Meet The Team

Dr Mya-Rose Craig D.Sc. h.c. Founder and President Dr Mya-Rose Craig is a British-Bangladeshi ornithologist, conservationist & environmentalist. She founded Black2Nature in 2015 when she was 12 years old, organising a birding camp for teenage birders in 2015 including persuading 5 Visible Minority Ethnic young people to attend and engaging them with nature. In 2016 she organised a film-making workshop and nature camp for VME young people and our first conference, Race Equality in Nature for VME community leaders and those from the nature, nature conservation and environmental sector. These events were the first of their kind. She organised the fifth conference in December 2025. Since graduating from St John's College, Cambridge University in June 2024 she has been working as a freelance broadcaster and speaker, giving significant unpaid voluntary time to Black2Nature promoting its work and mission. In 2024, she was included in the Sunday Times 25 most influential young people. She was the youngest person awarded an honorary Doctorate at 17 for her pioneering work with her charity Black2Nature, leading the fight for equal access to nature, organising nature camps for ethnically marginalised young people since 2015. At 12 she had also become a Bristol European Green Capital Ambassador. She is a Diana, Women of the Future, and National Geographic Young Explorer 2023, award winner and an ambassador for various charities, including Oxfam, Greenpeace, The Wildlife Trusts, RSPB and the RSPCA. She is an articulate, engaging and knowledgeable broadcaster, journalist and campaigner attending meetings at Downing Street, The House of Commons and House of Lords and am a confident, experienced and entertaining public speaker. I have spoken at over 100 talks including sharing a stage with Emma Watson, Greta Thunberg, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Malala Yousafzai and at age 13 I was on a panel with George Monbiot, Caroline Lucas and Dr Richard Pancost. I have spoken at events for Billie Eilish, Stella McCartney, Hay, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Bath, Oxford and Cambridge Literary Festivals as well as Glastonbury, Latitude, Shambala, Wilderness, Valley Fest and Camp Bestival Festivals. I have loved interviewing Dame Jane Goodall, Yuval Noah Harari and Tony Juniper. She was the Minister for Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's People’s Manifesto for Wildlife, spoke at his People’s Walk for Wildlife and was even on The One Show sofa with Chris Packham. She has appeared on TV, radio, podcasts, panels and am a regular speaker at events. She hosted the first successful series of the Get Birding podcast and is appearing in the most recent one in 2026, appeared on Fearn Cotton’s Happy Place podcast, the comedy podcast RHLSP with Richard Herring, Lush podcast and in 2024, presented the second series of the Kew Gardens podcast, increasing the listener numbers by 55,000 after only 2 episodes. She has appeared in many newspapers including Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vogue Spain, Elle Magazine Spain, Fane, Dazed, Glamour UK, Grazia, BBC News, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Sunday Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Express, The Metro, The Sun, New Statesman, The Mirror, New Statesman, Big Issue, Bristol Evening Post, Bristol 24/7, New Internationalist, Resurgence & Ecologist, The Ecologist, Friends of the Earth, Triodos Bank, New Networks for Nature, Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, Red Sixty Seven, Red Bull, BBC Countryfile, BBC Wildlife, Country Living, Hole & Corner, The Bookseller, Book Trust, The Week, The Week Junior, Nat Geo Kids, Bird Watching and Birdwatch Magazines and have been published in The Willowherb Review. She has appeared on Gutsy with Hillary Clinton, Today Programme, ABC News, NBC News, BBC 4 documentaries, Channel 5 Tales from The Riverbank, BBC Springwatch, BBC Countryfile, BBC The One Show, BBC2 Sunday Morning AM, CBBC News Round, CBBC Blue Peter, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Sky News, Channel Five News, France 4 News, BBC West News, ITV West News and BBC World Service. It has been brilliant being on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Today Programme, Women’s Hour and Tweet of the Day, and appearing on the Dermot O’Leary Show and BBC Asian Network. She has had three award-winning and best-selling books with the books appearing on the cover of The Book Seller, in the Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Time Magazine, The Daily Express and many more newspapers. Her memoir, Birdgirl, is published globally and translated into seven languages, being published by Penguin Random House/Jonathan Cape/Vintage in the UK and Commonwealth and by Celadon in North America. A graphic novel is due out in 2026. I was proud to have a great quote from Margaret Atwood as well as in the press. We Have A Dream, is an illustrated book for young adults published by Magic Cat Publishing highlighting the work of 30 young environmentalists of colour from around the world including 11 who are indigenous. I wrote the book during lockdown wanted young Visible Minority Ethnic people to see that people who looked like them were both inspiring and doing fantastic environmental work. Her third book, Flight, is an illustrated children’s book published by Puffin, about some amazing birds that migrate huge distances and seen by children all over the world. In sixth form she wrote a 5000 EPQ (Extended Project Qualification) about the alleged human rights abuses on indigenous tribes being perpetrated by those in the conservation sector, such as armed guards paid and trained by WWF. This was life changing as it led her to meet with the amazing charity Survival International, speak at their 40th anniversary event, becoming an ambassador and focusing much more on my energies on human rights abuses, even getting a praecipe of her project published in Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine, The Real Custodians of the Forest. This is also impacted her chosen degree, being Human, Social, and, Political Sciences. She has shared a stage with Emma Watson, Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot, appeared on TV, radio and is a regular speaker. She was the Minister for Diversity in Nature and Conservation in Chris Packham's Manifesto for Wildlife; carried out the most northerly climate strike, in the Arctic with Greenpeace, making worldwide news; and campaigns tirelessly for the planet.