James borrell is a conservation scientist and science communicator, with a particular interest in how species adapt to changing climate.

The world as you’ve never seen it before II

This is what 9.07 billion people looks like, the prediction for 2050. In this brave new world 62% of the population will live in Africa, Southern and Eastern Asia. Notice Russia, South America and Australia as they shrink in comparison.

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James is a highly acclaimed public speaker, delivering keynotes, lectures and debates to a wide range of audiences including students, the public, conservation practioners and scientists. Rather than further polarizing already divisive conservation topics, James aims to explain the complexity and nuance of conservation. What we choose to do over the next five decades, will profoundly influence the diversity of life on eath for the next 5 million years. It’s never been a more important, or more exciting time to be a conservationist.

“It was refreshing to have a speaker who talked with such passion”

City of London Freemen's

“Interesting, informative and pitched at exactly the right level for our students.”

Academic summer school

“You had the audience hanging off your every word.”

British Exploring,

“You gave a splendid talk – cogent, passionate, clear and compelling.”

Fellow of the Royal Society,