The Great Crane Project is a partnership between the WildfowlandWetlandsTrust, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and Pensthorpe Conservation Trust.
Bird haven Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, which is also the headquarters of the WildfowlandWetlandsTrust, and the Dunes Coastal Park in the Outer Hebrides have also been short listed for the Best Environment Project award.
According to his wife Lady Scott, when Peter returned from war, he was very keen to do something to protect threatened species and so it was that in 1946 he founded the WildfowlandWetlandsTrust in Slimbridge.
There is a vaccine for badgers - the BCG jab, which has been used by a number of wildlife and conservation bodies in England, including the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, the RSPB, the WildfowlandWetlandsTrustand the National Trust.