The Wildlife Travel Team

Leaders

We are fortunate in being able to draw on a wide range of expertise for leading our holidays. Further details of all leaders are given in the relevant Holiday Leaflet for each holiday. 

Graham Bellamy is the Senior Conservation Manager in Bedfordshire for he Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs, Northants & Peterborough. He has a wealth of experience in conservation, and a particular knowledge of the flora of calcareous grasslands. A popular wildlife walks leader, Graham led our trip to France in 2008 and the Burren in 2009. Graham will be leading our trip to Shetland in 2012.
 

Dr Yiannis Christofides, based in Platres in Cyprus, has a wealth of knowledge about the wild flowers and history of the island. He is a fine photographer, specialising in orchids. He has published a book on the orchids of Cyprus and is currently working on a flora of the island. He has led many trips for us in Cyprus, as he will be doing again in March 2012, as well as our trip to Crete in April 2012.
 

Carmen Dominguez-Chacon, from the Extremadura region of Spain, is an environmental engineer who has worked for Wildlife Travel for several years. Now living back in Spain, her local knowledge is a great help in organising and leading many of our Spanish holidays.

Christine Donnelly is a Director of Wildlife Travel and one of our regular leaders, with a particular fondness for Latin America. With a wide-ranging expertise, from evolution and geology to botany and birds, Chris will ensure all our travellers enjoy their Wildlife Travel holiday. Chris has led holidays in many of our destinations including Galapagos, Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Romania, Sardinia, Greece, Spain and Cyprus.

Brian Eversham is Chief Exectuive of the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs, Northants & Peterborough and a Director of Wildlife Travel. His extensive natural history expertise covers invertebrates as well as plants and birds and his knowledge of ecology and conservation issues will add great interest to the trips he leads. In 2012, Brian will be leading our holiday to the Burren.  

Brian Gale, retired Director of London University Botanic Garden, has led several Wildlife Travel holidays. As well as being an experienced and enthusiastic botanist, he enjoys passing on his extensive knowledge of butterflies, other invertebrates, mosses and other lower plants as well as his most recent area of interest - plant galls! In 2012 Brian will be leading our tour of the Alpes Maritimes, in the French Alps.
 

Kieron Huston works for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, where he is Senior Wildlife Sites Officer. Kieron is an excellent botanist and naturalist who joined our team of leaders in 2008.
 

Charlie Moores is an excellent bird watcher and general naturalist. Charlie lives in Wiltshire, where he led our 2011 holiday and will do so again in 2012, when he will also be leading for us in Iceland and northern Germany.

Pete & Jackie Murray are keen members of the Alpine Garden Society and have a wide range of botanical and photographic expertise. They are regular leaders of our holidays specialising in the alpine flora of Europe's mountains.
 

Rosemary Parslow, an experienced botanist and ornithologist, has known the Isles of Scilly for over 20 years, has led Wildlife Travel holidays to the islands (and other destinations) and has recently written a book on their flora and natural history. In 2012 Rosemary will again be leading our two holidays to the islands.
 

Philip Precey joined the Wildlife Travel team in September 2007, having previously worked for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust on wetland conservation projects. His wide ranging knowledge and enthusiasm for natural history will be an asset during a very busy 2012 including holidays to Galapagos, Cyprus, Crete, Aragon, the White Carpathians, Botswana and Spitsbergen. Philip is a Director of Wildlife Travel.

Charlie Rugeroni is a landscape and garden designer, currently working on a Heritage Lottery funded project which aims to refurbish and maintain a late Victorian historic garden. His knowledge and interest in plants, and wildlife generally, stem from his previous work with English Nature, Butterfly Conservation and Marinelife. As a designer, Charlie takes inspiration for his work from observing and studying natural landscapes and plant communities in the wild. Charlie co-led our 2011 holidays to Morocco, the Vercors, the Burren and Wiltshire. In 2012 Charlie will be returning to Morocco and the Vercors, as well as leading a new itinerary to his home county of Dorset.
 

Mike Russell, currently Head of Public Awareness and Education at the Sussex Wildlife Trust, has a lifelong interest in birds. He runs birdwatching courses and has led several wildlife holidays including Wildlife Travel trips to Poland, Hungary, Romania and recently, Ecuador. In 2012 he will be leading a trip to Bulgaria to enjoy the spectacular autumn bird migration. Mike is a Director of Wildlife Travel.
 

Henry Stanier is Ecology Groups Officer for the Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs, Northants & Peterborough, with responsibility for training the Trust's volunteers in ecological monitoring. He has a wide general knowledge of natural history with particular expertise in birds, dragonflies, reptiles, amphibians and bats, as well as ecology and conservation. Henry has led holidays to places as diverse as Costa Rica, Galapagos, Romania and Rutland in previous years.
 

Dr Tim Upson is Superintendent at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. His wealth of botanical knowledge is a great asset in leading our botanical holiday to the Ecuadorean Andes and to Morocco in 2012. Tim is a Director of Wildlife Travel.

The office

When contacting the office you are most likely to speak to either Philip Precey, Christine Donnelly (see leader details) or Lois Kershaw.

The Directors

The Directors of Wildlife Travel are Christine Donnelly, Brian Eversham, Philip Precey, Mike Russell and Dr Tim Upson.