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ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM: Episode 8 - RSPB Chief Executive Rebecca Speight


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Recorded on Wednesday 10 March, as part of our Active Environmentalism  series of talks and events.  

The RSPB’s Beccy Speight discussed what our migrating & permanent  residents tell us about wider changes to the environment.  What does the study of birds tell us about changes to the environment  and our potential for change? 

The RSPB is the largest nature  conservation charity in Europe. Since it’s inception in 1889 the threats  to birdlife and their habitats have continued to grow but the RSPB have  ambitious and wide-reaching conservation plans to change the fate of  nature.  Rebecca Speight is Chief Executive of the RSPB since 2019. She was  previously the Chief Executive of the Woodland Trust.  

The RSPB has more than 1.2 million members, over 2,000 employees and  around 12,000 volunteers. It has over 200 nature reserves across the UK,  wild havens where everyone can get closer to nature and home to 80 per  cent of our rarest or more threatened bird species. The RSPB also works  internationally and is a leading player in BirdLife International, a  partnership of conservation organisations working to save nature across  the world.

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