Joshua Powell
Powell in Kyrgyzstan
Born16 July 1993 (1993-07-16) (age 30)
Alma mater
AwardsCF

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

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

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

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

  1. "Joshua Powell". National Geographic Society.
  2. Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
  3. "Joshua Powell CF". Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
  4. "Joshua Powell 2006 – 2011 Horsley". Old Cranbrookians' Association.
  5. Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
  6. Baillie, Katherine (13 May 2016). "Penn Graduate Student Selected as a St. Gallen 'Leader of Tomorrow'". Penn Today.
  7. Krueger, Alyson (24 October 2019). "Protecting Nature's Protectors". The Pennsylvania Gazette.
  8. "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
  9. Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". All About Horsham. October 2017: 45–47.
  10. "Meet the meat-eating ducks of South Georgia". METRO News. 17 March 2020.
  11. "What's on: Island conservation: protecting global biodiversity". ZSL Institute of Zoology.
  12. "Making the film 'Saving Britain's Islands'". ZSL Institute of Zoology. 8 February 2021.
  13. "Rangers Without Borders: protecting nature in divided lands". Geographical. 31 January 2020.
  14. "RANGERS WITHOUT BORDERS working for wildlife in the Caucasus, a geopolitical and biodiversity hotspot". The Explorers Journal. 97 (3): 38–47.
  15. "Joshua Powell - National Geographic Society". National Geographic.
  16. "Joshua Powell: Protecting endangered species". Queen's Commonwealth Trust. 17 May 2019.
  17. Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). "Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell". Conservation Ecology Group.
  18. "The Wild North Atlantic". wwf.exposure. 27 August 2019.
  19. "Connect to Earth". YouTube. 18 March 2019.
  20. "Earth Hour". Instagram (@earthhourofficial). Archived from the original on 2021-12-26.
  21. "Joshua Powell CF". Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
  22. "Queen's Commonwealth Trust - About". Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
  23. "Joshua Powell". Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.
  24. Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". All About Horsham. October 2017: 45–47.
  25. "SES EXPLORER AWARD WINNERS 2019". SES-Explore.
  26. "The Explorers Club 50: Fifty people changing the world who the world needs to know about" (PDF). The Explorers Journal.
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