Last night our Scottish team joined over 300 other environmental conservationists at the prestigious Nature of Scotland Awards organised by RSPB Scotland. Our Scotland Conservation Officer Catherine Gemmell swapped her wellies for heels and headed along, find out below how we got on!
What a night! I was kindly invited along to the Nature of Scotland Awards by Cramond Primary School who I had nominated for the Youth and Education Award for their amazing work with MCS from Beach to Parliament over the last year. I met their awesome teacher Soumya and together we headed in to meet the other inspirational finalists.
My Manager Head of Conservation Scotland Calum Duncan was already there along with our partners The Glenmorangie Company and Heriot-Watt's Centre of Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology as the amazing DEEP Project was a finalist in the Corporate Award category for our joint work towards returning native oysters to the Dornoch Firth.
We wished everyone good luck including our friends Natalie and Sarah from Seasearch who were up for the Marine Conservation Award for their amazing work in identifying underwater places worthy of protection and needing recovered as well as our Sea Champion Lindsay with PwC who were up for an Award for their Environmental Volunteering which includes MCS Beach Cleans!
First up was the Corporate Award where we were delighted to see PwC win a Highly Commended Award followed by the winners who were.....MCS along with Glenmorangie and Heriot-Watt for the incredible DEEP project! It was fantastic to see Calum, Bill from Heriot-Watt and Peter and Anette from Glenmorangie head up on stage with the team to collect this extremely well deserved award. You can see a bit of a wobbly but very enthusiastic video of them collecting their awards here!
The success then kept coming as Soumya will be taking back a Highly Commended Nature of Scotland Award for the school to celebrate the incredible amount of work they had done! The cheering and clapping from the other 300 guests was so moving and we can't wait to throw our own mini Award ceremony at the school to present the pupils with the award!
A huge shout out to our friends at Fidra for winning the Marine Conservation Award for The Great Nurdle Hunt and to the Scottish Wildlife Trust for the NW Highlands Snorkel Trail in the Nature Tourism category too!
I was so pleased and proud of everyone involved in all these amazing projects and it really just shows how many incredible people are out there who are changing the world to protect and save our incredible seas, beaches and wildlife. This includes you, all of our members, volunteers, supporters, partners and friends - together we can make a difference!
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