Mel

I am an A level student in my final year and I hope to study Zoology at university. In my free time, I run a community hedgehog project where we work on engaging and educating people about hedgehogs and the small ways we can support them. I am passionate about zoological science and research and ways we can use this to inform conservation and engage people with the natural world. I am very excited about my role as youth ambassador and can't wait to see where it takes me.

Favourite mammal: As much as I love hedgehogs, I'd have to say the fox. Nothing can quite beat the feeling of glimpsing a fox as it flashes under a streetlight. Foxes feel uniquely wild so seeing them in urban areas is always exciting. Did you know that foxes are the first animals known to use magnetic fields to hunt and to estimate distance rather than position or direction.