Atul Srivastava is an
ecology expert with broad hands-on experience in the environmental
sector. He has worked across the spectrum of environmental
experience including: - digging holes in nature reserves, working
for government agencies and influencing European policy, the
painstaking monitoring of badgers and dolphins, to negotiating deals
with Corporate Companies in the glamour of Canary Wharf. Check out
his blog at
http://ecoexperttv.blogspot.com/
He
currently works for British Trust for Conservation Volunteers and
counts amongst his experience work with: - the Environment Agency,
Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Earthwatch Atul is
running in the Telford 10k Road Race on 20 December 2009, to raise
funds for BTCV - you can support him at: -
http://www.justgiving.com/Eco-Expert
With a Masters Degree in Environmental Management, Atul has studied
local environments throughout the UK as well as Italy, Kenya and
Egypt.
Atul is seen here
presenting the award for Best Green Campaigner at the 2009 Green
Awards with Janey Lee Grace. Highly Commended: Car Free Walks -
Car Free Walks
Atul continues works as a fundraiser for environmental projects,
writing applications, developing innovative project ideas and making
presentations to a variety of funding sources. Atul regularly
presents the information films, live radio broadcasts and live
events for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers. He has
lead exclusive interviews with celebrity environmentalists including
Sir David Attenborough and Chris Packham, as well as the leaders of
the Green Party and a number of MPs. His latest promotional film was
premiered at Buckingham Palace where he was congratulated by the
Duke of Edinburgh!
Atul is passionate about explaining to the public the practical
things that they can and can’t do, and where governments, private
companies and charities have their role to play, reassuring us that
it’s not all doom and gloom!
With a passion for practical action, Atul volunteered for a dolphin
conservation project with Earthwatch in Australia in 2000,
monitoring dolphins off the Queensland coast in order to map areas
that are important to protect as marine reserves. He has worked for
both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth as a ‘chugger’ - one of
those street fundraisers you try to avoid in the street! He got
stuck into practical conservation volunteering with Nottinghamshire
Wildlife Trust and BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers)
before moving to the Environment Agency as a fundraiser, bringing in
hundreds of thousands of pounds for environmental projects.
As environmental issues such as climate change and loss of global
biodiversity are increasingly recognised by the public, Atul
believes the environmental movement has achieved its first aim of
raising awareness, and the emphasis is now on practical action at
all levels, from individuals, to businesses and ultimately
governmental co-operation at the global level.
Academic
MSc Environmental Management: Distinction. University of Nottingham.
• Landscape Research Group Dissertation Award: 3rd in UK 2000 for BA
Geography dissertation: A Cultural Geography of the 1999 Solar
Eclipse in Cornwall
• University of Nottingham Geography Prizes for best student and
best human geography student, 2000.
• University of Nottingham Exhibition Award for outstanding work,
1999.
