RACHEL CARSON

Caring about the environment seems like common sense to most of us today, but can you imagine what it was like to be one of the first people to speak up on behalf of nature? That’s what Rachel Carson did – and she had a hard fight to make others understand what we were doing to the planet.

in the United States, in 1907. As a and , as well as Beatrix Potter’s world of talking animals. After leaving high school, she studied biology and zoology at university before taking a job at the US Bureau of Fisheries, writing radio broadcasts about underwater wildlife. She soon realised how much she loved both marine biology and writing, and began publishing books and carrying out scientific research to understand more about our mysterious oceans.