My friend Simon Pepper, who has died aged 70 of a heart attack, was founder director of WWF Scotland. He held the post from 1985 to 2005, playing a key role in establishing the Millennium Forest for Scotland and driving its expansion by securing ?27m for more than 22,000 hectares.At WWF Scotland Simon also led the formation of a highly effective alliance of environmental bodies called Scottish Environment Link, which now has more than 35 member organisations. It played an instrumental part in the successful opposition campaign to a huge quarry on Harris in the Western Isles, eventually persuading the French company Lafarge to drop its plans. Continue reading...
Simon Pepper obituary
21. listopadu 2018 19:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian