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Rewilding is OK if you're not trying take away farms and their lands for its purpose. Nobody is speaking about this. National trust is also leading a rewilding campaign in the UK but they are wanting to buy up farm land for it. Rewilding shouldn't come as another way to attack farmers.

Trying to achieve this through government will take too long, they have bigger issues to deal with. You need people to plant trees voluntarily. There are plenty of nature / health enthusiasts who would help this initiative (the tree part at least). Create a website/mail list/internet group and post them seeds and instructions on how to plant effectively. Next time I do a munro I would definitely plant a tree if I have the seed and knowledge to ensure it roots successfully.

Hello from Canada this is a great film. I live with bears wolves cougars etc every day and generally we have no problems, they do their thing and humans do ours, to me seeing a bear 50 feet away on the trail is something that is just normal yes it gets the heart rate up thats for sure but I just consider it all part of living here.

Have they not got a less bulky collar for the lynx? Seems like the sort of thing that might weigh it down / affect how it sleeps!

What a wonderfully sad documentary. Regarding Norway ... I have hiked in natural forests in Akershus and Innlandet. But much of what you see from the road and cities/villages is artificial forest, and we are unfortunately cutting down vast areas at a time. When people make money from our trees, they don't thin out a forest, they cut down every single tree and leave huge scars in the landscape. The forests of Norway have open wounds everywhere 🙁 NRK (governmental broadcasting company) documented how capitalism/neoliberalism and people's desire for owning property in nature destroys said nature. Search for "NRK Norge i rødt, hvitt og grått" and either translate the page or just look at the pictures.

All a great start to repairing our ecosystem, now we should get rid of the burger joints and battery operated delivery bikes devouring our natural resources.

I'm from Iowa, the state in the USA that has been most disturbed by development. Ironically, like Scotland, it is sparsely populated and so many people believe while looking out their car window that there is nature all around. Iowa has lost 99% of its prairies, 95% of its wetlands, and 75% of its forests. It is almost taboo to be a conservationist in the state because many of the people and policy makers in the state believe in agriculture above all. Conservation, predators, and even the word "prairie," can be highly inflammatory in conversation. This film, why not Scotland, is very inspiring to me to the importance of not giving up, of continuing to fight for nature and the re-wilding of Iowa. Thank you very much for producing this film.

Ohhhh, there we go again: the well-known fear mongering of a climate disaster, everyone is going to die and so. It carries the Thunberg fingerprint therefore the WEF. Solution of course: lock people up in smart cities and no more travelling. Don't fall for this ideology!

Way too many adverts - every few minute’s 😢. Obviously you want to monetise - but this takes away the pleasure. Shane for the interesting subject.

This film is fantastic. A very stark difference in the pathy planting of forests in Scotland to that on the continent. Go Scotland! Amazing.

Amazing! I look forward to Why not Wales!

This problem started many 100s of years ago, it is very important to fix this problem soon

Wonderful presentation!!!

Really enjoyed watching this and it is good to see some progress being made. Can't help thinking though that the biggest blocker in the UK is the attitudes of the people and some serious work is needed around the collective psychology of the stances taken before progress can be made on land. We have a very divisive culture in the UK now with tolerance at an all time low with so many people expressing anti everything views whether they be towards cyclists, immigrants, Chris Packham, beavers, bears, etc etc., that real change is a long way off.

I live in the United States and there are so many different opinions that it's hard to change anything that makes us happy. They talk about the balance between hunting and predators but in the US there are few apex predators, and if they see one they kill it. There's just hunting and making hunters aware they have to keep the balance in nature. I have a different opinion on hunting. Hunters will never know how to thin the herds. Hunters go for the biggest most healthy animal to shoot. Predators take the young, sick and old. We have hunters who are not old enough to understand what is needed from a hunter. Personally, I'm against man hunting with guns. It causes more problems than it solves. The US needs a lot of help with our natural habitats. We have people against any wild animal coming onto their property because they have chickens and don't want bobcats at all.

Nature films are so often full of doom and gloom. Thanks for such an inspirational film instead. Negativity so often leads to apathy, whereas seeing what can actually be achieved is more likely to get people on board and doing whatever they can to support nature.

Many of the problems in Scotland are due to the land ownership system - here we have the feudal ownership. Not in Norway. So hunting in Norway is not run by a few landowners, as is in Scotland. So as a first step - we must change the feudal system here in Scotland.

Before re introducing larger predators Scotland should be saving the last remnants of it's own native wildlife, capercaillie and wildcats being two prime examples.

Thank you for putting this together. I would like to say at the outset that I am pro changes that would promote wildlife diversity. However, I'm not sure if the presenter and team are just being naive, or whether it's been a deliberate policy not to address any practical issues in relation to rewilding and focus on the 'wouldn't it be lovely' aspects. Rewilding just can't happen unless there we get buy in from local people whose livelihoods come from working on the land. For example, why do we have a good population of white tailed sea eagles on the western islands but very few across he mainland? Because although it's illegal, birds are sill being shot. Just last week there was a news item investigating the continuing shooting of hen harriers on moorland in the UK, so legislation in its current form clearly isn't working. So personally, I'd like a follow up video from you. Speak to landowners, farmers and people who might have the viewpoint that, 'making a living is difficult enough without lynx or wolves predating my stock, or beaver flooding my most productive land'. It's all very well saying that there might be schemes to compensate farmers, but if you've spent years breeding quality animals and developing a relationship with them, what is going to compensate you adequately for losing the best animal you've managed to produce? So please give the general public a balanced picture.

what many people who encourage "rewilding" forget....Scotland has a thriving livestock industry...which makes up a significant part of the rural economy.....and the two are mostly incompatible......there are areas of upland scotland....that struggle to produce anything other than red deer....trees that were once there a thousand years ago....are unlikely to re-establish themselves without a major cull of deer....and when they do grow....up to a certain height....they will get blown over.....scotland being famed as a windy place.....the clue is in the number of wind turbines we have.....the last major storm flattened whole forests. i really wonder who is driving this?

That Norwegian hunter not being very honest - one reason Norway 'doesn't have many large predators' is because they cull their bears and, especially, their wolves.

Scotland is not Norway nor Slovenia or any other low population density mainland European country, that has wolves, bears and lynx. e.g. Romania, a very interesting country to visit, i have been......but very different to Scotland. Scotland has a very unique, violent, somewhat chequered history. here i am talking about the systematic eradication of the gaelic culture post 1746. Indeed the roots of the state of the Scottish countryside....can be traced back to 1688. ....those that occupied the highlands....the Gaels....had their own culture and grazed their cattle extensively far up into the corries.....the forced end of Gaelic culture post 1746 saw the introduction of sheep, the end to transhumance...go look it up.....and in the 1800s the management of the mountains for sport....both grouse and red deer.....hence today we have basically an open heathery desert.....the fault lies squarely with large land owners.....e.g. the Duke of Sutherland being a prime example....(don't get me started on the forestry commision....let's plant sitka spruce.....everywhere.....what a good idea that was....NOT!) the current areas considered for "rewilding" all lie above the Highland boundary line.....lets firstly look at a rewilding experiment.....that has basically gone wrong....the re introduction of sea eagles to the west coast of scotland.....a great idea for those espousing such ..and a spectacle for the visiting tourists........but to the local shepherds and farmers...an unmitigated disaster....sea eagles prey on the never ending supply of lambs...proven fact..... and therein lies the problem....me as a livestock farmer....cannot stand this nonsense....we use the land to produce calves and lambs to feed the urban population....because that is what Scotland does in its hill regions....graze herbivores...and ruminants.....and has done mostly since the 1700s..... the urban population (current generation) who have zero conception of the working rural environment....have bought into this nonsense....think this is their playground for recreation....and wish to see a return to nature....as it was in Roman Pictish times.... scotland is a tiny dot on the globe.....with most of the population squeezed into the central belt....because the rest of the country....is either productive farmland.....a small % of the total land area.....and the rest is basically uninhabitable,....being mountain...... compare and contrast with Norway....in Scotland we have the majority of the land owned by a very few individuals....including the Crown....if you wish to see rural scotland prosper....the feudal ownership of land must be (including compulsory transfer of ownership) passed to those that work the land.....and the big estates broken up.... if you wish to see wolves and lynx....please go visit the Highland Wildlife park at Kincraig.....or alternatively fence off vast areas of the highlands and pay the farmers to leave and seek alternative employment....but don't come bleating when you have nothing to eat.....lamb may be sourced from New zealand.....but if scotland is now covered in trees who cares! for those that are bothered and can find it....go watch......"The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil"....scotland is a f############ up nation due to southern interference....need i say any more.

Don't tell me yet another Englishman who wants to turn Scotland into a wilderness so the English can enjoy countryside that they have not already decimated in the south.

Give Nature a foot up, and it will fix itself! However, as the gods of earth, we can help control it. Beautiful movie! Go Earth! ❤

@nk53nkg to improve the land rather the mindless persecution of wildlife, vermin to them, to protect game birds in particular.

@nk53nxg No your wrong SGA & farmers are not the biggest threat to rewilding. Landowners over decades have failed to improve the land they "own",the consequences of their neglect are quite obvious to all and sundry. If they had shown more responsibility t o

A beautifully shot film but what's the target audience? It's ideal as an educational film about rewilding in Europe as it introduces the concept and practices. But it doesn't address the question in the title: Why not Scotland? The answer, surely, lies in the lack of political will within the Scottish government. I had hoped this film would address the elephant in the room, i.e. Why hasn't Scotland passed relevant legislation when The Green Party was part of Scotland's government for many years? All they had to do was say "If you want our votes we demand some rewilding policies!" Were they asleep at the wheel? And the SNP, our current ruling party, claim to be green but they've obviously done nothing about rewilding either. I know the feudal nature of landowning is another problem in Scotland (not addressed in this film or by the SNP) But landowners can be persuaded into doing the right thing, especially when the right legislation has been passed. Just look at that Danish landowner who bought big estates in the Highlands and is rewilding them. Because of this lack of political context I think this film fails to deliver And it certainly doesn't answer its own question.

This rewilding process will be very good for the deer too. Their exploitation (and the landscape's itself) at the hands of the deer estates has resulted in deer populations experiencing stunted growth. Deer in Scotland given Scotland's latitude, should be far larger than they presently are on average.

Has Norway preserved its forests or were they replanted/rewilded

Governments prioritize themselves. The Tories saw nature as a resource to use up and make a profit. We need to plant as many trees as we can as our lives literally depend on it. No nature, no us!!!

Well done pal...That was a Great Story and video,well put together.The only thing is that aye see alot of these rewilding videos and nothing ever seems to get done by the Scottish Government.They are always dragging their arses far behind when they really need to make a stand for once and start getting this rewilding done with planting the trees for starters and then introducing and likes of the lynx and wolves to finally start making a dent in the one million wild deer pollution and as we saw in Yellowstone National Park our rivers will start to change and improve etc etc.

It wouldn't all be woodland. The large mammals would have kept areas open as well as geologic events like floods and landslides. All kinds of things cause disturbance to keep openings in woodlands.

Where is England in this table, if Scotland is 212th? I wish you would focus you're attention on rewilding your own country. i.e england.

Great to see efforts to recreate the natural environment. Scotland is a beautiful place with great potential . Be careful and mindful and remember that the main thing you should do, trying to help nature recover is to reduce human impact and that means probably reduce hunting.

Not wishing to dampen any enthusiasm on this subject but we have no trees on most upland hills and catchments, so nothing to support biodiversity. We have lowland agriculture that dictates how land is managed and generally subsidies are given to landowners to graze or crop every inch and therefore establishing riparian woodlands, wet woodland or wetlands is challenging (virtually impossible). Scotland needs to revamp the agri grant schemes and offer incentives for sympathetic land and riparian management if we are ever to make progress. Scottish Government needs to establish a framework that will allow things to change. There's no lack of enthusiasm from the public and conservation organisations but until we sort of the funding mechanisms that will allow landscape scale change, there will always be resistance from landowners. Unless we can first establish woodland at scale, then the dream of reintroducing beaver, lynx etc will fail as the habitat just isn't there to support these species in its current state and nor is the will from the landowners. First things first is to offer adequate incentives for change to those that own the land.

No unnecessary fences in scottish wild areas(not that there are many free places). The right to walk in our own country was hard won. Wolves and other predator animals are a romantic dream of no worth to modern Scotland…. I can remember a time when I was pushed off land that was given over to hunters… get the land back into public hands. Too many glens are in private hands….the Cairngorms are a disgrace in terms of restrictions. Shooting geese at Findhorn needs to be stopped….

Scotland is being saved for after the collapse. Pristine territory astonishing resources. It already has several deep underground bunkers. Call me crazy but it's always been in the plans. Always.

I never gave much thought to how barren Scotland was until recently. I just thought that’s the way it was supposed to be- but now that I’ve learned more it is extremely odd how barren it is considering how much rain it gets and how relatively mild the climate is. It should be absolutely thick with forests.

Actually feel quite emotional watching this, absolutely brilliant . That was such an amazing insight into the problems faced but also gives a glimmer of hope for the future. I am so happy im amongst your generation joy and i hope we see the big changes needed to the environment within our lifetime. Im from ireland and ive always felt the exact same as you standing on top of those mountains. Gazing down into a green desert, not a tree or shrub in site. Lets do this in scotland, lets let this nation succed in rewilding and use it as a starting to spill over into Ireland also 😊

Any Scots involved ? Thought not. Why don’t you do it in England ?

Most Highlands of Scotland are owned by very rich usually overseas owners. The moorland kept for grouse and deer shooting. It would be very difficult to change the use of the land.

Why not you fucking off back to England and dealing with your own issues. I'm sick to the back teeth of advice from England. England is the absolute problem. England is Israel. Colonialists. Go back to England and fight for English independence

There is soo much to learn and support to change and build passion. This film is extremely inspiring and should be shown in every Kindergarten and school!

Bravo Flo! You bring up the really good questions. Keep going!

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Well done, that is a beautiful film. Very inspiring and I hope the message gets out there far and wide.

Brilliantly narrated and filmed, thank you Flo and your team with your message of sincere hope and questioning 🙏🏼💚

Great film to rekindle the hope that it's not too late, especially in the barren Highlands. Maybe we could eat more of the 'problem' free-ranging deer, rabbit, geese and woodpigeon, rather than industrialised factory farmed animals.

These people don't speak for Scotland - who are these English globalists ? Where are the Scottish Natives- no thanks another government operation . We tbe propke want our land BACK - HANDS OFF

I wish there were rewilding projects here in Ireland.