Charles Clover

Charles Clover is an environmental journalist, author and charity executive. A proponent of marine rewilding, he is senior consultant to Blue Marine Foundation,

Career Print journalist Clover was an environmental journalist for The Daily Telegraph, including as Environment Editor for 22 years, before joining The Sunday Times.

He was voted national journalist of the year three times by the British Environment and Media Awards.

Author and documentary maker In 1993, Clover co-wrote Highgrove, Portrait of an Estate with Charles, Prince of Wales (later Charles III) regarding organic farming at the Highgrove House estate.

In 2004, Clover wrote The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat, a non-fiction book about overfishing, for which Clover was awarded the Guild of Food Writers' Derek Cooper Award, André Simon Award and a Zoological Society of London Award.

The book was made into a 2009 documentary film, The End of the Line, directed by Rupert Murray and narrated by Ted Danson, It was nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and for a 2009 British Independent Film Award. The film holds a 78% score on review aggregator website, Rotten Tomatoes. To highlight the film's message on the overfishing of Bluefin Tuna, Clover co-wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal with Albert II, Prince of Monaco.

In 2022, Clover wrote Rewilding the Sea - How to Save Our Oceans. with two of the producers of The End of the Line, Chris Gorell Barnes and George Duffield. He served as its executive chairman, executive director and is now its senior consultant. Clover was previously a visiting professor in the School of Life Sciences at the university.