I would challenge the idea that the species doesn't matter, there are a lot, possibly many thousands of species that are very dependent on specific native species, and introducing a new foreign species is likely only to benefit our already quite content generalist species like GSW, crows, buzzards, common garden birds, and leave our vulnerable specialists out in the cold.
Jez took the thing that was in my head and said it in words: "stop silo-ing... land use". Agroforestry, forest gardens, mixed use, mulit-revenue stream agri/sylvi-culture is the only way that both environment and business will become sustainable and resilient and break the ever-diminishing returns of intesive monocultures. change is coming and only a madman would bet all his money on one outcome, crop, species etc. mix it up just like nature does.
It'd certainly make our industries more resilient if they were more diverse, but they'd be less profitable and that might make them none viable in the cutthroat world that is capitalism, it'd require the government to be very protectionist of British industries, which I'm all for I just don't reckon any government right now has the vision or spine to do it.
@@Gibbons3457 Increasing diversity should not make companies less profitable. In fact time and time agian gas shown that companies benefit from multiple income streams.
@@Stettafire You're right in the long term. The problem comes from the race to the bottom forced on us by the "need" for short term growth. Unless you're careful some hyper capitalist vulture will swoop in and run you out of business by making a lot of money in a short amount of time, doesn't matter that the bubble will burst on them in a year or too, the long life, resilient, competition died already and they made of with the bank.
the sustainable way to build healthy forests is to plant native species the fact that we have so little of the native canopy coer left is the reason the diseases have been successful by planting natives in clusters it guards against pests and makes it harder for disease to take hold of every tree the single planted exposed oaks and ashes are more susceptible obviously
Surely harvesting from a multi-age mixed forest needs old skills, not just new ones ? How did people do this in medieval times ? With a strong horse in harness, and minimal colateral damage.
I'm rewilding a 5 acre wood in Sussex, part of a 12 acre wood. There are so many native trees and shrubs to choose from. My wood was a plantation of spruce too thickly planted so it's a lifetime project to restore it.
I've gone for 1" Square wire mesh to create tubes of one foot diameter to keep the deer off the new trees. The metal can be used time and time again for new planting.
I would challenge the idea that the species doesn't matter, there are a lot, possibly many thousands of species that are very dependent on specific native species, and introducing a new foreign species is likely only to benefit our already quite content generalist species like GSW, crows, buzzards, common garden birds, and leave our vulnerable specialists out in the cold.
Jez took the thing that was in my head and said it in words: "stop silo-ing... land use". Agroforestry, forest gardens, mixed use, mulit-revenue stream agri/sylvi-culture is the only way that both environment and business will become sustainable and resilient and break the ever-diminishing returns of intesive monocultures. change is coming and only a madman would bet all his money on one outcome, crop, species etc. mix it up just like nature does.
It'd certainly make our industries more resilient if they were more diverse, but they'd be less profitable and that might make them none viable in the cutthroat world that is capitalism, it'd require the government to be very protectionist of British industries, which I'm all for I just don't reckon any government right now has the vision or spine to do it.
@@Gibbons3457 Increasing diversity should not make companies less profitable. In fact time and time agian gas shown that companies benefit from multiple income streams.
@@Stettafire You're right in the long term. The problem comes from the race to the bottom forced on us by the "need" for short term growth. Unless you're careful some hyper capitalist vulture will swoop in and run you out of business by making a lot of money in a short amount of time, doesn't matter that the bubble will burst on them in a year or too, the long life, resilient, competition died already and they made of with the bank.
theres almost no Forest in the UK. Learn from Germany.....
the sustainable way to build healthy forests is to plant native species the fact that we have so little of the native canopy coer left is the reason the diseases have been successful
by planting natives in clusters it guards against pests and makes it harder for disease to take hold of every tree the single planted exposed oaks and ashes are more susceptible obviously
Surely harvesting from a multi-age mixed forest needs old skills, not just new ones ? How did people do this in medieval times ? With a strong horse in harness, and minimal colateral damage.
Great video and great channel. Thanks for sharing!
I'm rewilding a 5 acre wood in Sussex, part of a 12 acre wood. There are so many native trees and shrubs to choose from. My wood was a plantation of spruce too thickly planted so it's a lifetime project to restore it.
your living my dream good luck
I'm using instead of plastic sapling spiral guards, biodegradable green coloured spiral guards.
I've gone for 1" Square wire mesh to create tubes of one foot diameter to keep the deer off the new trees. The metal can be used time and time again for new planting.
Britain has so many native deciduous trees because of the lack of natural wild fires.
Thank you for very good films. Torben Gram from Denmark
Thank you very much!
is the UK some how benefiting from climate change?
No. Our summers are hotter, our winters are colder and there have been more instances of extream weather