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SCOTLAND: The Big Picture
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We are SCOTLAND: The Big Picture, a charity working to make rewilding happen across Scotland, as a solution to the growing climate and biodiversity crises.
Discover stories of hope and renewal. Join the discussion. Be inspired by the people fighting back for nature.
Discover stories of hope and renewal. Join the discussion. Be inspired by the people fighting back for nature.
Experience rewilding in the Scottish Highlands
Discover Rewilding Journeys with SCOTLAND: The Big Picture - a carefully crafted blend of discovery and inspiration. In the company of expert guides and like-minded travellers, you’ll visit transformational rewilding initiatives and meet the inspiring people driving them forward. After a day immersed in wild nature, you’ll relax in our stunning mountain lodge and enjoy delicious locally sourced food.
Ready to begin your Rewilding Journey? Find out more: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-journeys
Ready to begin your Rewilding Journey? Find out more: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/rewilding-journeys
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Perthshire rewilders let nature in. Here's how we helped!
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Discover how Liberty and Hamish Martin created a wilder life at Tombane with help from our Northwoods Rewilding Network and NatureScot’s Nature Restoration Fund. By allowing native woodland to breathe again, increasing water for endangered species and creating rich corridors for wildlife, their rewilding journey was accelerated by joining the network; enabling them to tap into a community of re...
Why Not Scotland? premieres in Edinburgh
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Our new feature-length documentary, Why Not Scotland?, premiered in Edinburgh on 15 March 2024 to kick off its nationwide screening tour. Here are some of the highlights... About the film: Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. However, during her travels, she discovers places where nature is making a spectacular comeback, bre...
Why does rewilding give Flo hope? | World Rewilding Day 2024
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In 2024, World Rewilding Day celebrates the people who are transforming #HopeIntoAction through their tangible rewilding successes. This World Rewilding Day, Flo - the star of our brand new documentary, Why Not Scotland? - shares her thoughts on why rewilding gives her hope and how we can all take action to make more rewilding happen. You can take action today for nature, climate and people in ...
Why Not Scotland? Official Trailer
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Why Not Scotland? is a feature-length documentary which forms a central part of the Scottish Rewilding Alliance’s Rewilding Nation campaign. The film accompanies Flo, a young Scot from Glasgow, on an intensely personal journey, as she seeks out examples of nature recovery around Europe. Like many of her generation, Flo is concerned by the state of nature and fearful about an uncertain future. H...
MAKING REWILDING PAY | The Kinkell Byre Story
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Once a struggling farm, Kinkell Byre is now a successful wedding venue. Rory Fyfe has set out on a mission to rewild the family farmland near St. Andrews. Can rewilding really work alongside their business? Kinkell Byre is a Northwoods Rewilding Network partner. Find out more about Northwoods: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/northwoods Stay inspired and up to date by joining the Big Picture Communit...
Creating Riverwoods: The Role of Wildlife
zhlédnutí 868Před 9 měsíci
Healthy rivers need healthy wildlife populations, functioning together to sustain a productive system. Today, a growing number of pioneering landowners and land managers are undertaking river restoration efforts that harness this vital synergy, seeking to restore the abundance of life that Scotland’s river ecosystems once supported and recognising the importance of all the pieces of the ecologi...
Creating Riverwoods: Riparian Planting
zhlédnutí 979Před 9 měsíci
Atlantic salmon need cold, clean rivers, but rising river temperatures are increasingly adding to the many pressures already facing this iconic fish. Trees create vital shade, and so restoring native woodland along Scotland’s exposed riverbanks has become a race against time, with landowners, land managers, gamekeepers and fisheries experts joining forces to restore Scotland’s riverwoods and co...
Creating Riverwoods: Floodplains
zhlédnutí 903Před 9 měsíci
As climate breakdown increases the likelihood of heavy rainfall events - increasing peak flows to dangerous levels in our narrowly confined rivers - efforts are being made across Scotland to reunite rivers with their natural floodplains, revitalising wetlands and slowing river flows. Natural floodplains slow the rate at which water travels downstream, protecting salmon eggs in vulnerable gravel...
Creating Riverwoods: Catchment Scale Restoration
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Rewetting peatlands and replanting upland forests benefits whole river catchments, boosting wildlife, reducing siltation and enhancing resilience to droughts and floods. Today, Scotland’s landowners and land managers are alert to the fact that restoring Scotland’s threatened rivers, and saving Scotland’s wild salmon, requires an awareness of what is happening beyond the riverbank, with consider...
Creating Riverwoods: Dynamic Processes
zhlédnutí 862Před 9 měsíci
For centuries, Scotland’s rivers have been straightened, confined and tidied, but today, rivers are being rewiggled, deadwood is being reintroduced and artificial barriers are being removed, returning rivers to their natural meandering course, diversifying flows and restoring connectivity for migratory fish like salmon, all the way from source to sea. The Riverwoods Initiative is championing th...
SHEEP AND LYNX in Scotland: Conflict or coexistence?
zhlédnutí 973Před 10 měsíci
For rewilding news and updates, join the Big Picture Community: www.scotlandbigpicture.com/big-picture-community If lynx return to Scotland, what might that mean for Scotland's sheep farmers? Dr Hugh Webster is joined by Grace Reid (Scottish Region Coordinator for the National Sheep Association) and Fred Swift (livestock farmer) in this webinar, to consider whether coexistence between sheep and...
Sound of Aspen
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Wondering how to recognise aspen? Listen out for the sound of aspen leaves trembling in the breeze. They make a characteristic whispering sound as the paper-like leaves rustle together. Find out more at www.scotlandbigpicture.com/painting-scotland-yellow
Cairngorms Connect: A wild landscape in the making webinar
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In this webinar, Hugh Webster talks to Sydney Henderson, Jack Ward and Wendy Sylvester about the Cairngorms Connect project, discussing a wide variety of topics, including what the project is seeking to achieve, the nature of the partnership, the influence of deer and deer management on the landscape, whether the project might ever consider reintroducing lynx and what the project means for loca...
Cairngorms Connect: The Role of Deadwood
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Cairngorms Connect is a partnership of neighbouring land managers, committed to a bold and ambitious 200-year vision to enhance habitats, species and ecological processes across a vast area within the Cairngorms National Park. In this film ecologist Christina Hunt explains the role of deadwood in a healthy forest ecosystem. For rewilding news and updates, join the Big Picture Community: www.sco...
Cairngorms Connect: Woodland Expansion
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Cairngorms Connect: Woodland Expansion
Scotland's threatened mountain habitats | Rewilding Reachout
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Scotland's threatened mountain habitats | Rewilding Reachout
Slowing down Scotland's rushing rivers | Rewilding Reachout
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Slowing down Scotland's rushing rivers | Rewilding Reachout
Why Scotland's towns need nature's mess | Rewilding Reachout
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Why Scotland's towns need nature's mess | Rewilding Reachout
Must we choose between farming and nature? | Rewilding Reachout
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Must we choose between farming and nature? | Rewilding Reachout
Forests for the future | Rewilding Reachout
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Forests for the future | Rewilding Reachout
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
These are but the earliest days of rewilding, both at Tombane and across Scotland and indeed the UK - (re-)introducing top predators may well follow eventually, but don't cast out the good in pursuit of perfection, this is a wonderful project with so many benefits already.
Wonderful video, huge congrats to Liberty and Hamish, who are doing fantastic work in restoring their land.
They are getting handouts of large sums of money to live the lifestyle they chose - gosh aren't they wonderful.
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.
❤😊🌲
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
Norway has 15,000-20,000 sheep losses each year, Lynx was about 20%, so still thousands of sheep losses from Lynx every year and they have a lot more wilderness than the UK
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.
We have no forests, we have lots of dense plantations with no life under the canopy. A lynx wouldnt survive in a plantation, it would be pushed out on the periphery where it will find sheep. We could rewild our forests, but we also need timber and would only end up importing more which defeats the purpose of environmentalism.
@@quillo2747 There seems to be a trend shift in that regard going on bringing back Caledonian forests. There are some protected forests to begin with. This is long time period project. Spruce forest monocultures can be easily converted to nuture nature as well when you go from clear cut method to continous growth method. Science shows that continous growth gives more bang for the money so to say, its more profitable but requires a bit more effort, different way of forestry. The big plus is it also gives nature chance. In continous growth you cherry pick trees for felling. So there is always forest covery, preventing erosion and floods and there is a continous flow of money to the owner. Also there is trees of all ages, like in natural forests. The trees multiply naturally without need of planting. You can then also add native trees amongst spruce. It can be law mandained to add certain amount of native trees into monocultures. This is not a rocket science. There are ways if there is a will. More tree species give more adaptability and protection from tree diseases and insects which will increase in future. In continouous growth forests you have birds to eat insects harming tree growth. Spruce cannot tolerate strong winds, warming climate and increasing amount of droughts, dry weather, more intense raining, floods. These issues will anyway change commercial forestry.
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.
You just said that until we have slavery we’re not going to solve the problem, but you don’t realize that a person is his own private property so taking away property rights allows him to “belong” to another,,, like the government for example.
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?