Creating a Wetland from Scratch (with Belmont Estate)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Kicking off the Wilding Earth series is the brilliant Gil Martin, Estate Manager at Belmont Estate, who’s team have created an entire wetland from scratch, to boost biodiversity and enhance the landscape’s ability to combat flooding.
Gil’s deep understanding and passion made spending the day with him a real pleasure, and I’m excited to share his and Belmont Estate’s remarkable story with you.
I hope it inspires you as much as it has done for me!
Olly
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🌳 Find out more about Belmont Estate here: belmont.estate
🔎 About the Series:
As CEO & co-founder at Earthly (earthly.org), Olly has the privilege of discovering incredible nature restoration projects, often meeting the inspiring people behind them. So we're launched the ‘Wilding Earth’ RUclips channel, where each month, Olly will bring you up close to one extraordinary project, sharing the tangible impacts of their nature regeneration work on the ground. Subscribe to follow our exciting journey through nature recovery.
If you’re aware of (or involved in) any pioneering UK projects focused on nature restoration or regeneration and would like them to be featured, please comment with details. Thank you!
🎬 Editors: Olaf Lawrence & Ollie Gambie
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Thanks so much for spotlighting our nature recovery mission and Watercress Farm, one of our latest nature restoration projects. We're thrilled to be able to share our story with you and very excited to see more on your channel in the future - congratulations 👏
Thank you for having me and I look forward to returning to do a progress update at some point in the future! Olly
What a beautiful place. Please more about this and other rewilding sites!
Will do! It’s a beautiful project
What a brilliant first episode. A perfect example of how people, everywhere, are transforming hope into real, positive action through rewilding. Love the idea of a mosaic within landscapes and embracing the cyclical pattern of nature. Our team are looking forward to the future episodes and how this series evolves!
Thank you for watching and placing the channels first comment! It’s been a real pleasure so far getting to meet the people behind projects and I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on! I appreciate your support! Olly
What a great story and lovely to see the vision of it's current owners. Hopefully it'll be another successful rewilding story like Knepp.
I hope so too!
Awesome video and brilliantly explained by Gil. Best I've seen 🤩🤩🤩
Gil is a fountain of knowledge! Such a privilege getting to meet the people spearheading these projects
Love this - they're doing a fantastic job on that rewilding project.
Yes they are!
Brilliant work, well done
Thank you for watching!
What a great project. I've been collecting a playlist of hopeful environmental projects for 4 years and glad to add your first 3 videos to the list.Great work ...keep it up.
Thanks for the comment and support Dave!
I want to build a food forrest around this type of setup
Wonderful project great to see nature allowed to regenerate, and that comes from someone who used to milk 350 cows intensively managed on a ryegrass sward. Must visit.
Thank you Peter!
This is great, but why is there no Vegetation next to the banks for shading the water and keep it cool on hot summer days? I expect a good reason for it, I just don't know jet.
Thanks for this nice Video!
Because the cows have eaten it all. I think this has been produced or influenced by the farming lobby. See George monbiot debate Allan Savory. People are desperate to cling onto farming and greenwashing it.
The banks have recently been created and in time the vegetation will grow, thank you!
Love it!
where are the trees which give shade to the water and prevent vom evaporation? some beavers wmay be helpful, but they need woods
The trees will return in time. Gorse bushes and thorny scrub will protect some tree saplings and allow them to develop
Really interesting. I have been reading about projects to introduce Beavers back into the the UK. Surprised you have not considered doing that as well. Natures natural construction workers.
They have beavers nearby! We have around 1,000 beavers across the UK now
Municipalities should do this in urban watersheds in combination with communally managed raised field agriculture. To the extent that tax revenue makes the land tech and labor purchases required to construct such infrastructure before being handed over to the socius to be held in common. It would create jobs and food sovereignty, sponge cities, it would do what all the duplicitous SDG bullshit says it wants to do. the revolutionary implications might be too much for states to invest in without it being surveillance financed or forced by popular demand.
Anyways I am convinced that realigning social production with the earths territorialities and fluxes is the way forward regardless of what the state and bourgeoisie decision makers want to repress for capital's sake.
i litterally dream of doing this most nights .
lovley t see
Me too!!!
It’s a stunning project now, can’t wait to see what it looks like in a few years!
@@WildingEarth Biodiversity is going to skyrocket
No permaculture/food forrest in the surroundings?
Any chance those pools will become wild salmon spawning grounds in the future?
I’m not sure about salmon but very excited to watch how it evolves!
@@WildingEarth Recently i discovered through youtube that beavers are perfect for creating wetlands and with a much lower costs effectinious than artificial created wetlands. This option could be overviewed for upcoming projects or when this project gets expanded.
Is planting bushes and trees the next step into this project?
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thoughts on using beavers to do this?
HI Archie, Gil mentioned there were Beavers nearby but that to 'kick-start' the wetlands process it really needed diggers to move Earth around to fast-track the development of the landscape
@@WildingEarth and some tree planting at some point?
@@RussTillling Trees aren't always ideal, sometimes a more open landscape can be more beneficial to a wider variety of species. Mosaic landscapes with scattered trees and shrubs similar to savannah are much more productive in terms of biodiversity.
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Focus on me now understand opportunity cost😂. Go do. Like circles even more. Progress slow I know. Work on circles. Work for me. BIGGER PARADOX🎉
I'm surprised people actually think this looks good. Looks like a bloody golfcourse not a natural river and wetland system! 🤣. Not to try and spread negativity, but please, this should not be used as an example of how rewilding should be done - it is rigid, canal-like and artificial rather than dynamic, transitional and nature-like...
As it’s ’freshly created’ the banks look more uniform but in time it will resemble a natural ecosystem. From visiting the site they’ve done an amazing job and have involved many ecologists and specialists to do things properly. And for what it’s worth I love the look of it now and can’t wait to see how it evolves
Farming lobby greenwash 🤢
Definitely not greenwash, it’s a brilliant project
@WildingEarth can you point to scientific evidence that having a bunch of cows on the property eating all the vegetation improved the rate at which the rewilding occurred?
Also cows = methane emissions
The fertiliser polluting the water is mainly animal excrement. How are more cows helping with that situation?
Vegan, locally sourced food is better for the planet. You should have turned that farm organic and introduced no till, improved the hedgerows, if you wanted to do something nice for it. Instead you reduced our viable agricultural land stock.
Why didn't you rewild a livestock farm? They take up way more land per calorie than vegetable and grain farms.
@@BernadetteHigginslol never heard of Buffalo or bison?
@NatenNWO cows are a major reason for the decimation of the bison population, so not sure how they'd feel about you using their name to support your argument (if they are capable of feeling affronted 🤔).
In any case, apples and oranges. Bison herds are enormous, but so are their ranges eg. Yellowstone. Hardly comparable to their little fenced farm. Bison are very scary animals, but they still have predators to chase them around and stop them overgrazing and keep the population in check.
Humans are not wolves. We do not chase our prey across vast plains. Cows are not bison. When was the last time a human chased a cow? I wouldn't want to see the results 😬
U lads r a waste of good land..
I think you’re missing the point!
Not at all
@@charliedoherty5965"good" and "waste" are both highly subjective. Have a nice day 😊
What a great video, excellent quality. I look forward to more on this channel. Subscribed
Thank you for your kind words Philip, I appreciate the subscribe! Olly
Ok, why are you doing this?
To improve habitat and restore the land and raise healthier livestock. This helps the ecosystem come back, which makes the land more productive for farming or the natural ecosystem. Years of traditional farming depletes the overtime which then requires lots of fertilizer and effort to raise animals on. When you bring some of the natural services back, then the farmer doesn't need to provide them. The ponds just add more service and resilience to the land
@friedelpretorius9217 I'm not sure what you said there is all true. After all, farming is a business and business usually want to be self-sustaining and so would invest a lot of maintaining soil health and fertility. I don't see farmers championing these schemes, usually just activists (I may be wrong here and would love to see evidence on the contrary).
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