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Sorrel at Nottinghamshire Elaine Ingram, 26
Wildlife Trust’s Attenborough
Reserve. Visit her blog on http:// Assistant Countryside Ranger
sorrellyallwildlife.weebly.com/ Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust
I help look after nine reserves and
Ben Eagle, 24 commons, doing all the practical
things like taking volunteers out and
Naze Education Ranger looking after the livestock.
Essex Wildlife Trust
I’ve always been an outdoors
It took a while for me to realise that person. I grew up in a village so
this is what I wanted to do. When the there was always somewhere to go
role came up at the Naze, it was really and explore – play in the stream,
fortunate. I grew up here and know it make dens….
very well. I came here to look for
shark’s teeth, to paddle in the sea, to I started volunteering for the
run around, be outside and be free. Wildlife Trust and found it such fun; I
That had a huge influence on me. was learning something every day. I
got a conservation traineeship with
I’m very keen on building a BBOWT and found that it was my
community of people here at the ideal job. I’ve never looked back.
Naze so that they can talk about the
natural world, but also build I fear that it might be too late to
friendships. I believe that it’s all change the species loss that we’re
interconnected. having and that people aren’t taking
seriously enough. But then I hope
I’m part of the first generation to the work that we do – inspiring kids
embrace the idea of climate change and educating people – will change
wholeheartedly. I think climate that. I think the most important thing
change, biodiversity loss, population you can do is to get kids inspired so
growth and education are probably that when they are older they will
the key issues. It’s very easy for a want to do something to save nature
young person who is interested and and wildlife.
involved to think that everyone else is
too, but that’s not the case. A lot of 23
people don’t even think about these
things, and it’s up to us to go out and
sell those concepts.
April 2015
