BBC Making Scotland's Landscape 2 of 5 The Land
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- BBC - Making Scotland's Landscape 2 of 5 The Land: For centuries, the beauty and drama of Scotland's landscape has been regarded by most visitors as natural. But in 1950, an eminent ecologist concluded the Highlands had been devastated.
Once it was rich and diverse he said, but humans had destroyed it and in the process created what he described as a wet desert. Professor Iain Stewart discovers how man made the proverbially beautiful Highlands.
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I love Scotland and the Scots
What I love about this programme, and was struck by when I watched it on the TV many years ago, is Stewart's upbeat and optimistic ending. There is a gradual repopulation of the HIghlands, turning it into a region which isn't totally dependent on tourism and grants. The Isle of Eigg is a good place to end on, as it's a model of self-sufficiency - search for 'green eigg'.
Prof Jim Hunter only made a brief appearance in the prog, but he clearly influenced its content. His book "The Making of the Crofting Community" is the definitive, and most readable, history of the Gàidhealtachd from the Clearances to the present day. Highly recommended.
That music in the beginning from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir makes me cry without even seeing the movie!
I could listen to this guy describe paint drying all day long.
Well done. Highly informative.
Respect to everyone who contributed to these series. Thanks xx
Am gonna watch whole series have watched first one already, it's crazy how much Scotland's already recovered I know there's still a very long way to go but they have brought so much natural ecosystem back already and loads of native species I honestly see Scotland getting back to how it used to be if Scotland keep going the way they are, also so glad the Highlands and isle of Skye age getting rewilded the Highlands especially really need rewilding
In 2003 FEBRUARY my sister Kathy her friend Brian and I went over to Scotland . While she and Brian journeyed to Loch Ness , I made my trip over to The Isle of Skye, and there I met Joyce Mac Donald. She was a fluent English and Gaidhlig speaker and she said to me that my pronunciation of Gaidhlig was good.
@16:20 This makes it abundantly clear that golf was created in Scotland!
Спасибо за великолепный фильм!
the basic case for rewilding - "The Highlands and Islands" F. Frazer Darling and J. Morton Boyd 1964
As noted, the crofters were evicted during the clearances and their houses destroyed in order to make way for sheep, which produced better income for the owners, and great hardship and misery for the people. Then the landscape and natural trees and grasses were decimated by the sheep.
the idea that crofters where evicted is very 20th century and has been largely debunked, some where evicted by force but most left by incentive such as debt relief and or offers of relocation to settlements on the coastline .
Well, in reality whether you call it "eviction" or not is almost completely irrelevant. You had a population who had to rent the land so they could work it, where the rent was generally steep for a small patch of land. The landowners generally exploited the crofters until they could no longer afford rent or life was too brutal to stay. Those who left voluntarily did so because even their ancestral ties to the land was not enough to convince them to stay.
Unfortunately, the demands of both the landowners and population numbers resulted in the land being over-worked, with trees cut down, even before the sheep magnified the ecology problems.
@@13minutestomidnight if it was not their land it was not their land. End of.
Although the paying guest shooter may be mainly interested in getting a good trophy deer stag head, the rest of the beast does not go to waste as the meat is sold for humans to eat.
the only time the bbc isnt actually bias when its about scotland haha
Yeah, all those other science and nature-based series produced by the BBC are definitely biased. You better avoid watching them so you aren't easily influenced by idiotic ideas.
find making of Scotland's landscape 4 (water) here- www.dailymotion.com/video/x3cwi2j. It's been pulled everywhere else- I think, because of controversy in the fresh drinking water crisis- Scotland, who owns your water now?
Anyone know where the McAlpines posted?
This series of scientific communication are awe inspiring and also constributed to me for studying geology :) ! , I congrat for this series of videos. The only very bad sad thing although not being done by the program itself, is to "glorify" the massive killing of poor animals... whose heads are exposed, I understand sometimes plagues, ecosystems equilibrium, even eating meat although in a lot of cases that is only an option instead of a "must"..., poor animals.
Missed the point. They were not 'glorifying' it at All. They were pointing out the sheer waste and wrongness?
Something that the program underlines which I think is important is the difference between killing animals to eat meat and exploitation of animals. In our society exploitation of animals has become an ingrained part of the meat industry, but that is a flaw with our society; this program looks back to both sheer exploitation of animals for the killing, and the Gallic society which ate meat but with ecological management of animals.
It's a very real danger for our society that we switch to not eating meat but don't stop exploiting animals and our environment.
Bring back the wolf!
Is the BBC so hard up for background music that they are reduced to stealing from the John Williams score from CE3K? Same track from the opening of the film, looped numerous times. Oh Pulleeese!
Not much rain in these films is there?
sadly the mass eradication of the hare is also taking place as of summer 2018..with over 25.000....killed on cairngorms alone ... it is documented !!
I can think of worse ways to snuff it!
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god, I hate ignorance and greed!
I am a Paternal descendant of Brita Monsdotter and Johann Gustafsson.
We saw in Fortingall the oldest living tree on The Earth, The Yew Tree.
What’s this guys name
Professor Iain Stewart en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Stewart_(geologist)
Is the land beautiful or is it dead? Ian is harsh! Good luck on restoring those ecosystems. Why aren't oaks being planted?
Yaddahay smarmalite oaks didn’t grow in the highlands, it was pinewood similar the forest of western Canada
bring back wolves, linyxs and baers.
But make sure you manage them. Do Not Over Protect, because predators will make a predator pit , which means they will litterly eat themselves out of house and home creating another ecological disaster that sterilizes the system . Man is essential to the balance of nature , we must never forget that. To over protect anything at the expense of another is a disaster in the making.
I agree with Darling.
Well seen you don't live here in Scotland or you wouldn't say such stupid comments.
thankfully some of us are still hunting ethically to fill the pot
I'm thinking that Scotland will possibly become a very sought after place to live soon with the slowing and probable stopping of the gulf stream current that brings the warmth the western Europe (due to freshwater intrusion into the system blocking the mechanism that drives the current). As the planet warms and many people are searching for a place that has water and can grow crops, the stopping of the GS will create a temporary cooler climate in Scotland while the rest of the temperate regions warm, such that the climate will stay pretty much the same for longer than many other places on Earth. .
Stopping of the gs will put Europe into an iceage. Don't worry the gs will keep on going. It's still nearly 40c or 90f in the gulf of Mexico .. that water is hot!
This makes me incredibly sad.
Whoa! What a horribly depressing video! Don't let anyone who is depressed view it. Greed and ignorance certainly are a large part of this area's past. Will do our best to forget we ever viewed this.
ITS AN EDUCATION HOPEFULLY WELL SMOKE THE BASTARDS OUT ONCE AND FUR ALL
I’m afraid that I don’t agree. It is important that people see this. Scotland is only a small nation but destructions of habitat in the name of capitalist greed and the pursuit of leisure is going on in many other places in the 21st century. Indigenous people are being driven out to make space for meat in our time as well as the Highlands of the 1800s . It is happening now in the Amazon. Unpalatable as it is, we need to learn lessons. If a video full of deer heads is what it takes, so be it.
Stick your fingers in your ears and go LALALA! A great help. As an Ostrich, be careful no one plucks your bum while you have your head in the sand And as for being 'depressed' one of the cures is getting re involved. I have been there sweetheart and it was the lowest point of my life. But you do not wallow in the swamp you Fight Back. WE have watched it? So WE are all Depressed? At the same time? Have you Any Clue? Can I slap you, however many you are, with a wet Arbroath Smokie? It is my latest cure for pseudo depressives and it will only cost you $99 each.
These terrible landowners who shooted every wild living animal - that makes me mad. How dull !!!! Could they not hear their own heart braking???
Every Man and Woman are on stage .And They play there Their part.
any chances 👱..,😌
the build up with the shooting and then the twist that the gun was empty was predictable and ineffective.
Rewilding
It always hurts me to see the beautiful landscapes of Scotland so orphanised. For me this is a man made ecological disaster. I have been to Scotland three times now and will always try to get my finances to allow me to come back. What gives ne hope,though is that the forests are slowly but surely treated towards more sustainability like it is here in my country. I stopped watching this video when it came to shooting the deer. No living animal in the wild should be killed as long as we are literally throwing away meat or fish daily which was not sold in the supermarkets. There is so much hunger in the world that I always consider what I buy and where. And also without plastic if possible. Finally the supermarkets realise that people dont want to buy their food in unnecessary plastic which then again goes into the ocean and lands on our plates through the fish eating it. It is the decision of every single one of us if we want to live for sustainability or not. I do and will keep trying to do my best about it although it sometimes is quite hard. But every little peace and bit as well as each of us makes a difference if we want our grand children to be able to see the beauty of nature like we have it today - be it a wale or a deer.
He didn't shoot it! It was a mock up and when he pulled the trigger the gun was empty. I would have thought that you could have seen that coming. Maybe you should face facts and if you Had bothered to watch beyond a silly knee jerk reaction you may have learned something?
MercyReaper I am living in thenRhein-Main area about 75 kilometers from Frankfurt. In 2018 I have been with a group in Rosslyn, Isle of Iona and the isle of Lewis. After that I travelled 2 times to Edinburgh on my own. I was going to travel to the Isle of Iona on my own for Easter this year. Had to cancel it with a very heavy heartfelt homesickness due to Corona. Last year I had booked 3 weeks in Inverness and needed to cancel it due to a bad and deep cut in my right pointer finger which needed to be stitched. But such things will never keep me away from visiting Scotland which feels so much like home to me. I cry every time when I am flying back to Germany.
I agree to a certain extent. The meat that you mention is sadly not free people have to buy it because people would rather throw it away than to donate it. Here in Appalachia people hunt and eat the animals to feed their families because are government in usa is very content with keeping Appalachia poor and powerless and what little infrastructure we have they want to take away all because we are descendents of rebellious scots and we don't fit in to their star and stripe society. So I am very glad we can hunt fish and survive when people take that away because they believe morally it's wrong certain people will suffer very very badly and I guess might as well be better off dead.
neverheard so boclocks
It is a pity that the Higlands will be repopulated by people, in all probability, of very few Gaelic ancestors.
I think that the Scottish Gaelic Language should be a mandatory item in all Scottish schools and even an mandatory item in all public services examinations, in order to restore the Scottish roots and identity.
The problem is that (I am not 100%) I guess that the Scots (related to English) and the Welsh (from the inhabitants of Strathclyde and near Glasgow areas) and also the Norse (related to the Norwegian and other Scandinavian languages) were also languages that made part of the old Scottish populations.
Anyways, the kingdon that united Picts and Scots spoke, after king Constantine, the (Scottish?) Gaelic language, which should be restored to the Higlands, as well it´s population.
Sorry for the bad English.
BR
I SAID THAT TOTHE BITCH ABOUT GAELIC THAT SCROTUM FIRST MINISTER
why teach gaelic in schools? so we can talk to other scottish ppl? we can allrdy do that. why not teach arabic or urdu or even polish, something that our kids can go out and use in the big wide world. Scottish roots and identity can be taught in history class and if we get independence ,as i hope we will, then in modern studies class also
@@andrewescocia2707: get independence. Trapped again. Hello EU.
Not every Scot spoke Gaelic, there is Lowland Scots and English too. It is a bit like forcing all English to speak in Estuary English because that is how foreigners expect us to speak! The Gaels do pretty well nowadays. They have their own TV and radio channels and it Is taught in the appropriate schools. Insisting that ALL Scots learn it is showing your ignorance dear. I suggest that you learn what you are talking about before committing to comments?
I love how dour this man is.
use alabi dog kangal dog Kafka dogs to protect the livestock.
Aw shup up you.
Go back to the beginnings of the reason of destruction of the highlands. Queen Victoria and the English who wanted to be posh! Put the blame where it should be. Queen Victoria has caused so much hurt and destruction not only to the British but also to her family. I know of no other woman who was so selfish.
They should put subtitles. For the sake of us who were not exposed to the Scots accent.
I feel like I missed something. What does deer hunting have to do with Making Scotland's Landscape? Stick to the topic folks.
Susan Gill you missed perhaps the main point of this episode: the highlands were cultivated to suit the pursuit of leisure of the rich and the aristocracy.
They Did! Modern day Scotland has been mostly made by the Rich, who used it like some Theme park where they could go and murder things to their hearts content. And it has not changed. Raptors are being driven to extinction because they might steal grouse. This programe is Bang On Topic. Maybe it is You that is not?
Sneering at the social mores of the past is adolescent. All Scots are morally superior. Me included.
24 mins a vagans nightmare