My Quest to find the UK's Largest Forest...
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Always noticed the huge difference in light between planted conifer forests and the native mixed forests growing up in NW Wales. The conifers always felt depressing and uninteresting compared to the more broadleafed areas and that was well before I knew anything about their effects on ecosystems. Just wish we had more native forest areas regenerating there: I'm hoping that Guy Shrubsole's input means that starts to happen.
Oh yeah there’s no comparison between native / non-native woodlands here… I wonder the non natives would feel if they weren’t so densely planted. Still not ideal though. Cheers :)
Why the comparison? The alternative to conifer plantations, isn’t native woodland - the alternative is more plastic, steel and concrete. We need more woodlands of all types, and a lot more timber & fibre to help decarbonise our economy.
@@MrAndybach Because like anything, if you want to slow or stop the drastic decline in buiodiversity, you need to stop monocultures such as sitka spruce, which don't provide food or much shelter to anything, unlike more diverse forests. The alternative doesn't need to be plastic, steel and concrete, it could be better managed forestry 🙂
@@LeaveCurious Densely planted... Is simply the lack of Forest Management practices - like thinning. Time of course delivers this expertly but man can quicken the process of healthy trees by thinning.
@@31Blaizethere’s plenty of evidence of the biodiversity in Spruce forests. We are in a biodiversity and climate crises, we need to be making decisions based on science and evidence. We grow Spruce because that’s the most versatile timber and fibre we can grow in typical U.K. forestry locations - cdn.forestresearch.gov.uk/2003/01/fcrp004.pdf
Moving to Italy I’ve realised how much vast woodland is here teaming with mixed trees (pines at the top of hills and chestnut, beech, birch, hornbeam, alder and elm and black locusts at the bases) filled with wolves, wild boar and thousands of different wildlife. And it makes me realised how much we’ve lost in the uk of that.
I always think wandering around the Italian untouched areas how much ancient Britain probably looked similar.
It would have been, Britain was a woodland wonderland. One of the more exciting projects is the new northern forest, stetching from Merseyside over to Hull. Which should incorporate plenty of mixed and native trees, creating a big green cravat across the top part of England.
i'm Italian, but i don't go out much, and whatever woodland i've been to, i never ventured far.
how much woodland, exactly, covers Italy? well, how much woodland covers the flat parts of Italy, since there seems to be plenty in the mountains?
There's that hidden deceit around how much of our woods are left when bio-diverse poor plantations are always included in the count.
I think the harm that roads and rail-lines do in dividing up natural habitat into increasingly useless tiny plots of land is underestimated. So many species struggle to survive simply because their available biome is so limited.
Yeah you’re right. Why I felt compelled to make this video!
I'm so lucky to be the custodian of my very own native woodland in Australia. Half of the forest which was hundreds of years old, was logged just 60 years ago which is so devastatingly recent but we still have around 30 hectares of ancient woodland spread over the east fast of a rocky ravine. Hollows are everywhere and its full of native herbs, forbs, shrubs, birds, reptiles and more. We are know that we have a big responsibility to care for it and ensure that it lasts beyond our ownership. Its lovely to see others who find joy in nature like we do.
I DREAM, I dream every single day of having my own forest/woodland - I am so very jealous! please enjoy it!
That's so cool, I'm glad it's in good hands 😊
Greetings from New Zealand
As a resident of the Pacific Northwest it's always strange to see our native trees transplanted to the other side of the world. Douglas firs and Sitka spruce are incredible trees but pretty unforgiving to other plants that haven't adapted to the low light conditions they create. Even here we have plantations of them where they were crammed as close together as possible to provide the maximum amount of timber and while they superficially resemble a forest, there's no ecosystem there. It's always dark and dead under the canopy and feels very spooky. Hope y'all can restore your Scots pines; that last forest was gorgeous!
If I'm not mistaken, larch is more tolerant to low light conditions so they can survive with taller species, but cedars and spruce lost all their lower canopy if dont get enough sun.
You can tell when the trees were artificially introduced by how perfectly aligned they look, in nature trees use and compete for their own space, so they adapt to what they have; plantations look extremely straight with no real understory.
100k hectares is much bigger than I thought the UK would have. Glad to know these still exist!
In Portugal where I live there are huge eucalyptus plantations which are like deserts when you walk in them, but there are also beautiful cork oak forests which are so full of life. Thank you for showing us some lovely trees!
As an Aussie that spends a lot of time camping and bushwalking in our many rather large national parks I was blown away when I read “feral” by George Montbiot about the global rewilding movement and he described the UK’s national parks. They appear to be mostly cleared land and farms! The fact the he found greater biodiversity in the hedgerows on the road to these parks was astonishing to me. I had no idea that this was a thing…
I live between south australia and the UK (family in both) and every time i come back to the UK after spending time in the wild in SA I'm newly shocked at the lack of wildlife in many of the forests here. Many pine forests feel barren in comparison to the teeming areas around where i live in SA. It's so sad that the UK's forests have been so maligned, as the native old growth that *is* left is absolutely breathtaking
We have 70 billion livestock animals on the planet to feed people like you. This is why we have no nature left. If you don't care about decapitating animals for ethical reasons, at least stop eating them for the purpose of saving nature. I am surrounded by miles and miles of farm fields, not even for grazing livestock, but to grow grain to feed livestock. It's an absolute discrace and people like you are part of the problem.
It amazes me the number of people, including foreign tourists, that delight in seeing a patchwork of green sterile fields devoid of wildlife, including insects. Same goes for the seriously overgrazed hills of the national parks and much of upland Britain...sheep being the main culprit here. Sure there is a certain attractiveness to remote barren landscapes, especially with good coverings of purple heather, which also attracts more species of wildlife than rough or closely cropped grassland. If left to nature many of these upland habitats will eventually turn to scrub and forest. Not sure the farrming and grouse shooting fraternity would be too happy about that though!
The hedgerows unfortunately are the real repository of ancient woodland in the Uk, at least until the 50s when they started cutting them down for modern commercial farming. I recall a story years ago about a council that decided to clean up the local forest walk and return it to the condition it had previously as a park - ie a lawn and large specimen trees. They removed all the undergrowth and most of the younger trees.
Being from NZ I just roll my eyes whenever I hear people talking about the natural beauty of some wind blasted hellscape where grass barely grows and you know was originally covered in oak forest or similar.
It's great to see attitudes changing though, particularly in Scotland where there is more open space to plant trees.
When I tell people I grew up in the middle of the forest, I'll show them this video to prove it.
I grew up in the buildings you see at about 9:13mins in this video and my playground was the forest floor 😁
I have to say that the forest is a lot more natural now than it was when I was a young child, a lot of the planted areas have been felled or thinned and left to grow in more naturally. A lot of fences removed too and generally a lot more wood than it was before. A good thing in my opinion.
The old tree's squat, barrelled trunk bore a great split that climbed to a gaping cleft; more than a mere hardened scar but an opening, it seemed, to those seeking shelter and sustenance. Many of her branches were bone where bark had flaked away, leafless but not lifeless, for innumerable generations of beetle grubs, many-legged ticklers, and other crevice-bound critters had nursed and nested here since the first days of decay.
Beautiful but you'll have to tell us who wrote this. If I were to guess wildly I'd say, Henry Williamson.
I live in an area that’s not far from the sea, mountains and forests. Very lucky but the forests are all privately owned and are used as wood farms every 4/5 years they get absolutely demolished leaving nothing. It’s currently getting done now and it’s such a shame when you see the trails you one walked through are now an open plain
Totally besides the point, but you do have a very good voice for narrating these kind of videos. I can hear the enthousiasm and emotion in your voice and in general it is a nice sounding voice. Well done sir en keep it up, love your vids.
Sitka spruce is an amazing very longlived tree (can live hundreds of years) birds in uk have adapted to them seeds eaten by many birds and shlter on winter, nest sites too. Fine if planted with decent spacing. I am r planting in amongst spruce and sycamore, larch of which a lot blew down. Plantation spacing. Putting in silver birch, oak, hazel, horse chesnut, beech, elm, norway maple, scots pine, lodgepole, douglas fir, (hotel grounds) so mix to provide interest and attract as much new insects birds as possible. Also wet areas with exsisting aspen willow, adding downy birch alder rowan various willow species too. Taking rooted offshoots of aspen from other areas potting up to add fresh blood to aspen areas! Maybe get male female mix (be great) i am in caithness.
At 9:38 you say that this habitat only occurrs in Scotland, naturally they did occur in Ireland aswell, they found pollen records in the Burren, Co. Clare, that showed that the entirety of the Burren was dominated purely by Scots pine.
Almost wiped out due to agriculture though, except one genetically distinct tree in the Burren (called the Burren pine) that's the last remaining ancestor of the Pines that used to dominate the area.
There's a paper on it called "Re-defining the natural range of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.): a newly discovered microrefugium in western Ireland"
We dont have to many old Forrests left in Western Europe we should all Take more care about Nature and what belongs there
Love your Work
Greetings to you from Germany ❤
I agree with this. Will come to Germany soon!! Thank you!
@@LeaveCurious Im allready excited what this Trip will be , i Hope U enjoy your Time Here in Germany. Maybe you Guys can Help the Feldhamster make a Comeback . Its a wonderful rodent Not many know about .
I Had the pleasure to see one of these growing Up
If you actually care, then stop eating anaims. To house and feed 70 billion livestock animals worldwide involves a lot of deforestation.
Speaking of which I find it amazing that deserts are maintained in Europe instead of allowing natural forest to return. Bledow in Poland, Lieberose in Germany.
You say the Caledonian pine forest only exists in Scotland. I'd be very curious to see your evaluation of the Scotch Pine woodlands in the Adirondacks. I don't know when they were brought here, but they have naturally served the role of rewilding the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Being fast growing but not shade tolerant, they colonize deforested areas, quickly establish habitat and restart the forest nutrient cycle and then get shaded out by native White and Red Pines, Red and White Spruce, Balsam Fir and Hemlock and when conditions are right, even native hardwoods like Red and Sugar Maple, American Beech and Yellow and Paper Birch.
All that aside, except for the depth of the forest floor buildup, the area you explore at the end of the video looked exactly like the Scotch Pine woodlands I grew up playing in.
I've long wondered if the genetics from our imported feral trees would be a useful contribution to restoring the UK populations.
They naturally grow from Spain to China so while the Scottish forests are nearly all gone the species itself is not in danger.
@@damionkeeling3103 I didn't imagine the species was at risk. I've simply wondered if our imported trees have something to contribute. Perhaps they've developed a unique fungal or disease resistance, for example. Even if not, greater genetic diversity usually means a healthier population.
Hi. One of the large conifer plantation forests in Mid-Wales has a hidden valley within it, of old indigenous trees, untouched, they are dripping in moss, ferns and lichen, miles from any road. That's the closest I've been to a real forest in this country. Thanks for your channel.
When you think that the old forests were what allowed the Picts to fight off the Romans, the Welsh the English - and it took the Romans a fair bit to conquer that region too then they were obviously a bit more thicker than the average ones today shot through with roads, farms and even towns.
There's a tendency I've noted in Scotland and other places in the UK where the native woods are the ones closest to the towns and roads, because they've been left there for amenities and pleasant scenery. Once you get over the hill out of the main glen it's wall-to-wall sitka spruce. Interesting that the most biodiverse woods are often the least remote, totally opposite to what is the case in most of the rest of the world.
I grew up in the Ashdown Forest, so the forest is my favourite terrain and in my heart. Thanks for your video.
old wood oaks are such majestic and mysterious trees. Can't help but feel amazed every time I see them
Your heart always comes across so strong in these videos. You really aspire me
Love that! Thank you! :)
I can't wait to see a full video on the Caledonian pine forests. I spent ten days at the start of summer in the Cairngorms with my uni speaking to different land managers and NGOs and seeing places like Glenmore. It's very sad that so much of this habitat has been destroyed but I often forget how lucky I am to live within a couple of hours of this place I really need to go out and enjoy it more
Oh that’s cool, yeah I wish I lived closer, stunning place!
UK need Major Top Predetors ( Euro-asian Lynx, Grey Wolf 🐺 ( European) , Bear 🐻 ( European) .
When i was younger i was a tree nut too and I used to cut down or pull up tree seedlings that had been planted all round surviving indigenous trees …with silent electric chainsaws i could now do larger ones still crowding out pre existing trees or features (such as trees planted inside abandoned ruins!)
Living in the Pennines l'm always struck by the sheer treeless nature of the hills and higher valleys. What a difference it would make if these could be spared sheep overgrazing and planted with native trees and other flora.
My daughter when she was younger always referred to the bleak brown bracken slopes in summertime as the desert and thats what it is in a sense, deserted apart from a few game birds, deer, sheep and rabbits.
I *love* Epping Forest and am a Volunteer Warden there. It's an amazing place, but as you found, the footfall does put a lot of pressure on the place!
A Yank that lived in England ( Suffolk), I looked hard for wild natural forests and found some beautiful places, much on private land.I do admire how wood is looked at like treasure.What is seen as waste here in Alaska, would be of value to someone in England.
The Enclousure Acts screwed so many generstions.
The moss looks incredible
Twas squishy!!
@@LeaveCurious yummy moss
Rob you should do a video on the hunt for the Burren Scot's Pine. A tree thought to be lost in time and only discovered in the last few years!
Great videos 👍🏻
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Have you considered doing something with the remaining forests of the burren in Ireland?
A question I have asked myself and Google a few times, getting away from car noise is hard in east London. Epping is great in summer when the leaves block out the noise, especially after 7pm when the car parks close and you have the place almost to yourself. Epping and it's connected woodlands are a real oasis in the south east of England, I wish it was much bigger and there were more like it, preferably without an A406 or M25 thundering past.
Dear presenter There's a person that's doing forestry recovery in an area of plot of land that he owns that he bought himself and now he's working he's redoing the hedgerows He's getting rid of invasive species one by one and he is caretaking and arborizing the existing trees such as elders alders oak hawthorne and various other native species trees in his area. He has a youtube channel he is named TA bushcraft. He is in a bushcraft as well as native Walden of areas.
I love forests, native ones that is, but I especially value them when they have patches of other types of environment mixed in such as scrub and streams. It seems that where the different environments meet that you get the largest biodiversity. Keep up the good work. I love seeing your videos.
Thanks for sharing. I am in the USA but I have close cousins who live across the street from Epping and I have walked those woods several times. It is a popular place and it is often rather dirty (trash) but good folks like my cousins walk and pick up trash all the time.
Clayton woods, leading into adel woods in Leeds, I believe is a native woodland. It’s beautiful place to be and when you’re in the middle you do get the feeling of been in a vast forest. Be great for a video for you I’m sure
Wildcamped in many forests around the UK and had wildly different experiences. Waking up in birch forests near braemar and hearing all the sounds of nature, bees, rodents, birds etc was a stark contrast to camping in the plantations of Galloway where I couldn't even see any insects in the dense woodland
I camped in Peak District, didn’t even hear a single bird, squirrel anything
Hi there, great little video, I wish there were more ppl like you in England (or maybe that I knew ppl like yourself), great green attitude, way to go, buddy🤜🤛🌲🌳💚
Super piece about forests - Thanks! Would like to know more about other areas that have remained unspoilt.
I did one on saltmarsh recently, but I’m getting around to other habitats :) cheers!
Oh you’re local to me! Didn’t realise when I first saw ur videos a few months ago. I live north of Chelmsford so I’m probably half way between Danbury & Hatfield forest.. Garnetts wood, an ancient coppice woodland of mainly limes, off the main road from Barnston (just before Dunmow), is my closest decent sized woodland.
Great video Rob! So sad to see how destroyed most of our woodland is. Especially when you compare it to close by countries like Norway.
I'm hoping that the new younger generations are more open minded to rewilding and we can truly create a landscape that our island deserves.
Positive change is happening Craig, social media is really empowering change & bringing like minds together. Cheers :)
@@LeaveCurious Do the young actually understand that "re-wilding" is the process of keeping people and companies out? Some well educated involvement will help - but the vast majority think the Forest is complete when they see trees. That is but the beginning. look to BC, Canada and the effect of a few Bears missing from a small area of Forest and the dramatic changes that occurred in the Biome.
Here in Western Australia many of our forests have been affected by mining. Our largest forest is the great Western Woodland at 160,000 sq k's. Also bad farming practices of stripping the land & edges of rivers & creeks causing the water table to rise, leaving thousands of acres salt affected & useless for agriculture. Recently efforts have been made to revegitate this land with salt tolerant native species to try & reverse some of the damage.
Danbury! Thats where I grew up - now I'm living in and enjoying the scottish highlands!
Brilliant, brilliant! I so love woodland and forests. Thank you for taking me on this short journey into some; I’m too old now to do it for myself as I used to.
Really loved this video. Thanks for sharing your adventure. Hoping the future will hold more natural spaces in the future!
Thank you 🙏🏻 for sharing your videos with us! They are always informative and wonderful to see!!
I loved this video! Also good to hear that Mossy Earth is working here. I might resubscribe. Those forests around Abernethy and Rothiemurchus woke me up to what a natural forest feels like. It rewrote my brain and understanding. Never looked at a pine plantation in the same way again. Keep up the good work and I'm a subscriber now.
Thanks for showing us around !
A great subject for a video and nicely presented! Well done & thanks for the views of those old oaks.
I live next to the Wyre Forest. It doesn't take much to lose the sounds of the roads and find some truly amazing spots along with deer and more.
The Cairngorms rock but the Urban forests do too. Great video. You wanna visit the Wye Valley for extensive broadleaf. Peace out. Mark
🤞 North Perthshire wins its bid to become Scotland’s next national park. It would be wonderful to begin to join up more protected areas to the Cairngorms.
4/5 of my ancestry is British. I have never been to the old country. Thank you for the video.
Lovely trip. Thank you
its so nice to see that you are showing just how little is left. You are doing something about it by showing the world. This is the beautiful landscape of our ancestors. I am from Aus but like many of us here can trace our roots back to the uk. the forests look beautiful and unique and i hope more gets protected so one day i can visit them.
You should see Windsor great park, but it has some roads and large open areas
I'm going up to visit the Cairngorms in a few months time (can't wait!) I live in the New Forest (which is a wonderful place with lots of amazing ancient woodlands). I'm surprised that The New Forest wasn't on this list.
I can't help but love your enthusiasm about such an interesting topic. Lovely video!
Ah thanks very much :)
I definitely need to pop out to Epping forest more often, hardly been there before
Yeah definitely worth a visit:)
I love this channel, I wish there were more large forests in the UK 🌲🌳 ❤
agreed about the wyre forest unfortunately being so segmented and plantation trees but I would say I've been involved in conservation in the wood and things are getting better there - when they remove the non-natives they are replaced with native trees or open meadows/glades! there are also cool projects in the area which are aiming to link it up with the forest of dean, and create a 'heart of england forest' for a huge woodland corridor eventually :)
Thanks Rob! Hello from near Sydney, love your values, hope you can help create a more natural/endemic natural world there. Check out Bush Heritage in Australia, people contribute to purchase land to preserve or restore. I reckon your king should put his money where his mouth is, and use the money they have to purchase land to rewild. Imagine if the royals helped restore some riparian zones and connect some remnant woodland. They could be used for tourism, as is happening at Knepp farm! I wonder where the critics above go to holiday? Do they go to the most unspoilt natural areas?
Fantastic video, well put together, really interesting and straight to the point. Love a good woodland, I didn't realise how much of it wasn't native!
The nearest ancient forests close to me in NE Scotland is Glen Tannar, Linn O Dee/Marr Lodge estate and Ballochbuie forests, all Caledonian Pine remnants. Glen Tannar is my closest favourite, although I walked from Breamar to Aviemore last summer and went through Rothiemurcus forest at the speyside side and it was stunning. Cairngorms connect is a plan to try and connect all the caledonian forest remnants, I hope it pulls of because a large native forest circling the cairngorms and penetrating the glens would be aweaome. Broad leaf ancient forests do exist in Scotland but they are rare and not in any large size.
Great video Rob, important people understand the difference between timber crop plantation and natural woodland. Been thinking of doing a video on that at some point. Galloway Forest is a bit of a joke, incredible that it was being considered for a new National Park…
I didn't know it was being considered as new national park! Thanks man
Perhaps, pending an outbreak of enlightened common sense (I'm not holding my breath!), the best we can hope for in most places would be wildlife corridors to connect up what little we have left. Here, establishing what (if any) planning guidelines exist to achieve this.
There are a few spots near to me (Sussex) which seem equally well wooded, but a couple which stand out as looking healthy, almost glowing, rather than just hanging on in the hope of better times to come. I wonder whether that's down to a healthy mycelial network, as otherwise at first glance, there's often little visual difference ?? Compare parts of Ashdown Forest with the small remnant of St.Leaonard's Forest (if you can find it!), which has much regimented FC planting.
I'd put in a word here for an even scarcer landscape (in southern England at least) .... heathland.
Happy New Year to you Rob ... and to all fellow viewers of this superb channel.🙂
It hurts my heart to see what we have left…….. 😢
We have a huge oak tree at the back of our garden and I love sitting under it in the summer time, the squirrels love climbing along it's branches and the birds will roost in it at night,. sometimes we hear owls at night calling each other from our bedroom. It makes me feel sad to think how most of the UK was covered in these beautiful trees before we starting cutting them down at a rate faster than they could grow back for ship building and construction hundreds of years ago. Now oak is considered a premium timber due to its scarcity in this country but at least the price reflects the time it takes to grow a mature oak tree which can be hundreds of years.
The lack of forests in England were noted by the Normans when compiling the Domesday Book, it's one of the reasons they established so many royal forests. The English soil was obviously very good and allowed much higher density of farming than the continent.
Thank you for this video, it’s truly amazing to see these trees
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Great show! Thank you!
I went through the New forest when the a35 was shut, there are plenty of broadleaf areas and they are turning plantations back into wet land.. takes decades though, and it's a living landscape so difficult to bring on change ie over grazing/ Tourism
Certainly worth a visit is Glen Affric. Its not as large as the area you visited, but it is arguably better preserved, and in my opinion a more beautiful spot. The Rothiemurchus area, and the area around Shieldaig are also good examples of the best of what remains of the ancient Caledonian woodlands.
Wikipedia lists 38 sections of this habitat that once covered a huge expanse of Scotland, but which, sadly, we have destroyed over the last few hundred years.
Bear in mind that the soils are relatively thin, and fragile, since the majority of soil was laid down after the last interglacial period, so a mere 12,000 years or so ago. (12,900 to 11,700 years ago) the area was under glacial ice during the period sometimes referred to as the Lomond Ice sheet, aka the “Loch Lomond Stadial”.
I hope you enjoy your exploration of this part of the world, and I look forward to seeing more from your trips.
Oh yeah it’s a lovely spot. Will certainly be visiting for future videos. Thank you!
Love Glen Affric. You feel like you are in another world. Only downside is the midges in the summer but stunning
Thank you beatiful Forest
Great video Rob. Thank you!
I hope one day all lands deforested by agriculture and civilisation get to heal and regrow and be as it should be. Wild and beautiful. That would be amazing!
Loved the video Rob, the difference between the Galloway Forest Park and Rothimurchus is stark.
Thanks Rob very enjoyable and fascinating, i still worry that the UK is lacking natural woods and forests.But i can see people like you are changing the landscape for the better, if you give nature a little help to repair itself then nature can repair the land better than any human.
We’re moving in the right direction, or at least it feels like there’s some good momentum! You’re spot on too, nature knows what to do. Cheers David!
Thanks Rob.@@LeaveCurious
I think more and more people are opening their eyes to the need for rewinding. We may have different views as to how it is done, but I think that the number of individuals and societies will continue to increase, in part thanks to schools. I had the very good fortune to work 6 months in what was 'declared' a forest school, and this trend (currently more prevalent in some North European countries) will become increasingly popular, building interest in the environment among children - the most important sector of society in this regard.
I just worry that the UK is lactating David.
I love your vids so much! You are doing a very important job and the quality of your videos is top tier! Love from Estonia ❤❤❤
Appreciate it!!! Cheers :)
i rlly like the look of the plantation forests tbh. The moss covering the floor and the almost perfectly spaced out trees 🤷🏻♀️ i think its very pretty, id like to visit somewhere like that
Very interesting and great photography! 😊
This video really makes me want to go back to the UK. It's been way too long.
Amazing video as always, would the New Forest count as Ancient woodlands and is there any Ancient woodland in Dartmoor.
Isn't Wistman's Wood an ancient forest on Dartmoor?
Thanks!
Keep up the great work and sharing with all of us. THX Leave Curious.
thank you so much!!!
@@LeaveCurious My pleasure but that thanks really goes to you for all the great content. Mother Earth needs you.
I love, how you enjoing it 🥰 I love forests, amaizing video.
Brilliant video. Thanks for making it. Really interesting.
You’re welcome, thanks for watching & the kind feedback!
Cannock Chase is my nearest largish forest which fortunately has some spectacular specimens of ancient oak. Anyone who’s interested in taking a look then Brocton Coppice is the place.
Epping Forest was always a lovely walk, but every time it made me sad you can hear the cars in there all the time (including in this video)
At 6:38 it seems to be canals for drying up peatlands, so that could mean that this conifer forest is planted on an ancient peatland wich would be much worse for the climate. Also the Moss is probably so soft because it is peat under it.
Great video! Thank you so much!
So depressing. Plundered by the greedy without regard. A quick look on Google Earth shows just how devastated the land is. I wish I lived in Scandinavia instead.
If ever I have to do a wee in the woods, I bury the paper tissues, so nobody is disturbed - I dont need to see theirs 😢 and alsoI am jealous, In The Netherlands one may never leave the path (still we do, of course carefully)
Love these videos mate. Thanks for running about the country for us!
Pine plantations are pretty sterile. In South Africa, there are (or were) huge stands of dark pines, planted for their drought resistance, mostly to make paper. They're incredibly quiet, since most native wildlife can't live in them.
Natural indigenous forest is found on the South Coast, which is temperate rainforest, and in mountain valleys, a small area.
Very cool video would love more on England's nature and maybe the history of where it all went and the habitats/food chains in them/not in them due to habitat loss.
Could have done with a map showing where each of the forests are before each section though in this one!
I remember reading that a lot of Bitish native woodland, especially English Oak, was felled to make wooden boats and ships. Mostly for the navy in the days of Lord Nelson, Siir Francis Drake and the like. Makes sense given the size of the Royal Navy and the number of vessels they must have lost in battles with France, Spain, etc. Also lots of land clearence for agriculture not so different to what's happening with many rain forests today.
The ancient oak is so impressive and mighty. Rob you should venture to the ancient forests in Canada and the ancient Redwoods in California. When you see and touch them you can imagine them speaking of the wonder of their history. Well done video.
That’s a dream of mine!
mate, you should go to whycwood forest in oxfordshire, its absolutely magical.... completely natural, ancient oak trees, simply amazing. Probably the only of its kind in england...
Savernake is 1600 ha of ancient beech, the New Forest is 56,658 hectares!
It's interesting how open these forests are
I live just out side Breckland Forest that’s 18,126 hectare of amazing forestry.
Wonderful video. There should be more people like you.
Ahh there’s plenty of people interested in seeing nature return, I just wave a camera about and fly a drone :)
Hi ;-D Thanks for some great videos. Love your knowledge and optimistic style. Many thanks