Evolving Conservation Leaders

Evolving Conservation Leaders

We provide support for young people with the passion, motivation and aptitude to become future leaders within the conservation and environmental sectors. Tailored leadership training We believe everyone is a leader and that leadership skills are just as important to...
Barry’s welcome

Barry’s welcome

Barry’s welcome Lead Like Mary Lead Like Mary is the title of a leadership book Barry published in 2014.  It was his attempt to get down into one place the breadth of material he was already teaching on authentic leadership, so he could use it as a resource for...
Can you help us support Dembo?

Can you help us support Dembo?

Over the last two years, Dembo Jatta, one of our Stars of the Future from The Gambia has been working as a Research Assistant at Kartong Bird Observatory. As part of this role Dembo has been training to become a qualified bird ringer, and we are delighted that he has...
With OLF in Africa : January 2020

With OLF in Africa : January 2020

Sitting at home now in splendid self-isolation on a sunny March afternoon, it seems hardly possible that exactly two months ago I was in West Africa with about a dozen ‘Osprey’ companions from Rutland, Dorset and Cumbria as part of the eighth expedition to Gambia and...
Spotlight on…. Paul Stammers

Spotlight on…. Paul Stammers

It was April 1998 and I had been volunteering with the Rutland Osprey Project for 2 years. Retirement was looming after 34 years of a career in engineering and the question was ‘ How would I occupy my time?’ As it turned out that was a silly question, as 22 years...