Sea Campion on WTSWW's Skomer Island. M Alexander

Mike Alexander

The Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales (WTSWW) is pleased to announce that at the  Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 14th January 2021, the Board of Trustees appointed Mr Mike Alexander FRSB FCIEEM as new Chairperson of the Trust.

Mike has a long interest and career in nature conservation spending a year as assistant warden on (WTSWW’s) Skokholm in 1966, and later as the Skomer warden for 10 years. Leaving the islands in 1985 he was appointed Warden of 5 NNRs in North Wales.

He was one of the founders and is currently the chairman of PONT, an organisation established to build the essential bridges primarily between nature conservation and farmers in Wales. His work developing management planning has gained an international reputation and he is the author of the standard international text book on the subject, lecturing both under and postgraduates.

Mike, a Fellow of both the Charted Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, and The Royal Society of Biology, has been on the Trust’s Board of Trustees since September 2017, and was Chair of the Trust’s Islands Conservation Advisory Committee.

Mike said, “More than anything else I look forward to the privilege of working with a team of wonderful dedicated people, our professional staff, my fellow Trustees and our enthusiastic volunteers. Together we will do our very best for nature.”

The Board of Trustees is delighted to be moving ahead into 2021 with Mike at the helm and are looking forward to working with him over the coming years, developing and achieving the Trust aims in their new strategy document.

The Trustees expressed their huge thanks and praise for outgoing Chairperson, Mr Rob Pickford who has been dedicated and proficient in guiding the Trust for the last 7 years. His experience has been invaluable and Rob continues to work with the Trust as a Trustee and with the Wildlife Trust movement at a national level.