Mike Ingram Farm Environment Adviser Expand With extensive experience of practical nature conservation and land management, Mike joined FWAG in 2020. He has worked across a wide variety of habitats and their species and has a deep understanding of ecological processes as well as farming systems. Most recently, Mike has worked as a wildlife advisor for the National Trust and has a particular interest and experience in livestock management/conservation grazing and biological surveying and monitoring.
Richard Hollis Farm Environment Adviser Expand Richard joined FWAG SW in 2023 as a Trainee Farm Environment Adviser. He moved to Cornwall in 2010 to study ecology at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall Campus in Penryn before going on to complete a master’s degree, researching cooperative-breeding birds called Babblers in Australia. He’s been involved with several nature-based organisations including the RSPB, Species Recovery Trust and with FWAG SW as a volunteer. His interests include botany and ornithology and is excited to work closely with farmers and land managers in Cornwall to support them and the environment.
Sabine McEwan Senior Farm Environment Adviser & Devon and Cornwall Team Leader Expand Sabine joined FWAG in 2014 as a Farm Environment Adviser. She offers advice on diffuse pollution issues, soil management, natural flood management, conservation and agri-environment schemes in Devon and co-ordinates FWAG SW’s advice and project delivery across Devon. Until spring 2020, Sabine mainly worked on the Hills to Levels approach, combining natural flood management with diffuse pollution mitigation, conservation and river restoration. Before joining FWAG, she was researching the effects of different grassland management on soil and water quality as part of her PhD with the University of Exeter and North Wyke (Rothamsted Research).