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David Bellamy to give open lecture
Professor David Bellamy OBE, international botanist, writer and broadcaster, will give an open lecture at the University of Kent on Wednesday 19 March.
Titled Natural history: it had to happen, Professor Bellamy's lecture will take place at 6pm in the Brabourne Lecture Theatre, Keynes College, on the University's Canterbury campus, and is free and open to all. There is disabled access to Keynes College and the lecture theatre.
Professor David Bellamy is one of the most recognisable faces and voices in ecology and conservation today. Born in London, he originally trained as a botanist at Durham University, where he later held the post of senior lecturer in botany until 1982. He first came to public prominence as an environmental consultant at the time of the 1967 Torrey Canyon disaster. In 1983, he was jailed for blockading Australia's Franklin River in protest at a proposed dam. He has been the writer and presenter of some 400 television programmes on botany, ecology and the environment.
He is also the originator, along with David Shreeve and the Conservation Foundation (which he also founded), of the Ford European Conservation Awards.
Professor Bellamy has published over 80 scientific papers and more than 40 books.
Contact: mediaoffice@kent.ac.uk
Story published at 12:02pm 17 March 2008
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