Thank you so much for recreating this wetland area and my best wishes for future similar works. Over sixty years ago, as a small boy, I used to play around a large pond on my way back from school. The pond was where I learned the names of the animals and plants, using the Ladybird and other books from my local library. Then one day, it was the diggers arrived and began converting my pond into a carpark. I grieved for the loss of "my friends" and wondered how long we could go about destroying these havens of life until there were none left. It is so nice to see those same machines helping to recreate these wetlands and attract such life.
As a non Scot, I love how these projects are popping up everywhere in Scotland, a land ravaged by man activity with so much potential to become a thriving paradise of biodiversity. Congrats on this amazing milestone! Keep making beautiful Scotland even more beautiful!
When I saw the straight canal, I shuttered in horror, but then the earth works and focus and "Fish!" proved your brilliance. Water loves to wind and follow curves and meander and swirl and twirl. Who doesn't? I am wiping away tears of relief and joy to witness our true nature being restored as regenerative stewards, co-creating, honouring and loving Nature. We are Nature. Ripple this across Scotland. I'm moving to Scotland to assist.
This is great stuff! I hope we'll see much more of this happening in Scotland from now on. Nature lost, must be restored. Well done to everyone involved in this inspirational project.
Any chance beavers will be reintroduced? Would be like having a dedicated maintenance and operations staff! 🙂There seems to be some movement in this direction elsewhere in the UK.
Sadly there's a lot of red tape when it comes to beavers and a lot of pushback (not from the public though) i read Derek Gow's book on bringing back beavers and it's so frustrating. Even though they are a native species they aren't treated as such. There is a lot of public support but those who make the decisions are very reluctant and indecisive :(
That Is Just Increadable work How It Can Be Done And just think if it looks good now what is it going to be like in 5 to 10 years well Done Glad Ive subscribed past few year but can i say like more the longer more informative Vlogs The shorties do nothing for me thanks Best Wishes To al the Teams Tc
Fantastic work! Congratulations to all those involved. What a difference it makes to biodiversity and water, and carbon storage. It's undoubtedly a benefit to the local economy.
This is excellent, I wondered what was going on. My parents live in the area and we go past it when they take to and from the airport. What a fantastic project :), please get citizen science going it’ll be brilliant to see how the landscape evolves
And to think that humans previously thought that wetlands was stupid and pointless. It really shows how ignorant they were. Wetlands are so so important, good to see that knowledge spreading. We need to restore as much wetlands as possible and fix those straight rivers that acts like drains.
So uplifting for the soul! But hopefully also an inspiration for many more land owners and land managers to do similar. These schemes will massively benefit not just the environment and biodiversity, but local agriculture too - greater flood and drought resilience, more beneficial insects, healthier soils......Wouldn't in be great if every farmer incorporated this type of practice on an element of their land.
As someone who lives near the confluence at the Dee, I'd love to see some science as to whether this has made any improvement to preventing floods downstream. My own evidence says otherwise - we've had the river in our back garden 6 times this year vs. zero times last year, but I don't have rainfall data to hand.
Restoring habitats and waterway’s is wonderful. Learning how we can coexist with them will be another step. Maybe one day wars and political asshats won’t be so common and expensive and the world can afford to fund these all over the globe 🌎!
In NW Ohio we lived in an area once known as the Great Black Swamp. Drainage started in the late 1800s, partly to curb malaria. In the 1970's there was a big push for further "channelization", improving drainage while eliminating nature. Since then they've restored about 10% of the lands to something close to natural.
Riparian wetlands plants and biota common to those elevations, deserve attention to Plant Associations of various Plant and Vegetation form as Species vital like Sedges, Cattails( Typhus Family), Willows ( Saliceae sp.), Populus, and successional stages, various plant assemblages including bulb forms of aquatic and terrestrial seeds which germinate, but also remain as active Individual reproduction form gaining vitality and size as they age.
Interested to know what the carbon footprint of this project is VS just planting some trees and letting nature take its course with regards to the un-straightening of the burn. Also how long it will take to sequester the carbon released for the deep excavations, land moved and subsequent fuel used on the same site.
The carbon footprint isn't huge and of course the benefits to biodiversity might be argued to be worth it. Rivers can't quickly unstraighten themselves once they have been canalised, so letting nature take its course in this case would likely mean a wait of centuries - not an option for many threatened species. Rewilding often involves intervening briefly to let nature recover and take its course from that point onwards, what has been called "a marathon that starts with a sprint".
Streams typical of higher elevation meadows and Basins where the underlying strata are so detailed overall Assessments must be made, cutting on downcutting, scour, foundational river or stream course to focus on off channel areas at oxbows, tributaries other freshwater continuity to add volume, seasonal highs and lows of flows to start primary production of vegetative forms which arise from its banks and from its depths as the integration of factors need to recover, reproduce, using Native biota rand stage of succession, in Forested upslopes, .slowing erosive factors contributing to site productivity. Insects, invertebrates, crayfish, Arthopoda Genera Native to fulfill various stages of their inherent life forms to hatch, develop, mature and reproduce through their various life forms which include flight, egg laying, submerged forms (aquatic and terrestrail) to survive and thrive while also actimg as pollinators, propagating vegetative forms resilience and growth by supplemental additions of nutrients, ash or ashes, leaves, primary production into viable materials to make nests, provide cover, roosting habitat, natural scouring, formation of gravels, silts and other debris to slow and nourish the wetland or stream channels banks.
doesnt just impact nature as well, everybody living close by now has a chance to wander along a lovely area filled with a diverse natural population of birds and plants, as opposed to a boggy field and a ditch of water
It keeps amazing. Great video, fantastic work, awesome idea behind the project. Yet, out of over 18.000 views (as for now) - only 725 likes, 44 comments. Are people really so lazy nowadays that they cannot hit a dang button on the screen? Or write a comment - even as silly as this one ;) - as a sacrifice to the youtube algorythm, tuhs helping to spread this splendid idea?
Incredible that we still see tilled agriculture. They show a farmer tilling his fields and the birds just feasting on the biology (worms grubs etc) - then will spray pesticide/fungicide/synthetic fertizers and wonder why he can't make a profit.
New world varieties of these broader Plant Species, habitat types, favored conditions for rooting, annual or perennial lifestyle, colonial or stolon like rooting capabilities all start to better Inform the compatible Species native to your local jurisdictions that would span these Site Specific Variables more intimately.
I hope it was worth the 1500 litres of diesel and machinery hours, erosion, and public money - if you stick to agroforestry and regeneration the river will reform over time.
Beavers are being / have been reintroduced in sites across Scotland! It's at the landowner and local authority's discretion to do so of course, but we agree that beavers' behaviour can have a range of benefits to river ecosystems.
Sounds like a great success. Your video editing needs work, however. You skip from clip to clip after 2-3 seconds and repeat clips unnecessarily, as if your goal was to have as many separate shots as possible. When you have a wide landscape shot you need to allow time for people to actually look it, orient themselves on it, and see details.
It gives a lot of hope to see people get together on such a scale to support the recovery of Nature. Thank you!
Thank you so much for recreating this wetland area and my best wishes for future similar works.
Over sixty years ago, as a small boy, I used to play around a large pond on my way back from school. The pond was where I learned the names of the animals and plants, using the Ladybird and other books from my local library. Then one day, it was the diggers arrived and began converting my pond into a carpark. I grieved for the loss of "my friends" and wondered how long we could go about destroying these havens of life until there were none left. It is so nice to see those same machines helping to recreate these wetlands and attract such life.
Sincerely hope it works and reassures other landowners that their relatively unproductive farmland is better suited to being rewilded.
Absolutely!!
As a non Scot, I love how these projects are popping up everywhere in Scotland, a land ravaged by man activity with so much potential to become a thriving paradise of biodiversity. Congrats on this amazing milestone! Keep making beautiful Scotland even more beautiful!
So refreshing to see. What a world we could have..again.
When I saw the straight canal, I shuttered in horror, but then the earth works and focus and "Fish!" proved your brilliance. Water loves to wind and follow curves and meander and swirl and twirl. Who doesn't? I am wiping away tears of relief and joy to witness our true nature being restored as regenerative stewards, co-creating, honouring and loving Nature. We are Nature. Ripple this across Scotland. I'm moving to Scotland to assist.
Beautifully put! ❤
This is great stuff! I hope we'll see much more of this happening in Scotland from now on. Nature lost, must be restored. Well done to everyone involved in this inspirational project.
Yes!!!❤💚💚💚💚
Just thrilled and my heart swells at the difference this has made, with the formation of a beautiful landscape, rich in wildlife.
From here in the States we say Bravo, and carry on and the best of luck and thanks for sharing.
So glad people are starting to get it ✌️
Unfortunately the Farmers don't
All these projects make me happy for the future.
Must be the most satisfying job in the world enabling wildlife to prosper in your creation
Great work 👏
wonderful. great to see there are still some humans left on earth, passionate humans.
Very inspirational. Watching from the USA.
Fantastic work ❤❤❤❤
Thrilled to see this!! I hope the surrounding forest is restored as well!
Any chance beavers will be reintroduced? Would be like having a dedicated maintenance and operations staff! 🙂There seems to be some movement in this direction elsewhere in the UK.
Beaver reintroductions are being considered across Scotland so there's a chance! There's also a growing chance they make their own way there...
I was wondering that too! Fantastic project, thank you so much.
Sadly there's a lot of red tape when it comes to beavers and a lot of pushback (not from the public though) i read Derek Gow's book on bringing back beavers and it's so frustrating. Even though they are a native species they aren't treated as such. There is a lot of public support but those who make the decisions are very reluctant and indecisive :(
@@scotlandthebigpicture931that's amazing to hear i think they would help a lot, though to be fair I have all my experience with American beavers
Inspirational. I'd love to see more wetland like this in my area of SW England.
love this! glad people are helping nature in ways like these
Great video.
Thank you 🙏
Excellent video! well done! and great work.
That Is Just Increadable work How It Can Be Done And just think if it looks good now what is it going to be like in 5 to 10 years well Done Glad Ive subscribed past few year but can i say like more the longer more informative Vlogs The shorties do nothing for me thanks Best Wishes To al the Teams Tc
I really love river restorations. Thank you for this!
good job - youve done something often overlooked - the credits allow others to see who was involved for contacts and advice - well done -
Fantastic work! Congratulations to all those involved. What a difference it makes to biodiversity and water, and carbon storage. It's undoubtedly a benefit to the local economy.
Great video, thank you for creating such an impactful work. Happy to hear of the restorative project.
Wonderful…simply that!! ❤ Thankyou to everybody involved 🐞🍀🥀🍀🌷x
Great work all !!
The quality of your video is at the Hollywood level, it's very, very nice to watch
More of this needs to be done , fantastic
This is excellent, I wondered what was going on. My parents live in the area and we go past it when they take to and from the airport. What a fantastic project :), please get citizen science going it’ll be brilliant to see how the landscape evolves
I'm thrilled! You've done a wonderful job! It's very surprising that you have so few subscribers, it's just not fair!
It's so great to see that there are people doing such great things for the world ❤️
Fantastic to see, well done,well done to all involved
And to think that humans previously thought that wetlands was stupid and pointless. It really shows how ignorant they were. Wetlands are so so important, good to see that knowledge spreading. We need to restore as much wetlands as possible and fix those straight rivers that acts like drains.
So uplifting for the soul! But hopefully also an inspiration for many more land owners and land managers to do similar. These schemes will massively benefit not just the environment and biodiversity, but local agriculture too - greater flood and drought resilience, more beneficial insects, healthier soils......Wouldn't in be great if every farmer incorporated this type of practice on an element of their land.
well done!
Simply love that lovely work , make me happy . We have to do alot more fore the nature, and we hawve the power to do it
What a great project and video this was, all the best on the next one!
Beautiful!
Awesome work!!!
Very nice efforts. Namaste 🙏
Keep up the great work. Thank you
I'm really excited here in the pacific northwest USA for your lands the rebound of nature is amazing isn't it!:)
undeniably good work, providing undeniably good jobs
What a great project. Hopes for a start of many more!
Please do an annual update on this project. A before and current condition.
Absolutely great
God bless! All the power to you!
Absolutely amazing
This is great to see! Made my day just a little better.
Fabulous!!
A wonderful project. I wish there was more of this around the world...
Please create a follow-up video so we can see the progress!
This is amazing. Sincerely hope it works; no reason why it shouldn't and others take note and act accordingly in their areas.
Fantastic guys thank you for all your efforts
Fantastic
Brilliant work. Roll on many more like it.
Such very cool work you’re doing.
Well done 👏👏👏 congratulations superb job and much needed throughout the UK
This is great to see. We have destroyed so much of our eco systems. It is good to see projects like this put this legacy destruction behind us
Perfect
This would be my dream job.
Great video thank you!
Great succes!
As someone who lives near the confluence at the Dee, I'd love to see some science as to whether this has made any improvement to preventing floods downstream. My own evidence says otherwise - we've had the river in our back garden 6 times this year vs. zero times last year, but I don't have rainfall data to hand.
When was your house built?
This is what mother nature needs just a little help and quit destroying what we have left 🙏
Brilliant
Great work guys 👍
nature knows best
Great Job! It would be fantastic if we could re-establish wetlands all over the world.
Restoring habitats and waterway’s is wonderful. Learning how we can coexist with them will be another step. Maybe one day wars and political asshats won’t be so common and expensive and the world can afford to fund these all over the globe 🌎!
In NW Ohio we lived in an area once known as the Great Black Swamp. Drainage started in the late 1800s, partly to curb malaria. In the 1970's there was a big push for further "channelization", improving drainage while eliminating nature. Since then they've restored about 10% of the lands to something close to natural.
%:45 sprirised me with a north American native monkey flower. Your sandy loam soils look prime for this type of wetland restoration!
greeat video
Any chance for an update on this project?
Can we please have an update? thanks.
Brilliant work. Extremely labour intensive, but what a fantastic result.
Are you planting trees in the riparian area around the adjusted land?
Riparian wetlands plants and biota common to those elevations, deserve attention to Plant Associations of various Plant and Vegetation form as Species vital like Sedges, Cattails( Typhus Family), Willows ( Saliceae sp.), Populus, and successional stages, various plant assemblages including bulb forms of aquatic and terrestrial seeds which germinate, but also remain as active Individual reproduction form gaining vitality and size as they age.
Interested to know what the carbon footprint of this project is VS just planting some trees and letting nature take its course with regards to the un-straightening of the burn. Also how long it will take to sequester the carbon released for the deep excavations, land moved and subsequent fuel used on the same site.
The carbon footprint isn't huge and of course the benefits to biodiversity might be argued to be worth it. Rivers can't quickly unstraighten themselves once they have been canalised, so letting nature take its course in this case would likely mean a wait of centuries - not an option for many threatened species. Rewilding often involves intervening briefly to let nature recover and take its course from that point onwards, what has been called "a marathon that starts with a sprint".
Yay! Now add trees and then beavers, please!
Streams typical of higher elevation meadows and Basins where the underlying strata are so detailed overall Assessments must be made, cutting on downcutting, scour, foundational river or stream course to focus on off channel areas at oxbows, tributaries other freshwater continuity to add volume, seasonal highs and lows of flows to start primary production of vegetative forms which arise from its banks and from its depths as the integration of factors need to recover, reproduce, using Native biota rand stage of succession, in Forested upslopes, .slowing erosive factors contributing to site productivity. Insects, invertebrates, crayfish, Arthopoda Genera Native to fulfill various stages of their inherent life forms to hatch, develop, mature and reproduce through their various life forms which include flight, egg laying, submerged forms (aquatic and terrestrail) to survive and thrive while also actimg as pollinators, propagating vegetative forms resilience and growth by supplemental additions of nutrients, ash or ashes, leaves, primary production into viable materials to make nests, provide cover, roosting habitat, natural scouring, formation of gravels, silts and other debris to slow and nourish the wetland or stream channels banks.
doesnt just impact nature as well, everybody living close by now has a chance to wander along a lovely area filled with a diverse natural population of birds and plants, as opposed to a boggy field and a ditch of water
Now that'd a proper project ,ireland please do this stop opw wrecking our rivers
Just needs beavers now!
cool
It keeps amazing. Great video, fantastic work, awesome idea behind the project.
Yet, out of over 18.000 views (as for now) - only 725 likes, 44 comments.
Are people really so lazy nowadays that they cannot hit a dang button on the screen?
Or write a comment - even as silly as this one ;) - as a sacrifice to the youtube algorythm, tuhs helping to spread this splendid idea?
Incredible that we still see tilled agriculture. They show a farmer tilling his fields and the birds just feasting on the biology (worms grubs etc) - then will spray pesticide/fungicide/synthetic fertizers and wonder why he can't make a profit.
Combine this with agroforestry and farmers would have productive, climate stable farmland for plants and animals all year around.
The removal of beavers also contributed to the loss of wetlands. Mind you they breed quickly.
(when every living cell holds an ocean within water wants to flow slow )
New world varieties of these broader Plant Species, habitat types, favored conditions for rooting, annual or perennial lifestyle, colonial or stolon like rooting capabilities all start to better Inform the compatible Species native to your local jurisdictions that would span these Site Specific Variables more intimately.
Get some beavers. They will do the work.
I hope it was worth the 1500 litres of diesel and machinery hours, erosion, and public money - if you stick to agroforestry and regeneration the river will reform over time.
That's got to be the most man made natural river in the history of man made natural rivers.🤔
Ok so what would your solution have been?
Have you thought about reintroducing Beavers?
Beavers are being / have been reintroduced in sites across Scotland! It's at the landowner and local authority's discretion to do so of course, but we agree that beavers' behaviour can have a range of benefits to river ecosystems.
So how will you replace the lost food production? In an already over populated island with limited resources?
Sounds like a great success. Your video editing needs work, however. You skip from clip to clip after 2-3 seconds and repeat clips unnecessarily, as if your goal was to have as many separate shots as possible. When you have a wide landscape shot you need to allow time for people to actually look it, orient themselves on it, and see details.