George Bemment has been involved with mammals her whole working life, as a zookeeper for five years before taking a zoology degree and then in 1988 joining the staff of a national bat conservation project. Professional and voluntary bat work has dominated the last 36 years. A mammalogist at heart, George taught as a part-time lecturer in mammalogy at Exeter University between 1998 and 2005, sat on the Council of the Mammal Society for ten years and is a founding member of the Devon Mammal Group.