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Thought this poem I wrote might be appreciated here: Mellow, misty light swam all around over spongy, mounded ground. Masses of moon-blue lichen hung like thick fur from a dense weave of crooked limbs, dripping with the dregs of a downpour passed over, tempered into droplets rolled off rain-laden leaves. Moss of many kinds, some found only here guarded the secret of green as safe as warmth in fleece, while dormant boulders sank into somnolence, subdued beneath a spell of sleep.
Whole swathes of the country were like this once. It boggles my mind how stark the difference is between the lush, calm rainforests and the open, windswept moores that have replaced them.
This habitat is majestic 🍂 I never knew certain grazing animals, like elk & deer, could cause such a negative impact on an environment! They eat young deciduous tree shoots and leave the invasive conifers to take over.
True, but it has been like this ever since humanity arrived. The change from woodland to moor was not recent, even if recently it has grown more pronounced.
Once upon a time, there were significant areas of the country that were so heavily wooded that sea travel was the only way to navigate. It must've been so beautiful. Much of our ancient folklore is based around the woods and forests because it was such a huge part of life on this island. The fact that there's almost none of it left means we're not only erasing nature but erasing much of our ancient cultural heritage.
I'm lucky enough to have been born in Devon & can attest to how beautiful Dartmoor is. Truly one of the last wildlands in the UK. Also, thank you for not naming the ancient woods you visited at the end. Sadly & regrettably, the last thing it needs is hundreds of people visiting.
Knowing it's in Dartmoor, it's pretty easy to find on Google Maps given how barren the landscape is there. I'm pretty sure I found the place in 30sec. on Maps.
Once you have walked in an old Oak Woodland you begin to understand why the original Celtic inhabitants of the British Isles developed the distinctive interwoven and inter-connecting natural patterns in their artwork, metalwork, woodwork and tatoos. The forest trees merge into one another, the branches blend together to create a Kaleidoscope of patterns and colours. Nature bends and curves, twists and merges. There are no straight lines in nature or in an Oak forest. Just as in ancient Celtic artwork.
Absolutely! I had an experience on magic mushrooms in a forest and sacred geometric fractal patterns emerged from the trees and roots, and I saw thousands of green eyes. It was so beautiful it made me cry. I will never forget it 🍄🌲
Ah how wonderful would it be. One question I want to answer in a follow up video is, is how much suitable climate is there across the UK.. how much rainforest could we actually have if there were trees!
@@LeaveCurious this could be a nice way to get more people excited about rewilding & habitat restoration. It's no wonder people complain about the weather when it's raining on tarmac or grass, vs in the video where you can see your excitement for the rain when you feel what it's doing for the lushness around you
@@LeaveCurious "if there were trees!" Which we should be planting MORE of! And a national campaign - fueled by the idealism and energies of all Nature-lovers (especially the younger folk among them) - would be a GREAT way to expand our forest environment. Our fellow creatures would also be very grateful. Just remember, however, that the Trees NEED Carbon Dioxide in the same way that WE need Oxygen, and demonising the latter is a BLASPHEMY against Real Science. Just ask Patrick Moore (late of Greenpeace) and the 31,000 scientists who signed the Global Warming Petition Project - who maintain that the 'problem' with CO2 is that there is a DEARTH of it; the complete _reverse_ of what the well-meaning-but-gullible are being told (by a corrupt, but powerful, minority - and their media lapdogs).
I am from Chile and we have beautiful temperate rainforests. This year I went to the UK to learn English and I was very disappointed to find out how little of this ecosystem and many others remain in Britain. I have enjoyed my time here in the UK but everytime I go out for a walk in the countryside I wonder how my surroundings must have looked like in their glory and I can't help but feel angry and sad. Great video btw, this is my favorite type of ecosystem
Sadly, almost all of our large wildlife species have been extirpated, along with their habitats. With a sub-replacement birth rate sine the mid 70s, our natural environment should be recovering, but unfortunately, our politicians are insane.
I'm really lucky, I live in south wales and it's very easy to come across this kind of habitat; you definitely want to head out to the west. I always wondered why the majority of england looked so weird when I visited.
Yes , British were known for being ship builders and from that Invaded many countries many ships wrecked, castles needed scaffolding to build , etc But they never thought for future generations, and they took away the carbon capture element out and us today have to pay for their actions, yes angry and sad is an emotion that comes out
I only realised we had Rainforest this year, when I moved to the Lake District. After a week of late summer rain my garden was transformed with the tree covered in moss, ferns sprung out of the stone wall and pavements pathed in various mosses, it looks magical.
Rob, your videos, commentary and the other work are making a huge impact on my AuADHD daughter and myself. I home educate as she cannot cope with school. The home ed community spends many hours outside in nature. We see the denigrated Scottish landscape in a daily basis. Celebrate the surviving patches, just as your video does our rainforest 😊 We would love you to look into rare orchids at coast in East Lothian, please! All the best!
What an amazing video. Why aren't you on mainstream tv? You're a complete natural. Your passion is contagious. And as for the forests. I've never seen anything so beautiful in this country of ours.
Another great video Rob, im trying to restore some rainforest in Ireland at the minute and its videos like this that are really helpful to watch for motavation
We have temperate rain forest on our estate in western Scotland, sloping down to a sea loch. It’s home to faerie folk that you can see if you’re pure in heart, which is why I’ve never seen any! Unfortunately, it’s becoming swamped with Rhodedendron which we’re trying to remove, but it’s an ongoing effort.
I have walked in that wood many times throughout my life, it’s only recently it has been closed off to the public in an attempt to preserve it. There are other woods like it on Dartmoor if you know where to look. Although most of Dartmoor - and indeed Britain - were covered in woodland similar to this at one time, these particular stunted and twisted Tolkeinesque oak woodlands have grown on top of the piled granite boulders from quarrying that occurred in that area during the 1700s and are not as ancient as they appear, but the mysterious magical appearance lends itself more to colourful myths and legends which people prefer over boring old reality. Stunted woods like this only grow in shallow peaty soil exposed to wind and cold such as high moorland and would’ve been a tiny proportion of Britain’s woodlands, as the rest of the country was covered in dense tall woodland of mixed deciduous trees.
@@frawgeatfrawgworldLook up deciduous forest in Southern Ontario, Canada. It may not be the exact same types of trees, but areas in Southern Ontario, around the Great Lakes region, Algonquin Provincial park for example, have old growth forests of mostly deciduous trees.
Wistman's Wood isn't closed to the public, some newspaper headlines misled people into thinking that. Visitors are being asked to keep to the paths and not climb on/around the trees and delicate lichen.
It's comforting to know it only takes about 2-300 years for ancient rainforests to re-establish themselves. It's easy to imagine it taking much longer.
thank you for not naming exactly which woods you were in. this one is beautiful, and people constantly visiting has caused a lot of damage recently. this video is lovely, and made me quite homesick!
I moved to Cumbria a couple of years ago and duscovered that there is temperate rain forest here. I always recognised that in the Lake District you have to accept rain and work with it but now I not only acknowledge it I celebrate it. My favourite views look into the heart of this area with its hints of LOTR and Jurassic Park. It seems almost miraculous.
What a great place! As you said about wishing it was on your doorstep, I frequent Sweden a few times a year and their wilderness is so accessible, literally walk out of your door and into the thick of it! I always come back to the UK feeling like we've really screwed it all up farming most of it, it's nice to see there are some special untouched areas about.
The whole place teeming with life, colour and diversity made me think of coral reefs - how lovely to see something similar on land. Also, love your energy and appreciation of this magical place and so happy that you didn't disclose it's location ❤
Hey there! I live in St Louis, MIssouri, USA. This area has had many swamps that have been dewatered. About 50 years eco laws were changed. Wildlife received rights. A Sweedish engineer living in the area created a 500 acre water diversion plan. Through a network of canals and water retention dikes he developed a year round wetland for wildlife and fauna. At the same time an area road system with an industrial park emerged. Over the decades the project has been expanded perhaps by a factor of 10 times over. So, the seasonal swamps are now much safer for animals and productive for local residents. The project was named Earth City, Missouri.
Amazing! absolutely amazing. Just going out and walking through woodland, appreciating the environment around you does wonders for stress relief. Temperate rainforest is a very special habitat indeed and we are very lucky here in the uk to have a piece of it. Needs to be protected, if for nothing else than the beauty of it.
Beautiful, 40 years ago I came across such a place by chance in Dartmoor and have never forgotten it, it was like falling into fairyland. Wonderful to know there are efforts to save them
34 years ago, I went there with two mates. We walked across the moor to get to the second place you went to. Oh my word it was magical, and I wanted to live there too. One of the best weekends of walking I’ve had-so calming and Jurassic in its feel.
What a stunning video, really nice work mate. To think how different the country would have looked 800 years ago compared to now. I’d love to go back in time and see what the proper Sherwood Forest looked like back then!
I've spent a lot of time imagining the UK's woodlands as they used to be. It must have been a mesmerising place to live. Moorland always makes me feel exposed and lonely. Thank you for showing us this place.
My favourite video on Leave Curious so far, as a Mossy Earth member I'm loving the collaboration and great to see how your channel has grown. Leave Curious and Mossy Earth were my inspiration in turning a few acres of Wales back into rainforest. Keep it coming :)
I read about the mapping of remaining temperate rain forest in the British Isles. A lot of it is in tiny remnants scattered around the country. I hope your video will help to raise awareness. I think we also have them here in New Zealand - certainly, I've seen areas that look very similar. They are magical, mysterious places and no doubt a tiny fraction of what used to be here. ❤
I travelled extensively in NZ 15 years ago and was blown away by the undisturbed temperate rainforest. There was life in every nook and cranny, tiny orchids, countless ferns, mosses and such. When I returned home to a british winter in Norfolk, I became quite depressed at the nature depleted landscape I live in. We have a lot of trees, but they nearly all live in field margins.
The first line on the national park page about this area says "Don’t walk through the wood or scramble across the rocky boulders, this will destroy the lichens and mosses. Every footstep makes a difference." This area is being destroyed by too many tourists and there are signs to say keep out.
FYI everyone Mossy Earth is not a registered charity, it is a regular private limited company - just to let you know before you decide to donate there, or somewhere else.
Yes correct 80% of the membership revenue goes directly to impact and the rest goes to running and ensuring the growth of the company so that we can implement even more rewilding projects. There's a whole section on the website for transparency and accountability! There are quarterly reports on all of this www.mossy.earth/methodologies/trust-transparency
NO! I did not know - well it is surely WET enough! I laughed out loud when you said the weather was perfect - very British of you, happy in the rain! Cheers from the US! 😀
Whats equally as whole is that throughout the past year of you exploring and appreciating nature, its also given back to you as you look so much fitter than your first video i encountered. Looking great, great vids, all the best brother
Been checking out your channel lately as I am a Mossy Earth subscriber. Love both channels. An exceptional shot started at 8:30 where you were panning the forest thick with lichen, moss & trees. It looked like a painting man…not real. Spectacular view of this amazing place.
You should explore the Vosges mountains in France someday! Among the huge, but fairly reasonably exploited conifer and beech forests are stunning patches of woodland like this. I don't believe it is technically a rainforest but it gets very wet too. I keep finding wonderful new habitats with insane biodiversity, from neglected woods where the pioneer trees are starting to die off, to herbacious wetlands to completely undisturbed nature reserves where everything just grows.
I literally grew up in the woods (my father worked in the Forestry Commission), but what I didn't realise at the time is that it was just agriculture, not natural. There were unmanaged sections that contained native species, but mostly it was just a giant plantation. The wild bits were pretty spectacular, though, however they've since been manicured by the local council to transform them into "woodland walks" and race courses for mountain bikers, which makes it look more like a garden than actual wilderness.
Yes, I read about Britain's rainforest last year. I think the article said that once 25% of Britain was a temperate rainforest. We need to bring it back.
You didn't explicitly say where it is, but I recognised it instantly. I grew up going for walks on Dartmoor, and while I knew it was beautiful, I had no idea that that ecosystem was as rare and special.
This is some of the most stunning scenery I've seen on your channel. (and that's saying something!!) I think I know where one of those places is. I live not too far away, but unfortunately I can't go there as it's too far for me to walk. I know the main purpose of this video is to raise awarness, but it's also a great way for those of us who can't get out much, to be able to enjoy these places. Thankyou for taking us along with you!
The forest VOCs (volatile organic compounds) have done their beneficial mood modulating effect on you...indeed you want to 'hibernate' and dance in the forest. Following. Thanks for sharing such unique environments.
This looks a lot like the woods at Tokaveig on Skye. I thought the red fungus you found on the tree was a bit like the Trolls Hand we found in Tokaveig woods.
I too am on projects to restore native habitats, I’m an ecologist & my main areas of expertise are hay meadows & grasslands but these woods look amazing, so atmospheric & calming. We are losing so much more than a “few trees” or “waste land” we are losing our connection to the earth & that might have serious repercussions that we don’t fully understand yet.
Great video, I am very lucky to leave by so many woodlands that you could almost take for granted. It is my first time watching and You have a demeanour of Orlando bloom, keep up the good work though
I knew that there were temperate rainforests in the UK before I watched this video, but it was still cool to see these rare habitats in the UK actually be presented in media like as was done here!
Absolutely beautiful. There is an organisation that is trying to save the last rainforests in wales. We are so lucky to have such varied and beautiful land here in the UK.
Great video, as always your enthusiasm and passion shine through. As a professional botanist myself and someone very familiar with all kinds of rainforests, the imagery of your video just made me so envious - around zero C today here in Prairie Canada and snow on the ground and a long way away from Canada's temperate rainforests! Glad you specified 'temperate rainforests' as some people mistakenly assume all rainforest is in the tropics, so Amazon Basin and across northern South America, Congo, Indonesia and New Guinea, Hawaii and some other Pacific islands such as Fiji. North American ecologists usually define the climate of temperate rainforests more-or-less as you describe, but specify an annual rainfall above 150 cm (about 60 inches), but in the southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand and Chile all have temperate rainforest) 180 cm (70 inches or so) is often used. Because of the prevalence of bryophytes, temperate rainforests are sometimes called mossy forests in British Columbia and southeastern Australia. The southern hemisphere temperate rainforests look more like the UK forests with a canopy of broadleaf trees (deciduous or evergreen southern beech = Nothofagus, and other trees) with various types of conifers playing a less prominent role, whereas those in British Columbia and Washington state are dominated by tall conifers such as western red cedar (Thuja), hemlocks (Tsuga), and douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) - tree species often planted for forestry on those former UK rainforest sites. All part of the majesty and wonder of temperate rainforests around the world, and of course in the UK, but as nature made it is best I think you would agree. As shown in some of your video, ferns both in the ground layer and growing on branches as epiphytes such as polypody (Polypodium vulgare or P. cambricum), but also the rare filmy ferns (Hymenophyllum) are part of the high biodiversity of temperate rainforests, especially in the UK and places like New Zealand and southeastern Australia where you can also add in tree ferns. Maybe in a follow up video about the UK's rainforests you could co-host with a UK fern expert and talk about the rare ferns in Welsh and Scottish rainforests? cheers!
Great comment. Canada has temperate rainforests? I did not know that. I knew about the ones in the Northwest, but thought Canada would be too cold even for a temperate forest. Learned something new today. -from Boston in the US
Ive been to some temperate rainforest along the sea lochs of Argyle Western Scotland. Very beautiful. Theres a few fairly small patches. Best to google and find where first. I forget the names. Theres one with a funky big wooden hide for watching the loch. Eg the otters.
I had fun visiting this with you! Coming from Vancouver, Canada, I am very well aware of temperate rain forests. We even have a few around that are old growth. Ours are conifers though, so look very different. Sadly the pacific north west coast rain forests have started burning down due to climate change because rain forests aren't supposed to burn, but frequent droughts mean that they can now.
its more complex than that. much of the temperate rainforest in the PNW used to be Garry Oak prairies, which need regular fires. alot of the temperate rainforests that are burning exist where garry oaks used to be. of course the monoculture tree farming doesnt help either...
being from seattle i am hoping we don't have another summer of smoke and not being able to go outside due to poor air quality. in 2020 i was wearing a dust mask at times not just because covid. but it was also smokey that it was cold and no sun the middle of summer. it was really scary. or to be 45 degrees like 2021. that was scary too. i was hanging out with a moroccan friend that day and it was even too hot for her. it was 50 in bc no? that hottest ever in canada. if memory serves the town that made that record burned down literally the next day.
Bristol definitely has pockets of temperate rainforest, check out snuff mills which was originally a mine. It never gets reported at one but the climate and environment hints it is. I suspect others around the area.
Glad this turned up in my feed. Someone highlighting the damage humans have done to this country instead of bleating about some far away land. How can we complain about issues in say the Amazon if we can destory our own back yard?
Remember, rewilding is for humans to do. Things already in wilderness are already wild. Mossy earth tends to misuse the term in place of more appropriate terms like habitat restoration/reforestation~
Great video. When I cane to the UK I was shocked at how bland and destroyed many landscapes are. Almost no bird life except for crows. I’m glad people are beginning to restore the rainforest.
What nonsense. I've lived all over the UK including in London and other cities, and I've always been able to count ten bird species at the least from my own garden.
I have walked through such amazing, wonderful rainforests in north-west Wales, in Western Scotland, in the west of Ireland and in the Lake District when I was an avid hill walker from the 1990s up to about 10 years ago. I visited Wistman's wood in the 1980s. I read in various natural history books then about the British temperate rainforests, and on a family holiday to Devon in 1981 when I was 14 years old we visited Wistman's Wood in Dartmoor, and I have never forgotten it. These British and Irish rainforests were known about even 40 or 50 years ago, since I remember reading about them them in the 1970s when I was a child in various books about natural history I got from the library or bought myself, though I think in recent years their importance has become better recognised generally.
I have spent so much time walking in the woods around Derwent water, which Google says is temperate rain forest, and I have never known. It is so beautiful ❤
Excellent video! You're always an inspiration! I sure wish more of England, and Scotland and Ireland for that matter, looked like this! You're an amazing man and you deserve to be knighted!!
I saw a map of where there used to be temperate rainforests before, so I knew the UK had it. But I didn't know you had anything left. I'm so glad to see it. It's absolutely magical!!
I found a virgin-looking forest ontop of a mountain above the line of pine plantations up north, by chance wandering around. Huge moss humps, low branches, lichen hanging in ribbons...was magical.
If the government would just stop subsidizing farmers, this kind of habitat would restore itself naturally. I grew up in Wales and most sheep farmers there are evil, never letting saplings sprout up.
This was a wonderful start to my day, reminded me we have beautiful nature everywhere in our country. I'm going to Brombil Reservoir in Port Talbot, South Wales this afternoon with my dad, this has whet the appetite perfectly!
I am very lucky to own 2 acres of this woodland and wood love to increase the size of it but I’m not sure how to do that and what species to plant down here in cornwall
It has the largest slug in the world, also a ground beetle that was thought extinct for decades. A prize, considerable for the time was to be given to anyone who found a living specimen. Fortunately it was eventually rediscovered. A magical place.
I worked for a couple of years with a woman who hailed from Tasmania. She showed me pics of the temperate rain forest there. Wonderful and more extensive than that here in the UK.
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Toledo ohio has " oak Savannah " which is much like this... it's part of the 1% of oak Savannah in the world.
David Attenborough never told me there was one you think he would have like
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Thought this poem I wrote might be appreciated here:
Mellow, misty light
swam all around
over spongy, mounded ground.
Masses of moon-blue lichen hung like thick fur
from a dense weave of crooked limbs,
dripping with the dregs of a downpour passed over,
tempered into droplets rolled off rain-laden leaves.
Moss of many kinds, some found only here
guarded the secret of green
as safe as warmth in fleece,
while dormant boulders sank into somnolence,
subdued beneath a spell of sleep.
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Whole swathes of the country were like this once. It boggles my mind how stark the difference is between the lush, calm rainforests and the open, windswept moores that have replaced them.
And that those moors have been reveared worldwide for their beauty...Give me the magical forests any day
This habitat is majestic 🍂 I never knew certain grazing animals, like elk & deer, could cause such a negative impact on an environment! They eat young deciduous tree shoots and leave the invasive conifers to take over.
True, but it has been like this ever since humanity arrived. The change from woodland to moor was not recent, even if recently it has grown more pronounced.
But on the other hand, when compared to the timescale of the Holocene farming in northwest Europe is just a blip
Once upon a time, there were significant areas of the country that were so heavily wooded that sea travel was the only way to navigate. It must've been so beautiful. Much of our ancient folklore is based around the woods and forests because it was such a huge part of life on this island. The fact that there's almost none of it left means we're not only erasing nature but erasing much of our ancient cultural heritage.
I'm lucky enough to have been born in Devon & can attest to how beautiful Dartmoor is. Truly one of the last wildlands in the UK.
Also, thank you for not naming the ancient woods you visited at the end. Sadly & regrettably, the last thing it needs is hundreds of people visiting.
Yeah it certainly felt like it was a patch of what was and hopefully what could be!
I mean, beautiful place, but the shooting estates and overgrazing always makes me a bit melancholic about what it could/should be if manged correctly
Yeah I kept thinking he was gunna drop a location but didn't, and I think that's probably for the best
Knowing it's in Dartmoor, it's pretty easy to find on Google Maps given how barren the landscape is there. I'm pretty sure I found the place in 30sec. on Maps.
@@riku8342 yeah, it's easy to find but the point is to make so that not too many people start to head there just because it appeared on a video
Once you have walked in an old Oak Woodland you begin to understand why the original Celtic inhabitants of the British Isles developed the distinctive interwoven and inter-connecting natural patterns in their artwork, metalwork, woodwork and tatoos. The forest trees merge into one another, the branches blend together to create a Kaleidoscope of patterns and colours. Nature bends and curves, twists and merges. There are no straight lines in nature or in an Oak forest. Just as in ancient Celtic artwork.
Cool comment!
mmmm. nothing like nature. what a crap world we are in now...
where is this ?
@@Luckyluke870 In Devon but the dude who runs the channel is keeping the location a ‘secret’ cuz there would be too many tourists
Absolutely! I had an experience on magic mushrooms in a forest and sacred geometric fractal patterns emerged from the trees and roots, and I saw thousands of green eyes. It was so beautiful it made me cry. I will never forget it 🍄🌲
Thank you for showing us this beautiful place! I had no idea England had rain forests. Amazing looking, magical place!
Truly an awe inspiring ecosystem, I want so badly for vibrant life like this to return to the UK. Thanks for all you do to improve those odds :)
Ah how wonderful would it be. One question I want to answer in a follow up video is, is how much suitable climate is there across the UK.. how much rainforest could we actually have if there were trees!
@@LeaveCurious this could be a nice way to get more people excited about rewilding & habitat restoration. It's no wonder people complain about the weather when it's raining on tarmac or grass, vs in the video where you can see your excitement for the rain when you feel what it's doing for the lushness around you
@@LeaveCurious
"if there were trees!"
Which we should be planting MORE of! And a national campaign - fueled by the idealism and energies of all Nature-lovers (especially the younger folk among them) - would be a GREAT way to expand our forest environment. Our fellow creatures would also be very grateful. Just remember, however, that the Trees NEED Carbon Dioxide in the same way that WE need Oxygen, and demonising the latter is a BLASPHEMY against Real Science. Just ask Patrick Moore (late of Greenpeace) and the 31,000 scientists who signed the Global Warming Petition Project - who maintain that the 'problem' with CO2 is that there is a DEARTH of it; the complete _reverse_ of what the well-meaning-but-gullible are being told (by a corrupt, but powerful, minority - and their media lapdogs).
Beautiful! I had no idea there was such lush and majestic ecosystems in the UK. It feels good to know there are people working to protect them!
There aren't. These patches are the size of a few city blocks. The UK is destroyed
If everyone in Britain could get just one tree planted with a charity like The Woodland Trust, that too, would be 'excellent work.'
I am from Chile and we have beautiful temperate rainforests. This year I went to the UK to learn English and I was very disappointed to find out how little of this ecosystem and many others remain in Britain. I have enjoyed my time here in the UK but everytime I go out for a walk in the countryside I wonder how my surroundings must have looked like in their glory and I can't help but feel angry and sad. Great video btw, this is my favorite type of ecosystem
Sadly, almost all of our large wildlife species have been extirpated, along with their habitats.
With a sub-replacement birth rate sine the mid 70s, our natural environment should be recovering, but unfortunately, our politicians are insane.
I'm really lucky, I live in south wales and it's very easy to come across this kind of habitat; you definitely want to head out to the west. I always wondered why the majority of england looked so weird when I visited.
Yep. They've created an economy that relies on endless, imported cheap labour. So say goodbye to your green spaces.
So true
Yes , British were known for being ship builders and from that Invaded many countries many ships wrecked, castles needed scaffolding to build , etc
But they never thought for future generations, and they took away the carbon capture element out and us today have to pay for their actions, yes angry and sad is an emotion that comes out
I only realised we had Rainforest this year, when I moved to the Lake District. After a week of late summer rain my garden was transformed with the tree covered in moss, ferns sprung out of the stone wall and pavements pathed in various mosses, it looks magical.
So lovely …thank you for your passion and such love of our beautiful Mother/father Nature!..may you multiply! 🙏🍀🙏
My new favourite channel. Your face shows pure joy! Utterly charming and I am very interested to follow for more.
Rob, your videos, commentary and the other work are making a huge impact on my AuADHD daughter and myself. I home educate as she cannot cope with school. The home ed community spends many hours outside in nature. We see the denigrated Scottish landscape in a daily basis. Celebrate the surviving patches, just as your video does our rainforest 😊 We would love you to look into rare orchids at coast in East Lothian, please! All the best!
This is lovely to hear! I’m pleased my videos are useful. I will definitely look into this, thank you!
as an adhder myself, that is so heartwarming to hear and i wish i could be educated like that, i hate school with a burning passion
@@LeaveCuriousthere’s also ancient oak woodland in East Lothian you’d love.
I had to drop out of school due to the anxiety side of things
I garden or else I'm out in nature sometimes I have to go sit in nature
What an amazing video. Why aren't you on mainstream tv? You're a complete natural. Your passion is contagious. And as for the forests. I've never seen anything so beautiful in this country of ours.
I am lucky enough to live in the temperate rainforests of the PNW in North America. I feel incredibly lucky to call this place home!
The temperate rainforest is very tranquil. Especially during rainfall. I could watch a livestream of it all day. Thank you sir 💚🌱
Oh me too, I'd love to get something that going...
Oh my goodness! This was such a beautiful video 🥲🥹thank you so so much for showing me this wonderful habitat in our country
that iron bridge over the teign is where i used to sit when i went out for a secret smoke when i was a kid. beautiful.
Great video from a handsome and enthusiastic guy! I've wandered around that very place myself. Just magical.
Another great video Rob, im trying to restore some rainforest in Ireland at the minute and its videos like this that are really helpful to watch for motavation
Just wanted to say fair play to you for doing a bit of rewilding yourself! All the best from Cork
Where are you located? I’m planning on returning to Ireland and starting a restoration project on some of my family’s land.
Us too, in mid Wales 😊 Rob’s brilliant, isn’t he!
Oh awesome let me know about it via email, might be worth a visit!
We have temperate rain forest on our estate in western Scotland, sloping down to a sea loch. It’s home to faerie folk that you can see if you’re pure in heart, which is why I’ve never seen any! Unfortunately, it’s becoming swamped with Rhodedendron which we’re trying to remove, but it’s an ongoing effort.
I know this place well, as a regular Dartmoor walker I have visited on several occasions, it’s a magical place.
I have walked in that wood many times throughout my life, it’s only recently it has been closed off to the public in an attempt to preserve it. There are other woods like it on Dartmoor if you know where to look. Although most of Dartmoor - and indeed Britain - were covered in woodland similar to this at one time, these particular stunted and twisted Tolkeinesque oak woodlands have grown on top of the piled granite boulders from quarrying that occurred in that area during the 1700s and are not as ancient as they appear, but the mysterious magical appearance lends itself more to colourful myths and legends which people prefer over boring old reality. Stunted woods like this only grow in shallow peaty soil exposed to wind and cold such as high moorland and would’ve been a tiny proportion of Britain’s woodlands, as the rest of the country was covered in dense tall woodland of mixed deciduous trees.
Whats the closest comparable thing to the dense tall woodlands? Trying to get a picture
@@frawgeatfrawgworldLook up deciduous forest in Southern Ontario, Canada. It may not be the exact same types of trees, but areas in Southern Ontario, around the Great Lakes region, Algonquin Provincial park for example, have old growth forests of mostly deciduous trees.
@@frawgeatfrawgworld Probably the Caledonian forest in Scotland. Exmoor also has some excellent woodland.
Wistman's Wood isn't closed to the public, some newspaper headlines misled people into thinking that. Visitors are being asked to keep to the paths and not climb on/around the trees and delicate lichen.
It's comforting to know it only takes about 2-300 years for ancient rainforests to re-establish themselves. It's easy to imagine it taking much longer.
thank you for not naming exactly which woods you were in. this one is beautiful, and people constantly visiting has caused a lot of damage recently. this video is lovely, and made me quite homesick!
Why should he visit and not the rest of us? Very elitist. It is probably Ausewell Wood, not far from Ashburton in Devon or the nearby Bovey Woods.
I came here to say thank you for the same reason! I love that he kept it anonymous
I moved to Cumbria a couple of years ago and duscovered that there is temperate rain forest here. I always recognised that in the Lake District you have to accept rain and work with it but now I not only acknowledge it I celebrate it. My favourite views look into the heart of this area with its hints of LOTR and Jurassic Park. It seems almost miraculous.
What a great place! As you said about wishing it was on your doorstep, I frequent Sweden a few times a year and their wilderness is so accessible, literally walk out of your door and into the thick of it! I always come back to the UK feeling like we've really screwed it all up farming most of it, it's nice to see there are some special untouched areas about.
The whole place teeming with life, colour and diversity made me think of coral reefs - how lovely to see something similar on land. Also, love your energy and appreciation of this magical place and so happy that you didn't disclose it's location ❤
Hey there! I live in St Louis, MIssouri, USA. This area has had many swamps that have been dewatered. About 50 years eco laws were changed. Wildlife received rights. A Sweedish engineer living in the area created a 500 acre water diversion plan. Through a network of canals and water retention dikes he developed a year round wetland for wildlife and fauna. At the same time an area road system with an industrial park emerged. Over the decades the project has been expanded perhaps by a factor of 10 times over. So, the seasonal swamps are now much safer for animals and productive for local residents. The project was named Earth City, Missouri.
Amazing! absolutely amazing. Just going out and walking through woodland, appreciating the environment around you does wonders for stress relief.
Temperate rainforest is a very special habitat indeed and we are very lucky here in the uk to have a piece of it. Needs to be protected, if for nothing else than the beauty of it.
We need to celebrate it and ensure that it expands not decline!
Beautiful, 40 years ago I came across such a place by chance in Dartmoor and have never forgotten it, it was like falling into fairyland. Wonderful to know there are efforts to save them
34 years ago, I went there with two mates. We walked across the moor to get to the second place you went to. Oh my word it was magical, and I wanted to live there too. One of the best weekends of walking I’ve had-so calming and Jurassic in its feel.
Where is this video? I want to go here
Where I wan to go
@@Itsjamescopeok I think it’s dartmoor
Thank you for this beautiful, positive, nicely shot video. Your delivery gives me hope and made me smile.
That’s a very beautiful ecosystem!! Thank you for sharing that!! 🌳🌴🌿🍄🍁🌺
What a stunning video, really nice work mate.
To think how different the country would have looked 800 years ago compared to now. I’d love to go back in time and see what the proper Sherwood Forest looked like back then!
I've spent a lot of time imagining the UK's woodlands as they used to be. It must have been a mesmerising place to live. Moorland always makes me feel exposed and lonely. Thank you for showing us this place.
Sooo beautiful 🥰
Reminds me of the forests in northern Scotland near findhorn. You can feel the magic of untouched nature for Millenium.
My favourite video on Leave Curious so far, as a Mossy Earth member I'm loving the collaboration and great to see how your channel has grown. Leave Curious and Mossy Earth were my inspiration in turning a few acres of Wales back into rainforest. Keep it coming :)
I read about the mapping of remaining temperate rain forest in the British Isles. A lot of it is in tiny remnants scattered around the country. I hope your video will help to raise awareness. I think we also have them here in New Zealand - certainly, I've seen areas that look very similar. They are magical, mysterious places and no doubt a tiny fraction of what used to be here. ❤
I travelled extensively in NZ 15 years ago and was blown away by the undisturbed temperate rainforest. There was life in every nook and cranny, tiny orchids, countless ferns, mosses and such. When I returned home to a british winter in Norfolk, I became quite depressed at the nature depleted landscape I live in. We have a lot of trees, but they nearly all live in field margins.
The first line on the national park page about this area says
"Don’t walk through the wood or scramble across the rocky boulders, this will destroy the lichens and mosses. Every footstep makes a difference."
This area is being destroyed by too many tourists and there are signs to say keep out.
Oh my god. The intro was damn near a fairytale!!! 😍
It really was special! Thanks!
FYI everyone Mossy Earth is not a registered charity, it is a regular private limited company - just to let you know before you decide to donate there, or somewhere else.
Yes correct 80% of the membership revenue goes directly to impact and the rest goes to running and ensuring the growth of the company so that we can implement even more rewilding projects. There's a whole section on the website for transparency and accountability! There are quarterly reports on all of this www.mossy.earth/methodologies/trust-transparency
Its great seeing things covered in moss, feels proper!
NO! I did not know - well it is surely WET enough! I laughed out loud when you said the weather was perfect - very British of you, happy in the rain! Cheers from the US! 😀
Whats equally as whole is that throughout the past year of you exploring and appreciating nature, its also given back to you as you look so much fitter than your first video i encountered.
Looking great, great vids, all the best brother
Been checking out your channel lately as I am a Mossy Earth subscriber. Love both channels. An exceptional shot started at 8:30 where you were panning the forest thick with lichen, moss & trees. It looked like a painting man…not real. Spectacular view of this amazing place.
You should explore the Vosges mountains in France someday! Among the huge, but fairly reasonably exploited conifer and beech forests are stunning patches of woodland like this. I don't believe it is technically a rainforest but it gets very wet too. I keep finding wonderful new habitats with insane biodiversity, from neglected woods where the pioneer trees are starting to die off, to herbacious wetlands to completely undisturbed nature reserves where everything just grows.
Wow sounds awesome. Will add it to my list!
I literally grew up in the woods (my father worked in the Forestry Commission), but what I didn't realise at the time is that it was just agriculture, not natural. There were unmanaged sections that contained native species, but mostly it was just a giant plantation. The wild bits were pretty spectacular, though, however they've since been manicured by the local council to transform them into "woodland walks" and race courses for mountain bikers, which makes it look more like a garden than actual wilderness.
Yes, I read about Britain's rainforest last year. I think the article said that once 25% of Britain was a temperate rainforest.
We need to bring it back.
This is beautiful! I have explored all around Matlock and there are valleys around there with lakes that have their own eco systems
Europe is beautiful. Let's preserve it.
You didn't explicitly say where it is, but I recognised it instantly. I grew up going for walks on Dartmoor, and while I knew it was beautiful, I had no idea that that ecosystem was as rare and special.
Could be Wistman’s Wood?
@@markvenables7370 I'm sure it is.
This is some of the most stunning scenery I've seen on your channel. (and that's saying something!!) I think I know where one of those places is. I live not too far away, but unfortunately I can't go there as it's too far for me to walk. I know the main purpose of this video is to raise awarness, but it's also a great way for those of us who can't get out much, to be able to enjoy these places. Thankyou for taking us along with you!
The forest VOCs (volatile organic compounds) have done their beneficial mood modulating effect on you...indeed you want to 'hibernate' and dance in the forest. Following. Thanks for sharing such unique environments.
This looks a lot like the woods at Tokaveig on Skye. I thought the red fungus you found on the tree was a bit like the Trolls Hand we found in Tokaveig woods.
I too am on projects to restore native habitats, I’m an ecologist & my main areas of expertise are hay meadows & grasslands but these woods look amazing, so atmospheric & calming. We are losing so much more than a “few trees” or “waste land” we are losing our connection to the earth & that might have serious repercussions that we don’t fully understand yet.
Thanks!
Nice one thank you!
Great video, I am very lucky to leave by so many woodlands that you could almost take for granted.
It is my first time watching and You have a demeanour of Orlando bloom, keep up the good work though
I knew that there were temperate rainforests in the UK before I watched this video, but it was still cool to see these rare habitats in the UK actually be presented in media like as was done here!
Stunning landscape, absolutely beautiful!
Absolutely beautiful. There is an organisation that is trying to save the last rainforests in wales.
We are so lucky to have such varied and beautiful land here in the UK.
Great video, as always your enthusiasm and passion shine through. As a professional botanist myself and someone very familiar with all kinds of rainforests, the imagery of your video just made me so envious - around zero C today here in Prairie Canada and snow on the ground and a long way away from Canada's temperate rainforests!
Glad you specified 'temperate rainforests' as some people mistakenly assume all rainforest is in the tropics, so Amazon Basin and across northern South America, Congo, Indonesia and New Guinea, Hawaii and some other Pacific islands such as Fiji.
North American ecologists usually define the climate of temperate rainforests more-or-less as you describe, but specify an annual rainfall above 150 cm (about 60 inches), but in the southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand and Chile all have temperate rainforest) 180 cm (70 inches or so) is often used. Because of the prevalence of bryophytes, temperate rainforests are sometimes called mossy forests in British Columbia and southeastern Australia.
The southern hemisphere temperate rainforests look more like the UK forests with a canopy of broadleaf trees (deciduous or evergreen southern beech = Nothofagus, and other trees) with various types of conifers playing a less prominent role, whereas those in British Columbia and Washington state are dominated by tall conifers such as western red cedar (Thuja), hemlocks (Tsuga), and douglas fir (Pseudotsuga) - tree species often planted for forestry on those former UK rainforest sites.
All part of the majesty and wonder of temperate rainforests around the world, and of course in the UK, but as nature made it is best I think you would agree.
As shown in some of your video, ferns both in the ground layer and growing on branches as epiphytes such as polypody (Polypodium vulgare or P. cambricum), but also the rare filmy ferns (Hymenophyllum) are part of the high biodiversity of temperate rainforests, especially in the UK and places like New Zealand and southeastern Australia where you can also add in tree ferns.
Maybe in a follow up video about the UK's rainforests you could co-host with a UK fern expert and talk about the rare ferns in Welsh and Scottish rainforests?
cheers!
Great comment. Canada has temperate rainforests? I did not know that. I knew about the ones in the Northwest, but thought Canada would be too cold even for a temperate forest. Learned something new today.
-from Boston in the US
Ive been to some temperate rainforest along the sea lochs of Argyle Western Scotland. Very beautiful. Theres a few fairly small patches. Best to google and find where first. I forget the names. Theres one with a funky big wooden hide for watching the loch. Eg the otters.
Really love these videos and that people like you are out there doing this important work!
One of my favorite habitats. When I lived in Seattle, I loved visiting the Hoh Rainforest out on the Olympic Peninsula.
I didn’t know! Beautiful!
So beautiful
Lovely to see all of that old growth
Jeez it must have been good for your Soul being there
Beautiful. Thank you
Wow amazing video, the rainforest is unbelievable and your narrating and filming is awesome.
Beautiful 😍. I love this country so much ❤️☮️
As a bonsai enthusiast and lover of trees and the natural world this was a fabulous and beautifully put together video. Thank you 🙏
Where is this, specifically? I'd love to go here and admire the wilderness. Photograph it even, to show the beauty to those who can not.
Love the intro too! Have Guy Shrubsole The Lost Rainforests of Britain book
Ahh thanks Shane. Yeah that looks like a great book I still need to read!
Currently reading that book, which is why I decided to see if there were any UA-cam videos about British rainforests,
I had fun visiting this with you!
Coming from Vancouver, Canada, I am very well aware of temperate rain forests. We even have a few around that are old growth. Ours are conifers though, so look very different. Sadly the pacific north west coast rain forests have started burning down due to climate change because rain forests aren't supposed to burn, but frequent droughts mean that they can now.
Yeah I’d love to visit and it’s worry that this happening to your forests.
its more complex than that. much of the temperate rainforest in the PNW used to be Garry Oak prairies, which need regular fires. alot of the temperate rainforests that are burning exist where garry oaks used to be. of course the monoculture tree farming doesnt help either...
Climate change 🤣
You mean arson.
being from seattle i am hoping we don't have another summer of smoke and not being able to go outside due to poor air quality. in 2020 i was wearing a dust mask at times not just because covid. but it was also smokey that it was cold and no sun the middle of summer. it was really scary. or to be 45 degrees like 2021. that was scary too. i was hanging out with a moroccan friend that day and it was even too hot for her. it was 50 in bc no? that hottest ever in canada. if memory serves the town that made that record burned down literally the next day.
Bristol definitely has pockets of temperate rainforest, check out snuff mills which was originally a mine. It never gets reported at one but the climate and environment hints it is. I suspect others around the area.
And along the river path towards Pill, underneath Leigh Woods.
Gorgeous mossy forest. Every sight is picturesque. Thank you for showing us an impressive hidden place. Greetings from Japan.
Glad this turned up in my feed. Someone highlighting the damage humans have done to this country instead of bleating about some far away land. How can we complain about issues in say the Amazon if we can destory our own back yard?
Remember, rewilding is for humans to do. Things already in wilderness are already wild.
Mossy earth tends to misuse the term in place of more appropriate terms like habitat restoration/reforestation~
Great video. When I cane to the UK I was shocked at how bland and destroyed many landscapes are. Almost no bird life except for crows. I’m glad people are beginning to restore the rainforest.
What nonsense. I've lived all over the UK including in London and other cities, and I've always been able to count ten bird species at the least from my own garden.
Wow I have always wondered if you had any old growth forests left and especially temperate rainforests! Amazing, beautiful!
I only recently learnt about them and looking at the footage, I don't think I've ever visited one. No-one could forget such stunning scenery!
I have walked through such amazing, wonderful rainforests in north-west Wales, in Western Scotland, in the west of Ireland and in the Lake District when I was an avid hill walker from the 1990s up to about 10 years ago. I visited Wistman's wood in the 1980s. I read in various natural history books then about the British temperate rainforests, and on a family holiday to Devon in 1981 when I was 14 years old we visited Wistman's Wood in Dartmoor, and I have never forgotten it. These British and Irish rainforests were known about even 40 or 50 years ago, since I remember reading about them them in the 1970s when I was a child in various books about natural history I got from the library or bought myself, though I think in recent years their importance has become better recognised generally.
I have spent so much time walking in the woods around Derwent water, which Google says is temperate rain forest, and I have never known. It is so beautiful ❤
It’s great to see forests like that. Thanks for showing us.
Excellent video! You're always an inspiration! I sure wish more of England, and Scotland and Ireland for that matter, looked like this! You're an amazing man and you deserve to be knighted!!
Great video. I'm often hiking Dartmoor most weekends. We travel up from mid Cornwall. It's such a captivating landscape
You're enthusiasm is infectious, fantastic video mate 👏
This was so fun to watch because you are having such a enjoyable experience!
I enjoyed such environments around Brecon.
I saw a map of where there used to be temperate rainforests before, so I knew the UK had it. But I didn't know you had anything left. I'm so glad to see it. It's absolutely magical!!
I found a virgin-looking forest ontop of a mountain above the line of pine plantations up north, by chance wandering around. Huge moss humps, low branches, lichen hanging in ribbons...was magical.
If the government would just stop subsidizing farmers, this kind of habitat would restore itself naturally. I grew up in Wales and most sheep farmers there are evil, never letting saplings sprout up.
This was a wonderful start to my day, reminded me we have beautiful nature everywhere in our country. I'm going to Brombil Reservoir in Port Talbot, South Wales this afternoon with my dad, this has whet the appetite perfectly!
Awesome video. Could tell from the thumbnail instantly thats ole wistmans wood!
Loved going there last summer, makes me glad to be born in Devon!!!
I can't belive these types of channels exists anymore. It's like a whole other uninhabited side of the Internet. A heaven
New subscriber here.. . What a wonderful place..... my son who is a tree specialist, brought me here some time ago. Truly a special place!
Your giving gardeners world, Steve Backshall and garden watch vibes- fab video!!
I am very lucky to own 2 acres of this woodland and wood love to increase the size of it but I’m not sure how to do that and what species to plant down here in cornwall
Yes visited Hills above Porlock North Devon years ago. Loved the colours in this film, excellent keep them coming!
It has the largest slug in the world, also a ground beetle that was thought extinct for decades. A prize, considerable for the time was to be given to anyone who found a living specimen. Fortunately it was eventually rediscovered.
A magical place.
Beautiful Video and stunning woodlands , thank you for sharing 😊
Beautiful! 🥰 thanks for this video! 💚🤎
I worked for a couple of years with a woman who hailed from Tasmania. She showed me pics of the temperate rain forest there. Wonderful and more extensive than that here in the UK.