Restore Nature Special Advisors

Collaboration is key to achieving Restore Nature’s mission and vision and we are grateful for the support of our Special Advisors who bring expert knowledge and diversity of thought to our work.

Professor Ian Wall

Ian is a Chartered Surveyor who, before retiring, ran a property development and investment company operating across central Scotland. He has had a wide variety of non-executive roles in commercial and charitable organisations and is currently a non-executive director of the Hutton Institute, the Borders Forest Trust, Edinburgh International Science Festival, the National Museum Scotland and is Chair of the William Morris Society. He is Visiting Professor of Urban Design, Heriot Watt University and recently chaired the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Inquiry into public financial support for tree planting.

Martin Lines

Nature Friendly Farming Network

Martin is the UK Steering Group Chair of the Nature Friendly Farmers Network (“NFFN”) and special advisor to Restore Nature. He is a farmer and contractor in South Cambridgeshire, growing mainly arable crops on his family farm and rented land. He has a special interest in farm conservation management and hopes to see the NFFN grow with like-minded farmers and land managers who will work together, sharing best practices and demonstrating what can be accomplished for nature and the environment while producing great produce.

Dr Judy Scrine

Equine Veterinary surgeon

Judy Scrine is a veterinary surgeon with a keen interest in veterinary sustainability, particularly in equine. After a neck injury ended her clinical career, she seized the opportunity to pursue a more altruistic role.

Judy is founder and chair of the equine subgroup within Vet Sustain,aiming to create a toolkit for equine veterinary teams and acting as liaison and bridge with other veterinary sustainability groups such as the British Veterinary Association, British Equine Veterinary Association’s Sustainability Group and CANTER (Controlling ANTiparasitic resistance in Equines Responsibly).

She feels that the veterinary field offers a unique opportunity to influence sustainability, sitting as it does at the “One Health” junction between people, animals and the environment, and she is very excited at the opportunity to bring equine veterinary sustainability knowledge, and indeed beyond that, restoration opportunities, to Restore Nature. “It is no longer enough to reach net zero, but we must embrace restoration too if we are to attain the sustainability ambition of “enough for everyone, forever”.

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Jimmy Woodrow

Pasture for Life

Jimmy leads Pasture for Life in a day-to-day capacity in his role as Executive Director and Board member. He is responsible for vision and strategy and growing the capacity of the organisation to deliver on its ambitions. Jimmy came to Pasture for Life from the food industry where he spent a number of years developing new business for companies including Neal’s Yard Dairy and GAIL’s Bakery. Jimmy has developed specific knowledge and expertise in growing small businesses, which he is using to develop Pasture for Life into a more widely understood and visible food movement. He aims to drive public interest in the both the organisation’s work and the products that are coming from the farms involved, from food to fibre.

Jimmy spent the first seven years of his career in financial services and holds a BA in Geography from Oxford University and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

David LIndo

Urban engagement and education

David grew up in north-west London, where he became a lifelong naturalist from an early age, with a particular interest in urban wildlife and education. Living in one of the most densely populated areas in Europe, David has for decades promoted the importance and diversity of urban wildlife: something that is essential in a country where 82% of us now live within urban areas. Styled the ‘Urban Birder’, he has published several books on urban wildlife, works as a regular columnist for wildlife magazines and TV shows, and is vice-president of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. In 2022 he published, “The Extraordinary World of Birds”, a children’s encyclopaedia by Dorling Kindersley.

David will help Restore Nature with its urban campaigns, from encouraging wilder parklands and removing glyphosate and other toxic chemicals from our cities, to brownfield biospheres, as well as overseeing vital educational outreach in our cities, and ensuring that knowledge of nature and its benefits reaches school children from an early age, especially in areas where previously they have not done so.