Rebecca Speight's guest appearances

Rebecca Speight

Trees A Crowd

MESSUMS ONLINE

Alastair Humphreys

John Muir

Lucian Freud

Doug Allan

Mark Carwardine

GEORGE MONBIOT

Tim Smit

Harrison Ford

Chris Watson

David Attenborough

Rob Rose

Ingrid Newkirk

Ben Hur

Mark Frith

Nick Howard

OwlTail

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 &amp; 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.

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 &amp; 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.

ACTIVE ENVIRONMENTALISM: Episode 8 - RSPB Chief Executive Rebecca Speight

Rebecca Speight is currently the CEO of the Woodland Trust and will shortly be taking over the reigns of the RSPB. Beccy began her foray into the Natural World to satisfy her “sense of connectivity”. Following years working for the National Trust she was ultimately appointed to her current role in 2014, where she heads up the largest woodland conservation charity in the UK (for which David has proudly become an ambassador.) In this in-depth conversation, she discusses the devastating decline in ancient woodland - which has almost halved in the past 50 years, elaborates on the “Young People’s Forest” project which aims to inspire and engage new generations on environmental concerns, and talks about the landscapes and literature that have come to shape her as an individual working for our beautiful and historic country. Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rebecca Speight is currently the CEO of the Woodland Trust and will shortly be taking over the reigns of the RSPB. Beccy began her foray into the Natural World to satisfy her “sense of connectivity”. Following years working for the National Trust she was ultimately appointed to her current role in 2014, where she heads up the largest woodland conservation charity in the UK (for which David has proudly become an ambassador.) In this in-depth conversation, she discusses the devastating decline in ancient woodland - which has almost halved in the past 50 years, elaborates on the “Young People’s Forest” project which aims to inspire and engage new generations on environmental concerns, and talks about the landscapes and literature that have come to shape her as an individual working for our beautiful and historic country. <a href="https://open.acast.com/public/patreon/fanSubscribe/4241294" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Why not become a "Subscription Squirrel" on our Patreon, and help support the production of this podcast?</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Rebecca Speight: The Overstory and Understory of the Woodland Trust