Award for open hill and moor campaigner

Seil botanist Dr James Fenton has been honoured by the Scottish Gamekeepers Association for his unstinting advocacy in support of Scotland’s moorlands.

 

Dr Fenton was awarded the Ronnie Rose Award 2021 at the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's Game Fair in Perth.

 

He received the award for lasting contributions to conservation and education, an award named after the late wildlife manager, author and one of the developers of the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park - Ronnie Rose.

 

Dr Fenton was the National Trust for Scotland’s first ecologist and has worked in the UK, Antarctica and the Falkland Islands. He also wrote the Scottish Gamekeepers Association's (SGA) paper A Future for Moorland in Scotland in 2015 and remains committed to moorland preservation, opposing ill-judged forestry expansion which results in biodiversity loss, said a SGA spokesperson after the awards.

 

Scottish moorlands are globally rare habitats recognised by international directives.

 

Dr Fenton said: 'I am very pleased to receive the Ronnie Rose trophy for my long-term

 

campaign on behalf of the traditional Highland landscape of open hill

 

and moor. Myself and the Scottish Gamekeepers Association believe this landscape is currently undervalued and disappearing fast owing to the current vogue for tree planting.'

 

Caption: Dr James Fenton with the Ronnie Rose award 2021.

 

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