Thirteen-year-old Mya-Rose Craig, known as Birdgirl, has racked up yet more accolades, receiving several award nominations and having just become the youngest person in the world to have seen 4,000 species of bird.
Environmentalist, conservationist, blogger and birder, Mya-Rose, from Compton Martin, has just returned from a summer trip to Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya. It was in Kenya that she saw her 4,000th bird species, the red throated tit at Swara Plains, just south of Nairobi.
She also loved tracking Mountain Gorillas while in Uganda and is looking forward to visiting Antarctica, her seventh continent, to watch penguins this December.
Aside from getting a new record, Mya-Rose who was featured on a list of Bristol’s most influential young people earlier this year, alongside George Ezra and Maisie Williams, has now been nominated for two prestigious awards. Firstly, as Local Hero of the Year, for her work setting up Camp Avalon, a birding weekend for teenagers and Blog of the Year Award, for her popular blog, birdgirluk.blogspot.co.uk
To find out more and vote for her, head to www.birdwatch.co.uk/open/?page=birders-choice-2015 and for more information on Camp Avalon, please see: bird girluk.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/camp-avalon-articles-in-sos-and-avalon.html
As well as holding the record for being the youngest person to see so many species, Mya-Rose has spent this year being Bristol European Green Capital 2015’s youngest ambassador, sharing the job alongside Kevin McCloud, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Tony Juniper, Simon King, Miranda Krestovnikoff and Shaun the Sheep.