Charlie meets birdwatcher, conservationist, and film maker Ruth Peacey to talk activism, her recent Conservation Hero award… and penguins!
In part one Ruth talks about growing up in Bristol, her early – very early as it turns out – determination to work for the BBC, the encouragement – and discouragement – she met along the way – and about the birds that really captured her heart on a trip to one of the remotest places on earth…I began though by asking about that Birdwatch Magazine Award…
In the second part we discuss Ruth’s trips to document illegal shooting and trapping in Malta, Cyprus, and Italy, talk about why she joined Lush after so many years at the BBC, and end with a quick question to find out which bird species she would choose to film above all others; but I begin by asking why the BBC have seemed reluctant to make hard-hitting conservation stories…
• Follow Ruth on Twitter and Facebook (external links)
• Birdguides interview (external link)
• Malta: Massacre on migration (external link)
• Cyprus Songbird Slaughter | Hunting the Bird Hunters (external link)