Background

Gwen is Senior Monitoring and Research Officer with the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire (A member of the Cambridge Conservation Forum). She is responsible for coordinating a rage of monitoring projects for staff and volunteers covering plants, invertebrates and mammals, including ongoing monitoring of the chalk butterfly populations on our reserves. With a background in both reserve management and ecology she is particularly interested in ensuring the conservation methods used are supported by science. Working with the University of Cambridge builds an important bridge between scientific research and practical conservation.