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Dr Julia Knights

Julia is Editor of Ecology & Conservation for Panorama: Journal of Travel Place and Nature. A soil and climate scientist, Julia has over 20 years experience in plant biodiversity, climate change, sustainable agriculture and conservation.

For 12 years she was a British Diplomat, working in some of the greatest biodiversity hotspots in the world including in China, Russia, Brazil, Argentina and Chile overseeing major research funding programmes including for new plant species in the Amazon rainforest. 

Julia is a Chartered Horticulturalist, a Trustee of the Woodland Trust and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology. She is also a member of the Royal Society’s Public Engagement Committee and is passionate about plants and fungi and addressing the extinction crisis and climate emergency.