Meet the Team
Ambassador
Iolo Williams
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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."
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The Executive Team
​Our dedicated Executive 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
Dan Ward
Policy Lead
Elen Robert
Welsh Culture Lead / Community Engagement Coordinator
Emma Worsley
Admin & Individual Giving Assistant
Gwenan (Gwenni)
Jenkins-Jones
Individual Giving Manager
Jo Denham
Volunteer Coordinator
Siân Stephen
Community Engagement Volunteer
Adriana de Nicolay
Communications Lead
Eben Myrddin Muse
Community Engagement Volunteer
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
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)
Frances has always loved wildlife and appreciated the importance of natural habitats. More recently, birdwatching has become a passion, and it was on a birding holiday that Frances heard about Tir Natur. She knew she wanted to help make this ambitious project a reality. With a maths background, Frances was delighted to be offered the role of Treasurer, combining her love of nature with her love of spreadsheets. Frances worked in adult education, in the prison sector then The Open University. Now retired she is channelling her energies into Tir Natur and becoming more sustainable.
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, 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)