Author
Sky Stewart-Roberts | MBiol Student
The life of any animal can be simplified into its most basic entities, feeding, sleeping, moving, and reproducing. This ‘life’ however, hardly encompasses the deep intricacies surrounding animal existence, their instinctive links to each other, connections across kingdoms, and continuously fluctuating relationship with the environment. It is in these details which I find the most fulfilling research, looking at how organisms are shifting and adapting their own tangled lives into forms which can fit the current days climate. Manifestations of these thoughts can be seen in my work on Lepidoptera responses to deforestation in the primary rainforest in Sabah, Borneo, and my current Masters project encompassing the responses of Malagasy bat species to climate change. My upbringing within the Rudolph Steiner education system kept me close to animals and nature since childhood which I continue to abide by now, knowing simple remedies for my own health include animal company or a wander through the forest. A strong love for the natural world and belief in its role in planetary wellbeing has been the drive behind my studies, and I look forward to developing my expertise and disciplines under the influence of ICCS academics.
