
13 December 2019
Conservation Partnership Coordinator
Seed Conservation , UK & Islands - UK Overseas Territories
Diversity and conservation of islands flora, especially Caribbean and South Atlantic UK Overseas territories
As a member of the UK and Islands Programme, I work in collaboration with partners in the UK Overseas Territories to document and conserve the wide diversity of these island floras. I currently manage projects to collect and bank at the Millennium Seed Bank the seeds of threatened plants from St Helena and across the Caribbean UKOTs (Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat and Turks and Caicos Islands), as well as develop capacity for managing seed collections in-country. I provide support and training to partners in plant identification and targeting, collecting seeds, herbarium specimens and data in the field. I also work on seed conservation projects in the UK, collecting seeds and undertaking baseline vegetation surveys. I have particular interests in the floras of the South Atlantic, Caribbean islands and the UK, and work on the identification of herbarium material of these regions.
Heller, T. M., Pearce, L., Cheek, M., Fortune-Hopkins, H. & Onana, J.-M. (2011).
In: Cheek, M., Harvey, Y. & Onana, J.-M. (eds), The Plants of Mefou Proposed National Park, Yaoundé, Cameroon: a Conservation Checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 141-143.
Cheek, M., Oben, B. & Heller, T. (2009)
Kew Bulletin 64: 509-512.
Heller, T. M. & Cheek, M. (2004).
In: Cheek, M., Pollard, B.J., Darbyshire, I., Onana, J-M. & Wild, C. (eds), The Plants of Kupe, Mwanenguba and the Bakossi Mountains, Cameroon: a Conservation Checklist. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 395-397.