UK GOVERNMENT SH*TS ON WILDLIFE - let me explain
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I wish I could sign the petition even though I'm from Germany, so all you UK people, go do it for me please!
It kills me I can't sign this being not british, but I'll see of I can share it around. Seriously, good luck!
Rewilding is NOT heavily backed by the British public, at least not the way you put it. Habitat restoration for the species we still have is great. Reintroduction of species which are both harmless and helpful is great. But we DO NOT want most species we wiped out to come back. We got rid of them for a reason. Especially dangerous or large animals like bison or wolves.
One of the reasons the UK countryside is so great, is BECAUSE we killed off anything that can hurt you. Which means anyone, even children, can walk in the woods and forests alone, without fear for safety or need for protection.
We do not want to be like the rest of the world. We made this the safest country in the world as far as nature is concerned. Lets not change that.
Only Brits are allowed to sign, which is unfortunate because this is the kind of thing that affects the whole of the Earth. Thank you for the video and for all of your hard work.
@@Build_Secrets bruh
I too am sick of the government's general dismissal of Britain's depleting biodiversity. Time for action!
I’m just sick of the British Government full stop! They pay huge amounts of tax payers money on ‘advisors’ who only say the things the government want to hear, not the truth.
We are all sick of them all together on everything they do! Greedy A. Holes
I find it sad that domestic animals e.g dogs are prioritised over natural species.
Signed. I just don't think the Uk will ever be the same, the population is exploding and we are only a small island of nearly 70 million people, it really is crazy. I live in South East and I have to travel for hours before I get to anything remotely described as nature.
There is way more to 70 million people in the UK. 🇬🇧
We will all soon be assigned our own square yard of concrete to stand on , this government and any other Party including the Greens think importing the world is going to somehow save the rest of the worlds ecology . They will not stop until we are all caged in a labyrinth of concrete jungles .
I wouldn't say it is exploding, exactly, I'd say it is flooding in.
@@andrewdaley5480 actually we are just under 70 million
@@GorkhorMusic keep telling yourself that. 🇬🇧
I can fully understand guerilla rewilding, bypass the government red-tape and just get on with reintroducing species that should be here
Yup, i can see how and why it happens!
Ok I get where you're coming from but would you like everyone to take that role? Well informed onservationists have got it wrong in many cases so I for one would not advise throwing our toys out of the pram and going rogue. Progress takes way longer than those who see the need would like. Frustration is part of it.
@colmwhateveryoulike3240 What you call throwing your toys out of the pram i call the common people just pulling their funger out and helping to undo the damage our daily lifes have on the surrounding area. Progress happens when the people make decisions, mot a bunch of old greedy suits.
@@DG-iw3yw Yeah I know. It's frustrating. But the test is in working together, including those you don't see eye to eye on... yet. If you haven't gone through those processes, you'll risk just spend your life impatiently pointing fingers, which achieves less than nothing. No one can click their fingers and fix anything, not the suits, and not you if you were to be in their shoes. If you have a sensible plan, keep pushing it and getting support. If you hear no, then no, you absolutely do not turn from being an upstanding man with a plan who has convinced so many to follow you into being an antisocial rebel. You prepare yourself and you rise to the challenge knowing you have truth on your side.
@@DG-iw3ywvery well said 👏👍
They don’t care - our government is a disgraceful mess. Most of them are interested only in their careers.
My blood boiled at their announcement. Signed angrily. Hopeful for change.
thank you!
@@greenie3419funny you say that
@@greenie3419Americans also suffer from horrible gun violence, trust me you don't want everyone in the UK armed
@@greenie3419 America has guns and they can't get anything fixed either LOL. What an ignorant statement.
America is screwed as are we. Try again @@greenie3419
Well said Rob! Another poor decision from the British government, what a surprise
Thanks Alana. Yeah I usually don't want to create videos like this, but this one felt like it had to be said
Never trust a tory.
@@andrewmaccallum2367never trust governments!
Is the government British? Not anymore. They have no allegiance to our lands. They want to concrete it all over to accommodate our replacements.
Too true, labour is the manic phase, tory the depression, parliament the illness.
As horribly frustrating as this situation is, it is encouraging in a way to see people like you who are also similarly frustrated. Your passion for ecology and wildlife restoration is clearly visible, and I know there’s enough passionate people to do plenty of genuine good even without government support. Best wishes from across the pond!
I will certainly do my bit as a communicator here on social media!!
i am in the US, but i love what Mossy Earth and other rewilding projects are doing. It's and uphill battle for our country, as well, but i try to stay hopeful. it's nice to find communities of people who care.
Sort out your criminal, gun infested society along with your corrupt SCOTUS, murderously dangerous ex presidents, iniquitous legal system, legalised political bribery, honourless GOP defending criminals in congress keep their votes first before you focus on a few square miles of plants.
We need more ecologists in government, less bureaucrats!
It would help!
Honestly, I don’t think we should have a government in general. Humans are too flawed to be leaders
We need more immigrants in the government, we need to do away with wildlife. We need to build houses for all those refugees.
We need more people who know the difference between 'fewer; and 'less', that's for certain. You need not apply.
@@occamraiserwhat’s the difference?
Yes mate. This is the kind of no-nonsense, scathing commentary that I love. There’s no use beating around the bush anymore, the majority of the British public support species reintroduction and ecological restoration. Progress on this is being held back by a small, selfish minority. Time is running out for nature and we have to keep pushing the rewilding agenda.
Well said!!! Keep uploading videos! I like your channel!
@@DM-ur8vcwell said
@@DM-ur8vcpeople aren't fiercly supporting an extraordinarily impractical and unachievable idea? Whaaaat???
@@DM-ur8vc Eradicating animal ownership is impractical and unachievable. Of course no-one is fiercely supporting it.
@@DM-ur8vc I'm not sure where you relate dog/cat ownership with the above video. You do realise that domestic dogs were owned by humans before we even started building civilisation as we know it, and in fact have been a massive help in that in some regards. What an odd notion, banning people owning dogs and cats, I've never heard of that before. How exactly are dogs and cats doing environmental damage ? it comes across like you, for whatever reason, hate dogs & cats and justify that by attributing them, or the ownership of them, to all economic/ecological issues.
I should clarify, I work for the Wildlife trust directly involved in a project called 'The England Species Reintroduction Taskforce', and that is a ludicrous statement. The only thing I can think of is Dog poop bags and similar left in places inappropriate and not in allocated bins, or perhaps you are referring to cats hunting species for sport rather than food. The first is an owner issue, and a very small percentage of them too (less than 0.06% at our last calculation), and the cat thing can be argued that it is actually beneficial in most regards, as the majority of what they kill are deemed pests that would quickly get over populated (even though I personally don't like this, it is an unfortunate fact).
I’m old enough to remember what the countryside used to be like just a few decades ago which was full of wildlife especially bird life I’ve not seen a bullfinch yellow hammer for years here in the midlands with modern farming techniques destroying hedgerows plus the total destruction by HS2 which is very upsetting and stressful 😢
@@DM-ur8vchouse cats are an order of magnitude worse than a random wild lynx
This government has had its day, time for a general election.
Signed.
thank you!
Don't kid yourself into thinking other parties will save us.
If you can choose between shit and meh you should go vote for meh every time because it's not shit.
@@magicmaze7384 Alas, you're not looking at it from other perspectives. You're seeing a rotten apple and a fresher one, completely unaware that the fresh one has a razorblade in it.
@@magicmaze7384 I don't disagree at all but... what is to be done then? because protest seems to be meaningless, can't do lobbying because there's always someone richer who can out-lobby you... I am out of ideas here
Ecology without class war is gardening.
-Chico Mendes
This is the least I can do. Thank you for championing the health of our corner of the globe.
Thank you very much!
Fireworks must be a nightmare for our wildlife, we had them every night for the past month
A big problem is that very few people in Parliament (House of Commons) have any scientific understanding. Lots of business tycoons, lawyers etc but too few scientists in any of the major parties. They simply don't understand. Things have to be done despite them and letters written to your own MP. Uphill struggle.
The sooner people start ignoring the govt the better. It would fix a lot of problems the UK face in lots of sectors.
Keep up the good work from the US. Little by little.
Thank you!!
Those bureaucrats who don't want to work to provide a proper framework to reintroduce beavers to prevent flooding, most likely don't have to live in areas that are susceptible to flooding.
The sheer amount the current administration 'doesn't get' beggars belief. Don't be too surprised if this clip awakens some of the vile trolls attracted to comments on any aspect of present policies.
Rule 1 applies: !! Do NOT feed the trolls !!
Love the channel. Your output is so often the highlight of my day (and I'm a fully paid up old fart!). From the bottom of my heart, thank you for the effort you put into this vital work.
Edit: petition signed and clip "liked". LLAP 🖖
ah thank you very much!! and i don't mind trolls one bit.
I like the ones from folk tales okay.@@LeaveCurious
Excellent piece of pre-doublethink. You see something you agree with then predict that unreasonable people will disagree, thus building an emotional shield against anyone who highlights the fallacy of the thing you want to believe. You really belong writing American conspiracy fantasies where everyone who disagrees is part of the invisible deep state. The Catholic church used that ploy for about 600 years where everyone who didn't agree was an agent of satan :)
What vile trolls are you talking about? I don’t see anything like that here? Do you mean “people who don’t want a Labour government”?
It has little to do with "the current administration", because this American term doesn't make sense in the UK. Most administrative decisions here are made by the "non-political" civil service (aka bureaucrats), and it's not a secret that the service is in opposition to the current government. The cabinet ministers may be idiots but they have little to no actual power on what is happening in the country. This is why very little changes regardless of which party wins the elections.
I'm in Australia, but this cynical style of politics is familiar here too. It's so see-through: votes from people a bit concerned about wildlife and natural habitat, and votes from farmers who are worried about species reintroduction.
What is needed, works and has science backing trashed.
Hope the petition does well!
I have never seen a more carefully researched and sensitive reintroduction campaign in my country as the ones you do over there and in Europe, I honestly wonder how people can whine the way they do.
Governments of whiners always ignore the actual common good.
Thank you for defending and restoring the COMMONS.
Goodness, how frustrating. The US is pulling a similar 180 but with the Willow Project. (Destroying Alaskan lands/wildlife to build more drilling sights and onshore pipelines, including through indigenous land). 5 million people spoke out/signed against it and got it to pause, but our administration (that claimed to do more for the environment) just approved this massive project yesterday.
We're all in these fights together internationally, and we're not giving up! Kudos to you for what you do.
I visited canada recently and it made me realise that we have NO wild in the UK at all, its awful
canada had a third of the population and 10x more land tho 😢
This government never fails to disappoint....just move forward without them as i think there is such a big movement towards rewilding its gonna be impossible to stop its momentum
Thanks for getting this message out there Rob! Let's hope they roll this back
Thanks Berry! Yeah lets see!!
Petition signed. My son has recently bought a property in Oxfordshire. He needed a bigger house now that there are 6 children! It came with about 40 acres of fields/paddocks and 10 of woodland. The house in in a bit of a state but once it is sorted out, rewilding is the plan. As a start, I have 50 bare root trees on order which will be delivered/planted along the 1.5 miles of hedges in mid March '24.
Sounds great I would only urge you not to make the usual mistake people make and have no vermin control in place. Obviously deer and squirrels will be a problem with young trees, but also the devastation caused to nesting birds by corvids is something many people fail to recognise. Good luck with your project.
They can’t agree to rewilding because they want to build on all land.
Absolutely needed saying. The government is being heartless and ignorant. Massive supporter of the work that you do
Well said. The current UK government - what can you say? You only have to look at them agreeing to new oil drilling licences to see that their priority is their rich friends and the companies those people control. It’s not wildlife. I’m not even sure it’s the general voting public. But thanks to you and others like Mossy Earth, Knepp, Rewilding Europe and many others the benefits of nature and rewilding are becoming better understood and valued. Keep up the good work. Education of the people is key, including You Tube videos.
Very well said Simon! Appreciate your support, as always!
the uk should have its own oil production, we will use it regardless and its better ours or say norways than elses. oil is necessary for a lot of production which is something the uk desperately needs back. did you know the uk no longer produces fertiliser? we buy it all abroad. insanely reckless.
@@OsirusHandle unfortunately not all oils are the same, so North Sea oil is mostly sold overseas as the UK can’t use much of it. The current government isn’t interested in the UK being independent, just how much money it can make for its sponsors. And fertiliser production is driven by global economics - where is the cheapest place to make it is the key question. The only way that the UK can be independent of foreign oil is to go green in its energy production and use the electricity produced for cars and heating homes.
@@simonbarrow479 we wont produce the solar panels or wind turbines either, all from a lovely chinese factory. we cant use north sea oil because we dont have any refineries because we rely on others to do it: we should be doing it ourselves. Brent crude from the north sea is some of the best oil in the world even.
Even if we go completely green we will still be using a good amount of oil and huge amounts of foreign fertiliser.
@@OsirusHandle yes, i accept that but this government isn’t even trying to go green
Judging by this government it doesn't seem to understand anything
I’ll tell you why they did this. Politicians are never out in nature breathing fresh air but instead are in there office all day doing paperwork and other economic bs😂
I am so glad I found your channel. I am devastated by the loss of species, and I am seeing it in my generation alone. Thrushes have disappeared, the cuckoo, the polecat and european mink. The badger has been the next on the hit list for decades and the fox, because they are the next predators to be targeted, naturally.
Right now I am fighting to breed/conserve the common toad and frog species that have been decimated and destroyed by agriculture, and the government. My resources are limited and I have a small garden but that is not going to stop me. I love these creatures. I do not want to see them die out. But this is the reality we are dealing with.
The government harp on and on about climate change but that was never the issue. They are heedlessly destroying and encouraging to destroy habitat and animals, (using chemicals to pave the way) and one day they’ll be gone forever.
Thank you for this video! It is frustrating to have an ignorant government. Signing petitions along with supporting specific projects do help.
Here, here!
This is the problem with the UK government in general, people governing over shit that they don’t understand.
I try not to hold anger or hate in my heart, but of all the heartless, soulless actions and decisions made by our government over the last decades, this has hit a particular nerve. If this doesn't show the glaring absence of care or compassion that these people have for this natural land or its native inhabitants, including the humans that love said land, I don't know what does.
Thank God for people like you, I am so grateful for your efforts. You have my signature. Love from Yorkshire!
First Brexit and now Brextinct? Shame! But we know there are millions of Brits that do support these efforts, so hopefully the tides will turn soon enough. Thanks for what you do and don't give up!!
What has Brexit got to do with it unless you mean wanting less immigration to put less pressure on wildlife ?
@@pincermovement72 More word play than anything. But imo more boneheaded decisions from the government. Ignoring or otherwise abandoning systems that have been and can be beneficial to the nation, often for short sighted reasons.
@@CausticLemons7 The EU is beneficial as long as the deal is beneficial to the EU. They understand very little about how overarching plans cannot be retooled to help unique ecological issues.
glad to see this video come out, the UK is a litteral shit show right now. its a shame you didnt touch on the shit in our rivers and oceans or our backing down on our COP comitments but your video perfectly highlights the tories thinly vialed attempts to sweep shit under the rug and pretend "we did good". i have signed the petition but i remain unsure of the actual impact of petitions in the UK of recent years (usualy get a shit email response saying "we wont talk about this even after its over 100K and nothing more) and more so of the torries actualy doing anything impactful or meaningful on this or any other topic, other than siphoning every penny out of our econemy. i do agree the most impactful measure is to get involved with rewilding and reintroduction but sadly this too is still at the wims of the torries and bureaucracy to a lesser exstent. i think we are getting too close to the need for guerilla rewilding personaly but understand this isnt somthing that can be advised, as like you have said ALOT of science goes into these actions and reports, only for willfuly misinformed individuals to crush. it trully must be a difficult place to find yourself in trapped between what is right and tory whims, but sadly with the misinformation and hate coming out of the UK right now i wouldnt expect much to change sadly. thankyou to you, your team, parteners and members for all the incredible work you do, i recognise this is very different approach to your other videos but felt it necessary to share my thoughts
Yes. Yes it does. More individuals need to wake up and step up, and the masses need to be brave enough to vote for better government.
We don't want wolves or bears.
So frustrated on your behalf! I’m over in the US, and I’ve been following the UK’s rewilding efforts for years at this point. It’s inspiring, and if I ever visit, the many rewilding sites that you’ve highlighted are way at the top of my bucket list! I’ve seen the benefits of rewilding here in the States, and I’ll do what I can to support it for you. Thankfully I’ve also seen that a government which doesn’t prioritize wildlife can easily be replaced with one that does. Here’s holding onto hope!
Re-wilding England would entail reverting the entire country to scrub deciduous woodland, as it was in the Bronze age. Personally I don't want to live in a wattle hut. Thanks very much!
Not all species are keystone species. I actually agree with the change in tactics, and think the U.S. should do the same by reforming the Endangered Species Act, shifting focus to the restoration of habitats and ecosystem services and away from protecting obscure outliers like the desert pupfish, casey's june beetle, or any number of other fringe trophic occupants. This is not divorced from protecting keystone species or conducting re-introductions, but it is a necessary reflection of the realities of our systems of government, limited budgets, and the importance of higher priorities like climate change.
Yes, true. I recently learned about the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone, and crazy good things resulted, like cleaner water quality! What??? Yep. Somehow. And better grasslands, more insects, more wildlife. ??!! It feels like magic, but once it was explained to me ... the wolves keep the deer and elk moving, grazing only the tops of the grasses, which allows the grasses to quickly regrow. So many good things, too much to type here ... but yeah mate, thank you !! I want to help restore trees too, so if there is a link on how I can contribute to that. (you did a video on it, collecting seeds from rare trees in Scotland)
"We will not be introducing pollinators, but we are looking at encouraging the spread of flowering plants."
It comes down to this, the people in power do not care at all about the natural environment. It is 'pretty', but cute birds and nice flowers don't keep the big arrow going up! When the ecology of the UK collapses, and it will, they will not mourn it, because they will still have nice gardens, and that's all nature is to them.
it is utterly frustrating what the government is "doing" or not in this case against wildlife. they completely missed the mark, i agree with everything you said here. excellent video. signed.
Given Therese Coffey’s usual level of competence, her leaving the beavers to their own devices can only be good news for the beavers. Hopefully, we won’t have to wait too long until we have a government who are serious, capable and actually listen to the electorate.
Title gets an automated like from me!! This government has SO MUCH to answer for. They're utter ghouls. I love what few species I see here but the state of wildlife in this country is despicable. Thanks for your work!
If we introduced wolves then how are we to protect ourselves with weaponry and pepper spray being banned?
Wolves won’t be reintroduced all over the Uk. Only some remote areas in the far north like the Scottish highlands. Lynx can be reintroduced to kielder forest, Northumbria, Wales.
people can't without guns & nightwatch lol reintroducing/repopulatingwolves is insanely unsafe for people, fill the apex predator role of the wolf & gain the bounty of a safe countryside
Hi Rob, sorry to see you so upset about this. I too have been incensed by the cynical environmental backtracking by this government, but then again their commitment was only ever lip service in the first place and I expected no real action from them - just so long as they don’t block action by those organisations and individuals who are taking the lead. It’s people like you Rob who make a difference, who give me hope. I appreciate everything you are doing, so fight the good fight. Nil illegitami carborundum!!
You guys are doing a fabulous job, I can't be out there but knowing that you do gives me hope, please keep doing!
We used to have so many animals just like other countries but were hunted to extinction by humans
That Australian government has done major backflips on climate action & conservation here too. I’m beginning to think we’re being had.
no we are, its why we must support charities and private sector work!
The Tories most certainly don't understand anything to do with ANYTHING. Let alone the beauty and interconnection and importance of nature. They're attacking all of us on purpose I believe. Rewilding is most certainly gaining momentum though and it gives me hope like nothing else.
I live in the Clwydian Range in North Wales and we're looking at the possibility of a new National Park here. There's plans for conservation and rewilding in the plans for the National Park. I really hope it all happens. It'll be 2026 that it does happen. There's many species here in North Wales that are hanging on and I hope to see this place protected. It's such a beautiful area and it's not visited that much. I get to enjoy the place to myself most of the time and I'm becoming connected to the land here too. I care about it, I want to protect it. To have an area where conservation and rewilding can take a hold could give people from this area a real thing to be proud of.
I don't know if you know anybody involved in the National Park project, but maybe you'd be able to do a video about the possible new National Park here sometime in the future. I think it stands a much larger chance of actually happening due to us having a Welsh Labour Government.
Thanks for this. These setbacks hurt, and we'll get there if we keep moving forward together. Thanks for the rewilding work you do!
I used to work as an environmental service operative and I had to walk away frkm the job as it was like banging my head against a wall.
I am so disappointed in pir government and the lack of care they put into pur very fragile ecosystem.
Fantastic video, thank you!
As a Natural England employee (a central organisation processing habitat regulation projects and much more, including advising the UK government on risks. I can admit the absolute disrespect and ignorance of the government in response to our organisation. There are many hardworking and very knowledgeable people who know exactly how we should spend money efficiently and effectively - but the government has their own organisation called “DEFRA” who don’t understand a single thing about environmental protection and are extremely incompetent and arrogant - we have to beg these people for money basically. And they often give money just so they can take it back and complain that there are no results because they don’t understand the time required. We are decades behind threats which have been identified and the system is obnoxiously slow ever since the 2008 staff cutting. Its sad because I really appreciate UK nature too.
Thank you for getting this information out there. For myself, the 'things you can do' section is always the most important. (As without those the last 2 years would have just been screaming 'GENERAL ELECTION NOW' without pause for food or sleep XD )
Signed. Let’s hope for a new government inside of 13 months.
My homeland has more than 150 million people cramped in one tiny country 🇧🇩 and we still got lots of wildlife. Cmon england 💩 🏴
UK 'environmentalists' frequently sh!t on farmers too... Now, I am a UK farmer and I am one of a minority (my guess is 15% max) that supports rewilding in general, and puts it into practice; but that doesn't detract from the fact that the the whole narrative from the 'activist' side ignores and dismisses obvious facts such as population growth (overgrowth?) and food security.
Also, for other commentators, anyone advocating breaking laws they dislike is going to have a hard time rationally criticising others who do the same with other laws using the same justification.
Great channel bud. Love to see people speaking out and trying to change the current and long destruction of the uk and the world. I hope there is a reform and a massive change can take place. Keep doing what your doing. All the best.
Great video. We can see how passionate you are, im not in the UK, so please keep us appraised of this going forward.
I used to volunteer on a sight that was reintroducing water voles in Gwent. I have a sneaking suspicion that the government is avoiding the rewilding because a small but loud minority of farmers see these efforts and think "This is going to be disastrous for my farm". A lot of farmers that I've spoken to and worked with have been generally supportive of habitat restoration and rewilding efforts especially where I worked, but we did get one or two complaints of water voles seemingly crossing a busy road into land that is relatively dry and unappealing to water voles to eat and destroy rapeseed crops.
Got to keep the Tory landowners happy.
I can feel how disheartened you feel 😢. I’m sorry about this. It’s just another challenge to overcome in life, but I have full confidence in you Rob. I know you won’t give up, and that’s what matters most. For now, while fighting the politics of it all, perhaps you could just continue to focus on the people and efforts that are focused on the breeding process and the increase the numbers in captivity for the day in which you gain full approval for their release back into the wild.
Kind of like storing your food in a root cellar for the day and time that you’ll be needing to use it. You just keep adding to the root cellar over time to ensure that there’s enough for later.
Great video. Btw, don't expect the British government to do anything that doesn't benefit the financial elites whose interests they serve. They are not interested in what ordinary people want.
I totally agree with you Rob but what you have to realise is that it's not just the Government it is also the majority of the ever growing British public that only think about themselves. These people want comfy houses, nice cars etc and think little if anything about the wildlife or anything to do with nature. I wish you and your people good luck with a very difficult task. 👍
Best of Luck to you over there!
thank you!
Great work! I hope that we can make them see reason!
Lets see! Thank you!
Millions of small mammals wiped out every year by red kites. Rewilding ?
We've just had Red Squirrels reintroduced by a project in our home patch in the Scottish highlands. It's wonderful. We've already seen them scampering about. Such a joy.
So sorry, hope that petition will work.
lets see. Rewilding and reintroductions will still go ahead!
In my area in Edinburgh they have built thousands of houses in the last 2 years not caring about wildlife no rabbits pheasants deer badgers all gone and now an industrial yard is being built and the trees are all being cleared as I write this it’s shocking what’s going on ! All greed for money at Turnhouse .
Signed
thank you!
The same kind of contradictory issues are happening all across Canada. There are several success stories, but there are as many (if not more) failures. Like reintroducing wolves in certain parts of Canada. Then bowing to the pressures of farmers and ranchers to eradicate them all over again.
the government have been taking the micky out of the public for the last ten years. i was involved in a sand lizard re introduction program in the new forest, it was mostly brilliant. signed
UK government shits on everyone except the rich, sadly. And they don't understand anything, not ecological or economical.
Not to take away from your point, love you channe, and your passion. Fellow tree hugger here and particularly liked the temperate rain forest video recently ❤
Growing up in UK you wouldn’t know this but all the animals you mention don’t like people and need vast places where they are undisturbed by mans activities ie farming , dog walking , horse riding, hiking , air traffic ...
It’s very difficult if not impossible to accomplish that in the UK. If you had vast undisturbed places for them to start then they would eventually encroach on humans happily. You can’t start them near humans or they are not wild.
Dog walkers and horse riders are the worst types of people. Imagine if they did that in my country 😂. Easy panther prey.
Some folk seem to think the countryside is some sort of wildlife theme park. The fact is that the countryside is, and has been for centuries, an industrial landscape that produces food. The rural landscape today is the result of farming going back hundreds of years. Yes there is a place for conservation but in many cases the idea of species re-introduction seems to ignore the fact that when many of these species were prevalent, say back in the middle ages, the population of the UK was about 1 million people rather than the 70 plus million we have today so there is a lot less available land. I agree that government policies, particularly over that past 50 years or so, have compounded the problem. The exploding deer population being a case in point. Another is the restrictions on controlling certain bird species, in particular corvids. These predators have decimated the song bird and ground nesting bird populations, not to mention crop damage. Yet the general licences issued by DEFRA for controlling these birds are ever more restrictive and appear to be largely driven by anti-hunting zealots in the RSPB et al rather than by hard science. With limited land available for wildlife it is essential that the existing wildlife is properly managed and the number contained, guided by science and not the emotional outpourings of urban know-it-alls no matter how distasteful it may be to some.
In all my 68 years, this government is the most disgusting that's ever been. If it doesn't make them money, they don't want to know. Do you know if there are any rewilding 'communities' I could live and work with? I live on Anglesey, North Wales but am willing to move if there's a place to live!
There’s too many people living in this country for the size of it.
They are building too many new houses and housing estates in the countryside when there are plenty of abandoned buildings across towns and cities that can be turned into homes, whether knocking them down or doing up what’s there.
There are too many stupid ideas like hi speed train lines that’s wrecking the countryside for a train!
Seriously this country is a mess.
Reintroducing is great if the wildlife can fit in with current land usage and are non detrimental to farming and livestock, wolves , sea eagles, lynnx are a mistake and the French have learned the hard way re-introducing Wolves to a country that no longer can support these large apex predators is a true disaster. Not against but things are different since the days these animasls were made extinct and it was man that caused that but 600 plus years without them has changed the ecosystem. So have to agree widespread habitat improvement is the way forward, to safegaurd what we have got.
France has about 1/8th population density of England while being about 1.5 times larger and just lower total population with a larger area of low density diagonally across the middle and 2 mountain ranges of substantial size. Even the French are struggling with Wolves in some ways it's no way possible in England. Northern Scotland maybe at best. The French have borders with Wolves in other nations so naturally need to accept some degree of them and can accommodate the odd migration and pack in remote areas. Nothing similar to the UK apart from as said Northern Scotland maybe. Even then starting with a huge fence would be best for a Safari Park in the Highlands of enormous size...
Lynx would be a bad idea in Scotland because Wildcasts need to be repopulated first as another spanner in that idea and no-one wants a Lynx near their pet, young toddler either in more dense areas.
Beavers overall will be a great reintroduction species for a host of reasons in contrast but will still cause farmers issues with field flooding which will need a complicated legal framework around.
Voles can't vote. That's all that matters to the 'government'. I echo your anger, Rob ! Signed & shared.
Yellowstone should be a common example of what it means to keep the deer populations in check.
Thankfully the minister who said this lost her job in government this morning. Her replacement doesn't look much better...general election now!
the thing is about habitat restoration is that if you bring in the right wildlife, they'll do the job for you, bison and elks would be great for this country's ecosystem just because theyre so big, knockin down shrubs and old trees to create new sub habitats
Our government just seems to make the wrong choices at every turn
We have similar problems in Ireland. Long history of overgrazing and felling natural forests. Now they're introducing "greenways" which are essentially pathways about as environmentally friendly as dual carriageways in the name of public safety. Also, lazy rewilding attempts. Trying to grow meadows without any joint-up thinking only for council workers to spray it down with Roundup.
Petition signed and shared video. This government is hopeless.
Plenty of room to 'rewild' in the UK. Around my area in Yorkshire its already happening by accident as old grouse moors are left to grow trees back naturally. So much more needs to be done and of course the government is clueless
They are shit scared of losing more farmer votes, in rural communities it's farmers that do a lot of advertising for them with signage. Luckily my local Cornwall Council seem to be taking reintroductions more seriously as they have just finished a huge report on it by Derek Gow's company. They'll be out in a years' time, then we have to put pressure on Labour to make positive changes and not just soundbites.
seems fairly standard for the UK government to not understand the basics. of anything.. .. also typical that they'd crap on wildlife, seeing as how they've crapped all over everything else of cultural, physical and societal importance to the peoples of the Union.
The government don’t care but because it doesn’t make them enough money, if any.
Isn’t it a case of highlander land owners don’t want reintroductions of lynx because the fear of loss of sheep??
Well if they don’t care about the indigenous British people, why would they care about native slugs and liverworts?
The problem is that as long as the nation's population is rapidly and artificially being increased, any governments priorities are going to be building houses or solar farms on green space rather than rewilding them.
The crazy thing is that we're so divided as a nation to unite against them that they'll probably stay in power
Politicians are more or less ignorant of everything except politics, and because it is a career sector highly attractive to power hungry egotists, I couldn't imagine them listening to experts in any other field. They wouldn't be humble enough to admit to not knowing a solitary thing about the environment, or giving up their soapbox to anyone who does.
I cant think of a single government on Earth today that is actually interested in #1 the environment #2 its people.