Celebrating Women Today and Everyday
We are a small UK-based business who work with clients that range from fierce environmental lawyers to passionate fly-fishing brands and conservation organisations. Many of the environmental causes we support involve a collection of very strong women working to protect our waterways, pioneering new ways to promote wild game, and putting sustainability in the spotlight.
As a small but mighty team of three women ourselves, today, on International Women’s Day, and every day, we are celebrating and championing women.
Exemplar of the strength of women is Penny Gane, Head of Practice at Fish Legal. Penny will stop at nothing to fight against pollution on our rivers and she does so with inspirational integrity and vigour.
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Another brilliant client, British Game Assurance (BGA), are also continuously celebrating women. In particular, those that are leading the way forward in the world of fieldsports. Together, key female voices within the industry are simultaneously creating a community of women to support one another and pioneering new ways of promoting wild game.
Louisa Clutterbuck, Director of Operations at BGA, Head of Eat Wild, and Founder of Women Who Work in Fieldsports, said: “As a woman working in a very male-dominated industry, I feel proud to be at the forefront of pioneering new ways of promoting game through EatWild, BGA’s public facing campaign for game. Over the past four years, EatWild has had a real impact in promoting the high welfare, nutritional benefits and the sustainability of game meat. We have directly addressed consumers, many of whom had never heard of game, in a multi-faceted way from handing out over 15,000 leaflets on the streets of London to building campaigns, creating new and exciting recipes, collaborations and communication across several social media channels. As a result of my experiences as a woman in this sector, I wanted to create a platform for others in a similar position to come together and support each other. With the help of Vanessa and Iona at GWCT, Women Who Work in Fieldsports has been set up to create an open, accessible community of women in the fishing and shooting sector and I am positive that this will be a powerful place for women to gain the skills necessary to succeed in this industry.”
“Women Who Work in Fieldsports” (WWWF), a network intended for women across the industry to support and inspire each other, has been set up by Louisa, alongside Vanessa Steel (above left) and Iona Campbell (above right), from the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT), and is set to host a launch event on 21st March 2023. Women from across the UK will come together In Conversation with Alexandra Henton, Editor of the Field, and our very own Director of Zambuni Communications, Claire Zambuni.
Claire Zambuni, Director of Zambuni Communications, said: “It is an honour to have been asked to speak at the launch of WWWF. I have worked in the fieldsports arena for almost 20 years now, setting up my own business, being a single mother, and championing other women along the way. Since the start, I have seen so many positive changes, but I can still see so many ways that the experiences of women, in particular younger females coming into the industry now can be improved. There is still a long way to go for women’s skills and expertise to be recognised as equal to men’s, so I fully support WWWF’s aim of closing this gap. Women have so much to offer; they work hard and smart while juggling external pressures. Now, it is time for women to celebrate their worth and we need to give them the confidence to do so.”
For more information on WWWF and to book, please follow this link.
MSA Marine Data Modelling Scientist, Emma Tyldesley during her trip to the International Year of the Salmon Symposium, Vancouver last year (2022)
Last but not least, The Missing Salmon Alliance also welcomes International Women’s Day 2023, and in celebration, we spoke to MSA Marine Data Modelling Scientist, Emma Tyldesley, whose invaluable work aids the Missing Salmon Alliance initiatives.
Emma explained her work as a woman within the world of conservation: “I’m an oceanographer at University of Strathclyde, working with the Missing Salmon Alliance (MSA) to build a solid science basis for the conservation of wild salmon. I use real-world and 3D ocean model data to map changes in the marine ecosystem supporting salmon. We want to know what affects marine survival of wild salmon and how we can buffer their populations against future change. This is all part of the MSA's Likely Suspects Framework; creating an ecosystem and evidence-based approach to salmon management.” She continued with a positive outlook for women in the industry, “My background is in maths and programming, which are sometimes seen as male-dominated fields, but I’ve never felt that being a woman has reduced the opportunities available for working in conservation science. If you’re a woman who’s into quantitative science, there are so many roles available to you in environmental science and education.”