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

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