Morar, Moidart and Ardnamurchan includes several Natura 2000 sites within the designated area of the NSA.

[5] Following the Second World War, a committee, chaired by Sir Douglas Ramsay, was established to consider preservation of the landscape in Scotland.

This coastal fringe is made up of four main subsidiary areas each with a character of its own, but complementing the others and all linked together by views of the enhancing offshore islands of the Small Isles.Much of the area, including the Arisaig and Ardnish peninsulas, as well as much of the coastline and the mountainous interior, cannot be accessed by road.

Additionally, the north coast of Ardnamurchan can only be reached by single track dead-end roads.

[12] There are six Special Areas of Conservation (SAC), within or overlapping with the NSA: The grounds of Arisaig House, Kinlochmoidart and Eilean Shona are all listed in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.