Herdwick Sheep Lake District - A Conversation About Conservation with James Rebanks

An in-depth interview with James Rebanks, shepherd and author of "The Shepherd's Life", provides an invaluable insight into the Lake District Landscape and Herdwick sheep.

[@johnengland3887]

Beautiful video, fabulous land, magnificent sheep, thank you

[@sheepdogman1]

We had one of your bred tups a few years back (racy ghyll gulliver) up here in Shetland. We have a flock 100ish herdies, the locals don’t like it but we have had had them for 30 + years and won’t be changing. Great sheep great flock.

[@sroberts605]

Everything you say makes 100% sense to me - and all the more so since you say this from within the experience, not wishing it were so from an outside, perhaps nostalgic or ill-informed, or romantic point of view.
It's very hard to stop the rate of change that we're all experiencing, which makes good decision making, even if it happens, become obsolete in ever-shortening time. I hope that changing climates call a halt and a pause to re-think, and not the destructive path that may yet unfold.

[@jackbigtree2160]

What a wonderful person

[@inotaarto8719]

Good man, good shepard. Beautiful sheep. A shepard of finnsheep 🫡