David Bellamy
David Bellamy OBE | |
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 Bellamy in 1981 | |
| Born | David James Bellamy (1933-01-18) 18 January 1933 London, England |
| Education | Sutton County Grammar School; Chelsea College of Science and Technology (now part of King's College London); Bedford College (now part of Royal Holloway, University of London) |
| Employer | Durham University |
| Known for | botanist, author, broadcast presenter, environmental campaigner |
| Spouse(s) | Rosemary Froy (m. 1959) |
| Children | 5 |
David James Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English author, broadcaster, environmental campaigner and botanist. He has lived in County Durham since 1960.[1]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Scientific career
3 Publishing career and related
4 Promotional and conservation work
5 Broadcasting career
6 Chronology of TV appearances and radio broadcasts[12][13]
6.1 Activism
7 Views on global warming
8 Recognition
9 Honours and awards
10 Bibliography
10.1 Discovering the Countryside with David Bellamy
10.2 Forewords
11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Early life
Bellamy went to school in London, attending Chatsworth Road Primary School Cheam, Cheam Road Junior School and Sutton County Grammar School, where he initially showed an aptitude for English Literature and History; he then found his vocation because of an inspirational science teacher, studying Zoology, Botany, Physics and Chemistry in the sixth form.[2] He gained an honours degree in Botany at Chelsea College of Science and Technology (now part of King's College London) and a PhD at Bedford College in 1960.[3]
Scientific career
His first work in a scientific environment was as a laboratory assistant at Ewell Technical College[4] before he studied for his BSc at Chelsea.
In 1960 he became a lecturer in the Botany department of Durham University.[5]
The work that brought him to public prominence was his environmental consultancy on the Torrey Canyon oil spill in 1967, about which he wrote a paper in the leading scientific journal, Nature.[6]
Bellamy published many scientific papers and books between 1966 and 1986 (see #Bibliography). Many books were associated with TV series that he worked on.
During the 1980s he replaced Big Chief I-Spy as the figurehead of the I-Spy range of children's books, to whom completed books were sent to get a reward. In 1980 he released a single written by Mike Croft with musical arrangement by Dave Grosse to coincide with the release of the I-Spy title I Spy Dinosaurs (about dinosaur fossils) entitled "Brontosaurus Will You Wait For Me?" (backed with "Oh Stegosaurus"). He performed it on Blue Peter wearing an orange jump suit. It reached number 88 in the charts.[7]
Promotional and conservation work
The New Zealand Tourism Department, a government agency, became involved with the Coast to Coast adventure race in 1988 as they recognised the potential for event tourism. They organised and funded foreign journalists to come and cover the event. One of those was Bellamy, who did not just report from the event, but decided to compete. While in the country, Bellamy worked on a documentary series Moa's Ark that was released by Television New Zealand in 1990.[8][9]
Bellamy is the originator, along with David Shreeve and the Conservation Foundation (which he also founded), of the Ford European Conservation Awards.
Broadcasting career
After his TV appearances concerning the Torrey Canyon disaster, his exuberant and demonstrative presentation of science topics made him a very popular presenter on programmes such as Don't Ask Me along with other scientific personalities such as Magnus Pyke, Miriam Stoppard and Rob Buckman. He has written, appeared in or presented hundreds of television programmes on botany, ecology, environmental and other issues. His television series included Bellamy on Botany, Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari.[10] He was regularly parodied by impersonators such as Lenny Henry on Tiswas with a "grapple me grapenuts" catchphrase. His distinctive voice has been used in advertising.[11]
Chronology of TV appearances and radio broadcasts[12][13]
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Activism
In 1983 he was imprisoned for blockading the Australian Franklin River in a protest against a proposed dam. On the 18 of August 1984, he leapt from the pier at St Abbs Harbour into the North Sea. In the process he officially opened Britain's first Voluntary Marine Reserve, the St. Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve. In the late 1980s he fronted a campaign in Jersey, Channel Islands, to save Queens Valley, the site of Bergerac's cottage, from being turned into a reservoir because of the presence of a rare type of snail, but was unable to stop it. In 1997 he stood unsuccessfully at Huntingdon against the incumbent Prime Minister John Major for the Referendum Party. Bellamy credits this campaign with the decline in his career as a popular celebrity and television personality, stating in 2002:[14]
"In some ways it was probably the most stupid thing I ever did because I'm sure that if I have been banned from television, that's why. I used to be on Blue Peter and all those things, regularly, and it all, pffffft, stopped."
He is a prominent campaigner against the construction of wind farms in undeveloped areas. This is despite appearing very enthusiastic about wind power in the educational video Power from the Wind[15] produced by Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board.
David Bellamy is the President of the British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc) and is a strong supporter of the BICSc plan to educate young people to care for and protect the environment. The David Bellamy Awards Programme is a competition designed to encourage schools to be aware of, and act positively towards, environmental cleanliness. Bellamy also is a patron of the British Homeopathic Association, and the UK plastic recycling charity Recoup since 1998.
Views on global warming
In his foreword to the 1989 book The Greenhouse Effect,[16] Bellamy wrote:
The profligate demands of humankind are causing far reaching changes to the atmosphere of planet Earth, of this there is no doubt. Earth's temperature is showing an upward swing, the so-called greenhouse effect, now a subject of international concern. The greenhouse effect may melt the glaciers and ice caps of the world causing the sea to rise and flood many of our great cities and much of our best farmland.
Bellamy's later statements on global warming indicate that he subsequently changed his views completely. In 2004, he wrote an article in the Daily Mail in which he described the theory of man-made global warming as "poppycock".[17] A letter he published on 16 April 2005 in New Scientist asserted that a large percentage (555 of 625) of the glaciers being observed by the World Glacier Monitoring Service were advancing, not retreating.[18]George Monbiot of The Guardian tracked down Bellamy's original source for this information and found that it was Fred Singer's website. Singer claimed to have obtained these figures from a 1989 article in the journal Science, but no such article exists.[19] Bellamy has since accepted that his figures on glaciers were wrong, and announced in a letter to The Sunday Times in 2005 that he had "decided to draw back from the debate on global warming",[20] although Bellamy jointly authored a paper with Jack Barrett in the refereed Civil Engineering journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers, entitled "Climate stability: an inconvenient proof" in May 2007.[21]
His opinions have changed the way in which some organisations view Bellamy. The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts stated in 2005 "We are not happy with his line on climate change",[22] and Bellamy was succeeded as president of the Wildlife Trusts by Aubrey Manning in November 2005.[citation needed] Bellamy has complained that his views on global warming have resulted in the rejection of programme ideas by the BBC.[23]
Recognition
Bellamy also holds or has held these positions:
- Patron of Recoup (Recycling of Used Plastics), the national charity for plastics recycling.
- Professor of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Durham.
- Hon. Prof. Central Queensland University, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Systems
- Special Professor of Botany, (Geography), University of Nottingham.
- Patron of the British Chelonia Group, For tortoise, terrapin and turtle care and conservation.[24]
President of:
- FOSUMS - Friends Of Sunderland Museums[25]
- The Conservation Foundation, UK
- The Wildlife Trusts partnership
- The Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country
- Durham Wildlife Trust
- Population Concern
- Plantlife
- WATCH
- Coral Cay Conservation[26]
- National Association for Environmental Education[27]
- British Naturalists' Association
- Galapagos Conservation Trust
- British Institute of Cleaning Science[28]
- Hampstead Heath Anglers Society[29]
- The Camping and Caravanning club[30]
- The Young People's Trust for the Environment.[31]
Vice president of:
The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)[32]
- Fauna and Flora International
- Marine Conservation Society
- Australian Marine Conservation Society
Nature in Art Trust[33]
Trustee, patron or honorary member of:
- Patron of National Gamekeepers' Organisation [34]
- Living Landscape Trust[35]
World Land Trust (1992–2002)- Patron of Southport Flower Show
- Patron, The Space Theatre, Dundee
- Hon Fellow Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
- Chairman of the international committee for the Tourism for Tomorrow Awards.
- Patron of Butterfly World Project, St. Albans, UK[36]
- BSES Expeditions
- Patron, Project AWARE Foundation[37]
- Patron of Tree Appeal[38]
- Patron of RECOrd (Local Biological Records Centre for Cheshire)
- Patron of Ted Ellis Trust
Honours and awards
Bellamy has been awarded an Honorary Dr. of Science, degree from Bournemouth University. He is the recipient of a number of other awards:
- The Dutch Order of the Golden Ark
- the U.N.E.P. Global 500 Award
- The Duke of Edinburgh's Prize (1969)[39]
BAFTA, Richard Dimbleby Award
BSAC Diver of The Year Award[citation needed]
BSAC Colin McLeod Award, 2001[40]
In 2013, Professor Chris Baines gave the inaugural David Bellamy Lecture at Buckingham Palace to honour Bellamy's 80th birthday.[41] A second David Bellamy Lecture was given by Pete Wilkinson at the Royal Geographic Society in 2014.[42]
Bibliography
Bellamy has written at least 45 books:
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ISBN 0-563-10666-2
Peatlands (1973)
Bellamy's Britain (1974)
Life Giving Sea (1975)
Green Worlds (1975)
The World of Plants (1975)
It's Life (1976)
Bellamy's Europe (1976)
Botanic Action (1978)
Botanic Man (1978)
Half of Paradise (1978)
Forces of Life (1979)
Bellamy's Backyard Safari (1981)
The Great Seasons (with Sheila Mackie, illustrator; Hodder & Stoughton, 1981)
Il Libro Verde (1981)
The Mouse Book (1983)
Bellamy's New World (1983)
The Queen's Hidden Garden (1984)
I Spy (1985)
Bellamy's Bugle (1986)
Bellamy's Ireland (1986)
Turning The Tide (1986)
Bellamy's Changing Countryside (1987)
England's Last Wilderness (1989)
England's Lost Wilderness (1990)
Wilderness Britain? (1990, Oxford Illustrated Press,
ISBN 1-85509-225-5)
Moa's Ark (with Brian Springett and Peter Hayden, 1990)
How Green Are You? (1991)
Tomorrow's Earth (1991)
World Medicine: Plants, Patients and People (1992)
Blooming Bellamy (1993)
Trees of the World (1993)
The Bellamy Herbal(2003)- Fabric Live: Bellamy Sessions (2004)
Jolly Green Giant (autobiography, 2002, Century,
ISBN 0-7126-8359-3)
A Natural Life (autobiography, 2002, Arrow,
ISBN 0-09-941496-1)
Conflicts in the Countryside: The New Battle for Britain (2005), Shaw & Sons,
ISBN 0-7219-1670-8
Discovering the Countryside with David Bellamy
Bellamy was "consultant editor and contributor" for this series, published by Hamlyn in conjunction with the Royal Society for Nature Conservation:
Coastal Walks (1982;
ISBN 0-600-35588-8)
Woodland Walks (1982;
ISBN 0-600-35658-2)
Waterside Walks (1983;
ISBN 0-600-35636-1)
Grassland Walks (1983;
ISBN 0-600-35637-X)
Forewords
Bellamy has contributed forewords or introductions to:
It's Funny About the Trees a collection of light verse by Paul Wigmore [Autolycus Press],
ISBN 0 903413 96 5 (1998)
Chris Packham's Back Garden Nature Reserve New Holland Publishers, Chris Packham, (2001)
ISBN 1-85974-520-2
The Cosmic Fairy Arthur Atkinson [pseudonym for Arthur Moppett] [Colin Smythe Limited Publishers], 1996,
ISBN 0-86140-403-3
British Naturalists Association Guide to Woodlands J L Cloudsley-Thompson
While the Earth Endures Creation, Cosmology and Climate Change Philip Foster [St Matthew Publishing Ltd]. (2008)
Marine Fish and Invertebrates of Northern Europe Frank Emil Moen & Erling Svensen [KOM Publishing].
ISBN 0-9544060-2-8 (2004)- "The Lost Australia of François Péron" Colin Wallace [Nottingham Court Press],
ISBN 0-906691-96-6 (1984)
Populate and Perish?, R. Birrell, D. Hill and J. Nevill, eds., Fontana/Australian Conservation Foundation (1984),
ISBN 0 00 636728 3
See also
- Environmentalism
References
^ Thompson, Elspeth (3 May 2006). "Counties of Britain: Durham by David Bellamy". The Daily Telegraph. London.
^ Daily Mail, 14 April 2012, Weekend Magazine p.12.
^ Professor David Bellamy OBE. "Professor David Bellamy OBE". www.royalholloway.ac.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
^ Salter, Jessica (19 November 2009). "Eco hero: David Bellamy, botanist and campaigner". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
^ Bellamy, David (2001). A Natural Life. Century.
^ Bellamy, D.J.; Clarke, P.H.; John, D.M.; Jones, D.; Whittick, A. (1 December 1967). "Effects of Pollution from the Torrey Canyon on Littoral and Sublittoral Ecosystems". Nature. 216 (5121): 1170–1173. Bibcode:1967Natur.216.1170B. doi:10.1038/2161170a0.
^ "ChartArchive - The Chart Archive". www.chartstats.com. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ McKerrow, Bob; Woods, John (1994). Coast to Coast: The Great New Zealand Race. Christchurch, New Zealand: Shoal Bay Press. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-908704-22-4.
^ "Moa's Ark". NZ on Screen. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
^ Bellamy's Backyard Safari at Wild Film History. Retrieved 1 July 2014
^ Ribena UK Ltd. "Ribena". Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ IMDb. "David Bellamy". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ "Genome". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
^ Hattenstone, Simon (30 September 2002), The Green Man, London: The Guardian, retrieved 7 November 2008
^ Jenkins, N. (September 1990), "European Wind Energy", The Environmentalist, 10 (3): 230–231, doi:10.1007/BF02240360.
^ Boyle, Stewart; Ardill, John (1989), The Greenhouse Effect, London?: New English Library, ISBN 0-450-50638-X
^ Global Warming? What a load of poppycock! by David Bellamy, Daily Mail 9 July 2004.
^ "Glaciers are cool". Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ Monbiot, George (10 May 2005), Junk Science, London: Guardian.co.uk, retrieved 7 November 2008
^ Bellamy, David (29 May 2005), In an Adverse Climate, London: Times Online, retrieved 7 November 2008
^ Bellamy, David; Barrett, David (1 May 2007), "Climate stability: an inconvenient proof", Civil Engineering, Thomas Telford Journals, 160 (2): 66, doi:10.1680/cien.2007.160.2.66, archived from the original on 15 September 2012
^ Leake, Jonathan (15 May 2005), Wildlife Groups Axe Bellamy as Global Warming 'Heretic', London: Times Online, retrieved 7 November 2008
^ David Bellamy, The price of dissent on global warming, The Australian 25 November 2008
^ "British Chelonia Group - For tortoise, terrapin and turtle care and conservation". www.britishcheloniagroup.org.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "All aboard for a heritage trip down memory lane". Sunderland Echo newspaper. 27 April 2005. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
^ Science biography. "Science biography". www.coralcay.org. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
^ Environmental Education. "Environmental Education". naee.org.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
^ Cleanzine. "David Bellamy OBE steps down as President of BICSc". www.bics.org.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
^ "東京脱毛サロン脱毛士の美肌促進ブログ". www.hhasoc.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Club History". www.campingandcaravanningclub.co.uk. 8 June 2016. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Our Team - Presidents, Trustees and Staff - Young People's Trust For the Environment". Young People's Trust For the Environment. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Governance". The Conservation Volunteers. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
^ "Nature in Art – Trust". Nature in Art Trsut. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
^ http://www.nationalgamekeepers.org.uk/about-national-gamekeepers-organisation/ngo-moorland-branch
^ The Living Landscape Trust. "The Living Landscape Trust". opencharities.org. Retrieved 15 October 2017.
^ "Patrons". Butterfly World Project. Archived from the original on 11 June 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
^ "Project AWARE Homepage - Project AWARE". www.projectaware.org. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Trees and Us - Professor David Bellamy". www.treeappeal.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Duke of Edinburgh's Prize - British Sub-Aqua Club". British Sub-Aqua Club. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
^ "Colin Mcleod Award". British Sub Aqua Club. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
^ "David Bellamy". www.bna-naturalists.org. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
^ "Veteran green says emissions aren't the only danger - Climate News Network". Climate News Network. 2014-10-16. Retrieved 2017-10-26.
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| Preceded by New position | President of Plantlife 1990–2005 | Succeeded by Adrian Darby |
| Preceded by ? | President of the Wildlife Trusts ?–2005 | Succeeded by Aubrey Manning |
External links
Barrett Bellamy Climate climate science web site of Drs. David Bellamy and Jack Barrett
- David Bellamy Awards for Sustainability in Schools
- David Bellamy Conservation Awards
- Simon Hattenstone, The Guardian, 30 September 2002, "The green man" – Interview with David Bellamy
New Scientist: 11 June 2005, British conservationist to lose posts after climate claims – Issue 2503, page 4- Correspondence between David Bellamy and George Monbiot, 2004
- George Monbiot, The Guardian, 10 May 2005, "Junk science:David Bellamy's inaccurate and selective figures on glacier shrinkage are a boon to climate change deniers"
- Radio broadcast, Bellamy, David Suzuki, Janet Earle on marine conservation, RRR 102.7fm, Melbourne, 2002
St. Abbs and Eyemouth Voluntary Marine Reserve, Britain's first Voluntary Marine Reserve opened by David Bellamy in August 1984.
Today's forecast: yet another blast of hot air, The Times, 22 October 2007.
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