Dara McAnulty is an award-winning author, naturalist, and activist from Northern Ireland. His first book, Diary of a Young Naturalist, won the 2020 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing, the An Post Irish Book Award for Newcomer of the Year 2020, the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Non-Fiction 2020, and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year. An ambassador for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) and the Jane Goodall Institute, Dara has also received many awards for his conservation work, including from BBC's Springwatch, Daily Mirror, and Birdwatch magazine. He is the youngest-ever recipient of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) medal for conservation. Dara lives with his family and Rosie the rescue greyhound at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in County Down.
