Action For Conservation

About Us Action for Conservation is a UK youth environmental action charity (no. 1157297) that inspires and empowers young people aged 12-18, from diverse backgrounds across the UK, to become the next generation of environmental leaders. To us, being a ‘conservationist’ or ‘environmentalist' doesn't just mean following a career as a field biologist or a campaigner. We believe that a passion for nature can flow through anyone's life, whatever their day-job. We inspire today's young people to a long-term belief in the wonder of the natural world, which will shape their dreams and actions however their life turns out. Trustees Professor David Macdonald CBE, FRSE, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Oxford University. Dr Robert Macfarlane MA, PhD (Cantab), MPhil (Oxon), Honorary Doctorate of Letters Universities of Aberdeen and Gloucestershire, Fellow of Emmanuel College Cambridge and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Alex Mills, barrister at 23 Essex Street Chambers. Aoife Bennett-Curry, former teacher conservationist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and PhD candidate, University of Oxford. John Fanshawe, Senior Strategy Advisor at Birdlife International and the Arts, Science and Conservation Adviser to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Advisors Dame Helen Ghosh DCB, Director General of the National Trust. Dame Joan McVittie DBE, former Headteacher of Woodside High School, London and National Leader in Education. Alex Kelly, education entrepreneur and founder of the Access Project and Unifrog.