Film & Media

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element "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 [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 we can create [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 and proud! Thank you to [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 as it [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 increasingly large [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element  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 President of Black2Nature. The Sound Approach [...]

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 This is custom heading element 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 [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 This is custom heading element 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 in South America in 2012 [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 white privilege, following [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 years old. I went into the BBC Bristol studios [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 of people feeding [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 need help someone will give a little of [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 come down to Bristol and take [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 did I [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 Black2Nature, [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 This is custom heading element 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 about [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 This is custom heading element 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 year's Big World Year winner, [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 has [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 was significant [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 This is custom heading element 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 interesting [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 milestones section on [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 This is custom heading element 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) to take part [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element 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 hope. [...]

Birdgirl Blog This is custom heading element   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 at Chew Valley Lake [...]