Pamela Abbott joins Natural Cambridgeshire as Partnership Director

Natural Cambridgeshire has appointed Pamela Abbott as its new Partnership Director. Pamela will lead the charity’s work to double nature across Peterborough and Cambridgeshire from September.

Pamela has a long career in nature conservation and extensive knowledge of the conservation agenda of the county. She was previously Chair of the Cambridge Conservation Forum and Chief Executive of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. She is also a hands-on conservationist with a passion for practical conservation action and, as chair of Citizen Zoo, has been closely involved in helping the large marsh grasshopper return to its native haunts in East Anglia: https://www.citizenzoo.org/our-work/hop-of-hope

She will bring additional skills, experience and capacity to Natural Cambridgeshire’s efforts to take forward the doubling nature agenda across the county and to put nature at the heart of the collective agenda. Her appointment will help the charity’s partners to create new habitats for nature, improve public health, support sustainable growth and community cohesion and offering people greater access the nature. She will work closely with Helen Dye, the charity’s Partnership Co-ordinator.

Richard Astle, chair of Natural Cambridgeshire, said, “I am delighted that Pamela will be joining us and leading our work to help nature recover. Cambridgeshire has one of the most depleted natural environments in the country, but there is now a strong consensus and determination to reverse the decline of so many iconic species and create new places for wildlife to thrive. That will not only benefit wildlife, but also local people who can look forward to more and better opportunities to enjoy the sights and sounds of nature.  It will also benefit business and investment too – as we know how important it is for sustainable businesses to be part of a strong local environment.”

Pamela said, “It’s a privilege to join Natural Cambridgeshire at such an exciting point in the journey towards the goal of doubling nature across the county.  Connecting people with nature at all scales from nurturing individual actions, partnering in community projects and collaborating to deliver landscape scale partnerships has always been at the heart of my way of working. I look forward to building collaborations with communities and land managers across the county to create, expand, improve and connect habitats for wildlife.”

Her appointment has been made possible through revenue funding from the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority.