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Tamma Carel: Driving Sustainability through Passion and Professionalism

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There are currently over 200 pieces of environmental law in place in the UK – and that number is growing. This is due to increased public and governmental awareness of the environmental impacts associated with business, and industry, through visible climate changes and extreme weather events. Therefore, there is a greater requirement for organizations to prevent the impacts associated with waste, energy, and pollution. Imvelo Ltd is an experienced environmental consultancy company which understands environmental law and its application to business. Leading this company, a passionate and professional environmentalist and businesswoman, Tamma Carel – Director and Senior Environmental Consultant. In 2019, Tamma was shortlisted in the ’STEM category’ for the Best Businesswomen Awards and the ’Entrepreneurial Spirit Award’ at the Natwest Great British Entrepreneurial Awards.

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At the age of seven, Tamma Carel’s first ’career ambition’ was to be a mermaid! All she knew was that she wanted to spend her life in, on or under a pristine ocean, and she would be forever happy!

Tamma was first able to explore a slightly more realistic career option with the sea during her 10 years work experience at the Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary- after which she returned voluntarily throughout her GCSE and A-Level summer vacations. It was here that she became aware of issues regarding conservation & the protection of the environment, and from that point, many of her academic decisions were geared to working within the environmental sector.

“Fundamentally, everything we do at Imvelo aims to work with businesses and establish strategies that have a positive impact on the planet.”

Whilst at University (BSc Biology and Psychology), Tamma was lucky enough to use her summer vacations to gain work experience in South Africa. First, at the Umgeni River Bird Park where she worked with a variety of birds (including critically endangered Wattle Cranes, Vultures, Macaw Parrots and several species of Hornbills), researching their behavior in the wild and utilizing that knowledge to train natural behaviors for an educational show to raise money for the bird park and the rescue of endangered species.

Tamma also undertook a 2-month internship at the Natal Sharks Board, where she was responsible for analysing shark attack data in South Africa for over 12 years. Getting her hands ’dirty’ helping with shark dissections and educational presentations to school groups and members of the public to raise awareness of the need for shark conservation and the critical role played by apex predators.

During her MSc (Environmental Management), she spent a summer in Barbados with a multi-disciplinary EU Team looking at the sustainability of the Sugar Cane Industry on the island. Here, she saw the real impact and the environmental challenges for a small coral island, the effects of soil quality, freshwater supply, cultural history, economic viability, and food security. All of which served to further highlight the complexities and the desperate need to find sustainable solutions for the future.

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