Nestled in the folds of Haweswater’s dramatic landscape lie pockets of wildness; alpine plants cling to cliffs and ledges, whilst woodland birds, red squirrels and badgers teem in the woodlands.
The quiet, rugged charm of Haweswater sets it apart from many of the more popular Lake District honeypots, offering opportunities for seclusion and wildlife encounters unlike any other in the National Park.
Wild Haweswater is an exciting new initiative by the RSPB and United Utilities to showcase the impressive collection of events, experiences and activities on offer in this wild corner of the National Park. Coordinated by RSPB Haweswater, wildhaweswater.co.uk is a hub for visitors to explore what’s on offer, as well as a place to discover the conservation and restoration projects, and seasonal wildlife encounters of the area.
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Real video would have made this much better. Maybe get a drone with a camera if you do an update. 🌿
Hiya, this was produced as a vision of where we hope to get to by 2050, so it's not possible to use real video as it's not happened yet. We are capturing the changes as we go along using drones and other methods - Annabel
Wishing you much success in your project. I'm in the high desert of Arizona and am using some of Geoff Lawton's techniques to green the desert.
Very nice.
Don't EAT the Foxgloves! 🦊🧤🥀
Awesome. ❤
Great video! Should have way more likes & comments!😢
Thank you v much. We agree :) - Annabel
Expect less flooding downriver !
My opinion is that the 'climax' of most UK ecosystems is a mature woodland, including moors etc. All this grazing land is totally artificial.
You're right that trees should be much more prevalent in the landscape. In the uplands the trees should be more sparse, low-growing, old trees, than the denser, mature woodlands in the lower landscapes. The uplands would also be much wetter with fully functioning bog eco-systems. This is shown in more detail in our vision here: bit.ly/HWRVision - Annabel
nice to hear some of the technical bits ....
nice photography good job
A truly wonderful project that will have so many benefits. Here on Dartmoor, leaky dams have been installed on many of the smaller streams that spring up in the wet weather - and we do have quite a lot of that - and they will undoubtedly benefit the wider environment as well as the immediate local ones. Thanks, Lee, and thank you RSPB and others. PS. An excellent book! Here's to more being done in the lakes and other areas,
Thanks very much for your lovely comment. Really pleased to hear you enjoyed reading Wild Fell. I have passed your kind words onto Lee and the team - Annabel
Excellent work, let us see more projects like this in the U.K.
Fantastic project. This is what is needed across our uplands. Benefits are many. To people and nature.
Thanks very much Sue. - Annabel
Absolutly beautiful, well done by you all.
Absolutly beautiful, well done
What has been the benefits please?
Hiya, thanks for the question. It depends on the project. Some have been about removing large amounts of plastic from river systems to benefit the wildlife. Some have been about removing artificial features such as weirs or embankments, and putting natural bends back into straightened courses - these have multiple benefits for wildlife, reducing flood risk and improving drinking water. More information on our project in Swindale here: bit.ly/UKRiverPrizeWinner22 - Annabel
Thank you.
Bring the bloody BEAVERS back!!!!!!
That's the vision for Haweswater and other parts of Cumbria. Find out more here: bit.ly/HWRVision - Annabel
My fear is that climate change will just make shlte of all these efforts
Hi Dean, a lot of these measures are about making these habitats more resilient to climate change, so whilst individually they can't stop them, it will help buffer against it. They are all also measures that can be replicated elsewhere to help mitigate the impact. - Annabel
@@wildhaweswater5622 personally having dedicated a lot is time to researching all of this I think we’re gonna need Solar geoengineering if we’re to stand and Fgking chance And yes I do mean the big bad stratospheric aerosol injection. That’s just me, not a popular opinion for a nature lover I know.
Keep drinking the climate change cool aid!@deanfowles3707
I’ve written this so many time, but it really is a shame that things like this just don’t get the views.. but some self absorbed lass can get millions of views for putting make up on to make herself look like a drag queen
Give people credit for trying this, of course TREES with sheep and and cows is an option, - wont look like the paintings but - purbeck project - good example of sensible balance - makes money for landowners looks natural isnt yet, has campers walkers eco tourism - and makes more money than most farms per area for poor quality land - many do come to the lakes for the views but Cumbria, Lancs Westmorland is a big place ...
Congratulations congratulations
The bloody reservoir shouldn't fucking be there - it means there's a man-made dam and that absolutely should NOT be there!!!!
RSPB???
Hi Danielle, the work at Haweswater is a partnership between the landowner United Utilities and the land manager the RSPB. Best wishes, Annabel
Amazing work!💪❤️
Planting trees like that is such a waste of resources. The seeds would naturally get there like they have done for millennia. However, the overpopulation of sheep is what is stopping it... If you keep the sheep out and stop the overgrazing, the whole thing would rewild for free. Like how beavers would have re-wiggled that river for... FREE. If only they had some trees to eat and use in the damn making.
Hiya, thanks for your feedback. We agree about sheep over-grazing, which is why we've reduced our flock and they only graze the enclosed land near the farm. We've also fenced out massive areas from sheep (and deer) to allow natural regeneration to take place which is happening. But we have also planted over 200,000 trees to give the landscape a helping hand too. And likewise, Beavers are in the plans....check out our vision video: bit.ly/HWRVision - Annabel
So inspiring.
Thanks Annie :) - Annabel
Regenerative ag is my religion.
A brilliant religion to choose :) - Annabel
@@wildhaweswater5622 It's so good for the land, the wild and farmers. There's really no downside!
bring in pine martens to control grey squirrel population
Very true - it's part of the plan - Annabel
And how would you prevent the Pine Martens from affecting the local red squirrel population?
@@Brian-om2hh pine martins are known to only kill greys
get rid of overgrazing and bring back the lost woodlands
Absolutely! That's a big part of our work here. - Annabel
Read, wild fell.
Wow I hope I get to see this finished before I die, I currently have just 3 months before Retirement kicks in and in the past I have hike across this area twice on my Coast to Coast visits to the Lake District and one return visit to the Borrowdale area 10 years after my first visit to the Lake District in 2000. I find no matter the distance I walked or hiked in that area each day on my C2C Hike I always felt "at home" in that, for me, a far off Paradise. Tony in Essex
Thanks very much Anthony. I hope you enjoy many happy years hiking in retirement - Annabel
@@wildhaweswater5622 Sadly that is no longer possible due to age, but I have my memories of past hikes and the whole of KZread to refresh the parts I have forgotten.
@@user-TonyUK Ah, great to have those memories and tech then. :)
amazing video and job!
great job!
amazing mission!!
great video!!
Nice one. I will go have a look this spring when I go up visit my Mum. Great to see the diversity up there slowly change form the bare hills I grew up in.
I wonder why they got rid of that weir. It looks like they excavated some streams, and made some ponds/watersheds. Not a whole lot needed to be done though, I imagine. It's really beautiful.
With artificial structures like weirs and embankments, they affect the rivers ability to function naturally, so their removal helps to put the natural course and features back into the channel, improving it for wildlife (for example fish passage). - Annabel
It's a very thought provoking book. Highly recommended.
Great photography
Isn’t it Europe’s only aquatic passerine as well?
and, to think, that BEAVER, left unattended, would do most of the river work for free.
They would indeed. Hopefully more of them to come in future. - Annabel
I would think so. In places like this, not a whole lot needs to be done with heavy machinery. It does more harm than good, it would seem.
There are hardly any trees for them to create dams, or use for food, so not suitable for beavers currently. Once a volume of trees have been planted and have matured, then beavers would be more likely to be a success.
Tree restoration can improve soil structure and PH .Along a river it can help with providing shade for fly life and small fish and trout and who knows maybe even salmon parr?
It can indeed. When we re-wiggled Swindale Beck, salmon returned to spawn for the first time in over 100 years. - Annabel
What a wonderful video! Seeing our wild lands being restored touches my heart so deeply. To see these places recovering and returning to their wild glory, and to see the wildlife return and flourish, is just wonderful. Big thanks to the RSPB! 🏞️👏😊🤸
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed it _Annabel
YES HORSEWATER GO ON!!!
Lovely to see nature being given a chance to succeed. Great work
Great video on overall scheme - I’d love to learn more about some of the major projects.
Thanks Mike, really glad you like it. The individual organisations have more on their individual projects. You can find out more about our work in Swindale here: bit.ly/UKRiverPrizeWinner22 - Annabel
"Traditional farming" is the problem. Green New Deal where locals get to stay where they are with a good income but not destroying the wild is the answer.
But doing that is communismizms or summin , and we can’t do that because Alan sugar said we shouldn’t do it.
I loved watching this! So peaceful and informative. A bit like bbc earth, but less storytelling.
good shot of a deer stripping a young tree ... there are 1 million deer in scotland now so there is hardly any natural regeneration .since it was us that wiped out their predators its down to us to do the culling or lose what woodland is left
You're absolutely right - deer management is also an important part of the work to restore the woodland here along with deer fencing to allow regeneration. _ Annabel
This is no amateur KZread video. Very good indeed. That black butterfly had me going for a while, thinking you had slipped in a species from abroad as a fill in. Its not a butterfly at all, but it sits on the flower just like one. Its a Chimney Sweeper moth
Great mini documentary