Glen Affric: A landscape worth restoring
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Narrated by acclaimed cameraman and filmmaker Gordon Buchanan, this five-minute film - ‘Glen Affric: A landscape worth restoring’ - celebrates 60 years of forest restoration in the glen and highlights the opportunities for wildlife and the local economy going forward.
Trees for life you deserve a medal for all the study and work undertaken by your team God bless you.
I love worldwide reforestarion efforts. gives me hope....
This is a fine and effective initiative that is regenerating this environment and negating generations of unforeseen neglect.Glen Affric is a fine place.
Great work,we need people like you we have lost so many trees in britain.no trees no planet.
This is the most important issue of our time. Everything else will follow on.
Scotland needs wild cats to keep the deer population in check,like the Lynx.
Vital work! THANK YOU!
Had never heard the term 'Granny Pine' before. After looking it up, I now understand.
Save trees. Save life 🌍🐦🦜🦌🕷🐛🐞🐜🦋🐺🦊🐝🐻🐿🦥🐁🦝🐌🐇🌳🌱
Happy to see the great improvements of flora!
in 60 years?...thick, tall trees, with rich undercover and bushes...and full of wildlife!!...lynxes?...bobcats?.....wolves?... bisons??...wild boars?....and brown bears!!....:-))))..I want it all....lol...:-))
In 60 years? Free from bloodsports, culls and animal agriculture. Hopefully more areas will follow suit. The Pennines, the Lake District, all our uplands should be rewilded.
so... lynx and wolfs in Scotland again? Could be a hard sell.
(if not, hunting is needed to manage deer populations)
It's hard for our uplands to be rewilded. For them to be rewilded they need to be forested. The UK was completely forest and wetland before man started spoiling it. We cut down the massive forests and drained all the wetlands!
The establishment and the top percentage of our country like the uplands to be bare. They pay top dollar to go hunting there. People say that by "protecting heathlands" (a man made habitat) by cutting down regenerating trees they are "preserving wildlife". No they're preserving hunting ground for shooting grouse, woodhens etc. It's much easier to shoot birds in the open! Go to any upland woodland. You'll see the Heather and gorse under cover of trees are much healthier and vibrant than that in the open. They thrive under trees. They don't need protecting from them.
Even environmental organisations have fallen fool to this lie. Even they believe that heathlands and grasslands are a natural habitat in the uplands which need to be protected from trees growing there. On national trust estates they actively cut down trees in heath areas. Even teaching volunteer groups and school kids that it "needs to be done to preserve biodiversity". It's complete bollocks. They only say this because they get paid top brass by those rich enough to "hunt" there.
As long as this upper class trophy shooting exists there will be no rewilding in our uplands or indeed elsewhere. And the misinformation campaign that teaches the masses that woodland is just one of many habitats to naturally occur here will continue! It's a terrible shame.
Rewild is our future
More like pine-eers for a future forest, amirite? Ha.... :/
I didn't know the British Isles could look that beautiful
They dont, its all bullshit, there's nothin but plastic rubbish all over the place and asylum seekers. My advice is get yerself into Russia, the land of limitless frontiers, the true land of the free, Siberia is the future. Im not fuckin joking.
@@alexanderlawson1649 you can't be serious
Most of the UK atleast Scotland, Wales and Northern England look like this, have you ever traveled before?
Nice place , the second comment
Why this is the last video on this channel? It's almost a year old now.
You are lucky the Scots pine grows and propagates in nature relatively quickly. The white bark pine in California, for example, does this a lot slower.
you either need wolf, lynx and bear to keep grazers in check or shoot them
In 60 years? We have one huge problem here: global warming. So which trees species can grow in 60 years or more? Scots Pine is in dire straits as is (by extension) the Caledonian Forest. So in my view Glen Affric should already be mixed with trees that do well in climates that are 3-5 C warmer than they are today. Say Douglas Fir should be planted, some broadleaved trees from the south. Also: hunting has no place in a national park. reintroduce wolves and bears. So you can get rid of those fences without hunting.
Will Trees for Life object to the proposed massive wind farm on the periphery of Glen Affric? Forty six turbines on a 5000 acres site. Given your work on restoration you still didn't see fit to object to the smaller site, fortunately refused, back in 2015 maybe now you'll be less hypocritical!
Great point. Our landscape is being ruined by those monstrosities.
its incredibly poor diversity of trees where are the oaks, hazels etc that once covered most of the lower slopes. you also plant trees on bare ground with no root fungi how the hell can trees find nutrients without fungi learn from nature
I am all for re-wilding, but I am not in favour of killing animals in order to do it, and promoting hunting as part of it - both of which this video seems to advocate.
Until we can restore predators to the highlands that will balance the deer population, hunting at a sustainable and carefully researched scale is CRUCIAL for saving Scotland’s ecological health.
your wrong
Unfortunately there is no way to avoid controlling the deer numbers if we ever want to have our forest restored. The forest died off in the first place because there were not enough deer being killed either by predators or by man. Without wolves in Scotland man must manage the deer numbers down to a level that they do not cause excessive environmental damage or starvation for themselves from lack of food. Once the deer numbers are down to a level that allows the forest to re-generate itself it may be worth considering the re-introduction of wolves as an alternative to humans shooting deer. This may be some time in the future and it will require the co-operation of the livestock farmers to achieve success. There are several methods of protecting domestic farm animals from wolf attack, e.g. sheep flock guard dogs, that are proving successful in other European countries that could be adopted in Scotland. That being said I think that there will always be a need for humans being involved in deer management to some degree.
@@molecatcher3383 Deers and boars are issues in most european countries, even in countries that have a more or less intact landscape. I'm suprised deer aren't hunted more if they are responsible for the damage. That would seem the obvious solution to me.
@@0799qwertzuiop Most of the land that the deer live on is privately owned, and has been for a very long time, and the owners have, up until fairly recently, deliberately allowed too many deer to live on their ground because the owners make more money from rich hunters who pay to shoot trophy stags i.e. the more stags the more money for the owners. In many cases there are so many deer that the deer are only kept alive over the winter because the land owners give them extra food to avoid starvation. This allows too many deer to live on the ground causing the trees, and most other plants, to be destroyed. To get the deer numbers down they need to dramatically reduce the number of female deer especially (and then to closely manage their numbers) and then the overall deer population will fall.