Chantal Lyons is the author of Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar which was published to wide acclaim in 2024.
Groundbreakers won the BES Marsh Ecology Book of the Year 2024 and was also shortlisted and highly commended for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation.
Chantal is a writer and science communicator. After a number of years spent working and volunteering for social and environmental action charities, Chantal is now at Mindfully Wired Communications, a non-profit agency working to champion sustainable fishing and marine conservation.
Chantal has written for publications including BBC Wildlife and Inkcap Journal.
She is currently working on a new book, Once There Were Giants: The Past, Present and Future of Megafauna, due for publication in spring 2027.
