Martin WarrenMartin Warren has studied the ecology and conservation of butterflies for more than 50 years, including research on threatened species, land-use management and climate change. He trained at Imperial College and University College London, and udertook a PhD on butterfly ecology at the University of Cambridge. He was butterfly specialist for the Nature Conservancy Council before joining Butterfly Conservation as their first Conservation Officer in 1993. He retired as the Chief Executive of Butterfly Conservation in 2016, and is currently Head of Development with Butterfly Conservation Europe.

Martin has published more than 300 scientific papers during his career, as well as hundreds of reports, and is the author of the Butterflies volume in the British Wildlife Collection. In 2007 he won the Marsh Award for Insect Conservation from the Royal Entomological Society, and has appeared in the top 10 list of British conservationists in BBC Wildlife magazine. He was awarded an OBE for services to the environment in 2017. Read More Read Less