The Earth Convention Live: Land and Soil
Isabella Tree is an award-winning writer and conservationist who lives with her husband, Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex. She is the author of six non-fiction books, including the award-winning book Wilding, which was made into a documentary film in 2024. In 2020 Isabella was awarded a CIEEM Medal for her contribution to ecology and environmental management, and in 2021 received the Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award. She is currently writing The Return of the White Stork, about the reintroduction of white storks to Britain after an absence of more than 600 years.
Thomas Halliday is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Birmingham. His PhD won the Linnean Society's John C. Marsden Medal for the best thesis in the biological sciences in the UK, and he won the Hugh Miller Writing Competition in 2018. He is also the author of Otherlands, a history of life on earth, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, a Foyles Book of the Year 2022, and longlisted for Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Minette Batters was the first woman to be elected President of the National Farmers’ Union in 113 years. She’s represented the interests of over 46,000 farming businesses across England and Wales through unprecedented times, navigating the challenges of Brexit, Covid 19 and the war in Ukraine. In 2020, she led the NFU on one of the most successful campaigns ever seen, bringing together a coalition of chefs, farmers, environmentalists consumer groups and animal welfare experts - resulting in over one million people signing the NFU food standards petition. In 2021, Minette was made a Deputy Lieutenant to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, and in July 2024 she was made a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords.
Merlin Hanbury-Tenison is a Cornish conservationist and veteran who founded The Thousand Year Trust, Britain's rainforest charity. The charity's mission is to catalyse the movement to triple Britain's rainforest cover to one million acres in the next thirty years. His work has been featured in National Geographic, the Guardian and on the BBC. His highly acclaimed book, Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain's Ancient Rainforests, is an honest and intimate true story about the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return.
Rosie Boycott is a cross bench peer in the House of Lords. For ten years she was chair of The London food Board, responsible to the Mayor of London for food policy in the City. She is a well known food activist with particular interest in food poverty, health, environment and agricultural sustainability. She is a trustee of the Food Foundation and Feeding Britain and chair of Veg Power. She was the co-founder of the feminist magazine Spare Rib and the editor in chief of three national newspapers: The Independent on Sunday, the Independent and the Daily Express.
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