Bio

Anne Louise Burdett is a marine conservation scientist, agroecologist, clinical herbalist, and educator. Working with the natural world through a social and ecological justice framework has long been her life’s compass. Much of her career has been geared towards grassroots organizing around food and health justice, sustainable agriculture and community building. Anne Louise is interested in working at the amphibious edges of land and sea, at the intersection of anthropogenic impact, changing ecosystems and their vulnerabilities. Currently, her work is focused on climate change adaptation and resilience, seascape restoration and endangered species protection. She is currently working on protecting great whales from ship strikes, restoration of coral reef, mangrove, and seagrass ecosystems, as well as circular economy initiatives and alternative livelihoods in coastal communities. Her approach is through a lens of mutual aid, scientific literacy, and outright wonder.

Climate Science

Anne Louise is a mission-driven conservation scientist with 20 years of experience advancing environmental and social outcomes through scalable, data-informed strategies. She has a proven track record in developing high-impact, systems-based solutions across restoration, education and climate adaptation sectors.She is a Project Manager at Cresta Coastal Network (CCN), and a contractor at The Great Whale Conservancy (GWC) and Whale Guardians Europe.CCN works to strengthen coastal habitats in ways that tangibly benefit both local economies and ecosystems. Grounded in community-driven needs and priorities, and led by local initiatives, our collaborative, participatory approach is built on strong, enduring relationships.GWC works with the shipping industry to prevent ship strikes on great whales through training, education and rerouting measures of major shipping channels around the world.Through site-specific and regionally appropriate measures, training and policy development, as well as peer-to-peer training, we are collectively building resilience and adaptive measures in some of the most climate-impacted communities worldwide.She is available for contract work. Reach out!

• The Great Whale Conservancy
• Cresta Coastal Network

Botanical Medicine

Anne Louise believes wholeheartedly in being true to oneself, acting from authentic desire, and in individual wellness being essentially and always tied to collective wellness. She has run a botanical medicine clinic since 2012 as well as an intensive clinical training program. Anne Louise is trained in western constitutional herbalism, somatic trauma counseling, sexual and reproductive health, and in childbirth education.Currently she sells bulk herbal tinctures and formulas and offers a limited number of consultations.Please inquire for availability and a price list for plant medicines.

Dirt Gems

Dirt Gems is a plant oracle deck and guidebook designed to invite you into a more personal and subtle relationship with the plant world. It is a practice of listening and observation. Creating relationships with the nonhuman world requires that we slow down, decenter ourselves, and learn from the intelligence of the silken spider web, the humming saltmarsh, carnivorous bog plants, and desert superblooms. Our world is changing rapidly and in unexpected ways. This project is designed to stir the memories of what it felt like to know that we are nature. If we can find our way back to understanding our role in this greater ecology, we can find our way forward.This project contains 65 beautiful plant paintings, with a guidebook containing full descriptions of each plant, instructions on how to use the deck and the suits where they are grouped. This is a wellspring, it is a deep clear pool to dive into, emerging with your own beloved understanding of what these plants can mean to you, your life, and the greater community. This project is an invitation to come back, to the source, to where we have always belonged and towards where we must orient ourselves for a hopeful and bright future; forest, swamp, mountain, ocean.Let us not watch species disappear, fragile ecosystems unravel, and unprecedented change and let the sweeping apathy or despair rush in. We are here, the time is now. There is much work to be done, and it starts with each day, quieting down and learning from what has come before us and will surely outlive us. Let us follow the guidance of our plant allies, of the honeybee, singing frogs, seedheads bending the long stem. Let us be present and remember what we truly need, what is important and what is worth fighting for. This is the most important thing we can do.

• The Dirt Gems

Art & Performance

Anne Louise is a dancer and performer with works focused on land-based storytelling, stewardship, and play. Her work usually centers around the body, our subtle and complex relationships with one another, landscape, waterscapes and the distance between longing and belonging. She has participated in artist residencies in Chile, Brazil and Cuba, each involving intense training with a final performance for the public. She has been a core member of The Royal Frog Ballet for fifteen years. She is trained in various forms of dance and improvisation as well as music composition. Anne Louise believes that art in all its forms has the potential to not only awaken and enliven us as a species, but also to build powerful transformational movements towards new and yet unimagined worlds.For more information on her work or for collaborations, please email.

• The Royal Frog Ballet