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Informative and Inspiring. Greetings from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Government has a lot to answer for! I wish there was a Department for Soil Regeneration that couldn’t be touched by every new Government. It has a budget like Road Repairs every year. Green Policies can turn people off when they waste money on solutions but let’s keep Soil Regeneration a must!

While with this concept there is a legitimate concern over escaped cattle and donkeys returning to destructive feral behaviour, I think there is a good chance people of the future will say the new Australia was born on Kachana Station

Can these methods be used in brumby country?

Big Love from an Afro American distant Cousin

So well spoken 🙏 thank you

Amazing

Beautiful, powerful and uplifting! Well done.

I would LOVE to work there!!!

Amazing video !

This looks like it’s in the Wet season? How were you able to access the gibb and el questro?

It would be great to see more of this unique story of Roys Retreat and the legacy left to Barbara as custodian of this labour of love. Such respect to the land, the animals, and a satisfying sacrifice they have made for themselves. RIP Roy.

Nice man... just nice..... '' }

Beautiful smooth footage!

This speech is like a national anthem and prayer for each country. We shared this with several young and adult changemakers and community organizers ... in Malawi, Uganda, South Africa, Bhutan, India, Germany, Bosnia ... saying "We can imagine YOU speaking this. Will you?" ... and will include it in our Magazines on Bosnia, Amazonia, Africa, India with a teaching tool so students speak it + add images and compose a video for their country. We found you via an ecosystem restoration expect from North American working with the ... wild donkey man ... whose precious restoration work you documented... and here we are ... seeing this gem... remembering how the unique ~ Dinosaur Country ~ of Oz feels so much like HOME. Thanks for being awesome. We may get in touch for more when we get to catch a breath. Dreaming powers to you and your people.

It looks like he's dying...

Another awesome short and succinct yet fact filled doco Danny, thank you. Maybe you should consider adding Kimberley to the title so it makes it easier for TH-cams and Googles algorithm for people searching for the place. Also in the tags/keywords. I shared the link on my travel and photo page.

It either gets burned or eaten, by wild or domestic grazing animals

Inspiring work Chris and awesome video Danny! Model example of healthy, functional creek and catchment, rehydrated thanks to your holistic mgt. Shows the stepped creek form surrounded by stabilising vegetation at 5 mins and 8mins for all the Natural Sequence Farming fans! Holistic planned grazing, plus some cool fire where needed offer a lot of hope for landscape health in Australia, particularly our brittle north! Big fan and appreciate your work Chris

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This is the challenge of our generation and will eventually be what makes or break us, Australia needs to support and be grateful for the work that the team on Kachana do, it is invaluable. Thanks for producing the video.

Sometimes Danny, I feel like I'm one of a very few who watch your series around the Kimberley region so I thought I would express my gratitude and a hope that your videos get more subscribers and recognition and that someone is listening. Thank you for sharing.

Wow!!

We argue that this particular remnant population of wild donkeys is managed and not “feral”. On Kachana we began culling and harvesting donkeys for dog-feed before we even were granted our lease. The culling for selection against feral-behaviour has continued and remains in place to this day. Always, we do this in a manner that we (humans and/or our machines) are not associated with predatory behaviour. Our motivation for this was to be able to access the animals more readily. Flighty animals are harder to kill humanely. A wild animal that can remain within its comfort-zone can be dropped without even hearing the bang. Any animals nearby hear a bang, one animal drops, but they see no predator, and therefore do not flee. This soon proved to have beneficial unintended consequences: herding-behaviour developed. We attribute this to an instinctive response to predatory pressure, even in the absence of a visible predator. I.e., sudden ‘death’ became somehow associated with a form ‘predation’ and the resulting “uncertainty” led to a bunching of breeder-groups, and even in instances to the forming of distinct bachelor-groups. Using this “new” information we were able to begin putting wild animals to work: Mulching, evenly fertilizing and pruning vegetation. Donkeys do much of our "fuel control", especially in those areas where cattle will not readily venture. The science relating to animal behaviour (in general) and to herding, predator-prey dynamics (in particular) and much, much more only became accessible to us once we had internet on Kachana (2002). Being able to tap into such knowledge, and now being in a position to compare notes with others doing similar things, sped up our progress and there was little sense in reinventing the wheel. Now we could begin testing “new” knowledge for local relevance and run with what appeared to be working for us.

Very nice. Thank you.

Very nice. Thank you.

Nice video Danny. Great fella presenting too. Thanks for spending your time to help spread this message and help challenge the ideas that many wrongly hold as truths.

The important role of herbivorous needs to be understood by Australians and the rest of the world.

Thank you for helping to spread this (sometimes) challenging message, Danny! The learning continues as more and more people grapple with a search for viable solutions. However, for the ‘rubber to hit the road’ we need a new generation of Land-Doctors: www.kachana-station.com/land-doctors-wanted/ (a PDF version can be downloaded) The presentation was delivered in a manner where pictures tell the story and I merely commented on the pictures. Chris Henggeler, Kachana, 29.07.2021

A truly impressive animal and, by the looks of it, a veteran of many battles. Excellent video.

Nice footage, crocs fascinate me...how close was the drone, it didn't seem to care it was there.

Nice mate, your in a great part of the country.....sound design was on point.

Nice doco Danny, I'd like to get into a bit of that (doc production) myself. Keep it up.

When is the premiere.?

Nice work hun X

Great stuff..!

Great video, great editing 👍 inspiring mate

Really Fantastic edit. The audio was something special! You must've spent ages on the audio. Really gave it emotion.

Mate that is the exact same croc I filmed 2 weeks ago on the Ord River. Same scarring and everything. We called him Maximus

We are all “new Australians”. Even those humans who arrived on these shores thousands of years ago! According to some scientists the “old Australia” had large herbivores and no human-lit fire. With the disappearance of the roles that large herbivores formerly played in the landscape, soilbuilding and landscape-hydration processes would have been compromised. Apparently for thousands of years humans used fire to remove “excess” vegetation (ie. vegetation that is not being returned to the soil via biological processes). Today we have many more humans and unprecedented levels of expectation. We also have Australia's new mega-fauna. (I.e. many types of new large herbivores that could be managed to produce desirable ecological outcomes.) Within Australia’s landscapes, could we succeed in restoring the capacity to store rainfall and harvest sunshine? At minute 06:25 we hear: “Even in his death he (Roy Walker) refused to conform…” "Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.” Aldo Leopold

As an ecologist, I have an issue with the narrative portrayed in this video. Large feral herbivores like cattle, horses and donkeys are a massive threat to biodiversity. The science is unequivocal on this. You only have to look at the history of degradation in the Argyle area from overgrazing. It is no wonder this part of the Kimberley does not have the biodiversity that it once did. Using stock to manage fire is a backwards approach to land management and reminiscent of early colonist and pastoralist views and practices, which have been proven to be detrimental. A lot of our soils in the Kimberley are ancient and simply cannot support stock. Fire has been a part of our tropical savannas even before people arrived on the continent, so you can’t entirely exclude it. I think fire can be better managed around Kununurra, but it is more complex than this video suggests. I hope you will take the time to speak with a variety of people when making these videos. www.researchgate.net/publication/321192653_Forgotten_impacts_of_European_land-use_on_riparian_and_savanna_vegetation_in_North-Western_Australia researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=misc_pbns

Love the intro, it's really good

I was really excited to see some more of your great cinematography, but I feel like I got mostly low quality ranting from a crazy fella rather than some cool documentary style info. Some of his points are certainly valid but I just can't agree with some of it. That open top "butterfly cave" he's buried in is a really magical place, it's a shame more people can't visit it. (And in some ways it's great they can't ruin it). Long story but we actually came apon their retreat after 4wding down a river bed while exploring Duracks Folly. Was a neat place to see.

Looks like a good doco Danny, look forward to seeing it.

This looks great. Congrats Danny!

I like your voice, Barbara

Where is that and how did you get there ?

killem all

I was up there a few years ago, wish I could go again, the Kimberley is my favourite place but I am 3,000 km south east of there in NSW.

Just shoot them all.

Love animal 🐊 Thanks for sharing 1:26