Meet the Team
Ambassador
Iolo Williams
Naturalist and TV presenter, Iolo Williams, is Tir Natur's ambassador:
“Cymru is one of the most nature-depleted countries on the planet and the State of Nature report shows that, despite conservation efforts, wildlife numbers are still falling. In my lifetime, I have witnessed huge declines in species such as hedgehogs, lapwing and yellowhammer. If we are to turn things around, we must show more ambition.
We must look at restoring ecosystems at a landscape scale so that nature can lead the way and its recovery can be scaled-up. In short, we must rewild."
The Management Team
Our dedicated Management Team brings strong expertise with skills including: charity leadership, rewilding, fundraising, community engagement and ecology. Together, they drive our mission forward.
David Kilner
Development &
Programme Lead
david@tirnatur.cymru
Eben Myrddin Muse
Community Engagement Team
Elen Robert
Welsh Culture Lead / Community Engagement Team
Gwenan (Gwenni)
Jenkins-Jones
Fundraising Manager
gwenni@tirnatur.cymru
Katherine Jones
Artist in Residence
Emma Worsley
Admin & Individual Giving Assistant
Nia Wood-Gaiger
Communications Manager
nia@tirnatur.cymru
Jonathan Hughes
Corporate Lead
Board of Trustees
Our highly-committed Trustees ensure accountability and provide strategic oversight. They contribute extensive experience across rewilding, farming, finance, human resources, charity governance, and communications.
We're currently recruiting for Welsh-speaking Trustees based in Ceredigion or Powys. If you're interested, please email trustees@tirnatur.cymru
Tasha Reilly (Chair)
Tim Birch
Richard Wheat
Tash is a farmer managing 70-acres in Carmarthenshire where she is developing a model for a farm that will run with 60% of the land in beef and pork production as well as agroforestry and the remaining 40% supporting and increasing biodiversity. Tash wholeheartedly supports rewilding in Wales and working with other farmers and landowners to increase our natural capital. Tash's career started as a plant scientist at Kew Gardens and her love for the natural world was born. Tash has gone full circle as she is currently studying an environmental science degree with the Open University. Tash's interest in rewilding started at a workshop in Glen Affric in 2018 and she is still learning.
Tim is an environmental and nature campaigner who has worked for over 30 years globally on such vital issues as destruction of the Amazon and Indonesian rainforests, toxic pollution of our oceans and rivers and the huge declines in wildlife both in the UK and overseas. The organisations he has worked for include Greenpeace UK and Greenpeace International, RSPB, the Wilderness Society in Australia and Wildlife Trusts Wales. He developed a keen interest in rewilding whilst working with the Wildlife Trusts. He is currently chair of Size of Wales which is working to stop rainforest destruction and the role that Wales plays in this destruction. He has a passion for birds and for birdsong in particular.
With a background in fine art and television production, Rich brings a creative energy to Tir Natur. He is passionate about finding practical solutions to the biodiversity and climate crises and is focused on ways to rekindle people’s often broken relationship with nature. He came up with the concept for our Interactive Ecosystems, as a way to engage a new audience with rewilding, creating a dynamic, stimulating approach to education and fundraising. He lives in South Pembrokeshire on a smallholding dedicated to nature restoration, complete with traditional hay meadows, ponds and overgrown hedgerows.
James Hitchcock (Vice Chair)
Tom Roberts
Pamela Noakes
James is the Wales Advocacy Coordinator for Rewilding Britain and has worked in the environmental sector for over 20 years, most recently as CEO of Radnorshire Wildlife Trust, leading them through a period of growth and the acquisition of Pentwyn Farm. He secured funding and developed stakeholder relationships, conducting campaigning and advocacy and landowner advice programmes. James is passionate about the need to scale up our efforts for nature's recovery, which can only be achieved by increasing our ambition and embracing natural processes, extensive/wilder grazing and rewilding.
Tom is realising a lifetime ambition to create a small nature reserve through natural restoration. He acquired an 11-acre smallholding in Ceredigion and is busy creating ponds and planting native trees and wildflower meadows – with an emphasis on rare Welsh species such as the black poplar and alder buckthorn trees, and the near-extinct Deptford pink, corncockle, Dyer’s greenweed, small-flowered catchfly, autumn squill and other wildflowers. The reserve is a home for recovering hedgehogs released from a local animal hospital. Tom’s previous career was making international documentaries during which he accumulated well over a 100 broadcast credits as a director/producer. He founded the indie production company October Films.
A long-time nature lover, Pamela became concerned by the declining wildlife she saw, from silent fields to bug-free windscreens. After buying her home in 2013, she saw how quickly nature returned when chemicals were removed from her garden. She had heard Isabella Tree speak of her work at Knepp then came across Tir Natur – offering an opportunity for nature restoration at landscape scale. She knew she wanted to help make it a success. Pamela has over 25 years’ experience in social and environmental impact across charity, government, and private sectors, and is also a Trustee of Southwark Law Centre.
Frances Walton
(Treasurer)
Bronwyn Bunt-Brown
Simeon Rose
Frances has always been a wildlife enthusiast and appreciates the importance of natural habitats. More recently, he is very interested in bird watching, and it was on a bird watching holiday that Frances heard about Tir Natur. She knew she wanted to help make this ambitious project a reality. With a background in mathematics, Frances was delighted to be offered the role of Treasurer, where she can combine her love of nature with her love of spreadsheets.
Bronwyn has been an advocate for nature and protecting our natural environment throughout her life. Living in the Mid Wales countryside, she has a deep connection to the Welsh landscape and is passionate about restoring biodiversity and supporting thriving ecosystems. She brings extensive experience in operations, program delivery and governance, having spent over a decade leading complex projects across the digital, education and technology sectors. As a trustee, Bronwyn focuses on building strong and sustainable foundations that enable Tir Natur to ensure that our work makes a long-term ecological difference to the natural world and to communities.
Originally from south-east Wales, Simeon now lives in the Preseli mountains in the west, which is a source of inspiration but also a daily reminder of how much still needs to be done to protect and restore the natural world. Following a twenty year career in branding and advertising, Simeon is Brand Director for Faith In Nature, where he co-created 'Nature on the Board' - a framework for integrating the Rights of Nature into corporate governance and operational decisions. He is also the author of Nature's Boardroom: Giving Nature a Voice and a Vote — a handbook for the growing number of organizations now interested in doing the same.
Hannah Wood
Siân Stephen
Hannah Wood is a program strategist in climate, nature and conservation, with experience in Africa, Asia, Europe in global philanthropy, impact finance and direct project implementation. She has worked for many years on wildlife protection, climate resilience and social impact, specializing in evidence-based approaches that unlock system-level change. With deep family ties across north Wales, from Ruthin to Bangor, and now settled near Monmouth, she has an international perspective and a strong connection to the landscapes and communities of Wales. She loves the outdoors and spends most of her free time wandering up the hills with her husband and two children.
Siân’s love of the outdoors took root during childhood walks with her grandfather in the fields and scrub on the outskirts of Cardiff. She has over 20 years’ of experience across the charity, research, and international development sectors, focused on partnerships, fundraising and communications. She has worked on a wide range of themes, from Human Rights to the Urdd Eisteddfod, tropical reforestation to humanitarian disasters, including climate driven disasters. As a trustee, she is particularly motivated by the opportunity to support a model of nature recovery and resilience for Wales that will also benefit local communities, culture and language.
Volunteers
We're supported by 35+ active and engaged volunteers with a wide range and breadth of skills and knowledge. Diolch i chi!
We're looking for volunteers to provide us with support in web design, copy-writing, content creation and ecological monitoring and assessment. If you're interested in contributing these skills, please fill out this form.
Image: Goldfinches (Nigel Dowsett/ Shutterstock); Illustrations (Katherine Jones Artist)