This is beautiful. My heart aches to see just how low our standards for nature have become. It isn't wild, it's green desert. This video should be shared far and wide.

Thanks. Greatly encouraged by this renaissance. I moved out of cities 15 years ago living, retired aboard a sailboat cruising as yet wilderness coast of British Columbia. A re-wilded planet is possible.

@johnadams5245

2 жыл бұрын

have you looked into beavers? they do all this stuff by themselves im trying to find a job on the klamath dam removal on the cali/oregon border

@cdybft9050

10 ай бұрын

Not with endless migration and the push to turn wild areas into “migrant housing”

Beautifully articulated and presented. It gives you hope

Would love to see an example of lowland farmland rewilding done in this style.

@tom4412

2 жыл бұрын

And we cut down the rain forest to get crops instead?

@mosesarthurid

2 жыл бұрын

@@tom4412 This is not an economic exclusionen Zone, as can be seen in the Video, Crops are still being produced. You just dont have Monocultures.

Incredibly beautiful video! One inaccuracy: the water should be dark-coloured, like tea, because the intact peat bog produces lots and lots of humic substances, which have a multitude of benefits. One of them being that they transport iron into seawater in a saltwater-soluble form, where iron is usually in short supply even though it's an incredibly important fertilizer, thus ensuring a much richer sea life as well! Intact peat-bogs always produce dark waters.

@CampingforCool41

2 жыл бұрын

When viewed from a distance water reflects the blue sky regardless of what color the water is.

@Labroidas

2 жыл бұрын

@@CampingforCool41 that's true!

This is a great film and a vision we can get behind. Agree with Bill, we should selectively thin and gradually remove the plantations rather than clear fell them.

What a beautiful vision for the future.. A very heart warming intention for the land. Kudos to the Illustrator as well. Great job all!

This is beautiful! Would love to see a lowland version

Eliminating the Sitka spruce immediately misses the opportunity to take advantage of the habitat it could provide. Plant Scotch pine and similar natives around it, and don’t do so in a rectangular pattern. Top some spruce at 10-15 cm diameter to provide osprey or Eagle nesting opportunities. Spruce doesn’t seed so widely that a few days per year with loppers or small chainsaw can’t contain it. Kill 1/4 acre patches of spruce by girdling, and underplant the new openings. Into same drop a few spruce. Within a few years insects living in the snags will attract woodpeckers. Woodpeckers will provide habitat for cavity nesting birds. Do the same with maybe 50 scattered individual spruce/hectare. Repeat every five years. Expand a few created openings, create some new. There’s lots of space in the model area shown to plant native trees, and breaking up the rectangles wouldn’t be difficult. Instead of starting with a clean slate and waiting 50 or 75 years to start creating the tree then snag, then fallen snag, then rotten log, then nurse log, then long mound of organic soil cycle, with Scotch pine, use the spruce. Provide woodpecker, cavity nester, insect, millipede, and fungus habitat within a couple years, instead of starting those phases by killing some Scotch pine in year 2075, or waiting for some trees to die in year 2220.

@Labroidas

2 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, the problem with the Sitka spruce is that they require quite a dry soil. They can't grow directly on intact peat because that would be completely filled with water like a sponge. So keeping the Sitka spruce alive means having to keep the draining ditches open, which means that the natural peat cover will get damaged further and further, never recovering. Peat cover also can't recover overnight, it's a huge carbon storage that has been growing since the last ice age, up to a depth of ten meters of pure organic material. If you close the drainage ditches, the Sitkas will die in two, three years anyway, and get blown over by the winter storms. This is not necessarily bad, because dead wood is of course very valuable too, in an ecological sense. But cutting down and removing the Sitka spruce first has one distinct advantage: the land owners make a short-term profit, which means it will be easier to convince them to agree to rewilding the landscape. My experience with this comes from Scotland, though, where there is still a lot of very impressive more or less intact peat bog. In England it would be another story probably, because most of the peat there is gone already anyway.

@billsmith5109

2 жыл бұрын

@@Labroidas In it’s native range in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and Alaska, it grows in the wettest zone, mostly right against the Pacific or riparian zones. Peat though I believe is not the common soil type there. Summer precipitation along the coast is highly variable location to location. 40-90mm per month in summer would be on the low end N of Oregon. In Oregon it derives much of its summer moisture from needle drip off the maritime fogs. Of course the NE Pacific is much wetter fall to spring. The don’t call it a rainforest for nothing. So maybe peat is the difference?

@Labroidas

2 жыл бұрын

@@billsmith5109 Yes you're right, I thought about it more after writing my other comment and have to specify: of course Sitkas are used in peat bogs because they have a high tolerance for moisture. But still, they can't grow directly on healthy peat, because healthy peat is (if I remember the numbers correctly) more than 90% water. It has incredible water retention capabilities, that's why people can sink in the bog if they're not careful. So what they do is that they dig parallel drainage ditches, make mounds between them and grow the sitkas on there. So if you close the ditches, and the peat is still able to recover (which completely dried out peat isn't, by the way, it loses its water retaining capabilities if it dries out completely), most likely it will be too much water for the trees to grow on. It would be like growing on a lake!

Inspirational! I recently listened to a presentation by a biodiversity expert here in Denmark. He claimed that the floods which as I recall killed hundreds in Germany last year were simply due to the lack of vegetation, namely trees, to manage rainwater.

What an inspiration, I do hope we the people can make this happen

It's the biggest lynx I've ever seen, however all joking aside, a very thought provoking piece. Wouldn't it be nice to actually see it happen.

The artwork is gorgeous.

Brilliant, how about doing a plan for ecologically ravaged East Anglia?

@thomashunt2092

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he will paint you a picture !

Amazing video

bravo! beautiful artwork and presentation, we want more we want more!!!!

Highly recommend watching simon reeves new series in the Lake District on BBC iPlayer. He explores all these concepts on the uplands in Cumbria

Splendid video and it makes it feel so doable 👌🏽. I came here through the rewilding project @MappertonLive and this really adds to getting a good understanding of the whole concept. Thank you so much 🙏🏽

@RewildingB

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

Very informative, helpful and inspiring video

Watching this just makes me wanna play an Earth simulation game 😅

Excellent video. Sorry it took me so long to view it. KUTGW!

Veganism and rewilding are the keys to preserving and saving our beautiful planet 🌍🌱

extraordinary

Beautiful

Wonderful, yes please!

I love this idea you got love it 🌈

Thanks for the video: overgrazing by specialist feeders like sheep is definitely an issue, cows are a lot better, but the economics doesn't work well - especially with this government phasing out/removing all grants. I would question the section on heather management: well managed and with regular "quick" burns, the heather itself and mix of young, mature and old heather provides very valuable and rare habitat. Around my area in Northumberland for example, we have the largest population of Hen Harriers who settle down in the mature heather and the income from the grouse days let supports the necessary management. The keepers and owners around here are very environmentally aware (I know there are "bad ones", happens everywhere in all walks of life, fortunately not here) and as a result, we also have peregrine falcons, walkable moors (the heather isn't waist high) and decent access with curlew, skylarks, pipits, chough, etc.. Around 20 miles from here is an unmanaged moor, let for recreation, that is effectively dead: I have struggled to the top of the moor above Harbottle and seen nothing beyond wood pigeon.

This is epic, keep going!

Tragic that 'rewilding' with non native conifers is being enabled in parts of Wales which already look like stage 3 in this presentation. Over the last sixty years I have noticed the decline and disappearance of ground nesting birds on the moorlands in my area, which I can only put down to increased non native conifer planting which hosts a huge fox population.

Following contours is key for controlling erosion. Keyline swales with accompanying native tree plantings can hold water and catch runoff.

Think BIG and act WILD to make it😍

speaking from the perspective of a Pennsylvanian, it always surprised me just how few actual forests you guys have much of it just looks like one big grass desert, and when it doesnt it looks like a soulless tree farm with no understory kinda depressing

Excellent video. Farming & land subsidies need to change, we are actively paying for this destruction. Industrial meat and dairy is produced at criminally low costs and bears the brunt of natural habitat loss.

@loriwinters9999

Жыл бұрын

While industrial scale plant farming destroys soils and poisons the environment with pesticides and fertiliser runoff. We need better farming across the board.

I really like the video.. but not the music. it gets on my nerves

I truly appreciate this concept but i think most people dont

This, but in Rossendale Valley.. I can see it

Good video, would be a lot better if you didn't talk about meat production and livestock as being part of a future landscape.

@Zacharyswansonchannel

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. However, old habits die hard and the older folks find it hard to let go what ultimately causes their illnesses and premature death as well as the ecological disaster.

@georgethompson1460

2 жыл бұрын

@@Zacharyswansonchannel Well I have my red meat, you lot can have your 'blood avocados'.

@Zacharyswansonchannel

2 жыл бұрын

@george thompson ok boomer

Tks I’m experiencing this here in snowdonia the common land has been absolutely decimated

The music adds nothing to this video except noise pollution.

Mate first of the first you need to build native (non monoculture) forests back to your beautiful and huge island. Greets from Slovenia

And we must grow our own food locally, no eating of animals or planting huge monoculture crops, a family can grow all that they need on an acre at the least...

@kamifae5928

2 жыл бұрын

The video mentions roaming domesticated cattle, and deer kept for human consumption... I truly don't believe that is a true solution for us. Imagine if everyone on the island ate like that. The loss of energy by us trying to eat up the food chain, rather than going into the far more energy-dense plants, only means more degradation for the land trying to meet the demand. For the land it takes to have those animals graze, you could grow a garden to fit the needs of all those locals, plus more villages, AND allow the wild animals to graze without being butchered for human desire.

@Theorimlig

2 жыл бұрын

@@kamifae5928 There is a lot of land that is not suitable for growing crops that is suitable for grazing animals. Grazing animals have an invaluable place in our food system. Comparing land use required per unit of product only makes sense on paper.

@kamifae5928

2 жыл бұрын

@@Theorimlig The entire reason that we are here, right now, in this mess that we've created, is because we believe that we are entitled to every bit of land that is on this Earth. If a section of land is not suitable for growing our own food, then it suitable as food for another being, and that being does not have to be consumed by us! That land can support the insects, the bugs, the birds, the mice and voles, or native deer and aurochs/wild cows... And they have just as much a right to it, and to their own lives as free beings and not as products to us...

@georgethompson1460

2 жыл бұрын

@@kamifae5928 You wouldn't be saying that if you had to live under a famine, the only way for us to rewild farmland is to produce the same amount of food with less land. Otherwise you have to have the uncomfortable conversation of telling people why their cost of living has to go up.

Are there examples of rewilding in Britain or is thie a proposal?

@CartoType

Жыл бұрын

There are a few. Knepp Park was one of the first, and is the most famous. I have been there and it is inspiring. It is not an upland area, though, but former crop land in SE England.

@nickhowes5348

Жыл бұрын

Carrifran has been going 24 years and the difference is amazing

Throw in a few old fashioned hay meadows there for even more biodiversity ;)

think big and act wildly to make it happen

Horticulture will allow humans and nature to co-exist in the same area. Humans are here to stay, but we can (re)learn how to do-exist with diverse nonhuman life

would have been very nice to have a real landscape and not an artists rendition... Thank you for the informative content

Great ideas - but huge unreachable funding required

Water goes where there’s nature.., so plant plants..,

Hm, so you want to ban hunting and farming (basically what pays for the land, where the Lynx does not as it just eats whatever is the easiest meal (whatever sheep is left on the farm)) and then mention that you can eat dear meat of the land, good luck finding proper (and affordable) natural nutrition (so without D and B12 supplements etc.) without farmers and hunters. Why not work with the people that already know and take care of the lands, for example, without the controlled burning in winter creating fire breaks, how will you stop fires in summer? As it stands these are utopian "city ecologist" idea's, there is probably a diversified middle ground that would be better for much more people as well as the wildlife (without having to introduce problem factors like additional predators).

All looks idyllic, but lets see a number of disadvantages * the less people work in low productive (economy wise) jobs like agriculture, the better a country usually does (we still need farmers for food security ofcourse), just look at africa, and the development of western countries in history * there's still a demand for sheep products that now have to come from elsewhere * the move from large to small scale farming almost always means less food produced per acre, and in the end will mean to shortages because production is just far lower. I'm not saying biodiverse agriculture is a bad thing, and for ecologically important area's it is the best solution, however to feed the current population you just need to sacrifice land for large scale highly efficient agriculture that pumps out a lot of food per acre, even if this means the area is ecologically a desert. There's just no way to feed 8 billion people when everyone has a garden the size of a football field just to feed themselves.

But....are the new British going to accept this? xD No joke.

Why do environmentalists add acoustic guitar to every video

We need less sheep and more trees they don't go together. trees stabilise the land sheep don't.

How did that not bother anyone how ugly the landscape is?

England, if you import the horse species known as the mustang. Everything will be better. The "american mustang", hilarious 😂. I am joking. Mustang rips the grass out of ground, hilarious 😂. Not only rips the grass, but they can be quite hostile to people and smaller animals than themselves. Many country people and villagers have seen mustang kick people in the face and possibly kill them as a result of. Hits with their head are also common. Mustang also chase away goats and sheep, and other smaller animals.

@Sksk27547

7 ай бұрын

I live in America

Why use a fictitious picture instead of showing us real examples ?

@fatasswalrus

2 жыл бұрын

Because it would be impossible to do that considering that we aren't 50 years in the future

@thomashunt2092

2 жыл бұрын

@@fatasswalrus I was referring to the picture of the present day obviously.

@fatasswalrus

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomashunt2092 Oh sorry my mistake

@Gibbons3457

2 жыл бұрын

Because the picture is designed to contain all the examples listed rather than calling out any particular specific locations. You can go to most uplands in the UK and they'll all look like this in their own way.

@thomashunt2092

2 жыл бұрын

@@Gibbons3457 My point is that there probably isn't any place that has all the feature but all places have some. If your just producing art work then you show things off to their worst and don't show what people are already doing to try and change things. Would have been far better to have just shown examples of each from different location, how people are trying to improve them then added the art at the end to see what we hope to end up with . If you cant be bothered to do the foot work and take the pictures do you really care that much and are you just doing it so show off what a great artist you are ? And who ever did the pictures is a great artist !

so nice till i heard “produce great quality meat”

@nickyrivernene5921

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and kill foxes but have lynx which are an even bigger predator. These people are hunters.

@joedisco

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickyrivernene5921 You need to produce meat to sustain livelihoods. Foxes and lynx would live in a dynamic relationship between predator and prey (along with rabbits, grey squirrels...)

@nickyrivernene5921

2 жыл бұрын

@@joedisco No, that's called Exploitation, thats what is happening now and what must end.

@walkingthecoastline8642

2 жыл бұрын

I'm vegan but still recognise that it would be unrealistic of them to paint a picture of a future where people don't farm livestock. It's part of what's helping this improved landscape evolve, whilst also maintaining livelihoods and food production. One can't happen without the other, people aren't going to feel motivated to rewild Britain otherwise. Livestock reared in this way is a huge improvement to the methods we practise now. Sadly what is unrealistic in this video is that 50 years into the future our population will be bigger, and this method of farming produces less food. There will have to be a lot more of those poly tunnels if we're going to replace our meat intake that way.

@nickyrivernene5921

2 жыл бұрын

@@walkingthecoastline8642 yes it is unsustainable to holistically Farm animals for the entire planet to exploit and it is not possible to be vegan and except animals being used as food.

It all sounds so wonderful but what is not stated that should be stated is that humans will be banned from these re-wilded areas and herded, like cattle, into human settlement zones (smart cities).

@graemerothery6189

2 жыл бұрын

Did you not watch it? It's full of talk of people and economic activity. Why would people be left out of it. They're integral. In fact with the removal of boundaries the open access right to roam gains.

@oldstonedaddy1148

2 жыл бұрын

@@graemerothery6189 That’s the Elite my man!

@nickhowes5348

18 күн бұрын

@@graemerothery6189he didnt watch it, or didnt understand 😅

U.k need to bring back wolves bear and linxs.use garding dog like kangal alabi armanin gamper.

Just ban the public access then you will be tgenuinely rewilding otherwisew it becomes another adventure park..

Rewinding is a good idea but grouse shooting is looking after nature and flora and fauna

@chunkypythagoras1732

2 жыл бұрын

It's not, it's destroying vast numbers of habitats to promote habitat for just a few species - the ones that get shot. Estate managers relentless churn out the propaganda that they are saviours of the ecosystems of the uplands, but this is of course a lie. These same people get rich off these estates, and will say anything to preserve their way of life

@jamie6367

2 жыл бұрын

I fully agree, grouse moors are thriving with wildlife. People who are so negative of grouse moor management are obviously very narrow minded!

@bradleywoods3742

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamie6367 Some grouse moors are thriving, other (the intensively managed driven grouse moors) are not.

@Gibbons3457

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamie6367 No they aren't. You think they are thriving because you have no baseline to compare it against. They are ecologically poor with extremely limited biodiversity. You're arguing that the desert is actually full of water because you found a small oasis. Grouse moors are ecological deserts.

@Gibbons3457

2 жыл бұрын

Jordan Hill, you'll be sad to hear that grouse moors do the opposite. They're man made monocultures dominated by Heather and red grouse. Anything that could pose a threat to either is mercilessly persecuted by the shooting estates, who are not held accountable for the endless illegal killing of endangered birds and mammals on their land. What little does survive on them does do well, but it would do better if they weren't routinely burned and manicured into barren monocultures.

This illustration is seriously over exaggerated. What’s not mentioned here is what happens to all the rural workers that rely on farming and income from sporting estates. If it wasn’t for farming and sporting estates these community would not survive

@chunkypythagoras1732

2 жыл бұрын

The rewilding scenario would actually create MORE work for rural workers, and produce a greater income for the people at large. Who would lose out? Greedy estate owners and big farmers who destroy the countryside, reap all the rewards, underpay their staff, and spread their propaganda that the countryside would be screwed without them. Sod them and their way of life. The climate crisis is bigger than the small-minded conservatism of rich farmers and estate owners.

@jamie6367

2 жыл бұрын

@@chunkypythagoras1732 So why exactly are estate owners greedy? The same estate owners who invest in the local community, invest into our countryside being managed? As for Farming it is vital, how do you think food gets on our supermarket shelf’s? Grouse moors are thriving with wildlife and this is because the gamekeepers spend countless hours managing the countryside, by whom are paid by estate owners. Who do you think will put this same amount of money into managing the countryside? The tax payer? During a pandemic where there is no budget? Rewilding would have such a negative impact on these rural communities. I’m not totally against it, I believe we need more natural, native Forrests but not all our countryside!

@martinhoffmann1063

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamie6367 You need a citation there, claiming that grouse moors are thriving with wildlife. What kind of wildlife exactly? Colossal numbers of deer overgrazing the land and keeping it perpetually bleak-looking? Vast, uninspiring expanses of grass manicured by estate owners to suit the needs of the few who enjoy grouse-hunting? There's barely an acre of wild land in all of Britain. We have been fooled to see the uplands and "national parks" as true wilderness, when in fact they are nothing but pastures. Luckily people are now recognizing the problem, so the re-wilding push will continue. Hopefully land-ownership laws will change in the uplands/highlands to make way for genuine national park areas - places that everyone can enjoy the value of, instead of a few geezers with guns.

@jamie6367

2 жыл бұрын

@@martinhoffmann1063 what about all the hen harriers that have successfully hatched on grouse moors, almost all pairs have been on grouse moors? Or the lapwings? Golden plover and also mountain hares? You obviously need to spend some time on a grouse moor and be a little more educated on the topic!

@martinhoffmann1063

2 жыл бұрын

@@jamie6367 It's good news that at least some small species of birds and generalists like hares and foxes have managed to keep surviving... But that's not biodiversity. The land is still ecologically lacking. Britain needs forests and keystone animals back. The only places that are candidates for re-wilding are national parks and estates, so you can expect an increasing pressure against large land-owners to rethink their use of landscapes. Can you not see the money-making potential of a proper forested park with iconic species such as bison, lynx, etc? There are many successful examples around the world.

Why aren't you showing a real-world example rather than a set of unconvincing drawings?

@Wewwers

4 күн бұрын

i mean this already naturally happens here in the Northeastern US given you leave a field fallow for enough time over several decades

Rewild is a ridiculous concept. Where is all our food going to come from? How are we going to feed our 65million citizens? Import from abroad? No way! I want to eat English

@henriqueprado9205

2 жыл бұрын

Don't reproduce. England made more harm than good to the world anyway.

@bosertheropode5443

2 жыл бұрын

@@henriqueprado9205 Its not the english or celts who have 4 children on avergae genius.

@henriqueprado9205

2 жыл бұрын

But the population is growing and do not want to cut my tropical forest to feed you.

@henriqueprado9205

2 жыл бұрын

* and I

@mbm8690

2 жыл бұрын

Good point, eating or producing as local as possible is certainly better than the worldwide crazyness we're living in today. However, I'm pretty sure it's not about rewilding e n t i r e Britain, anyway. But, imho: If only a few of all these ideas on a few more patches of land could become reality it would already be a step into the right direction.

This was great until the 'quality meat' part.How about stop doing it entirely what got us here at the first place?