“I run a conservation project about engaging with communities about managing marine protected areas of the Outer Hebrides.
…I think young people, it’s good for them to have opportunities to work on things that are contributing to caring for the environment.
…and I think that’s what we have to change, there’s an awful lot of jobs where you don’t have to be caring for the environment to do them, but there’s not a lot of jobs where you do.
…I very much think that climate change is an emergency that we have to deal with, but I think it’s overlying a whole raft of problems that have been around for many years.”
“Certainly in the lunar phases when the tides are much higher, there have been a few cases when they have been lapping at that wall up there, it’s been making me a little bit nervous, yeah it can be a bit worrying.
…and when it’s really windy, although this is effectively a lagoon, you get really huge wafts of water just coming and smashing on the windows.”
A fascinating interview with Amanda Saurin of @thetempleharris about foraging on the beaches of the Outer Hebrides, the unique saline environment on the coast of Harris, changes she has noticed to local weather patterns, the local environment, growing conditions, and to the coastal flora and seaweed that the team at Temple forage.
