Who we are:

Forest Action UK is run by a small group of committed volunteer professionals. Individually we have extensive e xperience providing development support and conducting research particularly related to Natural Resource Management Governance. We have a special link with Nepal, although we also have worked extensively in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

We were brought together by a shared view on the challenges facing natural resource management and a belief that providing a UK-based sister organisation could provide new opportunities for North-South mutual learning. In Forest Action are...

Peter Branney

Paul Sizeland

Peter O'Hara
Peter has fifteen years experience working with community forestry approaches, multi-stakeholder facilitation and natural resource management governance reform in 15 countries, mainly in Asia and Africa. He has focused his efforts on the politics of forestry aiming at promoting just and fair policy and governance environments for the marginalized. He has years of practical field based experience, as well as national level multi-stakeholder policy process support and has extensive experience designing and facilitating numerous international training courses and university courses on participatory natural resource management related subjects. He has worked for governmental, non governmental, academic and private sector organisations. He is currently a freelance consultant conducting work for FAO on democratising national forest programmes, is an advisor for a European Commission project in Ethiopia working towards institutionalising Participatory Forest Management and he provides process support and facilitation for the multi-country Forest Governance Learning Group (FGLG) of the International Institute for Environment and Development(IIED).

Andrea Nightingale
Dr Andrea Nightingale has over twenty years experience doing research in Nepal. Beginning as an undergraduate and continuing through her PhD and present position, she has lived in some of the most remote parts of Nepal (Humla and Mugu Districts) and travelled extensively throughout the country. She has also worked in Bolivia, Argentina, India, Indonesia and Scotland on issues related to natural resources and social justice. Her research focuses on the interface of social and natural systems using Community Forestry in Nepal as a case study and more recently, fisheries management in Scotland. Her work has pioneered new ideas around how to understand the link between issues of social justice and natural resource management in addition to her work on gender, caste, equity and knowledge. She is a Lecturer in Environmental Geography in GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.