A WILDLIFE charity and rock band have teamed up to tackle “the nature and climate crises”.
The Scottish Wildlife Trust worked with alternative rock band Sea Power.
The Bafta-winning and Mercury award-nominated artists produced a new video for track The Great Skua featuring footage of seabirds on Handa Island Wildlife Reserve off the coast of Sutherland.
The video aims to draw attention to the “perilous state” of Scotland’s seabirds and the “vulnerable state” of the country’s wildlife, with a #HelpNatureHelpUs campaign being run by the trust.
Dougie Peedle, head of policy at the Scottish Wildlife Trust, said: “Climate change is already having a serious impact on Scotland’s seabirds.
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“Numbers have fallen by almost 50% since the 1980s and this decline can only be halted by effective action.”
Handa Island Wildlife Reserve is one of the most important sites for seabirds in Europe, hosting internationally important breeding populations of species including guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes each summer.
Sea Power guitarist Martin Noble said: “The great skua is a piratical seabird but our track is a beautiful soaring instrumental named after a majestic bird that is also a thief.
"It’s all part of the incredible global ecosystem we live in which can be both glorious and brutal.
“The Scottish Wildlife Trust helps to restore and maintain important spaces for nature, and works to make sure our ecosystems and wildlife are protected.
“Scotland has such amazing wildlife, much more needs to be done to protect it.”
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