Time & Location
09 Jan 2025, 19:30 – 21:00
Saxon Hall, Putson Community Association Ltd, Hoarwithy Road, Hereford HR2 6HE, UK
About the event
Rachel Jenkins is a semi-retired psychiatrist, Prof Emeritus at Kings College London, formerly Director of the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Mental Health Policy, Training and Research at the Institute of Psychiatry. She was honoured with an OBE 18 months ago for her work in this field since retirement.
She moved back to her home county of Herefordshire in 2011 and since then has been monitoring and ringing the Pied Flycatchers in Moccas deer park. She is a former committee member of HOC and organised the indoor meeting programme for nine years. She has twice been President of the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club, and is a life member of HOC and of HWT.
Her talk covers the extent of global climate change, its causes, climate change in Herefordshire over the last 100 years, and its impact on habitats, plants, fungi, trees, invertebrates, amphibia, reptiles , birds, and mammals. The talk…