MAKING SCOTLAND’S LANDSCAPE

Professor Iain Stewart reveals how centuries of human activity have changed Scotland’s landscape.

Here, he reveals how our hearts, and not our heads, have ruled the least understood landscape of them all - the sea.
The public's emotions have played a defining role in the fate of Scotland's maritime creatures and the upshot has been a form of lottery. While some species, like seals and sea birds, have been protected, others - like cod - have been fished nearly out of existence.

Paul Leonard-Morgan recording soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HihSr0Op74I