We are flooding a forest - here’s why
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- In our latest rewilding project we have decided to spend €40,000 to dig a ditch and flood a forest in Slovakia. You might be wondering whether we have gone mad but in truth we are really excited about getting started creating our very own wetland project and after watching this video we hope you are too!
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0:00 Flooding a forest
0:28 Importance of Wetlands
2:36 The Danube
3:07 BROZ
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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Over recent decades, large swatches of Slovakia’s wetlands have been lost. They have been drained to make way for agriculture, as a result of the construction of dams for hydroelectric power, as well as for timber production.
Wetlands are an integral part of the Danube floodplain landscape in Slovakia and draining them to plant trees has detrimental impacts on the environment. Wetlands store large amounts of carbon and are home to a diversity of plant and animal species that are specially adapted to the wet conditions. One of these species is the nationally endangered and endemic Pannonian root vole, which has declined drastically in Slovakia in response to disappearing wetlands.
This project will turn forest back into a wetland by digging 650 meters of ditches. This will kickstart a “flood” of change and bring back a healthy functioning, sustainable and wilder ecosystem.
You can read all about it here: mossy.earth/projects/rewildin...
#Rewilding #Wetlands #Mossy Earth
The one downside of this project is, is that I am way to impatient to see the effects :D
Same!! :) At least the results are faster than many of our other projects. We should start seeing something in the next few years. Many of the forests we have planted will need 20 years before they look like anything impressive.. - Cheers, Duarte
Every week there will be more and more proress
Well it kills the animal’s inside as well.
@@gabecollins5585 elaborate?
Go watch the new video then! :D
Hi, I’m a wetland biologist in Florida, USA! I absolutely love what you guys are doing. With human development, Florida has seen a loss of wetlands that is pretty staggering. But we have a lot of wetland restoration projects from both the government and private companies. I hope that we can all learn to live in balance with the ecosystem one day!
I’m a Floridian, and I’ve seen a wetland that was recently restored/ expanded. It was connected to a larger body of water, so it was utilized by the landowner to make more wetland. The biodiversity increase I’ve noticed is amazing.
Projects like this should be sprouting up everywhere. They don't require new tech or permanent cost of upkeep.
I believe offsetting 189 people's annual co2 footprint for 40k is amazing.
Countries should invest money in that. It's easy, relatively cheap and does what is needed to buy us some much needed time.
Thank you Kaj!
@@MossyEarth No! Thank you for doing it!
It is not people to blame instead governments and corporations because those are the ones who pollute the earth and increase co2 by not offsetting, creating wars and industrialization
And you think co2 is the only problem but we have pfas everywhere carcinogens so many dangerous chemicals far worse than this natural gas
This is nothing... The only good thing that will come of it is that animals will have new habitats.
As a Slovak living not that far away I instantly recognized that satelite image. My hearth broke a little when you pronounced location names but I jumped up from happiness that something like this is happening!! Good luck with this project!
Ah mate... I did my best! In the next video we will feature the BROZ team a bit more and they will get all the names spot on :D - Cheers, Duarte
Super excited to see the transition of this degraded area to a rich biodiverse wetland!
It will be exciting to go there this spring! Well done on setting up the project Kirks :) - Cheers, Duarte
Thanks for helping our planet and Slovakia 🇸🇰
Sounds like a really interesting project, intrigued to see the habitat that results and the wildlife that comes back. Cool that we're able to start doing more projects like this. Great to see the carbon sequestration aspect as well
Agreed, I am really curious to see how it develops over the years :)
Just like invention of Dams, i think this will create another unexpected catastrophe to the existing ecosystem..
@@royalroyal2210 Such as?
@@DoctorGardiner if i know precisely, then i wouldnt say "unexpected" would it, genius?
@@royalroyal2210 There linda isn't ecossystem anymore
One of Europe’s most epic rivers, amazing how this channel is all over the world.
It is indeed! A really mighty river that supports people in many countries as well as a variety of ecosystems :)
@@MossyEarth I am 15 year old ecology passionate, can I ask a doubt?. Doesn't anaerobic bacterias causes intense methan emission?
This has to be one of the coolest projects we have done yet! The idea of a positive domino effect is so exciting
I am really excited to see the progress over the next few years. This is rewilding in its purest form! One intervention and a flood of change :) - Cheers, Duarte
And the birds Tiago! Think of all the birds! Do bitterns migrate to Slovakia?
@@pmeckiffe Eurasian bitterns migrate to Slovakia, mainly to the lowland area around Danube.
I can't wait to see how this project progresses!
Agreed, this is one of the projects I'm most excited about :)
No idea why youtube told me to watch this video, but I must say that I am glad it did, because this was rly interesting video and will try watch more of it in future and looking forward to see progress videos about this project.
Well we are glad TH-cam sent you here! - Cheers, Duarte
Wildland restoration is so interesting. Im glad people are starting to invest in this important resource that will pay off for generations.
My entire area is primarily wetlands. My property backs up to inland wetlands that are part of a larger coastal wetlands system. It's a beautiful area. Si much wildlife we can't get away from each other. Thank you for creating more of this beautiful biome for mother earth.
Thank you! It sounds like you live in a wonderful place :) - Cheers, Duarte
As someone who is invested in salmon restoration and recovery in the PNW, I really appreciate the work you do and thank you for sharing it. In the last 100 years we've destroyed our river ecosystems.
We work on Salmon restoration projects as well. It is a very complex task as I am sure you know. It is all about bringing back connectivity and healthy riparian forest ecosystems. Hopefully this type of project becomes more common :)
@@MossyEarth Yes, we gutted the riparian ecosystem in the name of repatriating flood plains and estuaries all to the detriment of the salmon's river lifecycle. Here in the PNW, dams and estuaries are big on the list of removal / repatriation.
It's fortunate that we like salmon, if they were slimy eels or something no one would care, but salmon are an incredibly healthy source of food and also an icon of environmental abundance.
It's to this point that I'd address salmon farming as a substitute to utilizing already existing river water sheds and the ocean to feed and grow the fish.
We look at salmon farming completely wrong. Trying to grow as many young smolts into sellable 'salmon' by feeding them cat food in net pens produces a much less nutrient dense animal. they're basically trash fish and the offshore net pen enclosures severely impact native fish and the environment.
A better way to farm salmon is take it from a full watershed approach and rather than have a single mitigation hatchery down low on the waterway raising a few hundred thousand fish from egg to released smolt (again on cat food), take and distribute the fertilized eggs into the natal spawning grounds where you would like them to return.
Inundate the watershed. (can you have too many returning salmon?) with complimentary species. (we have 8 here in the PNW that are anadromous)
What's essential in getting large returns is that the fish themselves are the creators of spawning beds.
In the PNW, we hear a lot about the timber company's logging roads silting in the river spawning beds. This is nonsense. Anyone whose seen a river in spring flood knows that that it's a chocolate mess of silt and water. a silted in spawning bed is a spawning bed that is not in use, period.
What clears this mess up and prepares the bed to receive fertilized eggs is millions of pairs of salmon tails beating the riverbed that move the silt and 'not right sized pebbles' out of the way for spawning to take place.
If your mitigation hatchery is on the lower river and you have a greatly beleaguered run of wilds, there's simply not enough of them to need to clear out more spawning ground up higher in the water shed. it's fascinating that biologists get the cause / effect on this one entirely backwards.
It's not like they are not spawning because they can't find the place to do it. it's that the watershed as a whole lack the returning fish to force them into the higher reaches to find and dress out a place to spawn.
If we treated salmon farming from the standpoint of minimal human intervention (spawn them and then get them into the natal spawning area you want to rear them in without sticking a wire up their nose or clipping off fins.) and looked at the entire watershed as the garden and not just the mitigation hatchery's cement enclosure ponds then we would really open our eyes to the true potential of salmon farming.
So what if only 10% of these survive to return. You've introduced millions of fish into a riparian habitat system. Some of them will be food chain for birds, other salmonids etc.
But enough of them will return. And continued complimentary efforts will absolutely supercharge the returning salmon population. you'd probably only need to artificially supplement for a few life cycles before you could move the entire operation to a new watershed
That benefits everybody. From starving orcas, to native tribes, to commercial fishermen and recreational sports fishermen.
An abundance of fish helps all. You wont get abundance by removing a dam and letting nature slowly repopulate the habitat. It may not happen in our lifetimes.
This is really cool! I work and live in albuquerque new mexico at UNM studying native species, and one of our primary projects is advancing wetlands protection, western american rivers have historically benn channelized for ease of development which has inevitably destroyed many of the productive and effective ecosystems which sustain biodiversity and ecosystem health, and a lot of the work we do nowadays is focused on exactly what is demonstrated in this video. Rewetting areas of near river habitat to expand and diversify riparian zones! Super cool work let me know if you ever want to visit the beatiful american south west and experience our unique ecosystems
I would love to see a follow up video containing a timelapse of when the flood occurs.
I think the process will be a bit gradual for that but maybe multi-day.. Will research it and see if I can plan it somehow 🧐 - Cheers, Duarte
Amazed by the possibilities, wetlands are really important ecossystems often underlooked
Agreed! And such a simple intervention to get things started :)
are you amazed by increasing your chances of getting malaria?
I love what you guys are doing! Keep up the fantastic work!
I wish I had the money to become a member, you guy really deserve it.
Hi Esteban, appreciate the support regardless my friend :) We are creating a half price (6€) subscription soon but even if that is not ideal for you then your support here on youtube already means a lot to all of us. It helps us grow the channel and find more potential members :) - Cheers, Duarte
Super interesting! Who knew that digging a ditch could have such a massive impact :) Very excited to see how it evolves.
Exactly! One intervention unlocking a big shift. We need to find more projects of this type as they have the right balance between finding a meaningful intervention to kick things off and then letting nature do the rest. We will be posting more videos here with all the updates this spring / summer. - Cheers, Duarte
I can't believe this video surpassed 100k vews, I'm glad this is happening
:D
The potential impacts of this are exciting to say the least, I'm really looking forward to seeing how this project progresses!
It should be one that we can actually see develop in the next couple of years :)
Fancy seeing you here
Well done Hannah and BROZ in scoping out and setting up this project! I am really excited to see where it goes :)
Great work as always Mossy Earth!!
Thank you Rob!
Trying to watch this video as much as I can (comment to) so that this gets a litle more attention
Thank you Joaquim 😄 it's really appreciated :). Some of our past videos have really picked up and hopefully this one will as well in the next few days.
@@MossyEarth I calculated and your average in last 2 months (excluding the video on the great green wall of china that has more vews then all the others combined) was 788 vews
So this video having almost 500 in less then 24h sure is an achivement and signal of progress
Edit, already above 2 month average in 1 day, this video sure was sucessfull
Yes, our video launches have become much better the past few months. This one getting 2300 views in the first 48h really is a sign of that. However, a lot also comes from those past videos bringing us subscribers to "kickstart" the launch of a new video :)
@@MossyEarth There are 2 things I noticed about your videos:
1- A video about China makes much more sucess
2- Video in "youtube shorts" also make more sucess (I guess people prefer short 1min videos)
Maybe that could help, idk having a project in China for exemple or maybe talking about a chinese species under threat of extintion
Coolest channel I’ve seen in a whole. Became a member donating $30 a month. Love it!
Thank you so much for the kind words Robert! And also for putting your trust in us to deliver positive rewilding impact :) We will do our best! Be sure to check your email for some welcome messages from the team and if you are keen join the discord as well if you want to chat with anyone in the team. Also, to keep up with our work it is worth downloading the Mossy Earth app. Anyway, very happy to have you as a member and welcome to Mossy Earth! - Cheers, Duarte
Great to find this Chanel on TH-cam ❣️
I am in AotearoaNZL 🌏 and we are slowing the destruction of our wetlands.
There were so many destroyed for "progress"😶
Long time ago read and article that private property owners were given tax breaks for keeping wet lands in their property .
I live in Slovakia, and I had no clue something like this is planning :D lol, thanks youtube algorithm. Its good thing that its happening though.
Always gotta thank the TH-cam algorithm for this kind of happy encounters :) - Cheers, Duarte
You know, how it is here in SK. Gov will not donate a cent to this project and only when it is finally finished, will they announce, something had been done and it was supposedly actually their work.....
I have also never heard of this project and I am often looking into environmental projects and come from Slovakia. It is such a shame. Terraforming is to be done right here on our planet that needs saving first and everyone only talks about how they want to terraform other planets before this one goes to shit.
Oh, I sure am very excited about this project! Can't wait for the next update when you and Hannah visit the project site!
and I am really excited to visit! - cheers, Duarte
Exciting to see this get under way. It’s great a project with so much potential is getting the funds. Could this become Mossy Earth’s flagship wetlands project?
It certainly is our first major wetland project. I hope that, if successful, we could expand on this in the Danube floodplains. However, I personally would love for us to do something with estuaries, deltas, salt marshes or seagrass meadows. - cheers, Duarte
Good editing, simple to the point, no fancy graphics, crazy music, movie like intros, just good shots and straight forward information.
Thank you my friend :) Glad you enjoyed the video! - Cheers, Duarte
I live in NW Oregon and was born here in 1989. It's really crazy how dry it's been for the last handful of years. We used to get tons of rain or at least had bi-polar cloudy, temperate ecosystem type climate but lately it's been very different. It's been very dry and warmer most of the year. When it rains it feels like a lucky event that doesn't frequently happen. Which is vastly different than how it was most of my life. This is why I really want to reintroduce Beaver's back to the ecosystem, and where it is a good location I'd love for waterways to become back to their natural wetland areas that utilize way more of the water rather than our current situation that just let's water run out as fast as possible and not get utilized well. I hope Oregon does what you guys are doing in this video.
(On a side note about things I wish we would do to improve our climate and amount of emissions we produce.)
This is why we need to invest in modern advanced nuclear energy options. Small form reactors, LFTRs, Thorium Reactors, liquid reactors, with modern technology, engineering, material science, safety measures understandings and designs, computer technology, robotics, It will really allow any nation to be pretty much be energy independent. Less reliant on fossil fuels. They'll have efficient, stable electrical grids and the rest of the grid could experiment with alternative power sources, etc.
Another video yet another lesson, always learning! ❤️ keep the content up!
Thank you Tom!
Video out today and already has so many comments, your channel sure is growing
Hi Joaquim, it's also a lot of our team and members seeing the video more. Still nice to see a bit of growth :)
I wish you guys would do something like this here in Austria too, but sadly my compatriots are so stubborn that a project like this wouldn't be easy to realise I'm afraid.
I bet this wetland you guys created is also a great habitat for the European pond turtle!
i'm happy for this project i live in Serbia near danube and i'm sure that i would see effects of this project here too, also we have a nature park that people call Amazon of Europe or Gornje podunavlje and when i heard floods i instantly remembered of it, hope this project reaches its full potential
What an amazing idea and project!! It’s great to see you guys are going above and beyond to not only make these videos super fun but to also make a huge difference in the efforts to save our planet!
As someone who has spent time editing and working on these videos I really appreciate your words :) - Cheers, Duarte
I love this!
I'm really enjoying your latest videos - it's so much clearer to me now where my impact is as a member and I really appreciate that.
Thanks y'all!
Thank you Gidi, that is great to hear :) Hopefully we can keep improving these videos so it is 100% clear what your Mossy Earth membership is doing! - Cheers, Duarte
I absolutely love the amount of habitat restoration projects taking place around the world and love the amount popping up every now and then globally any chance you’ll partner up with any places here in Britain to restore habitats here
Hi Connor! We really appreciate the kind words. We have many UK projects, mostly in Scotland but we will have some in Cornwall soon as well. You can view all our projects here: mossy.earth/projects/rewilding - Cheers, Duarte
Forgot to mention, the UK is actually one of the main places where we work. Hannah, one of our conservation biologists, is based in Scotland.
Fascinating project
Thank you Tina! We think so too :) It will be really exciting to follow the rewilding progress over the next few years :) - Cheers, Duarte
Wow, can't wait to see the next video about this project, love it !
Thank you Jules! Always glad to have your support and happy you are enjoying the video. - Cheers, Duarte
Well done video! Thanks for making a change to our home. It is important to restore and especially to keep alive our natural given biomes.
Thank you!
This is also happening in Flanders along the Scheldt river and its tributaries! It's called the Sigma-plan and it will also prevent flooding in the nearby cities and towns.
I did not know about that project! Will look it up, thank you for the tip :) - Cheers, Duarte
Lol sigma
So cool! Can't wait to see the results. I feel like we don't talk about wetlands enough, we need to protect them!
I couldn't agree more! Thank you for all the help Deli, it is what made this project possible :) - Cheers, Duarte
I just found you guys love the nature content but also very happy you use real units then understandable contexts it’s a small detail that makes a big difference!
Such a great feeling to hear that this project happens in my country !
You should be proud! BROZ is one of the best organisations we have worked with. Super efficient :) - Cheers, Duarte
-What are your aims internationally(if possible)
It genuinely makes me happy to know that there are still people who genuinely care about the earth😊
We are essentially trying to help rewild as much of the landscape as possible. Our main project areas are in Europe (Scotland; Portugal; Slovakia; Croatia; Romania) but we also have one US project and two projects in Africa. - Cheers, Duarte
Just found your channel recently, its inspiring😀
Thank you Lee :) Really appreciate the kind words - Cheers, Duarte
Awesome project and informative video. Excited to follow along!! 👏🏻
Thank you Macy!
Keep up the good work :)
Thank you Joana!
Uau! Never thought of this! You guys are the best!
Thank you Ema!
Interesting story and well made video
Thank you mike! We appreciate the feedback :)
You guys are awesome... thanks for doing such thing for nature
Thank you friend! - Cheers, Duarte
This is cool. The follow up video should be interesting.
I am really excited to see how it will look like in the next few years :D - Cheers, Duarte
Watching your videos really gives me hope! Cheers from a swedish engineering student!
Before the video started, I knew what you are doing. This is awesome. Thanks for documenting it.
Thank you and good luck, greetings from Slovakia!
Hopefully soon more projects like this spring up. We have drained so many vital ecosystems, often for no good reasons, but to be fair early 20th century had different understanding and goals which sadly aren't evaluated by many governments today.
I just subscribed and holy moly donut shop you guys should have about 10 million subs. Keep it up and you’ll get your endorsement soon so that you guys could get more money. So you can make bigger and better projects.
Man, why didn't I find this video like 2 years from now 😔
Yea… I would love to fast forward and see the results! Still, it is a relatively short time frame. We’ve planted thousands of trees since 2017 and all of them are still really short so this is an upgrade in terms of seeing the results sooner :) - Cheers, Duarte
I can't wait to see the updates!
Fantastic project. Keep up the good work!
Thank you Simon! Glad you are happy with the project. I'm really excited to see how it will progress!
This channel popped up on my suggested, and wow, you guys are doing something really amazing, hope you can keep going 😊
Thank you Otim, that means a lot to us! - Cheers, Duarte
aww pannonian root voles are heckin cute. just found this channel it is a slap fest and deserves to be huge and with the quality of video production, information and all around excellent cause i really look forward to it's growth and expansion!! here for the ride, mad love from south bend indiana.
Thank you Rex! That means a lot to us :) - Cheers, Duarte
This sort of initiative s are giving hope ! ⭐️⭐️⭐️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🌎🌍🌏🌎🌍🌏🌎🌍🌏🌍. ONLY NATURE CAN SAVE THE WORLD 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽. Thank you for this great info 🙏🏼💖👩🏼🦰greets The Netherlands 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
Just discovered you channel and plan to watch every video!!!
More such ecosystem restoration projects are needed to protect the earth ecosystem holistically 🍀 Such initiatives should be funded and backed by government
Great Job go on i fully support your guys work
Loved the video and project! I can't wait to see some more videos from the groundwork you do. It would be super interesting to see more commentaries from what you do, while you are doing it. I would love to learn more about how you actually do the work, how you plant trees, how you choose the spots, challenges you face and things you maybe discover while already working on a project. Also just some more shots from your projects, I wouldn't be mad if every video was twice as long 😄
Hi Tivhal, that is music to my ears :) I hope we can do some more in depth videos on our projects for the members that want to see those longer videos. As a starter maybe check out this expedition here and the following episodes and let me know if you think this is more or less what you had in mind: th-cam.com/video/bQSEsFhvko8/w-d-xo.html - Cheers, Duarte
If you want the playlist you can find it here th-cam.com/video/bQSEsFhvko8/w-d-xo.html
@@MossyEarth Thank you, I did not see those yet. Thats what I was talking about, yes!
This is so well made, are you the one responsible for those shots? I love the editing and the camera work on this. I also love filming and editing enviromental content, you're an inspiration for me. Cheers from Poland!
This is great man. I’m going to start regenerative farming in the US. I can’t wait to build the land back to how it used to be.
"Left alone to be wild" is an interesting statement. I suggest you read 'Against the Grain' by James C Scott. Highly relevant to your comment.
As soon as I make some business deals, I will be donating money.
Thanks Michael! We have business memberships as well in case you are curious check out our website. It is easy to start small and scale up later. - Cheers, Duarte
I highly support this project
Thank you my friend! - Cheers, Duarte
Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out! Can't wait to see all those birds returning 😍
It is a project I am really excited to see develop over the next few years. Nice to have a project that shows its results on a relatively short timeline :) - Cheers, Duarte
Please keep posting this!
Thank you Matt we will!
Really excited to follow this project! What do the €40,000 cover exactly? Just the rerouting of the river or also some monitoring/maintenance of the project?
Hi Julie! This is a great question which we will cover in more depth in the project presentation call. The full €40 000 will be spent on the digging of the ditches. BROZ will cary out the maintenance and reporting and the Komenius faculty of Life Sciences will produce some additional reports as well. If the project requires extra work we will raise another fund to cover the gap. - Cheers, Duarte
Amazing work. Thank you 🙌
Thank you - Cheers, Duarte
Thank you for helping our planet good video
If 40k can do this, imagine the impact of millions of dollars the governements could give...
That is the sad reality of government inaction... :/ - Duarte
Cheers to Tom Scott for including this in his newsletter, I don't think I would have found it any other way.
Hi, did Tom Scott include us in his newsletter 😮? That is news to me. Could you forward the email to team@mossy.earth by any chance? - Cheers, Duarte
Well done to everyone involved in this excellent project.👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you Buzza! - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth you welcome its reassuring good people like you and others go that extra mile for nature and everyone else🙏🙏🙏
please do this in turkey. we r losing wetlands and lakes cause of heat
Isn't Turkey bit too mountainous for this? Maybe you would rather benefit from restoration of original forest cover, I have seen map of approximate extent of original forest cover in like 5000 BC, and quite large part of Turkey and Iran and other countries in that region were covered with forests. So maybe rather some forest restoration project could help.
@@MrToradragon Yes . Turkey is mountanious country but it s 4 times the size of UK . So there is a lot of huge flatlands
nice video! Just found your channel and I love the format.
also the editing and commentary are very nice 🙃
Thank you my friend! Really appreciate it :) - Cheers, Duarte
Funny to see my country on TH-cam… even more unusually with eco projects involved
Well, something to be stoked about! I must say after working with BROZ for years that they are one of my favourite partners. Dedicated, professional and knowledgeable. :) - Cheers, Duarte
I can't get enough of these videos.
This is class! Great project!
Thank you Paddy! - Cheers, Duarte
Well done, lots of people in the environment movement may be unaware that ecosystem regeneration is more important than green technology, although both are positive...
Both are essential :) - Cheers, Duarte
This is so informative! I hope it goes well and make the land healthy again.
Thank you Sayron! - Cheers, Duarte
Love the video keep it up
Excited to see the results 👍💯😍
Same here! It will take a bit of time but will still be much faster than most restoration projects :)
I'd love to hear updates about this in the months and years to come.
Thank you algorithm for leading me here.
Thank the algorithm indeed :D Glad you are here - Cheers, Duarte
I'm suprised u don't have at least a million subscribers. U deserve it
Literally doing gods work ❤️
Right now i am at my grandma 398km away from Timisoara and i passed close to Danube river and its so huge!
Wow nice view amazing nature 😲😊✌️😎
can't wait
Guys, best of luck! You're doing a god's work there!