"I say, aren't women doing well in conservation! Everywhere you look, conservation bodies are now fronted by determined-looking ladies in their 30s or 40s. There's Patricia at the CEH, Fiona at the National Trust, young Stephanie over at the Wildlife Trusts, Victoria at Plantlife and, in the top job, Dr Helen Phillips, 39, about to take the reins of Natural England, the new countryside colossus."