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Joshua John Powell CF (born 16 July 1993) is a British conservation biologist.

= Education = Powell attended the University of Nottingham and graduated with a first-class Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in 2014, before receiving a Thouron Award to complete his Masters at the University of Pennsylvania.

= Career = Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017 to study island conservation strategy in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, followed by South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.

Powell then received a grant from the National Geographic Society to establish Rangers Without Borders, a conservation research project he subsequently founded with Peter Coals, a friend from the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) at the University of Oxford, with Powell becoming a National Geographic Explorer.

Powell is one of the faces of WWF's #WWFVoices campaign on global biodiversity, hosting series on polar science and Arctic conservation in Svalbard and Arctic Russia , island and marine conservation in the North Atlantic and biodiversity in South Georgia.

= Awards and Honours = Powell received a UK Churchill Fellowship in 2017, receiving the honorific CF in 2019.

In 2019, Powell was awarded the Scientific Exploration Society's Explorer Award for Inspiration & Scientific Trail-blazing.