Ambassadors

Joe is a Welsh ecologist and Rights of Nature campaigner with a background in ecology and environmental biology and a passion for greater inclusion, transparency, and fairness in conservation and environmental governance. He recently won a Green Heart Hero Award, the UK’s leading climate and sustainability awards, for his work engaging stakeholders in Wales in discussions on nature recovery.

Joe works as Ceredigion Community Engagement Officer for West Wales Rivers Trust, working to support and empower community action for rivers in his home county.
He also works as a freelance consultant on several nature projects in his native Wales and internationally. In addition to his work, Joe serves as Vice President of the Board for Reserva: The Youth Land Trust, a member of the Wales Council for Outdoor Learning, and as Wales Coordinator for UK Youth for Nature. He previously served on the World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council, the Stockholm+50 Youth Task Force, and as a youth delegate to the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly and the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Canada.

A first-language Welsh speaker and a proud Cardi, he enjoys exploring the links between local culture and nature and will always say yes to a story over a paned. When not having a paned or at his desk, you will find him near, on, or in the water, the place he says he feels most at home.