Webinar: Curlews and Climate Change

In this webinar, we explore climate change and it's impact on Curlew populations.

Past webinars can be watched on our YouTube channel.

This webinar will be held over Microsoft Teams, and the link for the meeting will be shared in an e-mail to attendees.

Chair:

Professor David Hill

David is the Founder and President of the Foundation For Nature. He founded the Environment Bank in 2006 through which he developed the concept and was the architect of biodiversity net gain, successfully implemented into law in the Environment Act 2021, creating the first global compliance-based biodiversity market. David is also co-founder of the NatureSpace Partnership Ltd. A passionate nature conservationist, David was a founding Board member and previously Deputy Chair of Natural England, the government’s statutory advisers on nature conservation, Board Member of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, a member of the government’s Ecosystem Markets Taskforce, Chairman of Plantlife International, Chair of the Northern Uplands Nature Partnership and a Commissioner with the Food Farming and Countryside Commission. He is currently a Board member of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Board Trustee of the Woodland Trust and member of the Science Board of Fera (the Food and Environment Research Agency). His work on promoting the importance of nature finance and the role of environmental markets, backed by his extensive experience in the land-based sectors, is changing the shape and pace of nature restoration.

Speakers:

Harry Ewing

Harry Ewing is a Research Ecologist in the Wetland Ecology Team at the British Trust for Ornithology, specialising in the conservation of breeding waders. His passion for these birds has taken him from monitoring hundreds of nests in southern Iceland to working in the grasslands and heaths of East Anglia. Since 2018, Harry has monitored the Eurasian Curlew population in Breckland, eastern England—initially as part of his recently completed PhD and now through the Curlew Solutions Trial, a project funded by Natural England and overseen by the Curlew Recovery Partnership. Through rigorous fieldwork and analysis of demographic and phenological variation, Harry works to inform how conservation actions can be targeted to reverse population declines and secure a future for these iconic birds.

James Pearce-Higgins

Bio coming soon