John Lister-Kaye
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John Lister-Kaye

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SIR JOHN LISTER-KAYE OBE Sir John is one of Scotland’s best-known naturalists and a lecturer of international repute. He was a Times and Guardian columnist and is the author of eleven books on nature and wildlife. His best-selling ‘Song of the Rolling Earth’ was published in 2003, and its sequel, Nature’s Child in 2004. At the Water’s Edge followed in 2010, and his book, Gods of the Morning (2015) won the inaugural Richard Jefferies Prize for nature writing and his latest, The Dun Cow Rib, A Very Natural Childhood, was published in August 2017. In a 40-year career he was the first Chairman of Scottish Natural Heritage for the Highlands & Islands, President of the Scottish Wildlife Trust and Chairman of the UK government’s Environmental Training Organisation and is a Vice President of RSPB. In 1986 he received the World Wilderness Foundation’s gold award for environmental education; he has received honorary doctorates from St Andrew’s and Stirling Universities and in 2003 he was awarded an OBE for services to nature conservation. In 2016 he was awarded the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Geddes Medal for conservation, and made an honorary FRSGS. He has lectured on wildlife and conservation on three continents; has led exciting expeditions to wilderness such as the Kalahari and Namib Deserts, the Atlas mountains, the Amazon basin, the Galapagos and to follow the polar bear migration across the pack ice of the Barent’s Sea. In the winter of 2008-9 he undertook a four-month, 8,000 mile Land Rover expedition up Africa’s Great Rift Valley. He lives at Aigas, near Beauly, where he is director of the internationally acclaimed Aigas Field Centre, which he founded in 1970, and is currently running a Scottish Wildcat captive breeding programme.
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