DOES REWILDING WORK? MEASURING CARBON & BIODIVERSITY GAINS AT DUNSANY CASTLE

[@MatthewIrvinefilm]

Great video Dave! Great working with you

[@ronward3949]

I learned long ago, that anthills are favored by the Ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus, which fiercely attacked me as I went up a Mountain trail in the wild Black Hills of South Dakota, we later did see its chicks and their presence was noted and left to grow.

[@nxtxlieclaire]

Great video Dave! So interesting to measure with irelands peat cutting history

[@amycarter-james3131]

Awesome! Can't wait to for the results!

[@ronward3949]

Brambles do provide cover for hares, brush bunnies in North America, quail and gallinaceous birds that need ground cover to feed in, the thorns provide protective cover for small chicks to hide in, the cover and invasive nature of brambles does get thick.

[@viagenskeilaecleison]

Que lugar lindo.

[@ronward3949]

High in vitamin C and other nutrient needs this herbaceous layer can lead various foodstuff production utilizing those Native Species that correspond to the niches of openings of meadow, glades, riparian or wetlands or maybe even acidic-bog style habitat.

[@georgeholliday123]

The new RYX is a banger!

[@jimmyrichardson67]

I didn’t see any herbivores. Are there just the wild ones deer etc?

[@ronward3949]

Ironically the adult Callipepla californica prefer roosting in very high cover tree or brush Species which keeps them away from ground predators, provides dry roosting areas, and socially roosting behaviors. Wild turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, behave similar behaviors in roosting, ground nests, and social flocks that often mainly roost in mature trees.

[@JoshsHappiness]

😍

[@alanmoore8708]

Another study that will be used to object to the planned rail line through Dunsany. What's interesting is that the "re-wilded sample" was actually taken from a field used for agriculture only a few years ago - in fact the same "re-wilded field" is still showing as farmed land in google maps today!! So the "8 years rewilding" statement in this video is factually inaccurate. Check on google maps for yourself!

[@heartstonesanctuary]

I am sure the timespan the field is being rewilded could easily be proven, if needed. Apart from that, if they get the results in what you claim would be a shorter period of time, would that not prove that rewilding works all the more vividly? Besides, the Google maps image is from 2017, and it is very clearly not tilled anymore in that imagery (just compare with the field opposite). What you can see is the remnant tractor lines from years before that haven't been filled in ('rolled') as Randal explained in the very video you're criticising.

[@ajmcom]

@@heartstonesanctuary exactly! the timespan is proven by the satellite imagery, so the statement is the video is factually inaccurate. Why lie? Why use a field that had potatoes crops left to rot only a few years ago? Was it to produce fake results? Maybe it’s because there’s another agenda here … to object to the rail for personal gain. #NIMBY

[@alanmoore8708]

Exactly....the timespan is proven by the satellite imagery, so the statement in the video is factually inaccurate. Why lie? Why use a field that had potato crops left to rot only a few years ago? Was it to produce fake results? Maybe it's because there is another agenda here...to object to the proposed rail route through Dunsany. #NIMBY

[@hitchjack]

I bet that field will be full of bramble in a few years.