PRIMARY school pupils have been showing off their creative side to help conserve Scotland’s rare pearl mussels.
Sam Firth, a professional film-maker from Drimnin, and Martin Henry, a musician from Glasgow, helped children from Lochaline Primary School create a short musical film about the mussels.
Using a chorus of singing mussels, made from modelling clay, the children described the mussels’ life in the river and appealed to humans to protect them. The video marked a further effort by the pupils, who have already helped Lochaber Fisheries Trust improve the breeding success of the mussels on their local river as part of a project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish Natural Heritage.