PTES people
It takes a huge team to bring the wild back to life and we have many extraordinary people working behind the scenes to make PTES what it is today. Meet the people behind PTES, from our incredible volunteers to pioneering grantees.
Meet Tashkin
Tashkin Meza is a PTES project leader researching black-and-chestnut eagles in Ecuador.
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Meet Matt Mitchell: PTES intern
We chat to Matt Mitchell a student based at University College London and ZSL about his important work on extinct-in-the-wild species.
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Meet Sally Wadsworth: dormouse monitor
Sally's passionate about wildlife and conservation and has been volunteering with the dormouse monitoring programme since her retirement in 2019.
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Meet Emma Cartledge: PTES partner
PhD student at the University of Liverpool and PTES partner. Her PhD research focuses on hazel dormice and she's working towards starting her career in conservation.
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Meet Emma Scotney: dormouse monitor
Emma Scotney is an ecologist for South West Lakes Trust, based in Devon.
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Meet Derek Yeomans: dormouse monitor
Derek Yeomans is a Dormouse monitor at Fifehead Woods in North Dorset, who has been volunteering as a warden for The Woodland Trust for the last eight years, looking after three of their woodlands.
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Meet Ellie Scopes: PTES project leader
Ellie Scopes is a Project leader and PhD student at the University of Exeter who uses her favourite research techniques to help dormice!
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Meet Rachel Findlay-Robinson: PTES partner
Dr. Rachel Findlay-Robinson is a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Glasgow and PTES partner, who recently completed her PhD on dormice.
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Meet Alan Loweth: dormouse monitor
Alan Loweth is a dormouse monitor at the RSPB Broadwater Warren Nature Reserve. Alan fills many shoes as an Office Manager, Volunteer Co-ordinator and species surveyor. Alan has even helped put up all 178 nest boxes on site!
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Meet Debbie Cousins: dormouse monitor
Debbie Cousins is a dormouse monitor at Basildon Park in Berkshire, but it's not just dormice she finds in the nest boxes!
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Meet Grace Johnson: Hedgehog Officer
As the Hedgehog Officer for Hedgehog Street, Grace works with PTES and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society to protect hedgehogs in the UK.
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Meet Ashley Pinnock: dormouse monitor
Ashley Pinnock is a Conservation Advisor for Essex & Suffolk Water and leads the dormouse monitoring at Hanningfield Reservoir. Ashley found his first dormouse in 2012 and hasn't looked back since!
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Meet Julie Mottishaw: dormouse monitor
Julie Mottishaw is a dormouse monitor at Chilworth and Wildwood in Surrey and has found baby pygmy shrews on her box checks!
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Meet Rebecca Klein: PTES project leader
Rebecca Klein is a PTES project leader and founder of Cheetah Conservation Botswana. She reflects on her proudest moments and the memorable experience of caring for two orphaned cubs.
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Meet Jamie Edmonds: dormouse monitor
Jamie is a dedicated Dormouse monitor at Goblin Combe in North Somerset. He's been working with dormice since 2006, has volunteered for the NDMP and even completed his Masters dissertation on site.
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Meet Amanda Thomas: wildlife gardener
From her carefully planted herb garden to the wild corner full of dandelions, Amanda describes why she loves wildlife friendly gardening and what it means to her and her family to spend time in nature.
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Meet Laura Bower: conservation officer
Laura is PTES' Conservation Officer and a big noble chafer fan! We chat about noble chafers, stag beetles, and managing PTES' beautiful nature reserves.
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Meet Nedko Nedyalkov: PTES project leader
Nedko spends his time searching for the elusive Roach's mouse tailed dormouse in Bulgaria and often comes across other interesting species along the way.
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Meet Alma, PTES project leader
Alma Hernández is Research director at Neotropical Primate Conservation Colombia and spends her time looking for black headed spider monkeys.