Dr Tony Whitbread is the former Chief Executive of Sussex Wildlife Trust and is also the national spokesman on woodland issues for The Wildlife Trusts.
[1][2] Tony took a PhD in Grassland Ecology from Hatfield Polytechnic in 1981 and a BSc in Applied Biology.
His career has encompassed working for the Nature Conservancy Council and the Royal Society for Nature Conservation (RSNC), in addition to the Wildlife Trust.
[3] He joined the Sussex Wildlife Trust as Head of Conservation in 1991 and became Chief Executive in April 2006.
[4] Today he is a regular speaker at national conferences [5] and on national radio.