As a proud member of Devon Wildlife Trust, it's great to see their hard work being given some credit 👍 DWT work tirelessly here - far more so than other organisations. Also, well played to Aviva for funding this. I'm sure it's greenwashing to an extent, but I honestly don't care if it means that much needed funds are being made available for the protection and restoration of amazing places like Dartmoor.

I have just moved into social housing here in Devon not far from a nature reserve , I am loving the mosses , ferns and bird life in my garden . Next step is a wildlife pond , may not be big but will be a little extra help for the birds and insects that need it .

@t-and-p

Жыл бұрын

Good for you! Wildlife corridors are crucial. If more people like you could give up just a small piece of their garden, all the pieces would link up to give wildlife much needed access between reserves. As a fellow Devonian, I thank you for showing kindness to our wildlife x

@nickybrooks6942

Жыл бұрын

@@t-and-p Saw my first Cirl Bunting just a few weeks after moving in, it was only after trying to identify it that I realised how important it is to make these spaces .

@t-and-p

Жыл бұрын

@@nickybrooks6942 You must be on the same stretch of coastline as me - only place in the country where cirl buntings are! We're so lucky here, it's gorgeous. Aren't the cirls beautiful? The RSPB, along with DWT and local farmers (TCCT did nothing, which was unfortunate...) have done a phenomenal job of strengthening their numbers. The RSPB did a big piece on it a few years ago, which is probably still on their website if you fancy seeing just how big the project was. Apparently, cirls really love small insects like crickets, so if you can keep pesticides out of your garden and provide a little ground cover (low plants, just somewhere they can avoid the sun), that will encourage those insects, which will encourage the cirls to pay you a visit 💕 If you're ever on the coastal road between Torquay and Teignmouth, and you have some spare time, popping into Labrador Bay and just having a little wander is well worth it. You don't have to go down that big old hill - if you go to the Torquay end of the carpark, there's a nice path along the field that's pretty flat. I saw my first cirl in there and it was magical! Hope you're settling well into your new home 👍

I grew up in Killarney in Ireland where my house was next to a temperate rain forest. I miss it. Live in England now.

Yet another reason why I love living in Devon (as if I needed any more)

I feel like a lot of this work now, can be put down to the great new book on Britain’s lost rainforests, that has attracted so much public attention to finally be aware of what we have lost over such a long period of time. It’s opened our eyes, even to those who really should’ve known better, and now, we are finally acting. It’s only one small step, but it’s one in the right direction. We just need now in the coming weeks and months for them to actually clearly show how they are going to do it, to make sure the reforesting is done quickly while still making sure it will grow back as well as it can without domestic animal interference and farmers can be compensated. It’s time, for Britain’s rainforests to return.

2083 💀 crazy how the government dint even pay just shows how the ppl care more then they do. 💔

When I read the video's title, I literally looked to see if today was April 1st.

Didn’t realise we had rainforests in this country

@danielwhyatt3278

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes, it’s been coming to the public attention over the last two years to a couple of months now. I think it’s really all down to the new hit book Britain’s Lost Rainforests. it’s compilation of information and studies ever since lockdown have highlighted it in a way that I don’t really think it’s been done properly before. We truly did ones have rainforests. Just different to those in the rest of the world due to the foliage difference.They would’ve been just as magnificent, and although they will never look the same, they can still be as great as they once were, if we allow them to be. Just this time in a different shape and area as they grow out.

@GazB85

Жыл бұрын

As stated in the video sadly only 1% of the UK when it used to be 20%.

@adamfreeman2348

2 ай бұрын

Thats because they have been wiped out by urbanisation and agriculture

Thank you for doing a video on this amazing habitat.👍 I’m trying to bring back some of this habitat in Ireland.

Guy Shrubsole is a wonderful example of nominative determinism -- living up to one's name! 🌿🌿🌿🌿

I live close to Gower nature reserve in Wales and we are absolutely swimming in litter from lack of wheelie bin rubbish collection and people discarding their waste who just don’t care. If there was a way to hold the local authorities accountable, it would go a long way to repairing our ecosystem. Any help would be very appreciated, C4 news.

@danielwhyatt3278

Жыл бұрын

You listening C4!?

@t-and-p

Жыл бұрын

I doubt they'll be monitoring the comments on here, but it's definitely worth popping on their website/social media and contacting them directly (DM, email, etc). A few years back, I lived in a huge building full of flats that was having a lot of problems, and the management company weren't telling the landlords, while leaving us to live in squalor. We directly contacted every local media company that would talk to us - local radio (BBC & independent), local TV (BBC & ITV), local paper, etc. It worked. They all covered it and, at one point, we were on the radio, the BBC and ITV at the same time, as well as front page of the local paper the same day. Weirdly, everything was fixed within 24hrs after that... It's newsworthy, so give it a go. The worst they can say is no, but I imagine they'll go with it if you push the size of the issue and the knock-on effects (environment, wildlife, tourism - & therefore economy, public health, safety, etc). Good luck! 👍

Protect the moss!

What a beautiful place!

This is so amazing!!

People here in the comments clearly don’t know what makes something a tropical rain forest (it’s the rain not the tropical part).

Wow honestly he could have said he was on set of series 2 of The Rings of Power somewhere in New Zealand. It really is so oddly easy to take for granted these incredible British biomes. I'm never so corny to pray for anything from the bottom of my heart, but on this occasion I'll make an accepting. It's absolutely wonderful.

@GazB85

Жыл бұрын

Hard work and donations, prayer doesn’t work.

Brilliant well done anyone making an effort in this, well done to Aviva.

Great news. England needs its rainforests all restoring to full glory. They are generally very fragmented, way more than in Scotland. It's good to see some real effort going into this project now.

Really brilliant to hear the momentum is building to restore our rainforests 😊.

I didn't know that existed. Anything that gets us more trees is great. A rainforest is so much better. We really need a commitment or a scheme to start nonstop tree planting until you're never more than a few metres away from one.

@danielwhyatt3278

Жыл бұрын

Here here. There really should be annual plans to try and recruit members of the public to be involved in this (like actual litters or better yet emails from the government sort of things), as well as a lot more tree breeding farms to actually create the numbers needed.

@Michelle_Schu-blacka

Жыл бұрын

@@danielwhyatt3278 And in my plan, there would be all sorts of weird and wonderful trees like banyan trees so in a hundred years they'll be a spectacular legacy. I also have an idea where councils could make a small profit.

@chrisallen9949

Жыл бұрын

Why not set it up.?

Very interesting!:)

You get small surviving patches of forest elsewhere in the west of the UK. Very, very pretty.

@hobi1kenobi112

Жыл бұрын

There are a lot not even documented. Temperate rainforest goes right over to Sheffield (Wyming Nature Reserve). There's even a website to submit any British rainforest you find, island wide.

It is so tragic how much damage Humans have done to our Earth.

Good to see this investment in our future. Note that it’s an insurance company, and obviously may help them with lower claims eg for flooding in the future so they get a win, but bet that doesn’t stop insurance companies over ‘hiking’ premiums!

Yes Shell should hand over their insane profits this year for this kind of project, but in developing countries already half submerged.

It’s sad how we need to pay money to fix something that should just be free in the 1st place. Is like if it’s the end of the world we’re gonna have to pay to stop it. 🤷‍♂️

Need to hire a new sound guy, but I'm delighted to see this news story and hope it's just the first of many like it

Looks like Vancouver

It looks an incredible place, and will certainly help in increasing the value of the local land for when developers want to build nearby. Hopefully it'll be for social housing, but I doubt it.

@chrisallen9949

Жыл бұрын

Keep the developers out. They are driven by greed not need.

Good.

I hope that the public--who need green recreational spaces-- will still be able to enjoy their national parks, and not be shut out. £37 million can buy a lot of 'No Entry' signs!!

Reforestation helps fight climate change.

Only $38 million. That's nothing. Need $38 billion. Just for UK.

Wonderful, when they eventually bring all the trees back over all the world, we probably won’t have any climate problems or so much air pollution. It’s so easy if only governments could be bothered. I guess there just isn’t enough money/profit in it for them.

The climate has always been changing, it's NORMAL. We live in pathetic times.

"Corporate Donations" - Meaning, Rich Toffs who want a play pen to walk their dogs in during their holiday seasons. As long as they've got Devon intact, they couldn't give a toss about the rest of the world being depleted of Bio-Mass. 1% left.. mostly in Devon I expect.

Funny how this investment is almost exactly 0.1 % of the net profit Shell made last year. Just to place this "massive investment" into perspective.

Rainforest in England? I’m shocked. At least this rainforest doesn’t have crocs or venomous snakes. I need to visit….

@hobi1kenobi112

Жыл бұрын

It's temperate, not tropical. Found in wet coastal zones. There's temperate rainforest in Australia too. And Japan.

@kschreiber5856

Жыл бұрын

There’s one in western Canada also. I was just surprised that England had one.

Thank goodness the atmospheric pollution was stopped. Hence the acid rain was stopped. It wouldn't grow like that with acid rain.

What next, donation requests to bring back dinosaurs? A land bridge back to mainland europe? Education even? I think start with education and then look at the impact a rainforest will have on devon😅

"It's like something out of a fairytale." That's because there is a direct relationship between nature and magic, between the wild and wonder. True nature rich and biodiverse with no boundaries is so rare nowadays that it seems like walking into Lord of the Rings when we do find it. The countryside's patchwork quilt of over-grazed farmland fenced into squares by rows of stunted hedgerows is barely nature. And many (most?) of our forests are actually just monoculture, non-native plantation pine crop, shadowy and silent. Nature - real nature - is necessary for the survival of the soul, and we're treating it like a sideshow, a temporary escape before our return to the "real" world. The real world is a lie.

King Charles could help.

Rainforest? Sure it's not just a forest where it rains a lot? I'm going to start claiming there is desertification, on my front drive, because that's where I park my Jeep Sahara.

@elliotminto4730

Жыл бұрын

it literally is that definition i hate to break it to you. you’d think its more complicated but really all you need for a rainforest is enough rain and and enough forest

Rain forest 😆 🤣