Joshua Powell

Joshua John Powell CF (born 16 July 1993) is a British conservation biologist. He is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity. Education Powell attended Cranbrook School, Kent. Powell subsequently attended the University of Nottingham and graduated with a first-class Honours Bachelor of Science degree in geography in 2014, before receiving a Thouron Award to complete his master's degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Career Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, followed by South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. In 2021, Powell produced and featured in Saving Britain's Islands, a short educational film on island conservation, funded by the British Ecological Society. The film featured conservation projects in New Zealand and South Georgia. Powell then received a grant from the 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) at the University of Oxford, with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.