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SCOTLAND: The Big Picture
United Kingdom
Приєднався 16 тра 2017
We are SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, a charity working to make rewilding happen across Scotland, as a solution to the growing climate and biodiversity crises.
Discover stories of hope and renewal. Join the discussion. Be inspired by the people fighting back for nature.
Discover stories of hope and renewal. Join the discussion. Be inspired by the people fighting back for nature.
DEER: finding the common ground
In the first in a series of films from the Fiadh project, we introduce the work of The Common Ground Forum, a network of stakeholders from the upland deer sector, who are committed to a more collaborative approach to deer management, based on mutual respect and consensus building.
Find out more: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/fiadh
Find out more: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/fiadh
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Rewild My School
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Rewilding Denmarkfield work with their local primary school in Perthshire, Scotland, to rewild their school grounds. By teaching pupils about nature and how they can do their bit in boosting biodiversity in the area, they inspire the younger generation to get their hands dirty. Feeling inspired to rewild your local school? Rewilding Denmarkfield is a member of our Northwoods Rewilding Network. ...
Rewilding Training: unleash your potential for driving change
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Nature recovery, or rewilding, relies on passionate people who are dedicated to the restoration of our living systems. Our residential training courses, study tours and learning days are designed to equip land managers, rewilding practitioners and communicators with the knowledge, skills and inspiration needed to deliver practical change and nurture support for nature recovery. Ready to begin y...
The Big Picture Conference 2024 - Scotland's Rewilding Event
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On 14 September, a diverse audience of close to 600 people gathered in Perth for The Big Picture Conference: a vibrant day of presentations, networking and rewilding discussion. For regular rewilding news and inspiration, join the Big Picture Community: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/big-picture-community
We're Making Rewilding Happen for nature, climate and people
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Nature is in crisis. Climate change is knocking at our door. Both these things are affecting our wellbeing. We need to turn things around. And there is a solution: rewilding. Through rewilding, we can create healthier, nature-rich, climate resilient landscapes. We're SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, and we're a charity working hard to make rewilding happen for nature, climate and people. Visit www.sc...
Experience rewilding in the Scottish Highlands
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Discover Rewilding Journeys with SCOTLAND: The Big Picture - a carefully crafted blend of discovery and inspiration. In the company of expert guides and like-minded travellers, you’ll visit transformational rewilding initiatives and meet the inspiring people driving them forward. After a day immersed in wild nature, you’ll relax in our stunning mountain lodge and enjoy delicious locally sourced...
Perthshire rewilders let nature in. Here's how we helped!
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Discover how Liberty and Hamish Martin created a wilder life at Tombane with help from our Northwoods Rewilding Network and NatureScot’s Nature Restoration Fund. By allowing native woodland to breathe again, increasing water for endangered species and creating rich corridors for wildlife, their rewilding journey was accelerated by joining the network; enabling them to tap into a community of re...
Why Not Scotland? premieres in Edinburgh
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Our new feature-length documentary, Why Not Scotland?, premiered in Edinburgh on 15 March 2024 to kick off its nationwide screening tour. Here are some of the highlights... About the film: Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. However, during her travels, she discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, bre...
Why does rewilding give Flo hope? | World Rewilding Day 2024
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In 2024, World Rewilding Day celebrates the people who are transforming #HopeIntoAction through their tangible rewilding successes. This World Rewilding Day, Flo - the star of our brand new documentary, Why Not Scotland? - shares her thoughts on why rewilding gives her hope and how we can all take action to make more rewilding happen. You can take action today for nature, climate and people in ...
Why Not Scotland? Official Trailer
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Why Not Scotland? is a feature-length documentary which forms a central part of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s Rewilding Nation campaign. The film accompanies Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, on an intensely personal journey, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. H...
MAKING REWILDING PAY | The Kinkell Byre Story
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Once a struggling farm, Kinkell Byre is now a successful wedding venue. Rory Fyfe has set out on a mission to rewild the family farmland near St. Andrews. Can rewilding really work alongside their business? Kinkell Byre is a Northwoods Rewilding Network partner. Find out more about Northwoods: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/northwoods Stay inspired and up to date by joining the Big Picture Communit...
Creating Riverwoods: The Role of Wildlife
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Healthy rivers need healthy wildlife populations, functioning together to sustain a productive system. Today, a growing number of pioneering landowners and land managers are undertaking river restoration efforts that harness this vital synergy, seeking to restore the abundance of life that Scotland’s river ecosystems once supported and recognising the importance of all the pieces of the ecologi...
Creating Riverwoods: Riparian Planting
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Atlantic salmon need cold, clean rivers, but rising river temperatures are increasingly adding to the many pressures already facing this iconic fish. Trees create vital shade, and so restoring native woodland along Scotland’s exposed riverbanks has become a race against time, with landowners, land managers, gamekeepers and fisheries experts joining forces to restore Scotland’s riverwoods and co...
Creating Riverwoods: Floodplains
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As climate breakdown increases the likelihood of heavy rainfall events - increasing peak flows to dangerous levels in our narrowly confined rivers - efforts are being made across Scotland to reunite rivers with their natural floodplains, revitalising wetlands and slowing river flows. Natural floodplains slow the rate at which water travels downstream, protecting salmon eggs in vulnerable gravel...
Creating Riverwoods: Catchment Scale Restoration
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Rewetting peatlands and replanting upland forests benefits whole river catchments, boosting wildlife, reducing siltation and enhancing resilience to droughts and floods. Today, Scotland’s landowners and land managers are alert to the fact that restoring Scotland’s threatened rivers, and saving Scotland’s wild salmon, requires an awareness of what is happening beyond the riverbank, with consider...
Creating Riverwoods: Dynamic Processes
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Creating Riverwoods: Dynamic Processes
SHEEP AND LYNX in Scotland: Conflict or coexistence?
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SHEEP AND LYNX in Scotland: Conflict or coexistence?
Cairngorms Connect: A wild landscape in the making webinar
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Cairngorms Connect: A wild landscape in the making webinar
Cairngorms Connect: The Role of Deadwood
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Cairngorms Connect: The Role of Deadwood
Cairngorms Connect: Woodland Expansion
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Cairngorms Connect: Woodland Expansion
Scotland's threatened mountain habitats | Rewilding Reachout
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Scotland's threatened mountain habitats | Rewilding Reachout
Slowing down Scotland's rushing rivers | Rewilding Reachout
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Slowing down Scotland's rushing rivers | Rewilding Reachout
Why Scotland's towns need nature's mess | Rewilding Reachout
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Why Scotland's towns need nature's mess | Rewilding Reachout
Must we choose between farming and nature? | Rewilding Reachout
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Must we choose between farming and nature? | Rewilding Reachout
Forests for the future | Rewilding Reachout
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Forests for the future | Rewilding Reachout
Living with lynx in Scotland | Webinar
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Living with lynx in Scotland | Webinar
Fantastic work ❤❤❤❤
Given humans took them all away I think humans should bloody well put them back.
What aren’t we planting some trees a bit further apart and some trees right next to each other? Some much older trees and some already coppiced trees and some curved and oddly shaped and some straight trees? Why aren’t we planting older trees too amongst the all 2-3 year old trees? Needs that non-uniform planting spacing and ages to help with biodiversity later on in 10 years and more
Great videos. All landowners need to watch and get in to it and make a change for this country. If it works financially then it’ll be taken up across the nation
Must be the most satisfying job in the world enabling wildlife to prosper in your creation
Will the Wildcat population be safe?
We cant look after the Scottish Wildcat, Red Squirrel, Capercaillie at the moment…
Forget Lynx, I think we should keep focus on the Scottish Wildcat.
Excellent video! well done! and great work.
So uplifting for the soul! But hopefully also an inspiration for many more land owners and land managers to do similar. These schemes will massively benefit not just the environment and biodiversity, but local agriculture too - greater flood and drought resilience, more beneficial insects, healthier soils......Wouldn't in be great if every farmer incorporated this type of practice on an element of their land.
They will take lambs for sure and know from friends in Norway they will go after domestic cats etc.
Ask the sheep and lambs in the Highlands whether they are ready. If the government doesn’t kill sheep these moronic rewildings will.
Look the landowners and game keepers don't want their way of life changed, even though they kill birds of prey perpetually to protect the game birds, so they can have fun blasting them out of the sky, so Lynx would never be allowed by the rich who own everything in the UK.
Do not let the lynx into Scotland ,once established you will never be able to control them as you will be blocked whatever damage caused by them and are they going to remain north of the boarder? ??? Like hell they are ,...say no to the lynx and all the propergander shite
Great work 👏
Bring the lynx back :D
lynx and the scottish wild cat hybrid will make great combination😸
Great video. Thank you 🙏
The re introduction of this beautiful animal would be most welcome. Well done all who work to this end.
It would be great if the countries which lost their native predatory animals like lynx could now ensure their reintroduction. I am bit sceptical, as raptors, foxes and badgers are still persecuted by hunters, and gamekeepers in UK despite the law forbidding hunting of wildlife. Until there is a strict enforcement of law, even if lynx gets back, and starts to stalk various smaller prey, it can end up persecuted as remaining predators on UK soil and air, if it ventures to those landowners who are killing anything other than they want on their land.
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Please create a follow-up video so we can see the progress!
Beavers are now being removed in Scotland due to bank and tree damage. People are idiotically releasing beavers without permission we have had them re caught
As today's stupid release has proven, Always the none farmers can't see a problem, Its not their stock. Illegally released beavers and legally are being recaught due to damage. I'm not willing to accept the losses
The issue is habitat destruction and there are two very simple fixes to this. First, remove the almost 7 million sheep from Scotland, deer numbers are roughly just 10% of this, yet deer get the blame..... Not forgetting the subsidies the sheep farmers get to ruin the landscapes. Second, the issue with the deer is overgrazing because a lack of movement. This is fixed by moving the deer on with groups of hikers and fell runners. Deer are native and sentient beings that do not want to die, those who shoot them will never take the same deer a predator would, they can and do miss their shots and venison is a red meat which is classed as a group 2a carcinogen. There are alternatives, but we won't pursue them because people will lose money over it which shows that the environment isn't truly their primary concern.
I agree about the sheep but not about hikers moving on deer. It will take a lot more than that to move deer in a way that benefits the landscape ie a natural predator. You also mention venison being a carcinogen - I’m not sure why that is relevant? If you want to go down that route then you might want to consider that lots of non-meat products ie oats, wheat, veggies etc contain glyphosate, which I’m sure you’re aware of is also a Group 2a carcinogen?
@@THE_ECONNORGIST eating deer is always used as an angle to continue shooting them. There is no evidence to suggest that oats, wheat and veggies are carcinogenic, Cancer Research UK, WHO, UN, USFDA, etc. Not one of those state anywhere that what you said is true, as per, typical anti-vegan and nutrition mis-information from the pro animal-consumers. Wholegrains in general are shown in the consensus of research to have positive health effects, including on digestion and cardiovascular health. Oats in particular have benefits for blood cholesterol levels, being rich in the soluble fibre beta-glucan, which has been shown to lower harmful LDL cholesterol levels. There's no good evidence to support the idea that oats are damaging to health. Oats are an affordable, nutritious food and can absolutely be part of a balanced, healthy diet.
At the end of the day, without wild apex predators we will NEVER get a good handle on deer numbers or feeding behaviours. Stalking can play a role, particularly in lowering numbers. But it's arrogant to think they could ever fulfil the same role as a wild apex predator that has co-evolved with deer. Working not just with stalkers, but with wolves and lynx is the only way we will see true landscape-scale change.
The bringing together of all key interests on all sides of a subject seems to always bring amazing results when all sides are heard calmly and fairly. Sometimes, even, one side can see a way that the other side can be enhanced by the actions of yet another side which again leads to a tweak in how the first side does something and then benefits all in ways no one thought possible. Who would have thought that all sides working together could be a concept?
Mmmmm venison
How can we get involved in helping? Up for volunteer labour etc
And ALSO planting native wetland plants and shrubs as that level and diversity of vegetation is needed for a diverse habitat and diverse wildlife (including the salmon which are an important part of the ecosystem).
Well done 👏👏👏 congratulations superb job and much needed throughout the UK
There are almost certainly already lynx in Scotland. As well as puma and black leopards.You must know that?
Very nice project. Love the idea. Good luck!
Thanks!
They are very likely already there. Lynx are so elusive you'd hardly see them.
Sounds like a great success. Your video editing needs work, however. You skip from clip to clip after 2-3 seconds and repeat clips unnecessarily, as if your goal was to have as many separate shots as possible. When you have a wide landscape shot you need to allow time for people to actually look it, orient themselves on it, and see details.
Love this. Thanks for the inspiration!
We have not had this conflict in an extreme form in the Arnside Silverdale National Landscape and we had an excellent explanation of one of the reasons why this is so at a BDS stalkers evening last week.
Why the music? People are talking, birds are singing, water is flowing, but everything has to be accompanied by generic, dramatic or sad music. Just why?
And your academic and professional background is? 🧐 You could always go and make a video about said topic yourself? Stop complaining about something you get for FREE!! Sheesh! 🙄 🤦🏼♀️
I agree with you entirely. Not all of us have perfect hearing and the music is making it harder for me to hear all the narrative. Ignore the sarcasm, your opinion is valid.
Agreed it’s editors justifying their job, simple is better always
Why the crying? People are coping, words are being written but everything has to be accompanied by tiktok kids like you crying. Just why?
We need so much more of this, rather than the polarisation we too often see.
Love it. We need more of this but please oh please ditch the background music. It's very distracting. Just saying...
Brilliant!
Amazing efforts , Thanks for sharing <<bows Low>>
They won’t kill humans, just their pets.
so many oaks growing near us whre they bury acorns.
wonderful. get some beavers in there.
Scotland is such a sad empty place for wildlife. We need laws to force landowers to restore habitats.
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0:53 <<Bows low>> Thanks for sharing, these steps definitely walk in tandem..
Sign me up :)
The takeway for me, apart from the lynx's general welfare, is that if an animal is in any way a hinderance to our way of living then its a problem.
It's a hinderance to the point of "get a guardian livestock dog or lose some lambs/chickens/ducks etc." HARDLY Starmeresque.