Alan Martin is the Secretary of the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Trust and acts as the main coordinator of the REGUA project in Brazil which he visits regularly and assists with the governance and fundraising. He is a retired accountant and amateur birder but has published a Guide to the Hawkmoths of the Serra dos Orgaos, South-eastern Brazil and has just finished working on a Guide to Butterflies of the same area. He has served as the Honorary Treasurer and a Council member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, as Treasurer and then Chairman of the British Trust for Ornithology, a trustee of Butterfly Conservation, a Director of Wetlands International, and a Council member of the World Land Trust as well as being a trustee of some other more local charitable organisations.