My father, Peter Tilbrook, who has died aged 83, was a zoologist and conservationist who contributed to Antarctic science and nature conservation in the Scottish Highlands.
One of his greatest professional successes came in the 1980s, when as north-west Scotland regional director of the Nature Conservancy Council (later Scottish Natural Heritage and now NatureScot), he spurred the government into properly protecting the Flow Country peatlands (now a prospective World Heritage site) from damaging planting by forestry companies then exploiting a tax loophole.
