Sir Peter Markham Scott biography

 Sir Peter Markham Scott biography

Sir Peter Markham Scott, (born September 14, 1909, London, England—died August 29, 1989, Bristol), British conservationist and artist. He based the Severn Wildfowl Trust (1946; renamed the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) and helped set up the World Wildlife Fund (1961; renamed the World Wide Fund for Nature).

Scott, who was the son of Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge (1931), and studied artwork on the Munich State Academy in Germany and on the Royal Academy in London. In the Nineteen Thirties he grew to become generally known as a painter of wildlife, notably birds, and as an completed single-handed yachtsman, profitable the Prince of Wales Cup thrice and a bronze medal on the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

After distinguished service within the Royal Navy throughout World War II, Scott based the Slimbridge Refuge (1946), a waterfowl sanctuary on the River Severn in Gloucestershire, the place by a captive breeding program he saved the Hawaiian goose, or nene, from extinction within the Nineteen Fifties. Scott guided the World Wildlife Fund by holding a lot of management positions through the years. As a member of the Species Survival Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (1962–81), he created the Red Data books, the group’s official lists of endangered species. He additionally led expeditions to such locations as Antarctica and the Galapagos Islands, wrote 18 and illustrated 20 journey and wildlife books, and promoted conservation points on the British tv sequence Look and Survival. Scott was knighted (1973) and made a Companion of Honour (1987).