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Can we please have an update? thanks.

Fantastic. Every little bit helps! ❤

u cant rewild anything without the predators there, without the wolf, bear and lynx u just playing at it

Wonderful video, huge congrats to Liberty and Hamish, who are doing fantastic work in restoring their land.

LOL I thought the river's name was something else for a sec!

Update pls 🙏

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.

AMAZING...congratulations for what you are doing for our beautiful planet...doing my bit here in subtropical Australia...

As a nation we need to stop coverign plantations in plastic tree guards. There are alternatives to plastic. Guards are almost never removed and just degrade into micro plastics which pollute the area

Fantastic guys thank you for all your efforts

We don't need to eat sheep. I don't. Give the land back to nature and the lynx.

First U would need to infuse woods of their diet to sustain a 66 population

Inspirational. I'd love to see more wetland like this in my area of SW England.

This is amazing. Sincerely hope it works; no reason why it shouldn't and others take note and act accordingly in their areas.

Such very cool work you’re doing.

Lacking woodland all over!

So the wedding venue pays for the rewilding? Including a manager? More details on how the business really pays for this project would have been good.

✔️ "Promo SM"

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!

Brilliant work. Roll on many more like it.

Great video thank you!

Great work guys 👍

Love seeing large wood debris in rivers.

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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.

As a ghillie on the river Tweed I have planted over 4000 trees in the last 2 years with a view to a further 1600 this season. I don’t strim the banks or spray anything the wildlife here is amazing. I have voles, barn owls, falcons, otters, buzzards, roe deer, rabbits and osprey frequent my beat. We operate a catch and release policy here and put nature first to co inside with the sport of fly fishing. Everyone making little positive changes is better than one person trying to change the world

yeah I tell you even if lynx are around they will not show themselves, they want nothing to do with humans. I been to mountains with bears, wolves and lynx and never had any interaction with those. only heard some from locals sometimes or from shepherds about wolves, about lynx though? never

This indoctrinated generation is going to lead us into environmental destruction in the name of saving the environment because that’s what Marxism ultimately does and that’s what it’s intended to do according to Marx himself.

Just need a beaver family now (need to make an artificial dam first to create a small deep lake) and a few wolves to deal with the deer and paradise awaits (so they tell me).,

Let the beavers sculpt it. They know just what to do.

It gives a lot of hope to see people get together on such a scale to support the recovery of Nature. Thank you!

You could have all those environmental benefits simply by returning wolves to the landscape.

Wild animal suffering is the suffering experienced by non-human animals living outside of direct human control, due to harms such as disease, injury, parasitism, starvation and malnutrition, dehydration, weather conditions, natural disasters, and killings by other animals,[1][2] as well as psychological stress.[3] Some estimates indicate that these individual animals make up the vast majority of animals in existence.[4] An extensive amount of natural suffering has been described as an unavoidable consequence of Darwinian evolution[5] and the pervasiveness of reproductive strategies which favor producing large numbers of offspring, with a low amount of parental care and of which only a small number survive to adulthood, the rest dying in painful ways, has led some to argue that suffering dominates happiness in nature.

What a brilliant summary of #HopeIntoAction. Thank you, Flo and STBP Team! Our team are all signing the charter - a way that we can all take action! Here's to a wilder world.

"Scotlandʻs a nature-depleted country." Let me unpack that statement, because I imagine those who do not know any different are turning their heads sideways. As a professional Permaculture Designer of 22 years, I see a wet desert, a devastated landscape of monocultural depravity by neglect, and it is perfect to begin here, now, as it is all we have to work with. The contrast will be thrilling. Letʻs go! Nature is regenerative, and we are stewards and our stewardship has been detoured, so "Nature-depleted" looks like endless hills and moors of only a few species, and many and much crucial missing hedgerows, (75,000 miles removed in the UK since 1968, from Knepp Castleʻs WILDING book), and vital woodlands, and mature forests have been systematically removed over centuries. I designed a 258-acre Regenerative Farming Community on Maui, Hawaii for 4 years, and now, I have moved to heal my ancestral home and roots in Scotland, so please email me, and let me know who I can work with on this; claire@natureclan. (net)... thanks for your caring. Aloha, Love, Claire Anderson Graham. Nature Clan, we are nature, and we are here to regenerate the past into flourishing beauty and abundance.

Lynx is harmless animal in nordics.🇧🇻🇦🇽🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪 and baltics. No threat to humans nor sheep. Lynx is a forest dweller ambushing roe deer, hares, rabbits, mouse, rats and birds. It is no threat to sheep even. Only predation of sheep happens in Norway🇧🇻 where farmers let sheep graze freely without guard in forests.🌲🌳🌲☘🍀Root cause is forest grazing..

Lynx is harmless animal. No threat to people. No threat to sheep in fields.🇫🇮 It is a forest dweller ambushing roe deer, hares, rabbits, mouse and rats. Only in Norway there is some sheep predation since they let sheep freely without guard graze in forest areas. Norwegian government though compensates these losses to farmers.

I think I big part of reducing this conflict will include livestock farmers deploying livestock guardian dogs & going back to traditional shepherding methods. we also need to make sure there is sufficient habitat for the lynx to live and hunt within. Where we get lynx from to reintroduce will also matter as the Scandinavian lynx have behaviours where they do occasionally hunt sheep, whereas lynx from other areas such as Belarus do not. Another point is that lynx are ambush predators, they sit and wait attacking from trees down onto prey, Norway farms graze within trees, not on open fields like we do, they are not chase predators, the likelihood of them hunting sheep successfully is minimal. to protect the lynx themselves from poisoning, traps etc, there are detection dogs that can help with that as well. we cannot keep ignoring our lack of biodiversity in this country & we should remember our history of how that occurred and a great deal of it occurred to house sheep over people, native cattle, woodlands and small crofts.

Subject reintroduction to an irrevocable right of farmers to defend their livestocks.

Great work!

At 76 I have in my own little way over the years tried to encourage the revival of nature in Scotland but one of the major problems is landownership. Until we stop a tiny minority of said people using the land for their own narrow uses we are fighting a losing battle.

What a joke,ALBA GU BRAITH

Great story. I have watched forest restorations here in the US as well. Deer browsing newly planted or emerging forests will destroy them. Deer are plentiful and prefer new shoots. Without removing deer, this whole project would be doomed. Predators can be introduced after the forest is old enough to sustain damage from deer. There are currently not enough deer hunters in the USA and the UK to keep the deer populations down. And it will be decades, if ever, that there will be enough predators to keep the deer in check and the forest healthy.

Great work!

Just registered for the Peebles screening. Don't forget to donate!

Sounds like the video version of James Shooter's podcast over the last year. If so it should be great

Looks great. Looking forward to seeing the full film.

We can't wait to see this. Thank you, team, another fantastic inspiring resource by Scotland the Big Picture. #RewildingHope. Alister

Why not the UK?