Charles Clover (environmental journalist)

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Charles Clover is an environmental journalist, author and charity executive. A proponent of marine rewilding, he is executive director of Blue Marine Foundation, [1] a charity that he co-founded with the producers of The End of the Line, a documentary film based on his eponymous book.

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Education

Clover was educated at Westminster School, before reading English and Philosophy at the University of York. [2]

Career

Clover was an environmental journalist for The Daily Telegraph, including as Environment Editor for 22 years, before joining The Sunday Times. [3]

He was voted national journalist of the year three times by the British Environment and Media Awards. [4]

He is an occasional contributor to The Guardian. [1]

Author and documentary maker

In 1993, Clover co-wrote Highgrove, Portrait of an Estate with Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles III) regarding organic farming at the Highgrove House estate. [5]

In 2004 he wrote The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat , [6] a non-fiction book about overfishing, for which Clover was awarded the Guild of Food Writers' Derek Cooper Award, André Simon Award and a Zoological Society of London Award. [7]

The book was made into the 2009 documentary film, The End of the Line , directed by Rupert Murray and narrated by Ted Danson, [8] It was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and for a 2009 British Independent Film Award. [9] The film holds a 78% score on review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes. [10] To highlight the film's message on the overfishing of Bluefin Tuna, Clover co-wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal with Albert II, Prince of Monaco. [11]

In 2022, Clover wrote Rewilding the Sea - How to Save Our Oceans. [12]

Charity executive

Clover co-founded the environmental charity Blue Marine Foundation [13] with two of the producers of The End of the Line, Chris Gorell Barnes and George Duffield. He serves as its executive director. [13]

Honours

An honorary doctorate was conferred on Clover by the University of Essex in 2022 in recognition of his work on conservation. [4] Clover was previously a visiting professor in the School of Life Sciences at the university. [14]

Bibliography

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 "Charles Clover". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "Charles Clover biography". BookBrowse . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Charles Clover - biography". Penguin Books . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  4. 1 2 Adewale, Dami (25 July 2022). "Charles Clover receives honorary degree from University of Essex". Daily Gazette (Colchester) . Newsquest . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  5. ↑ Highgrove, Portrait of an Estate. Google LLC. 1993. ISBN   978-1-85592-610-3 . Retrieved 6 March 2023.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. ↑ Clover, Charles (2004). The End of the Line : how overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. London: Ebury Press. ISBN   9780091897802.
  7. ↑ "Charles Clover". Goodreads . Amazon.com Inc. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  8. ↑ "The End of the Line - Full Cast & Crew". IMDb . Amazon.com Inc. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  9. ↑ "The End of the Line - Awards". IMDb . Amazon.com Inc. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  10. ↑ "The End of the Line". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  11. ↑ Grimaldi, Albert; Clover, Charles (5 June 2009). "It's Not Too Late to Save the Tuna". The Wall Street Journal . Dow Jones & Company . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  12. 1 2 Clover, Charles (2022). Rewilding the sea : how to save our oceans. London: Ebury Press. ISBN   9781529144031.
  13. 1 2 "Environmental campaigner honoured at Essex graduation". University of Essex . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  14. ↑ "Oration for Charles Clover" (PDF). University of Essex . Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  15. ↑ Charles, Prince of Wales; Clover, Charles (1993). Highgrove: an experiment in organic gardening and farming. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN   9780671791773.
  16. ↑ Charles, Prince of Wales; Clover, Charles (1993). Highgrove, Portrait of an Estate. London: Orion Publishing Group. ISBN   9781855926103.
  17. ↑ Clover, Charles (2004). The End of the Line : how overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. London: Ebury Press. ISBN   9780091897802.
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