Honorary Members

Honorary members are individuals selected by the Board of Trustees for having excelled in international conservation. They are consulted for their expertise and invited to participate in the AGM of ICS.

James Cadbury

Lucy Cadbury

Chris Feare

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Dr James Cadbury served RSPB for many years as Head of Research, Senior Ecologist and as an advisor for the management of RSPB reserves. From 1987-1998, he was editor of RSPB Conservation Review. He has an extensive knowledge of the vascular plant flora in Europe and Seychelles. For several years, James was a member of the Council of the Botanical Society of the British Isles. He is a vice-president of the Cambridgeshire Bird Club and a member of the English Nature Management Committee for Wood Welton Fen, the National Trust Local Management Committee for Wicken Fen and the Devon Wildlife Trust Management Committee for Welcombe and Marsland reserves. He is a Trustee of Plantlife International and was for many years Chairman of the Aride Island Scientific Committee.

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Lucy Cadbury lives in Cambridge, UK and is a trustee of ICS (UK) and the C James Cadbury Charity. She has a long standing interest in national and international nature conservation. Lucy first visited Aride in 1984 with her grandfather, Christopher Cadbury. From an early age she assisted on bird censuses at Hickling and Arne and with plant surveys at Tiree and Abernethy Forest. Lucy holds a degree in Linguistics and Speech and Language therapy. She is fluent in French, Spanish and Italian. She has worked for League pour la Protection des Oiseaux in Brittany, Lega Italiana Protezione Uccelli in Italy, as Academic Director teaching English in Quito, with Street Children in Loja (Ecuador) with RSPB on Islay living there for several years, at Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and has taught English in different language schools.

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Professor Chris Feare, from UK, is an ornithologist specialising in bird conservation and the management of invasive birds. He has published 5 books and over 200 scientific publications, including 60 on his research in Seychelles. In 1972 he began a study of the Sooty Tern egg harvest in Seychelles and he visits annually to continue these and other issues of conservation concern. Current investigations include geolocator, GPS and satellite tracking of Sooty Terns, and methodology for eradicating Common Mynas. Formerly a researcher at the UK Ministry of Agriculture, he runs WildWings Bird Management. He is a former Council member and Vice-President of the BoU, chairman of its conference committee and formerly edited Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club and Advances in Vertebrate Pest Management.

Carl Lundin

Lars Kristoferson

Murray Collins

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Carl Gustaf Lundin joined Blue Mission as Managing Director in 2021. Prior to that he was Coordinator of IUCN’s Global Marine Programme and its Director since 2001. His primary responsibilities concerned marine protected areas,  developing partnerships, sustainable fisheries management and climate change effects on marine resources. Before joining IUCN he worked with the World Bank for 12 years, where his main focus was on coastal and marine management issues including projects in Argentina, Baltic States, China, Eritrea, Indonesia, Mozambique, Seychelles and Tanzania. He has a Bachelors degree in Biology from Uppsala University in his native Sweden, and a Licentiate in Philosophy, Natural Resources Management, from Stockholm University. He has written a wide range of books, reports and publications in this field.
Professor Lars Kristoferson, holds a PhD in Plasma Physics. He served the Environment Institute of the Royal Academy of Sweden, was Vice Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute and Secretary General of Baltic 21 and Adjunct Professor of International Environmental Policy of Stockholm University before joining WWF Sweden as Secretary General between 1999 and 2007. He has served as Consul General for Seychelles in Sweden since 1984 and in 2020 was awarded the position Honorary Consul Emeritus. He has been a Board Member of Seychelles Islands Foundation, Advisor to the Seychelles University and was member of the Prime Minister's Sustainability Commission in Sweden. He has published extensively on various regional and global environmental matters.
Murray Collins holds all things Wild and all things Conservation close to his heart, and he counts it a great privilege to be in a position where he is able contribute to making a difference. At home in South Africa, Murray serves on the Board of Manyoni Private Game Reserve affording him many opportunities to preserve our wildlife, while simultaneously uplifting the local community. His desire to care for our earth has also seen Murray extend his “Conservation Footprint” globally. As a director of Biocarbon Partners, he endeavours to combat climate change through protecting the forests in Zambia, and works relentlessly to promote, rehabilitate and enhance conservation in the outer islands of Seychelles as an Honorary Member of the Island Conservation Society and trustee of Alphonse Foundation.

Tim Sands

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Tim Sands is a Trustee of ICS (UK) and the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. He retired in 2005 after 40 years working in natural history and nature conservation, first at the City Museum in Sheffield and the Council for Nature in London and then for 30 years at the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT). Latterly he was Director of Conservation and then Head of Parliamentary Affairs at RSWT and throughout his career specialised on campaigning work in the Westminster Parliament. He was a Trustee of RSWT 2005-2011 and, in 2012, published Wildlife in Trust –  hundred years of nature conservation, a history of the Society and the Wildlife Trusts. He has been involved in the conservation and management of Aride Island since the 1980s and with Adrian Skerrett compiled and edited Aride Island – tread lightly, which tells the story of the island’s first 40 years as a nature reserve.

Eddie Belle

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A Seychellois national, Eddie holds a 1st Class Honours in Chemistry from the University of Lancaster (UK) and a Masters in Geology from University of Texas (USA). He trained with the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate and in Washington DC. He has served as Deputy CEO of Seychelles Petroleum, Managing Director of Seychelles National Oil Company, Principal Secretary in Ministry of Tourism and Transport and  taught biology at Seychelles College. He has authored or co-authored several papers on the geology of the Seychelles and served as Chairman of the National Monuments Board and on the Board of Trustees of the Seychelles ex-servicemen. He was also an Island Conservation Society Trustee, Council member, and Chairman of the Silhouette Foundation until his retirement from active service in 2020.

Rob Lucking

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Rob Lucking worked for BirdLife International in Seychelles between 1992 and 1997 managing the Seychelles Magpie-robin Recovery Programme on Aride and Fregate. Upon returning to the UK, he worked for the RSPB for over 20 years in a variety of reserve management, conservation policy, species recovery, team management and business development roles. He is now an independent ecological consultant, wildlife tour leader and a trustee of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. He was elected as a trustee of ICSUK in 2019, becoming Chairman in 2021 and is also a member of the Aride Advisory Committee. His main conservation interests are habitat creation, management & restoration and species recovery. In his spare time, Rob is a keen ornithologist and has been a member of the Seychelles Bird Records Committee since 1998.

Suketu Patel

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Suketu Patel is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales. He is Senior partner and majority shareholder in Pool & Patel, the largest financial services firm in the Seychelles and is Certified by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales in International Reporting Standards. He was Managing Director of Coralline United Touring 1977-1980. He played football for the Seychelles national team 1971-1985 and was a Trainee with Leyton Orient FC in England during studies and became a keen supporter of Leeds United FC. His many football positions have included President of Seychelles Football Federation, 1st Vice President of CAF, Vice Chair FIFA reform Committee for statutes 2012 and member of FIFA Audit & Compliance Committee. He served as member of Prisons Advisory Board to the Minister, as a member of Seychelles National Sports Council and as Vice President of Seychelles Olympic Committee. Other roles include District Governor for Rotary International (for 7 countries), member of Seychelles Economic Council, Chairman of the Board of Seychelles Financial Services Authority, Chairman of the Board of Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority and Director Seychelles Petroleum Company. He is Chairman of Moyenne Foundation and a Trustee of Island Conservation Society 2018 to 2022.

Dr Jeanne A. Mortimer

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Dr Jeanne A Mortimer, born in Chicago USA, has made her living as an international conservation biologist consultant focusing on sea turtles and tropical coastal and marine ecosystems. She has worked in some 20 countries on six continents. Having first come to Seychelles in early 1981 to conduct a national survey of sea turtles and recommend management strategy to Seychelles Government, she has continued to work as a special consultant to the Government regarding sea turtle issues and was naturalized in 2007. She lived and worked in the outer islands of Seychelles for extended periods totaling several years which enabled her to visit virtually every island in the country. Her primary interests are ecosystem conservation in Seychelles and the wider Western Indian Ocean, and the biology of sea turtles, giant tortoises, and seagrass habitats. She has been a member of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group (MTSG) since 1979 and the MTSG Red List Assessment Steering Committee since 2008.  The International Sea Turtle Society gave her a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016.  She served as a Trustee of ICS from 2001 to 2021, and as Chair of the Turtle Action Group of Seychelles from 2008 to the present. She maintains professional affiliations with both University of Florida and University of Seychelles and has authored more than 200 publications and reports.