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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.
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 🍄🌲
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.
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
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 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!
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! 😀
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!
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.
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.
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 ❤
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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 :)
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
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!
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.
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.
Hey mate, great video! I'm from the East Coast of Australia and also feel blessed to have access to these amazing rainforests. I was just wondering what camera you use to make your videos? I would love to start making content on the forests I live near and the clarity your videos have is exaclty what I would like to emulate. Many thanks in advance, much love from Australia :)
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.
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.
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!!
Thankyou for the stunning visuals!! Temperate rainforests are my absolute favourite, and I'm lucky to live near one in south eastern Australia. Giant eucalypts and tree ferns are my happy place, but I absolutely adore oak trees, and to see them like this in Autumn is like a dream come true!!🥰😍🥰
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.
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 ❤
Watching your sheer delight at being rained on in a forest has really brightened my day. And reminded me to get out into the Peak District this weekend :-)
How magnificent, brother! Thank you for sharing. I did not know you had such glorious and biodiverse woodlands over there, and I certainly never heard that you have any rainforest. It is quite sad how small they are but thank God there is still anything left at all. Folks like you give me good cheer and hope for tomorrow, that the extremely precious habitats we have can be preserved and restored. May God bless you to keep up the good work, lad.
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!
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.
By god is that beautfiul! Rob I'm proud to say I found your channel before you joined mossy earth and I just have to say I totally share your excitement and joy over such UNBELIEVABLY beauty in trees, mosses, rivers and ecoystems in general. It's such a delight to see someone be so genuinely happy in that environment right there. Most friends look at me strange when I say I like rainy weather, but I enjoy it seemingly as much as you do. As a guy from nothern germany, I think we live in very similar ecosystems and tbh as much as I am interested in these things I didnt know anything about temperate rainforests or at least not theyre called that, but let me tell you your video makes me want to go there a lot! Lovely content as always, great job mate!
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.
I loved this video and your excitement throughout! What a wonderful place to explore. My little woodland, confirmed ancient woodland is very similar to this. The orange on the tree was a type of crust fungi. Love this video!!!
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 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.
Thank you for what you are doing. I can only support you by watching and liking. I hope that many people will find your channel. And I also hope that the support for you and others and and all the important work that needs to be done to save and restore nature keeps growing. People like You give people like me a reason and a tool to support nature👍
@@LeaveCurious Some moral support for you. Never take too much load on your shoulders. Even a donkey can carry only so much. If the world would go to hell it would not happen because you did not do enough, but instead it would happen because too many others did nothing at all. You do what you can do, and if that is not enough so be it. Stay healthy, and stay happy! 👍
Love it. Have a similar type environment down in Hastings of sorts in whats called a hanging valley. Was wild camping down dartmoor recently near Manaton. MASSIVE chicken of the woods mushrooms there. Loads of the amethysts too.
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!!
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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
is this good place for violent murder?
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.
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 ?
@@Luckyluke9800 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 🍄🌲
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
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).
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
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 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.
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.'
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
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...
So lovely …thank you for your passion and such love of our beautiful Mother/father Nature!..may you multiply! 🙏🍀🙏
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! 😀
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!
My new favourite channel. Your face shows pure joy! Utterly charming and I am very interested to follow for more.
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
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.
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.
That’s a very beautiful ecosystem!! Thank you for sharing that!! 🌳🌴🌿🍄🍁🌺
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 ❤
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.
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.
thanks rob! i miss england so much and videos like this make me happy, wish i can smell the autumn woods walking around
UA-cam scratch and sniff is yet to be developed! But I can say it was those mossy damp branches smelt amazing!
@@LeaveCurious 🤣🤣🤣
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.
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
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!
Its great seeing things covered in moss, feels proper!
Oh my god. The intro was damn near a fairytale!!! 😍
It really was special! Thanks!
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
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.
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!
Sooo beautiful 🥰
Reminds me of the forests in northern Scotland near findhorn. You can feel the magic of untouched nature for Millenium.
Thank you for this beautiful, positive, nicely shot video. Your delivery gives me hope and made me smile.
Thank you for showing us this beautiful place! I had no idea England had rain forests. Amazing looking, magical place!
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.
Beautiful 😍. I love this country so much ❤️☮️
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!
Oh my goodness! This was such a beautiful video 🥲🥹thank you so so much for showing me this wonderful habitat in our country
Great video from a handsome and enthusiastic guy! I've wandered around that very place myself. Just magical.
I know this place well, as a regular Dartmoor walker I have visited on several occasions, it’s a magical place.
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!
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.
Really love these videos and that people like you are out there doing this important work!
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!
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.
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 :)
As a bonsai enthusiast and lover of trees and the natural world this was a fabulous and beautifully put together video. Thank you 🙏
One of my favorite habitats. When I lived in Seattle, I loved visiting the Hoh Rainforest out on the Olympic Peninsula.
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!
Love the energy you bring to your stories 🙏
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
Gorgeous mossy forest. Every sight is picturesque. Thank you for showing us an impressive hidden place. Greetings from Japan.
This was so fun to watch because you are having such a enjoyable experience!
It’s great to see forests like that. Thanks for showing us.
Stunning landscape, absolutely beautiful!
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!
This is beautiful! I have explored all around Matlock and there are valleys around there with lakes that have their own eco systems
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.
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.
Hey mate, great video! I'm from the East Coast of Australia and also feel blessed to have access to these amazing rainforests. I was just wondering what camera you use to make your videos? I would love to start making content on the forests I live near and the clarity your videos have is exaclty what I would like to emulate. Many thanks in advance, much love from Australia :)
So nice to see the joy nature can bring ❤
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.
So beautiful
Lovely to see all of that old growth
Jeez it must have been good for your Soul being there
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.
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!!
You’re doing great work, teaching people about the real natural, native character of our island. All my thanks 🙏
Welcome to where I grew up and spent my childhood days and nights, it’s nice to see it so well framed.
Beautiful! 🥰 thanks for this video! 💚🤎
There's also rainforest in Scotland and Wales, lovely scenery :)
Thankyou for the stunning visuals!! Temperate rainforests are my absolute favourite, and I'm lucky to live near one in south eastern Australia. Giant eucalypts and tree ferns are my happy place, but I absolutely adore oak trees, and to see them like this in Autumn is like a dream come true!!🥰😍🥰
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.
Thank you for showing this wonderful piece of nature!
Wow I have always wondered if you had any old growth forests left and especially temperate rainforests! Amazing, beautiful!
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 ❤
Such a great topic to cover and so well presented, thanks so much for making this :)
Watching your sheer delight at being rained on in a forest has really brightened my day. And reminded me to get out into the Peak District this weekend :-)
How magnificent, brother!
Thank you for sharing. I did not know you had such glorious and biodiverse woodlands over there, and I certainly never heard that you have any rainforest.
It is quite sad how small they are but thank God there is still anything left at all. Folks like you give me good cheer and hope for tomorrow, that the extremely precious habitats we have can be preserved and restored. May God bless you to keep up the good work, lad.
I was lucky enough to see fantastic temperate rainforest in New Zealand a while back; it would be superb to see it spread in the UK again.
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!
Just stunning, thank you for sharing 🌳🌿🌱
Beautiful Video and stunning woodlands , thank you for sharing 😊
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.
By god is that beautfiul! Rob I'm proud to say I found your channel before you joined mossy earth and I just have to say I totally share your excitement and joy over such UNBELIEVABLY beauty in trees, mosses, rivers and ecoystems in general. It's such a delight to see someone be so genuinely happy in that environment right there. Most friends look at me strange when I say I like rainy weather, but I enjoy it seemingly as much as you do. As a guy from nothern germany, I think we live in very similar ecosystems and tbh as much as I am interested in these things I didnt know anything about temperate rainforests or at least not theyre called that, but let me tell you your video makes me want to go there a lot! Lovely content as always, great job mate!
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.
My gosh, that's a beautiful forest!
You're enthusiasm is infectious, fantastic video mate 👏
Astonishingly beautiful! Can't believe I drove past this area yesterday and never knew of the rainforest 🤦
I loved this video and your excitement throughout! What a wonderful place to explore. My little woodland, confirmed ancient woodland is very similar to this. The orange on the tree was a type of crust fungi. Love this video!!!
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.
Beautiful. Thank you
Great video. I'm often hiking Dartmoor most weekends. We travel up from mid Cornwall. It's such a captivating landscape
Wow! A beautiful place beautifully filmed.... thank you.
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.
Thank you for what you are doing. I can only support you by watching and liking. I hope that many people will find your channel. And I also hope that the support for you and others and and all the important work that needs to be done to save and restore nature keeps growing. People like You give people like me a reason and a tool to support nature👍
Thank you! Just to have a community building of like minded people is really amazing!
@@LeaveCurious Some moral support for you. Never take too much load on your shoulders. Even a donkey can carry only so much. If the world would go to hell it would not happen because you did not do enough, but instead it would happen because too many others did nothing at all. You do what you can do, and if that is not enough so be it. Stay healthy, and stay happy! 👍
Good for the soul indeed! Thank you so much for taking us into the rain forest with you! 💚🌱
Anytime, everytime!
Love it. Have a similar type environment down in Hastings of sorts in whats called a hanging valley. Was wild camping down dartmoor recently near Manaton. MASSIVE chicken of the woods mushrooms there. Loads of the amethysts too.
You seem like a really kind and nice person, this was a great video and so I'm subscribing :)
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!!
The intro was on another level! Loved it. Great video as always 😊