A portrait of smiling 19-year-old British-Bangladeshi Mya-Rose with long hair

Mya Rose Craig

Founder and President of charity Black2Nature, author of Birdgirl

Mya-Rose Craig has been birding (birdwatching) all her life. She is the founder of Black2Nature, a charity for equality in nature for Visible Minority Ethnic (VME) people.

She appeared with her family in a BBC Four documentary, Twitchers: A Very British Obsession.

Her book Birdgirl is available to buy now. It’s about birding trips around the world and how they saved her and her family from the impact of her mum’s mental illness.

Her first book is called We Have a Dream. It amplifies the voices of 30 young environmentalists of colour from around the globe.

She also has a children’s picture book, Migration, coming out in 2023 about the migration journeys of different birds migrating along different migration routes.

She was nominated in the Discover Award Category of the British Book Awards 2022 which she is really proud of.

She studies Human, Social and Political Sciences at Johns College at Cambridge University.

Posts by Mya Rose Craig

Birding and breaking barriers to the outdoors

Mya Rose-Craig is and President of charity Black2Nature, author of BirdgirlI have been birding (sometimes known as birdwatching or twitching) all my life with my parents and older sister, Ayesha, who are are all passionate birders.Growing up with lots of British-Bangladeshi family and cousins, I felt quite isolated at times.In those days growing up I literally never saw any Visibly Minority Ethnic (VME) people out in the countryside apart from my mum and sister.We stood out and so people noticed us.