Jim Pettiward

About Jim Pettiward

Head of Communications (Senior Leadership Team)

Jim’s background is in education and training, a field in which he has held a number of roles including designing and writing resources for the web, developing teacher training resources and workshops, teaching effective research and writing skills and providing online learning support for students and staff in UK Higher Education institutions. Jim’s role at Synchronicity Earth is to enhance our communications strategy and to design and write new content and resources to inform and inspire supporters, partners, friends and anyone with an interest in conservation and the environment. By telling the stories of Synchronicity Earth and its partners, we aim to bring their work on critical conservation projects around the world to life. Jim works closely with our research analysts and other staff, as well as with external partners, to develop narratives and campaigns around key conservation issues and priorities. Jim graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Modern Languages (French & Spanish) and has an MSc in Digital Solutions and Online Learning. He has volunteered on marine conservation projects in Ecuador, Thailand and Madagascar, recently spending 3 months on a coral reef conservation project in southwest Madagascar. Over his 15 years as a scuba diver, he has developed a particular interest in the health and conservation of the oceans and is lucky enough to have dived some of the most beautiful dive sites in the world.

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Jim Pettiward

Jim Pettiward

Head of Communications (Senior Leadership Team)
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Jim’s background is in education and training, a field in which he has held a number of roles including designing and writing resources for the web, developing teacher training resources and workshops, teaching effective research and writing skills and providing online learning support for students and staff in UK Higher Education institutions. Jim’s role at Synchronicity Earth is to enhance our communications strategy and to design and write new content and resources to inform and inspire supporters, partners, friends and anyone with an interest in conservation and the environment. By telling the stories of Synchronicity Earth and its partners, we aim to bring their work on critical conservation projects around the world to life. Jim works closely with our research analysts and other staff, as well as with external partners, to develop narratives and campaigns around key conservation issues and priorities. Jim graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Modern Languages (French & Spanish) and has an MSc in Digital Solutions and Online Learning. He has volunteered on marine conservation projects in Ecuador, Thailand and Madagascar, recently spending 3 months on a coral reef conservation project in southwest Madagascar. Over his 15 years as a scuba diver, he has developed a particular interest in the health and conservation of the oceans and is lucky enough to have dived some of the most beautiful dive sites in the world.
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Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

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Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

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An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

12 minutes read
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An Interview with Miriam Supuma

An Interview with Miriam Supuma

15 minutes read
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Flying the nest…

Flying the nest…

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Beyond carbon: nature’s big moment

Beyond carbon: nature’s big moment

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Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?

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A new chapter for Dr Simon Stuart

A new chapter for Dr Simon Stuart

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A driving force for ocean conservation

A driving force for ocean conservation

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Same disease, different challenges

Same disease, different challenges

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The last, great wilderness

The last, great wilderness

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A chat with our new CEO, Kirsty Schneeberger

A chat with our new CEO, Kirsty Schneeberger

11 minutes read
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Celebrating success in 2019

Celebrating success in 2019

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A voice for nature in the world of finance

A voice for nature in the world of finance

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An Interview with Claire Nouvian

An Interview with Claire Nouvian

12 minutes read
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Whose land is it anyway?

Whose land is it anyway?

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Funding better conservation, funding conservation better

Funding better conservation, funding conservation better

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Modelling sustainability: an interview with Arizona Muse

Modelling sustainability: an interview with Arizona Muse

16 minutes read
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Talking conservation with Simon Stuart and Jon Paul Rodríguez

Talking conservation with Simon Stuart and Jon Paul Rodríguez

15 minutes read
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Conserving freshwater fish: an interview with Jeremy Wade

Conserving freshwater fish: an interview with Jeremy Wade

11 minutes read
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Playing the long game to save the Madagascar pochard

Playing the long game to save the Madagascar pochard

6 minutes read
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Agroecology for people and planet

Agroecology for people and planet

13 minutes read
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Shoal: refreshing freshwater conservation

Shoal: refreshing freshwater conservation

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2018: Our personal highlights

2018: Our personal highlights

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The Many Faces of Conservation

The Many Faces of Conservation

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An Interview with marine ecologist Professor Alex Rogers

An Interview with marine ecologist Professor Alex Rogers

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A Conversation with street artist ATM

A Conversation with street artist ATM

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Bringing the Philippine crocodile back from the brink of extinction

Bringing the Philippine crocodile back from the brink of extinction

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An Interview with Professor Bill Sutherland

An Interview with Professor Bill Sutherland

11 minutes read
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A Work of Art for Conservation

A Work of Art for Conservation

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Embracing biological and cultural diversity: An interview with Dr Jerome Lewis

Embracing biological and cultural diversity: An interview with Dr Jerome Lewis

20 minutes read
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Freshwater Conservation: An interview with Dr William Darwall

Freshwater Conservation: An interview with Dr William Darwall

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The Congo River, lifeblood of a country: An Interview with Ange Asanzi

The Congo River, lifeblood of a country: An Interview with Ange Asanzi

12 minutes read
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Exploring Conservation: An interview with Jonathan Baillie

Exploring Conservation: An interview with Jonathan Baillie

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Why conserve amphibians? An interview with Phil Bishop

Why conserve amphibians? An interview with Phil Bishop

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An Interview with EJ Milner-Gulland

An Interview with EJ Milner-Gulland

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The Mangrove Action Project

The Mangrove Action Project

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An Interview with Jessica Sweidan

An Interview with Jessica Sweidan

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Protecting a Critically Endangered Primate

Protecting a Critically Endangered Primate

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Beyond the Horizon

Beyond the Horizon

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Conserving the Green Heart of the Forest

Conserving the Green Heart of the Forest

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Cycling for Species

Cycling for Species

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Moving on

Moving on

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Going the extra mile for forgotten species

Going the extra mile for forgotten species

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No species left behind!

No species left behind!

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Freshwater – a cinderella issue

Freshwater – a cinderella issue

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Building momentum for Oceans

Building momentum for Oceans

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The green shoots of Conservation Optimism

The green shoots of Conservation Optimism

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An interview with Clare Shenstone

An interview with Clare Shenstone

12 minutes read
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Our new Director of Strategic Conservation, Dr Simon Stuart

Our new Director of Strategic Conservation, Dr Simon Stuart

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You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone

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2016: Reasons to be cheerful

2016: Reasons to be cheerful

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Connecting to the natural world

Connecting to the natural world

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Extinction in the here and now

Extinction in the here and now

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Fantastic Beasts & where to find them

Fantastic Beasts & where to find them

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The hidden treasure in the heart of Ecuador

The hidden treasure in the heart of Ecuador

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Extinction: Thinking local, acting global

Extinction: Thinking local, acting global

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Dr Simon Stuart is joining Synchronicity Earth

Dr Simon Stuart is joining Synchronicity Earth

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Great news for amphibians! Meet our new team member, Helen Meredith

Great news for amphibians! Meet our new team member, Helen Meredith

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A landmark victory for the deep seas

A landmark victory for the deep seas

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Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration

Sowing the Seeds of Collaboration

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What on Earth?

What on Earth?

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Home Eco-logics: Women’s Lunch

Home Eco-logics: Women’s Lunch

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Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Over the past 18 years, Dr Grace Iara Souza has developed a deep understanding of the impacts of global environmental governance and social policies on local rainforest defenders in the Brazilian Amazon. Her academic training is rooted in Political Ecology, and her professional experience includes project management in the educational, private, and charity sectors, [...]

By , |2023-03-13T11:27:50+00:00March 7th, 2023|Approach, Biocultural Diversity, Brazil, Capacity, Interviews, Support|Comments Off on Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

The world's largest and most important global gathering on biodiversity convened in Montreal, Canada, in December 2022. As the speeches, pledges and media coverage of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Parties 15 (COP15) fade into memory, we hear from four people who were there. Large, [...]

By |2023-02-20T10:16:36+00:00February 20th, 2023|Advocacy, Biodiversity, Capacity, Congo Basin, Events, Freshwater, Inclusion|Comments Off on Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous leader of the Waorani people in the Ecuadorean Amazon province of Pastaza, one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Nemonte gained global attention when she led a successful court action to block a proposal for oil exploration and drilling on 500,000 acres of Waorani land. Her tireless and courageous [...]

By , |2022-10-31T14:14:09+00:00June 23rd, 2022|Biocultural Diversity, Biodiversity, Community, Flourishing Diversity, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews|Comments Off on An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

An Interview with Miriam Supuma

Miriam Supuma has been working for over ten years with conservation organisations in Papua New Guinea, a country that comprises 1% of the world’s land but around 7% of its biodiversity. Miriam joined Synchronicity Earth in April 2021 to lead its Biocultural Diversity Programme (formerly the Flourishing Diversity Programme), which focuses on the recognition [...]

By , |2022-02-04T11:44:05+00:00August 2nd, 2021|Biocultural Diversity, Biodiversity, Community, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews|Comments Off on An Interview with Miriam Supuma

Flying the nest…

It is with sadness, but also pride and our full support that we wish Katy Scholfield well in her new role at Arcus Foundation - a great friend and partner of Synchronicity Earth - where Katy is taking up a new position as Director of Strategic Grantmaking for the Great Apes and Gibbons Programme. [...]

By |2022-02-04T11:46:19+00:00May 19th, 2021|Biocultural Diversity, Congo Basin, Our Team|Comments Off on Flying the nest…

Beyond carbon: nature’s big moment

For the third in our series of Deeper Thinking webinars, Beyond Carbon: nature’s big moment, we had the privilege of listening to Tom Rivett-Carnac, who has been a leading figure in developing mainstream action on climate change. Tom was Senior Advisor to Christiana Figueres when she acted as Executive Director to the UNFCCC (United [...]

By |2020-12-17T17:50:55+00:00December 17th, 2020|Biodiversity, Climate, Deeper Thinking, Interviews|Comments Off on Beyond carbon: nature’s big moment

Where do we go from here?

The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our health, economies and societies has stimulated much discussion around what can be done to ‘build back better’ and what a ’new normal’ might look like.  For the second in our Deeper Thinking webinar series, we invited nine speakers from diverse sectors, communities and generations to [...]

By |2020-08-24T08:36:32+00:00August 24th, 2020|Biodiversity, Community, Deeper Thinking, Discussion, Education, Synchronicity Earth Events|Comments Off on Where do we go from here?

A new chapter for Dr Simon Stuart

Dr Simon Stuart, our Director of Strategic Conservation, will step into a new role as Executive Director of A Rocha International from December 2020, but remains in a part-time role at Synchronicity Earth as Chief Scientific Adviser. Synchronicity Earth’s relationship with Dr Simon Stuart has been long and fruitful: as [...]

By |2021-03-12T13:33:22+00:00August 13th, 2020|Amphibians, Asian Species, Conservation, Our Team|Comments Off on A new chapter for Dr Simon Stuart

A driving force for ocean conservation

An Interview with Dr Amanda Vincent, winner of the Indianapolis Prize, 2020 Dr Amanda Vincent has been a driving force for ocean conservation for more than three decades, anchored in her speciality of seahorses. She was the first person to study these extraordinary animals underwater and in 1996 she co-founded Project Seahorse, a conservation [...]

By |2020-07-29T15:07:45+00:00July 29th, 2020|Conservation, Fisheries, Interviews, Oceans, People and Wildlife, Southeast Asia|Comments Off on A driving force for ocean conservation

Same disease, different challenges

Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is taking a terrible toll: lives are being lost and families devastated; there is increasing job insecurity and anxiety about the future. As the crisis continues, we take a look at how it is is affecting partners we work with and what we are doing to support them. [...]

By |2022-05-18T08:23:49+00:00May 10th, 2020|Approach, Economy, Environment, News, Partners|Comments Off on Same disease, different challenges
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