Carol Donaldson - Writer and naturalist.

Author of The Volunteers (Summesdale Aug 2024) A heart-warming true story of the woods and wildlife, conservation and community, perfect for fans of The Detectorists and The Outlaws and On the Marshes, a journey into England's Waterlands (Little Toller 2017). Described as 'exquisite nature writing' in the New European. She has written for Wanderlust, BBC Wildlife, The Telegraph and is a regular travel writer for the Guardian. She was BBC Wildlife's Travel Writer of the Year in 2011.

Carol is an ecological advisor and has appeared on radio and television talking about nature, wilderness and the marshes.

As a naturalist she is a freelance consultant and has run the North Kent Breeding Wader Project on behalf of the RSPB since 2015. Carol works with farmers in Kent and Essex advising on restoring wetlands for waders. In addition she has been the ecological advisor specialising in river restoration and natural flood management.

Carol writes primarily about the natural world and our connections to it. She is interested in simple living, foraging, pilgrimage. Carol is a keen traveller and has worked in the Canadian Arctic and on a wolf rehabilitation project in Russia.