Creation Care - Audio talks

Peter Harris is the Founder and President of A Rocha. He told the story of the organisation’s beginnings in Under the Bright Wings (1993) and more recently continued his account of the adventure in Kingfisher’s Fire (2008). Peter and his wife Miranda lived in Portugal for ten years, establishing A Rocha’s first field study centre in the Algarve, and then moved to France, where they were involved in establishing A Rocha France. They have visited most of the A Rocha teams around the world and speak from 25 years’ experience of demonstrating and teaching about God’s love for all creation.

Together with her husband Peter, Miranda Harris established A Rocha's first field study centre in the Algarve, Portugal in 1983.  They then moved to establish A Rocha France’s first centre near Arles, and have been based there ever since, providing coordination and giving leadership to the rapidly growing global movement.

Dave is the National Director of A Rocha UK, based in Southall, West London. He is much in demand as a speaker and preacher, and is the author of Planetwise: Dare to care for God’s world. Dave and his wife Anne started up the A Rocha project in Southall, working to turn neglected waste ground into a country park and wildlife reserve, so he brings many years of experience in practical conservation and campaigning, as well as biblical study, to the subject of creation care.

Stella Simiyu works with Botanic Gardens Conservation International, seconded to the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to support the implementation of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.  Formerly a Research Scientist with the National Museums of Kenya, she has extensive experience working in plant conservation, policy, capacity building and networking.  She is also a member of the national committee of A Rocha Kenya, based in Nairobi.

Prof Sir Ghillean Prance is the Chair of A Rocha's International Trustees.  For eleven years he worked as the Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, until his retirement in 1999.  He trained as a plant taxonomist and is an expert on the flora of the Amazon rainforests.  He is currently Scientific Director of the Eden Project in Cornwall and Visiting Professor at Reading University. 

Having taken leave from his regular work of training family doctors in the UK, Dr Graham McAll is examining the health impacts of global climate change and the response of Christian clinicians.  As a member of the UK’s Climate and Health Council, he has written and spoken on this subject over the last few years.  Formerly, Graham lived in Malaysia for seven years with his family when he worked as a lecturing surgeon in Universiti Sains Malaysia.