Education for Conservation is a non-profit organisation, limited by guarantee. The company currently has five directors and a number of expert advisers.
Denise Taylor - Founder & Executive Director
Denise is the founder and executive director of E4C, and has worked in wildlife conservation since the early 1990s.
E4C was borne out of Denise's experience in wolf conservation and her subsequent research for her doctoral thesis on conservation education, which is nearing completion.
Realising that there is a very real need for practical resources for conservation educators, Denise set up E4C and enlisted the help of like-minded conservationists and entrepreneurs.
Denise firmly believes that conservation education is one of the key conservation strategies, and is an area that is currently developing very rapidly as the "human dimensions" aspects of our relationship with wildlife and nature come more to the fore.
Patricia Grant - Project Director
For the past 15 years Pat has specialised in the field of Human Resources. Prior to that she ran her own business in Stratford-on-Avon.
A committed environmentalist who has worked tirelessly for charities promoting animal welfare and ecological conservation and protection.
Pat's strength is identifying key skills and experience and matching these with the needs of organisations in order to build a strong and effective team.
On a personal level, Pat believes strongly in the "power of the dollar" and supports organic, Fair Trade and socially responsibly organisations.
Chris Senior - Technical Director
Chris Senior has a strong conservation background, having worked with BTCV for eight years, undertaking practical community conservation projects and training volunteers, before gaining a first class honours degree in Countryside Recreation Management from Sheffield Hallam University in 1997.
Since graduating, he has been an environmental consultant, specialising in the environmental use of GIS (Geographical Information Systems), along with survey work of habitats as diverse as woodlands and derelict brownfield sites. This work is undertaken for a variety of clients, including local, regional and national environmental organisations, local authorities and universities, providing a valuable management tool for sites, species and habitats.
Having developed an interest in wolves during his degree, he has been involved with Wolf Print magazine since its early days, firstly as part of the editorial team, and more recently as sub-editor. He contributes photos and occasional articles to the magazine, and is passionate about wolf conservation, environmental issues, and travel, especially trekking remote places.
Gary Lillistone - Communications Director
A professional communicator for the past 30 years, Gary Lillistone has held a long term passion for nature and the environment.
Having held senior public relations posts with major corporate organisations, Gary has worked with businesses on corporate social responsibilities through his skills and knowledge of marketing and PR.
Adam Mottershead – Project Director
As the son of E4C founder, Denise Taylor, Adam has been involved in conservation work from a very early age. He currently works as an Acoustic Engineer in Manchester, and as a director of E4C will provide technical and project management support particularly for creative work involving environmental and natural soundscapes.
Adam is also a creative practitioner and produces work as a painter and has recently embarked on work as a novelist.
Expert Advisory Panel
Professor Mal Leicester
Professor Mal Leicester did her PhD in Philosophy of Education at the University of Manchester. She has taught in schools, colleaes of education and in the Universities of Warwick and Nottingham. She was also the Avon LEA Advisor for Multicultural Education and the Director of a Community Organisation in Birmingham. Until her recent retirement she held the Chair of Adult Teaching and Learning at the University of Nottingham and now writes educational material and children's stories.
Mal has published many academic books and papers in Education. Her children's stories incorporate learning materials and her most recent book (Special Stories for Disability Awareness 2007, Jessica Kingsley) was shortlisted for the TES/NASAN Teaching and Learning Award. Forthcoming books include on on Environmental Education and Learning (with Denise Taylor) and one on Teaching Critical Thinking Skills which incorporate adult stories introducing philosophical ideas.
Professor William (Bill) Lynn
Bill is a visiting professor of environmental studies at Williams College. He received his doctorate in Geography from the University of Minnesota. While there he studied ethics, environmental and human geography, interpretive social science, and qualitative methods. A founding editor of the international journal Ethics, Place and Environment, he is a member of the Ethics Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union/IUCN, and an International Associate of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies (www.nzchas.canterbury.ac.nz).
Before arriving at Williams College, Bill was a professor of environmental studies at Green Mountain College, a research scholar at non-profit think-tanks, and a professor of human-animal studies at Tufts University. While at Tufts, he was the Assistant Director at the Center for Animals and Public Policy, and Program Director for its Master of Science in Animals and Public Policy (MAPP). Bill is also the founder and Senior Ethics Advisor of Practical Ethics (www.practicalethics.net), a website, blog and gallery dedicated to the well-being of people, animals and nature.
Bill's research is located at the intersection of ethics and nature-society relations, particularly the ethics of wolf recovery, ethics and human-wildlife conflict, global ethics and deep sustainability, and the role of ethics and social theory in science and policy. His work has been featured in numerous books, journals, magazines, and radio talk shows.
Cornelia (Neil) Hutt
Cornelia (Neil) Hutt lives in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia in a nearly 200-year-old field stone house that was a field hospital in the Civil War. Neil taught in the public schools for more than 20 years. She has developed curricula for major conservation organizations and for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. She serves as chair of the board's Education Committee and as trip coordinator for the Center's learning adventures to Canada's Northwest Territories. She coordinated seven March trips to Yellowstone National Park. She is on the Advisory Committee for the quarterly International Wolf magazine, and writes the magazine's department, "Wolves of the World." Neil is chair of the board of the Red Wolf Coalition in northeastern North Carolina. The Coalition works to educate the public about endangered red wolves and is planning to build an interpretive and education facility in red wolf country near Columbia, NC.
Neil says, "Everything about the Wolf Center is consistent with my personal and professional philosophy about conservation and environmental education." She "enjoys board friendship and camaraderie, the association with the core people in the Center, the close relationship with the staff and the chance to work with them, and the sense that I am helping to accomplish things that are important."
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