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Claire stares, ma
Assistant project manager

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​Claire's passion for orcas was sparked by her first encounter with a pod near the Lofoten Islands, Norway in 1998.   She is a freelance writer and naturalist, writing a regular column for   The Guardian's Country Diary   and contributing to a number of other publications, including  the  2020VISION  project,  for which she is one of the main researchers and writers. Passionate about wildlife and wild places, she has a particular interest in anthrozoology (human-animal interaction) and is now busy researching the mythology and cultural significance of orcas in a worldwide context. Claire has a BA (Hons) English, an MA in Creative Writing specialising in Natural History and Ecocriticism, and she graduated in 2011 with a Postgraduate Certificate in Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health. 

Claire trained as a marine mammal medic with  British   Divers   Marine   Life   Rescue   in 2006 and held the post of area coordinator for Hampshire for five years. She teaches on medic courses and has been involved in a number of rescues including seals, porpoises and a northern bottlenose whale. Claire has also undertaken   MARINElife' s marine mammal and seabird surveyor training course, and holds a boat handling qualification.

You can read about one of Claire's encounters with orcas in The Guardian Country Diary here. 
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