Pamela Abbott

Biography

Pamela Abbott is an independent member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Executive Committee where she chairs its Ecosystem Restoration Working Group. Until recently, she was the Director of Natural Cambridgeshire and co-chaired the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Local Nature Recovery Strategy Steering Group. She is the founding Chair of Citizen Zoo and was a member of the Mayor of London’s Rewilding Taskforce.

Pamela’s career spans local, national and international biodiversity conservation with previous roles as Chief Executive of Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Director of Programmes at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre and Norfolk and Suffolk Area Manager at Natural England.