Simon Counsell

Simon Counsell, UK

Independent researcher and writer on conservation and human rights, nature-based solutions, forests, and carbon offsetting

Simon
Counsell is an independent researcher and writer on conservation, human
rights, and ‘nature-based’ climate solutions, and currently an advisor
to the international indigenous rights advocacy group, Survival
International. He was for 23 years the Executive Director of the
Rainforest Foundation UK, a London-based NGO which supports indigenous
and traditional peoples of the world’s rainforests in their efforts to
protect their environment and fulfil their rights. He has been on the
front line of campaigns to protect the world’s forests for more than
three decades, previously leading the international forests campaign for
Friends of the Earth. He has a BSc in Environmental Science and an MSc
in Forestry and Land Use from Oxford University.