After studying and working in the Scottish Highlands for seven years including work with the Woodland Trust, Isle of Rum Nature reserve and Nevis Landscape Partnership, Cormac returned to his home of Northern Ireland two years ago. He found work with the National Trust on their Mourne Wildfire Recovery Project followed by time as Area Ranger at Castleward, both roles included working with tenant farmers to use conservation grazing as a means of protecting rare ASSI habitat. Cormac has always had a interest in farming, growing up he raised small numbers of cattle, sheep and chickens and at 19 he worked on a large cattle station in Australia.