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Hello and thank you very much for downloading the Scotland Outdoors podcast.

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you and Michael Riff.

Yeah, I've had a great week because I've been playing with some steam things in a canal.

Brilliant fun.

Lots of shining brass.

Copper.

Just watch not to like it. We were firmly committed to the power of steam in this programme and it was frankly it was

steam heaven. Basically it's how this programme is driven. We have spoken a lot over the last

few months or so about the importance of the marine environment, particularly because

the last episode of Blue Planet,

which came out from the Natural History Unit in Bristol, for the first time, emphasised the fact

that there's a lot of plastic in the sea, for example. But there are other problems associated

with the marine environment. And if communities want to look after their little patch, what they

can look at and see, how?

How do they do? How would that work in reality?

Philip Price is a member of something called the Craig Nish Restoration of Marine and Coastal Habitat.

They're rather wonderfully named Krumach for short.

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