RSPB medallist Mary Colwell's dream - for every member of society to be 'Nature-literate'

 

Mary Colwell was at the RSPB's HQ in Sandy to receive the Medal 

AUTHOR, educationalist and campaigner Mary Colwell was today awarded the prestigious RSPB  Medal in recognition of her pioneering conservation endeavours.

Ms Colwell is  the driving force behind both the organisation, Curlew Action, and the initiative to establish a GCSE in Natural History.

Receiving the Medal from the RSPB's chief executive, Beccy Speight, at this weekend's annual meeting of the charity, she said her dream was for every member of society to be "Nature-literate".

In many of her efforts, she has faced hurdles, some of them seemingly insurmountable, but she likened her voyage to a river flowing towards the sea.

"Maybe a boulder will roll down and block its path,"she declared. "But the secret is persistence.

"The river keeps rolling along - if it cannot flow past the boulder, it just has to erode it.

"Nothing will stop it reaching the sea."

* Mary Colwell is author of Curlew Moon