Leading mountaineer, writer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has urged the Government to give a special designation to Scotland's last remaining areas of wild land.
The Public Petitions Committee will debate tomorrow a petition he helped the John Muir Trust conservation charity hand in two years ago.
Mr McNeish said: "The Scottish Government could use the opportunity presented by the Year of Natural Scotland to make a powerful statement for wildness and all the benefits it brings by putting in place proper protection for Scotland's wild land.
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