We are delighted to welcome back Dr Chris Gibson, a conservationist by profession, and an ecologist by training, everything he has done has been linked to his life-long passion for natural history. In 2009 he was awarded the David Bellamy Award of the British Naturalists’ Association, recognising ‘a naturalist of distinction’. Now he have the time and opportunity to return to his roots as a naturalist, and to do what he does best – trying to enthuse others about the natural world.