Coast Trail by Hiking.org
Hiking.org project research site and talks about creating a web of coast trails
Intro to coastal trails
Why we need coastal trails, both to help us face sea level rise, to help our coastal communities and to support wildlife
Coastal cities
Explaining why our cities and communities along the sea can benefit a lot from being connected with trails
Climate change
Sea level rise, global warming and extreme weather creates special challenges to a coastal reality, trails can help us face them
Tourism and locals
Coastal tourism can be both a help and challenge - trails can make a difference... if done wright
Coastal biodiversity
Nature along our coastlines are challenged from many sides, from plastic, to pollution, to development
Rivers and streams
A special challenge to coastal communities and coast trails are waterways reaching the sea
Fishing and sea life
Coast trails often gives special options of tasting fresh caught local sea food. But fishing is a challenged world
Coast Trail design
Coastal trails are being created all over the world and there are lots of great examples of what to do... and not
Plastic waste
Here the focus is on plastic waste and what it means and how hiking trails can help us face the coastal problems of plastic