Fellow’s Profile
Kate Hubbard
Fellow’s Profile
Kate Hubbard
Conservation of flying fox bats
Fellowship
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Fellowship year
2004
Locality
East Midlands
Biography
I specialise in endangered flying fox fruit bats, focusing on the conservation value to environmental biodiversity and human economy through their keystone pollination activity.
Prior to the Fellowship I had worked in Australia as a wildlife rescuer and educator over several years. Having learned of the differing threats faced by these important endemic mammals in continental Australia and South Pacific Island colonies, I set out to encourage awareness internationally.
The Fellowship gave me the opportunity to extend the educational scope beyond hands-on rescue. Through visual arts, writing, research and education I make solid scientific fact, gained from working alongside world-authority conservation biologists, blend into accessible popular science for all ages, from children to policymakers, scientists to royal landowners.
Though disability has now curtailed some active aspects of expedition work, I sell photos and continue consultancy to educate about the ever-worsening and maligning threats to fruit bats and the importance of understanding the dependence humanity has on them.
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Disclaimer
All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.