REWILDING IRELAND: These 3 Animals MUST be Reintroduced

In this video, we take a look at rewilding in Ireland. Some of the rewilding projects currently happening in Ireland and also some species that could be reintroduced to rewild our country.
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[@HenryLanepilkington]

lynx is the first and probably least controversial step and i really want them to get reintroduced

[@bardroyal7893]

Me too 100%

[@alanoriordan4088]

It'll be hard to convince people of reintroducing those animals but it would be class

[@alanoriordan4088]

The reintroducing would be class

[@Eco-Nerd]

Yeah, there's a lot of heated arguments around it! At least it's being discussed though!

[@b23456]

wow

[@frenchpotato2852]

I think that part of the issue is that people are not living with the landscape, we see nature as a tool, not Mother Nature, when people live off the land and not merely on it we are an ecosystem engineer.

[@Eco-Nerd]

Yep, we're the biggest ecosystem engineers in the world! Thanks for watching!

[@alessandromilitano8913]

​@@Eco-Nerdand as engineers we could take example from countries that have already found a way to coexist with nature. In South Africa, nature thrives because it is seen as an opportunity. Animals attract tourists, and there ecological tourism brings 71% of the country's earnings and with elephant-proof fences the problem of coexistence is not so great, thanks to the fact that the ecosystems are complete. I want to believe in the possibility of having some Game Reserves in our home and being able to appreciate the nature behind my house, as a citizen of South Africa can do an hour's drive from his home!

[@Eco-Nerd]

That would be amazing! Every country in the world could have an area as wild as the Serengeti!

[@alessandromilitano8913]

​​@@Eco-Nerd and regarding the video "big cats in Europe" technically there are examples of large African cats that develop thick fur in captivity. The Asiatic lion in European zoos develops a majestic mane and its cubs thick fur. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGGVgoWnbdeSeNUsi=SlEvkJF1MhnjIMkD kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYPIf6ONl6x9kNEsi=fUGSJabBBZnqzP56

[@Eco-Nerd]

Cool, thanks for the video links! Yeah, lions do okay in the cold but a Russian zoo tried keeping them outside full time and the young cubs weren't able to survive and that's with the adult lions being fed by humans. Who knows though, they might do well in Europe if they were given time to adapt!

[@mikemyers7721]

The wolf and lynx is a must for any balanced eco system to work. Farmers and land owners in Europe know how to work around these predators. talk to them and see what they do.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@mikemyers7721 yeah definitely, they're vital pieces in European ecosystems!

[@nicholasgrubb151]

The most beneficial species of all that we desperately need is the Beaver. We have approximately 30,000 kms of now shaded out streams and small rivers where our trout and salmon used to spawn, kept open until the mid fifties by the rabbit and human cutting for firing. Of course they were here before, what we now call the island of Ireland, being contigous with the rest of the so called British Isles, Doggerland and across. Anyone interested in ponticum issue, please contact me.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@nicholasgrubb151 Beavers would be amazing for Ireland!

[@StoicSpeaks]

I love this video brother. I am buying acreage in cork soon, saving for the mortgage currently, I plan on planting native trees and buying boars and red deer from the UK (Cannot find sources locally) once my trees have matured to the point where the animals wont ruin them. Ther boars are great rotyavotors for preparing the ground for tree regeneration

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@StoicSpeaks wow, amazing, I envy you! There is a farmer in Ireland who specifically farms Red Deer, Wild Boar and goats, I'll drop a link visitballyhoura.com/explore/deer-boar-farm

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

Go you!

[@hans-martinadorf3834]

What an inspiring video. Could one join and assist you when you are filming your next one?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@hans-martinadorf3834 Hi Hans, thank you so much! I don't actually film anything, I just find images, video footage and information about the topic online and then put it all together on my laptop. If you ever film any cool wildlife stuff I'd be very glad of the footage and delighted to give you credit if I use it in a video 😊

[@bryanfarrell2029]

Love this video and love the message. I wonder if there's any organisation, private or public, actually working towards any of these species reintroductions in Ireland?? PS Always great to know that no matter how evil I think Oliver Cromwell was, there's always more deep dark sh!t to find out about him 🤯

[@Eco-Nerd]

Thanks Bryan! There are definitely people advocating for them but no projects are planned or even in the pipeline at the moment but here's hoping! Yep, he's about as bad as they get 😂

[@lyrebird9749]

Why not get involved with Rewilding Europe and/or Mossy Earth and suggest a project for Ireland?

[@dawidm08277]

Thank you for another amazing episode But when we start?

[@Eco-Nerd]

Thank you Dawid!! When do we start rewilding? I would love to see the process start straight away! I really hope I get to see these things happen in my life time 🙏 🙏

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

where's the brown bear ? a video on every species that disapeared in the holocene in ireland and uk would be nice

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@deinsilverdrac8695 thanks for watching the video! The Brown Bear isn't as easy to reintroduce as sadly they do have more issues with humans so I wouldn't put it as a priority for reintroduction at the moment but I would love to see it some day! Good idea, I'll put in on my list!

[@deinsilverdrac8695]

@@Eco-Nerd i would disagree on that, they're probably even more easy to reintroduce than wolves. 1. far less dammage on sheeps and cattle 2. culturally important, maybe more than wolves, in celtic and gaelic culture iconography etc. 3. they're less carnivorous/predtaory, so don't impact farmers or hunters that much. 4. better cultural and mediatic perception, not as demonized and seen as more "friendly" despite being the only predator that can and will (rarely) attack human compared to lynx, wolves or wolverine. look at the situation scandinavia, eastern Europe or even France, they accept bear far more than wolves. They tolerate bear but are very hostile toward wolves. what's surprising is what kind of brown bear should be used for reintroduction in ireland. Roman says that irish bear were very large and ferocious, genetic analysis show they were a distinct lineage from modern two clade of bear in Europe, and had lot of polar bear mtdna. Sitka/Stickeen bear or even Kodiak bear seem to be the best proxy in genetics. But using scandinavian bear would be the most practical and second best choice.

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

Garden centers in Ireland still sell rhododendron & laurel. Legislation needs to be passed to stop this.

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

Any chance anyone watching this would like to be paid (or knows someone who would) to herd their pigs through large areas of bracken as part of a habitat restoration project?

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

The beaver was 'accidentally' released in the UK. When they had visibly restored the landscape, beavers were 'discovered' & beaver reintroduction was legalised. Can someone please release lynx in deer areas. Our government moves way too slowly, constantly pandering to nimbys. I don't have the resources myself.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@user-st3mr9ov2b yeah beavers and wild boar were accidentally released in UK! Two accidental keystone species

[@user-st3mr9ov2b]

@@Eco-Nerd ah, didn't know about the boar. Don't know if they'd keep a low profile. We'd never see the Lynx, & the Beavers would be tricky to spot also.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@user-st3mr9ov2b yeah very true! They're definitely a bit less discreet!

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

Did lynx live in Ireland?

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@jonathanroberts-bj7yl yep it explains it in the video 😊

[@jonathanroberts-bj7yl]

@@Eco-Nerd Lions and Saber tooth cats didn’t of course.

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@jonathanroberts-bj7yl that's correct!

[@janbastein7355]

BS!

[@Eco-Nerd]

@@janbastein7355 thanks for watching Jan! Which part is BS??

[@marumiyuhime]

wow what a no word comment and zero understanding of ecology

[@janbastein7355]

@@marumiyuhime reintroducing predators, big predators into completely overpopulated countries doesn’t work out. Look at the wolf Desaster for example in Germany and France.

[@marumiyuhime]

@@janbastein7355 well invasive apes are the problem humans have no right to the whole of the earth

[@marumiyuhime]

@@janbastein7355 Stopxinvasivexapes