I grew up on a large cattle ranch in the NW USA and was surrounded by sheep ranchers. We all were surrounded by forested mountains with large populations of eagle, Bobcat, Bear and Cougar as well as wolves and Lynx, we survived just fine, we had zero predation from bobcat, eagle and lynx and minimal predation from the other predators. The native population of deer and Turkey were huge as well as a healthy population of American Elk. These fears are always overblown. I would caution however reintroducing boar with no predators, they breed like rabbits even with high numbers of predators and can degrade the environment in large numbers.

@gerdforster883

4 жыл бұрын

The eurasian lynx is about twice as big as the canadian lynx native to North America. So while the candian lynx is no danger to sheep (they mainly eat hares anyway), its eurasian cousin can easily kill them. So you need to prepare the breeders before the reintroduction. Guard dogs and higher fences are pretty effective.

@prepperjonpnw6482

4 жыл бұрын

Hogs or pigs in the wild are terrible! In America they’re considered a varmint which means you can kill as many as you want without a hunting license and use any weapon you want. Now we have people who use drones with night vision and infrared cameras to find them in the dark lol. That is illegal for hunting any other animal.

@Eggyfart83

4 жыл бұрын

There's lots of wild boar in the uk

@jaybrimberry1856

4 жыл бұрын

@@prepperjonpnw6482 In America they are not native and did not evolve with our environments and forest. However in Europe they are a native species and they benefit the forest that evolved with them.

@The_Captain40k

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrimberry1856 I second Jay's comment - wild pigs escaped when they were brought over by colonisers but in Europe boar are beneficial to the ecosystem.

Lynx is extremely shy animal and would do anything to avoid people and dogs. All you have to do to protect speep from lynx is electric fencing (night enclosure) and one elderly dog. Having sheep killed by lynx is once in a lifetime event and can be easily compensated for by government. Same goes for wolves btw though they indeed do kill sheep if they get desperate. That is how we do it in central europe where we re-introduced these animals.

@toffeegamer4672

6 жыл бұрын

lamebubblesflysohigh Abroad people use Llama's to protect sheep from coyote,wolves,bobcats/lynxs.

@HS-en4fd

5 жыл бұрын

lamebubblesflysohigh the Lynx is very shy your right electric fencing, a dog or even guard geese would suffice. Wolves are portrayed badly by Hollywood and the mainstream media they’re quite solitary animals they rarely come into contact with humans or livestock I read a statistic only 17 people have been killed by wolves in Europe in the last 50/100 years only 17! And bears are quite solitary animals too they keep to themselves if you don’t have litter lying around you’ll be fine also if you do see a bear simply get a walking stick hold it up in front of you and yell really loudly a bear won’t charge you if it thinks it’s going to be impaled on a stick. :)

@johnbaxter189

4 жыл бұрын

Grow some extra meat Wat u can donate to the wolves to keep them well fed and health. Believe me all animal in a "natural" state wud appreciate and love assistance, especially wen it comes to food. Most "wild" animals struggle like crazy just to survive, humans shud be trying to help all of them. As for working with the community it is all about balance, the "new green economy" can create billions of jobs that are involved with preserving the land. The green economy can be the saving grace of this drastic take take take economy we got now. Economy has simply gotta make the transition from things we don't need to things we do need. The green economy can become a self sustainable self supporting economy. It don't seem like it pays but in the end it pays massive dividends. I'm not so much with "natural" forest, I'm more like let's put more useful plants in and make loads of fruit forests. Whole world needs Regreening. On earth as it is in heaven. Ain't even enough wood to build houses with right now. Mother earth has been absolutely Raped for centuries and centuries until she's nearly bare naked. It's most shameful indeed how ignorant our forefathers really were. With lads like u lot in this video tho I'm sure we can make things better. Good planting!

@DinarAndFriends

4 жыл бұрын

@Silvana Barilla >>can be a real danger for humans, especially children. This is total nonsense: wolves virtually never attack humans. There have only been two verified cases of humans killed by wolves in the whole of North America: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wolf_attacks_in_North_America Overwhelmingly the biggest threats to a child are his or her own parents, especially the mother: www.livescience.com/1888-greatest-threat-children-parents.html

@prepperjonpnw6482

4 жыл бұрын

As I read all of these comments I realize that most of you have never been to America especially the western states. We’ve been reintroducing wolves and other animals all over the place with nothing but good results. In fact two things wolves are doing that benefit us and the ecosystem are 1 - wolves kill off as many coyotes as they can. That allows smaller animals like rabbits and beaver to increase their numbers. 2 - by keeping the deer and elk out of the open areas along streams and rivers many trees and plants are returning and holding the soil in place. Also, wolves are not as much a danger to humans as coyotes are. You can look all of this up yourself and there are plenty of videos about Yellowstone National Park that explain all of this. As for forests, those in the Pacific Northwest go on forever it seems. When you can drive in a fairly straight line for close to 3,000 miles and never leave the forest that’s a big forest.

How can we complain to Brazil about the Amazon when we’ve cut down almost all of our forests ? We should be reforesting and rewilding ASAP and show an example.

@jeremyboughtono2

4 жыл бұрын

mark Exactly we are massive hypocrites.

@grahamt5924

4 жыл бұрын

It's because we are stupid. I would love to see britain restored. It's as boring as anything.

@harislittle9241

3 жыл бұрын

@@jeremyboughtono2 not really, Europes forests were destroyed years ago, whereas Brazilian forests are disappearing at an alarming rate, also brazilian biodiversity is much higher.

@james60681

3 жыл бұрын

And also while we keep buying things with palm oil in which encourages deforestation in other countries. We are just as guilty as the people Chopping the actual trees down

@PeterBrodie

3 жыл бұрын

Ilikedogs 20, but British biodiversity was also very high hundreds of years ago!

Scotland is the best place in the UK for rewilding. We need more Paul Listers! Good luck Scotland!

@HS-en4fd

5 жыл бұрын

Christopher Adshead the north, Scotland, Ireland and wales would be pretty good.

@kirsteneasdale5707

4 жыл бұрын

No thanks

@mistywww3199

4 жыл бұрын

Scotland is the best place in the UK in general

@lewistaylor2858

4 жыл бұрын

the last thing Scotland needs are individuals who own most of the land

@christopheradshead7876

3 жыл бұрын

@Zubair Aleem What I meant is that Scotland is more untouched and has more natural forests. The vast majority of rural England is sheep farming, although some projects, such as the Knepp estate, have been successful so it is still possible in England.

Is one sheep every two years really so high a price to pay for restoring our land and ecosystem to health? When all you have is a sheep monoculture and a forest plantation monoculture, the countryside is effectively dead.

@skyrocket0113

3 жыл бұрын

Oh Jana!👍🍺🍻😷😁👍

@watchonjar

3 жыл бұрын

well to be fair it might be one sheep with two lambs in its womb and then afew more lambs becuase the wolf chased around a bunch of other sheep causing them to miscarry. But still I do agree it is a price we can compensate the farmers for.

@crystalroseblue6760

3 жыл бұрын

Everywere I have lived I planted trees and had a real eco system going ,I was always was praised for it. I did it for me ,my enjoyment.I now after many years live in my own cottage, but the area is very poor in soil,and weather is terrible.I have after 15 years finaly found the key to improvement of the soil and gardens (what few I have) my trees have shot up with new growth ( they were slowely dieing) trees that refused to grow or produce look healthier, and frogs and small animals are coming into my garden.I am suprised because its a simple trick......kitchen scraps...yes dig a hole a foot or two down put kitchen scraps in trees and plants love bananer skins and egg shells dried and crushed up especially ,Worms eat it all and plants and trees get healthier.

@andrewmunz1639

3 жыл бұрын

well no its not one every two years, 2 families of lynx with young would take one sheep every week but there are ways of changing that! i live in the highlands and i see that wild pig and red deer are over run and becoming a problem on roads(and roe deer are getting displaced onto the roads) big cats in the highlands stay away from people.I saw Felicity the puma in culloden woods 1977 she was caught 20-30mile away in canich in 1980-81 (as i remember) she was caught for eating a goat that was staked out at tomich(that is a place) but she was well kept in her old age,and in the the 1970s didnt herculese the bear disapear into the highlands for two or three years and nobody saw him in all that time?

@carlac4407

3 жыл бұрын

@@crystalroseblue6760 Well done! You can also add the leaves that are falling from the trees in order to create more soil. Good luck!

People and farmers were so scared of the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone. Now the main thing people want to see when they visit the park are the wolf packs hunting the deer and elk who were eating all of the trees seedlings. The loss of farm animals to the wolves was no where near as high as the farmers thought it would be. The farmers do have to shoot a wolf now and then, but in general the benefit far greater than the small percentage of loss.

@HondoTrailside

2 жыл бұрын

The view from New York.

@peterbenoni1470

2 жыл бұрын

Even beyond that, local businesses gain more money from tourism than is lost in farm animals by LEAGUES! It's definitely not a net economic loss

People get upset when there homes are destroyed, imagine how animals feel, we have destroyed so many forests

@mirsad96

6 жыл бұрын

I think they are to busy fighting to survive to feel bad about loss of habitat to be honest.

@briankelly9347

5 жыл бұрын

@@mirsad96 don't be stupid

@sully9937

5 жыл бұрын

@You should be studying or you no get A plus I travel halfway up the country once every couple months and it's so depressing man. I just imagine it back in the pleistocene where these barren fields would be full of predators and prey alike in a sea of vegetation. How it should be. Yet its simply fields upon fields as far as the eye can see. Pisses me off.

@martialkintu2035

5 жыл бұрын

@@mirsad96 They do feel about it. Animals aren't too busy nor to stupid. If they have time to rest after a meal, and if they have time to fall asleep them, then they probably have time to reflect whatever they have witnessed in their lifetime.

@msmit3669

5 жыл бұрын

The dead can’t feel😢

I'm sick of looking at plantation conifers, they really are vile. Even attempting to walk through them is a dark, dank & almost suffocating experience. The laws on landownership must change. Subsidies should be given to farmers to plant native trees & rewild the land. Rich landowners should be made to follow in the same direction. Everyone would benefit from it.

@quaderobertson2904

6 жыл бұрын

Plantation conifers are great for people but not for nature they should pland native species also

@minastirith997

5 жыл бұрын

who makes those laws in the first place? those rich bastards! so it’s about their greed not about us or nature

@amandadonegan2137

4 жыл бұрын

Trees dont pay???TREES MAKE OUR OXYGEN!! WE OWE OUR LIVES TO THE TREES!

@sodalitia

4 жыл бұрын

@@amandadonegan2137 Its a false premise. You must read a bit on the topic. Most of the oxygen comes from the ocean. Even if you cut all the trees oxygen levels would remain the same. The problem is precipitation, habitat loss, soil erosion and massive CO2 realise from the soil as a result of deforestation. Not the oxygen.

@scottwhitley3392

4 жыл бұрын

Amanda Donegan trees use as much oxygen as the produce, look into how a tree functions.

I know, this goes against everything british, but maybe take a look at what happens on the continent! The reintroduction of lynx in northern Germany is very popular with the vast majority of even the rural population. It went along with a massive educational effort and extra subsidies for livestock farmers to update their security measures. It worked pretty well.

@malarchristopher2721

3 жыл бұрын

B

The entire planet requires re-wilding.

@loganlin6109

4 жыл бұрын

Jamie Williams yes even in places like India and China where the massive population growth has decimated the wild landscapes.

@samotargos5199

4 жыл бұрын

What planet needs is less humans.

@ia8018

3 жыл бұрын

@@samotargos5199 And more rewilding, including human rewilding.

@simonmclean09

3 жыл бұрын

@@samotargos5199 The Planet needs War

@samotargos5199

3 жыл бұрын

@@simonmclean09 Im not arguing against that.

Good look rewilding your amazing land! Scotland would be a much more interesting place with those creatures roaming once again in their forests.

@ianmalone8053

3 жыл бұрын

Would be nice if you could remove the domestic cat and save the wild one, while a few are left, then remove the rat and save the dormouse. Wildlife experts seem to want big easy projects, yes you can dump a couple of beavers in the river and release some ponies. Time to get real, we are still loosing what we have and our experts are not good enough

@stevenparker525

3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you . I think it would be absolutely fantastic to have the bears lynx and wolves back in the UK..

Wolves have returned to piedmont in northern italy completely on their own, and I have never heard anyone complaining about them. Sure people get scared but unless something happens it is something that can be done.

@IanTupmanOutdoors

3 жыл бұрын

They are also in the Dolomites and have been seen crossing ski pistes in the middle of the day. As far as I know, there have been no issues as a result of their presence.

@KaregoAt

2 жыл бұрын

@@IanTupmanOutdoors it seems so funny to me when people get freaked out when a wolf crosses a yard or a park or another human construction. Well yeah! They gotta move too, and since we've fractured the forest area they can't help it! If a wolf starts staying around people it's a different thing, but I would say that is a negligible minority.

Over 40 odd years ago a friend of mine and myself came face to face with a Lynx while walking round a Loch in Perthshire whilst Pike fishing . It was autumn and the cat bolted up the bank in a flurry of leaves , but not before we both had time to see what it was and we both agreed it was a Lynx . We never said to anyone other than our fishing pals who were as delighted as we were . Fast forward to about eight years ago , and the same guy i had been with on that day walked into the pub and handed me a newspaper cutting . Apparently an elderly couple on their way home to Aberdeen after a family visit , had pulled into a layby to have their flask of tea . In front of their vehicle a fairly large buff coloured cat walked across the road and down to the Lochside , the one thing they noticed was the Ear tufts . This layby was appx 300yds from where we had put up the Lynx all those years ago . I know they are in Scotland have been for a while and it appears they are doing ok i am delighted to say .

I just found those beautiful videos about reforesting Scotland. What a challenge! What a beautiful, heartwarming action! and so, so needed! The main players of all this are true heroes and not only for Scotland! They are leaders in global conservation and repair! When they were talking about reintroducing lynx, bears and wolves to those beautiful forests it took my breath away from sheer joy and wonder! I so hope it will happen! Hope it already happened!...Thank you!

Greetings from Sweden, we have bear, wolf, and lynx but I have to admit that I have never seen any of those animals in the wild (being quite an outdoorsy person nevertheless). They usually keep out of the way of human habitat if they can help it. I saw a wolverine once though, luckily it was quite far away cause those can be pretty aggresive...

Good for you Scotland. Preserve your beautiful country. Greetings from mainland Europe.

It is wonderful to learn that inspired people are working to bring back biodiversity and more intact native ecosystems to Scotland. I grew up in California and have been fortunate to get to know a few beautiful forested areas there, in Colorado, and in New England. I have to admit when I hiked in the hills near Edinborough years ago, the landscape felt a bit on the barren side. Thanks to the producers of this video, which explains that much of Scotland was forested and had greater biodiversity. Bravo to Trees for Life, Dr. Dick Balhary, and all the organizations working with the local residents to encourage bringing back biodiversity!

The locals are so important. I live in the north of Sweden, and bears had pretty much been gone for the last 60 years back when I was a teenager. They still existed, but barely, the locals idea was a dead bear was a good bear, so any bear that was found out about "dissappeared". Then the government changed the rules, there was introduced licensed hunting for bears, a whopping 6 ones nationwide. Suddenly locals could defend their animals by killing the predators, but also talk about it, get the trophy, and suddenly bears had a "value". The bear population suddenly started growing year on year. Now there is a stable bear population, the locals have learned to live with them, as IF there is one thats not scared of humans and take sheep etc, he will go during the hunting season. Hunting thus causes the bears to avoid humans to a degree, and increases the chances of their acceptance.

@fireblade2681

2 жыл бұрын

"Local opposition" to the rewilding of Scotland is often code for the opposition of a very select number of incredibly wealthy private landowners who care only about their profits, not the long term sustainability of their business model.

@MrZnarffy

2 жыл бұрын

@@fireblade2681 actually usually they are the best...It's common people who is to blame. they worry about lynxes and wolves

@fireblade2681

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrZnarffy I doubt the situation in Sweden is the same as the situation in Scotland. Do posh tourists spend 10's of thousands of pounds to shoot invasive species on vast estates owned by wealthy landowners in Sweden?

I cant believe they haven't opened a national park in Scotland with all the large predators. I would pay to go and stay in a national park like this closer to home.

@ianmalone8053

3 жыл бұрын

They have and it depends on your budget, if you have enough money you can walk the hill and shoot hand tamed Grouse.

@grahamt5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianmalone8053 lol. I want to 👀 something more interesting than a grouse. 😆 🤣 😂

@stevenparker525

3 жыл бұрын

Same here mate I would pay to go and stay there . Just to see all the preditors. Absolutely brilliant.

@grahamt5924

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenparker525 It is all so sad. We could have an interesting wildlife park on our doorstep and unfortunately all we actually have is a man made wet desert. For me, having wolves, bears, wild boar, elk, red deer in such stunning scenery all on the edge of Europe. So sad.

@lenroddis5933

2 жыл бұрын

@@grahamt5924 Rose-tinted spectacles. Just look at the problem Germany has with wild boar. Like herring gulls, they've adapted to living off human waste. They also carry disease that can transmit to domestic pigs. We have bovine TB in the UK with badgers being blamed as transmission vectors. As far as I'm aware, there is no agreed viable solution to that problem. Why oh why do we need wolves, bears, boar, elk etc. in the UK?

the gamekeeper talking about 'balance' to protect the very lifestyle that drove all these animals to extinction

@rotwire8994

3 жыл бұрын

yes, if you remove those lifestyles in one movment you end up with a bunch of very unhappy people who are suddenly unable to support themselves and become a burden. Though I'm sure there's a viable strategy out there that would allow us to phase in those big changes.

very well balanced show showing both sides! need more TV like this showing both sides points of view in a clear way so we can come up with balanced solutions not based on emotion but reason! Thanks for this show

Less than 1% of its old growth forests remain. This is so sad💔

I would love to go on safari to see the wildlife of Scotland!!! Great work and please don’t give up. Generations from now will thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heroes aren’t born, they’re made! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The answer lies in economics unfortunately, afterall that's what most people are usually concerned about the most. You'd be best suited to promote the economic benefits of such plans, with a parallel compensation scheme for any loses. In Sweden, when livestock is killed by predators a simple phone call to the local town hall brings out an expert (vet usually) to verify the kill. Once verified, the farmers receives twice the value of the loss. No Swedish farmer would poach predators as a result......it wouldn't be economically logical. This is where the state needs to morally step in and make it so.

@capicuaaa

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. A very practical, sound plan.

@sirdudleynightshade8747

3 жыл бұрын

I like that idea, but what if the victim is the Farmer's child?

@turtleextra4128

3 жыл бұрын

Sir Dudley Nightshade that’s highly unlikely like a extremely unlikely

@houzbizness303

3 жыл бұрын

@@sirdudleynightshade8747 In my part of Sweden we have Wolves and Lynx. Last person to be killed by a Wolf was in 1854. No one has ever been killed by a Lynx. I've seen a few Wolves in the 25 years I've lived here, I've never seen a Lynx. I need to also add that I spend probably about 100 hours a year in deep forest picking berries. I walk every day through or in forested areas. I live in a small city surrounded by forest. I have never felt any fear of Lynx or Wolves. I'm more concerned about Elk with calves.

@sirdudleynightshade8747

3 жыл бұрын

@@houzbizness303 Good answer, but in the farmer's position I would be as dangerous about safeguarding my child as the elk would about her calves.

I love wolves and lynx , I think as humans who have made them extinct, we have a duty and there should be no question about reintroducing them , our wilderness is barren and dead without them and the landscape is scarred with deforestation and intense farming 😢🐺🐾🍄🍁🌲🌲🌲🌕

@kirsteneasdale5707

4 жыл бұрын

Franisthebest 123 “Our wilderness”? Do you live in it? I do and the majority of us who live in the wilderness, do not want dangerous animals on our doorstep. No thanks. It’s not going to happen.

@hughmacfarlane9662

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirsteneasdale5707 Hi, you are correct , bang on . But I wonder if we are being selfish . Would it not just be wonderful, simply delish for the city dwellers to come up for a couple of days , so they could complain about not seeing anything , after going to all the bother they went to.

@d.jparer5184

3 жыл бұрын

Why wolves? I can understand lynxes but wolves? In britain? Really?

@joshuawilliams9954

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirsteneasdale5707 Believe or not, it's not "your" wilderness. Stop being so selfish. We have to share with animals so compromises have to be made.

@aydennichols3055

3 жыл бұрын

@@d.jparer5184 once you've populated with lynx you need something to predate on the lynx to control their numbers, youd need both lynx and wolves plus a monitering/culling programme to control your apex predators to stop them taking over

I believe the reintroduction of wolves in the Yellowstone National Park has done a good job of keeping check on the overpopulation, previously unchecked, of ungulates.

Bit of hypocrisy from the game keeper, I'll bet his estate was the result of highland clearances...

@hughmacfarlane9662

3 жыл бұрын

Gamekeepers do not have estates . Misery was the result of the highland clearances .

Very inspiring and beautiful. Thank you.

I'm surprised this is an issue. I have lived around bobcats my whole life and they don't hurt anything. God Bless Mother Earth 🙏

@einar8019

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, we have wolves, bears and lynxes in sweden and them killing livestock is very rare

Great video, added to our Rewilding playlist. Thanks

This is a great informative and inspiring video! Let’s all work together now!!❤️❤️❤️

The gamekeeper talking about kids leaving rural communities there - Surely that this is happening proves a change of tack is needed and rewilding might be an important part of the solution.

@HS-en4fd

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Baker yeah exactly kids leave to move to cities to find work..but if the forests were restored and native species were reintroduced to the landscape then this provides jobs such as Conservationists, scientists, rangers, tour guides, game keepers, farmers, shop owners. Tourists will be needing somewhere to stay and eat so lodges open up and restaurants / cafes are introduced. So yeah id say re wilding Scotland would be beneficial.

@jaybrimberry1856

4 жыл бұрын

One thing I find interesting. I live in the US and have hunted most of my life. Some of the areas with truly the best hunting have the apex predators. I am largely a bird hunter now, where we have apex predators our ground nesting birds do better because the apex predators will prey upon the meso-predators that raid the nests of the birds. It appears every game keeper I see in these videos seems to be against predators. I do not understand the whole concept of game keeping in the UK. It appears that the animals they are responsible for are tame....why would anyone hunt tame animals?

@greenjack1959l

4 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrimberry1856 don't know why anyone would hunt anything tame. Why don't you ask the people who pay to shoot tame lions on U.S. "game ranches"?

@pauls3204

4 жыл бұрын

used to be thriving towns all over the highlands until these landowners who this gamekeeper doffs his hat too ,evicted them.

@g-man4297

3 жыл бұрын

@@jaybrimberry1856 The pheasant is not a native of the UK, but was introduced from asia, as an exotic then for the rich to shoot for sport these rich people just stand in a line shooting pheasant and grouse on the moors that are herded towards them by low paid people known as beaters, they basically form a line a distance from the line of shooters and walk towards them making a lot of noise, scaring the birds into flight over the shooters for them to shoot. Any predator from a stoat to the eagle which may be deemed a threat to the pheasant and grouse chicks is poisoned, trapped and shot this practise as been going on for hundreds of years, and needs to change, and slowly it is starting to, though these same people were against the rewilding of Kites and the white tailed sea eagle these species appear to be thriving because there are many agency monitoring them, though foul play do's still occur.

Excellent!

I understand the arguements people may pose about safety. But i believe that it is worth the risk to help the nature in those areas

@kirsteneasdale5707

4 жыл бұрын

David Prior Do you live here? I do and most of us don’t want dangerous animals on our doorstep. It’s just not going to happen.

@cratarata2278

4 жыл бұрын

Kirsten Easdale there not even that dangerous

@iordannelucas

3 жыл бұрын

​@@kirsteneasdale5707 the most dangerous animal is homo sapiens

@yerman0564

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirsteneasdale5707 Yellowstone gets 4 million tourists per year. Since 1995 when they were reintroduced, no one's even been attacked by a wolf in Yellowstone. On the other hand, the UK has around 750 homicides *per year.* Everyone sees wolves as dangerous frothy-mouthed killers, when in reality you're more likely to be killed by your neighbour.

@ianmalone8053

3 жыл бұрын

@@kirsteneasdale5707 Every year people contract viruses and diseases from animals, people go blind etc. If you want to let’s remove dogs and cats.

HI Australia here ,When I visited England I was in the country side and I saw it empty,few trees no animals except sheep and horses and cows,I kept asking where the forests were and wild animals...and if this was the same in Scotland I was told it was ,.I was also told there were no large forests or animals except deer ,they were all gone. I felt empty and wanted to cry .This was over 25 years ago,I am so happy to hear something is being done, in Scotland ,especialy the Isle of Sky ,as that is where my ancestors came from.My opinion is that if humans can distroy a inviroment ,they can rebuild it, Here in Australia we are trying to restore any deterioration of the land due to poor management,being a land that does not forgive such degdration, growing trees, restoring the land and proper management is now our top priority, or our dust storms and floods carry our soil away. We learned hard lessons from our past and farming practises ill suited for this land.Now it is looking better and improvment is visible, And our forests and native animals will continue to get better protection , and farm land improve with new idears that are better for a drier climate.

I love these lands. being born here and researching how it once was centuries ago now makes me long for it. the government and cities are too ignorant to be the leaders. restore this country's wildlife and wild culture. Alba gu bràth.

Great idea, and documentary. I fully support everything trees for life (and other organisations here) are doing and have donated quite a lot for my circumstances to the organisation. But you needed a proper sound recordist and post sound mastering as the audio jolts and just sounds a bit grating a lot of the time. I'm watching this on my phone and still am so distracted by the audio I'm writing this as the film is playing feather than paying attention. It's so important psychologically for message delivery that the audio is clean and balanced.

Keep up the good work

I would love to see a Scotland with brown bear, wolf and lynx, with ample forests. I'm currently living in Canada, and I find a wilder Scotland very appealing. I couldn't tell you why. I hope the experiment goes well!

Impresionante la belleza de Escocia e importante esté gran proyecto de regeneración de sus antiguos ecosistema.-

typical farmer reaction, "shoot a lynx if we have to"

@lauramac90

3 жыл бұрын

Farmers just love to kill animals 🙃

@MikePovlsen

3 жыл бұрын

Having the ability to remove problematic individuals in a predator population would go a long way in creating acceptance of predators by the people who can be negatively impacted. Most predators specialize in a preferred prey and an individual whom has picked up the habit off worrying sheep may compromise the whole population in time. If we want success in re-establishment of a more biodiverse landscape we have to move beyond focus on individual animals and consider the needs of the whole system. Remember that we all live on the food produced by farmers who live on very narrow margins. I think alistars main point in arguing for the say from the people living on the land is the key point of the whole movie. Remember that Scottish highlanders have already suffered one clearance due to the needs of people external to the land in recent history. Let's hope that we who want to make changes for the benefits of nature and our future on the living planet can avoid the excesses of past groups who knew they were on the side of angels

@lexluthor6497

3 жыл бұрын

Farmers don't love to kill animals.They protect their livestock and pets.what would you do if your cat or dog gets killed.And to people who live in cities don't waste your time,your opinion does not matter.Just remember where your food comes from.

@hughmacfarlane9662

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikePovlsen perhaps you should go to to hospital and get the book extracted from your posterior .

@theknowerandtheknown

3 жыл бұрын

@@MikePovlsen Well said Sir

Scotland is a beautifull place it would be amazing to rewild scotlands wildlife as it was thousands of years ago its our duty as a human race to protect our wildlife and natural environment

@xxpowwowbluexx

4 жыл бұрын

I agree 100%.

@kirsteneasdale5707

4 жыл бұрын

So we’ve to be set back thousands of years? Scotland is not a theme park!

I designed a 258-acre regenerative farming community for 4 years, + I am moving to Scotland to bring healing where it is invited in my ancestral homelands; all these sacred isles.

I love Scotland, it’s unique culture, dance and music. I wish that the laws we have in Germany will one day be also in Scotland. We keep the wolves and protect the farmers against their losses caused by them.

I wonder if lynx were introduced in Scotland 5 years on. Would love an update on this very important issue.

I gotta get me one of them sweaters with the shoulder pads...

It would be absolutely fantastic to have the bears lynx and wolves back in the UK...

To the extent that protected species of wild animals cause economic harm, particularly to ranchers and farmers, the solution is to compensate them for their losses with public funds, and/or to purchase their land from them and convert it to public park land.

bring back wolves, baers, linyxs

@hughmacfarlane9662

3 жыл бұрын

Some great ideas being voiced here. Can I suggest Siberian Tigers in the Lake District and Pythons in Hyde Park.

@iordannelucas

3 жыл бұрын

@Baldhina Asnake elephants to replace the mammoth

@yerman0564

3 жыл бұрын

@@iordannelucas and politicians to replace Neanderthals. Brilliant!

@iordannelucas

3 жыл бұрын

@@yerman0564 you do Neanderthals a disservice to compare them to such filth

We here on the coast of California live with all the animals, including bears, coyotes, mountain lions, wild boar, rattle snakes, owls, eagles, etc) and have amazingly few negative interactions with them. We do take some precautions in our lives, but most of us wouldn't be without our wild animal neighbors.

["I would love to see this happen."]

Rewilding is a passion of mine and I highly approve of resetting the wildlife.

Bringing back animals like the Lynx and the wolf to parts of scotland would make scotland a tourists hotspot.It would bring in millions of pounds to the economy.

@BluegroperAuWeb

2 жыл бұрын

Yes trekking and nature trails, when the forests get established people will want to venture into them and that boosts tourism.

We have learned the hard way, we placed our ego on top of everything else at the expense of life, including our own. Now it's time to return to Mother and stop the insanity, we don't need much to be happy, we just need to open our heart again and let Love flow through it! 🦊🦝🐻🐹🦔🦡🐦🐸🦜🦉🦢🦆🐢🦎🐍🐌🐝🌻🌼🌷

These videos are great but when will they put out some thing more recent as this video is four years old?

I support this 1000 percent

Paul I'm all for it you go for it mate...

Sounded like Bert Jansch's guitar at the opening there.

Just clear out the people and nature will restore the balance naturally.

@DinarAndFriends

4 жыл бұрын

@Robin Tapsell I forgot that there are no wolves there. They will need to be reintroduced.

@DinarAndFriends

4 жыл бұрын

@Robin Tapsell There's a bizarre mythology about wolves being dangerous to humans. There have only been two documented killings of humans in the whole of North America. A few people in Europe have been killed, but mainly by wolves with rabies, which doesn't exist in Scotland, obviously.

Thank you for your tireless dedication and hard work! I hope and pray your efforts are successful and continue to gather public support!! Scotland's forests are so beautiful and unique!! Unfortunately you always run into selfishness and greed whenever you try and reintroduce nature, native species, etc.

Perthshire, Lochearnhead, Balquider, up to Killin then back through to Oban, The Peace and Serenity that cannot be Bought, The 50's,60's 70's, Perth was the Nearest Town, my mother went to school in Crief,R.I.P.

Any links to the music?

plant trees ⬇️ goats and rabbits in the wilderness ⬇️ lynxes and wolves ⬇️ provide electric fence and promote ecotourism

Everything is alive and we need to allow the earth to breath and thrieve

It's the least we can do.

This documentary is 7 years old. I really hope the Scottish has done something in the meantime. The introduction of Lynx, Wolves and Boars are key for real succes. The wolves came back to the densly populated Netherlands a few years ago and they thrive now. There are no excuses anymore.

this seem to me like a brilliant idea which could be achieved in the Scottish highlands. However in England is to built up and densely populated. Not people but the motorways and cities. I love this idea all the same and I know little on the subject to really have a informed opinion so feel free to educate me further with comments.

@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures

6 жыл бұрын

The florida panther, black bears, alligators and the American crocodile live in some of the more densely populated areas of the southeastern US. There are two major interstates and a number of major roads that transect their habitat, yeah some get hit by cars but their populations are growing.

@ala0284

3 жыл бұрын

@@LiterallyOverTheHillAdventures nowhere in the southeast US compares to the population density of England. 55m people (20m more than California) in an area smaller than New York state. The Highlands have a population density less than Nevada. The difference is extreme.

You only have to go back in time when talking about rewilding if you believe that time is linear. You can go forward in time and reach a similar place as the past if you believe time is cyclical or spiral.

We keep to forget that humans health is determined by nature's health, the biodiversity. It's not only about helping nature, but it's actually about helping ourselves and providing us the good future. For humans, for animals, plants and for whole planet. I highly recomment the film: 'David Attenborough: Life on our Planet". It's so eye-opening :)

Es muy positivo para el equilibrio ecológico del ecosistema británico.

I'm going to the Highlands with nothing but what I can carry on my back.

Lynx would also save sheep. They would eat rabbits, which would mean more grass would available to the sheep, which means stronger and healthier sheep....

please try other animals in anydale as well like Wisents, fallon deer, mouflons and wild horses.

I’d like to see rewinding in south London 🌲

3:30 is such a powerful thing, there are forests all over the world that need re wilding

we should look at The Amazon and Borneo Forests asap! at the rate these places are exploited any delay could spell disaster IMHO...

Correct me if I'm wrong but true rewinding would involve reforestation of the 🇬🇧, would it not?

@ianmalone8053

3 жыл бұрын

Tree seeds are not the problem, it’s experts discussing where the trees can and can’t grow. Nature in the Uk has no ideas, professionals with state funded land rovers are the new religion of the upwardly mobile, internet trading, university educated experts.

If u wont bears you can anytime take 100+ from Slovakia, we are overpopulated by bears and this would be much better way than hunt them.

@andrasiboti

5 жыл бұрын

Then want can we, who live in Romania say? :)))))

@kirsteneasdale5707

4 жыл бұрын

No thanks

@joshuawilliams9954

3 жыл бұрын

That's what happens when you only introduce part of an ecosystem.

@ianmalone8053

3 жыл бұрын

Britain has Bears, lions, Tigers, Rhinos etc, etc. We keep them in Zoos and many parks and private collections each claiming to be breeding to save them. So we have the capacity and the food to provide for nearly every exotic species on the planet in the Uk.

Guard dogs would become important to guard, ship, cattle, houses, etc. Would be a great natural 24/7 system way of living together. Seen in videos a mix of hearding dogs and guard dogs to work in places with big predators in the US, something like border collies, and Great Pyrenees and Kangals or other big central Asian dogs to guard, close and large radius guarding of animals.

Lynx are almost a necessity not as dangerous as a wolf or bear but better than bloody foxes for controlling deer.

Rewilding is a great idea provided that the people there have the means of self-defense.

at the very least the lynx and wolf should be brought back the bears should be aswell but I can see where that might be difficult it would have alot of opposition

Adding the predators back is essential. Alaska and Canada have that and they can figure it out. Some of the farmers are a part of the problem they let their stock overgraze. Joel Salatin from Virginia and those working in Africa have greatly improved the land with their methods instead of overgrazing which leads to land becoming a desert.

When do the sheep go and the coos and ox return?

Re starting the clock , the clock of evolution , I love that

Understand and support everything here that is trying to be achieved including engagement with locals and the farming community. However, no matter the reason, its generally not economically vialbe to be supporting marginal farming practices. These are the farms that are usually situated in poor farming environments that are best suited to nature reclamation projects so as to minimise economic strain on subsidies and support that would be better directed to high growth/yeild farming areas.

The more marginal the land the more farmers should be paid to leave it. Or paid to husband the rewilding.

@malarchristopher2721

3 жыл бұрын

Ökut xxt.b..

@malarchristopher2721

3 жыл бұрын

Hjkm ïihj nñ E UejuvcnmloUt.ngj vvn bĺ 'Łsr

@malarchristopher2721

3 жыл бұрын

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@malarchristopher2721

3 жыл бұрын

Kf .l

Lynx poses no problem, but bears and wolves attack livestock, and rarely also attack humans. That is what it is like in Norway.

@ennylnorreh2230

4 жыл бұрын

Wolves don’t attack humans

@ennylnorreh2230

4 жыл бұрын

But the bear would

Lynx (Bobcats) are known for being incredibly shy. They play an important role in any Ecosystem they are a part of and they are no danger to us if you just leave them alone.

1:15 music?

I say Farmers need to evolve with the times it's been shown that monocropping doesn't help anything

@voidremoved

3 жыл бұрын

Or poison... In Canada it is finally starting to ban poisoning of wildlife.

A healthy wild ecosystem benefits everyone, and especially agriculture.

farmers have to much power

@bennichols561

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we should destroy the basis of civilization. Idiot

@akaakaakaak5779

3 жыл бұрын

@@bennichols561 nice strawman buddy, who said anything about destroying anything?

@hughmacfarlane9662

3 жыл бұрын

Farmers have to eat .

@yerman0564

3 жыл бұрын

@@bennichols561 I live on a farm, and I'm all for the rewilding programme.

Scotland, what a beautiful country I do hope and pray that the rewilding does take place.

If we are talking about rewilding now degraded nature, we should emphasize the fact that some rewilding of our own personal selves is required for that to happen.

I don't care what the people that live here think the animals were here first so they SHALL COME BAAAACK 🐐🐏🐑🐺🐗🐂🐻🐿🕊

Alladale wilderness reserve has done more than a few hundred thousand. Between 2009-2012 they planted 920,000 saplings.

We are the only ones able to wildly change the landscape of any place we inhabit by ourselves. We are so skilled at creating yet equally if not even more proficient at destroying. This should've never been allowed to happen.

It always amazes me that our own Royal Family who are involved in mega fauna conservation and biodiversity projects around the world do nothing in the UK to promote the same? As owners and custodians of large tracts of biodiversity poor land aka shooting estates and moorlands galore I would respectfully suggest that they practice what they preach abroad and lead the way by Rewilding at least one of their own estates; thus showing through example and research it's huge benefits ecological, environmental and human.

In Belgium we have wolves that have returned after a 100 years. They are in the flemish part, far more densely populated by humans than Scotland. The relationship is not easy and especially sheep have to be protected. Also wolves are shot and ran over by cars. But the main thing is that people here accept there return and are very enthusiastic. Even a pack is forming! If this works in Belgium, it definitely works in Scotland!