020/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Bristol Powerlist 2020</span></a></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">, a list of the City’s 50 most powerful and influential people and The Guardian’s </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/dec/31/biodiversity-hopes-and-fears-for-the-next-10-years-aoe" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Top 15 World's Biodiversity Activists</span></a><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">In February 2020 Mya-Rose became the youngest person to be awarded an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBw7rnwkak"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Honorary Doctorate of Science D.Sc. h.c</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> from Bristol University, one of the top universities in the UK and is receiving it </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">for her five years of campaigning for diversity in the environmental sector. </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The sixth-former, yet to finish her A-Levels, is being recognised for her activism and the much-needed pioneering change through Black2Nature including nature camps and her Race Equality in Nature Conferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Mya-Rose has huge experience engaging children and teenagers of all ages, ethnicity and socio-economic backgrounds with nature and environmental issues, having engaged approximately 50,000 so far. A</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">s President of her organisation <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/01/black2nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Black2Nature</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> she has led the fight for equal access to the natural environment for Visible Minority Ethnic people, organising nine nature camps, <a href="https://4439407864876984255_0a6a493ec012611c5a5f84ce436e979b37fe2579.blogspot.com/b/post-preview?token=APq4FmBi05aq8LmU2bbHv3NNQbgdh_q2MQXiTtupxjM7Io5aZ7VH7dI1KybjQohA1Wd2eYBEJcEFr_WpzpJZPSDpKBjOGVresrlF7ri7RnbmEUEMqW9Q5PH2YHYAerBlWwXbYAkjXWoZ&postId=176496297761654341&type=POST"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Camp Avalon</span></a>, for VME children and teenagers and two high profile conferences, <span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2019/09/race-equality-in-nature-next-generation.html">Race Equality in Nature</a> and is organising more for 2020</span>. </span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">She also wrote to five of the biggest NGO's in 2015, after her first camp, asking them what steps they were taking to make their organisations ethnically diverse and has continued putting pressure on nature, conservation, environmental, environmental education and wildlife film-making sectors to change. </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">In 2020, she has two teenage camps being arranged in conjunction with the RSPB and hopes that these will expand over the next 3 years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has written articles for and appeared in many newspapers including <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-48802576"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC News Online</span></a>, <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mya-rose-craig-the-16-year-old-who-flew-around-the-world-to-spot-5-000-birds-jm38q8vpz"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Times</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/28/new-nature-writing-gender-race-climate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Guardian</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/13/eyes-on-the-skies-young-birdwatchers-take-flight"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Observer</span></a>, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/definitely-feeling-countryside-white-elitist-birdgirl-opening/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Sunday Telegraph</span></a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/birdgirl-honorary-degree-bristol-university-birds-environment-a9345726.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Independent</span></a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2551016/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Daily Mail</span></a>, <a href="https://www.metronews.co.za/17-years-old-mya-rose-craig-to-get-bristol-university-honorary-doctorate/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Metro</span></a>, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/2019/03/i-could-end-living-hellish-planet-kids-striking-action-climate-change"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Statesman</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/latest/how-family-roots-have-shown-mya-rose-craig-climate-breakdowns-inequality/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Big Issue</span></a>, <a href="https://newint.org/blog/2016/06/10/fair-sustainable-fashion/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Internationalist</span></a>, <a href="https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine</span></a>, <a href="https://friendsoftheearth.uk/nature/birdgirl-myarose-craig-nature-defender"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Friends of the Earth Magazine</span></a> and <a href="https://www.triodos.co.uk/articles/2018/fighting-for-your-cause"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Triodos Bank Magazine</span></a>. She has been published in <a href="https://www.thewillowherbreview.com/fieldnotes-born-to-bird-myarose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Willowherb Review</span></a>, <a href="https://www.birdgirluk.com/2020/04/my-nature-writing-new-networks-for.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">New Networks for Nature</span></a>, <a href="https://cieem.net/colonialism-in-conservation/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management</span></a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/21/writers-and-scientists-celebrate-uks-67-most-endangered-birds"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Red Sixty Seven</span></a>. She is writing a children’s book and an autobiography about growing up with a passion for birds and her journey to seeing half the world’s birds.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">She has given over 50 talks including her first hour and a half entertaining look at growing up birding, Born to Bird, in 2014, speaking at Tedx in 2016, being on a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Inrns5u2bg"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Panel with George Monbiot & Caroline Lucas MP</span></a> in 2017, appearing at the <a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/p-13716-sarah-corbett-mya-rose-craig-wilfred-emmanuel-jones-jonathon-porritt-martin-wright.aspx"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Hay Festival 2018 Main Stage</span></a>, speaking to 500 pupils at <a href="https://www.millfieldschool.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Millfield School</span></a>, speaking at Chris Packham’s 2018 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TejbksDa2mg&t=54s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Peoples Walk for Wildlife</span></a> in front of 10,000 people in Hyde Park and at English Nature’s 2019 Staff Conference to 1,500 conservationists.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">She has appeared on TV and Radio including</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03x6h9f"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Springwatch</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000g74c/countryfile-holnicote-estate"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Countryfile</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pObtOT9J4as&t=4s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC The One Show</span></a>, Inside Out, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vy0y4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Tweet of the Day</span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdzZHE4Qoe0&t=30s"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">ITV West Film Feature</span></a> plus <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08q6156"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">a second</span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08wqlm5"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">third</span></a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003cg4"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BBC Radio Four Saturday Live</span></a> as well News such as Channel Four News, ITV News, Channel 5 News, The Today Programme appearing in</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZKnQ0zktvo"><span style="font-kerning: none;">BBC Four Twitchers: A Very British Obsession</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> age 7 and featured in the 2017 <a href="https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">BFI/BBC Four Silent Roars</span></a>, presenting a German-French Arte/ARD documentary <a href="https://youtu.be/ZJVVet_8OtI"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Missing - Where have all the birds gone?</span></a> investigating the decline of grassland and farmland bird species,</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9GkkoPyzCk&t=49s"><span style="font-kerning: none;">a 2020 short film by Josh Dury</span></a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"> and short videos for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xv9ct1k38U"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">EarthWatch Institute Wild Days Programme</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose also campaigns to stop biodiversity loss and species extinction and the rights of indigenous peoples. She is involved with Youth for our Planet UK, is a <a href="https://www.voscur.org/sectorleaders"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Voluntary Sector Leader Representative on Bristol City Council Strategic Boards</span></a>, on the <a href="https://catalysechange.com/our-advisory-board/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Catalyse Change Advisory Board</span></a> and has attended many meetings at Downing Street and Parliament. She is a Patron for <a href="https://www.globalgoalscentre.org/patrons"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">The Bristol Global Goals Centre</span></a>, Global Ambassador for <a href="https://burnspricefoundation.org.uk/about-us/mya-rose-craig"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Burns Price Foundation</span></a>, <a href="https://earthwatch.org.uk/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Earthwatch Europe</span></a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/337553374"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Survival International</span></a>, <a href="https://worldshorebirdsday.wordpress.com/2015/02/19/a-young-birders-view-on-shorebirds-2/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">World Shorebird Day </span></a>and <a href="https://leica-nature-blog.com/young-leica-ambassador-mya-rose-craig-goes-birding-with-us-author-and-avid-birder-jonathan-franzen/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Leica Optics</span></a> as well as being a <a href="https://treecharter.uk/principles-nature.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People</span></a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mya-Rose above all has a passion and love of birds and wildlife driving her in everything. Her favourite birds are Harpy Eagle seen in Brazil and Southern Cassowary in Queensland, Australia. Other animal favourites are Orangutang in Borneo, Mountain Gorillas in Uganda, Emperor Penguin in Antarctica and Komodo Dragon in Indonesia.</span><br />
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