Victoria joined VWT in March 2024 as Project Officer with Martens on the Move. She will be working in the south of Scotland and north of England setting up a network of volunteers and training them in monitoring and surveying pine martens in Strategic Recovery Areas. Victoria comes to VWT from Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels, where she was Project officer first in southwest Scotland and then the southeast. Supporting eighteen volunteer groups carrying out grey squirrel control to protect red squirrel populations, she trained them in monitoring and surveying using camera traps and feeder boxes, as well as identifying hair samples using a microscope. Before that Victoria honed her surveying skills as a freelance ecologist doing mainly bat and plant surveys across south Scotland. Victoria is Secretary of the Dumfries and Galloway Pine Marten Group where she can indulge in her passion for monitoring wildlife and getting out into the woods with like-minded people. In her spare time she is studying a Masters in Wildlife and Conservation Management and about to start her dissertation which may well involve pine martens and survey techniques. Office: Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland