Simultaneously, EOCA has hired a couple of scholars to create a panel of experts to give advice on the selection of future environmental projects. The group comprises professor Martin Price, director of the Centre for Mountain Studies at the Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Jonny Hughes, director of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, professor Charles Sheppard from the Warwick University's School of Life Sciences, and doctor Nick Brown, forestry lecturer in Oxford.
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