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**Joshua John Powell** [CF](/source/Winston_Churchill_Memorial_Trusts) (born 16 July 1993) is a British conservation biologist.[1][2] He is one of the faces of [WWF's](/source/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature) #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity.[3]

## Education

Powell attended [Cranbrook School, Kent](/source/Cranbrook_School,_Kent).[4] Powell subsequently attended the [University of Nottingham](/source/University_of_Nottingham) and graduated with a [first-class Honours](/source/British_undergraduate_degree_classification) Bachelor of Science degree in geography in 2014,[5] before receiving a [Thouron Award](/source/Thouron_Award) to complete his master's degree at the [University of Pennsylvania](/source/University_of_Pennsylvania).[6][7]

## Career

Powell received a [UK Churchill Fellowship](/source/Winston_Churchill_Memorial_Trusts) in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and [Fiji](/source/Fiji),[8][9] followed by [South Georgia](/source/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands) and the [Falkland Islands](/source/Falkland_Islands).[10] In 2021, Powell produced and featured in *Saving Britain's Islands*, a short educational film on island conservation, funded by the [British Ecological Society](/source/British_Ecological_Society).[11] The film featured conservation projects in New Zealand and South Georgia.[12]

Powell then received a grant from the [National Geographic Society](/source/National_Geographic_Society) to establish Rangers Without Borders, a conservation research program he subsequently founded with Peter Coals, a friend from the [Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU)](/source/WildCRU) at the [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford),[13][14] with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.[15]

Powell is one of the faces of [WWF's](/source/World_Wide_Fund_for_Nature) #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity,[16] for which he has hosted series on polar science and Arctic conservation in [Svalbard](/source/Svalbard) and [Arctic Russia](/source/Franz_Josef_Land),[17] island and marine conservation in the [North Atlantic](/source/Atlantic_Ocean)[18] and biodiversity in [South Georgia](/source/South_Georgia_and_the_South_Sandwich_Islands). Powell featured in promotional videos for [Earth Hour](/source/Earth_Hour) in 2019 and 2021, appearing alongside other youth advocates and Australian actress, [Margot Robbie](/source/Margot_Robbie).[19][20]

In 2020, Powell became an advisor for [The Queen's Commonwealth Trust](/source/The_Queen's_Commonwealth_Trust),[21] a charity that funds, champions and assists the projects of youth advocates throughout the [Commonwealth](/source/Commonwealth_of_Nations).[22]

## Awards and honours

Powell received a UK [Churchill Fellowship](/source/Winston_Churchill_Memorial_Trusts) in 2017,[23][24] receiving the honorific CF in 2019.

In 2019, Powell was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Explorer Award for Inspiration & Scientific Trail-blazing.[25] In 2021, Powell was named one of the Explorers Club 50: Fifty people changing the world.[26]

## References

1. ["Joshua Powell"](https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/joshua-powell). *National Geographic Society*

1. Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). ["Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell"](https://besconservationsig.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/conservation-career-stories-joshua-powell/). *Conservation Ecology Group*

1. ["Joshua Powell CF"](https://www.queenscommonwealthtrust.org/team-QCT/?name=joshua-powell-cf). *Queen's Commonwealth Trust*

1. ["Joshua Powell 2006 – 2011 Horsley"](https://oldcranbrookians.com/frmProfile.aspx?S=rq68tg7). *Old Cranbrookians' Association*

1. Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). ["Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell"](https://besconservationsig.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/conservation-career-stories-joshua-powell/). *Conservation Ecology Group*

1. Baillie, Katherine (13 May 2016). ["Penn Graduate Student Selected as a St. Gallen 'Leader of Tomorrow'"](https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-graduate-student-selected-st-gallen-leader-tomorrow). *Penn Today*

1. Krueger, Alyson (24 October 2019). ["Protecting Nature's Protectors"](https://thepenngazette.com/protecting-natures-protectors/). *The Pennsylvania Gazette*

1. ["Joshua Powell"](https://www.wcmt.org.uk/users/joshuapowell2017). *Winston Churchill Memorial Trust*

1. Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". *All About Horsham*. **October 2017**: 45–47.

1. ["Meet the meat-eating ducks of South Georgia"](https://www.metro.news/meet-the-meat-eating-ducks-of-south-georgia/1946990/). *METRO News*. 17 March 2020.

1. ["What's on: Island conservation: protecting global biodiversity"](https://www.zsl.org/science/whats-on/island-conservation-protecting-global-biodiversity). *ZSL Institute of Zoology*

1. ["Making the film 'Saving Britain's Islands'"](https://www.zsl.org/blogs/science/making-the-film-saving-britains-islands). *ZSL Institute of Zoology*. 8 February 2021.

1. ["Rangers Without Borders: protecting nature in divided lands"](https://geographical.co.uk/people/explorers/item/3578-rangers). *Geographical*. 31 January 2020.

1. "RANGERS WITHOUT BORDERS working for wildlife in the Caucasus, a geopolitical and biodiversity hotspot". *The Explorers Journal*. **97** (3): 38–47.

1. ["Joshua Powell - National Geographic Society"](https://www.nationalgeographic.org/find-explorers/joshua-powell). *National Geographic*

1. ["Joshua Powell: Protecting endangered species"](https://www.queenscommonwealthtrust.org/inspiration/endangered-species-conservation-joshua-powell/). *Queen's Commonwealth Trust*. 17 May 2019.

1. Wright, Rosalie (30 January 2020). ["Conservation Career Stories: Joshua Powell"](https://besconservationsig.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/conservation-career-stories-joshua-powell/). *Conservation Ecology Group*

1. ["The Wild North Atlantic"](https://wwf.exposure.co/thewildnorthatlantic). *wwf.exposure*. 27 August 2019.

1. ["Connect to Earth"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Al8enTasvE&ab_channel=EarthHour). *YouTube*. 18 March 2019.

1. ["Earth Hour"](https://www.instagram.com/p/CMHL7uJH02y/). *Instagram (@earthhourofficial)*. [Archived](https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/CMHL7uJH02y) 2021-12-26 at the Wayback Machine.

1. ["Joshua Powell CF"](https://www.queenscommonwealthtrust.org/team-QCT/?name=joshua-powell-cf). *Queen's Commonwealth Trust*

1. ["Queen's Commonwealth Trust - About"](https://www.queenscommonwealthtrust.org/about/). *Queen's Commonwealth Trust*

1. ["Joshua Powell"](https://www.wcmt.org.uk/users/joshuapowell2017). *Winston Churchill Memorial Trust*

1. Morris, Ben (October 2017). "Scientific Adventurer". *All About Horsham*. **October 2017**: 45–47.

1. ["SES EXPLORER AWARD WINNERS 2019"](https://www.ses-explore.org/ses-explorer-award-winners-2019). *SES-Explore*

1. ["The Explorers Club 50: Fifty people changing the world who the world needs to know about"](https://explorers.org/pdf/EC-50-screen.pdf). *The Explorers Journal*

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