Jack is a Consultant at Biodiversify with a decade of experience across wildlife conservation, ecology, and sustainability consulting, including fieldwork across Vietnam, Costa Rica, Greece, and Spain. He brings expertise in terrestrial and freshwater ecology, supply chain analysis, and nature impact mitigation, with a focus on delivering meaningful outcomes for large-scale clients.
I’m not sure there was any particular event or moment that I decided to follow this path, but I know that I have always had a connection with nature and wildlife, and have wanted to find a career which helps protect nature in a world where many are losing their own connections to it. Of course, seeing many amazing naturalists and conservationists on television, such as our beloved David Attenborough, Steve Backshall and others, inspired me by showing what careers and futures you can have working with nature.
After being a keen scientist throughout school and college, I decided that zoology was the best option for me wanting to follow my science path, while allowing me to study the most interesting topic for me: animals.
After completing and spending some time working in zoos in the UK, I went back to university to complete a Masters in Biodiversity and Conservation, with the goal of gaining experience working on the ground in conservation abroad.
This led me to working with a fantastic local tortoise and freshwater turtle conservation charity in Vietnam for a couple of years before I returned to the UK during Covid. The desire to settle back in the UK led me to moving to work with a sustainability consultancy for a few years, gaining skills and experience in a new corporate realm for me. After working across sustainability more generally, I joined Biodiversify to focus more on closely on nature as a topic, bringing my varied experience together in my role here.
This is a hard one due to the many issues that ebb and flow in our sector every year/decade. I would have to say waste, including food waste and plastic waste, is something that I think about a lot, and change my actions for on a daily basis. It is so difficult to avoid plastics in society today but I am always striving to reduce, reuse and recycle wherever possible and reduce my personal impact on the world.
I work on Science-based targets, and site-level assessments
There are many places that are dear to me across the countless places i’ve lived at some point (in the UK and Vietnam), but I think i will always think about the fields and trails near to my family home, where I still take the dog on walks to find some wholesome peace whenever its needed!
The Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle has to be up there for its relevance to me, but I think the Galapagos Giant Tortoises (any of the several species) are special to me for their iconic status, size, and enduring story. I’m sure they have inspired many others to get involved in conservation over the years, and I’m still dreaming of seeing them wild in the flesh.
I think collecting eDNA samples in lakes in Vietnam to help confirm the presence and identity of new individuals of the aforementioned critically endangered Swinhoe’s Softshell Turtle (Rafetus swinhoei) provided some rare affirmation that I was helping to save an endangered species from the brink of extinction, and made my efforts worthwhile!
I’m a huge runner, as both a way to relax and unwind, and also in a competitive way. I’m a regular parkrunner, run clubber and marathon finisher and love nothing more than to get out on a sunny day, on the roads, canals and hills.
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