I love your channel so much. As an environmentalist and strong believer in the need to live in harmony with our planet and fellow species I have been very dispirited by the mass extinctions and destruction of the environment and global warming. Seeing the good work in the UK Rewilding project is uplifting and inspiring. Thank you.
Focusing on the good work being done/ the work we can do ourselves is about the best thing that any individual can do when feeling eco-anxiety. Just keep being curious & connect with nature & you'll feel better.
@@Johnnymagnet92 you remind me, i do need to create more over on tiktok... i appreciate what you're saying but It's just the way it is. I couldn't be happier with the core family we've built here so far & it'll only keep growing.
I've just found you and I wanted to congratulate you on the work you are doing to create awareness without any fear. You come from such a loving and positive place! Encouraging more of us to open up to the light. Loving our beautiful planet earth and understanding that if we work together, with Mother Nature, we can create an abundant and loving world for us all. Thank you so much for your Divine work 💚Blessings Fiona 🤗
I'm so glad to hear stories like this. All the time I hear stories of coral reefs dying old growth being mowed down and increasing use of fossil fuels and deforestation but these stories prove that there is the will out there to turn this around. People like you and the rewilding efforts really are the heroes of our time.
Another success story is the Border Forest Trust in southern Scotland, they are doing a fantastic job re-introducing native woodland to the Scottish hills.
This is SO lovely to hear! We need this to bring us together & stop hurting everything.... each other, animals, .... animals are so much fun! It’s exciting to see them or just to know they’re “out there” . They give us endless entertainment when they are encountered, and we love the stories....
I think what Knepp has done for Britain is Fantastic it creates hope for the future that one day we will see Moths and May Flies dancing around our Porch light Again.and the prospect of many bird species returning. Brilliant Video by the way.
Thank you so much for this excellent video! It is nice to watch something that is full of positive energy and beauty. I especially loved the part about the pine martins. Pine martins are such lovely creatures, they are beautiful, clever, and totally cute and playful. It is good to hear that they are on the rebound.
Only just found this channel and enjoying it! I wish there was a major rewilding project in my own native Wales, also suffers massively with overgrazing. Given it's one of the last areas that red squirrels are found, it's a proper shame that very little seems to be done to increase the woodland habitat it (and the pine marten) need :(
Great to see the success of these projects, and I’m sure there are others worth including in another video like this. Although I’m sure you are very busy with baby Curious. There’s also inspiring projects in Europe that might be of interest to your viewers, not least because they represent species that many want to reintroduce to the UK.
@@normanmurray3659 did you watch the video? He literally went into detail of the successes of these projects?? I'm going to presume your comment was a joke 😂
@@normanmurray3659 you asked "what success would that be" almost like you just haven't watched the video you commented on..... the successes are clearly explained in the video.
I love these videos, thank you. I'd love to see Lynx reintroduced into Scotland and wildcats would be awesome. I do worry that we'd still have hybridisation with all the domestic cats still around though.
I’m norwegian but I love the scottish wildcat! I had no idea it existed until coming across it online and on youtube a few years ago. It is so important that you keep it safe from domestic cats by getting people and cat owners on board, it can be done if people spay and neuter their domestic cats, capture feral domestic cats and spay/neuter them or keep their own domestic cats indoors. Perhaps laws are needed, and other incentives? Best wishes from Norway.
A commonly missed important type of wilding is removal of in-stream barriers to anadromous fish. Instead of wide rehabilitation it only involves removal of a weir, with effect for miles upstream.
Food forestry is the way forward.Nuts have a higher yield than wheat.id hirer Americans who work in national parks and farmers to help the UK,Americans are so lucky to have the wild life they have. I actually seen for the first time a native dung beatle small than its African cousin,slow worms,lizards,frogs,toads,grass snakes,buzzards but we do need larger animals for diversity.
Animals, animals animals !! Rewilding is no good without a healthy diverse plant community !! I know plants are less sexy in so many eyes than beavers and pine-martens but without the flora they don't have a chance & neither do we. Can we have many films redressing the balance please !! Taking seed of native plants growing them on in culture and replanting them in the wild such as Cypripedium calceolus has been going on for a long time and gets almost zero publicity! Replanting juniper and meadow sage in the chilterns was one project I helped in many decades ago.
Yes native plants are essential for the ecosystems. And it is easier for people to actually do something about themselves, sounds like you have done a great job on important projects!
Thank you for this, and for all of your wonderful videos! They give me hope for the future when so much of the news we hear and read is depressing - we CAN save this planet, but only if we all play a part. 🌍😊
Interventions are needed. If domestic cats which roam free outside in the area are spayed and neutered it will help a lot. The scottish wildcat needs such a protection, I wish people will be willing to give it a chance to survive.
There is something I don't understand about the succes of the beavers. Or in fact that people are surprised. I just read an news paper article her in Norway about beavers transported to Scottland allready in 2010. A researcher from the village I live played a big role. There were negotiations about getting even more beavers caugth there where I live and get them to the UK. I thought this was a well known rewilding measurement. At the time beavers have found there place to start a family, the children can take very long journeys unntil they find a suitable place. But they really are fantastic creatures, which we once and a while can observe from our living room window. 😀
I think some even were introduced in 2008, but I’m not sure. You are right, there are different locations in the UK which have released beavers into the wild, among them Devon in England and places in Scotland. And most if not all of them came from Norway. I am proud of our norwegian beavers because their conservation has played a huge part in repopulating other european countries with beavers. Our conservation started in the late 18 hundreds and was one of only 5 extant populations left in Europe of beavers. 🦫
Great to hear about these projects. I'm currently trying to stop eastern hemlock and skunk cabbage from taking over the estate i work on. I would love to help with one of these projects locally.
Have you heard of Cairngorms Connect, where efforts are being made to connect the remaining Caledonian Pine Forest together. This is to make the remaining forest more resilient to shocks like fires if it is bigget. To be honest we have few good excusus for Scotland to be so barren, it is just poor land management.
A connection would be great for all species of the forest, plants, fungi, insects and animals. I hope they are succsessful! It would also indeed make it more resilient to fires and climate change.
ERRRATA: Invasive Species: Fallow Deer are not wild deer, but feral escaped domesticated animals, introduced by the Romans 2 millenia ago. They were domesticated by the Etruscans from imported stock of Persian origin.
I have made videos on the Iberian Peninsula, Rwanda, Singapore, to name a few. I'm British so I like to look at other countries & see what we can learn and its usually an awful lot.
Question about the Caledonian forest & deer preventing regrowth: If I understand correctly wolves in Britain went extinct centuries ago & if there were wolves in Britain they would both keep deer numbers down & make the deer fearful near what forest there is & so allow the forest to spread. Cf: the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone park. However, unless & until wolves are reintroduced to Britain would more intensive hunting of deer by humans in Britain to bring the numbers down be a good idea? What are the pros & cons?
Yes your’rr right - the UK does need to do a lot of work currently to managed the deer population - but it’s overgrazing in general, sheep are also included in the problem. Natural predators certainly offer part of the solution, but it’s going to take more work to educate and prepare - the Lynx would come before the wolf.
Just a thought on the wildcat. Maybe it doesn't matter so much that felis sylvestris is picking up f. catus genes. Natural selection will mold the most appropriate form of cat to deal with British environment. And homo sapiens x neanderthalensis x denisovan x (some other homo species we aren't quite sure of) shouldn't be too annoyed with other species hybridizing. Its becoming recognized as an engine generating new species.
I see your point but I don’t think this is a great idea. There is so little undisturbed wilderness left so even evolution is constantly under pressure from humans instead of working things out by itself. The Scottish Wildcat is already suited to it’s natural habitat in the UK. Domestic cats although they survive on their own outside, in most places humans inhabit they are wreaking havoc on natural habitats because through living with us something has changed them into not stopping to kill even if they are not hungry. Just here in Norway they are responsible for more than one million deaths of small birds a year. Amfibians are at risk from them too, and worldwide they have caused several extinctions.
@@blue2mato312 You have git two different things going on in your comment. Part addresses wildcats but most of it was about the evils of house cats. Talking about house cats in my mind doesn't address the issue at hand. We have a tendancy to get caught up in our mental filling systems. We want to have species and their ranges nailed down. When they shift ranges or hybridize with close relatives we get nervous. In the case of British wildcats I believe its more important to keep the broadest possible genetic base to the population, even if that has some house cat genes mixed with it, rather that reducing wildcats genetic diversity to a vanishingly small base in an attempt to "weed" all the house cat genes out of the wildcat population. We need to protect nature, but we also need to let evolution work too.
One thing I would say is calling it the Scottish wildcat limits how we should be thinking about that species. There's nothing Scottish about it - It should live throughout the British isles.
Knepp might be a great example to farmers and land owners, or anyone with a patch of land, but it is also 3500 acres, so not many of the above can really hope to make a living off rewilding in these ways. Maybe through cooperatives with surrounding farms or something might give the kind of scale.
Please can you look into my local woodland and potentially make a video on it to spread awareness, with your following of people that care about things like this I think it could really help? I am a strong believer in re-wilding and preserving our natural/ancient eco systems. So I have been fighting to save our beautiful ancient woodland from development. Skerningham in Darlington is undergoing planning for a housing estate and a golf course re-location. It is home to loads of species of protected animals and plants, including red listed species! Public funding was spent on extending the woodland only a few years ago and all those trees are just starting to mature now, just before they’re going to be flattened! If you have any advice on helping stop these plans etc it would be much appreciated! 👍🏼 🌳
Always really disappointing to see development take place in areas like what you've described... my advice would be to rally local people, the community and challenge the plans for development, depending on its phase... what have you tried to do so far, or whats been done?
Just letting you know that the bird at 3.59 is not the European Turtle dove that is doing well in Knepp castle, but the South-East-Asian Spotted dove (Spilopelia chinensis or S. suratensis)
We’re trying to restore native prairie with original animals.... restore the American Serengeti.... with wolves, grizzly, and bison.... wouldn’t that be cool?
Let's get real for a moment; rewilding is just another name for "managing differently". It's not "wilderness" it's still management. And let's also acknowledge that nature is not 'in harmony'but in a constant state of tension with species flora and fauna trying to out compete each other for limited resources.
oh yes, taking a pragmatic view of nature will show you that it's pure chaos. I guess the harmony element of wilderness/nature comes from the human's compassion with 'everyday city life' Rewilding does have a few definitions and one of them is active/passive land management with the aim of getting the landscape, and ecosystem to a place where it is self-regulating/resilient, with little to no human input - so in the end, is it actually management?
It's unfathomable to imagine what ancient forests looked like in parts of the world before humans . And even further back, before all the Neanderthals and other humanoids. How cool would that be!? I'm sure it would look unrecognizable most places around the world. Obvi.
Hi. Im new to the channel and immediately im inspired. Thankyou. Im an environmental science student and im involved in an ongoing rewilding project of britians largest cement quarry. The licence has 19 years left to run but i wonder if you are interested to get involved? Simon
I don't think trophy hunting was ever really a threat to the Scottish wild cat, mostly because it was soo hard to find in the forests, and because they aren't all that "impressive" compared to a lynx or wolf. Plus it's dam hard to shoot a cat with a bow and arrow, so most that were deliberately killed by hunters were with traps or aided with hounds. The main threats that have killed off most of the wild cats are habitat destruction, competition and hybridization of domestic and feral cats, and poisonings in the 1910's, with strychnine or a 1080 type poison that was used to target foxes and birds of prey. Plus trophy hunting is a pretty broad term that's often just lazily applied to any sort of hunting that people don't like. Probably best to just say "unregulated hunting & trapping", that would be more accurate.
getting outside and taking their time to experience and enjoy nature, lifting up rocks or old logs is great with youngsters, but for those that have gardens or outdoor spaces start some small-scale rewilding projects, would you be interested in learning about these? you can go and visit some of the wilder places in the country, hiking, and camping... oh and of course, point them in the direction of leave curious :)
@@LeaveCurious In what way? What do they do that wasn't being done before by others? I can understand lions, tigers etc. being apex predators, but this tiny pussy cat?
With deer pressure in Scotland, I can’t understand why the Lynx is not introduced, the issues with Farmers are solved with compensation in Europe, so why not in Scotland
there are a few things to consider - but ultimately, lynx eat deer so it's got to help in terms of population control. It's one topic I'm covering in the next video.
Rob, don't forget to give them ideas to help nature a little more. If the wild life agency traps a male cat, and gives him a little boost. Such as 1 syringe injection of growth hormones, and testosterone. I am joking 😂.
True, it depends on several factors like if you will keep releasing new beavers from for instance Norway (where all or most of your beavers come from, there might be some that are descendants of both Norwegian and other remnant populations in Europe) and if they have enough habitat to spread and meet other beavers they are not so closely related too. When it comes to particularly the beaver they seem to have done fabulously from only the few hundreds which were left in Norway by the late 19th century when conservation efforts started. They have since repopulated Norway, Sweden, and many other European countries as shipping them out of our country started in the early 20 th century. From the massive success of the beaver I would worry more about the genepool of the Scottish Wildcat which is in grave danger from the domestic cat, and if you are to release the lynx because lynx needs vast territories and I’m unsure you have enough territory for them in the long run considering inbreeding.
good news is on the horizon for the Scottish wild cat , the uk is planning to ban the breeding of F1 cats aka the cross of a wild cat breed and a domestic cat , if so this will see the end of F1 production and breeding.
That's because you're pronouncing your F's with your tongue & teeth using a "Th" sound instead of with your teeth and bottom lip producing an "F" sound.
OK I gave up listening to this video at 4 mins 38 secs. WHY do we have to be subjected to a VERY ANNOYING competing noise? Your content is great, it's enough. Most of us are capable of concentrating on the content alone. Grrrrrr!
@@LeaveCurious get a trans women presenter you're ratings will go through the roof,that's the world we're living in!!!! (Loved the episode where the couple rewilded their farm.)
The deer problem can be solved by hunting with bows you might not like that but we have done this for thousands of years if animals eat meat why should we not
I love your channel so much. As an environmentalist and strong believer in the need to live in harmony with our planet and fellow species I have been very dispirited by the mass extinctions and destruction of the environment and global warming. Seeing the good work in the UK Rewilding project is uplifting and inspiring. Thank you.
Focusing on the good work being done/ the work we can do ourselves is about the best thing that any individual can do when feeling eco-anxiety. Just keep being curious & connect with nature & you'll feel better.
It still really annoys me that you don't get even 10% of the views you deserve. Keep going! I will spread the word about your channel
Thank you, I appreciate that 🌿
@Leave Curious And it really annoys me that shit videos on Tik Tok rack up millions of views and you're here struggling in the hundreds!
@@Johnnymagnet92 you remind me, i do need to create more over on tiktok... i appreciate what you're saying but It's just the way it is. I couldn't be happier with the core family we've built here so far & it'll only keep growing.
Love this series. Thank you Rob!
Love this video. Really depressed about human destruction, but seeing rewilding projects like this gives me hope
I've just found you and I wanted to congratulate you on the work you are doing to create awareness without any fear. You come from such a loving and positive place! Encouraging more of us to open up to the light. Loving our beautiful planet earth and understanding that if we work together, with Mother Nature, we can create an abundant and loving world for us all. Thank you so much for your Divine work 💚Blessings Fiona 🤗
Ahh what a lovely comment Fiona, thank you. You have a brilliant vibe, be sure to share spread that positivity 🌿
What a wonderful story! Very uplifting to hear that something is being done to revive our lands. Very glad to have found you.
Welcome! Great work is being done!
I only recently discovered this channel. So glad I did! Lots to catch up on. Brilliant!
Welcome and thank you!
I'm so glad to hear stories like this. All the time I hear stories of coral reefs dying old growth being mowed down and increasing use of fossil fuels and deforestation but these stories prove that there is the will out there to turn this around. People like you and the rewilding efforts really are the heroes of our time.
Another success story is the Border Forest Trust in southern Scotland, they are doing a fantastic job re-introducing native woodland to the Scottish hills.
I'll look into this one, cheers Andrew
Thrilled to hear all this good news, especially in the times in which we live! I hope bears and wolves will come back to the British Isles!!
Yes we need to keep working to do good. Especially at the moment.
Would be nice but will never happen I think the lynx will happen 😁
No bears or wolves country is no big enough. That would just be stupid
@@gazwit1603 Actually it wouldn’t
This is SO lovely to hear! We need this to bring us together & stop hurting everything.... each other, animals, .... animals are so much fun! It’s exciting to see them or just to know they’re “out there” . They give us endless entertainment when they are encountered, and we love the stories....
I agree, landscapes are so much more exciting when we know there’s a chance to spot some life within them :)
There is good news out there and it's a really nice pick-me-up amongst the all the depressing ones.
I do my best to keep it real - there are problems, but theres solutions too.
I think what Knepp has done for Britain is Fantastic it creates hope for the future that one day we will see Moths and May Flies dancing around our Porch light Again.and the prospect of many bird species returning. Brilliant Video by the way.
and what a beautiful image that is! thanks for commenting Gary!!
Hooray for beavers keystone species ,prevent flooding ,filter water prevent droughts ,make habitats for other wildlife.
They're awesome aren't they?
Great video mate! The future of rewilding is looking bright. I'm optimistic and excited to see what the next decade will bring.
Great vlog,so pleased there are a lot of people actively rewinding. Look forward to seeing any more successful projects you come across 👍
Thanks so much! 😊
You are just formidable !
Thank you so much for this excellent video! It is nice to watch something that is full of positive energy and beauty. I especially loved the part about the pine martins. Pine martins are such lovely creatures, they are beautiful, clever, and totally cute and playful. It is good to hear that they are on the rebound.
Love Knepp its right near me too went searching for Harvest mouse nests and added to their mammal survey. Very cool.
Ahhh awesome!
Only just found this channel and enjoying it! I wish there was a major rewilding project in my own native Wales, also suffers massively with overgrazing. Given it's one of the last areas that red squirrels are found, it's a proper shame that very little seems to be done to increase the woodland habitat it (and the pine marten) need :(
Hey welcome! Yes the pine marten recovery has been one, but on a landscape more can and has to be done!!
A pair of beavers appeared in Somerset as well during lockdown, no one knows where they came from either
Hmmmmmmm, cheeky release?
@@LeaveCurious I hope so 😄 they're on the longleat estate just down river of the safari park so no one will interfere with them
Great to see the success of these projects, and I’m sure there are others worth including in another video like this. Although I’m sure you are very busy with baby Curious. There’s also inspiring projects in Europe that might be of interest to your viewers, not least because they represent species that many want to reintroduce to the UK.
I've always got my eyes on what's going on in the rewilding world - more in this series to come
@@normanmurray3659 did you watch the video? He literally went into detail of the successes of these projects??
I'm going to presume your comment was a joke 😂
@@normanmurray3659 you asked "what success would that be" almost like you just haven't watched the video you commented on..... the successes are clearly explained in the video.
@@normanmurray3659 are you going to actually say anything? Or just throw short, baseless sentences around?
@@normanmurray3659 you've gotta be a troll. No ones that stupid 🤣
I love these videos, thank you. I'd love to see Lynx reintroduced into Scotland and wildcats would be awesome. I do worry that we'd still have hybridisation with all the domestic cats still around though.
ah nice one! oh yeah the lynx to scotland will happen soon, i know it
@@LeaveCurious I hope so 🙂.
@@normanmurray3659 what are you on about? Have you got a vendetta against the Scottish wildcat & it’s conservation?
Ah lots of interest...somewhat over enthusiastic about lynx.
I would hope that conservation would focus on the indigenous wildcat first
I’m norwegian but I love the scottish wildcat! I had no idea it existed until coming across it online and on youtube a few years ago. It is so important that you keep it safe from domestic cats by getting people and cat owners on board, it can be done if people spay and neuter their domestic cats, capture feral domestic cats and spay/neuter them or keep their own domestic cats indoors. Perhaps laws are needed, and other incentives? Best wishes from Norway.
A commonly missed important type of wilding is removal of in-stream barriers to anadromous fish. Instead of wide rehabilitation it only involves removal of a weir, with effect for miles upstream.
Unfathomable! Good effort.
Great video
Thank you! Thanks for commenting!!!!
Ding! Love your work Mr.
Love your enthusiasm!
Rewilding / wilding / putting nature first is the most important priorities of our times. I;m here for it!
I enjoy this stuff so much I wish East and west Sussex had more stuff like this
you've got Knepp, which is pretty special!
this was completely wonderful x
Pleased you enjoyed it!!
Fantastic content. Keep posting!
I will, thank you!
This was unexpectedly good information. Inspiring. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Food forestry is the way forward.Nuts have a higher yield than wheat.id hirer Americans who work in national parks and farmers to help the UK,Americans are so lucky to have the wild life they have.
I actually seen for the first time a native dung beatle small than its African cousin,slow worms,lizards,frogs,toads,grass snakes,buzzards but we do need larger animals for diversity.
Liked and shared, loving the vids
Thank you very much Jack!!
Animals, animals animals !! Rewilding is no good without a healthy diverse plant community !! I know plants are less sexy in so many eyes than beavers and pine-martens but without the flora they don't have a chance & neither do we. Can we have many films redressing the balance please !! Taking seed of native plants growing them on in culture and replanting them in the wild such as Cypripedium calceolus has been going on for a long time and gets almost zero publicity! Replanting juniper and meadow sage in the chilterns was one project I helped in many decades ago.
Yes native plants are essential for the ecosystems. And it is easier for people to actually do something about themselves, sounds like you have done a great job on important projects!
@@blue2mato312 we get zero publicity from such channels and little thanks but we know it is the basis.
Could you mention the Aspen forests in Scotland
Yes Evan I will!
just released a vide on this!
Thank you for this, and for all of your wonderful videos! They give me hope for the future when so much of the news we hear and read is depressing - we CAN save this planet, but only if we all play a part. 🌍😊
Spot on Paul - there's many ways we do our bits as individuals too. Cheers
nothings go to change for the Scottish wild cat if people can’t control their cats
Interventions are needed. If domestic cats which roam free outside in the area are spayed and neutered it will help a lot. The scottish wildcat needs such a protection, I wish people will be willing to give it a chance to survive.
There is something I don't understand about the succes of the beavers. Or in fact that people are surprised. I just read an news paper article her in Norway about beavers transported to Scottland allready in 2010. A researcher from the village I live played a big role. There were negotiations about getting even more beavers caugth there where I live and get them to the UK. I thought this was a well known rewilding measurement.
At the time beavers have found there place to start a family, the children can take very long journeys unntil they find a suitable place.
But they really are fantastic creatures, which we once and a while can observe from our living room window. 😀
I think some even were introduced in 2008, but I’m not sure. You are right, there are different locations in the UK which have released beavers into the wild, among them Devon in England and places in Scotland. And most if not all of them came from Norway. I am proud of our norwegian beavers because their conservation has played a huge part in repopulating other european countries with beavers. Our conservation started in the late 18 hundreds and was one of only 5 extant populations left in Europe of beavers. 🦫
Great to hear about these projects. I'm currently trying to stop eastern hemlock and skunk cabbage from taking over the estate i work on. I would love to help with one of these projects locally.
Have you heard of Cairngorms Connect, where efforts are being made to connect the remaining Caledonian Pine Forest together. This is to make the remaining forest more resilient to shocks like fires if it is bigget. To be honest we have few good excusus for Scotland to be so barren, it is just poor land management.
A connection would be great for all species of the forest, plants, fungi, insects and animals. I hope they are succsessful! It would also indeed make it more resilient to fires and climate change.
Great video! Thanks for the inspiration :D
ERRRATA: Invasive Species: Fallow Deer are not wild deer, but feral escaped domesticated animals, introduced by the Romans 2 millenia ago. They were domesticated by the Etruscans from imported stock of Persian origin.
thansk for this!!
Could you not just cover the Uk but also the rest of the world. Love the vids
I have made videos on the Iberian Peninsula, Rwanda, Singapore, to name a few. I'm British so I like to look at other countries & see what we can learn and its usually an awful lot.
so glad for this channel!
Great video
Ah cheers, glad you enjoyed it
I think Pine Marten have been seen in The New Forest.
Great video!!!
Thank you!!
Very nice! Keep up the good work 👏
Pine marten are also in the new forest on the south coast
Yes, some lovely woodland out that way
Question about the Caledonian forest & deer preventing regrowth:
If I understand correctly wolves in Britain went extinct centuries ago & if there were wolves in Britain they would both keep deer numbers down & make the deer fearful near what forest there is & so allow the forest to spread. Cf: the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone park.
However, unless & until wolves are reintroduced to Britain would more intensive hunting of deer by humans in Britain to bring the numbers down be a good idea? What are the pros & cons?
Yes your’rr right - the UK does need to do a lot of work currently to managed the deer population - but it’s overgrazing in general, sheep are also included in the problem. Natural predators certainly offer part of the solution, but it’s going to take more work to educate and prepare - the Lynx would come before the wolf.
Just a thought on the wildcat. Maybe it doesn't matter so much that felis sylvestris is picking up f. catus genes. Natural selection will mold the most appropriate form of cat to deal with British environment. And homo sapiens x neanderthalensis x denisovan x (some other homo species we aren't quite sure of) shouldn't be too annoyed with other species hybridizing. Its becoming recognized as an engine generating new species.
Yes good point! Natural selection certainly will find its way, but I still love the Wild Cat & wouldn't want to see it gone
I see your point but I don’t think this is a great idea. There is so little undisturbed wilderness left so even evolution is constantly under pressure from humans instead of working things out by itself. The Scottish Wildcat is already suited to it’s natural habitat in the UK. Domestic cats although they survive on their own outside, in most places humans inhabit they are wreaking havoc on natural habitats because through living with us something has changed them into not stopping to kill even if they are not hungry. Just here in Norway they are responsible for more than one million deaths of small birds a year. Amfibians are at risk from them too, and worldwide they have caused several extinctions.
@@blue2mato312 You have git two different things going on in your comment. Part addresses wildcats but most of it was about the evils of house cats. Talking about house cats in my mind doesn't address the issue at hand. We have a tendancy to get caught up in our mental filling systems. We want to have species and their ranges nailed down. When they shift ranges or hybridize with close relatives we get nervous. In the case of British wildcats I believe its more important to keep the broadest possible genetic base to the population, even if that has some house cat genes mixed with it, rather that reducing wildcats genetic diversity to a vanishingly small base in an attempt to "weed" all the house cat genes out of the wildcat population. We need to protect nature, but we also need to let evolution work too.
So inspiring, thanks!
Pine Martins are cool 😎😎😎
Gotta love em
One thing I would say is calling it the Scottish wildcat limits how we should be thinking about that species. There's nothing Scottish about it - It should live throughout the British isles.
Love that - British Wildcat anyone?
Are there enough habitats for them in their former ranges in England and Wales? Did they live on smaller islands too in the past? Or in Ireland?
Knepp might be a great example to farmers and land owners, or anyone with a patch of land, but it is also 3500 acres, so not many of the above can really hope to make a living off rewilding in these ways. Maybe through cooperatives with surrounding farms or something might give the kind of scale.
Please can you look into my local woodland and potentially make a video on it to spread awareness, with your following of people that care about things like this I think it could really help?
I am a strong believer in re-wilding and preserving our natural/ancient eco systems. So I have been fighting to save our beautiful ancient woodland from development. Skerningham in Darlington is undergoing planning for a housing estate and a golf course re-location. It is home to loads of species of protected animals and plants, including red listed species!
Public funding was spent on extending the woodland only a few years ago and all those trees are just starting to mature now, just before they’re going to be flattened!
If you have any advice on helping stop these plans etc it would be much appreciated! 👍🏼 🌳
Always really disappointing to see development take place in areas like what you've described... my advice would be to rally local people, the community and challenge the plans for development, depending on its phase... what have you tried to do so far, or whats been done?
Write letters in the newspaper, find people to join you ..... have a party at a local pub, have someone speak & get names!!
These things grow on their own ..... get some people on your side & talk!
Then you visit your local representative or city Council...who’s behind the development?
Very informative video. Would be good to have each project name on the screen. I heard nepcastle. No way of knowing it was Knepp Castle.
Ahh yeah, noted! Thanks for feedback :)
Just letting you know that the bird at 3.59 is not the European Turtle dove that is doing well in Knepp castle, but the South-East-Asian Spotted dove (Spilopelia chinensis or S. suratensis)
Thank you!
Hopefully a new law will be put in place to help protect Scottish wildcats by making people spay and neuter their cats before being let outdoors
Yes exactly!
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Will you guys ever look into bringing back the goshawk widespread?
Enthusiastically positive
That's what I'm here for!
We’re trying to restore native prairie with original animals.... restore the American Serengeti.... with wolves, grizzly, and bison.... wouldn’t that be cool?
Oh yeah! It’s a massive project too!
Don’t forget polecats.
Let's get real for a moment; rewilding is just another name for "managing differently". It's not "wilderness" it's still management.
And let's also acknowledge that nature is not 'in harmony'but in a constant state of tension with species flora and fauna trying to out compete each other for limited resources.
oh yes, taking a pragmatic view of nature will show you that it's pure chaos. I guess the harmony element of wilderness/nature comes from the human's compassion with 'everyday city life'
Rewilding does have a few definitions and one of them is active/passive land management with the aim of getting the landscape, and ecosystem to a place where it is self-regulating/resilient, with little to no human input - so in the end, is it actually management?
Pine Martin are cute as hell.
It's unfathomable to imagine what ancient forests looked like in parts of the world before humans . And even further back, before all the Neanderthals and other humanoids. How cool would that be!? I'm sure it would look unrecognizable most places around the world. Obvi.
I think like to think of this too..... daydreams
Fortunately or unfortunately this would require the culling of a great proportion of Homo Erectus
Hi. Im new to the channel and immediately im inspired. Thankyou. Im an environmental science student and im involved in an ongoing rewilding project of britians largest cement quarry. The licence has 19 years left to run but i wonder if you are interested to get involved? Simon
Hey Simon yeah! this sounds awesome, send me an email - robdymott@gmail.com
Kudos! 😘
Great video, love your enthusiasm, just suggest you hide your "wild" waving hand next time! 😊
Red squirrel and lynx next I hope
No there in Yorkshire too I've seen them years ago
Awesome!
Britain needs wild monkeys, not just the sort of wild monkeys in #TrenthamMonkeyForest
Monkeys to UK woodlands is a very interesting consideration....... cheers!
I don't think trophy hunting was ever really a threat to the Scottish wild cat, mostly because it was soo hard to find in the forests, and because they aren't all that "impressive" compared to a lynx or wolf. Plus it's dam hard to shoot a cat with a bow and arrow, so most that were deliberately killed by hunters were with traps or aided with hounds. The main threats that have killed off most of the wild cats are habitat destruction, competition and hybridization of domestic and feral cats, and poisonings in the 1910's, with strychnine or a 1080 type poison that was used to target foxes and birds of prey.
Plus trophy hunting is a pretty broad term that's often just lazily applied to any sort of hunting that people don't like. Probably best to just say "unregulated hunting & trapping", that would be more accurate.
I should expect that the gamekeepers of the landed Gentry would have been tasked with removing the threat to His lordship's game birds.
What should we be encouraging our friends & family to do??
getting outside and taking their time to experience and enjoy nature, lifting up rocks or old logs is great with youngsters, but for those that have gardens or outdoor spaces start some small-scale rewilding projects, would you be interested in learning about these? you can go and visit some of the wilder places in the country, hiking, and camping... oh and of course, point them in the direction of leave curious :)
How do Scottish wild cats "benefit our environment"?
They are in important part of the food chain, essentially, at the moment they're the closest thing to a natural apex predator.
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In what way?
What do they do that wasn't being done before by others?
I can understand lions, tigers etc. being apex predators, but this tiny pussy cat?
With deer pressure in Scotland, I can’t understand why the Lynx is not introduced, the issues with Farmers are solved with compensation in Europe, so why not in Scotland
there are a few things to consider - but ultimately, lynx eat deer so it's got to help in terms of population control. It's one topic I'm covering in the next video.
There is no wilderness in Scotland everything you see is man-made perfect example of what not to do to your environment ecological disaster area.
Yes, sadly you're not wrong, but not I wouldn't say there is no wilderness at all - at least in the context of the UKs natural spaces.
I want to get some trees planted for Red Squirrels.Google said or You Tube we have lost 5billion species
Get those Oaks planted!
@@LeaveCurious ok
the only thing about the rewilding effort is the lack of conversation about hunting.
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Rob, don't forget to give them ideas to help nature a little more. If the wild life agency traps a male cat, and gives him a little boost. Such as 1 syringe injection of growth hormones, and testosterone. I am joking 😂.
Don't forget steroids, hilarious 😂
These animals found in small number so what about their gene pool issue?
True, it depends on several factors like if you will keep releasing new beavers from for instance Norway (where all or most of your beavers come from, there might be some that are descendants of both Norwegian and other remnant populations in Europe) and if they have enough habitat to spread and meet other beavers they are not so closely related too. When it comes to particularly the beaver they seem to have done fabulously from only the few hundreds which were left in Norway by the late 19th century when conservation efforts started. They have since repopulated Norway, Sweden, and many other European countries as shipping them out of our country started in the early 20 th century.
From the massive success of the beaver I would worry more about the genepool of the Scottish Wildcat which is in grave danger from the domestic cat, and if you are to release the lynx because lynx needs vast territories and I’m unsure you have enough territory for them in the long run considering inbreeding.
@@blue2mato312 thanks for your clarification.
Xlnt!
There are no true wildcats left
good news is on the horizon for the Scottish wild cat , the uk is planning to ban the breeding of F1 cats aka the cross of a wild cat breed and a domestic cat , if so this will see the end of F1 production and breeding.
We are not as important as we consider,.. that’s it..,
We cannot replace the other species with our specie, cause some day we will get the same treatment..,
That's because you're pronouncing your F's with your tongue & teeth using a "Th" sound instead of with your teeth and bottom lip producing an "F" sound.
OK I gave up listening to this video at 4 mins 38 secs. WHY do we have to be subjected to a VERY ANNOYING competing noise? Your content is great, it's enough. Most of us are capable of concentrating on the content alone. Grrrrrr!
Hmm can be tricky to get the levels right. Noted it for future videos Kevin thanks for the feedback.
@@LeaveCurious I didn’t notice any issue with the sound.
Make t-shirts ....
I do! Linked in the description if you want to get one :)
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Gracias Jose 👊🌿
Talk about cherry picking and misinformation 🙄
It proves what s**t people watch on TH-cam when a channel that is important and relevant as yours has such low subscribers. 🏴
Will look to change that this year - got a plan
@@LeaveCurious get a trans women presenter you're ratings will go through the roof,that's the world we're living in!!!! (Loved the episode where the couple rewilded their farm.)
Please don't say "The British Isles"!
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The deer problem can be solved by hunting with bows you might not like that but we have done this for thousands of years if animals eat meat why should we not
🌱🦫🐱 (This shows that there is always Hope)
Beavers 🦫 are native and should be protected and allowed to save the wetlands 😊