Gemma Bodé is Gwent Wildlife Trust’s Head of Nature Recovery and specialises in ecology. With over 25 year’s Wildlife Trust experience, Gemma has developed many externally funded conservation projects around Gwent, including GWT’s Local Wildlife Sites programme.

William Costa is a project Manager and field Aviculturist with experience managing complex species recovery projects from inception to delivery, in both in-situ and ex-situ environments. With over a decade of field and conservation avicultural experience, including work in 10 countries. Specialising in species recovery for globally and locally threatened bird populations and ecosystem restoration through conservation translocations, reintroductions, reinforcements and headstarting.

Dr Sophie-Lee Williams is a raptor and conservation ecologist and the founder of Eagle Reintroduction Wales. She leads efforts to restore both native-lost eagle species—Golden and White-tailed Eagles—and has led the research, community engagement and consultation for the return of White-tailed Eagles to southeast Wales and the Severn Estuary, working in partnership with WWT and Gwent Wildlife Trust.

Joe Wilkins is an environmentalist and ocean-lover, with a background in ecosystem ecology and a passion to achieve greater inclusion, transparency and fairness in conservation and environmental governance. Joe is Policy and Advocacy Manager for the Wildlife Trusts Wales.

Natalie Buttriss joined Gwent Wildlife Trust as CEO in 2024 after a long career in the environmental charity sector in a range of charity business roles, including Director of Wales for the Woodland Trust, CEO at The Vincent Wildlife Trust and Deputy Chief Executive/Head of Marketing at Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.