About the author
Michael Fry is a solicitor and a part–time lecturer in ecology and conservation at Birkbeck, University of London. He also has a degree in biology.
Michael is a long–standing member and currently a trustee of the London Wildlife Trust. He has previously served as a trustee of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts and as a member of the Environment Agency’s Recreation, Fisheries and Ecology Regional Advisory Committee for the Thames region. Now retired from practice he teaches environmental law and practice to degree and diploma students studying ecology and conservation.
During his practice working on nature conservation law Michael became convinced of the need for a resource that would provide an accurate and accessible statement of the law. The sources of the law are many and varied and often so heavily amended that it is a substantial task to search for the current provisions. He set out to address this need and in 1995 the first edition of A Manual of Nature Conservation Law was published.
A review of the first edition commented:
Is there really sufficient legislation concerning nature conservation to justify a whole volume dedicated to this alone? At over 500 pages Michael Fry’s Manual of Nature Conservation Law clearly says yes, and demonstrates why some textbooks on environmental law choose to miss out nature conservation entirely. This is a book which will be very useful for those who work in the field of conservation and have day-to-day cause to refer to such legislation.
(extracts from a review of the Manual in Environmental Law and Management Jan–Feb 1997).
Following the enactment of substantial new legislation Michael has edited a further edition of this work. With his colleagues Fred Baker and Richard Barlow NCWG Publishing was established and the second edition published in 2008. Periodic updates to this work will be placed on this website.
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"...I don't think I have looked forward to using an eight hundred page book quite so much before!"
"This Manual is an indispensable resource for anyone involved in wildlife legislation."
