Peter Cairns

11.06.2019

Peter Cairns

Peter Cairns is a conservation photographer and filmmaker with more than 20 years of professional experience. A long-time advocate for rewilding and nature-based tourism, Cairns is a co-founder of SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, a serving Board Member of the Scottish charity Trees for Life, and is a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

Pools and bog peatland at dawn, Flow Country, Scotland Refilling the Carbon Sink 11.12.2019 Photo Essay - Long seen as wastelands, Scotland’s bogs are now the scene of an intense restoration effort in which millions of exotic trees are being felled to fight climate change.

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