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Simon King, Hon. Patron of Lee Valley Bats
 
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Simon King, FBNA
 
 
We are very pleased to announce that renowned wildlife film maker, photographer and broadcaster Simon King has agreed to be our patron.
 
Simon was born in Kenya but soon moved to Bristol where his love of the natural world blossomed – his first film ‘The Willow’ was aired when he was just 17! He will be familiar to many of our members as a presenter of both ‘Springwatch’ and ‘Autumnwatch’ on the BBC as well as for fronting ‘Big Cat Diary’. Simon’s Christmas dramas such as ‘Tyto the Barn Owl’ have received awards all over the world and he won a BAFTA for his camerawork on ‘Life in the Freezer’. He has also contributed scripts to some of David Attenborough’s famous wildlife series and worked as a principal cameraman on ‘The Blue Planet’.
 
Simon King, FBNA
We are delighted that Simon, in recognition of what we have achieved so far, has associated his name with ours and would like to extend our heart-felt thanks to him and welcome him to the Lee Valley Bats.
Grahame Pearce
 
Chair, Lee Valley Bats

Rollin Verlinde
 
Wildlife photographer
 
Rollin, Belgium based, travels the world for his art. He is an outstanding wildlife photographer. We came upon his website early 2008 and found the most amazing bat photos. We wrote to introduce ourselves and asked if we might use his photos 'for free' for educational and fundraising purposes and he kindly agreed. They are now extensively featured on this site, widely used in our fundraising publicity and have become a regular feature of our free training workshops.
 
Thank you Rollin for your generosity.
Rollin Verlinde
   
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