Welcome to our new Ambassador, Wildlife Conservationist Chantelle Lindsay

Chantelle Lindsay is a Nature Connectedness Facilitator, Wildlife Conservationist, TV presenter and a general force for good in the world. She’s joined Frank Water as an ambassador to help us share our love for water as the foundation of all life.

Yorkshire lass Chantelle Lindsay is a versatile Wildlife Conservationist and TV presenter. She has been in love with nature ever since she can remember, associating it with awe, peace and joy. With this, came a strong duty of care and love for animals, seeking them out whenever possible, saving injured wildlife and adopting strays.

She became an Animal Rights Campaigner in her school days, volunteered at a Farm & Stables, worked as an Assistant Canine Hydrotherapist, achieved a First-Class Honours degree in Animal Behaviour and Wildlife Conservation, then kept following that calling. She now serves as a Senior Nature Recovery Officer at London Wildlife Trust, looking after Sydenham Hill and Dulwich Woods, and leading an inspiring community engagement programme to bring people from all walks of life into the Woods.

She is co-host of CBeebies’ Chantelle and Rory’s Teeny Tiny Creatures, teaching children about the U.K.’s smallest animals and inspiring them to look after our planet.

She features on various television programmes such as Blue Peter and Springwatch; has performed in a few CBeebies’ Proms; writes blogs, articles and poetry; you can often hear her on nature and wildlife Podcasts, and advocates for the planet, equity, diversity and inclusion, and the empowerment of Young People. Chantelle is dedicated to making nature inclusive and accessible to everyone.

Chantelle has been fascinated by the natural world since she was a child and is passionate about breaking down barriers to wildlife and conservation for black people and other Global Majority communities, encouraging young people to appreciate and see themselves as part of nature.

In 2019, Chantelle took part in a youth programme called ‘Keeping it Wild’, part of The National Lottery Heritage Fund’s ‘Kick the Dust’ project – named by young people because they wanted to stir up the world of heritage. The initiative invested £10 million in 12 large-scale projects to make heritage relevant to the lives of young people aged 11-25.

Following this, Chantelle went on to become London Wildlife Trust’s Project Officer for the ‘Great North Wood’ project, another National Lottery Heritage Fund programme, which aimed to restore and conserve the remaining fragments of an ancient woodland in south London, and keep it alive in the hearts and minds of people, both locally and further field.

Chantelle said: “I’ve always found a calm awe and wonder in nature. Having moved around a lot as a child, it’s always been the one thing where I haven’t felt I’ve had to work to fit in – it’s always felt natural to me.’ Keeping it Wild’ was just the most life changing experience, it helped me fall further in love with the natural world and gave me the experience to get properly into wildlife conservation professionally.”

Her goal is to instigate positive change within the environmental sector and beyond, aspiring to be a source of love and a force for good.

Photos of Chantelle surrounded by flowers credited to Ewelina Ruminska