Wiltshire Bee & Honey Day – Speaker Biogs

Robert Smith NDB

Biography to come

Richard Rickitt 

Biography to come

Guy Parker

Dr. Guy Parker is founder and co-director of Wychwood Biodiversity Limited. He started his career in wildlife conservation in Africa and has been working with land managers in the UK since 2009, promoting biodiversity on private and public land. His passion is restoring habitats on renewable energy sites to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises. 

He is the UK’s leading ecologist specialising in research into biodiversity management within solar farms. Most recently he contributed to Solar Energy UK’s ‘Natural Capital Best Practice Guidance’ on how to increase biodiversity at all stages of a solar farm’s lifecycle, published in May 2022.

Guy oversees the implementation of the ecological management plans at all the Eden Renewables solar farms and their ongoing monitoring, including establishing beehives and pollinator-friendly wildflower meadows. He has also pioneered the use of solar beehives on some community solar farms.

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