Craig Bennett - CEO of Wildlife Trusts

Behind The Story

Bianca Pitt is joined by Craig Bennett - CEO of The Wildlife Trusts - a federation of 46 independent wildlife conservation charities covering the whole of the UK. Prior to joining Wildlife Trusts, Craig was CEO of Friends of the Earth, where he fronted several high profile campaigns on bees, fracking and against the expansion of Heathrow Airport. Earlier in his career, Craig was Deputy Director at The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Director of The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change. Craig has been described as “one of the UK's top environmental campaigners”, by The Guardian and regularly appears in the media promoting environmental causes. This is the Tenth podcast in a series of episodes by Higginson Strategy’s Nature 2030 campaign - a movement aiming to smash the silo culture that hampers humanity’s efforts to respond to the challenges global nature is facing. The series is focused on how to save the world from environmental disaster.