Scotland has a RAINFOREST?!

[@chrisrynn1]

Did you see what happened to Yellowstone Park just a matter of months after they released wolves to control the deer? Imagine how Scotland would change if we reintroduced even just lynx! I'd prefer wolves to sheep farms, mind. Regarding land reform, The Poor Had No Lawyers (by Andy Wightman) is a great book on the subject. Love the video, bytheway! Agree with aw o' that. Subscribed.

[@cridhe_]

Aye, it worked wonders in Yellowstone and I don’t see how it couldn’t have similar results here. Thank you so much for the kind comments!

[@fotorabia]

@@cridhe_ Im in the Ardnamurchan ancient oak forest..we have a hectare with a modest house...im up with lynx...but wolves always throw up spooky superstition and opposition..and i voted for Andy Wightman in the Lochaber seat..he didnt get in..but i like him..

[@roilevi7381]

You mast Brian back wolves bear to whan the elks no them ther day change the way dm move .

[@Hy-Brasil]

@Hugh Jarse or the useless eaters (klaus schwabs favorite term for the average citizen)

[@Hobbit_libertaire]

@@cridhe_ Yellowstone is a huge national park without any human intervention, in a fragmented, degraded landscape as what we have in Europe contryside with villages, fields and cattle everywhere, great predators are far less efficient to regulate large herbivores, reintroducing wolves in Great Britain will not reduce the deer population. In France we got to get the wolf back for 30 years in the Alps, and wolves' prey populations have not decreased, they even keep increasing. Because the human presence keep them away from doing their job properly. So either we withdraw humans from very large areas to let them function totally naturally, or we help the great predators to do their job, because they can't do it alone while we grow crops and make herds pasture everywhere. We can't be somewhere and let the wolf or any great predator assuring alone all the herbivore population regulation needed.

[@sydbarret1973]

This is very well made and thought provoking…… the Scottish government should retake this land from the ruling class and give it back to the world

[@cridhe_]

Thank you!

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

To aristocrats money is their everything and sod anything else, we the people can reclaim all that land from them by force if necessary....The people have the power by sheer weight of numbers.

[@MsSarinakg]

This is my 2nd video on the topic of Scotland's rainforests this morning - half an hour ago I had no idea there was such a thing. Thank you for this thought provoking and informative video. I will endeavour to let others know about this gem of a place in Scotland - you never know it may help a little bit - especially if more people hear and know more about it. Thank you again,

[@01karmacop]

Thanks for raising awareness about our betifiul country.Lets love Scotland

[@BigJFindAWay]

There are temperate rain forests in the northwest USA and Canada all the way up to Alaska, in the Appalachian's of the eastern USA, in southern Chile, Scotland, Ireland, France, northwest Spain, northern Iran, southeast China, Japan, Korea, South Africa, the whole east of Australia and New Zealand.

[@lyndawilliams8434]

As a Welsh person I can relate to the loss of rainforest. The damn sheep have desertified my country. All it takes is a fence to keep the sheep out and the trees come back. Sadly the forestry commission know this and use it in their monoculture death plantations, so thickly planted with one species that nothing else lives there. Not even fungi. We need to take our lands back from those who just think of land as a commodity

[@eamondingam7810]

Good on you man. When the English came to my country it was 90% rain forest, after 700 yrs it was all gone. The English did so much bad in my country but in my view the worst thing they did was destroy our forest. I'm sorry but that I will never forgive. If you haven't guessed already my country is Eire....

[@connoroleary591]

Nobody calls Ireland Eire! There is no such word. It's Éire actually, it's a name only idiotic Brits and Americans use. Irish people always say "Ireland". The English, along with the Welsh and the Scottish came to our country in hundreds of thousands, but my dear, they never left. They are still there, so take your casual racism to Killiney, Dalkey, and the other salubrious suburbs and cities of "Eire". The native Americans take their issues with the white people who settled their lands, not the countries in Europe and Asia. I suggest you do the same. During the Famine in 1849, millions of you turned out in Ireland to welcome Queen Victoria, while my people died in their droves. As there are millions of destitute Irish people who were elbowed out of their lands to Britain, i suggest you remember that, when you show your casual racism to the "English". You are carrying on your war of oppression against the Irish you SO despicabley treated and pushed out in poverty and pain to Britain.

[@paulosrcs185]

I have English Irish and Scottish blood running through my veins not all English want to destroy nature 🙏

[@nextbest]

Who can afford to eat lamb anym it's so expensive.So why so many sheep?

[@paulosrcs185]

I no it don't make sense

[@robert3987]

New Zealand has great rainforest on the South Island.

[@amandaverma7283]

Thank you so very much for this quality content. So well thought out and executed. It is desperately needed in todays social media climate.... Love this.

[@zehrajafri9252]

Greed is alway's the culprit.

[@colingreig3460]

It's time for our land to be taken back, rewilded and kick start the regrowth of our ancient forest.

[@RealFalkirkfan]

Shared this video on my Facebook page. It certainly hits home how important it is to preserve our unique habitats.

[@cridhe_]

Thank you so much!

[@marcusrobertson8490]

Banging video ma man

[@cridhe_]

Cheers brother

[@QueerSamT]

Love this video! Visiting the Scottish rainforest for the first time in April and am rewatching your videos in preparation.

[@MrChristianDT]

My family were apparently descended from McKeehan/ McCain/ McCain line. I feel terrible about this.

[@barbarossa5700]

"According to the Wightman research, just 432 individuals owned 50 per cent of Scotland’s privately held land." Most farm land in the UK is in the possession by only a select few people and rented out to farmers, they push the rent up for farming thus them needing subsidies, so other words those subsidies are subsidising billionaires and not the farmers. Tax payers money going to the wealthiest of land beneficiaries! The 'Person'(beneficiary) does not own the land, they merely possess it, all land ownerships are placed within a trust(for the nation as a whole) and leased a specific 'Person' however the term or until the state itself dishonours it by expropriation, you are only guaranteed land for as long as the current state permits it or until an opposing state takes it. It's all entrusted legally(a fictitious battle), by that standard no one has a lawful right to but merely a legal writ of the governing state/country. Land cannot be owned but merely possessed, possession is 9/10ths of their law, the 1/10th is the contract signed, which goes to the intermediary, the legal enforcers, the guarantors.

[@carlvanderlinden7324]

Why background music, it's verry distructing to follow the comment

[@bannedinchina]

This is fucking brilliant

[@cridhe_]

Cheers pal

[@bannedinchina]

@@cridhe_ listening to something so well written and in a voice that sounds like mine is refreshing. Awesome job

[@cridhe_]

@@bannedinchina Thank you so much mate, really means a lot

[@timbarry8734]

Thanks

[@thedudeofthenorth]

Have you guys tried hunting the deer and not just a couple rich people like getting some regular people into it?

[@johnmcarthur2983]

Thanks, for the video man it was great. I grew up in Argyll and Bute, I remember the forests were all dead plantation forests with zero light getting to the forest floor and all one species of tree.

[@jari2018]

Deer is the main staple for Lynxes so its would do fine in Scotland buti guess money talks and dont want to loose thier lazy life meaning they dont care if there are alternative ways to look after a sheep in the wild just as swedish farmers dont want to loose their solitary way of farming meaning a a farmer and his family against the wolves when having sheep , stubbornly refusing to discover or addapt in other way than go into the forrest an shot the wolves -not all but some and I guess they see thier inbreads way as highly succesful

[@herbypumpkin1256]

I query some of the Politics, but Flora and Fauna wise you are sport on. Best wishes in your efforts.

[@roilevi7381]

I hope 🤞 Scotland bring back wolves bear and linxs.

[@martijn2246]

Your thick Scottish accent made it so much better.

[@MrBigbadbob09]

braw

[@rogersmith8339]

Lots of rain and lots of sweats - Must be a rain forest?

[@shrty8217]

beautiful video , cheers bud x

[@captainwow8583]

Damn, I learned a lot in this video, nice one

[@rossegan3866]

Fuckin class video mate 10/10

[@cridhe_]

Thank you mate

[@SusanA1056]

Sort of like what happened in Canada when "purple strife" was introduced to our wet lands. Well thought out video.

[@bigdavefayscotlandrhodesyb6729]

Great vid 👍

[@thomasmoore5949]

How can people support your work tangibly? I’m going now to look for you on fb.

[@cridhe_]

You can support my work personally at: www.buymeacoffee.com/cridhe You can support the preservation of the Scottish Rainforest at: savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/

[@ragnarok953]

cool video

[@freeindeed13]

It's nice to see that Renton has kicked the habit and moved into ecology

[@cridhe_]

Cheers pal

[@louislamonte334]

Excellent video!! Good heavens, what a precious, unique and irreplaceable resource are Scotland's rainforest! Thank you for caring! I look forward to when Scotland is completely re-wilded!!

[@cridhe_]

Thank you!

[@connoroleary591]

Yes, and so has Ireland, Wales and England. Forests can make their own micro climate. We are doing good work in restoring ancient forests and planting new forests that are composed of native species and not just mono cultures of ranks of Norway Spruce.

[@nk53nxg]

Excellent video, clearly you are pationate about restoring some of Scotlands wild ecosystems. I lived in Aberdeenshire for years close to the Cairngorms National Park, Cairngorms Connect is a radical program going on now. However knowing the different socioeconomic groups within the park and the different associations they represent I can tell you ecologists and rewilders are up against a hard to change countryside public. Game keepers, farmers and many country set types are dead against the changes required and would rather live in a Victorianesque world where the hills are bare heather and every raptor is poisoned for the grouse shoot. The SGA and NFU are examples of organisations with a lot of power and money backing them that rewilders are up against. I am all for what you talked about, and you put it across well. Some foreign land owners are trying to rewild like Hans Polvsen the Danish Billionaire who owns Glenfeshie estates, however public ownership becomes an issue here again. Also be careful what you wish for with public ownership, the land may get even more damaged as it depends on the type that take control in the name of the public like crofters unions etc. The uplands of Scotland cannot support any kind if farming, the nutrients are too poor and the ecosysytem too fragile, yet we would proabably still allow community buy outs to stock the hills with sheep again??

[@nicoletait2218]

Love this video!

[@michaeleager4635]

I am inspired by the narrator to increase the syllabic diversity in the word " wearallld/ world"

[@loafbreed7246]

oh this is a brilliant find. I'm just about to embark on an earth sciences/environmental engineering degree and I've been trying (to varying degrees of success) to introduce more biodiversity in my local area in glasgow. idk if you're still about given the last videos' 5 months back but I'm in a couple of green earth chats and would love to doss with you while im doing my studies

[@cridhe_]

Thank you so much for your kind comment! I am still about, the format of my latest video is more of a documentary than typical KZbin video, so it's taking a bit longer to produce. Amazing that you're introducing more biodiversity to Glasgow. Would love to discuss green issues with you. Cheers and speak to you soon!

[@natalieminnis]

I am very enthusiastic about native forests, and was really enjoying this video initially, but after a while it started to sound like a class war polemic. I'm no fan of the "aristocracy" and I agree that the land distribution in Scotland is very inequitable, but it's not just the "aristocracy" who own the land. Also, it's the large landowners who are culling and shooting the deer, and the smaller farmers who are concerned that wolves and lynx would kill their sheep. Introducing and re-introducing species can have unforseen consequences. I agree that the high numbers of deer and sheep are devastating to native forest growth, but there are many other ways to approach and manage this issue.

[@mcdevitthh]

when?

[@cridhe_]

Hi Natalie, thanks for your comment! Glad to hear you aren't particularly a fan of the aristocracy, and that you agree that the land distribution in Scotland is very inequitable. You are right, it's not just the aristocracy who own the land. I did mention in the video that there were land owners in Scotland who are keen to help the local environment any way they can, but the point I was trying to make was that it shouldn't really be left down to landowners to decide if Scotland's rainforest is going to be saved or not. The current model of landownership has what has gotten us into the mess we are in the first place, and whilst there may be landowners who don't like it and are trying to help, really it's the system of landownership in general that is the problem.

[@natalieminnis]

@@cridhe_ There are reforestation projects in areas like Galloway, Torridon and the Cairngorms, which are protected from sheep and deer. I personally think that's the best way forward.

[@alperenbaser7952]

Scotland had rainforest

[@tomhill4738]

Great video. Subscribed.

[@cridhe_]

Cheers man!

[@jeancullen2474]

Love this. An emotive stance is exactly what this issue needs. Not everyone will agree with it but its the truth all the same. I'm almost finished writing a dissertation on the effects the Highland Clearances had on Scotland's ancient rainforests. Its consumed me for the past 6 months but I've learned so much about Scotland's past. Donald MacLeod's "Gloomy Memories" is a mind blower if anyone doubts the brutality of the Clearances! (his original typed letters are available as a PDF online)

[@cridhe_]

Would love to read this.

[@jeancullen2474]

@@cridhe_ or if you meant MacLeod's letters then I recommend them even more!

[@cridhe_]

I meant your dissertation, but I'll check out the letters!

[@juliogutierrez5256]

"Private monopoly"? Its not a monopoly if the different owners are not in conspiracy with each other. And whats the alternative? State owned monopoly? If you think private owners dont care about the enviroment wait till you find out how little the goverment cares about Green politics when land provides them money, socialists and tories alike

[@cridhe_]

The only alternative isn't state owned monopoly, it should be community owned.

[@philmackenzie2072]

Not watching any more of this politicised slaver.

[@bigdavefayscotlandrhodesyb6729]

You should be first minster mate Look up what's happening now chopping trees left right and centre for new clean energy seriously 💔

[@paladintrueknight]

So buy land. That's called conservation. But when you start talking that socialism nonsense, you lose me.

[@YouWillNeverFindMeSucker]

High quality video! This quality in other areas than Scotland alone, I bet you would rake in a lot of followers.