Man together with "our fore-fathers, Nature and beavers" only re-colonised together much of what was to become the British islands post-Devensian Ice Age. At its maximum, about 22,000 yrs ago, the ice sheets extended to the English Midlands making life for man and beavers alike quite impossible. As much as you'd like to differentiate ideologically between man and nature, no such distinction exists.
I am delighted to have awareness growing. Nature knew what She was up to always. Mother Nature`s children take care of her, as she takes care of this miraculous planet. Beavers are her children.
@@ellencox8415there's a philosophy that a lot of us are separate and better than nature. nature is something to be controlled, as if that were possible
I recently watched a video talking about beavers regenerating the land in America. They even placed them in the Nevada desert/mountains. In a few years they have made an incredible difference in the environment around the creek that had once been desolate. I was totally amazed at the difference they can make. In an area recently devastated by bush fires, the catchment area where they had been working, was the only place to survive. Either side was decimated.
As the water flows over the dam, it becomes oxygenated which improves the quality immensely which in turn benefits the fish, insect and aquatic plants populations. This then immediately begins to encourage wildlife etc.
And when Beavers settle in an unwanted area they can be relocated to a more useful area where they are needed. As long as the Farmers cooperate with relocation and not just killing the Beavers. It is best for the farmers in the long run because of a more hydrated landscape.
Here in the medicine bow mountains there is a beautiful terrace of beaver dams holding the water back providing fish ponds for herons to fish. I go there regularly to see the changes.
If they would've looked out west of the US and Canada they would've known what good beavers can bring. Beavers are being introduced to the south west to ease the lack of water in the desert.
Im in Romania and i can tell you the lynx is very safe. They avoid humans they are quite shy and you rarely see them in the forests. they are not creatures that come close to human settlements, its more like they prefer to stay in the woods and hunt rabbits. The lynx has the behaviour of a cat being more shy and in his own world. Also the lynx is not very big so its one of the safest animals of the forests. We have bears in romania and they can be a problem especially if there are a lot of them and they come to some villages to scavange for food even in some cities. Still bears are more safer than dogs, i have been walking the wild woods a lot and felt safe in them when i got to villages with dogs, it was TONS more dangerous. So the big problem is actually dogs left to roam. wolves are also safe, but yeah lynx is like a very safe animal. here in the woods in Romania there are also viper snakes and there were some people being bitten but it was usually stupid people that tried to take them in their hands or unconscious ones not seeing them and stepping over the snake. Still considering the large number there werent many victims. the number one number of victims and even deaths are from dogs that are left out by the humans or dogs with humans but agrresive. the lynx primary method is ambush but only of course animals that they want like small mammals. In Romania no animal was extinct, maybe beavers yes and they were too introduced ive heard but the rest they just continued to live. There is i think a problem though with humans trying to manage the forest for example for years no one could hunt bears and sure that seems like a good thing but now there are so many bears in romania that they dont have food all of them and they come to human settlements and its not ok for humans but also for them because they are not living a natural life like they should. So i think yes animals should be protected but also to set some boundaries. For example there is a whole discussion in Romania about how many bears to shoot if its 400 or less. Total poluation estimate is about 6000 which is a lot for a small country. There are bears now in places that never had them for example
I find it cool that in desert areas, groups are making man made beaver dams making those ares greener, cooler and keeping area wetter and provides water for longer.
The landscape of Britain has totally changed since the elimination of beaver, wolves and other species. Scotland was once heavily forested, now it's a barren landscape. Bring them back.
Talk about irony: The beaver is an iconic symbol of Canada. The Trans Canada Highway, a route that that connects St. John’s Nfld to Victoria BC, is also an iconic symbol of Canada. Somewhere in Northern Ontario a beaver dam burst and washed out the Trans Canada Highway which effectively cut the country in two.
Now the rivers are straightened, and the floodplains have not been flooded for a hundred years. Everything is built up. Local residents will certainly be against giving their property to beavers.
TBH I have only listened to half of this video, and as a principle I am in favour of reintroducing beavers to the UK, the part which seems to have been lost on the UK Government is that we also need to grow food and the Dept. for EA seems to have lost interest in that, allowing large amounts of land to be flooded which were prime farmland. This will have a big consequence for inflation as wheat production in the UK will be down substantially in 2024. This will increase prices of wheat and that will push up the cost of food. In summary we need a careful balance and I am not sure that debate is occurring.
I feel like in different places there’s different problems with them though. I’ve been trapping them and hunting them on my family’s land since I was 11. If left unchecked on that piece of land, they’ll flood about 8-9 acres and turn the driveway and whole lower field into a lake. The bridge over the creek has literally floated away. In addition, my grandpa had planted 250 cypress trees in a fairly small area. All of them are gone, and just about every single native species of tree as well. If that’s where you live and it’s been in your family since 1911, leaving the beavers be is literally not an option.
Wrong question. Can the farmers afford not to host the beavers? Would they rather host a beaver dam or two, or have their farm be ravaged by fire each year. A beaver clan could build the farmer a fire control pond in a few weeks, or he could spend $20k constructing one along with the cost of Council consents. Better a free no cost dam me thinks with natural consents built in.
wasnt it proven a short while ago, that predation in yellow stone had a negligible impact on plant health / bio mass gain - and was far outweighed by the presence of more water due to beavers being reintroduced? Still, all for reintroductions of all lost life - so go team!
I agree that beavers have place in the landscape but not everywhere.I noticed that when you were talking about low vole numbers and listed the cause you failed to mention Mink ,they have destroyed an awfull amount of wildlife wherever they are present.
you can't compare reintroduction of beavers with mink. Minks are not a natural spices of Europe. They were introduced here from North America because of their furs and later escaped from mink farms. They are terrible and do a lot of destruction. Mink in Norway, where i live, are one of the few spices that are actively hunted all year. Another is Common raccon dog, they haven't settled her yet, but if spotted will they be hunted. Roccon dog was introduced by by the russians in Sibir and have spread here. They also introduced king crab and pink salmon. The last is a huge problem in Northern Norway since they are destroying for the Atlantic salmon in Norway and taking over the rivers. So yeah, you don't want new spices. What you want is spices that belong or belonged in Europe (and UK).
Derek Gows place has a visitor centre, don't think you can just turn up but I may be wrong. You can actually find them all over the south of England. Especially the southwest and up towards Gloucestershire. I've seen a few, found plenty of evidence of their activities
All we need to do to repair the damage humans have caused is step back and let nature reassert itself.. Chenobal has shown us this. Ofc on an island it might take a few species being reintroduced by us but that's it... everytime we step in things get worse not better
No, these things happen because people are using modern building techniques in places that require dynamic architecture or places that have a history of dramatic localized climactic conditions, such as flood plains and forest that require semi centennial fires. Companies build in these areas because its cheaper land; people buy these houses not knowing, but because the houses are “more affordable.” We are both battling climate change, it will change with or without humans, we are battle social issues we have created ourselves.
Only elephants and .. Mountain Pine Beetles? In a decade or two killed huge areas of pine, from California to northern B.C. Whole drainages with every tree dead, then primed for forest fire. Take a drive up U.S. 97 and onto B.C. 97. It’s much different than in 1990.
We have enough floods without Beavers .it’s a destroyer by its habits , meant to be in huge continents . Control of the trees needed in Small countries .
Zero emissions is impossible and like many more people, everybody needs to accept it! If the present levels started their move upwards in the 1750s whatever we do it will take at least 200yrs to get the numbers down again. We do not have a convenient switch to turn rising emissions off! We must learn to adapt to any results of climate change by partnering with the natural world which will have the spin off the best reduction in emissions that we can hope for! We live in a connected world. Even if the UK could significantly reduce the level of emissions that we live in how would anybody like to suggest how we stop this nicer atmosphere staying over us and not, naturally going for a holiday to China who give some of their coal based emissions to us! It is nonsense and many more productive and significantly adaptive actions can be created by working with nature!
Bison in the USA used to have a significant positive effect on carbon sequestration. Indigenous populations understood their value. Racist European colonialists, in an effort to get rid of inhabitants of the land engaged in wholesale massacre of bison to try to cause mass famine.
I love seeing how different countries are taking an interest in learning healthier, environment /ecological solutions to problems: will we learn in time the importance of regenerative care of the earth?
Beavers are very destructive, as they’re the only animals, apart from humans, which will totally alter a habitat, simply to suit their needs. They are destructive. They aren’t cute & cuddly.
Brown areas are not dead. They feed you. Those are farm fields. Without them we all starve and destroy. We require their existence. I enjoyed frosted wheats and milk this morning, with OJ and coffee, all from the farmers "brown fields."
There is no evidence that the world is millions of years old. The 2nd law of thermal dynamics and the distance the moon is from the earth are 2 of the evidence for our young planet. And you appear to have 2 faces; 1 for evolution and 1 for God. Your view on evolution makes God to be a liar. ☹️ I believe that beavers are very important to our environment. They are God's dam builders, not evolution's builders.
@@paulm2467 that's a place where you're wrong. The Phyla of the Cambrian explosion has no ancestors. It's more of a problem now than it was in Darwin's day. What's more is not even 1 evolutionist has ever given proof that their religious views are accurate.
Man inserted god/gods into things he did not understand - which is why it is the God of Gaps. The more knowledge is acquired the less use for god/gods.
It is so instructive and sensible to see humans learning from our fore-fathers, nature and Beavers.
Man together with "our fore-fathers, Nature and beavers" only re-colonised together much of what was to become the British islands post-Devensian Ice Age. At its maximum, about 22,000 yrs ago, the ice sheets extended to the English Midlands making life for man and beavers alike quite impossible. As much as you'd like to differentiate ideologically between man and nature, no such distinction exists.
@@johnbruce2868 Beavers do good all over the world, they are so cool!!
This is so amazing ! they do this without drawing plans and adjust to what exists and extend it step by step.
I am delighted to have awareness growing. Nature knew what She was up to always. Mother Nature`s children take care of her, as she takes care of this miraculous planet. Beavers are her children.
So are we.
@@ellencox8415there's a philosophy that a lot of us are separate and better than nature. nature is something to be controlled, as if that were possible
Thank you everyone for every part of this!
Derek Gow is doing an amazing job.
It's unfair that this video have so few views. It deserves much much more.
Agreed. Commenting to drive engagement
What a brilliant man giving his whole farm to nature and conservation. We need more people like him.
"This is not destruction, it is gardening. "
Yes!!!
I recently watched a video talking about beavers regenerating the land in America. They even placed them in the Nevada desert/mountains. In a few years they have made an incredible difference in the environment around the creek that had once been desolate. I was totally amazed at the difference they can make. In an area recently devastated by bush fires, the catchment area where they had been working, was the only place to survive. Either side was decimated.
That Derek is so very eloquent about the interrelationships within nature. I wish everyone on earth could see this video.
"this is not destruction, it's gardening."
As the water flows over the dam, it becomes oxygenated which improves the quality immensely which in turn benefits the fish, insect and aquatic plants populations. This then immediately begins to encourage wildlife etc.
Beavers are incredible
Beavers and wolves are both commonly anchors for trophic cascades. Nature is fascinating in its balances.
And when Beavers settle in an unwanted area they can be relocated to a more useful area where they are needed.
As long as the Farmers cooperate with relocation and not just killing the Beavers. It is best for the farmers in the long run because of a more hydrated landscape.
hydrated and less flooding and all they giving up is the lowest land that keeps flooding and produces the least for them as result.
Here in the medicine bow mountains there is a beautiful terrace of beaver dams holding the water back providing fish ponds for herons to fish. I go there regularly to see the changes.
This year I’m plating like beaver on public land yet it’s up on very high ground.Rock on from Canada.
If they would've looked out west of the US and Canada they would've known what good beavers can bring. Beavers are being introduced to the south west to ease the lack of water in the desert.
Wonderful work ! so much hope...
Hats off to Derek Gow, and amazing people like him...
Amazing! Greetings from Germany, and thanks for sharing this encouraging story! Please keep up the great work!
Outstanding job best of luck I can't wait to see what it look like in say 10 years 👍
Fantastic documentary, and amazing production!!!
This is a Great Video! Helping the Britain!
Im in Romania and i can tell you the lynx is very safe. They avoid humans they are quite shy and you rarely see them in the forests. they are not creatures that come close to human settlements, its more like they prefer to stay in the woods and hunt rabbits. The lynx has the behaviour of a cat being more shy and in his own world. Also the lynx is not very big so its one of the safest animals of the forests. We have bears in romania and they can be a problem especially if there are a lot of them and they come to some villages to scavange for food even in some cities. Still bears are more safer than dogs, i have been walking the wild woods a lot and felt safe in them when i got to villages with dogs, it was TONS more dangerous. So the big problem is actually dogs left to roam.
wolves are also safe, but yeah lynx is like a very safe animal. here in the woods in Romania there are also viper snakes and there were some people being bitten but it was usually stupid people that tried to take them in their hands or unconscious ones not seeing them and stepping over the snake. Still considering the large number there werent many victims. the number one number of victims and even deaths are from dogs that are left out by the humans or dogs with humans but agrresive. the lynx primary method is ambush but only of course animals that they want like small mammals. In Romania no animal was extinct, maybe beavers yes and they were too introduced ive heard but the rest they just continued to live.
There is i think a problem though with humans trying to manage the forest for example for years no one could hunt bears and sure that seems like a good thing but now there are so many bears in romania that they dont have food all of them and they come to human settlements and its not ok for humans but also for them because they are not living a natural life like they should. So i think yes animals should be protected but also to set some boundaries. For example there is a whole discussion in Romania about how many bears to shoot if its 400 or less. Total poluation estimate is about 6000 which is a lot for a small country. There are bears now in places that never had them for example
Beavers are more interesting when left alone …
Fascinating !
I find it cool that in desert areas, groups are making man made beaver dams making those ares greener, cooler and keeping area wetter and provides water for longer.
AMAZING CREATURES -- we ARE LUCKY to have them
Canada’s national animal!
Beavers are the true stewards of the forest -- may the Gods and Godesses bless them.
Learn to work with what's in front of you.
Is to go with the flow of nature.
For we are part of nature, not separate from it.
Beavers may prevent forrest fires and floods.
The landscape of Britain has totally changed since the elimination of beaver, wolves and other species. Scotland was once heavily forested, now it's a barren landscape. Bring them back.
🎵Nice beavah, nice beavah...you know how to show it. 🎵
I remember seeing beaver dams and the trees they chewed down in North Carolina. I never saw a beaver, though.
They tend to be nocturnal animals to avoid the predators.
Talk about irony: The beaver is an iconic symbol of Canada. The Trans Canada Highway, a route that that connects St. John’s Nfld to Victoria BC, is also an iconic symbol of Canada. Somewhere in Northern Ontario a beaver dam burst and washed out the Trans Canada Highway which effectively cut the country in two.
I'll have you know that the beavers work the hardest of all life forms. They produce every baby in the world.
Humans wish they could be as industrious as beavers. More droughts are coming, bring back beavers to fight them.
I think we’re learning!
Thanks for posting
Lynx are lovely animals they are predators, and they keep other pray species populations under control.
Now the rivers are straightened, and the floodplains have not been flooded for a hundred years. Everything is built up. Local residents will certainly be against giving their property to beavers.
Yep, they are supposed to flood every year, that's where all the stuff grows
TBH I have only listened to half of this video, and as a principle I am in favour of reintroducing beavers to the UK, the part which seems to have been lost on the UK Government is that we also need to grow food and the Dept. for EA seems to have lost interest in that, allowing large amounts of land to be flooded which were prime farmland. This will have a big consequence for inflation as wheat production in the UK will be down substantially in 2024. This will increase prices of wheat and that will push up the cost of food. In summary we need a careful balance and I am not sure that debate is occurring.
With people like these, there is a viable future for rewilding. It must continue and we must allow them the space to roll back what we have done.
Love it……Gardening
This is why Canadians chose the beaver as its national animal.
A great video!
I feel like in different places there’s different problems with them though. I’ve been trapping them and hunting them on my family’s land since I was 11. If left unchecked on that piece of land, they’ll flood about 8-9 acres and turn the driveway and whole lower field into a lake. The bridge over the creek has literally floated away. In addition, my grandpa had planted 250 cypress trees in a fairly small area. All of them are gone, and just about every single native species of tree as well. If that’s where you live and it’s been in your family since 1911, leaving the beavers be is literally not an option.
This is not destruction it’s gardening.
Dont forget the hippopotamus
Why do farmers always complain about everything ! ???
Farmers have destroyed and de forested vast areas of the UK .
At 11:21, in the US, is that a musk rat?
You never elaborated on why elephants have a greater impact than beavers... I am disappointed.
When we work WITH Nature.
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Nice.
Can the farmers afford to let the beavers have a field?
Wrong question. Can the farmers afford not to host the beavers? Would they rather host a beaver dam or two, or have their farm be ravaged by fire each year. A beaver clan could build the farmer a fire control pond in a few weeks, or he could spend $20k constructing one along with the cost of Council consents. Better a free no cost dam me thinks with natural consents built in.
wasnt it proven a short while ago, that predation in yellow stone had a negligible impact on plant health / bio mass gain - and was far outweighed by the presence of more water due to beavers being reintroduced?
Still, all for reintroductions of all lost life - so go team!
Healthy natural settings are good for human mental health.
everybody else tries to get rid of them It makes you wonder if its just an expensive waste of time I wonder how much cash is involved
Beavers are the greatest animal hope they frive
In India Africa south America people have learned to live with animals so Europeas and Americans should also.
Are beavers the smartest rodent or just the most industrious?
Leave it to Beaver
I agree that beavers have place in the landscape but not everywhere.I noticed that when you were talking about low vole numbers and listed the cause you failed to mention Mink ,they have destroyed an awfull amount of wildlife wherever they are present.
you can't compare reintroduction of beavers with mink. Minks are not a natural spices of Europe. They were introduced here from North America because of their furs and later escaped from mink farms. They are terrible and do a lot of destruction. Mink in Norway, where i live, are one of the few spices that are actively hunted all year. Another is Common raccon dog, they haven't settled her yet, but if spotted will they be hunted. Roccon dog was introduced by by the russians in Sibir and have spread here. They also introduced king crab and pink salmon. The last is a huge problem in Northern Norway since they are destroying for the Atlantic salmon in Norway and taking over the rivers.
So yeah, you don't want new spices. What you want is spices that belong or belonged in Europe (and UK).
so kute 😍
Is it possible to visit any of these sites as a tourist?
Derek Gows place has a visitor centre, don't think you can just turn up but I may be wrong. You can actually find them all over the south of England. Especially the southwest and up towards Gloucestershire. I've seen a few, found plenty of evidence of their activities
Are beavers native to Britain.
All we need to do to repair the damage humans have caused is step back and let nature reassert itself.. Chenobal has shown us this.
Ofc on an island it might take a few species being reintroduced by us but that's it... everytime we step in things get worse not better
You can’t keep building on flood plains that water has to go somewhere. It’s short sighted money making.
No, these things happen because people are using modern building techniques in places that require dynamic architecture or places that have a history of dramatic localized climactic conditions, such as flood plains and forest that require semi centennial fires. Companies build in these areas because its cheaper land; people buy these houses not knowing, but because the houses are “more affordable.” We are both battling climate change, it will change with or without humans, we are battle social issues we have created ourselves.
Only elephants and .. Mountain Pine Beetles? In a decade or two killed huge areas of pine, from California to northern B.C. Whole drainages with every tree dead, then primed for forest fire. Take a drive up U.S. 97 and onto B.C. 97. It’s much different than in 1990.
We have enough floods without Beavers .it’s a destroyer by its habits , meant to be in huge continents . Control of the trees needed in Small countries .
Beavers reduce floods
Title ignores blue greens.
The title of this video forgot cats exist
Wolves are equally effective.
Not much you cam grow in Scotland??? you gotta be kidding.
Zero emissions is impossible and like many more people, everybody needs to accept it! If the present levels started their move upwards in the 1750s whatever we do it will take at least 200yrs to get the numbers down again. We do not have a convenient switch to turn rising emissions off!
We must learn to adapt to any results of climate change by partnering with the natural world which will have the spin off the best reduction in emissions that we can hope for! We live in a connected world. Even if the UK could significantly reduce the level of emissions that we live in how would anybody like to suggest how we stop this nicer atmosphere staying over us and not, naturally going for a holiday to China who give some of their coal based emissions to us! It is nonsense and many more productive and significantly adaptive actions can be created by working with nature!
Theres already big cats in England
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Ants?
God's creation.
Bison in the USA used to have a significant positive effect on carbon sequestration. Indigenous populations understood their value. Racist European colonialists, in an effort to get rid of inhabitants of the land engaged in wholesale massacre of bison to try to cause mass famine.
I love seeing how different countries are taking an interest in learning healthier, environment /ecological solutions to problems: will we learn in time the importance of regenerative care of the earth?
elephants are a keystone species
Beavers are very destructive, as they’re the only animals, apart from humans, which will totally alter a habitat, simply to suit their needs. They are destructive. They aren’t cute & cuddly.
Brown areas are not dead. They feed you. Those are farm fields. Without them we all starve and destroy. We require their existence. I enjoyed frosted wheats and milk this morning, with OJ and coffee, all from the farmers "brown fields."
There is no evidence that the world is millions of years old. The 2nd law of thermal dynamics and the distance the moon is from the earth are 2 of the evidence for our young planet. And you appear to have 2 faces; 1 for evolution and 1 for God. Your view on evolution makes God to be a liar. ☹️ I believe that beavers are very important to our environment. They are God's dam builders, not evolution's builders.
God is a fantasy for the weak minded.
@@paulm2467 that's a place where you're wrong. The Phyla of the Cambrian explosion has no ancestors. It's more of a problem now than it was in Darwin's day. What's more is not even 1 evolutionist has ever given proof that their religious views are accurate.
Man inserted god/gods into things he did not understand - which is why it is the God of Gaps. The more knowledge is acquired the less use for god/gods.