Mya-Rose Craig is a 15-year-old British Bangladeshi birder, naturalist, conservationist, environmentalist, activist, writer and speaker. She is based near Bristol and writes the successful Birdgirl Blog, with posts about birding and conservation from around the world. She has birded all the continents and was the youngest to see 4000 birds. She was a Bristol European Green Capital Ambassador and has also been listed as one of Bristol’s most influential young people. She is an Ambassador for World Shorebird Day, See it her Way and a Charter Champion for The Charter for Trees, Woods and People. She has organised Camp Avalon for 3 years, a camp for young naturalists and Minority Ethnic teenagers and the Race Equality in Nature Conference in June 2016 aiming to increase the ethnic diversity in nature. She has also set up Black2Nature with the aim of working with organisations to increase the access to nature of BAME people as well as the Race Equality in Nature LinkedIn Group. She hopes to become a nature presenter.
Craig, Mya-Rose
