Restoration Notes - Feedback & Thoughts from the St Helena Cloud Forest Project

Who are the people behind the St Helena Cloud Forest Project?
In this film, the RSPB’s, On-Island Coordinator, Shayla Ellick, introduces us to some of the impressive team of local and international experts, all working together to reclaim and restore areas of endemic habitat within the Peaks National Park.

Appearing in this film, in order:

Shayla Ellick – RSPB On-Island Coordinator
Dr Alan Gray – Plant Ecologist, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Sheena Benjamin – Education & Outreach, St Helena National Trust
Keith Manger – Millennium Seed Bank Manager, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Robert George – Water Resource Monitoring Technician, Connect Saint Helena
Jonathan Kendon – In Vitro Propagation Specialist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Denzel George – Conservation Worker, Peaks Team, EMD
Marcella Corcoran – Conservation Horticulturist, UK Overseas Territories & Islands Specialist, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Darrell Leo – Charge Hand (Species Team), Terrestrial Conservation, EMD
Prof. Quentin Cronk – Department of Botany/Biodiversity Research Centre, UBC, Vancouver, Canada
Darren Duncan – Director, ENRP Portfolio, St Helena Government
Karen Williams – Conservation Worker, Species Team, EMD
Dr Anne D Jungblut – Principal Researcher, Microbial diversity discovery & environmental microbiology, Natural History Museum, London
Martina Peters – Head of Conservation (Terrestrial), St Helena National Trust
Derek Youde – Conservation Worker, Peaks Team, EMD
Ben Sansom – Hydrogeologist, Arctium, UK
Liza Fowler – Cloud Forest Invertebrate Specialist, St Helena National Trust
Kirsten Pritchard – Cloud Forest Project Manager, RSPB
Murray Henry – Meteorological Scientific Observer, MET Office, Bottom Woods
Elizabeth Mullings-Smith – Geologist, Maya Blue Ltd., UK
Vanessa Thomas-Williams – Nurseries Officer, Terrestrial Conservation, EMD
Zac Bargo – Research Assistant, St Helena Research Institute
Michel Groen – Private Consultant, Applied Geophysics & Geology
Lawrence Muranganwa – Technical Director, Connect Saint Helena

Restoration Notes was filmed between February 2022 and March 2024.
(Footage inside the Peaks National Park filmed before the 2023 pathogen restrictions)
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