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Many different types of habitats is the key. Variety of plants and heights and materials and shade and sun and hills and holes and water

While I agree with rewilding, videos like this make the UK out be to a wildlife wilderness. Although there have been some losses in the last few years, there have been many gains. For instance, when I was a boy back in the 1950's there were only 9 recognised species of bat in the UK, now there are 17. There have been many new birds nesting here starting with the Collared Dove, in the late 1950's. Infact there are two new breeding species @ 1.42 in the video, on the left of the common Grey Heron is a Great White Egret and to the right is what looks like a Little Egret. Red Kites are now wide spread in the UK, I see them every day, where I live in Herefordshire. Ospreys, Goshawks and Honey Buzzards are now more common, not to forget the reintroduced White-tailed Eagle. I spoke to someone who worked for the RSPB recently and he told me that there are new species of birds nesting in the UK that are kept secret. I regularly see cuckoos, woodpeckers, moles, badgers, deer, newts, toads, snakes and much more. I'm lucky that I work outdoors all day and get to the chance to study nature in my job. I'll not deny that some species are in decline but we should also be pleased with the many new species we have gained.

What can we do? We can change our diet as most agricultural land is being used for animals bred for food and to grow their feed. That is the elephant in the room that no one wants to mention because people don’t want to change. Plant based is the solution.

the landlord of the multi-occupancy property next door to me decided to make life easier for himself by digging out or cutting down every piece of flora present , and then coving the plot in concrete - I kid you not ! So much for joined up refuges for wildlife .

The only way to re-wild earth is, one-child families.

Some individuals taking matters into their own hands - well, you couldn't rely on any of the British governments for any action. The way they carry on, you'd think they were the only living things in existence, everything is something they watch on TV. It's been down to us ordinary folk and a few charities to ring in the changes for a very long time. A pity that clever advertising and increasing poverty has driven people to thinking about themselves before nature. Utterly disgusting to learn we are in the bottom 10% of countries in the world for biodiversity. That's a shameful figure. And I live in the part of Britain that lately announced that it can't meet it's net zero targets - before the net zero date is even here. There's time to at least try and work towards it, but no. Let's not bother is pretty much what the SNP said. God knows, it pumped enough money into other ridiculous projects. You mention environment, everyone goes quiet.

Circle og life is the key, when the farmer stop’ed bringing plant materiales back to the field everything died and the soil died. The biodiversitey Can not live on gold Ground.

We need SolarPunk. Do a video on SolarPunk.

No wildlife friendly garden is complete without a hedgehog highway, our gardens are becoming so vital in keeping the uk's most loved wild mammal from becoming extinct in this country.

With you guys every day and every way without nature we have nothing

If you are an Environmentalist who doesn't care about people getting mauled by Reintroduced bear and wolves...

This is just a fun project The real large herbivores should be ancient cattle breeds. They would re scape the habitat as much as introduced bison . The re introduction of the lynx is more important than bison to control the massive deer population.

Conservationists could deliver a message so much less offensive to farmers, which could help reduce the backlash against conservation efforts. Towards the end of this video a statement is made about how farmers and conservationists can work together to create wild places, but that was a flippant statement made after farmers watching this video were already deeply offended. When you call the pastures that they have toiled and cared for (for generations) nothing more than concrete, do you have any idea how offensive that is? You probably don’t, and that lack of self awareness is one of the single greatest hindrances to getting our God-given wilderness back. That kind of insulting feeds a fury from the farming community to fight conservation groups with all the strength they have in them. Instead, conservation groups should praise farmers for their toil against so many challenges, and how their efforts have preserved these lands from being developed with REAL concrete, which gives these lands the potential for rewilding in the first place. Furthermore, when you say that the government needs to do more, you probably mean via enforcement and coercion, which feeds the fury against conservation efforts all the more. Instead, the conservation groups should be pushing for government INCENTIVES to REWARD farmers who save/ restore native habitats. That would actually foster cooperation. Conservation does not have to be as vehemently controversial as it is. We conservationists have a lot more power to foster cooperation with the farming community and win more victories for wilderness than most of us realize.

Its great so many people are taking action, however I see soooo many how to say well towny or chavvy families that just have desolate fake grass no wildlife spaces and plastic all over their garden. The middle classes who care let gardenss grow longer and wildlife but sadly 75% of the people dont want this and this is where this idea crashes and burns. We have to have a green government who leads on all of climate change and biodiversity otherwise were stuffed.

They’re also importing millions people, and it’s not slowing down.. good luck with that biodiversity 😂

It would help if they would stop talking about climate change and pay attention to the real practical restoration of eco systems.

None of the people featured were Bristolians. It's the story of modern Bristol really.

Don't pave over your garden .

The 3 piles to add to your garden for nature:- 1. Log pile - over a thousand UK insects need decaying wood to survive. 2. Rock or Stone pile - provides shelter for all kinds of insects, reptiles (frogs, toads….) and small mammals (shrews, voles, field mice,…….. 3. Vegetation pile or compost heap is home to all kinds of insects, reptiles and mammals. Oh, make sure there is water. Everything needs water!

Bravo! 😀

Local radios need to do more. Get the word out there. Nature is forgiving..

Greetings from further down the list! (Sweden) Edit: Buuut, I don´t really agree with this list now that I look at it. They are ranking countries based solely on absolute numbers of species currently present. Not relative to historical presense. So it says nothing about biodiversity loss. As the text on the top of it says "All data based on raw numbers comparing countries without adjusting for size or geographic location." Also, I´d add, without taking into account what losses have been made in that country. With a ranking system like this, Brazil could erradicate chunks of their species and still be ranking top country, because they have so much to take from. And a country like Kuwait or Luxembourg would stand little chance to rank good ever. It would make more sense to have a ranking based on biodiversity relative to, for instance, 1950. Or realtive to what could be expected. Though of course that would be much harder to do and leave a greater margin for error. If you only want to measure for what biodiversity there is to protect, this list is good. But if you want to get a grip of a countries ecological history and sort of measure it´s bad-guyness, it does not communicate well..

Here in the East every piece of land is a future housing development site. This will only get worse.

Nature doesn't care about garden boundaries. There is a difference between rewilding and gardening for wildlife. This project requires conscious human input (gardening). The more people who do garden for wildlife the better. Putting food and water out, hedgehog highways/holes in boundaries, sensitive planting etc is great for individual gardens but put it together and the neighbourhood becomes a larger and larger area that can support our flora and fauna.

The key is native plants. People always talk about "diversity" but that's the wrong way because it leads you to believe simply that more is better. A better way to think about it is "complexity" because the local ecosystem is an amazingly complex "system" that was built over thousands of years, each piece working with countless others in a dance that we don't have the faintest understanding of. You can have a yard full of green plants, and it still be a black hole in the ecosystem because all those plants are non-native. That means the insects, birds, and other animals don't use the non-native plants for food or housing. Thus, the fragmentation of the ecosystem caused by urban sprawl isn't actually ameliorated. Make sense? In the US, it's estimated that the average house has a landscape that's 80% non-native plants. That's more acreage than all the National Parks combined. However, people see "green" and think everything's okay, not realizing that what they did was no different than pouring used motor oil out on the whole ground. The result is that the Monarch butterfly finally got listed as endangered, and we've lost 30,000,000 songbirds since the 1970's. In the UK, I would guess that the damage is just as bad, and possibly even worse since the nation has a long history of importing non-native species because they've been so heavily marketed.

Our cities need to be greener,fantastic idea.

Woohoo! More areas definitely need to pick up this concept, rewilding is so important for protecting biodiversity! As someone else here said, planting local natives is super duper important for insects and birds especially

Wild urban sounds like an oxymoron, yet it is what will happen as urban areas blight and are overrun. Parts of suburban Detroit, MI is falling down is really falling back to the predevelopment days. The urban creep is going in reverse as populations age and die out. No where is more noticeable than "Rust Belt" Midwest US states, Eastern Europe, southern Italy. I welcome the return to pre-European North America, it will become a carbon sink.

the natural environment is supposed to be untidy

Very uplifting watch.

What you need then is to import millions of people with zero connection to your land! That’ll fix it!

I love how the argument of someone was "your wildlife is not in decline in the uk", while it's technically true, it is because most of it was already wiped out by us humans

Slugs is lunch :) was the cutest thing

That’s the way to go. I am doing the same here in Vancouver, Washington USA. Wish me luck.

#1 thing to do: add plants that are native to your local area. Many caterpillars and pollinators can only use specific native plants as hosts.

Cool idea. It's amazing to see a tightly packed community trying to help the wildlife. I'll share out your video on my community page.

I was born and bred in the countryside my father worked on the land all his life when i was a kid in school holidays i was with him my mother worked on the land fruit picking ect i watch this type of program and listen to the middle class eco warriors and wonder where the country folk do their thoughts not count they will have to live with this The estate is a massive commercial operation don't be fooled by this it was undertaken to make money a lot of money and it doe's

Around where I live in Wales we used to have mines and nature is reclaiming these spaces we have a butterfly in the area that is not found anywhere else because of a plant that re-found a place by a deserted and unused mine as nature reclaimed it's space. It doesn't always begin big. I wish someone would look at these areas of Wales.

Fantastic 👌! Promotion that works - "promo sm" .

slugs and snails are actually cute, their antennas look like bunny ears (all of them are cute, not just that 1 sea slug)

I thought this was gonna be a nature favoritism not human. I fee like this is obv

Shortest video essay of all time, also very good!

Sad for the slug 😔, he cute and also any of the other 16,000 species that are going to extinct without me even knowing what most of them are

The point of "looking" cute is this exact thing. Humans are irrational beings, filled with emotions. So of course they care for the beautiful. Humans are flawed. So things will die out. But ya, fuck the amount we spend on pandas. WWF having a panda as a logo, bruhh!

yeah pandas are stupid

Is this akin to the success of charities overcoming breast cancer relative to other more common/deadly causes of suffering or death?

Our nature is being replaced with immigrants, legal and illegal

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Great video but correct the spelling of “disappearing” at start and end !

John Audubon would puke if he happened to return for a walkabout in good 'ole 'merica.