🌲 If you would like to support our rewilding projects by becoming a member you learn all about them here: www.mossy.earth Every single member is essential and it is ultimately what makes our work possible. - Cheers, Duarte

@TheBaselessMountain

Жыл бұрын

You have a portuguese accent

@maczek2

Жыл бұрын

Hi Mossy Earth, Did you ever considered soil transplants from relic woods to promising reintroduction areas? I do not have biology education, but it's my guts feeling. Thank you for your work.

@negativeplayer4446

Жыл бұрын

Where's the discord?

@asbjrnhansen8477

Жыл бұрын

just fly in an airplain.. then ten billion birch,,willow ect. seeds from space... you get it lower the goat deer population 7 years.. maybe it already low though...

@metalg.v3593

Жыл бұрын

But if u use the same group of trees(the ancient ones) to reforest every part of iceland, wouldn't the genetic diversity decrease in total making the forest easy prey por disease?

I've lived in Iceland my whole life and to see a non-Icelandic person healing my country is makes me first of all ask "Why is he doing this?". Because you don't have to yet, here you are. I have great appreciation for your project and what you are doing. Loved this video :3

@alexythemechanic8056

Жыл бұрын

It's cool to see environments being restored like this. I'm from Scotland, which was also stripped of most of its trees, and I'm appreciating the movement to restore the natural biodiversity of these environments. Although our ongoing problem is selfish landowners rather than, you know, volcanoes.

@JamesBond-so1of

Жыл бұрын

Why don't you Icelanders do it for yourself just another liberal handout socialist country like Sweden

@kokonutbae8143

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesBond-so1of bruh hahahahahahahaah…. I’m not a tree planter wtf😂😂😂😂 there are most def Icelandic ppl out there planting trees gtfo here😂

@philroberts7238

Жыл бұрын

I think the answer to your question comes from recognising the difference between 'mossy earth' (which could be in a small heap on a dinner plate for example) and a mossy Earth (which is the home for all of us everywhere).

@brandonlancon9511

Жыл бұрын

Brother your homeland is beyond beautiful, I am from the south of the USA and can proudly say that a lot of my heritage can be traced back to Nova Scotia, Greenland, Iceland and even back to the motherland of the north men. But what matters most is we are all living on this planet calling it home and need to preserve nature,war will happen no matter what we do what we think but we have to stop and enjoy what we where gifted with. it’s crazy how ours and everyone’s ancestors ended up where we are now but we all seem to forget the stories unless they have something to do with a Great War, conquest or tragedy.

I was in Iceland during that eruption as a geography student in high school. I can't believe how it has affected the biodiversity and geography going forward

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Wow that must of been fascinating! We are as amazed as you are! - Cheers, Tom Berry

@TheJoshSouthy

Жыл бұрын

@@MossyEarth Cheers Tom, it was an incredible experience. Closest we got was 20-25km away, spectacular scenes. Thanks for the video.

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

@@TheJoshSouthy Must have been surreal! the closest I got to it was that archival footage haha

@ulwur

Жыл бұрын

Won't the next big jökulhlaup from vattnajökull flood this area again and flush it all away?

@slappy8941

Жыл бұрын

Affect and effect are different words with different meanings.

As a native Icelandic speaker, you're doing fantastic at pronouncing the place names! We never expect 'perfect', we just really appreciate it when people actually make an attempt to listen to the sounds and do their best at mimicking, since it's unfortunately very common for people to just 'jokingly' attempt it or straight up not try at all!

@CiabanItReal

4 ай бұрын

Do you guys have higher expectations for Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians to get it right?

someday if im an adult that has a job, I'll definitely buy the mossy earth membership. i love what yall do and I wanna support it 😎👍 right now im doing what i can to help, which is watching these videos from start to end without skipping, and sharing it to my friends i know ive said this before but this channel restores my faith and gives hope for this fricked up world

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support it means everything! - Cheers, Tom Berry

@Jeremy_936

Жыл бұрын

Humans could turn this entire world around in a few decades. What we're lacking is the will to do it and the resources to do it. It took me years to figure this out, to understand that there are humans and institutions that actually don't care about saving us, and many of those who want to save us, like yourself, don't have the time or money to do it. 80% of the world lives at the subsistence level. They're not able to save us even if they wanted to. So what needs to change is to convince the 20% who have the resources to have the will and to take responsibility. This is the challenge we must face as a species. Square this circle, and we will save ourselves.

@spencerking7550

Жыл бұрын

I'm hoping mossy earth expands to the US so I can GET a job with them haha

@ronnelechavez

Жыл бұрын

More power! The planet needs more people like you.

@thomashiggins9320

Жыл бұрын

@@spencerking7550 The United States has a number of well-funded conservation and restoration groups who do this same sort of thing. Right now, the Nature Conservancy has at least five reforestation projects under way: Central Appalachians Project - work to restore the great red spruce forests of West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Maryland. Longleaf Pine Project - individual stands of longleaf pine are making a comeback in some areas of the Southeast U.S., and are legally protected. Mississippi Bottomland Hardwood Project - The biggest stretch of forested wetlands in America used to be found along the Mississippi bottomland, with cypress and other trees taking up 24 million acres of wetland. Now, five million acres are left, but the reforestation project has started to make progress. Shortleaf Pine Project - protect and better manage the remaining stands of shortleaf pine, following beetle kills and poor logging practices. Urban Trees Project - Plant trees in large cities throughout the United States. None of this stuff is hard to find out about. You just have to start looking. 😀

Of course, to say 96/97 was pure luck is only valid in the context of our lifetime. Obviously, anything happening every ten years will eventually line up with such an event when given enough time. On an evolutionary scale this is nearly inevitable which is why nature is so amazing.

@fallinginthed33p

Жыл бұрын

Probability in geology and biology plays out over mindbogglingly large time scales.

@vladimirputout2461

Жыл бұрын

Now, with that said, let's begin the fucking around

@muesliman100

7 ай бұрын

It would be pretty cool to see if Icelandic birch trees are more likely to Mast in a year after a volcanic eruption, it could be a pretty amazing evolutionary advantage in the Icelandic conditions

I usually drive through the new forest in Skeiðarársandur at least once every summer on my way to visit family and it's always a highlight of the journey to see how much the forest has grown since I saw it last. I think I noticed it first in 2014 and since then I've been enamored by it and the fact that it's been growing completely without human intervention.

I always find it interesting how many layers of knowledge and understanding can be peeled away for any given landscape and natural process. Without this information the patterns you see just wouldn't make any sense. Amazing story and video team, well done!

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Exactly everything has a story! It just requires the right research and then connecting the dots! - Cheers, Tom Berry

@tera_baap6912

Жыл бұрын

That's soo accurate man

Hey! and Icelandic forestry student here :) Nowadays most specialist here in Iceland agree on that the forest cover used to be at the very most 25% and not 40. Otherwise great video! :)

I think this is such a great example of nature finding a way :)

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Such a cool story, it surely did!

@Jake-zk3eb

Жыл бұрын

All we have to do is let nature do its thing.

So happy to have gotten my membership it’s not only amazing to see the progress so thoroughly covered but to have such a closeness to it with the membership really does feel great. Keep up the amazing work!

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Thorin! We really appreciate it - Cheers, Tom Berry

It would be nice if you'd take a video of all the plant species that grow under those trees, there's a possibility some might be growing from seed from formerly extinct plants that were frozen in the glacier. Please get a video of every single plant and take at least one sample of each plant to propagate elsewhere in case the volcano erupts again and wipes out the forest.

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

We will keep this in mind for future trips there! - Cheers, Tom Berry

The fact that all the birch trees decide together to flood the forest with seeds is not pure chance. Trees communicate with each other and it would not be surprising if they knew the conditions were perfect for planting a year after the flood. A great book to read is The Secret Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

@Heroesflorian

Жыл бұрын

Great book indeed!

@colinmacdonald5732

Жыл бұрын

Have to say I thought the same thing... as soon as he said the seeding event happened roughly every ten years, it suggested some other factor at play and not, just chronology, that favourable conditions would also have an effect.

@SkyMurphy77

4 ай бұрын

Great book, addresses important issues

@grandmasteryoda6717

2 күн бұрын

pseudoscience

Mother Nature is a wonderful force as long as you don’t take her for granted.

An Icelandic forest truly is something rare. Knowing how slow trees grow in the long and harsh winter, it makes it such a special thing. And a really interesting thing to me. All the best to the kinfolk in Iceland. Greetings from a Dane 🇩🇰

That's very interesting. I remember driving there in 2020 and wondering whether or not these trees had been planted or if they spread naturally, and I remember not being able to find any logical reason for why they would all sprout at once for any natural reason :)

A great story that shows some amazingly intertwined processes and outcomes! How cool for the researchers who connected the dots on this.

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Amazing how all of this came together! - Cheers, Tom Berry

Mossy Earth you are a true inspiration. As a teenager which is interested in ecology and biodiversity your a true gem! Hope Iceland gets to the days of deserving to be called Greenland! haha!

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Haha keep an eye out for new updates - Cheers, Tom Berry

Ohh! I just learned something new about Denmark, my country: Much of our very fertile soil today must be the result of glacial runs. DK was right on the glacier edge during the last ice age. As the ice retrated, grew, and retreated over a few hundred years, there were glacial runs. BUT I just now understand how much nutrient that added, and gave the forests that came later, a head start.

@grandmasteryoda6717

2 күн бұрын

what's DK? donkey kong?

I love the positivity that this channel spreads. Also do you have any projects going on in Lithuania, my home country?

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, we try our best! No not yet - Cheers, Tom Berry

As you mention birdsong, it would be interesting to see a video on the birdlife and other fauna of the old birch woodland in Iceland, and how it is different, or the same, as other wildlife on that island.

@MrKorton

Жыл бұрын

You could hear redwing in the background here. Redpoll are also common and stay all year round (they eat the birch seeds). Eurasian wrens are there too. Those birds are mainly the original birds of the birch forest. Meadow pipits are also in the vicinity, as are the common snipe and ptarmigan (but not where the forest is dense or high)

Glad to see nature spots like this still around in the world today.

That’s pretty effing cool. Iceland is building forests!

Iceland is just so beautiful. Captivating video and a well told story Mossy Earth!

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Rob! It was a pleasure going there and researching this amazing story :) - Cheers, Tom Berry

Once more you’ve created an amazing video! Your content is truly phenomenal and I’m glad to see you get more and more recognition! And on a side note, the pronunciation was very good =)

It really did have such a different feel, excited to see it expand

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

It was an amazing experience. Looking forward to see the results in the coming years. - Cheers, Tom Berry

These videos of the work you do give me hope for the future. Thanks for all you do.

Your videos are so wholesome and so detailed, thank you.

This is a really beautiful area. The waterfalls are amazing! And I love the forest that has grown and the developing forest your are creating.

Citys need to line the roads with native trees to help slow drivers and protect people. Also citys need to reduce big parking lots like Walmart parking lots by 80% go up not out plant trees on the freed up land solar or wind or bolth on the parking garages and batteries on bottom to help reduce energy demands and blackouts.

@makelgrax

Жыл бұрын

Okay I was about to say that this didn't really matter as much in Iceland (the automobile industry is mainly a serious issue in specific car-centric countries like the US and Canada), but looking at Google Maps I can see that the main method of transportation in there is a literal handful of roads that go aaaalll around the island, and the towns they cross - at just a glance - heavily focus on car infrastructure (which with how small they are is rather redundant). There are a handful of very nice places that just... have a parking lot in the middle to accommodate for tourists and visitors, and I couldn't see _any_ public infrastructure (there might be tho, G-Maps is weird around there, and it appears to be rather outdated) like busses or trains to transport people. Iceland also appears to be partially based on agriculture, but I'm not sure if that's meant for exporting or for internal consumption. Regardless, the way that the produce is transported appears to be truck only, via the single road that goes in/out of fields. Overall It could be way better, but the small scale makes it not as bad/pressing as in the US. Cycling would be awesome there for people-only commuting tho, it's the perfect scale!

@joaquimbarbosa896

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes native trees aren't great options, specially for cities where ahesthetics, damage to the ground and height are very important Also, you kinda can't put wind turbines in the midle of a city. Still agree in reducing car use

@k.s.k.7721

Жыл бұрын

It basically comes down to money - who is paying for the planting and upkeep of trees and the beds which must be dug/built/watered? Should they be native species, or imported, low-care varieties? Does the local government require plantings, or can businesses decide how to use their land with no oversight? Lots of things to consider - and if people in a community decide to act/vote/petition, they have a good chance to improve things for everyone.

The water you bathed in at 8:00 is located in the ravine called Réttargil. I work in Skaftafell, which as you said, includes the Morsárdalur valley area which has the Bæjarstaðarskógur forest.

Tack!

Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

Amazing! One of the best stories I watched recently...Thank you for sharing!

Thank You

Your pronunciations are surprisingly good! With love from Iceland 🇮🇸

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad to hear it got Icelandic approval - Cheers, Tom Berry

Keep up the good work. I love it!!

I support you. Thank you SO much for your heroic efforts!!😊😊😊😊😃😃😃

Love your videos and your work!

Thanks!

you are truly a inspiration

Amazing clip. Really loving the work you guys are doing!! ❤️

Wow such a cool story! Mast years are fascinating by themselves, but combined with a volcanic eruption? - just wow

Very interesting and many thanks to share this with us! We really appreciate your effort and as educating us!

At the end of a hectic day, its lovely to get your positive and inspiring messages :) Many thanks

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Iain! Hope you the rest of the day is relaxing - Cheers, Tom Berry

thank you for bringing hope for the future

Thanks for another educational video! Unrelated to the video, I hope the kelp forest reforestation will be get more focus soon, and videos. Here in Norway we need it! Personally I'm interesting in volunteering as well.

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Glad that you enjoyed the video! There is more to come in terms of kelp restoration, so keep your eyes peeled :) - Cheers, Tom Berry

Great work! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

🥰🥰 keep up all the work u do guys u doin wonders for our planet!

You look very pleased to have built a forest. I look forward to seeing it grow.

Well done 👏 We need to plant 🪴 more forest please

Your pronunciation is fine, you're doing more for Iceland each day than most of us from Iceland are.

What a beautiful view! I have to visit it one day 😍

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Definitely Ema, Iceland is an amazing place - Cheers, Tom Berry

This is absolutely unbelievable and wonderful!

thanks for such a great video!! iceland is such a diverse place and I love seeing more and more of it :)

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! It really is! - Cheers, Tom Berry

This video makes me happy and excited to see what your project will bring :)

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Us too! - Cheers, Tom Berry

Thank you man for healing the earth. I will donate as much as pssible for me.

Imagine a project of forestation in south Greenland to expand the already existing birch forest there. A lot of trees have been introduced in SG, but what about a forestation project based mainly on the species found in Qinngua Valley?

i saw a veeeeery old birch last year way up in the woods of vermont, so beautiful

It was wonderful to see the impact of that old-growth(?) Birch forest on the fine narrator - his enjoyment/appreciation was palpable 😄

Nature heals itself one way or another 👍🔥🌋🏞️

I love this soooooo much 🥰🌳🌳🌳

Amazing, we need more of this

It was well worth the long hike to see.

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

It's definitely a special place! - Cheers, Tom Berry

There was an Icelandic TV show about this last year, and additonally, the area had two very favourable summers in a row, 97 and 98 I assume. A string of even more luck 🙂

A letter to the editor: The 14th century is the 1300s, the 18th century is the 1700s. (Technically it would be 1301-1400 and 1701-1800 respectively, so your graphics aren't totally wrong, but you said "from" the 13th and "to" the 18th so I thought it was weird that you would designate those centuries with their final years and assumed you just made a mistake)

so nourishing and mysterious our planet is

Informative video I'm commentating while watching

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoyed the video! - Cheers, Tom Berry

Wow, amazing description of the mast year and volcanic reforestation.

Amazing story guys. Keep going on. Love from India 🇮🇳.

Awesome power of nature and knowledge , love the great video .

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! - Cheers, Tom Berry

I've just come back from Iceland today. I first visited in 2016, and have visited each year since except in 2020. It's amazing to see how many trees have been planted since my first visit - truly I was shocked and kept saying "there's ANOTHER forrest!" Absolutely amazing work to all Icelanders and organisations like yourselves who are replanting trees

@annoyed707

Жыл бұрын

Run, Forrest, run!

Forests are one of the wonders of our earth.As a kid i often wandered through the forest with my friends or even by myself only.Lucky me i lived in a very safe European country.

Must admit I am no scientist but I did see research out of Yellowstone restoring native Wildlife also helped to reshape and regrow the natural areas. Introducing native Wildlife back into areas after they have grown enough may also help.

What I remember about Icelandic woodlands is their wonderful scent.

Awesome video!

This feels so magical and supernatural even though it's just natural.

Ecosia 👍🌱🌳🌲

This is a really cool project - and necessary in view of climate change! Thank you!

This man and this project deserves all our gold.

@2adamast

Жыл бұрын

Our trees, don't bring up those upturned landscapes of golddiggers

Thanks

Such a pretty forest

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

It really is! - Cheers, Tom Berry

As I love your site and I usually watch KZread in cafes and airports, I would really appreciate the addition of subtitles 😊

@danielbagshawe7519

Жыл бұрын

You can push the 'cc' button in the top right corner of the video to turn on subtitles. They are only available in English currently.

Really fascinating video

This is a beautiful story.

I love birch!!! I love the marked difference in your affect when you were engolfed in the forest. Thats what people need to understand/experience. Thats why people are miserable in cities and need chakras music to be calm, heal, and to fall asleep... be careful was that poison hogwart behind you with the white flower heads!

Amazing how pure luck can bring about such wide spreading changes in a regions landscape!

Bravo Bravo Bravo !

That is so cool.

I love this.

This is so cool:))

I would love to see another update for this area in 2024.

Being from Jamaica my first instinct indeed was 'take a dip in the waterfall' but then my brain kicked in and reminded me 'artic stream' lol

I'm super happy to see how mossy Earth is growing, but the fact that the focus on Portugal reduced kinda made me sad. Still great to see re wilding on other countries

You have my respect for trying to say those names, did a pretty good job at it as well :D

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Haha I think Duarte did a great job! - Cheers, Tom Berry

🌲🌳

You have inspired me to become an environmental scientist!

There has been geneology research on the birch from Bæjarstaðaskógur and it´s origins are like none other birch in Iceland, namely, it is shown to be norwegian of origin. (the researchers are Kesara Jónsson and Ægir Þórsson) So the theory that is plausible is that some1 brought seeds from norway and sown them there. So much for the "ancient forest" ;) If you want to see the largest ancient forest it is on the south side of lake Skorradalsvatn, the forest is called Klausturskógur or Vatnshornsskógur.

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Such a cool story! Not sure I'd be dipping in that freezing water haha

@MossyEarth

Жыл бұрын

Haha not for you slippery Bob - Cheers, Tom Berry