Film & Media

Birdgirl Blog Interviewed in Economic Injustice "Mya-Rose Craig tells the story of how she set up Black2Nature to help give young people in visible minority ethnic communities access to nature and tackle the lack of diversity in green spaces. She also talks about the climate emergency and the need for more urgent action." Find their [...]

Birdgirl Blog Panel Interview for Rob Hopkins at Transition Network Panel Interview for Rob Hopkins at Transition Network In May 2020 I did a panel interview with Rob Hoskins and Sam Lee. It was based on ‘From What If to What Next’ which asked listeners to send in their ‘What If’ questions about the future [...]

Birdgirl Blog BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour – a young female environmentalist BBC Radio 4's Women's Hour is an iconic radio programme listened to by huge numbers of women.  I recently had a friend's mum e-mail to say that I had been mentioned on the programme as an environmentalist to watch. I am feeling so pleased [...]

Birdgirl Blog Birdwatch Magazine – Birders Choice Awards 2019 Birdwatch Magazine's Birder's Choice Awards are the most prestigious in the UK. Back in 2015 I was nominated for the Blogger of the Year Awards and came second to the high profile conservationist (and ex-senior staff at the RSPB) I was really pleased with that, especially [...]

Birdgirl Blog My Article in Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine This is an article I have written for Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine, about the racism within the nature conservation and environmental sector and the need for the sectors to become ethnically diverse. https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5422-calling-out-racisms-to-save-our-planet.html "If the environmental sector fails to become ethnically diverse, it fails to bring on board an [...]

Birdgirl Blog Chatting to Lush I am really really pleased to be on Lush Player with Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig's Podcast which I am particularly excited about as Lush is my favourite shop and perfect for me as a teen vegetarian/almost vegan, environmentally friendly, low impact products that actually work and smell great too. Also, Lush is a Bristolian slang [...]

Birdgirl Blog Podcast “all about me” for The Sound Approach by Charlie Moores  Young environmentalist and birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig This is a podcast that I did for Charlie Moores from The Sound Approach (TSA) podcast. I am talking about birding in the UK, world birding, Race Equality in Nature, racism, twitter trolls and being [...]

Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig Copyright “Too Much of a Person” toomuchofaperson.com   This was a project that I took part in Too much of a person curated by Diana Patient, the founder and creative director. I was really privileged to take part in this project, which empowered me so much as a young girl and one […]

Birdgirl Blog Teen Backchat The April edition of Birdwatching Magazine had a full page article called "Backchat with Mya-Rose Craig" with some quick fire fun question and answers. This is the online full version Birdwatching Magazine Article   Hope you enjoy it! About The Author Hi, I’m Dr. Mya-Rose Craig. I am a 19-year-old prominent [...]

Birdgirl Blog Article in The Guardian 2018 I was enormously honoured to be interviewed for an article in The Guardian 2018 looking at diversity in nature by Stephen Moss and to influence his findings as well introducing him to VME nature writer Zakiya MacKenzie. The Guardian Improving children's access to nature and addressing inequality I [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview on ITV West News – age 11 year old When I was 11 years old, I saw my 3000th bird species in the world. It was a stunning Regent Bowerbird which I saw on my second day in Queensland, Australia at Lamington National Park in July 2013. I had spent 6 months [...]

Birdgirl Blog Silent Roars – A short film on BBCFour Copyright BBCFour https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-the-silent-roars-2017-online Watch me tonight in this amazing short film, talking about the Islamaphobic bullying I get on social media. Fantastic to be in the film with Munroe Bergdorf, the Black transgender model recently sacked by L'Oreal for her honest views on racism and [...]

Birdgirl Blog Being on BBC Radio 4’s Tweet of the Day – Wed 17 May 2017 On Wednesday 17th May 2017 at 5.58 am GMT I was on Radio 4 'Tweet of the Day'. Listen to it on IPlayer  on http://bbc.in/2r3ZYNc. I talked about seeing a Black-browed Albatross in Cornwall when I was only 7 [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview for BBC Radio 4 “You and Yours” Young Birder Mya-Rose Birdgirl Craig in her garden Photograph taken by and copyright Chris Craig During the Easter holidays, I was contacted by a journalist, Jess Quayle, from the 'You and Yours' consumer programme from Radio 4. They were planning a feature about the number [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview with University of West of England first year journalism student Tamara Toothill In March I did an interview for a University of West of England (UWE) first year journalism student, Tamara Toothill, for her end of year project. I always like to give time to students as I hope that when I [...]

Birdgirl Blog Being the Friends of the Earth Magazine Earth Matters’ Front Cover Last December, Friends of the Earth UK asked me if I would be interviewed for their magazine. I do quite a few interviews so said yes, thinking nothing of it. The following week, Friends of the Earth asked if their photographer could [...]

Birdgirl Blog White-tailed Eagle – An incredible Garden Bird Friday 28th October 2016 was the most amazing day for me as a Compton Martin birder in the Chew Valley. It was the half-term school holidays and I was hanging around at home hoping for a rare bird to turn up somewhere in the country. Little [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview on BBC Points West News On Thursday 1st December 2016 I did a live interview on BBC Radio Bristol breakfast show about Black2Nature, my Race Equality in Nature Conference and getting ethnic Minority people out into nature. That morning and evening, BBC1 Points West News also showed an interview with me about [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview on Bristol’s Ujima Radio Recently, I did a radio interview with John Kennington at inner city Ujima Radio for their programme of Minority Ethnic elders. I talked about Black2Nature, about how the majority of Minority Ethnic old people were born "back home" in rural places where they were able to play outside [...]

Birdgirl Blog Black2Nature in The Wildlife Trusts’ Magazines In November 2017, an article that I wrote about my Race Equality in Nature Conference and my Black2Nature project appeared in The Wildlife Trusts Winter Magazine, Natural World. The Magazine is read by all members of the individual Wildlife Trusts, to a huge 880,000 people. I wrote [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview in BBC Wildlife Magazine The BBC Wildlife Magazine October 2016 Edition had an article about Minority Ethnic people and about the fact that they were not going out into nature. Parts of an interview by me were included on page 32, "Diverse Nature" with a photo. The article is an interesting one and [...]

Birdgirl Blog ABA Magazine’s article about me and the Sundarbans oil spill The American Birding Association has got a huge membership and has a quarterly magazine.  The Magazine just out is called "Birders' Guide to Conservation and Community" with lots of brilliant articles about sex, race and getting young people into nature. Noah Strycker (last [...]

Birdgirl Blog My Article in New Internationalist Magazine This is my latest article which is for New Internationalist Magazine Blog about the impact fashion has on the environment http://bit.ly/1ZP6zmu and is called "Why I love Pre-loved, Unloved and Recycled". Wikipedia states: New Internationalist is published by New Internationalist Publications, a co-operative-run publisher based in Oxford, England. It [...]

Birdgirl Blog Appearing in The Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine Today I appeared in The Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine http://www.theecologist.org/campaigning/2987537/opening_up_the_debate_on_gmos_to_the_voices_of_the_future.html When I heard that the GMO campaign by Beyond GM that I had been involved in called "Our Food our Future" with my video on GMO's had appeared in The Resurgence and Ecologist, I knew it [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview with Natursidan in Swedan Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig at Chew Valley Lake Photograph taken by Oliver Edwards Photography I've given a few interviews in the last few months, but this one was a little different.  It was for a Swedish website www.Natursidan.se written by a birder Erik Hansson http://bit.ly/1VcXKUW Often when we travel around [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview for Indiana Young Birder’s Club Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig in Queensland, Australia Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig     At the end of last year I gave an interview to Indiana Young Birders' Club for their magazine, The Warbler which was published in their Fall Edition, http://bit.ly/23kiPBa   It was really [...]

Birdgirl Blog American Birding Association Birding Magazine Article Dec 2015 In the December 2015 American Birding Association magazine "Birding" I was mentioned in an article on page 8 called "ABA's Young Birders: The Future is now" as I entered the ABA Young Birder of the Year competition 2015. I was also mentioned in the birding [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview on Shepherd’s Way Radio My local Community Radio Station has a show every Wednesday evening called Shepherd’s Way, hosted by the amazing Steve Shepherd. They talk about anything to do with nature, conservation and the environment had had had lots of famous people being interviewed. Steve Shepherd has been brilliant to me [...]

Birdgirl Blog The Wildlife Trust – Every Child Wild Podcast Sorell Lyall, Nathan Burch, Alex White, Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig, Billy Stockwell Photograph taken by and copyright Helena Craig In September, I, along with other young people interested in the nature of varying secondary school ages was invited by Lucy McRoberts of The Wildlife Trusts (TWT) [...]

Birdgirl Blog November Media Interest November was an exciting month for me. First, it started with this photo of me in Birdwatching Magazine. They had bought the photo of a child and nest box from an agency and I was really pleased that the magazine had chosen one of me...an amusing start. Birdwatching Magazine - [...]

Birdgirl Blog Interview by Prairie Birder, Charlotte Wasylik Just before I went away to East Africa for the summer, I gave an interview to Prairie Birder, Charlotte Wasylik. She is a fantastic role model, as a young female blogger and birder. She has an unbelievable number of followers, which gives me a little bit of [...]

Birdgirl Blog Top 10 Tips on How to be a Birder   A Young Birder's Birdgirl Mya-Rose Craig at Chew Valley Lake Photograph taken by and copyright Oliver Edwards Photography Last year I was interviewed by Ben Hoare, the features editor at BBC Wildlife Magazine, for an article in BBC Countryfile Magazine. I met Ben [...]