The River Mease: A catchment restoration project
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- Опубликовано: 4 май 2024
- The large-scale restoration of the Mease, a tributary of the Trent, was made possible thanks to a shared sense of connection that has been turned into action. Here's how partners came together to restore habitat and increase flood resilience.
I watch a lot of these habitat clips from all over the world. The key component it appears to me is the different groups coming together to reach mutually agreed approaches. This is happening for example with the removal of hydro dams on the salmon rivers in North West America and the Green Wall being developed by local communities across the southern edge of the Sahara. Great to see this project using this collaborative approach
She hit the nail right on the head @ 4:16, "a lot of the landowners early on were uncertain about WHAT WAS IN IT FOR THEM". Thats really where all ecological projects die, if the only benefit is to the Earth they live on it then its not worth it. Its sick that humans have yet to figure out the benefit for them is a habitable Earth, its the only one we have.
And you are ignoring the next sentence "They felt there was a risk to their livelyhoods". (Long reply, sorry in advance)
Just a preface: I am totally in favour of these projects and want to see more of them. I agree that it benefits the planet. We are on the same side at the end of the day.
I just believe this thinking comes from a place of comfort. At least more comfort than the generel, local farming population has. The future of the planet becomes a lot less important, when you don't know if you can still afford a roof over your head at the end of the season. Which is normal. You also want them to change their ways, because you would like yourself, your loved ones and life in general to be able to live life safely and with little worry. They want the same, but their position in life is different.
A lot of farmers barely make a living wage at the end of the year. A small decrease in arrable land can end up in thousands less annually. That then often leads to them having to give up the land or farming in general. And to put their family's future at immidiate risk.
And who buys the land then? Us, who care about the planet? No, it's going to either be bought by more commercial farms or converted into other, more profitable uses for the county. That completely annihilates all odds for conversion projects. So even throwing out the big porject and applying tiny changes with little risks is a win.
I would also argue that such projects almost always have direct short and longterm uses for the farmers. Be it alternative income streams, options for better marketing or just mitigation of natural hazards. It's just a matter of communication and understanding. We want them to understand the project and our reasons for it, so we have to understand and work on the risks they would face.
If projects die, because there is nothing in it for farmers, then these projects weren't well thought out to begin with. They weren't complete enough for the whole picture.
And you do not get the whole picture by dismissing people for wanting to know "what's in it for them".
HOWEVER.
This only applies to farmers. I don't know remotely enough about developers and what not. Since for them it is not a question of "Will I be able to pay for my surgery?" (Healthcare for selfemployed works differently as far as I know, depending where you live) or "Will my children be able to choose their future or have to worry about getting by?", but just a question of how much money can they get. Not about loss of money, but about how much extra they can squeeze out. So no empathy for them from me.
@@vhe9560 I get what you are saying but if there is no land to farm due to delaying response to the climate crisis then their livelihood is gone anyway
Where do you get your food from knuckle. It is somewhat relevant. We can’t send all 60 million down to forage for food in a bush.
Absolutely love to hear of projects that are working to clean up, improve, and protect our rivers and waterways. It fills me with joy, that we are beginning to heal the damage that has been done, and recreate a sort of 'Eden', that allows nature to thrive. Thanks guys! 🌤️🏞️🦦🐟🤸🧡
These is no such thing as damage, ecologically speaking.
Yes, its a very sweet little river too! ❤😂❤😂. Now. Let's talk about the huge rock in the thumbnail! The edge of which looks like chalcedony. I know I must be seeing things. 😢😮😢😮😢😮. I want to see all about that rock and its locale. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Rocks are cool! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Fabulous video. Returning the natural order of a river.
This is excellent advice on what to do and how to work collaboratively!
Well done guys. Great job!
Great initiative it would be well worth it for the farmers to check out the farming approach of Gabe Brown who went no till farming and reduced most of the chemical inputs which improved both their profits and biodiversity.
Gabe's organization works with countries world wide to improve the soil which improves water retention, water quality, reduces flooding, improves the environment, improves profitability of farming. His methods could really improve farming, profitability the environment, water quality, water retention of the soil, reduce or eliminate harmful chemicals.
Sustainable urban drainage systems is the correct good thing which must be extended across the entire globe.🙏
Well done to all ye collaborators. Compromise and adjustments and innovations - way forward, and thinking for the future citizenry. Our children, and their grandchildren. Very encouraging.
Great example of collaborative conservation
I walk/ run a 3 mile stretch by the side of it quite often, not seen a single fish in the last 3 years, it’s in a bad state compared to when I grew up
Sad to hear, I hope it starts recovering and returns to that beauty.
Is it any better now 1 year later?
Any updates? 🙂
Excellent documentary illustrating important works. Quite inspiring. Thank you very much.
Bureaucrats are skilled in the art of talking for hours without actually saying anything.
Nicely done. Just don't let the privatised water companies anywher near it. They will probably just see a clean river as somewhere to dump their overflowing untreated sewage whilst maintaining their profits and share dividends unaffected. They did a good job initially when first set up, and then just stopped investing at appropriate levels and run for profit as the lansdscape and demand upon them changed.
No till, rotate crops, armor on the ground, serial moving grazing. You farmers don't NEED those poisons.
Wow what a fantastic clip and well done to all that you are doing. It is so inspirational and it will create a model for others to follow, I am sure
Water health ie water quality
1. In moving water ie river = Fish
2. In collected water ie lakes,
ponds = Tortoises.
Hence in ancient sanatana dharma fish and tortoise are revered meaning that their healthy population will directly determine water quality. Since human body has 80 percent water in it, fish, tortoise are given status of Vishnu avatars मत्स्य and कूर्मा.
Farmers generally have a specific political affiliation, which was high-lighted during Brexit where they threw their weight behind Johnson's plans against the advice of the NFU. I'm sceptical about how engaged they are with these projects, seemingly the reason for voting Brexit was in order to do away with 'Red tape' enabling them to develop their farms in a range of different ways enabling them to cut corners and maximise profits and produce food cheaper. The growth in Chicken production and all its associated waste products has been one example of how since Brexit some of our better known rivers have suffered even more than previously with over-site from the EU. Same applies to sea pollution - remember the EU blue flags - they're pretty much long gone now. Another aspect that stymies the recovery of our rivers and ecosystems is the vote winning cutting of taxes. Vote for tax cuts and how do they offset the tax cuts? They cut public sector jobs such as the work done by govt staff on monitoring pollution and following up and bringing people to court for polluting the environment. All that aside, this project does seem to be pretty positive and I do hope it comes together and the river finds itself in a state of recovery. None of this is easy.
Did you not watch the video Dave? Do you feel at liberty to tar people and stereotype all "farmers" because of your political affiliation? Think more.
@@mozdickson Yes in this instance the farmers do seem to be completely onboard with the project and that's commendable. But as a generalisation, looking around where I live in Essex and the places I travel to and around in the UK, I see very little in the way of forward thinking. Farmers here in the UK are very much in one camp politically, but as I clearly said at the start that is a generalisation, no doubt there are some farmers that care about the environment, but being one of the most damaged countries in the world in terms of fauna, flora and ecosystems and with Farmers playing the role of Guardians of the countryside, I'd say their record isn't that good. We've had a right-wing Govt in place for over 12 years now and it's generally accepted that in that period things have taken an massive turn for the worse and since Brexit more so. Maybe rather than take offence at the fact that I've exercised my right to an opinion, perhaps you need to think more and look into the issues this country faces with regards degradation of our rivers and countryside and consider the role farmers play. It's a massive and complex issue, that a lot of people assume is just going to be managed on their behalfs, assuming a Govt that is only interested in looking after the wealthy is going to respond accordingly. Most definitely not and the situation will get far worse. It's bizarre in this country that people do not seem to understand the connection between the tax they pay and where and how that tax is used.
@@someblokecalleddave1 I was never offended by your right to or opinion David, not sure why you'd say that. I play close attention to ghe UK environment. Especially how useless the Environment Agency is.
ans some people never pay taxes like our conservative Etonian friends as you can see here.....
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Where do you get your food from Inuckle. And still hurting about Brexit? Amazing how many people actually want to be ordered around by a parliament in another country.
Rivers need room to meander back and forth, distrubting water across the soil to slowly percolate down back into the aquifer, cleaning sediment and pollutants out of the water.
Great video, guys, very well presented and edited. Very professional. Whoever did this video, you should use them again!
Spent ten years restoring a source river after years of over grazing and land clearing we got stuck in and grow several forests then the open cut coal mine arrived 300² square Kms of gray waste rock....mmmmm
This river is crying out for beaver reintroduction.
Brilliant work !! ❤❤❤. Thank you
Another good news story.
Bob
Great well dones
Everything I’m seeing will add to the problem. Widening the river to deposit that sediment will see in fact that sediment ripped out the next fast flowing flood. Dumping trees that create a dam effect will see again in flood the water ripped the earth to get around them creating erosion issues.
At 15:45, is this guy putting on a swim vest?
Just asking...
I mean, it is deep...
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I see a lot of topsoil washing away in the flood footage.
Hello, I am postgraduate student researching on the effectiveness of natural flood management. Do you have any articles or reports to read up on your findings ?
Learn about farming from Gabe Brown & his organization Understanding Ag & other Regenerative Farming leaders. His farming methods improve soil quality, thereby improving water retention, water quality, increase profitability by reducing or eliminating chemical inputs. His organization works in countries worldwide.
There various methods of reducing urban runoff to improve water absorption & reduce flooding. You would just have to look them up.
Thanks. Informative.
Vegetation can use the functional delivery of nutrients, water flows provide delivery services as large foods often deposits materials that aid in primary production, may be sequestered by suspended sediments or nutrients through the uptake of rooted vegetation thereby removing some of the excess nutrients as productivity gains of this Vegetations realized by cover values, growth rates, Species, let us say Willows, for example, and its broader effects of this greater ecosystem. Slower the runoff, the more absorption may be possible, and retention of available water in wood is consequential in drier portions of the rain/snow cyle.
Helpful comment Ron. Thanks
Beavers?
Es que los márgenes de protección de esos pequeños riachuelos, arroyos, ríos, lagunas o lagos, son muy reducidos en las zonas de cultivo, y esto se está haciendo en todo el mundo, así como las tierras de labor en las únicas zonas que les queda ya a los animales para desplazarse de un lugar a otro o de unas zonas húmedas ( ultimamente estan labrando o plantando arboles de diversos frutos en las zonas de pendientes o faldas de lomas, montes y montañas, no dejando ya a la fauna desplazarse para sobrevivir libremente de esos lugares a otros, ni tan siquiera a los animales alados o como todos luego deseamos y asi sin miramientos acabaremos por encerrarnos a nosotros mismos y entonces nos habremos convertido en extraterrestres invasores, se nos va a ver el plumero con nuestros propios ojos ) a otras y que sin duda de alguna manera están o estuvieron comunicadas en otras épocas de más lluvias y precisamente el tener estás zonas conservadas naturalmente son las que pueden atraer las lluvias y dándole más importancia sobre todo a las de más altura o donde se pueden detener las nieblas o nubes que son precisamente creadas en esas zonas humedas con la ayuda de la temperatura o el sol. Es muy importante que esas zonas normalmente más bajas o ya mas calmadas en sus corrientes, dispongan de al menos 100 m. A cada lado u orilla de esas aguas. Bueno, es una reflexión la mía, un poco rápida, pero para eso están ustedes los especialistas.
Bueno, si, claro, después o además esas zonas de alguna manera pueden ser inundables, pero no por ello en todos su recorrido, hay zonas en las que si y otras en las que no, depende de la geografía con o las curvas de esos cauces, o sea... sirven en algún lado o en otro de protección para los animales o las personas y por lo tanto... Y es o habría que dirigir de alguna manera a esos animales de granja, y otros, los silvestres ya lo buscaran como lo han hecho siempre, pero ahora hoy en día, es una autentica verguenza! para el ser humano, no saben refugiarse ellos mismos, no saben mantener sus falsas economias y tampoco dejan ni a sus animales una debida protección, o mucho menos a otros silvestres ( es una vergüenza! ver a las aves migratorias confundidas sin saber en donde pisar tierra, que les parece a ellos o a nosotros los humanos, cuando no la tenemos segura bajo nuestros pies? ) sobre todo cuando llegan esas calamidades o se prevean llegar, pero no deben estar encerrados y antes enseñarles el camino, luego los mas mayores de esos animales se encargaran de dirigir a los demás para refugiarse ( se sabe y es facil comprobarlo y asi pasa con todas las poblaciones de animales, una vez los animales de mayor edad ya saben el camino ) y seguro que ellos quizá lo sepan antes que los radares y ( es entonces cuando sabremos qué o si hemos hecho algo de verdad muy mal o con respecto a ellos. Quizá acabar o deshacernos de ellos sin miramientos a sus instintos animales y que perdimos probablemente nosotros los humanos donde ya no somos comparables. Sería bueno para todos poder comprobarlo )
He said - It is that the margins of protection of these small streams, streams, rivers, lagoons or lakes, are very reduced in the cultivated areas, and this is being done throughout the world, as well as the farmlands in the only areas that The animals are now left to move from one place to another or from humid areas (lately they are cultivating or planting trees with various fruits in the slopes or slopes of hills, mountains and mountains, no longer allowing the fauna to move to survive freely from those places to others, not even to winged animals or as we all later wish and so without consideration we will end up imprisoning ourselves and then we will have become invading aliens, we will see the feather duster with our own eyes) to others and that without a doubt in some way are or were communicated in other times of more rains and precisely having these naturally preserved areas are the ones that can attract the rains and giving more importance especially to those at higher altitudes or where they can stop the mists or clouds that are precisely created in those humid areas with the help of the temperature or the sun. It is very important that those normally lower areas or already calmer in their currents, have at least 100 m. On each side or shore of those waters. Well, it's a reflection of mine, a little quick, but that's what you specialists are for.
Well, yes, of course, after or in addition, those areas can be flooded in some way, but not for that reason throughout their route, there are areas where they are and others where they are not, depending on the geography with or the curves of those riverbeds, that is... they serve somewhere or another as protection for animals or people and therefore... And it is or should be directed in some way to those farm animals, and others, the wild ones already They will look for it as they have always done, but now today, it is a real shame! For the human being, they do not know how to shelter themselves, they do not know how to maintain their false economies and they do not even leave their animals a proper protection, much less other wild ones (it is a shame! to see migratory birds confused without knowing where to step earth, what does it look like to them or to us humans, when we don't have it safe under our feet?) especially when these calamities arrive or are expected to arrive, but they should not be locked up and before showing them the way, then the older ones of those Animals will be in charge of directing others to take refuge (it is known and it is easy to verify it and this is the case with all animal populations, once the older animals already know the way) and surely they may know it before the radars And (it is then when we will know what or if we have really done something very wrong or with respect to them. Perhaps to finish or get rid of them without regard to their animal instincts and that we humans probably lost where we are no longer comparable. It would be nice for everyone to be able to check it out)
If housing has to take land drainage into consideration then the area is unsuitable for housing end of no if's and's or but's .
Beavers!
Measham - mease ham
Modern farming practices are not compatible with effective conservation of aquatic systems. I see lots of bare fields which will contribute to soil erosion and an impoverished water quality. Cover crops would go somewhere towards preventing this.
I feel like you are doing "the lord's work!"
Any land that borders a river or stream should be free from artificial fertisers, chemicals and ploughing, including any buildings used for intensive live stock production. Just look at what poultry sheds on the side of the river Wye has done. There is no easy soft approach.
Absolutely - can't believe how badly the Wye has become damaged.
Please define "borders" Tony?
@@mozdickson Any field that runoff can directly flow over to access the river or stream. Grass land is the safest and if farmed organically there can be no leaching. I again refer to parts of the river WYE.
Yeah, this farming right to the water makes me sick. Rewild 30 meters each side.
15:46
Jesus, don't I know it!
lol
Did that guy put on a life jacket for 2 inches of water?? lol, probably some rule and he isn't allowed to operate on common sense
I laughed my ass off! 😁That was great. Though maybe he has some kind of water phobia.
Just get a beaver Jesus christ