Awards and achievements
1961 RGS Ness Award
1965–95 Commissioner of Income Tax
1968–82 RGS Council Member, 1982–86 Vice President
1969–81 Co-founder and Chairman of Survival International
1971 Winston Churchill Memorial Fellow
1979 Patron's Medal
1980 Winner Krug Award for Excellence
1981 President of Survival International
1981 Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1984–2015 President Camel Valley and Bodmin Moor Protection Society
1988–95 President Cornwall Wildlife Trust
1998 Farmers Club Cup for outstanding contribution to farming, agriculture and the countryside
1999 Chairman Friends of Conservation
1999 International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation Personality of the Year
2001 RSGS Mungo Park Medal
2000 Pio Manzù Medal (Italy)
2000 CLA Contribution to the Countryside Award
2001–05 President Rain Forest Club
2003 Patron of the Countryside Alliance
2003–2011 Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Cornwall
2009 President Cornwall Red Squirrel Project
2012 Best Large Scale Renewable Energy Scheme in Cornwall Award for Cabilla Manor
2013 Exhibition of photographs of tribal people and places, National Theatre
2014 Honorary Consul for Kosovo (Cornwall)