Trelusback Foundation for Wildlife Conservation is based at Trelusback where the charity has a 29 acre site comprising barns, pasture, woodland, moor, stream, ponds and a lake. The site is primarily used for wildlife conservation and education.
Chair : Dr. Adrian Spalding
Adrian Spalding is an internationally known entomologist and did his PhD at Aberdeen University on the ecology of the Sandhill Rustic moth.
He has run an ecological consultancy for 25 years after working at English Nature (now called Natural England) and the Institute of Cornish Studies at Exeter University. He is a past President of the British Entomological and Natural History Society.
He has run an ecological consultancy for 25 years after working at English Nature (now called Natural England) and the Institute of Cornish Studies at Exeter University. He is a past President of the British Entomological and Natural History Society.
Treasurer : Simon Toft
Simon is an accountant and director for a number of companies in Cornwall. He is also the Treasurer of a well known Cornish butterfly and moth charity.
Secretary : Keith Wilson
Keith is now retired after a successful career in banking and insurance. He has since devoted his spare time to charitable work and currently runs two Charitable Incorporated Organisation charities. He has also been managing the Trelusback conservation area for 16 years and has recently donated the 29 acre site to Trelusback Foundation for Wildlife Conservation.
Scientific Advisor : Professor Richard ffrench-Constant
Richard is an internationally known entomologist and did his PhD at Imperial College, London before becoming a tenured Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He now works in the Centre of Ecology and Conservation at the University of Exeter.
What the charity does:
Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
How the charity helps:
Where the charity operates:
Environment/conservation/heritage
Who the charity helps:
- Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
- Cornwall
- Isles Of Scilly
Charitable Objects:
- To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by promoting or undertaking the conservation and management of lands of ecological importance for the benefit of the public generally in particular but not exclusively in Cornwall.
- To advance the education of students in the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment by providing established wildlife conservation sites suitable for their studies in Cornwall.
Activities - how the charity spends its money.
The provision of a site for the use of students and researchers to study wildlife conservation. The conservation and improvement of lands of ecological importance
The provision of a site for the use of students and researchers to study wildlife conservation. The conservation and improvement of lands of ecological importance