Barbara Mearns

Editor

Barbara produces A Rocha International News, the annual International Review, the monthly international e-mail newsletters and much of the website content. She also manages the Photo Database and is based in the UK. Barbara is a life-long birder, also involved in local dragonfly, moth and butterfly recording. With her husband, Richard, she has co-written four books on the early naturalists including The Bird Collectors (Academic Press 1998) and John Kirk Townsend (2007). An Occupational Therapist by training, she worked in child psychiatry before studying for a year at the Bible Training Institute in Glasgow.