Career
After leaving college, Lymbery volunteered for several months at an RSPB reserve in Titchwell Marsh, Norfolk. From 1996 to 2005 he led birdwatching tours with a holiday company called Gullivers Natural History Holidays, travelling to locations including Costa Rica, Seychelles, the United States and the Spanish Pyrenees. As Campaigns Officer and later, Campaigns Director at Compassion in World Farming from 1990 to 2000, he campaigned to end the live export of farm animals and ban the barren battery cage in the European Union. He worked as Communications Director at the World Society for the Protection of Animals (Now known as World Animal Protection) from 2003 to 2005.
In 2005, Lymbery became Chief Executive Officer of Compassion in World Farming.
Under his leadership the charity has been awarded the Observer Ethical Award for Campaigner of the Year and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Food and Farming award for Best Campaigner and Educator.
