Dominic Dyer

Dominic Dyer is a wildlife protection campaigner, writer and broadcaster.

He left school at 16 and joined the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food as a civil servant. Over the next 13 years in Whitehall and Brusses he worked on issues ranging from marine environment protection to organic agriculture.

In 2000 he left the public sector for the Food and Drink Federation, where he became an expert on the environment and healthy eating trends.

In 2008 he was appointed chief executive of the Crop Protection Association, the trade body for the UK plant science industry.

In 2012 he abandoned his career as an industry lobbyist and became a full-time wildlife protection campaigner with Care for the Wild.

Today he is policy advisor for the Born Free Foundation and chief executive of the Badger Trust.