I Explored the UK's Most Bizarre Habitat & found this...
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This'll be the last video of the year. I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy holidays during this time! I'm very much looking forward to 2024 & all the epic videos that'll come with it. I have some really fun plans that I can't wait to get to work on.
Merry Christmas! Thank you for your wonderful videos!❤
Thank you for all the awesome videos and work that you did. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year. And I am looking forward to the next year. 👍
Same to you. My classes love your stuff.
Merry Christmas, Rob. I hope you and your family have a great one and I look forward to more of you intelligent videos in 2024.
Merry Christmas to you and your families too. I think we hail from the same area 🙂
Great video! I have a suggestion for another site you may want to visit- I am a Ranger for the National Trust on the Gower peninsula in South Wales and we have a really interesting re-emerging salt marsh on our land. A sea wall had been built in the 1600s to create more grazing land but in 2015 the sea wall broke through in one area and the sea was able to flood back in to its original tidal range. Therefor the salt marsh habitat is re-emerging on its own and we are able to watch the natural processes take place in a young and ever changing environment!
Ahh, Llanmadoc - Absolutely fascinating to look at the development of the marsh through satellite imagery. I’m glad the wall was left breached!
The Gower holds such pleasant memories for me. My first holiday was at Port Eynon, and our picnics at Three Cliffs Bay & Rhossili will never be forgotten.
We have the exact same issue here in the Southeast North America. Im from Louisiana and they have also butchered our marshes in favor of agricultural lands, wreaking havoc on native wildlife populations.
When I was a young lad here in NJ in the 70s, they were still filling in the marshes for development. Thankfully it ended soon after. It makes a terrible place to build, not only does it ruin the natural environment, but it is an unstable base in which to erect buildings. Where I grew up, all the houses had pilings driven deep into the what was once marshland to shore up the foundations, lest they sink into what was once marsh.
I love marshes, and it's a pity that it's almost disappeared, hopefully it can make a comeback when people notice living in a place that commonly floods isn't the best idea
Yep, you got that right.
shame its not a natural habitat
@@von1477 marshes are natural, they establish in flood plains and so on but since we destroyed those, we can also recreate them artificially
@@Solstice261 No, he's quite right. Most of the Salt Marshes, like the Moorland of the UK, are entirely artifical when lowland trees and bushland were carved away for foraging in ancient time.
@@grimnir8872 yes but that case is fairly specific, from what I understood, it sounded like he said that marshes straight up in general were artificial habitats and that's not true, there are natural marshes, UK's marshes are an odd situation but that's sort of like Carolingian forests which are also "artificial" in that they exist due to how we used those spaces, but a lot of marshes were also natural, usually at the ends of rivers and such were sediment accumulates forming a marsh
Declaimed salt marsh would produce a lot of forageable food. Many of our native salt marsh plants are edible and some regarded as gourmet delicacies. They are also hugely productive.
This is very true!
Just don't let the unwashed masses find out. Oh, wait... a bit too late now.
I work on Irish salt marshes, and i can absolutely agree that marshes can be gorgeous green and purple flower pastures. 🌸Be careful if you venture out to visit one, they're easy to get lost in and easy to get stuck in the mud!!
Yeah I didn’t make it out too far that reason! Looking forward to visiting again in the summer.
@@LeaveCurious - Also never ever underestimate how deep any marsh bog is either. There was a wetlands patch in the countryside where my grandparents had their farm in Scotland, and I remember one summer when I was young I was playing out in the fields with my two younger brothers. My youngest brother was 6 at the time, took one step over a bog and went straight under in literary a second. We were right next to him when it happened so had to pull him back up and out of it.
But yeah, just be really careful where you step in those places, especially if you're alone, because there's no way of knowing how deep parts of them really go.
Well done fella !! This country needs more people like you
I love salt marshes! There used to be miles and miles of them in Northern Germany too, especially in northern Frisia. It was called the Uthlande (outer lands).
But a few hundred year a go people started to dig up the peat of the marshes to burn and produce salt. This left huge holes tho and after a few huge floods, most of the land and hundreds of thousands of people were lost.
Nowadays the regional governments (atlwast on the North Sea shore) build so called Lahnungen, wooden walls build into the wadden sea. These walls catch sediment and slowly build land which turns into salt marshes.
But this isn’t yet happening at a large enough scale.
Btw I made an apprenticeship as a water construction worker there a few years ago(I’m still in school yk) and it’s rll interesting!
Working in the tide by the sea everyday in a team and building walls…
I love it that you showed us the English salt marshes! They are so huge and gorgeous:D
Keep up your awesome work!
Greeting and a merry Christmas 🎄
I'm from Essex, so i'm very well acquainted with salt marsh, and it's incredibly beautiful. Be careful tho, the mud is very thick, the tides very fast and its very easy to get lost.,
Hi, Rob! Did you know that almost the entire State of Florida used to be either salt marsh or fresh water marsh?
Yet people blame only petroleum for global warming. Your work is *superb!*
I did not know this! But come to think of it, it makes sense, cheers!!
Exactly. CO2 should be "greening" for the planet if only it wasn't eh? The whole of the Netherlands is also a testament to a completely artificial 'miracle' of human ingenuity
Your second sentence is entirely unconnected with your first. Could you explain what you see as the link? And of course, people blame fossil fuels, not just petroleum, for climate change, and they do it for the very good reason that it's the cause.
@@MikeAG333 The second sentence has *everything* to do with the video.
Global warming is geothermal mate and related to pole shift. We will need Co2 when the pole shift passes (and the geothermal heat subsides) or we won't be able to grow food as it will frost every night.
I worked on the planning for phase 1 of the greatham creek realignment, off the River Tees, phase 3 should be starting soon. Over 100 hectares changed from sheep pasture to Saltmarsh and mudflats
cool, feel free to email be about the project!
And I guess the plan is to keep killing off local production until we're just a garden society for the rich right?
Budleigh Salterton has an area currently being restored to salt marsh, after many years of managed reclamation and regular flooding of the cricket ground etc. The cricket ground is now further up the hill.
The numbers of migratory birds that depend on marshes and mudflats are staggering. There is no other habitat that anually hosts such high numbers.
And it's not as if salt marshes can't be 'farmed' very carefully and responsibly. Certainly there's a market for salt marsh foods. Just a couple of weeks ago I bought a pack of samphire from a major supermarket chain. It was the first time I had seen it for sale in such an establishment. The shame was, it was in the reduced section, probably because few people know what to do with it any more. But I can remember family outings to collect bags of samphire, and then a day of steaming and pickling in the kitchen.
But there several more equally tasty salt marsh and seashore plants that are being ignored, yet are very tasty.
I grew up near the North Norfolk coast and loved troshing across those wild marshes with unexpected chasms and weird blobby mud formations. It's such an alien landscape, especially as it emerges from under the tide, draining, drying and cracking through a hot day.
Great video, and insightful commentary.
There's a whole section of sea wall which has been removed in Suffolk (River Alde) to allow this. It's amazing to see and very encouraging!
Lower River Otter Restoration Scheme by Budleigh Salterton, East Devon has just been completed and restored after two hundred years plus to Salt Marsh for various environmental and flooding issues. Visited Thursday wonderful ………… and wild……….
:) :) :)
PS Hats off to Clinton Devon Estates Environmental Team, East Devon District Council, Environment Agency, EEC Funding and others…….
Lots of signage, replanting, bird hides and footpaths…..
Maybe Google Earth site?
Ancient and primal landscapes are so majestic, Loving your content 🌲🌲
They certainly are! When you can find them!!
Why did you not mention that quite a lot of what was shown in the video is in Essex ? There are 350 miles (500km) of coastline in Essex, most of which is wild areas of beaches, creeks, mud flats, salt marsh, saltings, outfalls, shingle banks, sand banks, coastal grassland and shellbanks, etc, covering and providing vast areas of nature and wild habitats😊. Much of it is located along the entire Essex coast and at Wallasea Island in Canewdon near Rochford, the world renowned RSPB wild coast project.
Most of this was filmed in Norfolk, but I hear you. I live in Essex!
What a stunning part of England. So beautiful in its natural state.
Ah - I too live in Essex and was thinking Hey - this is Essex. Great to walk south from Bradwell on sea. Love your Vids Rob - please do keep up the good work. @@LeaveCurious
Definitely a scenario that needs more public awareness. Wasn't aware of the degree that carbon is stored within salt marshes. Another great video!
Thank you! :)
Because the Carbon is released just as quickly, as well as producing a fair amount of Methane, it's just another Green-washing pointless factoid.
Merry Christmas mate! don't know if you have heard of it but the WWT did a great job in restoring the Steart marshland back to a saltmarsh. Might be worth visiting when your in the South West next and maybe get some insight into how it was done. WWT isn't as well known as the RSPB but they do some great work in restoring these areas.
Yes, I'm meaning to email them! When you look into it, theres loads of really cool saltmarsh restoration!
I used to be a migratory Londoner to those North Norfolk mud flats during the holidays of my youth.
We didn't strictly come for the invertebrates though many a cockle and winkle were scavenged.
We have these in the Netherlands as well! Here they are called Kwelders, and a notable example here is the Sunken Land of Saeftinghe which used to be a polder but has been drowned and turned into a salt marsh. And recently an adjacent polder has been drowned as well and will turn into a salt marsh over time.
West of Clacton is acres upon acres of this terrain - not a huge distance south of where you filmed.
In fact, when the Vikings invaded, the whole Norfolk, Anglia and Suffolk areas were full of this. A few thousand years before that - large swathes were just underwater.
The aerial shots are just beautiful. I live in Cumbria but have never really visited the Solway much, this has inspired me to get out there and take a good look 👍
You should get there. It’s wonderful. Not quite so salt-marshy as this area, but well worth going. Both sides too, English and Scottish.
Merry Christmas and a fabulous new year. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you and mossy earth, little beacons of light and passion. Always a must watch.
Love it thank you. Appreciate the kind words!
I’ve walked across some of these salt marshes in Norfolk. Some were a total barrier especially near Blakey Point & Kings Lyn when I wanted to follow the coastline.
It always fascinates me that the land London was founded on was marsh/wet lands all the land up and down the river Thames was wetlands until we decided to terraform it into a city, the sad part is this is exactly what has happened to alot of marsh/wetland areas in the UK and I hope we can give back land to nature because of how important they are to wildlife, marsh/ wetlands are so rich in bio-diversity they help so many species year round.
Also, the bricks that were used to build London were made from mud dug out of the River Medway salt marches.
I live near the Great Salt Marshes on the Massachusetts and New Hampshire coast here in the US, one of the largest salt marshes in the world if I recall correctly. Definitely a unique landscape!
We are very lucky to live next to salt marshes in Essex. This time of year it’s full of migrating birds, and it’s bleak and windswept, which is lovely to visit!
We haven’t lived here long, and are still exploring this beautiful area. So lucky to have it all on our doorstep ❤
Over here in Finland, much of our natural marshland has also been dried for agricultural development. The carbon emissions from all that have been enormous, not to mention the effects on wildlife, and people have only began to realise that within the last couple decades. The restoration projects exist, but there's an obvious pushback too from people who would rather profit from the land, which makes me rather sad.
good on you,mate. I trained as an ecologist on the Stiffkey marshes, then surveyed all the saltmarshes between Ipswich and Faversham. In 1972. I'm glad they're rewilding some of the articial fields - it's a losing battle anyway as the sealevel rises.
Wonderful video. I was brought up near salt marshes. Some of my favourite memories are of that place. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. 🎄☃✨
There’s loads of salt marsh in Newport South Wales it’s protected as well.
RSPB Newport Wetlands, I highly recommend checking it out if you live in the area.
And North gower beyond Swansea
There’s a lot of it here in East/South east Essex! I love it, calm, remote and untouched (for the most part)
Pretty much the whole North/west/NW of the Netherlands used to be like this, but now it can barely be seen anywhere in the country. I don't think we have any projects going on to restore any of these areas. which is ofc very unfortunate. hopefully our country can do something about this as well!
The only places I can think of where salt marsh exists in the Netherlands are the Wadden islands and some areas in Zeeland. The Drowned Land of Saeftinghe is apparently one of the largest brackish salt marshes in Europe. Next to it is the Hedwigepolder which is the only area that I know of currently undergoing restoration. Given the huge commotion and delays surrounding that project and the larger issues surrounding agricultural land I don't suspect we'll see anything like it anytime soon.
I live on the west coast in Central Florida. They call it "The nature Coast" because it's all marshland and protected wetlands, forest, and wildlife areas. not many live there and there are no beaches or anything like that. It's one of the more rural parts of Florida because of this, everyone wants to live near the beach. 30 percent of Citrus county is protected land area that can't be developed. With more and more people moving here, I'm worried how the groundwater, the springs under us, and the rivers that flow into the marshes will be. All the water pollution from everyone's septic systems and weed and feed lawns will destroy it, just like the Gulf waters off the southwest coast. 😢
Great video and narration. I always liked the solitude when walking salt marshes in England during the winter. Binoculars in hand and a bird book in my jacket pocket. These must be saved wherever in the world they are.
Great video, very imformative and awesome cinematography. Good job, speading knowledge and awareness of the marshes. 👍
Nice one John!
The North Norfolk coast is one of my favourite places in England.
Shout out to Blakeney.
Happy Christmas and wishing you and your family a great new year. Thanks for everything you do on your own channel and with Mossy Earth. I love watching your videos and always learn something.
Thank you Simon, all the best to you!
Thanks for sharing both the traditionally “beautiful” and the unappreciated “beautiful”. I always learn something from your videos, thanks for that. I’m 60 and still curious. Feliz Navidad from amazing Mexico that let’s so many of us share her winter sun!
Spent some time on the salt marshes in Lincolnshire (the wash) with a pocket full of bin bags and a switchblade, picking samphire with my grandfather to bring home. Spent most of the time dodging quick-sand and slipping over more times than we could count 🤣 He’s originally from Wainfleet All-Saints so the marshes were on his doorstep. He grew up there during the second world war and has many stories of hunting geese at night for dinner on the marshes; laid on his back with his trusty shotgun, that he later traded for a motorbike, pointed at the sky. Other stories of dogfights breaking out in the sky and German bombers storming past towards London. And other stories of getting into plenty of trouble 🤣 He’s getting on a bit now and recently beat cancer for the second time and is enjoying his peaceful life in retirement now. This video brought some memories back which I am grateful for.
Got to wander around salt marsh as a young kid. they are fascinating & it's so cool to learn more about their ecological impact which I had no idea about back then. thank you. looking forward to future salt marsh videos!
In a very busy world here in the south of England, salt marshes are one of the very few places that retain a sense of the wild and where it is still just about possible to get some peace. I have spent some of my best and most contented moments in these places birdwatching and wildfowling. We have created a very small area of salt marsh reversion on The Severn, from what was previously drained arable land. It is already proving a mecca for wildfowl and waders in a nature denuded part of this wetland system where coastal squeeze is very much in evidence.
Merry Christmas. Thanks for all the wonderful videos.
Thank you! You too!
Thanks!
I love salt marsh... I live a few miles away from Tollesbury and I absolutely adore it there. One of my favourite places to go. It's so sad there are miles and miles of sea wall holding back the tide (I get it that it was probably viewed through a different lens before, especially after the 1953 floods, but we know differently now). Perhaps you can get to Northey Island and see where they've recently breached the sea wall there? Would be an amazing case study watching it develop....
It is so brilliant to see a video on it, I look forward to a part 2 later in the year.
Most of the land around where I live in N Lincs is reclaimed lowland peatbog, which I believe is even more scarce than salt marsh now.
It once featured on QI as the most 'topographically boring' area of the UK on Ordnance Survey maps, but I love it.
I hear Americans talk about 'big skies', but I grew up with being able to see the full hemisphere, too.
uh, no offense, but i beg to differ, mate!
1) i am an american and i've never heard any american say that!
2) u2 sings a song called blue skies? they aren't american, and i am assuming the implication is [big] and blue...
3) it's not us that has the one really cool song "in a big country" by big country... that's from somewhere closer your area..
dearie! cheers!🤩
I LOVE this habitat. Was finally able to visit WWT Caerlaverock this year, and it was captivating, so many cool invertabrates and birds. Want to revist ASAP , and again next October (would be nice to finally see Triops cancriformis in the wild afer so any years raising an reasearching this species).
Also samphire is so tasty.
Much of the action in Dicken's "Great Expectations" happens in Essex salt marshes.
"now I know what you must be thinking", how did he keep those white trousers so clean that far into a saltmarsh.
I’m like a gazelle , a slightly overweight graceful gazelle
@@LeaveCurious haha, Merry Christmas!
I'm very excited to see salt marshes getting more love and attention. I hope that as conversations around salt marsh protection, restoration, and assisted migration increase, more detailed storytelling can follow about native oyster reef restoration and other vital keystone species to these complex ecosystems that link the land and the ocean.
Yes I'm working on plans for those videos!
Ancient Britain was covered in these.
I wonder which came first, the idea of recreating a salt marsh or the need for London to have somewhere to Fly tip thousands of tons of dirt from the railway construction.
YES! Finally, someone brings voice to these habitats, so precious. I only learned about how much they store carbon not long ago and was surprised on how little information there is about them. Thank you for your work, great content!! ❤
Brilliant. I grew up near a salt marsh and it led to a lot of very muddy and smelly fun!
Whenever I see parts of Britain that are absolutely beautiful, it almost makes me proud to be British....... being an Englishman is not what it used to be...
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 Rob!! See you after the Holidays!!
Thank you!!! Have a lovely Christmas
@@LeaveCurious you’re very welcome and you too!! 🎅🎄🎂🫖🍰🎼🎁
It is so beautiful.
Oh, well done Rob, for making this video.😊 And your point about the word 'reclaiming' has annoyed me for half a century. Salt marshes, all over the world, could be rewilded at very little expense. Of course, a lot of it IS prime agricultural land, but then, a lot of what's grown there goes to feed animals to feed us. Obviously, we can't let them all go back to Nature, but when you add their ability to help deal with flooding to their role as carbon sinks, there really is a very strong case for looking at them carefully and restoring as many as we can. The benefits to wildlife are incalculable.
Yeah I think it’s about finding a balance. Finding where it works. This is something I’ll dive into a bit more and feature some specific projects. And thank you very much for the support Annie :)
Maybe with global warming and seawater rising across the planet, all these former salt marshes will once again be inundated and naturally revert to salt marshes once again..
Greedy people who don’t care about nature ..we need to restart thses beautiful places and put them back to flourish.
WWT Steart Marsh is a pretty cool recent example where they dug through the sea wall of the River Parrett estuary to reflood the wetland. I visited a few years back and have thought ever since it must be one of the easiest and cheapest ways to 'rewild' both for biodiversity reasons and resilience against floods/climate change
I grew up on a salt marsh estuary and the call of the curlew still wakes me, 200 miles and 40 years later.
Excellent points.
Wow, Wow, Wow!
What a beautiful video you made there. Bravo. All the colours the wet lands information it is very well maid. All my respect for all of your videos you have maid.
The term 'Reclaimed Land' is hilarious :)
I would have enjoyed joining you on this walk, salt marshes are fascinating and amazing. Look forward to seeing the video from your return visit, Merry Christmas
in the Dengie peninsula Essex the Essex wildlife trust are restoring the salt marshes
Thanks for your effort in producing this great video and Happy Christmas to you too, Rob 🤩🎅🎄
I remember doing a geography field trip on salt Marsh in the late 60s. We weren't told then we needed to protect it
Excellent production. Very professionally documented. Lovely drone footage 👌 Happy Christmas to you and yours 🌲
Since it's in the UK, I have to assume that it's loaded with raw sewage!
spent some time in salt marshes, they really are a thing of thier own
Almost as beautiful as the northern Pennines
Just remember to not follow the lights
Hey Rob! Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and dedication for habitat and wildlife restoration. Love every single video that you make, and I will continue to like and comment because you deserve a whole lot more attention and praise for the hard work that you’re doing. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us in 2024! Merry Christmas and have a happy new year 🎊 🥳
From how you described it, salt marshes are a CO2 sink, but of organic matter that would sink to the bottom of the ocean anyway. So it's not really fair to compare it to carbon sinks that are capturing CO2 from the air or from sources with a shorter cycle.
Allowing the salt marsh back on its own land, taken by people, *is* re-claiming it. I hope we can restore both marshes and mangrove forests. Their territory needs to be re-claimed, real re-claiming.
I agree we need our marshes but we also need to eat. Its a balance and its not as simple as just ditching agricultural land and re wilding it!
Amazing work as always!
There is a way that salt marsh can both be agricultural and wild land, and it can be summed up in two words: Water Buffalo. Swap out crop land for natural salt marsh, which is grazed and maintained by locally owned herds of Water buffalo. These buffalo provide milk, meat, leather, and ecotourism opportunities for farmers. There is evidence that management using water buffalo can increase biodiversity, particularly in marshes dominated by Phragmites. Overall, this solution can provide income to communities and rewind the land.
scottish rain forest, souther bosai oak woodland theres lots of choices
I come from a salt marsh area in Hampshire. It has been disappearing too. The reason is something you didn't mention, Post-glacial rebound. You might like to look into that?
From the pictures, I'm guessing you are somewhere near me out on the Dengie? The pictures look great and it certainly is a magical place.
Not to pour scorn, but given what we suspect will be the degree of sea-level rise, investing in salt marsh restoration and preservation is very likely to be money and effort washed away.
We do, however, need to better understand how these areas operate to be able to better manage the new habitats that night be created, including new slat marshes.
Sunrises and sunsets are great, it should be acknowledged. I don't think it is very pretty, but I love what it does.
Saltmarsh always degenerates, it's battered by the sea daily. I am a chairman of a club that owns saltmarsh and have seen the changes over the years. I don't go for the whole carbon being an issue, especially having a degree in environmental science. Nice video of the Wash, we own marsh in Essex. Interesting about conserving marsh but not sure how you can stop erosion from the power of the sea.
I’m from an area in the north east of Scotland that’s somewhat the same, the lands historically been wet lands and marshes but now it’s all been urbanised.
I did the whole DiCaprio pointing meme and yelled "Blackeney Point!" when you were on the Norfolk coast, but I think you were slightly further along to the west
Beautiful. Why does man have to destroy everything 😢
Looks amazing!
Mmm samphire. An amazing amount of interesting info for such a short video, love this. And now i want to visit a salt marsh!!
Oh, I love salt marches! I actually saw some "new" saltmarshes in the northwest of Germany in November, which looked super interesting.
Cool! had they been restored or naturally forming?
We really need to be protecting what salt marsh we have left
Wow, South England's salt marshes look amazing.
10 seconds in and I'm thinking Essex/Kent Thames Estuary... Looks like the Dengi Peninsular on the Blackwater?
North Norfolk Coast for the expansive shots
blame the government
This comment will get very quickly dated but Merry Christmas! Your channel has been so therapeutic for me recently in the face of climate doomerism. You give me hope & confidence that can things can chance with the right funding and organising.
Thank you! Yeah making these videos is my way of contributing to the problem. They keep me positive. Pleased they help!
But the people do own that land, it belongs either to the crown or to private individuals