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Mr Patrick Casement OBE (Chairman)

Patrick Casement lives in Ballycastle in Northern Ireland where he has run his own business, a family farm, for 30 years. His impressive academic achievements include a B.A. in Zoology from Oxford and a M.Sc. in Ecology from Durham.

His previous public appointments were Committee Member of the Committee for Nature Conservation, including Chair of their Scientific Sub-Committee, from 1985 to 1989, Council Member of the CNCC, including Chair of their Antrim/Londonderry Sub-Committee and member of their Scientific Sub-Committee, from 1989 to 1996.

Mr Peter Archdale (Deputy Chairman)

Mr Peter Archdale is a member of the Ulster Widlife Trust, Woodland Trust.Lough's Agency Forum, Northern Ireland Coastal and Marine Forum and the Camphill Communities, with a wide experience of Oceanography.

Mr John H Anderson

Self-employed engineer.

Dr Tony Bazley

Chartered Geologist. Chief Editor, Earth Science Ireland Magazine and President of the Belfast Geologists' Society.

Mr Brian Black

Specialist television producer dealing with natural history and countryside issues.

Mr James Campbell

Senior Environmental Health Officer.

Mr Malachy Campbell

Policy Officer in WWF NI.

Mr Mervyn Hill

Former Education Advisor.

Dr Richard Horton

Currently Managing Director of CRL a food technology company. Member of the Institute of Material, Minerals and Mining and member of the Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineering.

Mr Dermot Hughes

Environmental Consultant.

Mr James Jackson

Retired Town Planner/Northern Ireland Housing Executive Manager.

Dr Hilary Kirkpatrick

Policy Officer in the Ulster Widlife Trust.

Mrs Elizabeth McCullough

Retired Civil Servant, formerly Head of Natural Heritage in the Environmental Policy Division of the DOE.

Mr Samuel McGregor

Former Director of Leisure and Tourism with Limavady Borough Council he is a member of Limavady Sports Council and member of Westport Twinning Association.

Mr Robert Northridge

Vice-Principal – grammar school. Chairman of Fermanagh Naturalists’ Field Club.

Mr James Simpson

Farmer. Formerly employed by Ulster Farmers; Union and Ballymoney Borough Council.

Professor Bernard Smith

Professor of Physical Geography at Queens University Belfast. Member of the Northern Ireland Biodiversity Group, the NI  Advisory Panel of SUSTRANS, Giant's Causeway WHS Management Committee, Vice Chair, British Society of Geomorphology.

Mr Andrew Upton

Director of Nature Conservation, Ulster Wildlife Trust. Former Ulster Wildlife Trust Nature Reserves Manager, JNCC offshore marine Surveyor, National Trust Warden - Farne Islands. He has 30 years experience of Natural History fieldwork specialising in Ornithology.