Peter Cairns is a freelance nature and conservation photographer since 1998 and a founding director of The Wild Media Foundation, the Social Enterprise behind projects such as Tooth & Claw, Highland Tiger and 2020VISION. He was a co-founder and Business Director of the pan-European photography initiative Wild Wonders of Europe and in 2015 founded SCOTLAND:The Big Picture.
Peter also runs a photographic tour company and is an advocate for sustainable nature-based tourism as a mechanism for giving wild nature an economic value.
He is a serving Board Member of Scottish rewilding charity Trees for Life, and a Senior Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.