{"id":8457,"date":"2023-10-29T09:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2023-10-29T09:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T09:14:16","slug":"who-regulates-naturalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/10\/29\/who-regulates-naturalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Regulates Naturalists?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I note much recent discussion about the lack of a regulatory structure for psychotherapists and counsellors (and nutritionists). \u00a0This got me wondering about naturalists * \u2013 this is a reference the press often gives to folk who opine about environmental matters, particularly those relating to the natural world.<\/p>\n<p>Are naturalists regulated? \u00a0Or could I just set myself up as one? \u00a0It seems I could, but as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentalscience.org\/career\/naturalist\">environmentalscience.org<\/a> suggests, I'm not really qualified, so that's a relief.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK there's the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benhs.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Entomological and Natural History Society<\/a> which has members all over the globe and focuses on all elements of the natural world. \u00a0But this is a member organisation rather than a professional certification with regulatory oversight.<\/p>\n<p>But this is ok isn't it? \u00a0I don't detect great public angst about a lack of regulation; we seem happy with our naturalists as they are, and there is no great clamour for an OffNat (or some such) to be set up and lord it over us all.<\/p>\n<p>.................................<\/p>\n<p>Not to be confused (other than by typographical distress) with naturists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I note much recent discussion about the lack of a regulatory structure for psychotherapists and counsellors (and nutritionists). \u00a0This got me wondering about naturalists * \u2013 this is a reference the press often gives to folk who opine about environmental...<\/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-8457","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\/8457","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=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}