Can Ancient Cattle & Water Voles Restore Rural Great Britain? | WILD HOPE
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2023
- For years, Derek Gow worked his 400-acres in western England as a conventional sheep and cattle farm. But as both a farmer and conservationist, he knew that wasn’t right for nature. Now, he’s using his experience with British rewilding projects to return his land to what it once was: a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem.
He took down the fences and sold off the livestock, replacing domesticated animals with ancestral species, chosen for the way they create habitat for wild creatures, large and small.
Derek also reintroduced beavers to his land. Beavers had virtually disappeared from England, but Derek was on the forefront of reestablishing the species. Known for their ability as eco-engineers, they return the landscape to a natural, healthy state and restore water to the ecosystem. He’s also breeding a smaller cousin of the beaver that is another important eco-architect: water voles. They had also almost vanished, having lost the water features needed for their survival. His large-scale breeding program will export water voles throughout Britain to restore habitat and provide prey for raptors and other predators.
Piece by piece, Derek Gow is reassembling the puzzle that was the wild landscape of Great Britain, and restoring hope along the way.
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Imagine what would happen if American ago-business industrial farms were required to re-wild the borders around their agricultural land. Yes, it would mean the acreage would be less efficient in food production and there will probably be a slight price increase in the items produced...But we share this planet with an entire ecosystem of wild living things that also deserve to live and thrive.
Ever since discovering Wild Hope, my hope for restoring lost habitats has skyrocketed. Thank you so much to all that have contributed to saving the world!
More people need to become aware of this and spread these ideas for better change.
Edit: I needed to clarify myself. I meant Wild Hope, I appreciate that PBS is airing Wild Hope and helping spread the awareness to the public.
Should watch mossy earth they do some cool stuff
Same here. This is such a great series! It is so important so show these examples of positive change.
Holy cow, Derek is like a superhero! He might just be responsible for the UK re-wilding and re-introducing these species back to its native land! Love this series!!
What an ambassadour! Sure, they might be small steps in the larger picture, but for one person´s work, what Derek Gow is doing is huge!
You're out there having so much fun and feeling the satisfaction.
This is the most amazing thing I’ve ever seen! Oh how I’d love to do this kind of work! 😍
I’ve seen this before, and loved it as much then as now.
How wonderful! He's doing great things for Mother Earth 😊
Beavers in temperature forests; Bison in Poland and North American Prairies, Elephant in the Savannah. I give a lot of credit to people wanting to farm "smarter" and the internet with it's going on fire explosion of information and programs.
This is so inspiring! How did you find the animals indigenous to the region?
I hear there’s also a similar project going on in Scotland - would love to see a segment on that.
Finding the animals that are indigenous to an area, really isn’t difficult. It’s not as if you’re attempting to translate some long extinct language, it’s a pretty simple google search. Not trying to be an as$hole, just pointing out the obviously overlooked solution. Forest and trees idiom.
Britain has only been separated from mainland Europe since the end of the last ice age; just about anything that is found in southern Scandinavia would be indigenous to the British isles. We also have historical records and archaeological remains that talk about or indicate several missing species.
Bless you for doing this
Thank you, sir!
I'm an older American woman.
What you are doing is beautiful in many ways!
God bless you.
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Excellent!
I understand some of the concerns noted below, but rewilding tracts of land can be adjacent to farmland. The benefits of the rewilded land can spread into the farmland. A relative of mine is a soil scientist and soil scientists have been pushing for much-decreased chemicals in our soil, so it is a similar issue.
I LOVE THESE KIND OF VIDEOS PLEASE DO MORE ❤
Supergreat fellow humans, you are real keepers! Thank you! Much love
This is Fantastic for the Land, The People and All the Animals not to mention the Incredibly fertile Soil and Crops!! Its Exactly what Every country needs to do to Restore the Health and Vitality of Land, Crops and People Worldwide!!
Wow thank you!!!
A jock farmer in Cornwall building an eco friendly environment, now that's what I call diversity 😅
Shared!
real hero..🎉🎉🎉🎉
I wish the vole mommies had more room and a bigger watering place. It's like 50 pens that i wish where more like habitats :(
The best dna of all species to fill restore the whole world
I think the creatures not “the more the better”, some of them are bad ones towards all the others, some of them benefit and can help each other, I think some British people don’t be greedy and be clear and critical and rational and moral and rigorous and detailed.
Is that Queen Latipha narrating?
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THE KING OF THE JEWS SPEAKS
Something that confuses me... Even if the monetary cost for artificial carbon capture was cheap, wouldn't it cost atleast as much energy to bind the co2 again as the energy that wwas released when the fossil fuel it came from was burned? Wouldn't that make the entire process kind of futile as the energy spent on binding the CO2 agaain would be better spent on just being to power stuff instead of fossil fuels
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How is he making money with these changes? What’s the funding model? Selling native animal species? Is that more or less profitable than the farming he was doing previously? Is the effort being subsidized by government?
Indians realised value and mercy on wildlife and Europeans now
so pretty
Siiiiiick
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Its not fair how every animal in the UK is cute. The US gets snakes, alligators, grizzly bears, and muskrats…to name a few….
we have a couple of snakes (grass snake and adder) and used to have brown bears thousands of years ago
I want to rewind my home state of Ohio just like how that guy is doing in the United Kingdom
And how does he support himself? Is he a trust fund farmer? The video doesn’t address how this is profitable for farmers to convert their land to…
Yes, rewinding farmland needs to be profitable. Depending on the size of farm, high end beef and wild boar are great products. Tourism is possible as well, and might be very profitable for larger farms.
His farm has a cost, so does his lifestyle. Highly doubt rich people are going to start funding that by buying high end beef or wild boar. And poor people can’t afford it! As for tourism, don’t be ridiculous. No one is paying to walk through nature. There is no viable business to these people. Humans need affordable food!
A BILLION RIVERS A SEA OF TREES FOR RAIN SEA MAMMALS,A SEA OF DOLPHINS TO MAKE RAIN FOR THE LAND. I AM
That vole is pike bait.
Petty here. The announcer, is that Desiree
Everything is fantastic except the water vole farm, I understand the idea, but Derek gets money for every water vole he sends around the country and will continue to do so if the reason water voles are missing from that area in the first place is still there - charities such as the Waterlife Recovery Trust need to be supported first as they are eradicating the invasive American Mink which has caused a lot of the damage to the water vole population. Once these are gone, the remaining water voles can recolonise naturally and with the area specific DNA. If they all come from a farm they will all have the same genetics and be less adaptable and be more easily taken out by disease as across the country all species have location specific differences.
Regenerative ag is my religion.
What britain needs is wolves lots and lots of wolves to keep the deer numbers in check
Good project, the American jolly voiceover doesn't work though
Um, it's an American program, you know PBS, right?
@@JeffreyGoddin still doesn’t work, maybe it’s just her style.
😂dont ya get it yet? They put a polish narrating the Portuguese, a german narrating a french channel, a eskimo narrating a Zulu channel, a Aztec narrating in Siberia. Proper village people
White Park oxen are wild and replaced Eurasian aurochs. Please reintroduce them instead of introducing English Longhorns and Highland oxen.
2:30 "we have a fight we can possibly win" - but what does "win" mean? The UK has more people than the land can feed. *The UK imports almost half of its food.* Rewilding the landscape is not going to make that problem any better, it will likely make it worse.
He said he's NOT doing that to grow food.
'There are too many people.' ... 'Oh no! What about the people!?'
No they can't.