| The machair is an internationally rare habitat that is formed when sand is blown onto peat moorland. |
| On the lower ground, choose a line which leads over crofting machair land to a tractor track back to the village. |
| The only visible sign of military presence are the tracks of a four wheel drive vehicle crossing the beach to a tarred road in the machair. |
| On Iona, the threat is to its white sand beaches and the coastal machair which protects low-lying areas further inland. |
| Labour, the Liberals and the Nationalists slowly colonised the raised beaches left by the Tories' long decline, and proved tough as machair grass. |
| The yellow bumblebee, which used to be widespread, is now confined to the flower-rich meadows of the machair in the Hebrides. |
