Roger started his working life as a soldier in the Royal Green Jackets (1978-1986), during which time he served in five different continents, worked in counter-terrorism operations and led the first expedition that successfully retraced Shackleton’s route across South Georgia. He then spent 25 years as the leader of a small trading company, travelling to over 30 countries, and managing change through a period of huge upheaval in retail. In 2018, he took the decision to devote the rest of his working life to the restoration of nature through his own skill sets of writing, public speaking and campaigning. In 2020, he was a founder member and first chair of trustees of the conservation charity, Curlew Action, having previously also been a founder member of the military charity, Help for Heroes. In the spring of 2022, he walked 1,000 miles through Britain from Lymington, on the Solent, to Cape Wrath, to assess for himself the state of British nature, a story told in Across a Waking Land, in reviewing which, the Glasgow Herald described him as ‘one of Britain’s leading conservationists.’

Roger has written 9 books, of which the most recent have been:

• Liquid Gold: Bees and the art of Midlife Honey (2020)
• Shearwater: A Bird, an Ocean and a long journey home (2021)
• Taking Stock: A Year among Cows (2022)
• Across a Waking Land; a 1,000 mile walk through a British Spring (2023)
• (shortlisted for the Richard Jeffries award for nature writing)
• The Return of the Grey Partridge (2024)
• The Restless Coast: A Journey around the edge of Britain. (June 2025)

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