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David J. Bellamy OBE (born 1933) is an English professor, botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner. He attended Sutton County Grammar School, Sutton, Chelsea College of Science and Technology and Bedford College, all in London. He was brought up as a strict Baptist. Bellamy and his wife Rosemary, whom he married when he was 19, have five children - four are adopted. He originally trained as a botanist at Durham University, where he later held the post of senior lecturer in botany until 1982, and still holds the post of Honorary Professor for Adult and Continuing Education. He first came to public prominence as an environmental consultant at the time of the Torrey Canyon disaster. In 1983, he was jailed for blockading the Franklin River in protest at a proposed dam. He has been the writer and presenter of some 400 television programmes on Botany, Ecology and environmental issues. In 1997, he stood against John Major for the anti-European Referendum party. In 2004, Bellamy wrote an article in the Daily Mail in which he described the theory of man-made global warming as "poppycock". He is Britain's most prominent campaigner against the desecration of wilderness areas by wind farms. He is the originator along, with David Shreeve and The Conservation Foundation (which he also founded), of the Ford European Conservation Awards and has published over 80 scientific papers.
RecognitionBelamy also holds or has held these positions:
Recipient of:
BibiographyBellamy has authored at least 45 books:
Discovering the Countryside with David BellamyBellamy was "consultant editor and contributor" for this series, published by Hamlyn in conjunction with the Royal Society for Nature Conservation:
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