I am Pere Alzina i Bilbeny, born in Arenys de Mar. This small town is filled with bookworms and artists and, perhaps because of this, its people are nicknamed “setciències”, or “know-alls”. I was brought up here, with one foot in the mountains –the Corredor and Montnegre hills – and the other on the Mediterranean coast, one day walking among pines and holm oaks and another watching gulls and other seabirds behind the seine fishing boats returning to harbour in Arenys. After finishing high school I went on to university, graduating in Biology with a major in Zoology and then doing a master’s degree in Environmental Management and Engineering. In the course of my career I worked for some years in the field of environmental education in the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park, in the Aiguamolls de l’Empordà and in the Corredor i Montnegre Natural Parkbefore plunging into the world of technical environmental consultancy. After several years spent drawing up studies, audits and project plans for two environmental consultancies, I now work as a freelance environmental consultant. I am also an environmental adviser and verifier of golf courses, accredited by the Golf Environment Organization. I therefore work in both in the private sector and for the authorities, both here and abroad. I combine my work as a consultant with that of a nature guide, both here in Catalonia (in the Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, Corredor i Montnegre and Montserrat Natural Parks, among others) and in the natural paradises of Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Belarus.