Nicole Yeomans
ZOOLOGIST
Nicole is a Zoologist with over 12 years’ experience in the industry. She trained Komodo Dragons as a zookeeper in Spain, co-founded the UK’s first sanctuary for King Cobras, and researched coral reef bacterial communities in the Maldives.
She has written published marine policy for the UK government, sits on the University of Derby’s Environmental Sciences Board of Advisors and is a Biodiversity Specialist for a fortune 500 company.
In her spare time, Nicole loves writing, scuba diving and martial arts -especially the art of the samurai sword which she has been training in for over 8 years.
Marine plastics: from mega to microscopic effects on wildlife and human health
The saying ‘out of sight, out of mind’ best describes how modern society came to cause one of the largest man-made environmental disasters’ humans have ever seen.