Badenoch photographer launches wildlife campaign
A “2020Vision” drawn up in the strath to help protect wildlife habitat in the UK has been unveiled at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Gardens.
Glenfeshie’s award-winning lensman Peter Cairns has been the co-ordinator of 2020Vision which was unveiled in the captial on Friday after three years of planning.
Twenty top nature photographers have come together to reach an audience of millions around the country and beyond to promote their message.
Mr Cairns told the Strathy that in Edinburgh alone some 60,000 members of the public were expected to touch base with the show over the next three months.
It will then visit cities across the UK and there are hopes the photographic exhibition will ultimately go Europe-wide.
Mr Cairns said: “We need a new way of communicating with the public. So far it’s been well-meaning academics doing all the talking about conservation, but so much of it just goes over people’s heads.
“We need to get onto the streets to involve people in a kind of Band Aid way if we’re seriously going to repair, rebuild and reconnnect ecosystems which are so crucial.”
The exhibition brings together the very best images from the 2020Vision collection in an open-air exhibition.
Botanical gardens’ Regius Keeper Professor Steve Blackmore welcomed it, saying: “These beautiful images remind us just how important our natural heritage is in the quality of our lives.
“I hope they will cause everyone who sees them to reflect on what more they can do to cherish and protect nature.”
