Re-introducing an extinct plant into the wild in Wales

Last seen in the wild in Wales in 1962, the white blooms of Rosy Saxifrage were pushed to extinction by Victorian overcollection and air pollution.
However, this plant has been cared for in cultivation and now Plantlife's Robbie Blackhall-Miles has had the opportunity to reintroduce it back to wild in Wales.
Watch as Robbie reintroduces this plant back to the rolling hills of Cwm Idwal and learn more about the project and this special plant.
This work was led by Plantlife as part of the Tylsau Mynydd Eryri Project, part of Natur Am Byth!, alongisde partners Natural Resources Wales and National Trust. Read more about Plantlife's work to save vulnerable species from extinction in Wales:www.plantlife....
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Credit: Llyr Hughes

[@100Noddy]

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[@andrewjinks7546]

Da iawn :)

[@JamaicaWhiteMan]

Well done, good work. But having been to the UK a few times (I'm a Canadian living in Jamaica), it's clear that the introduction of sheep thousands of years ago is what devastated the island. You need to get rid of those things or it's all a lost cause.

[@jackcooper4998]

Sheep were fine until the war, they provided good livelyhood and the foundation of many many settlements across britain. during the war, many shepards were conscripted or changed roles and free grazing was prefered, this meant there were no restraints on the sheep and there was no knowledge of shepards for the best or healthiest grazing land and all the areas that could've regenerated and relied on herbivory in their ecology suddently had no hope.

[@JamaicaWhiteMan]

@@jackcooper4998 Got it, thanks. But what I mostly remember is an almost total lack of forests compared to Canada and Jamaica - just little pockets. In Wales and Scotland, big barren hills with sheep roaming around on them. It seemed like a wasteland. I couldn't understand it, because I can't even wear wool - it gives me a rash. And rabbits everywhere outside of town in England! No surprise because there really haven't been predators for thousands of years. Much respect to the guys doing the project in this video, but you need to introduce wolves or something.

[@jackcooper4998]

@@JamaicaWhiteMan rabbits had mixamatosis introduced in the 60s which keeps the population down. You're right it's a green desert, but that's also deer especially in Scotland. It's also farming which cleared it, so sheep arent all to blame, it's the management (as always)

[@jackcooper4998]

@jamesgrant7201 it is sheep, I'm not saying get rid of them all, I mean that the farming practices have changed so now sheep farming IS intense, they're not sheparded, they're overwintered in delecate uplands, they roam wider than ever before.

[@mywildwelshgarden-es3fr]

Sut byddwch chi`n stopio`r defaid o bwyta iddo fe? How will you stop the sheep from eating it?