Alister Scott is driven by the question of how we make enough big change happen quickly enough.

Passionate about the great outdoors since his first job as a sailing instructor in the west of Ireland and having his 1988 plan for nature recovery fully implemented on one of the outdoor centres where he worked in Fermanagh, Alister is now Director for Communications at the Global Rewilding Alliance, Chair of the comms charity Rewriting Earth, where the mission is to engage the disengaged, co-author of The Little Book of Making Big Change Happen and Honorary Professor at the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources.

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Jan Stannard is Co-founder and Acting CEO of the national rewilding charity Heal, which launched in March 2020 with the ambitious aim to rewild a site in every English county.

Jan moved into the charity sector after 40 years’ in business, having served on company boards in the strategic communications and digital marketing sectors.

She first became active in campaigning for wildlife in 2015 when she set up a local swift group, which has since organised the installation of hundreds of swift boxes.

She has a BA in Geography and a first-class honours degree in Psychology.

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Rob Farrington has spent his whole working career fighting for nature in Dorset.

After spells with both the RSPB and National Trust he has the envious title of ‘Head of Wilder Landscapes’ at Dorset Wildlife Trust. The role is just as exciting as the name suggests; Rob’s team support Dorset’s landowners transition to wilder management and to help do this Rob uses two of the Trusts rewilding sites; Wild Woodbury and Lyscombe, to inspire and inform.

In 2022 Rob and the team delivered one of the first ever stage-0 river restorations in England on the majority of the headwaters of the river Sherford. In the evenings Rob plays the watering can in a local band.

James Bullock is a senior researcher at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, where he works across a range of subjects concerning environmental change and nature recovery.

He is particularly concerned with the climate and nature crises and the multiple strategies to address them. He works in particular on rewilding and ecological restoration, and their central role in bringing back biodiversity and ecosystem services in our degraded landscapes.

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Mya-Rose Craig is a 22-year-old British-Bangladeshi birder, race activist and environmentalist campaigning for equal access to nature, to stop biodiversity loss and climate change, and to ensure global climate justice, all of which she believes are closely interlinked. 

Mya-Rose's passion for birds and wildlife are self-evident with her coming across the screen as a knowledgeable and natural presenter. In June 2022 Mya-Rose’s book Birdgirl was published by Vintage Books and has recently been nominated for the Jhalak Prize. In it she shares the impact on her own mental health of growing up with a mother affected by severe bipolar disorder, how nature helped them cope as a family and how she found joy and her voice through birding. Follow Mya-Rose on www.birdgirluk.com, X @Birdgirl.UK and Instagram @birdgirluk

As the Rewilding Ranger at Heal Somerset, Daniel Hill manages the site’s monitoring and land management programs. You can find him surveying for signs of beavers, co-ordinating volunteer work parties removing barbed wire, or working with partners to deliver the hydrological restoration plan, amongst a huge variety of other tasks.

Dan’s passion for nature was sparked as a child growing up on an organic small holding in rural south Wales watching red kites soar above. His love of rewilding developed through volunteering with the RSPB on the Somerset Levels after completing a degree in Mathematical Sciences.