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Changing Environment

As climate change and the movement of people impacts our planet, our environment shifts and evolves. COAST has sought to better understand these changes and how they affect our coastal communities. This theme shares the stories and perspectives of the people living through these changes.

Carn Mor Dearg arete and NE Buttress of Ben Nevis - Colin Nutt

Changing Environment

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A Favourite 'Doon the Watter’ Destination

This ‘jewel of the Clyde’ had everything you’d wish for as a holiday-maker!

A walk along the Westport Whirl

A personal reflection by artist Eva Wolfram

Cairidh fish traps

A historic fishing practise that has left an archaeological trace

Campbeltown Memories

Reminiscences of a World War Two evacuee

Collette the Fin whale

Collette the Fin whale, The National Museum of Scotland and the renegade islanders

Gavin Maxwell and the isle of Soay

After WWII, Gavin Maxwell bought the island of Soay and started a basking shark fishery there, almost wiping out the species in the area

Hutton's Unconformity

A rock outcrop on Arran changes our understanding of the earth's history

Iona marble

Find out more about Iona mable, and the meaning people have placed on pebble collecting over the years

Island hopping by by hovercraft

Hovercrafts were trialled on the west coast of Scotland linking Largs to Cumbrae and Bute

Ivy-leaved toadflax on Iona

On many of the buildings on Iona grows a flowering plant called Ivy-leaved toadflax