I live in small country of Slovakia... we have boar, lynx, brown bear, small but slowly growing wolf population, wisent and even beaver. If my small country can support all this wildlife, UK can too.
Well done to your countrymen for looking after your wildlife!! Chemtrails spraying in Britain is killing our bee's and insect's! The aluminium sprayed over our land and water is destroying our birds too! chemtrails are damaging we humans too!! But British government only recently admitted to spraying they say it's to stop the sun's rays from damaging our health!! Yes I know you couldn't make this up!! USA and Europe Union are behind this spraying of heavy metals to poison all of us!! I love wildlife and always feed my garden bird's and always put water and honey for the bee's in my garden!! No chemicals allowed! I use molasses to fertilize my plants and fruit trees!! Best wishes from maggie.south Wales in the UK
@@margaretedwards2439 Lol, Always the bad EU, huh? These were trials to test the vulnerability of the UK against biological attacks from the Sowjetunion. www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience Nothing with Chemtrails and sun protection. Please don't spread nonsense.
Annoying music competing with the speaker's commentary. it was hard to follow what was being said despite full volume on my laptop. Please reload either without the music or by reducing its volume against the commentary.
The funny thing is the British criticises other countries about there deforestation and saving there animals but look at the UK there's hardly anything left here except empty fields and deer
@KJ Dempsey I never heard a sound from seattle until he made a noise & woke up a sleeping dog known as Agenda 21-30 Global communism mate! Now we're all suffering under the guise of coronabug-1984 mate!
You have no idea how depressing it is to see nothing but open grass and a couple of tiny hobbled trees, in the summer there’s not a spot of shade or even many trees that can provide shade.
As someone who loves nature, believe me, it's really depressing. We are too overpopulated though and things won't change because no one wants to address the causes of these problems. Everyone is in denial. The government would never cap our net plus immigration because it's not in the interests of the rich, and it continues to be grow at record high.
I think of the UK really got their rewilding together, they could reintroduce/introduce many animals that became extricated from their. India and Sri Lanka have HUGE population densities and they have been able to reverse the damage done to the ecosystem and restore them to a great extent. They have done so so well in fact that they are even on the edge of Pleistocene rewilding (it is a more advanced form of rewilding, but has the same basic concept), especially in India. These two countries (collectively) have many of the most high order predators on earth, including tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, brown bears, and many other predators. Yes, rewilding and conservation may not be done smoothly and perfectly, but if we as a society are persistent, we can restore our environment. If India and Sri Lanka can do it, I don't see why Great Britain cannot do it too.
Thank you for posting this! I love seeing these changes attempted! And it's great seeing animals in their natural state instead of just in cages. These are amazing creatures! We can learn so much from them. I would love to see the forests return. I hope there is funding to continue this and sustain it.
Are wolves and lynxes a threat for livestock? Well, the simple, yet painfull answer, is that animal husbandry must get more sustainable, I hear people having from 500 to 5.000 sheep, goat and cow, and that's just one person, how is an island going to sustain so many animals? It's not even easy to say, but we need to reduce the number of animals that people are allowed to raise if we REALLY want to rewild Great Britain. Agriculture is also another thing that must be reduced. Agriculture must be permited only around towns and cities, just like they did during the middle ages. Beyond the cultivated land there should be something like a "communal woodland", a wild area that's open to be used but with restriction, and things such as mining, BANNED in some delicate areas. Bringing long ago extincted animals to the land is not easy, and sadly is not the end of the struggle. We, people, have a huge role that we'll need to play if we really want to live alongside nature; we must stop being so uterly consumerist, and become conservationalist, why do we eat so much meat? Why do we eat so much food overall?? In the old days, people used to eat no more than twice a day, with little to almost no meat at all. It's firt us the ones who have to improve, then nature will do it by itself.
I love the music, but I could much better understand the speaker if the music were not so loud. When I cannot hear the speaker, I tend to lose interest and move on. Thank you.
I am so in love with this idea! Let's start rewilding, end game hunting and deer stalking, and end the animal agriculture, which is nothing more than a massive waste of tax payers money, cruel and incredibly destructive for our environment.
I live between Dallas and Fort Worth. We have Bobcats, feral hogs. up to 300 lbs, beaver, armadillos coyotes and several poisonous snakes in our local park. The bobcats are accustomed to people, dogs and bicycles. My dog scared one up not long ago startling me as well. I have video of a momma with three Cubs.
For those saying UK is too heavily populated, that's absolutely not a valid excuse. Rwanda a poor African country, has twice the population density of the UK, and our population is growing even faster. But we have Lions, Gorillas, Hippos, Elephants and even Rhino's. It's just a matter of priority, as a country we value nature, the UK doesn't. Even European countries with higher population density like the Netherlands, Germany or Slovakia all have Wolves and Bears, the UK has absolutely no excuse. But the UK also deserves credit for the fantastic work individuals and the UK government are doing helping nature in other countries, especially in East and Southern Africa.
We constantly hear people in the UK criticise other countries for hunting/poaching animals but we forget that the reason we don't have those sorts of animals is because we wiped them off the face of this country and in other countries. Pot calling the kettle black!
You could have Farmers having training Irish Wolfhounds or Scottish Deerhounds as well as their sheepdog, they could use them to fend off any nosey wolves
From my reading and watching video's it really does seem to me that the best way for Apex Predators and farmers to survive and coexist is through the use of Live Stock Guardian dogs (LGD) The way that works is a small pack of LGD's live full time with the livestock and protect it. I guess they provide enough protection that the predator goes and looks for an easier meal. Also until you get around to reintroducing that top predator humans need to start harvesting more of the over populated game.
A lot of the resistance to reintroduction of predators seems to be from farmers. If we all cut out meat eating dramatically, we'd free up vast areas of land to be rewilded, this could be a huge draw for tourists. I'd be more proud of a wilder Britain, more in line with it's pre humen flora and forna than the over farmed mess we currently see.
The music is so loud that I can't hear the people speaking. Otherwise great content.I see there are 10 other comments from people that they also can't hear the speakers yet nothing has been fixed. sorry I can't finish watching as I can't hear what is being said!
Wolves and lynxes would be the easiest mammal predators to be reintroduced and they also used to live in Ireland. Did you know that bears used to live in Britain?
I was aware, yes. They have the potential to cause even more conflict than wolves and lynx. Unfortunately, we are a relatively small island with a large human population so human-wildlife conflict will always be probable
Wolverines also used to live there until 8,000 years ago. It's time to reintroduce lynxes, wolves, and bears back to Britain! For wolves and bears to be reintroduced to Scotland, you need a large area to fit them all in, like 10,000 square kilometers. Here are the timelines of wolves becoming extinct in Britain: 1485-1540 in England and Wales, 1680-1743 in Scotland, and 1786 in Ireland. The Scottish highlands and Ireland are the prefect places for them to be reintroduced.
They are pretty much the same species aren't they? In UK, red deer, in US, elk. I'm not sure how different they are - I think recently they've found some difference between N.American elk and European red deer. Elk in UK/Europe usually means what Yanks would call moose. Makes it a bit confusing.
No, red deer are a distinct species. You are correct about findings of them being related to the American Elk, despite 'American' Elk living in Asia, they're found further East, whereas the Red is found West and in the Central Asia. I do not doubt they come into contact, but the chances are slim that they interbreed.
I was going to comment on that, but yes, elk/wapiti and red deer are closely related species, but are distinct. However, if given the opportunity, they will hybbridize freely. Where I live in South Texas, it is common to cross breed elk/wapiti with red deer and/or sika deer on big game ranches. The hybrid offspring are fully fertile.
Lol I'm from Slovenia, which is a really small country. We have forest in south/south east and we have populations of linx, bears and wolfs. I don't see why you couldn't rewild parts of Scotland where there's low population density. Your area is much bigger then our forests.
theres big cats in Britain I just found a deer leg eaten to the bone walking the dogs this morning, it wasn't there yesterday so must have happened last night, i live in Somerset.
Prince Charles keeps promoting wildlife but does not seem commit any of his thousands of acres to rewild Britain what a great position to be in. He is in a great position to give something back to his grand children and everyone else's grand children. He is in the position to bring back many endangered species back from the brink of extinction!
Unfortunately I can't ever see the wolf being reintroduced to Britain even though they belong here, the stigma surrounding them will stop any attempt. The Lynx has an outside chance of being allowed back but I don't hold out much hope, and the beaver is already here and doing what nature intended it to do.
1) There are six species of deer in UK . Where I live in Cumbria there a lot of roe and red deer 2) Serious problems in this area are raw sewage pumped into rivers killing fish and insects with the resulting destruction of otter , sand martin , dipper and kingfisher populations . At the same time water rates are charged and squandered The second problem is biologically dead bracken blanking the fells . Much of this land is owned by the National Trust ( the idle lot ) . Before re-wilding , sort out these and oiher problems
Mike, forests can't grow *because* Cumbria is lousy with deer. Deer eat sapling trees, so no trees mature to adulthood and bracken prevails. Rivers are damaged by the lack of tree cover which filters run off and provides shade. Sadly, we need to manage deer population and introduce predators for them so that the land can thrive again.
@@georgelane6350 I know all about deer management . 140 acres of newly planted saplings now about 8 ft+ high . An adjoining 10 acre hillock clear felled then planted with a mixture of mainly oak , bird cherry and sycamore . All thriving due to a mixture of shooting and detering ( mothballs , creosote and warning tape ) And I rarely need to buy meat And bracken grows in tree shade and in the open . It can be dealt with using different methods but some landowners ( not farmers ) make no effort
We tell the world to give big cats space - enormous big cats Lions , Tigers, Leopards and there is probably few hundreds maybe a few thousand of them in the wild. One Lynx escapes in Britain which is just twice the size of a normal pussy cat, and a nationwide panic manhunt ensues with the animal being gunned down while sleeping in a caravan park in Wales. This story was the saddest thing I have ever read in a newspaper.
Yes all this is fine & dandy,but @ 0 AD,the population was maybe 2 to 3million people, now it's close to 70million. I live on the edge of the New Forest,when I was young 50+ yrs back there was plenty of wildlife there,but now numbers are diminishing because of millions of grockles arriving each year. Places that only 5yrs ago I photographed all sorts of wildlife,now due to ever more grockles(people)visiting,wildlife is diminishing rapidly. To many dogs brought there scare off so much wildlife.
I am intensely interested in this subject, however the background music in this video is so loud that it makes it impossible to follow the commentary, very disappointing. Future documentary film makers please consider this. The annoying music adds nothing but frustration.
Since it's controversial, why not just vote for the reintroduction. Anyway, the reintroduction starts this year. If you want to know that moose have been reintroduced in the 70's, go to the Wikipedia and go to the subspecies list.
+Abe The Conservationist Hi Abe! I was aware of the status of these species, thanks. Unfortunately I had time and budget restrainst that restricted me from talking about much more. In regards to offering a vote, I feel that not enough people are aware of the issues, and simply do not have enough knowledge to cast a well-informed vote. Furthermore, if the whole country were to vote, given the large proportion of people who live in built up towns and cities, the majority of the voters would not be affected by the species being reintroduced. Conservation, particularly rewilding, takes time - more than the 5 years a government thinks about (or four years in the US) - and careful planning. We must be patient. If you haven't read it already, and are interested about rewilding in Britain, I would suggest to you the book 'Feral' by George Monbiot. As with any 'opinion' book, it shouldn't be taken literally, but it is a very interesting read. There are also plenty of papers about US rewilding - the Proceedings of the National Aacademy of Sciences (PNAS) is a great place to look. All the best
Sian Douglass At least there's enough habitat for bears in Scotland. When I first noticed that wolves used to live in the British isles, I wondered if bears were absent there.
Would be good to see wolves and lynxes back, but it's unlikely with the farmers having been rubbed up the wrong way by animal rights extremism pandered to by the Labour Party and the BBC.
BEFORE reintroduction just rule that farmers will be allowed to remove predators in defence of livestock. Radical animalism is tremendously detrimental to the environment.
mosaic was the natural condition, not forest. george monbiot says the sheep farmers must be kicked out, they are paid subsidy to damage the land. deer and grouse farms are places to practice shooting. isabella tree pointed out scrub is a key, the NFU is a villain, they went against crop rotation after WW2 to continue subsidies and continued to farm intensively.
Humans barely regard other creatures unless directly serving us as a cuddly pet or stomach filler.. environmental issues are barely an issue for most people. When our environment truly begins to collapse we better hope travel to other planets is possible because reversing the collapse will most likely be beyond our procrastinating mentality. Sad to think air & water are so full of pollutents *A small percentage of our people are making a difference & are dedicated long-term* The number of unemployed, able-bodied people who could be mobilised to work environmental tasks could turn a lot of damage around..even 1x day a week.
Nice video. Pity that the map of Britain includes the Republic of Ireland. Do British people not realize we gained our Independence from then? Honest question.
I'm sorry to be a doomer but I passionately care about British wildlife and rewilding Britain, and have little hope that it will happen. Simply because those in power and average liberal voters are too in denial to address the things that will stop it from becoming a reality rather than something we just continue to talk about. We can't rewild unless we have the suitable conditions to rewild. And we can't have the suitable conditions without reducing the causes of over-population. We do need great minds thinking of suitable ideas though.
You sit on the fence at times. While I can see that otters may have impacts on migrating fish, you can surely energise your presentation of otters with the Joie de Vivre that infuses your coverage of wolves and lynx. £9m on deer management by FC Scotland. Cheques for photos and guard dogs sound good. Do you think wolves could.survive in less than 10,000 km2? Lynx.... mesopredator release effect The choice is ours Nice essay
I know that it is much easier to make the news by reintroducing large, furry mammals, but does anyone actually care that we are losing beautiful (and formerly common) species such as curlew, lapwing, spotted fly catcher, fritillary butterflies and fish such as the allis shad and vendace? This is as a direct result of habitat loss due to unsustainable farming, overdevelopment and pollution. I see no sign of this habitat shrinkage and damage slowing down. So, my question is, how are we going to manage the shrinking available land for the reintroduction of large mammals that have been absent for hundreds of years?
This would bve much easier to listen to if the silly plinky plonky "music" was got rid of. This is not a "hollywood" blockbuster and does not need a musical score to accompany it. Thumbs down.
5000 Years ago most big animals repsonsable for shaping Britains landscapes were wiped out already. A forestet Britain is only the symptome of the absence of herbivores too big to be effectivly regulated by carnivores like Elephants Rhinos and so forth. I do support the idea of rewilding but please get your facts straight. It wasn t climatechange that wiped out the pleistocene megafauna it is the legacy of our ancestors and they are to be blamed. During the last interglacial period Britains climate was very much like it is now but with vast open temperate tree and shrub svannahs full of Elephants Lions Rhinos Horses Bison and even Hippos.
Bullshit ... If you truly believe few tousands of primitives were able to wipe out largest mammals in history you're not only terribly wrong but stupid and ignorant
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I live in small country of Slovakia... we have boar, lynx, brown bear, small but slowly growing wolf population, wisent and even beaver. If my small country can support all this wildlife, UK can too.
Your country may be small, but you only have a population of 5m people. Compared to the UK's 65m people, most of the land in the UK is inhabited.
@@liukin95 yes but we have smaller Area as well... Its not about numbers Its about Ppl what they want what Is their priority ....
@@liukin95 Germany, my home country, has a similar population density as Britain, but wolfes and lynx live here quite fine too
Well done to your countrymen for looking after your wildlife!! Chemtrails spraying in Britain is killing our bee's and insect's! The aluminium sprayed over our land and water is destroying our birds too! chemtrails are damaging we humans too!! But British government only recently admitted to spraying they say it's to stop the sun's rays from damaging our health!! Yes I know you couldn't make this up!! USA and Europe Union are behind this spraying of heavy metals to poison all of us!! I love wildlife and always feed my garden bird's and always put water and honey for the bee's in my garden!! No chemicals allowed! I use molasses to fertilize my plants and fruit trees!! Best wishes from maggie.south Wales in the UK
@@margaretedwards2439 Lol, Always the bad EU, huh? These were trials to test the vulnerability of the UK against biological attacks from the Sowjetunion.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2002/apr/21/uk.medicalscience
Nothing with Chemtrails and sun protection. Please don't spread nonsense.
Annoying music competing with the speaker's commentary. it was hard to follow what was being said despite full volume on my laptop. Please reload either without the music or by reducing its volume against the commentary.
The funny thing is the British criticises other countries about there deforestation and saving there animals but look at the UK there's hardly anything left here except empty fields and deer
@KJ Dempsey I never heard a sound from seattle until he made a noise & woke up a sleeping dog known as Agenda 21-30 Global communism mate! Now we're all suffering under the guise of coronabug-1984 mate!
@KJ Dempsey Hardly, they're pretty much bang on the money actually.
Dont forget what they did to the animals in the former colonies
You have no idea how depressing it is to see nothing but open grass and a couple of tiny hobbled trees, in the summer there’s not a spot of shade or even many trees that can provide shade.
As someone who loves nature, believe me, it's really depressing. We are too overpopulated though and things won't change because no one wants to address the causes of these problems. Everyone is in denial. The government would never cap our net plus immigration because it's not in the interests of the rich, and it continues to be grow at record high.
Did you know that bears also used to live there? Moose have been reintroduced to Scotland in the 1970's.
Its hard to listen to the content over the Music sorry : (
I just commented the same thing!
Pity I can't hear what people are saying over the music.
Please take the piano sound track off or reduce it. It makes it hard to hear what’s being said.
Aslo, I see a lot of comments about the background music being too loud for the narrator's voice, but I heard her just fine.
We should also reintroduce them to the Netherlands. The beaver became extinct in the 12th century, the lynx in the Middle ages, and the wolf in 1898.
I think of the UK really got their rewilding together, they could reintroduce/introduce many animals that became extricated from their. India and Sri Lanka have HUGE population densities and they have been able to reverse the damage done to the ecosystem and restore them to a great extent. They have done so so well in fact that they are even on the edge of Pleistocene rewilding (it is a more advanced form of rewilding, but has the same basic concept), especially in India. These two countries (collectively) have many of the most high order predators on earth, including tigers, lions, leopards, snow leopards, Asiatic black bears, sloth bears, brown bears, and many other predators. Yes, rewilding and conservation may not be done smoothly and perfectly, but if we as a society are persistent, we can restore our environment. If India and Sri Lanka can do it, I don't see why Great Britain cannot do it too.
Thank you for posting this!
I love seeing these changes attempted!
And it's great seeing animals in their natural state instead of just in cages.
These are amazing creatures! We can learn so much from them.
I would love to see the forests return.
I hope there is funding to continue this and sustain it.
Really informative video Sian :D well done! Let's make Britain's wildlife great again...bring them all back I say! :D xx
Are wolves and lynxes a threat for livestock? Well, the simple, yet painfull answer, is that animal husbandry must get more sustainable, I hear people having from 500 to 5.000 sheep, goat and cow, and that's just one person, how is an island going to sustain so many animals? It's not even easy to say, but we need to reduce the number of animals that people are allowed to raise if we REALLY want to rewild Great Britain.
Agriculture is also another thing that must be reduced. Agriculture must be permited only around towns and cities, just like they did during the middle ages. Beyond the cultivated land there should be something like a "communal woodland", a wild area that's open to be used but with restriction, and things such as mining, BANNED in some delicate areas.
Bringing long ago extincted animals to the land is not easy, and sadly is not the end of the struggle. We, people, have a huge role that we'll need to play if we really want to live alongside nature; we must stop being so uterly consumerist, and become conservationalist, why do we eat so much meat? Why do we eat so much food overall?? In the old days, people used to eat no more than twice a day, with little to almost no meat at all. It's firt us the ones who have to improve, then nature will do it by itself.
I love the music, but I could much better understand the speaker if the music were not so loud. When I cannot hear the speaker, I tend to lose interest and move on. Thank you.
I am so in love with this idea! Let's start rewilding, end game hunting and deer stalking, and end the animal agriculture, which is nothing more than a massive waste of tax payers money, cruel and incredibly destructive for our environment.
I say bring all our lost animals back. I'm for it 100%
can you give me of a place wher i can work to do this as a job? GREAT VIDEO AND THANK YOU
I live between Dallas and Fort Worth. We have Bobcats, feral hogs. up to 300 lbs, beaver, armadillos coyotes and several poisonous snakes in our local park. The bobcats are accustomed to people, dogs and bicycles. My dog scared one up not long ago startling me as well. I have video of a momma with three Cubs.
Its Nice to see nature at your countryside and home yard...
Technically, moose were reintroduced to Alledale wildlife park in 2008.
No, that's not a reintroduction - as it's a fenced enclosure - not a proper rewilding.
Great video, added to our Rewilding playlist.
Great video, thanks for posting.
im sick off all the talk and ideas but no action!
they are planning but i guess i agree... lol
Things are being done just have to do some research Treesforlife.org is one I’d recommend watching.
That sums up Britain.
You didn't mention the massive use of timber to make your Naval sailing ships.
For those saying UK is too heavily populated, that's absolutely not a valid excuse. Rwanda a poor African country, has twice the population density of the UK, and our population is growing even faster. But we have Lions, Gorillas, Hippos, Elephants and even Rhino's. It's just a matter of priority, as a country we value nature, the UK doesn't. Even European countries with higher population density like the Netherlands, Germany or Slovakia all have Wolves and Bears, the UK has absolutely no excuse. But the UK also deserves credit for the fantastic work individuals and the UK government are doing helping nature in other countries, especially in East and Southern Africa.
We constantly hear people in the UK criticise other countries for hunting/poaching animals but we forget that the reason we don't have those sorts of animals is because we wiped them off the face of this country and in other countries. Pot calling the kettle black!
You could have Farmers having training Irish Wolfhounds or Scottish Deerhounds as well as their sheepdog, they could use them to fend off any nosey wolves
What a pity that the dialogue is drowned out by he music. Irritating enough for me not to be able to finish watching.
From my reading and watching video's it really does seem to me that the best way for Apex Predators and farmers to survive and coexist is through the use of Live Stock Guardian dogs (LGD) The way that works is a small pack of LGD's live full time with the livestock and protect it. I guess they provide enough protection that the predator goes and looks for an easier meal. Also until you get around to reintroducing that top predator humans need to start harvesting more of the over populated game.
@t ritchie-Wow,what a top idea , lets think of a better name for them er,er, does sheepdog sound allright.?
A lot of the resistance to reintroduction of predators seems to be from farmers. If we all cut out meat eating dramatically, we'd free up vast areas of land to be rewilded, this could be a huge draw for tourists. I'd be more proud of a wilder Britain, more in line with it's pre humen flora and forna than the over farmed mess we currently see.
The music is so loud that I can't hear the people speaking. Otherwise great content.I see there are 10 other comments from people that they also can't hear the speakers yet nothing has been fixed. sorry I can't finish watching as I can't hear what is being said!
Wolves and lynxes would be the easiest mammal predators to be reintroduced and they also used to live in Ireland. Did you know that bears used to live in Britain?
I was aware, yes. They have the potential to cause even more conflict than wolves and lynx. Unfortunately, we are a relatively small island with a large human population so human-wildlife conflict will always be probable
Wolverines also used to live there until 8,000 years ago. It's time to reintroduce lynxes, wolves, and bears back to Britain! For wolves and bears to be reintroduced to Scotland, you need a large area to fit them all in, like 10,000 square kilometers. Here are the timelines of wolves becoming extinct in Britain: 1485-1540 in England and Wales, 1680-1743 in Scotland, and 1786 in Ireland. The Scottish highlands and Ireland are the prefect places for them to be reintroduced.
What!? Bears in Britain!?
Abe The Conservationist it’s full of aliens now m8
We need predators, even a lynx would the do a world of good.
@Brandon Horlback how so?
The red deer is not found in nor native to Yellowstone. It was the native American elk population which was reduced by the Yellowstone wolves.
They are pretty much the same species aren't they? In UK, red deer, in US, elk.
I'm not sure how different they are - I think recently they've found some difference between N.American elk and European red deer. Elk in UK/Europe usually means what Yanks would call moose. Makes it a bit confusing.
No, red deer are a distinct species. You are correct about findings of them being related to the American Elk, despite 'American' Elk living in Asia, they're found further East, whereas the Red is found West and in the Central Asia. I do not doubt they come into contact, but the chances are slim that they interbreed.
I was going to comment on that, but yes, elk/wapiti and red deer are closely related species, but are distinct. However, if given the opportunity, they will hybbridize freely. Where I live in South Texas, it is common to cross breed elk/wapiti with red deer and/or sika deer on big game ranches. The hybrid offspring are fully fertile.
Great idea. Unfortunately population density in the UK makes re introducing large animal species an impossiblity
Lol I'm from Slovenia, which is a really small country. We have forest in south/south east and we have populations of linx, bears and wolfs. I don't see why you couldn't rewild parts of Scotland where there's low population density. Your area is much bigger then our forests.
Too much music.
Music drowning out the commentary.
Hurry up, bring this on! The deer population is out of control with no predators, ask any dog walker!
theres big cats in Britain I just found a deer leg eaten to the bone walking the dogs this morning, it wasn't there yesterday so must have happened last night, i live in Somerset.
Hi Sian, I'm doing a project on Rewilding and the interaction of the biosphere and geosphere, could I get a copy of your wright?
/How manny bears have been released in the UK. How many more does science sah are needed.
11:59 Oh you lovely Lynx 😍
Prince Charles keeps promoting wildlife but does not seem commit any of his thousands of acres to rewild Britain what a great position to be in. He is in a great position to give something back to his grand children and everyone else's grand children. He is in the position to bring back many endangered species back from the brink of extinction!
With that picture of beaver hunting, what picture should I look up so I can put that on my blog?
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beaver_hunting_at_Fort_Conolly.jpg?uselang=en-gb
There are 2 more keystone species that should be reintroduced and they are the wild boar and the grey whale.
I know this was 3 years ago, but wild boar have already been reintroduced
I actually knew that.
Music TOO LOUD!n Music distracting and not necessary.
7:41 how gourgeous
i love beavers natures dam builders .
Unfortunately I can't ever see the wolf being reintroduced to Britain even though they belong here, the stigma surrounding them will stop any attempt. The Lynx has an outside chance of being allowed back but I don't hold out much hope, and the beaver is already here and doing what nature intended it to do.
the government seems determined to get rid of any green bits every field near me is a "development opportunity"
beaver not the problem its the farmers
1) There are six species of deer in UK . Where I live in Cumbria there a lot of roe and red deer 2) Serious problems in this area are raw sewage pumped into rivers killing fish and insects with the resulting destruction of otter , sand martin , dipper and kingfisher populations . At the same time water rates are charged and squandered The second problem is biologically dead bracken blanking the fells . Much of this land is owned by the National Trust ( the idle lot ) . Before re-wilding , sort out these and oiher problems
Mike, forests can't grow *because* Cumbria is lousy with deer. Deer eat sapling trees, so no trees mature to adulthood and bracken prevails. Rivers are damaged by the lack of tree cover which filters run off and provides shade. Sadly, we need to manage deer population and introduce predators for them so that the land can thrive again.
@@georgelane6350 I know all about deer management . 140 acres of newly planted saplings now about 8 ft+ high . An adjoining 10 acre hillock clear felled then planted with a mixture of mainly oak , bird cherry and sycamore . All thriving due to a mixture of shooting and detering ( mothballs , creosote and warning tape ) And I rarely need to buy meat
And bracken grows in tree shade and in the open . It can be dealt with using different methods but some landowners ( not farmers ) make no effort
We tell the world to give big cats space - enormous big cats Lions , Tigers, Leopards and there is probably few hundreds maybe a few thousand of them in the wild. One Lynx escapes in Britain which is just twice the size of a normal pussy cat, and a nationwide panic manhunt ensues with the animal being gunned down while sleeping in a caravan park in Wales. This story was the saddest thing I have ever read in a newspaper.
I'm from Canada and I've come face-to-face with a wolf when I was a child and the wolf ran away.
We also have wolves in and around urban areas and have absolutely no issues.
Yes all this is fine & dandy,but @ 0 AD,the population was maybe 2 to 3million people, now it's close to 70million. I live on the edge of the New Forest,when I was young 50+ yrs back there was plenty of wildlife there,but now numbers are diminishing because of millions of grockles arriving each year. Places that only 5yrs ago I photographed all sorts of wildlife,now due to ever more grockles(people)visiting,wildlife is diminishing rapidly. To many dogs brought there scare off so much wildlife.
I am intensely interested in this subject, however the background music in this video is so loud that it makes it impossible to follow the commentary, very disappointing. Future documentary film makers please consider this. The annoying music adds nothing but frustration.
Please turn that music off! It's drowning out the narrator!!
Since it's controversial, why not just vote for the reintroduction. Anyway, the reintroduction starts this year. If you want to know that moose have been reintroduced in the 70's, go to the Wikipedia and go to the subspecies list.
+Abe The Conservationist Hi Abe! I was aware of the status of these species, thanks. Unfortunately I had time and budget restrainst that restricted me from talking about much more. In regards to offering a vote, I feel that not enough people are aware of the issues, and simply do not have enough knowledge to cast a well-informed vote. Furthermore, if the whole country were to vote, given the large proportion of people who live in built up towns and cities, the majority of the voters would not be affected by the species being reintroduced. Conservation, particularly rewilding, takes time - more than the 5 years a government thinks about (or four years in the US) - and careful planning. We must be patient. If you haven't read it already, and are interested about rewilding in Britain, I would suggest to you the book 'Feral' by George Monbiot. As with any 'opinion' book, it shouldn't be taken literally, but it is a very interesting read. There are also plenty of papers about US rewilding - the Proceedings of the National Aacademy of Sciences (PNAS) is a great place to look. All the best
Sian Douglass It sure would be amazing if wolves, lynxes, bears, and other animals returned to the British isles.
I definitely agree with you! Maybe one day it will be possible..
Sian Douglass At least there's enough habitat for bears in Scotland. When I first noticed that wolves used to live in the British isles, I wondered if bears were absent there.
There were never wison nor horses in the brittish isles, only aurochs. For the rest, I think it was all about deers and surelly warthogs.
I could barely make out what you were saying over the loud music.
bring back wolves, linyxs and baers. to uk
bring bears and moose and wolf lynx pleasse
The irritating background music makes it very difficult for me to hear much of this!
Would be good to see wolves and lynxes back, but it's unlikely with the farmers having been rubbed up the wrong way by animal rights extremism pandered to by the Labour Party and the BBC.
BEFORE reintroduction just rule that farmers will be allowed to remove predators in defence of livestock.
Radical animalism is tremendously detrimental to the environment.
mosaic was the natural condition, not forest. george monbiot says the sheep farmers must be kicked out, they are paid subsidy to damage the land. deer and grouse farms are places to practice shooting. isabella tree pointed out scrub is a key, the NFU is a villain, they went against crop rotation after WW2 to continue subsidies and continued to farm intensively.
Humans barely regard other creatures unless directly serving us as a cuddly pet or stomach filler..
environmental issues are barely an issue for most people.
When our environment truly begins to collapse we better hope travel to other planets is possible because reversing the collapse will most likely be beyond our procrastinating mentality.
Sad to think air & water are so full of pollutents
*A small percentage of our people are making a difference & are dedicated long-term*
The number of unemployed, able-bodied people who could be mobilised to work environmental tasks could turn a lot of damage around..even 1x day a week.
Sheep have a lot to answer for
Silly pointless music spoiling what should be an enjoyable mini documentary.... :-(
Wrong
Can't listen anymore!! The music destroys the narration!! So message is lost!!!!!!
Nice video. Pity that the map of Britain includes the Republic of Ireland. Do British people not realize we gained our Independence from then? Honest question.
Britain is actually just england Scotland and Wales
Just imagine - some lovely large carnivores on the outskirts of our cities - that would make knife crime & shootings seem like a good thing?
The loud music needlessly drowns out the narrative. Not a good video.
I'm sorry to be a doomer but I passionately care about British wildlife and rewilding Britain, and have little hope that it will happen. Simply because those in power and average liberal voters are too in denial to address the things that will stop it from becoming a reality rather than something we just continue to talk about. We can't rewild unless we have the suitable conditions to rewild. And we can't have the suitable conditions without reducing the causes of over-population. We do need great minds thinking of suitable ideas though.
0:43 the island on the left isn't britain thats Ireland
Ireland was historically called 'Little Britain'.
Use bear spray
You sit on the fence at times. While I can see that otters may have impacts on migrating fish, you can surely energise your presentation of otters with the Joie de Vivre that infuses your coverage of wolves and lynx.
£9m on deer management by FC Scotland. Cheques for photos and guard dogs sound good. Do you think wolves could.survive in less than 10,000 km2? Lynx....
mesopredator release effect
The choice is ours
Nice essay
Cool more for me to shoot...
You must be mad, wolves, really wolves... & lynx, if you are having troubles with foxes, just wait until you have lynx back in the area!
I know that it is much easier to make the news by reintroducing large, furry mammals, but does anyone actually care that we are losing beautiful (and formerly common) species such as curlew, lapwing, spotted fly catcher, fritillary butterflies and fish such as the allis shad and vendace? This is as a direct result of habitat loss due to unsustainable farming, overdevelopment and pollution. I see no sign of this habitat shrinkage and damage slowing down. So, my question is, how are we going to manage the shrinking available land for the reintroduction of large mammals that have been absent for hundreds of years?
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Stop blaming agriculture for this
Actually in reality all these lands belong to other animals. Human is a tropical animal and should not be there to begin with.
More people die in car accidents
I dislike this because I am partially deaf.
The background music is to loud and you speak to fast.
True. I hear fine but it's still annoying.
The 2nd mammal to be reintroduced is the European bison.
This would bve much easier to listen to if the silly plinky plonky "music" was got rid of. This is not a "hollywood" blockbuster and does not need a musical score to accompany it. Thumbs down.
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5000 Years ago most big animals repsonsable for shaping Britains landscapes were wiped out already. A forestet Britain is only the symptome of the absence of herbivores too big to be effectivly regulated by carnivores like Elephants Rhinos and so forth. I do support the idea of rewilding but please get your facts straight. It wasn t climatechange that wiped out the pleistocene megafauna it is the legacy of our ancestors and they are to be blamed. During the last interglacial period Britains climate was very much like it is now but with vast open temperate tree and shrub svannahs full of Elephants Lions Rhinos Horses Bison and even Hippos.
Bullshit ... If you truly believe few tousands of primitives were able to wipe out largest mammals in history you're not only terribly wrong but stupid and ignorant
Isn't it noble that Londoners want to release large dangerous carnivores into somebody else's backyard.
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