The hydro and forestry fucked the rivers in highlands. You need to get better fish passes on the dams

Great work, thanks.

Thanks for sharing.

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Met this guy in Glen Affric at he weekend, kinda felt star stuck, A true Legend, Alan Watson Featherstone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” Greek Proverb.

I don't get how the gopher died?

Very nice thanks.

Wish you post more videos

LOVE IT!

How far away are the lynx from returning to Scotland?

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Awesome 🏡🖖thank you

Wild boar are an ecological disaster, they destroy everything in their path, and they have no natural predators. They can produce 3 litters a year of about 8 piglets.

Bring back wolves, and just fence in the sheep pastures. The wolves will restore the ecosystem. Of course the wolves too will need to be controlled eventually - probably by well organised limited culling. Despite the many myths and an stories, wolves prefer to keep away from humans, but like foxes, they’ll take what’s accessible.

What Scotland needs are big predators.

Nature responds to love . Nature responds to care ....superb statement.

Great video , thank you for your information and expert knowledge....much appreciated.

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I am glad to have found you (Leave curious😊) keep up the work❤

Do pines in Scotland somehow differ from pines in central europe? I mean it should be the same species, Pinus sylvestris. Maybe there is different subspecies or ecotype, but in general they shouldnt be much different. But here for example in Slovakia pines grow quite quickly. They quickly colonize unforested areas and grow a forest there. We have even a bit problem to keep meadows. What is quite a different problem from British islands where is the problem quite opposite. Do you know why? Is it something with humidity, less of sunny days or just overgrazing is responsible? Because in Slovakia there is history of forestry that kettle cant graze in forests. The farm animals were always watched by sheperds not allow them to go into forests. They could be only in certain areas. Later after velvet revolution grazing kettle in open nature was lowered down by disinterest of people in it. Now there is a new trend to spread the grazing farm animals in the open nature and also it was allowed for some forests to make them pasture forests but it still looks like that pines can grow very easily.

Did I miss it or did you mention its very short life expectancy!?

Those red deer need to be kept on the move to stop them eating all the saplings. Wolves will do that.

No chance in hell you’ll get wolves back. Lynx maybe, but the deer are destroying the ecosystem more than any human in Scotland right now. Venison is lovely & should be promoted a whole lot more.

Mon t’trees✊

Great to see landowners assisting in your work.

Put wolves back in

Introduce something to eat the deer.

I was born in Scotland, and have read up a bit on the history. Like the rest of Britain it has suffered denuding of the landscape. Landowners want empty heather moors for paying customers etc to shoot on I think. The land is actually, plundered and never replenished. All that lovely purple heather, ought to be covered in trees. And deciduous trees at that. This pine is all very well. They are not half so useful for oxygenation/carbon capture, and nutrients landing on the earth in autumn/fall time. None of this is complicated. Take care all.

I have walked through this Glen a few times…it could so good

Immense work

Did you considerbringing back the wolves into the ecosystem if or when the deer fencing does not work well?

Amazing.

Whilst I appreciate the sensitivities of having to claim the landowners are “cooperating”, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that these people have a track-record of not acting in the wider interests of either the local communities or the land itself. Democratic land ownership is the solution to this, and Scotland’s ecological crisis.

Inspiring project 👍🏼

You’ve inspired since I was a kid you’re the reason I’m doing a masters in marine biology. Thank you

great commitment to have , your all legends in my eyes , love for the land

There are at least 2 more benefits of the project, better flood protection cause the leafs, needles and roots hold lot of rain back, and less erosion of fertile soil.

13:54 Speaker says red tailed deer are native but with no predator they eat everything and then says he wants to bring lynx back. Lynx dont hunt deer. You need your wolves back.

What a beautiful Highland estate, absolutely gorgeous countryside over there at Glen Affric. Well done to the gentle lady and her forward thinking management to enhance landscape, habitat and wildlife, as well as maintaining a traditional estate.

Yes

It is a landscape of sadness..

ROMANTIC many dont know these grouse estates make no profit 20,000 hectares shooting birds loses money - its a tax scam govt pays around 70 pounds per hectare and landowners pay minimum capital gains tax - moving money via land deals in the city of london - the scots are paying their taxes to look at bare hills - because its been that way for 200 years ... switzerland is also pretty and kept its trees ...

This is amazing. I have a question. Why did the lady say that they're planting broadleaved trees, and no mention of native conifers (pine and juniper)? Is it because this area isn't within the Caledonian Forest's natural range?

Plant trees then cut them down, why? Will this be a commercial forest project? Then ..."we appreciate the number of deer will have to be reduced..." Horrors, how will this be done? Huntng? Culling? or Relocating? Could the deer not have birth control? The females? I am sure the vets would know. The trees being cut down, what will happen to all the wildlife that has made this forest their home?

The landowners should be made pay for fencing, and if they can't then they should be forced to sell to the government, I mean the landowners who use the land for hunting.

Mounding for carbon capture? Doesn’t sound great to me, especially given the huge seed source already present in all those gorges.