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Jim Pettiward

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Head of Communications
Communications
Senior Leadership Team

About Jim Pettiward

Although a Londoner at heart, Jim’s first degree was in Modern Languages, and it enabled him to indulge his wanderlust. He spent time living and working in some of Earth’s most biologically diverse regions, including Ecuador and Venezuela, and developed a passion for the underwater realm through his favourite hobby, scuba diving.

Whilst building a career in education, training, and online learning at various universities and educational institutions, Jim began to explore opportunities to volunteer in marine conservation, spending time in Ecuador and south-west Madagascar.

As a long-term friend and supporter, Jim initially joined Synchronicity Earth’s team in 2016 to draw out compelling stories from the brilliant work of its programmes and partners around the world. His role was to weave these stories together into a coherent and strategic narrative, developing communications materials and building the organisation’s online presence.

As Synchronicity Earth grew, Jim took a more active role in developing the strategic direction and framing of the organisation. In 2018, he was promoted to Head of Communications. He currently manages a small communications team and has been a member of the Senior Leadership Team since its creation in 2020.

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Jim Pettiward

Head of Communications
Communications, Senior Leadership Team
Jim’s background is in education and training, a field in which he has held a number of roles including designing and writing resources for the web, developing teacher training resources and workshops, teaching effective research and writing skills and providing online learning support for students and staff in UK Higher Education institutions. Jim’s role at Synchronicity Earth is to enhance our communications strategy and to design and write new content and resources to inform and inspire supporters, partners, friends and anyone with an interest in conservation and the environment. By telling the stories of Synchronicity Earth and its partners, we aim to bring their work on critical conservation projects around the world to life. Jim works closely with our research analysts and other staff, as well as with external partners, to develop narratives and campaigns around key conservation issues and priorities. Jim graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Modern Languages (French & Spanish) and has an MSc in Digital Solutions and Online Learning. He has volunteered on marine conservation projects in Ecuador, Thailand and Madagascar, recently spending 3 months on a coral reef conservation project in southwest Madagascar. Over his 15 years as a scuba diver, he has developed a particular interest in the health and conservation of the oceans and is lucky enough to have dived some of the most beautiful dive sites in the world.
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Announcing our new Co-Executive Directors

Announcing our new Co-Executive Directors

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Why local conservation challenges require local solutions

Why local conservation challenges require local solutions

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Pathways to change in the Congo Basin

Pathways to change in the Congo Basin

8 minutes read
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A career in conservation: an interview with Julie Thomas

A career in conservation: an interview with Julie Thomas

10 minutes read
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Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

Meet our Latin America affiliate, Grace Iara Souza

11 minutes read
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Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

Snapshots from a global biodiversity conference

7 minutes read
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An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

An interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

11 minutes read
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An Interview with Miriam Supuma

An Interview with Miriam Supuma

14 minutes read
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Flying the nest…

Flying the nest…

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Beyond carbon: nature’s big moment

Beyond carbon: nature’s big moment

8 minutes read
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Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?

9 minutes read
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A new chapter for Dr Simon Stuart

A new chapter for Dr Simon Stuart

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A driving force for ocean conservation

A driving force for ocean conservation

11 minutes read
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Same disease, different challenges

Same disease, different challenges

9 minutes read
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The last, great wilderness

The last, great wilderness

9 minutes read
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Celebrating success in 2019

Celebrating success in 2019

5 minutes read
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A voice for nature in the world of finance

A voice for nature in the world of finance

10 minutes read
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An Interview with Claire Nouvian

An Interview with Claire Nouvian

12 minutes read
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Whose land is it anyway?

Whose land is it anyway?

8 minutes read
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Funding better conservation, funding conservation better

Funding better conservation, funding conservation better

7 minutes read
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Modelling sustainability: an interview with Arizona Muse

Modelling sustainability: an interview with Arizona Muse

16 minutes read
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Talking conservation with Simon Stuart and Jon Paul Rodríguez

Talking conservation with Simon Stuart and Jon Paul Rodríguez

15 minutes read
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Conserving freshwater fish: an interview with Jeremy Wade

Conserving freshwater fish: an interview with Jeremy Wade

11 minutes read
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Playing the long game to save the Madagascar pochard

Playing the long game to save the Madagascar pochard

6 minutes read
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Agroecology for people and planet

Agroecology for people and planet

13 minutes read
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Shoal: refreshing freshwater conservation

Shoal: refreshing freshwater conservation

6 minutes read
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Embracing biological and cultural diversity

Embracing biological and cultural diversity

20 minutes read
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Freshwater Conservation: An interview with Dr William Darwall

Freshwater Conservation: An interview with Dr William Darwall

17 minutes read
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Interview with Isabelle Lackman: Protecting a Critically Endangered primate

Interview with Isabelle Lackman: Protecting a Critically Endangered primate

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Cycling for Species

Cycling for Species

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Modelling sustainability: an interview with Arizona Muse

Arizona Muse devotes much of her time – when she’s not modelling – to learning about and promoting the value of sustainable approaches to fashion. Arizona is an ambassador for our work at Synchronicity Earth, lending her voice to our recent Fabric of Life series. We decided to find out more about what makes [...]

By |2024-11-21T14:22:42+00:00June 26th, 2019|Biodiversity, Creating Awareness, Fashion, Interviews|Comments Off on Modelling sustainability: an interview with Arizona Muse

Talking conservation with Simon Stuart and Jon Paul Rodríguez

Jon Paul Rodríguez is the current Chair of the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC). When the former Chair of the Commission, Simon Stuart, left the post in 2016 after 8 years, he joined Synchronicity Earth as Director of Strategic Conservation. The two men go back a long way, [...]

By |2024-11-21T10:51:37+00:00June 26th, 2019|Biodiversity, In-Depth, Interviews, IUCN, Species|Comments Off on Talking conservation with Simon Stuart and Jon Paul Rodríguez

Conserving freshwater fish: an interview with Jeremy Wade

Jeremy Wade is a TV presenter, angler and author, best known for the series River Monsters and, more recently, Mighty Rivers. With a background as a biologist, Jeremy has visited many of the world’s most iconic rivers and lakes, seen and fished for some of their most extraordinary species and witnessed the changes happening [...]

By |2024-11-21T10:43:13+00:00March 19th, 2019|Creating Awareness, Fish, Freshwater, Rivers, Species|Comments Off on Conserving freshwater fish: an interview with Jeremy Wade

Playing the long game to save the Madagascar pochard

The Madagascar pochard is a small, brown duck. If you saw one bobbing about on the surface of a local pond, you might not pay it much attention. It might not land a part in Madagascar, the movie. But if you look a little closer, you’ll see that the pochard is a beautiful bird - graceful and [...]

By |2024-11-20T15:04:08+00:00February 26th, 2019|Alternative Livelihoods, Biodiversity, Captive Breeding, Community, Freshwater, Species|Comments Off on Playing the long game to save the Madagascar pochard

Agroecology for people and planet

An Interview with Daniel Moss, Executive Director of the Agroecology Fund (AEF). The Agroecology Fund  began life as a collaboration between four funders, three from the US and one from Europe, who all shared the same objective of supporting agroecology. Alongside the work they were already doing within their Foundations, these funders decided that they could [...]

By |2024-08-14T13:48:25+00:00February 26th, 2019|Agroecology, Biocultural Diversity, Community|Comments Off on Agroecology for people and planet

Shoal: refreshing freshwater conservation

An Interview with Mike Baltzer (Executive Director of Shoal) Mike Baltzer joined Shoal as its Executive Director (hosted by Synchronicity Earth) on October 1. Prior to starting this role, he was with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for 18 years. For the last nine years, he was the head of their global tiger programme [...]

By , |2024-11-20T15:02:53+00:00February 26th, 2019|Biodiversity, Conservation, Fish, Freshwater, Rivers|Comments Off on Shoal: refreshing freshwater conservation

Embracing biological and cultural diversity

Dr Jerome Lewis is a Reader in Social Anthropology at University College London. He has undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and 25 years of research experience working with Pygmy hunter-gatherers and former hunter-gatherers in the Congo Basin. He is Co-Director of the Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS) [...]

By |2024-11-22T16:10:38+00:00July 19th, 2018|Congo Basin, Flourishing Diversity, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews|Comments Off on Embracing biological and cultural diversity

Freshwater Conservation: An interview with Dr William Darwall

Dr William Darwall is Head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Biodiversity Assessment and Knowledge Team (BAKT) – Freshwater Unit at the IUCN Global Species Programme, based in Cambridge. The goal of the IUCN BAKT - Freshwater Unit is to provide information on species and sites of importance to freshwater biodiversity [...]

By |2025-04-02T15:32:30+00:00July 12th, 2018|Conservation, Fish, Freshwater, Hydropower, Interviews, Species|Comments Off on Freshwater Conservation: An interview with Dr William Darwall

Interview with Isabelle Lackman: Protecting a Critically Endangered primate

Isabelle Lackman founded Hutan in Kinabatangan, Malaysian Borneo with her then husband Marc Ancrenaz in 1998 with the aim of conserving the Critically Endangered Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus). In the almost two decades since, Hutan has worked with the local community to restore areas of degraded forest and help people and orang-utans to live [...]

By |2024-11-21T10:50:12+00:00November 27th, 2017|Asian Species, Community, Forests, In-Depth, Interviews|0 Comments

Cycling for Species

Simon Stuart and his wife Ann are nearing the end of their epic #Cycle4Species. If you’re UK-based and have been wondering what’s happened to the summer, spare a thought for these two as they’ve been braving the wind and the rain from John O’Groats all the way down to Land’s End. After a few [...]

By |2024-11-21T14:30:37+00:00August 9th, 2017|Conservation, Fundraising, Species|0 Comments
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