I am currently Beaver Reintroduction Lead at the Trentham Estate, working to ensure the 725-acre estate is an increasingly great place for nature and people to thrive. I am also Head of Zoology at Celtic Rewilding Ltd, a rewilding consultancy I established in 2020 with my close friend. At both Trentham and Creative Rewilding, my motivation has always been to allow more space for wild nature and to reintroduce those species we have lost.

My Fellowship will address the biodiversity crisis, especially in the UK, which is one of the most nature-depleted countries on earth. Reintroductions are an increasingly useful tool to restore biodiversity and my Fellowship will focus on the forgotten frogs of Britain's wetlands: the agile, moor and tree frog. Frogs and amphibians have always fascinated me, ever since I began catching them from my grandmother's pond at the age of three. Yet amphibians remain one of the most extinction-prone groups of organisms, so we must look for solutions to address these declines. I am hopeful that my Fellowship will lead to vastly more wetland restoration projects and reintroduction of the cacophony of lost frogs into these wetlands.