REST chosen as JBP charity

I came across the charity after watching a BBC documentary, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, on the worlds most trafficked animal - the pangolin. After watching the plight of this magical and strange creature, and seeing the star of the programme Honey Bun, I had quickly made up my mind that this was something I wanted to try and help with. After contacting the organisation, and liaising with the founder Maria Diekmann directly, I knew this was something that I wanted to be involved in, and the launch of my own planning consultancy offered me the platform to do this.

REST started in 2000, and purposefully chose to focus its attentions on the “Forgotten 5” species of Namibia, in an effort to help the creatures that do not usually generate the media attention other species make. The efforts of the team and the organisation are therefore very focussed. 

I know its not ‘planning’, but there is a world outside of the development industry in the UK that we all need to be mindful of.