Paul Naylor http://www.marinephoto.co.uk/
Wild LIVE: Mud matters - How do we protect our blue carbon stores in UK seabeds?
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Our muddy seabeds surround the UK and store vast amounts of carbon, 240 million tonnes in just the top 10cms. But these valuable carbon stores are being impacted by human activities like dredging and inappropriate development. What can we, and must we do, to protect these essential stores of carbon in our seas, for our climate and our wildlife?
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Trai Anfield
Craig Bennett - Chief Executive at The Wildlife Trusts
Craig has been described as “one of the country’s top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian as “the very model of a modern eco-general” and, in 2021, was included in The Sunday Times Green Power List of the UK’s top 20 environmentalists.
Craig was formerly CEO of Friends of the Earth where he refocussed the organisation to empower communities to take action on the climate & ecological crises, resulting in a step change in the scale and impact of the movement, with over 200 new Friends of the Earth community groups set up during his tenure. He also led the organisation to numerous campaign victories including on bees, fracking and against the expansion of Heathrow Airport.
Earlier in his career, Craig was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change (from 2007 to 2010) which he transformed into one of the most progressive business voices on the international climate change agenda.
He is Honorary Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Alliance Manchester Business School, an Associate Fellow of Homerton College (Cambridge), a Senior Associate of The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a Policy Fellow of The Centre for Science and Policy at The University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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