News & Stories
From species sightings to school visits, hear what’s happening in our coastal community.
29 June 2026
Fauna and Flora Morvern film
Fauna and Flora made a beautiful film of the Morvern area.
16 May 2026
Consultation on management measures for Inshore Marine Protected Areas
The delayed consultation on management measures for Inshore Marine Protected Areas is coming soon.
13 March 2026
Oceans film
Caolas are thrilled to be able to show the Oceans film by David Attenborough within our area.
4 March 2026
CAOLAS Ten Years On: What has changed in the water?
Your local community-led marine conservation group CAOLAS is in its tenth year and it is time to look back and see what we have achieved or not.
30 August 2025
Voices from Scotland’s Shores
CAOLAS has had a busy summer, full of loch-side activities, meeting many of you face-to-face, and continuing with our year-round oyster restoration work as part of the Lochaline Native Oyster Project.
4 August 2025
Bioacoustics & Oyster Reef Restoration
The ocean is a noisy place. Many marine species make sounds to communicate, hunt, and navigate within their three-dimensional world, making our seas surprisingly acoustically diverse.
2 July 2025
Summer School Sessions with CAOLAS
CAOLAS has long enjoyed working with our local primary schools to explore the incredible coastal environments we live alongside.
27 February 2020
Scottish Government launch ‘The Environment Strategy for Scotland’
On Tuesday 25th February 2020, the Scottish Government published the new Environment Strategy for Scotland – along with its long-term […]
5 October 2018
Scotland’s Coastal Communities Network
CAOLAS is part of a network of other Scottish community coastal groups interested in protecting and preserving our special marine […]
13 September 2018
KIPPER: How to report suspicious activity in Marine Protected Areas
The Loch Sunart to Sound of Jura MPA came into force in 2016 to protect our resident population of common […]
12 September 2018
Marine Scotland Consultation on Large Scale Harvesting of Kelp
CAOLAS looks to respond to any consultations which impact on our coastal and marine environment. One such consultation exercise is […]
15 February 2018
Tackling plastic pollution
192 coastal countries like the UK, generated 275 million metric tons of plastic waste and between 4.8 and 12.7 million tons of it ended up in the seas.