Lord of the Wild | Rewilding Dunsany Estate

[@thepeopleschamp88]

Greatings from America. It does my heart glad to see what you are doing in Ireland, keep up the GREAT work!

[@thitherword]

I'm heading to Dunsany Castle/Dunsany Nature Reserve on the 12th August. This will be a rather momentous occasion as I'm currently writing an MRes thesis on Lord Dunsany's (and Tolkien's) fiction entitled 'Wonder's Native Haunt: Earth-centred Sacrality in the Fantasies of Lord Dunsany and J.R.R. Tolkien'. I also happen to have a background in wildlife ecology and countryside management. Suffice it to say, the estate merges all of my interests. Very much looking forward to the tours. Great video.

[@koopaquest6432]

Very well done we definitely need more of this in Ireland.

[@MichaelRand-r9w]

Great to see! Thank you!!

[@DonegreaghConnemaras]

Wonderful, and within driving distance for me to go visit !!!

[@helensherpa5783]

Fantastic to see the Dunsany Estate engaged in rewilding - as a visitor there in 1974 it was such a groomed landscape it would be great to make a return visit to a wilder Dunsany !

[@hotelsierra86]

Sublime, wish more landowners would follow suit. Incidentally we didn’t one of Lord Dunsany’s ancestors write “Beyond the fields we Know “/orThe King of Elfland’s Daughter “?

[@heartstonesanctuary]

Indeed, the current Lord's great-grandfather.

[@jollyjokress3852]

Rewilding is the most valuable thing to do!

[@razisamimi9287]

Fantastic work. Please plant more and more trees in your area and other places in beautiful Ireland.

[@paladintrueknight]

Lord Dunsany (the writer a few generations back) was one of the greatest prose writers in English history. He wrote fantasy stories in language that was breathtaking for its beauty. HP Lovecraft sat at his feet at a public reading and was in awe. Much of Lovecraft's writing was just a fanboy's imitation of Dunsany.

[@warlockofwordschannel7901]

Big fan of Dunsany and Lovecraft, have a BBC recording of LD reading a story of his. Wonderful voice.

[@HikarusVibrator]

A true lord right there.

[@scotslasskimberley172]

Beautiful!! Blessings🙏🏻🕊️🍀

[@750triton]

I was learning a bit about permaculture a few years ago and found an English farmer who inherited her far land from her father. She turned from monoculture grass for grazing to more diverse strains of grass, which meant she could graze all year

[@tomm4073]

A superb landscape of 750 acres. Not small by any standard. I did not see any herbivores though. Are there plans to introduce beavers on this property?

[@heartstonesanctuary]

There are native Red deer, and great effort is being put into protecting them from hunters and poachers.

[@gallowglass2630]

Beavers are not native to ireland,i mean it can be done but the purpose of rewilding is to restore a habitat to what it was not introduce completely new species.

[@tomm4073]

@@gallowglass2630 Aha! I did not know that. Thanks for this information.

[@ronward3949]

They do some pretty wild things when things get Hot around Here!

[@nicholasgibbons6757]

Such a positive attitude. Don't wait for governments "On yer bike" Do it yourself . Nature will repay you.

[@HexaDecimus]

Hopefully this helps set a precedence that rewilding is the way to go. Many people will call you crazy when you are trying something new.

[@ronward3949]

Just beware of unknowns, tantalizing you with beautiful wild eyes glowing, a little photography, ehh, just heat does stir up those yellowjackets around 90 plus Fahrenheit they can get a little edgy! Yet the Cercropia moth and a Lady Fair made my summer just this year!

[@mythtree6348]

I started doing this decades ago .. I'm surprised it is still seen as novel and extreme ..

[@GabrielaGARAYREYES]

😮😮😮😮❤🎉plant trees❤❤ flowers

[@gallowglass2630]

The largest rewilding project in ireland surely that wild nephin in mayo 16000 hectares

[@wallaceanature2788]

Great example. If only all large landowners would return at least 50% of their estate to the wild. #NatureNeedsHalf

[@oscarosullivan4513]

Only if large land owners would disappear off this island.

[@ConstantChaos1]

So this appears to be more of a passive rewilding, i wonder what they have done about reintroducing species and if they have considered the beaver

[@ronward3949]

Perennial grasslands composed of various Species present that seem tall and flowering, a mix or more simplified version to sequester their sunlight of the summer's days. Vegetative Cover comprises this layer and could be determined to Species or mix of Species. Dense mat of herbaceous cover which stabilize these soils using sunlight for primary production with long grasses flowing in the wind on a late in the summer haze of high temps.

[@ronward3949]

Pollinators are those localized factors that pollinate, help to germinate, transfer by gut then defecation, that being seeds, pits, that may then sprout or at least supplemented by manures of brush bunnies(?) or other rodent style life forms that burrow in the soil, tilling it in their own way as they make it more productive through their attentive lifestyles, unique qualities, and functions of this ecosystem.

[@craigsrck4382]

I want to do this one and everyone thinks im crazy

[@ronward3949]

Does Lord of the butterflies, damselflies, salamander king, lizards around sound familiar?

[@seamuskelly]

you are cool now well done

[@weaksohyeah]

Yaaaaay

[@ronward3949]

Localized nutrient sources being utilized by various components of the ecosystem, these arrangements reference their guides to life including birthing, teething, maturation, courtship, parenting, absentee parenting as many seeds or Individual Species go to propagate, unite family units with sibling care like North American Scrub jay families being extremely efficient multi-generational survivors!

[@stanvanr7149]

"I'm not one of these types of people who likes to complain, I like to do things about it." Yeah, well, most of us didn't just happen to inherit a giant estate mate. Quite easy to do something when you have that much land thrown into your lap.

[@gallowglass2630]

How do you know he inherited it ,most anglo irish lords don't speak with american accents.Even if he did it would be a fraction of what the family once owned and in a republic which is quite hostile to nobility and landlords due to the history quite rightly ,however thats not his fault and the estate is probably more of a headache than anything.

[@danielmurray3676]

A typical “it’s easy for you” attitude. There are plenty of people in his position doing nothing. I think it’s brilliant.

[@marky3131]

It’s too bad you have chosen to be negative. He has it and is doing something good with it. Simple of that. Even an apartment dweller can plant a few pots of native plants or volunteer at a local garden.

[@heartstonesanctuary]

🖤💚🖤

[@cherilynnfisher5658]

Rewilding for the future. . . A FUTURE! ---Arkists

[@RussTillling]

Interesting no large herbivores (beavers, cattle, horses & pigs)

[@ronward3949]

Add Natural History Naturalist envisioned with lore, Native Species of known Native and Endemic capacities adding components ins balance as far as Identifying what Native Species you do have. Releves are plant associated Species lists along with analysis of ecological components of that Organism. Whether a Quercus species already past being potentially grazed upon as lower limbs are well off the ground. Acorn mast production is a driver of your wildlife, Insect life, improves stock feed from chickens to pigs, yet naturally the Native Birds Wildlife, Insect, and other assets of riparian or freshwater lakes, springs, or creeks to fortify the basic ingredient for almost all of it, freshwater. Pond insect life require woody debris, downed logs, submerged logs or cover, all adding to your diversity composition of Species now utilizing your Sanctuary through the cycles of the season, that put together the reasons you attitude is appropriately Wild as migrating Species of traditional migratory patterns find way to your Sanctuary of Nature.

[@josemartinezgonzalez2450]

👍➡️

[@oppamaclare]

What I don't understand as a farmer is, how can you feed the world with this approach? Britian for example is only 48% self-sufficient in food production, yet there is a big push to take more land out of food production. Crazy, in my view. Have you measured the food produced on this 750 acres of prime agricultural land?

[@jaeldavison9916]

As far as I'm aware, the 750 acres isn't the complete estate. There are a couple of hundred acres that are farmed

[@oscarosullivan4513]

His objection to the Navan rail line shows out of touch with the average Irish person he is.