Vision of a rewilded Scotland revealed
The vision of a rewilded Scotland will be revealed at Oban’s Corran Halls next month.
Against a backdrop of stunning images and film, Peter Cairns, who is a multi-award winning conservation photographer and director of social enterprise SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, will be explaining the principles
‘’ behind rewilding, why it is needed and why it is needed now.
At the show on Friday April 5, he will also pose the question: What should Scotland look like?
Some of Scotland’s top photographers and filmmakers have spent three years capturing the beauty of the country’s landscape and its wild inhabitants as part of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture’s mission.
The Big Picture is the first organisation in Scotland wholly dedicated to getting the message across to people about the potential of a wilder Scotland on land and at sea where wildlife can thrive and people prosper.
‘Despite Scotland’s international reputation for raw beauty and drama, a devastating story of ecological decline lies hidden in the landscape.
‘All of our large carnivores are extinct, many of our species teeter on the edge and millions of treeless acres dominate the map.
‘Scotland has become a nature-depleted nation.
‘It doesn’t have to be this way. A bold vision for the future is slowly emerging where wild forests teem with life, where pristine rivers flow freely supporting an abundance of insects, birds and fish and where a mosaic of wetlands is shaped by the work of beavers and echoes to the calls of cranes.
‘This is the vision of a rewilded Scotland – a place where nature works, where wildlife flourishes and crucially, where people prosper,’ said Mr Cairns, who is also a serving board member of Scottish rewilding charity Trees for Life and a senior fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
Tickets at £11.50 are available from scotlandbigpicture.com/scotland-big