We are diverting a river into a field - here’s why
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- We've been given a chance by our amazing friends at BROZ to flood something new… As you know we are huge fans of simple interventions which create ecosystem wide impacts for 100s of species. We think this new project is one of those. This episode lays down the plan which we will follow up with detailed videos in the coming months as the project progresses.
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Our Plan
2:50 The Problem
4:25 The Intervention
9:40 The Future
🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT
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We are looking to create 33 hectares of a rare ecosystem: wet sedge meadows. While at the same time we want to help restore the flow of the Ciliz brook which is currently stuck between all the human infrastructure and help flood a small forest to create a valuable amphibian pond. This project has a bit of everything and we think it is great bang for our buck in terms of impact.
We will publish the project details and the project management plan on our website in the coming weeks as we finalise the details.
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Thank you to every one who makes this work possible!
THIS!!!!! That flooded forest video is what got me to become a member instantly. You're nailed it right on the head when you said that this is the type of projects that we like to see and fund! As far as donating money to a good cause goes, this is incredible bang for buck! Thanks for your hard work, and I'm looking forward to your future videos!
How can you help East Palestine and the rest of Ohio with this train derailment chemical spill?
I'm 197 miles away and it's pretty scary ... how can we fix it ?! I'm @ a loss and the people who are " cleaning" it are actually making it worse I'm afraid.
Can you show us the flooding
Wonderful, tell me, have you figured out how to make a perpetual growth consumption driven top down anti democratic global socioeconomic system that must double its consumption of energy and resources over every 33yr period to stave off its collapse, compatible with the immutable physics governing a finite world?
When you are able to alter the laws of reality to what capitalism demands then your river project will be worth something in perpetuity, till then, its a noble effort for sure but still only a temporary one in the end as someone born as I type this is going to find out along with much of the complex life on the surface of this world as they get hammered by ever increasing temperatures as we are now warming at twice the rate we were just a decade ago, last year Europe experienced its worst droughts on record and that was under la nina, El nino is coming, and each one will be worse than the last.
In case you think I am exaggerating with that rate of consumption, here is your proof:
Between 1750, the beginning of industrialised capitalism and 1980 we lofted 750 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Then in just 40 years from 1980 to 2020, we DOUBLED IT, to 1.5 trillion tons, what it took us 230 years to loft was doubled over the next 40, and we are on course to double that again by 2060.
Due to the rate of doubling in consumption global capitalism demands in order to satisfy return on investment and keep a long term global avg gdp growth rate of 3% to stave off recessions or worse, capitalism had us blow past safe ecological limits by 1990 and safe climatological limits by 1998.
As for renewables? do the math with me, electric generation = only 30% of global emissions and of that only 35% comes from renewables and only about 12% of that is wind and solar,
so, 12% of 35% over 40 years, = pissing in the wind compared to where humanity should have been by now if it was to have a hope in hell of adhering to what immutable physics demands of humanity to have a viable future on this finite world, wetlands or not.
Planting tree's? not gonna help either, the carbon is already above ground, those tree's will die and rot and they will die a lot sooner than under natural causes due to temperature spikes and beetle and virus encroachment from warmer winters.
I say all this not to say such projects as yours should not be done, they absolutely should and I applaud your efforts and your want to do some good for this world, but I say it to make sure you are fully systemically aware that unless what you do also comes bolted to demands for an end to capitalism on this world with inroads to that having been made by 2030 including noting that in such videos, then your project will fail after you are grey or departed, along with the majority of the human race and most species on this earth, what of them still remain that is given 70% of animal species and 50% of the planets phytoplankton that produces 80% of our oxygen supply has already been killed off within the last 70 years alone.
The other reason is because I doubt I will be here in ten years, if I am lucky I may scratch 20 but many of them will not be good. I would very much like this world to be on a path to being better to those coming after me than it has been to me and my own, but under capitalism, there is no road to a better world no matter how much tech is thrown at it, due to the immutable physics that dictate our realities on this earth. All I can do in effort towards that is put fourth the critique as I do to as many decent knowledgeable young minds as I can, like yours.
Best wishes. And have a wonderful life.
I love what you do!
is there any organization you know off, that can stop any building development plans in cities so that killing in-city nature will stop?
I live in Poland, Silesia, and we had a lot of nature around and currently we are left with almost nothing.........
and except complaining we canot do much about it.
So is there any1 outthere who can stop nature -killing and force city officials to return nature to nature?
This stuff is really inspiring, I’d love to contribute to an Irish project and help document it.
YES
Make it happen
I want to see this
Yes please! Will be keeping an eye out for the vid 👍
Same! Loads of places across ireland that really badly need reforesting/rewilding
Not only do you like flooding stuff, but you are also very good at it :D Awesome video, guys!
Thank you Patrik! - Cheers, Duarte
Awsome work! Do you work together with neighbor farmers and locales?...They are the one carry on when you leave the side
Surprised to see my own comment in the video! I really really appreciate you guys listening to feedback. I have decided to become a member based of course on the awesome projects but also on your willingness to improve, and your openness to the community via your monthly reports. Keep up the good work!
Ha! I wondered whether we would get someone who saw their comment. Cool stuff! Glad you are happy with our work and its an honour to have you as a member! We will do our best to deliver on the rewilding impact and keep improving the comms :) - Cheers, Duarte
Thank you for the drone footage with picture of the animals which you're aiming to help, i'm not to much of an expert when it comes to nature so when you show the picture i get a better sense of what is going on, also the drone footage with the places where you're improving the habitat for species really helps to put the project in perspective.
Glad you enjoyed them! They are quite a bit of work to edit but we think they are very useful to explain things properly to our viewers. All credit to Tom Hikin, our motion graphics man for that graphic you mentioned. - Cheers, Duarte
Used to live on the harpeth river in Tennessee . Every year the river would burst its banks and flood the surrounding woodland around 2013 they put in dams to prevent the flooding. After that I remember the fishing got significantly worse with fish like gizzard shad disappearing entirely and animals like river otters being almost nonexistent
Exactly! Flooding is a very important natural process that can actually help us avoid the terrible floods which sweep away houses and such. - Cheers, Duarte
I thought the Harpeth was free flowing now days. Do you recall where they put a dam(s) in?
I think this project is incredible. Having the evidence that the approach is working in a close by area is very encouraging and the potential impact is huge. Opportunities like this are not easy to come by so I am very happy we are a part of it. I hope to visit the area one day and to spot those incredible Danube crested newts as well as the other interesting wildlife.
Definitely a good place for a team meet-up! Especially if everything is flooding :D - Cheers, Duarte
This project might not critically change the world but it hopefully will not be the only one. That is the future
Its just one of many projects. We hope it can be one of those that helps make things right in the long term. - Cheers, Duarte
More consistent updates on your projects is JUST WHAT I WANTED, Thank you for the time you put into the environment!
Super cool , I support an organization in Denmark that buys up land and restores it. Thanks for your work 🙏
I spend quite a bit of time in Denmark and have found few opportunities here. What is the name of the organisation? - Cheers, Duarte
Right up to the moment that my Danish relatives have to eat imported food. Denmark is one of the most productive food producers per capita, in the world. A minor “retirement” in agricultural land has a disproportionally larger impact on production.
@MossyEarth sorry wrote a long reply , got deleted apparently its called n a t u r f o n d e n .
@larrysorenson4789 the organization I support is like restoring nature that needs help. It's not they buy up corn fields and start a Forrest. Latest they bought up 25 hectares of wet land they will restore in corporations with the county. I'm personally for animal welfare and the Danish farmers export $25 billions worth of pigs meat but still almost 25 % all pigs born die in the stables. Statistics say like 30.000 piglets die each day year round, that is completely insanity if you ask me. The farmers and government promises 8 years ago it would get better, but it has gone even worse numbers show. There is lot of cruelty in modern animal farming, I would have no problems with more farmland being converted to nature. Danmark need people in other industries, so wouldn't be a problem.
@@larsstougaard7097 went online to look up some pig statistics here. The numbers are 16 to 20% deaths. The three causes most prevalent are listed as stillborn (1in 10), crushing (momma rolls over) and starvation (prevented access to teat by other piglets in the first seven days).
On an industrial scale nurturing each piglet is an impossible challenge. Were the newborns immediately removed to a safer post birth environment the crushing and mal nutrition can be avoided.
Stillborn requires medical research but one article said there just was not enough room in there and so some die.
If through simple husbandry the pig supply can be increased by ten percent, that industry will thrive.
Lastly, the Chinese are buying up the American food production industry. I don’t think that Denmark allows this to occur.
My Great, Great Grandfather was from Halles. We have close relatives in Dragor.
As someone working in a couple hundred acre sedge meadow in the US, this is so cool to see. Sedge meadows are so rare and harbor so many diverse and rare species. Love your work and can't wait to see more!
It'll be interesting to understand the landownership and, if in private ownership, how they got buy in from the landowner.
The land is privately owned by BROZ. I think the landowners were happy to sell the needed bits as they also want to see some nature back. - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarthGives them a nice improvement in ground water and soil I suspect.
Its a win win :)
Another wonderful project!
Two suggestions.... For those folks coming to your channel for the first time via this video, it is a bit hard to know WHERE this project is since they don't already know about your collab with BROZ. So a location pin with the actual place info at the beginning of each video would help. (Maybe that is already present on some, but I couldn't figure out where this project was until I looked up BROZ.)
Second suggestion -- just for this project -- a little more of the "backstory" on how you get access to the plot of land you're rewilding in this project. Is it a conservation easement from the owner of the land? Did a local conservation organization buy the plot and you're funding their project? Inquiring minds would love to know more of the behind-the-scenes on the WHY and HOW people in the community decide to lease/sell/donate their land for these projects.
Thank you so much for all you do! I am so surprised that people don't slam the subscribe button after their very first Mossy.Earth video... I was hooked after 2 minutes....
Exactly. I was wondering how the land was acquired.
Absolutely love this work! So important people realise it's not just about carbon emissions, but allocating LAND for nature to thrive in!
Exactly! There are so many other problems to solve than just carbon in the atmosphere. Biodiversity is fragile and needs help. - Cheers, Duarte
Real life heroes ❤ thank you!
Thank you for the kind words Splint! - Cheers, Duarte
Absolutely love how you guys are responding to us! we really do just want more of you guys and updates on how everything is going! Thank you for all the work you guys do
Thanks Gio! We are doing our best here. Ultimately all we want is to get people together to do some very impactful projects. Having good communication and feedback is crucial for this! - Cheers, Duarte
I love this idea wish we all did things like this in our own countries. Here in the U.K. I’m hoping we reforest and reintroduce wildlife.
I wish you guys all the best of luck
Love from the U.K. ❤
SUPER. These are the real hero s ! Love this Planet
🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍🌎🌏
Thank you Kimberley! - Cheers, Duarte
Smaller updates on projects even when it may seem like there isn't much to show for it are definitely really nice. I think it more accurately reflects the experience of working on a project and being part of it. Projects rarely start, go silent, and suddenly are complete. There are setbacks and little pieces of progress.
Obviously I understand that with projects in so many places, this may not be very feasible, but I think it would be quite neat to share some of these small updates. The sort of thing I'm thinking about would be perhaps trying to show how some of the planted trees have grown compared to their initial footage, or how the nursery plants that will eventually be planted (thinking of the Iceland project) are developing and growing. I'm not sure how this would work with the UA-cam algorithm or what format would be best, but hopefully this can somewhat convey what I mean, hopefully echo the sentiments of other community members. I think we all want to see the little steps that make the big changes possible, not just the final presentation.
Just finished watching the video you all are doing a great job... Good luck to your team.
Thank you Bamboo! - Cheers, Duarte
You guys are doing what I dreamed of doing with my life. Wish I could be a part of it, but I'm happy some people are managing to get out there and do this vital work for the planet.
flooding is like giving the earth a bath!
I love it!
Thank you for your dedication!
Thank you for the kind words Alta! - Cheers, Duarte
I am currently following a restoration ecology course at my University and I am absolutely loving all your topics!
Are you by any chance studying at Wageningen University? Because im also following a restoration ecology course there hehe
Really excited about this project, great video on it
Thanks Paul! Glad you enjoyed it! - Cheers, Duarte
A tyre dealership/repairer is all but assuredly the culprit of the illegal tyre dumping. They're so easily recycled too. You guys really are carving a noble path with all this rewilding.
Love what you do! Keep it up :3
Im also working on building some small pond areas between a local creek. It used to run all year but they built a hospital down the road and they diverted all the water. Hoping the ponds will help keep water around longer 💜
Amazing! Good luck with the project! - Cheers, Duarte
Mossy Earth where you focus on earth harmony not human superiority. I am so grateful to know that I am able to make a small monthly contribution to support your activities that promote these healthy balanced ecosystems. Thank you for what you do.
Such a great project, i hope we will get updates in the future. And Broz organization seems like a true nature lovers
They are the most amazing partners :) Keep an eye out for an update this spring! - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth I'm planning to move to Slovakia, maybe i will volunteer in their organization
You should!
Bishan park in Singapore is a great example of nature and humans coexisting.
I really love all of your videos!! It’s great to see what a positive impact you’ve already made and exciting future projects you’re involved with! Keep up the great work!!
Thank you JJ! We are also excited for the future :) - Cheers, Duarte
admit it. you not only like to rewet natural areas but also my face with tears. thank you for the great work :3
I would love to see more of the scientific background behind these projects - I have little doubt they are done with good intentions in capable hands, but I would love to see more of the analysis of these areas and the planning of the procedures, how these are meant to affect the environment, the background of these ecosystems in the area and so on. Learning more behind the "why" basically.
Not a title I would have ever expected but it makes total sense!
I love seeing how these projects develop & seeing the different steps and images of all the animals who will benefit from it 😊💚
I appreciate the absence of politics in all of your videos. Your focus is always on the ecosystem and nature. Thank you.
This is fantastic! I hope Little Danube gets a similar treatment someday
It is so good seeing the inviroment restored in places it hasn't been in decades
Proud of you the team ❤
I’m convinced. I haven’t turned off my fosset in a week.
Can't wait for the next video
Should be coming sometime this Spring! - Cheers, Duarte
Could you also go into how you handle the flooding concerning the other residents who will obviously not like flooding a field next to their fields which is used for crop production. How will they drive through the channel that you dig? Who owns the field that you are going to flood and how do you make sure that the ownee won't have a change of heart after some years and reverse everything you did? Would love a video about a deep dive into these socio-economic topics!
Hi Alex, let me answer your questions. The flooded filed as well as the parcels where the channel will be dug is owned by BROZ. The area in question that will be flooded used to be a part of an old side arm of the river Danube (a long time ago), therefore the elevation is lower than the surroundings. The amount of water that is let into the wetland can be manipulated using gates that are built upstream on the brook - that's how we ensure that no one else's fields are flooded. Hope this answers your questions! (Adriana - Mossy Earth)
who owns the land? is an overflow into the river next to the land planned? how do you prervent a flooding of the field next to it? are you in contact with the neighbouring farmer? i guess i would like to learn more of the administrative site in the background of the projects you are doing... amazing work at always guys!
I'm a member! With a very small monthly stipend because I'm not that well off, but if we all contribute our small amounts..!
Your work is great and very inspiring - really impressing! We are such a great tool for nature...let´s start repairing and restoring, everybody!
Thanks!
Thank you Duke! - Cheers, Duarte
Thank you so much for your work. Your channel made me advocate in local politics for rewilding, and this video is a prime example of how it should be done. Keep up the great work!
I love how you continue to show the progress of each project. I hope to see more about this floodplain forest.
Wow .. 81 acres is a nice little piece of land to rehabilitate.
Love it!
Thanks Peter! Appreciate the feedback :D - Cheers, Duarte
Man BROZ is really inovative
Indeed! - Cheers, Duarte
I can't do nothing else than smile when i watch your amazing projects, this one in particular i so astonishig that only a madman could have thought about it.
As a contributor to Mossy Earth, I don't mind if updates are few and far between. I'd rather your limited resources be spent on these projects directly rather than on making regular update videos about them.
The tires are the farmers work. Here in Denmark farmers usually just burn them. If you dont do something with the farmer next door, he will continue to dump his trash.
I love the flooding that you're doing too! When I was a child watching nature documentaries with my parents, the environments that always captured me the most were those that periodically flooded. Seeing fish swim in a normally above-water area is just so alien to me, It's very beautiful and interesting.
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I truly cannot wait to see the results! To see the many frogs, tadpoles, newts, and fishes!
I'm glad my small monthly donations are helping such wonderful projects!
Thank you for caring
We have very similar issues and projects here in the US. Thank you for sharing.
We look forward to do something in the US soon. - Cheers, Duarte
Do you know which projects? I'd like to follow along
I love watching these videos, I always learn something new:))
When I was a kid loved playing with mud and water made me really fall in love with rain. This would be a dream to do. Super cool you are doing this wetlands are really good at taking in CO2.
7:31 the hopping deer lol!
thiis project is underated we need more support to boom this project up
Excellent job. Keep up the great work. Do this all over the world 🎉🎉🎉
I love what you guys do and stand for ❤️
Your transparency and engagement with your audience is fantastic, keep it up!
Great subject. I can't help but to keep thinking about how excellent the type and style of communication is in it.
Come to Romania and to this as well! The Danube flood plain is gone in the south of the country and in the West the old marshes have been dried up. We are waiting for you here as well!
You guys always brighten my day ☀️🌈
thx for you work💪
Thank you Wuud! - Cheers, Duarte
Got to love Mossy Earth!
Man, I wish you guys could do stuff like this in the US rather than mainly Europe. We desperately need more projects like these in the states!
Great work, thanks.
Amazing how much you can do with such a small budget!
Absolutely love the mission these guys are on, and the Mossy Earth membership makes me so happy to know I’m contributing in my own small way, keep up the great work!
I love your efforts and actions toward making the earth a better place I wish you would have a start-up like this in BC Canada.
Respect 🫡
Thanks! - Cheers, Duarte
Thanks for adding subtitles!!
Subscribed, clicked on the bell, and liked the video. I'm doing my part!
If I could give Mossy Oak the entirety of the u.s military budget, imagine what they could do.
Mossy Earth hahah :) Really appreciate the thought though. :) - Cheers, Duarte
That's very nice for articically enlarging ground water reservoirs! I'm a hydrogeology student and I really like that!
Wooo! Incremental updates!!!!
such amazing work, we love to see it! my goal is to work in rewilding/restoration :)
Nice one! I hope you will be very successful! - Cheers, Duarte
You forgot to mention what effects this will have on the aquifers which, to me, is the most important part of this project.
I live by a quite nice tributary of one of England's biggest rivers, but over the years the bottom has got more and more silty, part of it is canalized and cattle have unlimited access to it. There used to be reasonable trout in it. A bit of love would see it right. Some tightening of some banks and a few tonnes of big rocks to create some scouring turbulence would make it excellent.
Really looking forward to this one! The update videos will be amazing!
Love your videos, Duarte. I'd love to see something like this done in our homeland, Portugal. My village, Mindelo, has the oldest protected area in the country which is very degraded and an ideal candidate for such a flooding project! The small river could be diverted to the fields, it is already an amphibian hotspot, imagine if it had such an intervention!! I live in Germany now but I'd be happy to help, cheers!!
Hi, the same group did a nice video on a restoration site in Portugal: ua-cam.com/video/R5xXR7sYBSc/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MossyEarth
Best,
Claude
@@clauderispe8390 I missed that video, thanks! Hope one day help might come for the park near my village. We've planted some trees and cleared invasives, but I never thought of flooding it :)
Love this.
Thanks Dragoonzen - Cheers, Duarte
Two questions out of interest.
How do you make sure that one field becomes wetland while the other field can still be used for agriculture?
What might the impact be of the agriculture on the future wetland?
Looks like an exciting project!
Also very curious about this. What's the impact on neighbouring agricultural fields? You also intend to dig a canal through one of existing fields. How are these issues resolved?
Super awesome video!
Hi, I find all your projects really interesting and this is no different. However, I would what the impact of such an intensive agricultural landscape has had on the river and will have on the wetland, surely there will be large amounts of fertiliser and pesticide running into the river and new wetlands that will damage the habitats and the project? Be really interested to know if this was taken into consideration. I also wonder if the isolation of the habitat will hinder recolonisation and reestablishment by amphibians and small mammals? I really wish you so much luck, your videos are so refreshing after seeing degraded UK landscapes and agrideserts all week!
That is why we are so excited about the pilot project just up stream with the exact same conditions. Everything has worked out well there. The amphibians are already there in the shallow ponds but with more water they would have a better chance at reproducing. - Cheers, Duarte
Please do these a lot more in Africa and Asia, where your hard work and energy will bring so much changes to nature and humanity on a larger scale. Educate the locals and share the knowledge so that they can take over and you can move to another hotspot....
I don't think you mentioned where this is located. Thanks for your work!!
South- west part of Slovakia, Danube region.
Great to be working with Broz again and can’t wait to see the progression as mapped out in the plan!
ive always been fascinated by making rivers and dams and watching water pool up and flowing lol i would create piles of leaves and sticks and block the drains and what not as a kid lol. this would probably be a fun job for me.
I really happy about found that channel!!! :))))) 🌳🌲🌳🌳 greetings from BR 🇧🇷
Very exciting stuff! Look foward to seeing updates.
Great job with the measurements!! That honestly made it much easier to understand the scale of the land!
I wonder if you could ever do a cooperation with Ecosia. They are doing something similar like you and I think both parties could benefit from a cooperation or at least mentioning each other.
I’ve actually had a chat with one of their founders once to see if we could setup some projects in areas where they work. Maybe we should revisit the idea. - Cheers, Duarte
@@MossyEarth This would be great!