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Bill Boteler began volunteering as a Conservation Careers Blogger in May 2020. Since that time Bill has interviewed professional conservationists from across the globe, and written nine articles sharing careers advice with aspiring conservationists - including students and career switchers. This work involved researching diverse conservation topics, conducting interviews, writing creatively and editing articles for publication. Bill has a particular knack for finding and sharing unique stories - including uncovering unusual and exciting career paths within the conservation sector, such as art, comedy and even bringing back plant species from the very brink of extinction. He has also been an engaged and active member of the Conservation Careers community more widely - participating in weekly and monthly live events, asking questions, and sharing resources and ideas. He is always willing to go the extra mile with his work, and to step up and support other aspiring conservationists by sharing insights, advice and encouragement. It’s been a pleasure to work with him, and his communications skills, dedication and passion are great assets in the conservation sector.

Kristi Foster

Head of Engagement, Conservation Careers

Bill Boteler and I have been colleagues since I published his first communication in April 2015. My husband and I had started the non-profit Grassroots Coalition for Environmental and Economic Justice in 1990 and our lives were devoted to our mission of “…creating the critical mass of active participants needed to bring ecological justice to this Earth by providing information and resources to individuals which encourage and assist them to make lifestyle changes beneficial to the environment and to effectively grapple with local and global environmental concerns.”

My role in that work was publishing a climate change newspaper, which I continue to do. Bill has helped me find excellent articles to publish either as briefs or in full, and he has contributed his own wonderful and thoughtful writing many times.

Two years ago, I created a stronger Board of Directors. Bill became our Secretary and has compiled the most thorough Minutes I have ever seen in my 56 years of environmental activism, during which I have been Secretary and done a less-than-ideal job of drawing up Minutes. Since our Coalition became an international organization two years ago, it was imperative that each person’s verbal comments during our Zoom meetings was recorded accurately. Bill did that for us. He also captured the difficulties our African members had with their Internet connections as they appeared, then vanished, then reappeared, then vanished until we finally lost them. Anyone reading Bill’s Minutes can see how we struggled to accomplish our goals of sharing ideas, supporting each other, and learning about each other’s cultures.

Iona Conner Editor, Groundswell News