Mary Colwell is an author, producer and campaigner for nature. Her articles have appeared in the Guardian, BBC Wildlife Magazine, The Tablet, Country Life and many other publications. She has made documentaries for the BBC Natural History Unit in both TV and radio, and has published three books:
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John Muir – the Scotsman Who Saved America’s Wild Places in 2014, by Lion Hudson
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Curlew Moon in April 2018, by William Collins, and
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Beak Tooth and Claw, also published by William Collins
In April 2021. In 2009 she won a Sony Radio Academy Gold award and in October 2017 she was awarded the Dilys Breese Medal by the BTO for outstanding science communication, in 2018, the David Bellamy Award from the Gamekeepers Association for her conservation work on curlews and in 2019, the WWT Marsh Award for Conservation. She is spearheading the establishment of a GCSE in Natural History.
In March 2021 she was appointed Chair of the government supported Curlew Recovery Partnership England, a roundtable of organisations charged with restoring curlews, their habitats and associated wildlife across England. In 2020 she set up the charity, Curlew Action.
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Sponsored by an anonymous donor.
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Hear Mary's interview with This Is Alfred.