{"id":4852,"date":"2022-11-12T07:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/?page_id=4852"},"modified":"2022-11-22T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:35:29","slug":"simon-barnes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/simon-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simon Barnes is a journalist, author and wildlife enthusiast, although much of his career involved writing for The Times as their chief sports writer (2002-2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He wrote a weekly wildlife column for The Times between 1989 and 1992, and then started again in 2005, adding a second in 2009. He also writes for the RSPB\u2019s magazine Nature\u2019s Home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4854\" src=\"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/simon-barnes-author.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/simon-barnes-author.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/simon-barnes-author-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/simon-barnes-author-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/simon-barnes-author-768x490.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simon has written more than twenty books, many covering his own take on birdwatching, plants and their uses and re-wilding (yourself). He recently published a book to accompany the TV series The Green Planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Simon is a council member of the World Land Trust, which buys land for wildlife conservation in the developing world, a patron of Save the Rhino, and honorary vice-president of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was awarded the Rothschild Medal for services to conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Learn. more about Simon <a href=\"https:\/\/simonbarnesauthor.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"https:\/\/sbbot.org.uk\/2026\/patrons-2\/\">&lt;&lt;&lt; Back to Patrons<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Barnes is a journalist, author and wildlife enthusiast, although much of his career involved writing for The Times as their chief sports writer (2002-2014). He wrote a weekly wildlife column for The Times between 1989 and 1992, and then started again in 2005, adding a second in 2009. 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