{"id":7649,"date":"2020-03-05T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7649"},"modified":"2020-03-05T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:40:37","slug":"the-university-of-bristol-discounts-its-air-miles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2020\/03\/05\/the-university-of-bristol-discounts-its-air-miles\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Bristol discounts its air miles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can't have been the only person to be surprised that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\/graduation\/honorary-degrees\/\">Bristol<\/a> has awarded an A level student an honorary degree. \u00a0Of course, this is not an ordinary A level student, this is Mya-Rose Craig who has spotted half of the World's known bird species. \u00a0She blogs at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdgirluk.com\">Birdgirl<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0where you will read:<\/p>\n<p>\"<em>I\u2019m Mya-Rose Craig AKA Birdgirl, I\u2019m 17; I live near Bristol. I\u2019m a Young Naturalist, Young Ornithologist, and, Young Birder, (Young Birdwatcher) as well as a Young Environmentalist, Young Conservationist, Young Activist, and Writer. \u00a0I want to do everything I can to save the environment from damage and persuade people to do the same through my writing, talks &amp; use of media. \u00a0I\u2019m proud to be a Bristol European Green Capital 2015 Ambassador. \u00a0I love birding in my garden &amp; locally at Chew Valley Lake. \u00a0I have been bird ringing (bird banding) at Chew Valley RS since Sept 2011, age 9 and got my C licence when I was 16. \u00a0I love British Twitching and get a thrill every time I see a new bird. \u00a0My big passion is World Birding &amp; I became the youngest person to see 5369th birds [sic] in Brazil in August 2019 which was 1\/2 the world\u2019s birds. \u00a0I want to combine my passion for nature &amp; wildlife with my love of adventure to be a nature TV presenter going on expeditions to remote places, looking for rare or undiscovered species, like Steve Backshall. \u00a0<\/em>...\"<\/p>\n<p>I know I'm supposed to be in awe of all this, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2551016\/Globetrotting-schoolgirl-11-youngest-twitcher-spot-3-000-different-species-bird.html\">Daily Mail<\/a> clearly was, but I really cannot manage it. \u00a0I can't help thinking of all those air miles accumulated by Craig and her parents in this birding obsession.<\/p>\n<p>The university says: \"<i>Each year, following very careful consideration, the University bestows a number of honorary degrees on distinguished individuals who merit special recognition for outstanding achievement and distinction in a field or activity consonant with the mission of the University.\" \u00a0<\/i>It\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bristol.ac.uk\/news\/2020\/february\/mya-rose-craig.html\">says<\/a> that\u00a0Craig was honoured<i> \"for her activism and pioneering work, which includes campaigning for greater ethnic diversity in nature, conservation, environment and wildlife filmmaking.\"<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Bristol didn't care about the air miles given how many it racks up itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can't have been the only person to be surprised that Bristol has awarded an A level student an honorary degree. \u00a0Of course, this is not an ordinary A level student, this is Mya-Rose Craig who has spotted half of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}