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Such an important topic but...... Spare us the constant begging letters - and get the film out there please - - - - Why does this film have such a US corporate feel, it jarrs, and the title is so negative?

Why not just reintroduce lynx?

rewilding is amazing, super cool to see bits of scotland making progress in that direction! also wild that some people still defend the "rich people killing for fun" thing, gotta believe it's literally just the rich people in question or people they're paying.

Cost of living affecting way more people in Scotland than climate change, people cant think about a problem down the road when they are struggling to put food on the table today.

I think Tom Opre's point about where the eye of the "conservationists" fall is totally missed out. The elephant in the room is the lost habitat due to sprawling urban areas and industrial scale agriculture. Yet they focus on areas that are already doing not too badly.

This chap seems very reasonable.

Watched it last night, very good production.

The hypocrisy, measured against the multi-million pound (annually) grant harvesting is beyond disgraceful. These people need called out and must show what they bring to the table. Planting in shallow peat releases more carbon than it sequesters. There should be no planting that is not for native species but only for carbon credits(green washing), if they want tax payer money. Neil's obfuscation and dissembling is an embarrassment to all but Trees For Life's bank account. As for the value driving land prices in Scotland... do not get me started. The funds entering the market are revolting and I have personal familial experience of this but hey, we are saving the world by not hunting deer, grouse and fishing for salmon and trout (bad private landowners). But Neil has it covered (not). BTW, Neil, a few years is too late. Oh and when your fuel load goes up and the whole moor goes up in flames, without the keepers saving your negligent management practices... no keepers, you're done.

This is a fascinating podcast. Mr Balharry would not answer so many of the questions put to him. I couldn't work out whether he was cold, had been sweating and now chilled or nervous and knowing he was going to to an untruth. Shame if JMT starts to lose land because they are anti-local population take advantage of the SNP land use laws. Not one thing Mr Balharry said is true. He weaves through evasion at best and down right untruths. We are moving away from lead shot to alternatives. He knows that but hey, "society" or something. What Mr Balharry postulates is his hope, not actual fact.

When I hear the words Neo-Marxist I reach for my gun. This is a VERY odd trailer.

I am an English sasanach I love Scotland and the Scottish people. Plus the natural way of life and I have to add today there are still hunting societies that have histories of 650,000 years.

Is it being shown in Northern Ireland anywhere?

People like colour but they want black and white; we have a tendency to drift from shades because we crave an absolutist ideal. It has not always been this way but has become stronger since we rely less on nature.

absolute nonsense. Ive lived and worked on uplands 40 years and honestly you can walk for miles without barely finding a single nesting bird due to eclogical collapse from deer and sheep wrecked hillsides. Or grouse farming where keepers kill everything with a hooked beak of claw, the wildcat driven to extinction, foxes and martens eradicated even adders the fastest declining reptile in Scotland killed by every keeper Ive spoken to // Im now for rewilding as the only sane sollution

Great video about a working estate by Scott.

At 1:41:10 "We have to have a problem so we cn ask them for money"... There it is in a nutshell. The massive conservation industrial complex is a disaster for nature and not just Scotland but every where. These people leach off society, using quasi science and class warfare. This has zero to do with animals, deer, grouse or otherwise but is 100% focused pn landownership. Balharry more or less says this but Mr Fenton's debunking of the myths around rewilding is as refreshing as it is timely. Yes, we need to act now but not as the SNP. Balharry and Co want.

Excellent interview. Imagine if we had wildlife legislation that was fact and science led rather than emotional incontinence, what a huge bonus for wildlife and the countryside that would be! EDIT: the publicly and NGO owned land should be held to the same standard as the private landowners. The dearth of biodiversity on publicly owned and NGO owned ground compared to places like Rottal is a scandal or would be if the government and the likes of Mr Balharry weren't only interested in social engineering and "class warfare".

Such a sad situation where the snowflakes have driven a good man from the profession, the world is doomed.

These are very good interviews across the piece. I'm looking forward to the film coming out. JMT likes Polsen because he wants to hammer deer. Estate owners are bad because they want balance. Highland Clearances 2.0 underway in 21st century Scotland to allow either foreign billionaires or the industrial conservation complex to harvest grants. The predators argument is frankly ludicrous. Yellowstone had 330k female ungulates of all species shot via recreational hunters on OTC tags. Edit: the "public" is the biggest siongle landowner in Scotland but is not held to the same standard as the private landowners. Why is that? Surely, you Mr Balharry doesn't have to force his specific view of "conservation" on private landowners when there is so much the publicly owned and funded land could be doing but doesn't due to cost, incompetence and political belligerence.

A loss to the local community and the world of real life conservation. Good luck to you and your family, Alex.

Good luck in your new endeavours Alex, and well done and thank you for you part in this industry. All the best, Josh

Brilliant, I doubt if there’s a TH-cam video that could give the layperson a better understanding of the heath lands , moor lands and forests of Scotland and similar areas of England and Ireland. Hopefully some of the new landowners full of good intentions that have romantic notions of rewilding will listen to the evidence this man presents.

What a terrible and misleading introduction to this film by the American speaker in the video - stirring up false polarisation. As the interviewee said, it is nuanced and not black & white. Fact is the whole of the mainstream conservation world strongly advocates greater deer culls. All the main conservation organisations in the UK control deer numbers on their land by shooting, and it is contract keepers who do it. It is not conservationists or government that's preventing more of it, it's economics and actually some landowners! This is too important a subject for lazy inaccuracy.

Clearances 2.0 is under way now. This is a stroy that needs told over and over. It should be compulsory viewing in every school in Scotland (as a miniumu) but across Europe and the US where similar battles are being waged. I was looking for the link to donate but I am clearly looking in the wrong place. Can you guide me towards it.

Professor Hart must have questioned the content of his degree course if the facts of life for conservation in Africa came as a complete shock.

I hope y'all checked out my PhD Thesis from The University of St Andrews.... And hope y'all addressed the potential loss of the landscape via development.... Look forward to seeing it!

Great film 🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌🦌👍👍

Wonderful just a wonderful film.

Looking forward to seeing this ...

Great questions, and great answers from Scott.

How about these roles are changed from GAME keepers to Wildlife rangers, supporting the reintroduction of keystone species and abundant nature which will bring in way more money, create way more jobs and bring so much more joy and a love for nature instead of killing it for sport....? Call me crazy!

when is this released?

It's laughable listening to people clutch their pearls over the belief that people would be cast out of the hills, if shooting estates went under. What do they think happened to all the people that lived in the hills before the shooting estates were created?

A very good insight into a vital role with the management of the Scottish countryside.

This is a very emotive subject that I have my views on and have I feel a good understanding of as I grew up in Rural Aberdeenshire and enjoyed country pursuits but I am open to listening to both sides of the argument but at present I stand solidly with the guys who presently have boots on the ground doing the job of looking after our heritage. I have just watched a short film of a former grouse moor with a good population of Raptors and grouse taken into public ownership and made into a nature Reserve with a SSSI designation that is now a near barren wasteland with minimal wildlife that it was set up to protect as the keepers who managed it were deprived of their livelihoods and moved on with no thought of the consequences. Can we learn from the mistakes made on other pieces of ground.

Great video!

They want their rewilding, at the expense of those working on and managing the land, but get their food from supermarkets. Better they start making recipes for eating trees. They reject the notion of people working and living and deriving their livelihood from the hill and moor, the forest and the river. Better we shuffle off to the reservation, in their eyes. They produce nothing, yet preach at and decry those who do. Why should we heed such people? What can they offer by way of viable, sustainable, sustaining alternative?

I love all life and nature,but I also have a brain,and in an ideal world I'd love nothing to suffer but,it's not a Disney film we are living out,nature is very complicated and it's evident that we eat meat like a lot of creatures on the planet,and we definitely need to kill things we ain't eating,like pests,rats for example!,,,can you imagine what it would be like if we just all stopped killing rats?,,,nah,mother nature has gave us a brain and we just don't use it sometimes.

really looking forward to seeing this film.

Video trailer looks interesting, beautiful. Where and when can we see the final movie?

The one comment about Marxist ideology was the most relevant to the changes and social indoctrination charging down the line at us all regardless of whether your living in a remote highland glen as a deerstalker managing wild spaces or living in a city flat working on a production line. The ministry of truth is in plain sight now. To call new world order a conspiracy theory is either gaslighting or fear based wilful ignorance. To site one person as a central figure to highlight the sinister desire of those people in power and control who’s central to steering the management plans for us all, I would chose Klaus Schwab. His dystopian ideals are even still laid out on Wikipedia. Deer are being used as pawns in Scotland to gain control over private land owners, it’s just another “brick in the wall” towards achieving global governance.

promo sm 👌

Looks like you found peace. Keep on educating people

Tom, thanks for being at the CITES conference and for educating all of us about wildlife conservation.