About the Author

Dara McAnulty is a naturalist, conservationist and activist from Northern Ireland. He’s received many awards for his conservation work, including from BBC Springwatch, the Daily Mirror and Birdwatch magazine. He’s written and presented numerous natural history programs for BBC radio and television, and is an ambassador for the RSPCA, the iWill campaign and the Jane Goodall Institute. Dara is the youngest-ever recipient of the RSPB medal for conservation. He lives with his family and Rosie the rescue greyhound at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in County Down. Diary of a Young Naturalist is his first book.

Reviews

‘McAnulty's writing glows with his deep sympathy for the natural world.’
*Tim Flannery*

‘Dara’s is an extraordinary voice and vision: brave, poetic, ethical, lyrical, strong enough to have made him heard and admired from a young age.’
*Robert Macfarlane*

‘Captivating…[Dara McAnulty’s] diary covers everyday events under the panoply of the eternal natural world…a brilliant achievement.’
*Age/Sydney Morning Herald*

‘The depth of [McAnulty’s] feeling illuminates every page of this miraculous memoir.’
*Observer*