Joshua Powell
Joshua Powell | |
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 Powell in Kyrgyzstan | |
| Born | 16 July 1993 (age 31) Eastbourne, East Sussex, England |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | CF |
Joshua John Powell CF (born 16 July 1993) is a British conservation biologist.[1][2] He is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity.[3]
Education
[edit]Powell attended Cranbrook School, Kent.[4] Powell subsequently attended the University of Nottingham and graduated with a first-class Honours Bachelor of Science degree in geography in 2014,[5] before receiving a Thouron Award to complete his master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania.[6][7]
Career
[edit]Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji,[8][9] followed by South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.[10] In 2021, Powell produced and featured in Saving Britain's Islands, a short educational film on island conservation, funded by the British Ecological Society.[11] The film featured conservation projects in New Zealand and South Georgia.[12]
Powell then received a grant from the National Geographic Society to establish Rangers Without Borders, a conservation research program he subsequently founded with Peter Coals, a friend from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford,[13][14] with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.[15]
Powell is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity,[16] for which he has hosted series on polar science and Arctic conservation in Svalbard and Arctic Russia,[17] island and marine conservation in the North Atlantic[18] and biodiversity in South Georgia. Powell featured in promotional videos for Earth Hour in 2019 and 2021, appearing alongside other youth advocates and Australian actress, Margot Robbie.[19][20]
In 2020, Powell became an advisor for The Queen's Commonwealth Trust,[21] a charity that funds, champions and assists the projects of youth advocates throughout the Commonwealth.[22]
Awards and honours
[edit]Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017,[23][24] receiving the honorific CF in 2019.
In 2019, Powell was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Explorer Award for Inspiration & Scientific Trail-blazing.[25] In 2021, Powell was named one of the Explorers Club 50: Fifty people changing the world.[26]
References
[edit]- ^ "Joshua Powell". National Geographic Society.
- ^ Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
- ^ "Joshua Powell CF". Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
- ^ "Joshua Powell 2006 – 2011 Horsley". Old Cranbrookians' Association.
- ^ Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
- ^ Baillie, Katherine (13 May 2016). "Penn Graduate Student Selected as a St. Gallen 'Leader of Tomorrow'". Penn Today.
- ^ Krueger, Alyson (24 October 2019). "Protecting Nature's Protectors". The Pennsylvania Gazette.
- ^ "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
- ^ Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". All About Horsham. October 2017: 45–47.
- ^ "Meet the meat-eating ducks of South Georgia". METRO News. 17 March 2020.
- ^ "What's on: Island conservation: protecting global biodiversity". ZSL Institute of Zoology.
- ^ "Making the film 'Saving Britain's Islands'". ZSL Institute of Zoology. 8 February 2021.
- ^ "Rangers Without Borders: protecting nature in divided lands". Geographical. 31 January 2020.
- ^ "RANGERS WITHOUT BORDERS working for wildlife in the Caucasus, a geopolitical and biodiversity hotspot". The Explorers Journal. 97 (3): 38–47.
- ^ "Joshua Powell - National Geographic Society". National Geographic.
- ^ "Joshua Powell: Protecting endangered species". Queen's Commonwealth Trust. 17 May 2019.
- ^ Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
- ^ "The Wild North Atlantic". wwf.exposure. 27 August 2019.
- ^ "Connect to Earth". YouTube. 18 March 2019.
- ^ "Earth Hour". Instagram (@earthhourofficial). Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.
- ^ "Joshua Powell CF". Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
- ^ "Queen's Commonwealth Trust - About". Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
- ^ "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
- ^ Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". All About Horsham. October 2017: 45–47.
- ^ "SES EXPLORER AWARD WINNERS 2019". SES-Explore.
- ^ "The Explorers Club 50: Fifty people changing the world who the world needs to know about" (PDF). The Explorers Journal.