The Rausing sisters are humans and philanthropists of the very finest water.

To quote from the Wikipedia articles that Alan references:

Lisbet Rausing co-founded the Arcadia Fund in 2001 with her husband Professor Peter Baldwin. As of December 2017, the Fund has made grant commitments of over $500million to charities and scholarly institutions globally that preserve cultural heritage and the environment and promote open access. Arcadia-funded projects include the Endangered Languages Documentation programme at SOAS, the Endangered Archive Program at the British Library and Fauna & Flora International's Halcyon Land and Sea fund. They are listed as one of the biggest benefactors to the Wikimedia Foundation and donated $5 million to the Wikimedia endowment in 2017 after Baldwin joined its advisory board.Rausing and Baldwin also founded Lund Trust. Since 2002 Lund Trust has given more than $62 million to charities in the UK and internationally.

Sigrid Rausing set up the charitable trust the Sea Foundation in 1988. In 1996 she transferred the funds to the Ruben and Elisabeth Rausing Trust, named after her grandparents; the trust was renamed the Sigrid Rausing Trust in 2003 and by 2014, had distributed approximately £208.3 million to human rights organisations globally.

It is an inspiring read and shows what sensitive land-management can acheive. At least some tracts of the Highlands are not just being spared from the ravages of 'normal' estate management but greatly enriched too.

Thanks for this Alan! It makes a welcome change from reading about windmills and power generation systems!

I'll try to go this way in 2019!

Paul M