SCOTLAND: The world’s first Rewilding Nation? | Live Webinar

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  • @LondonTreeSurgeons-Camden
    @LondonTreeSurgeons-Camden 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    A truly great TH-cam event, actually felt like we were at a moment in history, fantastic by everyone at SRA, thank you for giving rewilding the voice it has always needed. (an emotional rewilder)

    • @greens4unityscottishgreena522
      @greens4unityscottishgreena522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Will you add this video to your rewilding playlist?

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      it is a moment in history, it is the end of countless species that depend on the moors to live.

  • @philis_dude9399
    @philis_dude9399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We need to unite around science and not opinion!

  • @WoodlandClassroom
    @WoodlandClassroom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sorry I missed the live broadcast. Looking forward to catching up on this.

  • @EK1626
    @EK1626 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There is rewilding going all over the world but Scotland has been denuded of its nature and the people. By rewilding with human occupation making a living in these nature environments, Scotland could support a diverse & culturally significant 21 Century model. Alandale has got the right idea and helping unique businesses based on the model of wild places to come, support more rewilding through eco tourism and create new businesses based in the new ecology. I am from Canada but am so interested in your cause since I traveled on the train to John O'Groats and was saddened by lack of trees & how the history of your country devastated it. Looking forward to passing on this information. I am of Scottish & Irish ancestry. Sincerely, Elaine

    • @andy199121
      @andy199121 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think people often would like to suggest mans greatest achievements are it’s technological ones, but I truely believe our greatest achievement would be to fix the damage we have done the landscapes like this. To have that consciousness to recognise our impact but to also be able to fix it is what sets us apart from other species.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Caithness has never had a lot of trees because of the wind and the almost flat land.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because of our climate the far north has never had a lot of tress, ground hugging trees and sheltered crags were the only places where trees grew, until they started to plant Sitka Spruce in forestry blocks, Caithness is known as the county of the one sided trees because of the severe wind.

  • @riverflowing2842
    @riverflowing2842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Brilliant event, very informative. I would like to know more about the marine rewilding as this is not something I considered before watching this. I was encouraged by the numbers (2,584 at one point) from far and wide :-) Let's hope this was a defining moment in history. Now to write to local and national government and send them the wee animation. This is not just for Scotland, it's for our world :-)

  • @benwoodhouse1988
    @benwoodhouse1988 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Scotlands actually doing a very good job, I mean they went from having 5% trees in Scotland to 18% now and I've read that they want to restore 30% of Scotland in the next ten yrs that's massive for Scotland and when they have done 30% Scotland will be so much more wild. When they have achieved this they will just go further and further to heal scotland and scotland will be wilder and wilder as they do so making scotland how it used to be.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And how was Scotland before ?

    • @benwoodhouse1988
      @benwoodhouse1988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@normanmurray3659 would have been beautiful still but alot less diverse and Not as much opportunity for animals compared to now we're eagles and pine Martin's are coming back in numbers and the more trees that are grown and the more rewilding that's done the more Scotland becomes a haven for wildlife

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@benwoodhouse1988 How so, they have pledged more trees than there is ground for. The more trees the less habitat, I don't know where you get this more wildlife from, Scotland is becoming a desert for wildlife. The more trees , the less mountain hares, less mountain hares means less eagles. Less ground nesting birds, means less raptors and less predators. By planting more and more trees you get less and less wildlife.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The golden eagle was doing really well but now they are in decline due to the White tailed eagle. Pine martens are being relocated and is about the worst predator you could let loose in the UK, he will eat grey squirrels and red squirrels and anything else it catches, birds, chicks and eggs. Who told you that Scotland was not diverse, I beg to differ as will any countryman. What are trees going to bring that is not already there ?

    • @claireandersongrahamkeller2744
      @claireandersongrahamkeller2744 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@normanmurray3659 trees are habitat; more happy species thrive!

  • @shadowwolf1355
    @shadowwolf1355 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excellent work on the video TSRA. Keep up the wonderful work.

  • @spencersanderson1894
    @spencersanderson1894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love Scotland’s beauty!!

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well that is going for a start, the wildlife are going already, the deer and the mountain hare, with the hare will go the golden eagle, what an achievement, trees and no wildlife!!!

    • @spencersanderson1894
      @spencersanderson1894 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s why these people and others are trying their best to bring it back, by doing all of this work.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spencersanderson1894 So they can get rid of the wildlife, because that is what they are doing, planting trees gets rid of habitat so the wildlife disappear, is that what you want ???

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spencersanderson1894 haver you got an answer or just a fantasy.

    • @spencersanderson1894
      @spencersanderson1894 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@normanmurray3659 sorry I’m not one who argues over TH-cam. And yes planting trees does destroy a bit of habitat but it also creates others, what these people are doing is replanting the ancient Caledonian pine forest of Scotland, which covered a lot more of Scotland than it does today. The deer numbers in England and Scotland are way over the sustainable number for an ecosystem, there is a reason they are culled and need to be culled further to bring their population to a healthy balance. Too much of one thing is not good, mountain hares won’t disappear or the golden eagles (the need trees to nest in). These people aren’t just planting trees everywhere and anywhere. It is very calculated and planned for a long time, taking in many different possibilities and outcomes. Most ecologists and conservationists know that closed canopy woodlands don’t provide a lot of habitat to many of our wildlife, that’s why they help created other habitats too, sometimes by using herbivores or in their absence humans will create and maintain a habitat. People like you need to understand that when people plant trees a closed canopy woodland might not be the end goal, a scrubland or open canopy woodland might be the goal, which benefits far more wildlife than a closed canopy woodland. And another thing people like you need to understand is a mosaic of habitats is better than one, Scotland was not just an open landscape with no trees and a few mountain hares and golden eagles it was a land full of wildlife and full of different habitats, woodland being one of them. There is a place in East Anglia that practices rewilding, they have woodlands, open fields, marshes etc. and hares are thriving there, along with lots and lots of other wildlife. Stop thinking that ecosystems are separate and we need to protect one or the other. They are all equally important and all equally play a role in an ecosystem. I work in conservation I see the benefits of this stuff first hand and I see the wildlife thrive because of it. People like you who oppose this stuff are doing more damage than good, you’re standing in the way of progress and standing in the way of these animals you claim to love thriving and bouncing back against the shit us humans have thrown at them.

  • @jureklisowski
    @jureklisowski 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shared this morning to @Lammermuir Conservation and Animal Protection group

  • @scotlandstonic8757
    @scotlandstonic8757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video very informative. I live rural and love some of the great work being done in this area (Stirlingshire)

  • @philis_dude9399
    @philis_dude9399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think rewilding fits really well with Resource Based Economy (I suggest researching this)

  • @infocat13
    @infocat13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A am a citizen of Canada with a UK grandparent so eligible for residency I would want to own small space to rewild with my retirement payments

    • @infocat13
      @infocat13 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Does anyone know of a small plot of land a retiree could own in Scotland?

  • @Johnjohn-zf1op
    @Johnjohn-zf1op 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi, do you have any updates on the project?

  • @galzanir6025
    @galzanir6025 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a beautiful animation! Can you share the credit for the animation studio?

  • @AnotherScotland20
    @AnotherScotland20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There was someone who wanted to get in touch with y during the live chat concerning rewilding trusts or funding or such like - folk clubbing together. Alas I lost their names and can't get in touch. Please reply to this if you read it!

    • @riverflowing2842
      @riverflowing2842 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps you could get in touch with The Scottish Rewilding Trust directly for the information. The chat was going like wildfire. No chance really to respond or take note of names or contacts.

    • @riverflowing2842
      @riverflowing2842 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      The live chat has been posted so nothing is lost 👍

  • @kirstymckenzie8989
    @kirstymckenzie8989 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks everyone involved. X

  • @jackwheatley8
    @jackwheatley8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Would be great to hear some input from some agroforestry and forest garden specalists on how we could also feed oursleves from these enviroments. Also it looks like kelp could become a staple for humans which would take a huge ammount of pressure off the land. I harvest, dry, cook and eat kelp. Perfect pasta substitute and the ocean is huge! Also kelp forests are brilliant for fish and when its harvested they move to the next patch.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is legislation in the pipeline to protect kelp from being harvested, it can be collected from the shore.

    • @EK1626
      @EK1626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@normanmurray3659 That's great and changing the way boats are anchored in the Harbour would help sustain this as well. Their are companies in the US producing anchors for boats that have floats that help keep the chains off the bottom of the ocean and therefore protect the kelp forests. This could be a great industry to start in Scotland and any where there is extensive coast lines. Bye for now! Elaine

  • @andy199121
    @andy199121 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hoorah Scotland 💪🏻 imagine heading out of Inverness and hearing wolf calls in the woods! This is the greatest gift we can give our descendants.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You have got to be off your head !!!

    • @andy199121
      @andy199121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@normanmurray3659 most definitely

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andy199121 Well you certainly don't hide it, Scotland is just too small for wolves.

    • @andy199121
      @andy199121 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@normanmurray3659 it’s too small for 1 wolf but plenty big enough for 5 million humans and as many immigrants as your beloved sturgeon can cram in :)

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@andy199121 Not so much beloved Sturgeon, she will be the death of Scotland.

  • @francescabridgewater8738
    @francescabridgewater8738 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would it be possible to send all the viewers the full list of live comments - I only managed to read half of them and have now lost the link.

    • @BNHC0
      @BNHC0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you rewatch the video it'll have a the live chat on the side, pause the video and the chat will pause too

    • @greens4unityscottishgreena522
      @greens4unityscottishgreena522 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@BNHC0 yes a great way to get back in touch with those in the live chat.

    • @riverflowing2842
      @riverflowing2842 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The live chat is also attached at the bottom as a link👍

  • @caitgems1
    @caitgems1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    O'rite Pedro, when are we getting our lynx up north?

  • @naakatube
    @naakatube 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤️❤️❤️🐈🐈🐈🌼🌼🌼

  • @ianbuchanan3839
    @ianbuchanan3839 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm 11 minutes in and I'm REALLY hoping SRA will make an effort to cooperate with sustainable livestock farming and conservation-centric hunting initiatives to bring about a prosperous and flourishing future for Scotland, it's time for ideological tribalism to end

  • @Dashbshots
    @Dashbshots 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Everything has a value placed on it's head. In places like Yellowstone national park, animals are not free. It's just a big drive through zoo. The bison are treated like cattle. The predators wear collars and the birds wear bracelets. For something to be truly free, the price tag has to be removed from it's head and people need to stop interfering with it's life. Everything needs to travel freely without boundaries or borders. Without stipulations. But as animals like grizzly bears push their boundaries and populations grow, the price is put back on their heads and the government benefits from hunting license fees. Most tv shows about elephants have always preached about poachers reducing the elephant populations. What the shows did not tell you was that scientists killed thousands of elephants because they thought the elephants were a burden on the land. They don't tell you that entire waterways are poisoned just to remove a specific type of fish in the YS area and then the waterways are restocked. Don't act like the average citizen is to blame for the reduction of animals around the world while scientists benefit through grants even when they are wrong and governments benefit through hunting fees, selling animals to other countries or states and so on. Everything has a price put on it's head, even humans. Just so they can be exploited for profit in different ways.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There still is too many elephants for the ground that is available, if the elephants were left to carry on as they had they would have destroyed their own habitat.

    • @Dashbshots
      @Dashbshots 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@normanmurray3659 I think they found that the opposite is true in relation to an elephant's impact on the land. People need to change. When a bear becomes a garage bear in PA, it is removed from the environment because humans have so many varying opinions and often won't just do things to prevent the bear from getting into the garbage. People need more education so the bear can remain. Climate change is a eugenics program for profit. Wars were used to reduce the human pop in the past but now they think they can reduce more people with pandemics. While the globalists predators profit. They blame advances in food production and fertilizers for increases in the human pop. So now they create things that will limit those supplies. Social engineering. You will be reduced like the elephants and globalists will benefit from your demise.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Where are you going to put the Elephants , they have nowhere to locate them too.Ypu can't compare a bear who has plenty of habitat to move them to, bears that return are shot.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You don't seem to understand wildlife management and they have not found the opposite with elephants. By destroying the trees the land has lost it shade which retains water, the grasses then die off which in turn affects other species, eventually your left with a desert.

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@normanmurray3659
      And you got it all wrong again here

  • @MichaelRand-r9w
    @MichaelRand-r9w 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Of course many softie Englishmen like me think Scotland is wild enough already😅😅😅

  • @pitergo1
    @pitergo1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Let's be blatant, it's not rewildering, it's just bringing to original point. You are still thousands miles away to the point zero. First start with forrests, probably Sahara has only worse forest coverage.

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's the idea
      That's still rewilding
      Reintroducing species back, restoring habitat etc.
      Sahara didn't have forest, just grassland and wetland
      And WE can't bring them back as this was a natural climate change which transformed this into a desert.
      We cannot bring back the lake and floodplains it once had

  • @roilevi7381
    @roilevi7381 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    U.k need to bring back wolves bear and linxs .use garding dog like kangal alabi armanin gamper Kafka's dog 🐕.use gps on the animals.

  • @normanmurray3659
    @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    No, it is too much rewilding Scotland, it is difficult where farming is already establish. It is not degraded it is preserved as it should.

  • @nl4064
    @nl4064 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    well put together video essential message = we cant survive global warming unless we rewild half the planet we can only cool the planet with water and water can only come from healthy biodiverse soils - rewilding is our only hope of passing on a living planet to our kids

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL LOL LOL

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Water vapour is one of the worst greenhouse gases.

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@normanmurray3659
      False again
      Because it doesn't stay in the atmosphere for long you idiot
      While CO2 and methane will stick for decades there
      Also they're way worse than vapor so still wrong
      And the guy wasn't talking about that but wetland and wild Rivers
      You know the most biodiverse and important ecosystem on earth, like peatland who ca. store more carbon than forest.

  • @normanmurray3659
    @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sorry I don't agree with your rewilding, so far there has been nothing but gamekeepers paid off and tenant farmers and crofters loosing grazing and having to reduce their sheep beyond the point of viability, so far rewilding hasn't taken the labour with it and land degraded and habitat reduced, How are wolves going to survive if not on sheep as they are slaughtering the deer to plant trees. It is not the success that you paint. The land suffers, the habitat suffers and the wildlife and rare plants suffer. It is the usual lies to get your fantasy which will fail, you will no doubt be long gone. Leaving chaos behind.

    • @billbhein2949
      @billbhein2949 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Norman, Do you really think the patchwork landscapes of a typical grouse shooting estate is how it should be? Silent moors, devoid of other bird songs apart from chackle of the grouse. No birds of prey as they have already been poisoned or lured to a carcass just to be shot. Maybe you are angry because you see your way of life is coming to an end, the vast majority of Scots would say; It's about time!

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billbhein2949 Have you been on the cannabis, ask the BBC film crews why they go to shooting estates to film the wildlife.Who are you listening to as it is obvious you have never visited a shooting estate.Renowned for their abundance of wildlife, birds of prey outnumber RSPB reserves, waders abound as we have the habitat and predator control.Get your facts right before you voice your opinion, stick with truth and facts and you will be OK.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billbhein2949 We would say your out of your mind.Go and look yourself at the Angus Glen's where Chris Packham and Ian Thompdon say is devoid of wildlife and then look at Bert Burnetts photographs of the same Angus Glen's teeming with wildlife, did they go in the dark that they didn't see anything or is it their usual lies.

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billbhein2949 Go and ask Chris and Ian what happened Fred the Eagle !!!

    • @normanmurray3659
      @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@billbhein2949 Come on where is your rebuttals, have you any answers or just propaganda ?

  • @normanmurray3659
    @normanmurray3659 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How will rewilding help or make it worse, rewilding takes the heart out of Scotland, it kills our iconic wildlife as those who should know better plant thousands of hectares of forestry/ woodlands destroying habitat and an ecosystem to be replaced not added to, replaced by another ecosystem that nobody knows is better or worse for the environment. It is certainly worse for rural people and their employment. Very much akin to electric cars the cost to human life is a cost too much. Make no mistake rewilding is as deadly as an electric car battery.

    • @deinsilverdrac8695
      @deinsilverdrac8695 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All false and wrong
      You're really making a clown of yourself and showing such lack of intelligence, such ignorance is really amusing to see
      Except electric car, none of your sentence here are true or make sense.
      Rewilding is the best thing that can happen to Scotland.
      It help thousands fo species to thrive and recover
      It already have many benefit and good impact in Scotland
      It's not like the entire world was like that for millions of year before you dumbass.
      What you think is wild and normal in Scotland is a pityfull green desert devoid of any life. A barren landscape of 5 plants and few animals at most.
      We're trying to restore the entire ecosystem diversity and function
      Those who cleaned UP the water, brought fishes in the Rivers, berries to eat, etc
      And Guess what rewilding initiative are all around tge world and REALLY really successfull and help the local region.
      Water quality, air pollution, ecotourism, fishing, hiking, landscape preservation, soil quality and fertility etc.
      The mistake was to destroy the forest in the first place, no let the intelligent person actually be usefull and learn dummy