the Highlands forecasting is current ecological predicament. A foreword by the Prince of Wales did nothing to alleviate his concerns, despite sharing a profound interest in organic sustainability for landscape cultivation. Lister-Kaye's seventh book is the sequel to Song of the Rolling Earth, 'Nature's Child – Encounters with Wonders of the Natural World' (Time Warner 2004), and is about exciting expeditions and adventures with his youngest daughter Hermione. His eighth is 'At the Water's Edge' published by Canongate in 2010, subtitled 'A Personal Quest for Wildness.' In 2000, to celebrate the millennium Lister-Kaye took ten members of his family and Aigas Field centre staff on an expedition to follow the footsteps of Laurens van der Post's across the Kalahari Desert (recounted in Nature's Child). In 2008, with his son Warwick and daughter Hermione, Lister-Kaye mounted a private Land Rover expedition up 8,000 miles of Africa's Great Rift Valley from Malawi to Ethiopia to explore and write about the human ecology of the seven countries they passed through. They returned to Scotland in time for the official opening in 2009 of Aigas Field Centre's new environmental education centre by Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, and the Duchess of Rothesay. Personal life On 24 June 1972, he was married to Lady Sorrel Deidre Bentinck, a daughter of Henry Bentinck (who later became Earl of Portland). Before they were divorced in 1988, they were the parents of: John Warwick Noel Lister-Kaye (b. 1974) Melanie Jenifer Lister-Kaye (b. 1976), a twin. Amelia Helen Lister-Kaye (b. 1976), a twin. He married, secondly, Lucinda Anne (née Law), daughter of Robert Law, on 17 February 1989. Lucinda was previously married to Evan Baillie, 4th Baron Burton with whom she had three children. Together, John and Lucinda had one child: Hermione Anne Lucinda Lorne Lister-Kaye (b. 1990) Honours and awards In 1989 Lister-Kaye was appointed to the board of the Nature Conservancy Council, later the Nature Conservancy Council for Scotland (1990) and was appointed the first Regional chairman for the Highlands & Islands of Scotland for Scottish Natural Heritage in 1991. He has also served as Chairman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Scotland, President of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, the Forestry Commission, and the UK's Environmental Training Agency, and is Vice-President of the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland. In 1983 John Lister-Kaye was awarded the Wilderness Society's Gold Award for environmental