About Trelusback Foundation for Wildlife Conservation
Trelusback Foundation for Wildlife Conservation is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation formed to provide a conservation site where students can study wildlife conservation related science. The Charity is a Corporate Member of Buglife-The Invertebrate Conservation Trust.
The site is based at Trelusback and comprises 29 acres of barns, pasture, woodland, moor, stream, ponds and a lake. It is intended that the land is used not only for educational purposes but also to protect the site’s wildlife.
The protection of wildlife includes making the site available as a receptor site for animals and plants which have to be relocated or reintroduced.
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.
Treasurer : Simon Toft
Simon Toft is an accountant and director for a number of companies in Cornwall. He was also the Treasurer of a well known Cornish butterfly and moth charity for eleven years.
Secretary : Keith Wilson
Keith Wilson is now retired after a successful career in banking and insurance. He has since devoted his spare time to charitable work and previously was the Secretary of a butterfly and moth charity.
Since moving to Cornwall in 1994 he has been managing the Trelusback conservation area and has recently donated the 29 acre site to Trelusback Foundation for Wildlife Conservation.
Scientific Advisor : Professor Richard ffrench-Constant
Richard ffrench-Constant 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.
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
CHARITY STATUS: Trelusback Foundation for Wildlife Conservation: Charity registered in England (1196741)
REGISTERED OFFICE: Trelusback Farm, Penhalvean, Redruth, Cornwall, TR16 6TQ