This is such a great video, and so incredibly relevant for those of us making food forests on our land. A lot of people just want to plant a few trees, but they miss this aspect of creating habitat for animals. Then taking it to the next level is this video and we start looking at not only habitat but allowing them to transition through our lands safely. If it's okay, I think I'd like to make a video on this topic, and heavily reference back to you and this video here. I think a lot of my audience can really benefit from watching your work - as I know I personally have. Would I have your permission to take a small clip of this video to integrate into mine, and tell people to come watch your stuff? All the best Kristina!

Thank you so much for these great information I love to be in the middle of nature and help to our planet earth 🌺 Appreciate you and happy new year 🎊🎆🎈

Got to learn so much, thanks for the video and happy new year 🎊

Hey! ^-^ haven't seen your videos in a while. Glad to be back

This is super interesting! I set up fine netting all around my garden (which admittedly isn't much bigger than 10m2) in order to let my cat out for periods of time without her impacting the local wildlife too much. But I haven't seen a hedgehog in my garden since! Which I'm sad about because they eat the slugs that eat my spinach, and also because my garden is the most 'non manicured' spot around the appartment building (cheap small scale composting = leaf piles galore, plus I don't care about things looking neat), and so used to be favored by the hedgehogs a lot. Going to have to think about this more!

Lights and bad cover definitely keep me out of people's yards so I can confirm this information

Great points to keep in mind. This is my second winter with thinning out my 4 acres of dense trees. Many of the trees are now brush piles and the winter birds enjoy it. My main purpose is to get more light onto the ground and get some green growing - to much decaying leaves carpeting the ground. Out of necessity, I've had to create trails to walk the woods. Many of the local animals use it (animal tracks). I found a turtle using the main trail, last spring, working its way up towards my house. Lucky him because he was going up hill with a 20 meter elevation change from where I first saw it. It was looking for something green to eat because about three days later I saw it finally made it to the top.

Great video, thank you! I especially liked your starting remarks about observing which animals are already in the garden. In addition to that, probably also observe what species are in the area? I recently noticed a bird species in a Garden three houses up the road and around the corner. Never seen them in mine. Now I'm trying to figure out, how to attract them to my plot, naturally 🙃 i read a few books on the "rewild your garden / gardening for Wildlife" Topic, but the "observation first" was not mentioned in any of them. I plonk myself in the garden often to watch the insects visiting my flowers and when ever I see "a new one" (I have no clue about their name, but I know, if I have seen them before or not) I try to find out who they are and what they like and then I plant more of that. Or even, when I notice that somebody eats up a certain sort of plant (last summer some "pest" devoured my yellow loosstrife - could have been a moth or maybe a wasp) - that gets planted more of, because, clearly somebody is hungry :D So, also more cabbages next year, I've never seen so many cabbage white butterflies, and I can't hate them, even though they ate all my brassicas, when they were their former catapillar selves 🤣🤣🤣

Really an another great video by you , seriously your videos help me a lot there are some videos from your career advice series that I have seen 2-3 times . They are really very helpful for me ...............and i noticed your hair has grown longer 😅 .......................love your videos...love from India❤️ and happy new year 🥰

I would love to see you do individual analyses for different animals you are trying to create habitat for in your yard. For example, I would love to have habitat for opossums on my property. I have seen their tracks in the winter. My sister has trouble with opossums living in her shed. How would you create habitat to encourage them to not live in a shed, but still be around?

Such good points! Definitely going to see what type of animals are around my area and in my yard and see how I can help them out 😊

Thanks for all the advice Happy New year 🎉🥳🥳

Nice to see you again ...Happy new yaer....with your Lot of research about nature...

Interesting video

I love your discussion about on how to improve wildlife movement in urban settings, and trying to building bridges and love for wild animals can habit in our backyards and urban areas around our beautiful planet. Happy New Year and thank you very much for discussing about the environment of wildlife and it's surroundings. 🌎🌏🌍🌐♥♥🌈❤‍🩹❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💯👏👏🤘🤘✊✊

This is such an interesting vedio. I loved it 🥰 thanks for sharing !

Awesome video! Learned alot more common sense stuff about animals! Yay! To keep them out of the garden just use chicken wire and bug spray!😁😉

How can I attract snakes and bats onto my property? In almost 2 years, the only animals I’ve seen in my yard are cats and dogs, birds, and bugs like grasshoppers, preying mantis, June bugs and their grubs, black widows, earwigs, and centipedes. I saw one snake last year a block away.

Would you please reply me, I wanted to ask you about environmental management. Is it a good course ? Which country is good for it ?

What's your opinion on guerilla gardening? And tree planting

how do you think is the best way to help birds not get caught by cats in my backyard? My yard is generally flat and clear but they're still getting caught

Do you still work in the field

I dont have a backyard. Lol.

Hii . Your all videos are good, inspiring. Iam a zoologist from India, can u share your email id?