”Fellowship could be for you”: Let’s get to 100 Fellows in 2026!

Would you be willing to help CIEEM reach 100 Fellows during 2026?

We are going from strength to strength as a professional institute and the ecological and environmental management sector is really growing. We currently have 84 Fellows, or a little under 1% of our total membership of 9,300. This proportion is on the low end compared with many professional bodies, but not atypical of those more academically rigorous ones.

The number of Fellowship applications fluctuate year to year as shown in the graph below. There have been 2 Fellowship applications this year. We only need 16 new Fellows to reach a total of 100 Fellows. Let’s do that in 2026 so that CIEEM can celebrate this achievement.

Fellowship applications received each year (2007 – 2026)

If you’ve made a significant contribution to addressing ecological and environmental management issues, then Fellowship could be for you. Becoming a Fellow demonstrates your knowledge, skills and experience. Such highly respected people in the profession can inspire and enthuse others through their activities and leadership.

Wide-ranging discussions about restoring remnant heath with all views welcomed.
Photo credit: Phil Putwain.

Would you be willing to become a Fellow or persuade a colleague to become a Fellow? Help to tackle the inter-related climate emergency and biodiversity crisis? Persuade your colleagues in ecology and environmental management to join CIEEM. Having 100 Fellows in 2026 would be such a great achievement for CIEEM.

Acknowledgements
The two photographs show ecologists and environmental managers on a site visit organised by CIEEM and Butterfly Conservation to Prees Heath Common, Shropshire. Butterfly Conservation purchased this site in 2006 because it is the last sanctuary for the silver-studded blue butterfly in the Midlands. The reserve is on a large Common that had been a Second World War airfield. A major restoration project guided by one of our Fellows is restoring heathland and acid grassland vegetation across much of the site.

Information about the author
John Box CEcol CEnv FCIEEM is a past President and chairs the Action 2030 working group which provides challenge and advice to CIEEM on the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis and the Rebuilding Nature working group that is generating CIEEM’s emerging guidance on ecological restoration.

Contact John at john.box@knowlebox.co.uk

John Box