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Biography Sir John Lister-Kaye is one of Scotland’s best-known naturalists, writer and lecturer. He has served nature conservation for over 35 years, including being Scottish Chairman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, President of the Scottish Wildlife Trust and a Vice-President of the Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland. He served the boards of the Nature Conservancy Council, the Forestry Commission and the Environmental Training Organisation. He became the first Highlands & Islands Chairman for Scottish Natural Heritage in 1992. In 1976 he founded the internationally acclaimed Aigas Field Centre, which handles 6,000 local school children and 500 adults on wildlife courses and holidays each year. In 1983 he won the Wilderness Society’s Gold Award for environmental education; in 1996 the University of Stirling awarded him an honorary doctorate for services to the Scottish environment; in 2002 he was awarded the first ever Honorary Membership of the Scottish Wildlife Trust; he received an OBE for services to nature conservation in the 2003 New Year’s honours list and in 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of St Andrews for his contribution to nature writing.  Sir John has lectured throughout the world on wildlife and the environment. He was a Times columnist and is the author of eight books on wildlife and his recent best seller, Song of the Rolling Earth – A Highland Odyssey, published in 2003 has received widespread critical acclaim. Its sequel, Nature’s Child, was published early in 2004.He has led expeditions to wilderness areas such as the Kalahari Desert, Arctic Lapland and the Atlas mountains. In March 2003 he took his wife and daughters to Svalbard to follow the polar bear migration across the pack ice of the Barents Sea, only 350 miles from the North Pole, and he has recently returned from a four month expedition exploring the Rift Valley in East Africa. In his spare time he is passionate about planting trees, a keen horseman and an enthusiastic digger driver as well as being a bad poet. He and his wife Lucy live at the House of Aigas, near Beauly. 
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