Since the age of 5, Stuart wanted to be a naturalist. A lifelong conservationist and vocal advocate for nature, he has lived and worked in Asia for 20 years starting his international career as a ranger trainer in Wolong Panda Reserve in China in 1991. Following this two year posting he started working for WWF in 1993 at Bach Ma National Park, Vietnam and then moved to WWF-UK and worked on wildlife trade and finally headed up the WWF-UK Wildlife Programme. In 2004, he moved to Indonesia to lead WWF’s Heart of Borneo initiative and coordinated an international team which convinced the governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia to sign a historic Declaration for the conservation of the Heart of Borneo - covering 240,000 sq km area of rainforest in early 2007.