How This Degraded Land was Transformed into Thriving Wetlands

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[@MossyEarth]

Excellent video as usual Rob! Well done! This is such an interesting project and a great example of using "waste" from one project to create something good. Salt marshes and mudflats are crucial to soo many species so it is great to see this type of projects pop up. The scale of this one is mind blowing... 🤯

[@LeaveCurious]

The tunnelling process of the rail development is insane too, reminds you just what humans are capable of... hopefully we'll see more efforts for ecosystem restoration!

[@Maverick1.]

@@LeaveCurious Can you make a video about the Severn Estuary wetlands?

[@karldean5728]

Amazing! I'm from South Essex, by the Thames estuary, there is a large salt marsh restoration there too and a historic landfill from London's waste has been turned into a nature reserve full of lakes, marsh and meadow. :)

[@LeaveCurious]

Thats wicked Karl! Saltmarsh not only locking in carbon, but also waste....

[@tadblackington1676]

Wallasea is a great example of a couple of permaculture maxims. First is that every element (in a design) should serve more than one function. Flood defence infrastructure, spoil dump, rewilding site, carbon sink and likely tourist draw, this site serves all these functions. The other maxim that is handy to remember is that a pollutant is jusy a resource in the wrong place. The London spoils were a great example of this.

[@LeaveCurious]

Yes very true, I do wonder what the specific environmental implications are from tunneling like that though...

[@joopbonnet5300]

Great example! We are piloting these kind of projects over here in NL with dredged sediments, and are also using many nature based solutions in water defense. Multipurpose!

[@LeaveCurious]

NL meaning Netherlands?? But yeah sounds like a win on all fronts

[@TheBobador]

Great video! I believe the environmental services of the salt marches such as helping out with avoiding floods is a great selling point for the masses!

[@LeaveCurious]

oh yeah 100%!!

[@deepbluetree]

I love how they identified an area and just went for it! I wish there were programs like this one everywhere

[@matthewdavies5875]

Hello Rob, Matt here from Mossy Earth. A great video! The RSPB did a similar project in Sussex where I grew up - RSPB's Pagham Harbour Local Nature Reserve.

[@LeaveCurious]

Hey Matt, awesome, I'll have to check that one out!!

[@PaulCoxC]

Fascinating story, and well explained. Love to see win-win-win situations

[@LeaveCurious]

Thanks for watching Paul!

[@christinecollins6389]

Amazing I did not know this it’s encouraging what can be done with some thought for the environment

[@robertclarke7848]

Brilliant video and project. There's a few cool projects in Ireland happening at the moment. Dunsany estate is like a small Knepp. We've also just banned peat cutting leaving the bogland alone for the first time ever. We're a bit behind the UK but there's some efforts being made

[@LeaveCurious]

Nice, I'll check these out. Would love to visit Ireland!

[@DuartedeZ]

Great video as usual Rob!

[@LeaveCurious]

Thanks dude!

[@markg3025]

Great to see the salt marsh being restored. Keep up the very important work.

[@LeaveCurious]

Really interesting project. Thanks Mark G

[@chrismccartney8668]

I watched the barges and they updated the buoyed channel to avoid the need for a Pilot to get up the crouch.. I imagine it will increase fish stocks as the marsh is a fish nursery as I know my boat was moored at Bridgemarsh Marina on a river pontoon and sometimes it was surrounded by small fry hiding from predators like bass and cormorants and seals. Hope to visit later this year..

[@someblokecalleddave1]

As a kid in the 70's and 80's I was a bird watcher (Not a twitcher) and lived in Tilbury and would go bird watching on East and West Tilbury marshes, West Thurrock Marshes and even walk from Tilbury via the Gravesend ferry to Cliffe Marshes. I've grown up on marshes and salt marshes and have always loved how bleak and desolate they are. Over the years I was actively bird watching I saw some amazing things on those relatively small marshes that were local to me. I love the Avocet story - as a kid in 1974, there were like 3 pairs of Avocets at Minsmere and now they're like pigeons and that's down to these kinds of projects, whilst all those small areas of marsh have been lost, it's great to see the RSPB involved in these project here and at other places like Pitsea. I might get back into bird watching some day? Great video and I like your delivery too.

[@qaswedfr1234]

An amazing mega project I did not realise existed, Thank you

[@akauppi2]

Mossy Earth meets B1M = I’m in heaven.. Thanks @LeaveCurious, for creating this

[@christophernixon5295]

Great video about an incredible project! Thanks for making me aware of yet another very positive collaboration that benefits the environment. We need all of those type stories we can get..

[@claireskrine4837]

The almighty algorithm has just recommended your content to me, great stuff, I'm working through the back catalogue. Have you done much on the various beaver projects? A family of beavers just 'appeared' on a river near me in Somerset, not as part of a formal introduction scheme (there are several theories as to how....). We use the river for kayaking and transport and it's fascinating seeing the impact they've already made. They seem to have an instinct for hazel and will come quite far up the bank to seek it out. They also seem to enjoy the taste of pine bark which one of my neighbours has found out to his cost. Nothing that tree guards can't sort out.

[@LeaveCurious]

Praise the almighty algorithm.... I've dipped into the story of the beaver a few times, but I will make a dedicated videos on their comebacks are different places around the UK. - what kind of tree guards were used?

[@claireskrine4837]

@@LeaveCurious we're experimenting with mesh - our neighbour is using wire and I've put plastic mesh (recycled from ages ago) around young trees we don't want to lose. tbh we want the coppice-able trees coppiced anyway, and we have loads of willow, it would just be a shame if the ash that is valiantly resisting die-back at the moment got beaver-ed instead - this is a really huge established tree though and is quite inaccessible so I think we need to look at another form of repellent applied from the river-side.

[@MasculineFreedomProject]

I’m starting to love this channel ❤️

[@lieuwetop1821]

this is what is needed to be done in the netherlands! i could serve so many birdlive !

[@WalkAr0und]

This is a great story, made my day, thanks for all your efforts on the channel, guys like you give me hope for the future 👍

[@nickswildlifefootage9392]

Just came across your videos and I must say that it was very educational. What an amazing project taken on buy the rspb

[@K1S7Z3]

salt marsh and prairie ecosystems are so underrated when it comes to how beneficial they are to the world! I heard once that forests are the charismatic mega fauna of ecosystems because anyone who likes nature at all can get behind protecting them. But that doesn't make any other ecosystem less valuable or interesting

[@me-xz2xn]

Okay where was all the wildlife? I heard you mention gulls, but you didn’t really show us the health of the marsh and its in habitants

[@Narnendil]

Wow this is amazing!

[@spijkerpoes]

I only need a digger and a few months to make the biggest saltmarsh ever here in holland

[@LeaveCurious]

Go go go go! I know some people who you fund it! Do you own any land? I assume this is a joke haha

[@charlieneilson1239]

Mind-blowing stats on carbon. Top drawer presenter. Great content. ❤

[@LeaveCurious]

Thanks Charlie 💪

[@joseguerreiro5943]

Very interesting concept. My first time hearing about thia project although I heard of a similar one in the Netherlands. There's lots of interesting rewilding projects going on like the Oostvaarplassen (or whatever how you spell it) in the Netherlands or bison reintroduction in the Carpathians.

[@simonbarrow479]

Interesting video. I didn’t know that story.

[@LeaveCurious]

Thanks for watching Simon!!

[@Prongsie1999]

This reminds me of Samphire Hoe in Dover. It was built by collaboration with eurotunnel using the earth from building the tunnel

[@tedbomba6631]

Salt marshes also create habitat for turtles and tortoises as well as different species of salamanders. I was unaware of just how much carbon is sequestered in salt marshes !

[@LeafHuntress]

Leafs: hmmm looks & sounds familiar... Leave: the Dutch came here & built a seawall. Ah. ;-) The Netherlands basically is one big delta. If you like mudflats, we’ve got them. De Waddenzee in the north of the country is effectively the biggest nature reserve in NL, which tells you more about how intensively Dutch territory is used, than how big that sea is, but it does have UN protected status(together with Germany & Denmark). In Zeeland in the south, the province which New Zealand is named after, there are the Deltawerken. These were built after the last time that NL was underwater, de watersnoodramp of 1953. The reason that de Oosterschelde stormvloedkering moves is partially to preserve the natural saltwater environment there. Go visit, it’s massive! You’ll be close to the Westerschelde where you’ll find het Verdronken Land van Saeftinge, 3580 hectare of saltwater marsh, not an island though. Dutchies normally polder/make new land, here is a *very* contested bit of ontpolderen, to let an old polder (Hedwige) refill with tidal water, to add about 500 hectares in nature area. It really goes against the grain & has upset a lot of local older people, 1953 is often mentioned. If you go a bit north you’ll find Tiengemeten, this is an island of about 7 by 2 km that was agricultural land & has also been given back to nature. Northeast of Amsterdam you have het Markermeer & they have built de Markerwadden, artificial islands mainly for birdlife. These are some of the projects going on in NL. Lots of stuff to get your feet wet! Liefs, Leafs (^.^)

[@yoonglescat]

You know I think those Canadian geese have eaten to much poutine and need fish and chips

[@LeaveCurious]

They asked me to get them some.

[@yoonglescat]

@@LeaveCurious oh okay good to know hope they love it but make sure they don't turn British it might not be good for the eco system if they eat all the fish and chips I'll be starving

[@jase123111]

Great video, but your sound volume keeps going loud, and I have to keep turning the speakers up and down.

[@LeaveCurious]

Ah sorry, ill work on that for future videos - cheers!

[@rogersmith8339]

If you pumped raw sewage into there it would be naturally degraded and would make the soil richer and feed countless shellfish.

[@SnowTroII]

🌲🌲

[@guana98]

Can someone explain to me how 4-5 grams of carbon sequestration per a square meter per year is correct? That seems like almost nothing? Am I reading this incorrectly?

[@M_O.O_N]

There are Canadian geese in the UK?😮

[@LeaveCurious]

Yes!

[@me-xz2xn]

Alot of carbon emitted shipping so much dirt too build the island ….

[@dominiclynch6504]

nice

[@LeaveCurious]

✌

[@rogersmith8339]

That would be a fantastic area for wildfowling. Just think of all the healthy Wild meat that it could produce!

[@LeaveCurious]

interestinging idea Roger!

[@davidhuebert1941]

Thank you for the enthusiastic video. Two points of clarification: 1) Temperate forests store roughly 3000g of carbon per square metre per year, not 4g to 5 g 2) They are called Canada geese, not Canadian geese. Thanks