I’m so happy to know this project has been undertaken. I recently did a bike tour through Scotland and was shocked how little natural habitat was intact, I had no idea that Britain in general was the most devastated of environments in the world with only 50% of natural habit left. I’m actually surprised there is 50% left, it seemed less.

we need more of this world wide!

Love love knowing about this wonderful initiative…..thank you all you lovely women taking care of our Grand Mother……I’m moved to tears. 💕💕💕💕💕🙏

Absolutely wonderful and sooo... proud of this community!

Scotland is beautiful

It`s amazing what people and communities can do for themselves. Governments don`t solve problems - they make them. This story is truly inspiring.

This has made me so happy I'm shock crying

This is an excellent video, really good news and very well presented, thank you. I'll forward the link to Science teaching colleagues at the school I work at. This shows why we need massive expansion of community land ownership in Scotland.

Superb effort and may it all flow seamlessly, creatively, and successfully in every way!

Magnifique ! Quelle belle initiative 🥰 enfin des gens qui me donne espoir en l’humanité

Well done, i think it will be a great nature reserv with time.

Brilliant work well well done to you all it’s truly inspiring, thanks so much fellow souls your helping the entire world 🙌🏼

We can all do our little parts to make this earth as beautiful as it deserves. Nature restores by default, just needs some love and redirection. I made a bunch of little pools that are fed by a vernal pond, which was once just a steep spillway, its nice to see frogs just living their lives like they have for millions of years in them.

Rewinding Scotland ❤❤

Great documentary!!! I loved that this project is headed by so many GREAT WOMEN!!! AWESOME!!!

Thanks for posting this. Inspirational.

An amazing project. Hopefully, there'll be future updates.

Fantastic, i love what is being done xx

Thanks for posting

It feels good to hear about this.

Wet desert, depleted by human interferences under the influence of evil. Against Nature. Against life. We are now ready to show what we can do as Nature, as stewards, as humble partners with the majestic potential of Nature to be regenerative, abundant and beautiful; where do we start; align with ethics and principles of Permaculture; care of the earth, care of the people and sharing the surplus that comes from those first 2! Love, Aloha, Claire

An entire watershed under community ownership is legendary.

How exciting. Keep buying those lands ladies! I’m so pleased to see Scotland going back to what it was. A beauty that was raped by a greedy few…in many ways

Absolutely fabulous!!!

Love this!!! 👏🏽 👏🏽👏🏽

Another good interview Emma. 👍

very well done

Quel beau projet! Félicitations et salutations cordiales depuis le nord du 🇨🇦 Canada.

Please introduce beavers. They will passively engineer this habitate, helping those bogs grow. It is imperative. They are a keystone species that will transform this place. Beavers are the future. Maybe plant lots of willow cuttings and maple and birch saplings a couple years prior along the river, (types beavers eat.) Willow is simple to cut off pieace (get lots of genetic diversity) and they root well just shoved in the ground. They will feed the beavers and shade the water, keeping it cool and protected. Also, to jumpstart things, place large, woody debris in the stream, maybe some whole trees and root wads, or maybe "beaver dam analogs". They will passively, free labour lol, dam up those man-made channels too. The benefits are endless. It is far more complex than just worrying about them cutting down trees. Those species wouldn't be growing in the lower lands anyways, the ones that die, if they beaver hasn't been eradicated. The ones that aggressively reprout from the stump, year after year, like a crop, those evolved to live with the beaver. And when areas are flooded and some trees die, it transforms into a birds and insect nursery, etc. Standing deadwood is very important. The riparian area will expand, alleviating flooding, store water for droughts, recharge the groundwater for nearby pumping, even creating a fire break and safe refuge for animals in times of forest fire. The water will spread out, absorb, and be gentle during a flood, and store for dry times. River complexity and length with increase, and the erosive velocity will decrease. They will catch sediments and heavy metals, and they will use up nutrients and filter water. They are the key to allowing so many other species thrive. You guys need to bring in beavers. And yes, there are ways to protect specifc trees with either a mixture of sand paint on the tree or just cage wire. Also, if they flood a roadway, there is methods to deal with that, that regulates the water level with a culver. Anyways, all the ♡

I bet there were thousands of hectares of forest there 300 years or more ago.

very good job !

Beautiful countryside

Good for you!

Resourceful location with a few nice biomes. ⚔️

Great work

Return the land to a natural state. Totally correct that we are trying to save the human race not the earth. Mother Earth will remain long after we are gone.

Leshgoo Langholm

I'm hoping the National government in London or the Scottish governments contributed to the incredible work of this group.

finally a place in scotland i wan to live

Inspirational!

Keep going... I'm a chick forest technician from Montreal, I've been to Scotland 3 times, yuck are the hills, nature cannot live pocketed, it's not money!

Almost the whole of Great Britain used to be covered by a massive forest of broad leaved trees, mainly elm and oak. The destruction began 5000 years ago, with the arrival of the neolithic peoples and this destruction was fast tracked 2500 years ago, with the arrival of the Celts who cleared the forests for cultivation and grazing.

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Empowered women make a reverse change for the better. I approve and thanks!

Regenerative farming with with AMP grazing is so important. Ruminant animals can heal the land and soil when managed regeneratively.

This is a great story. I presume that the revegetation will be with Scottish pine. I would encourage you to look into acquiring seeds for Tasmanian Hardwood species that could form the basis of a healthy mixed forest. Such trees as Tasmanian Myrtle, Blackwood, Black-heart Sassafras, Pencil pine, Huon pine and many others would make for a fascinating mix. When these trees come down they could be harvested for crafts as their timber is spectacularly beautiful. Just have a think.

Wild cows man.

Exciting! And what animals are y’all looking to introduce and attract?

If they were half way smart they would plant small sections of trees to be harvested and use the monies to continue the work. Make it financially sustainable so as not to depend on handouts or peoples good will.

It's a shame that just over the hill to the South, our Nationally Managed, forests, are the subject of such gross industrialisation and profiteering. In someways the polar opposite, of the good work being implemented here, as habitats and persecution of existing flora and fauna are decimated, for commercial gain. .

Jenny Barlow is such a beautiful Scottish ginger.

So much pride from New Zealand when we achieved similar for our ancestral patch in Assynt 🫶🏼

Bring in beavers. They have a huge impact on biodiversity.

Community ownership! See why all people should own all things?? Then all people will feel like it’s their own responsibility to clean up and heal the earth! It’s like the way people who don’t own their own house or apartment, they don’t have a reason to take care of something unless they own it. Acts 2:44 is such pure Truth! All people should own all things for many reasons,rather than just a few rich people who own everything! Capitalists couldn’t be more wrong about anything and everything! We were all forced to need money, and work for wages over the millennia (WCRTW page 252) . And USA has been violently forcing all nations into this wage system by starting over 50-80 wars, killing millions. See ROGUE STATE by Wm Blum and many others at THIRD WORLD TRAVELER.

The presenter sounds like a kiwi? Great story

I hope they plan to bring back beavers?

This is great for Ontario as the PC changes conservatory laws by shifting the powers under their ministry.

Do you know the difference of the temp above 1 acre of solar panels vs 1 acre of trees or grass?

You will have to control the deer to encourage possible sapling growth. Also I would be interested to see how the finances stack up. A lot of investment is going into this. Not sure we are in a climate crisis still. Maybe something to do with a not unusual very long term earthly cycle? Trees for example need co2 to grow. Suggest people look at the proportion of co2 present in the atmosphere now.

What point billions, trillions in bank accounts. Global ecosystems those do the restoring need this money now.

Nice clip, hope they do well. It’s really sad that Scotland has gone WOKE though.

Add beavers, then lynxes, then wolves; they all belong.

Why wouldn't Scots want some climate warming? I'm shivering just watching this video

The only real solution is tax bills that reward/require one worker per household. When husbands and wifes both work it creates twice the carbon. Support tax bills that wave 100% income tax, up to 100K, if one spouse stays home . . .. ... ..... ........

Pathetic isn’t that people can’t just plant trees anymore. They need MILLIONS

"The reason the community bought this and was to ..." - that should be "the reason the community bought this land with other people's money was to ..."

so the jung girl that is a manager at Woodland Trust, dont know how many trees they will plant, if some one tell me that this is a manager at Woodland Trust then i m the Pope. How is this even possible?

Plant more food forests in the village

Are there no Scots who could do these jobs? Do we have to rely on economic migrants from SOB?

Based

A purchase built purely on hope. Those who bought it were blinded almost entirely on the anti hunting of the Duke who owned it last. Just the fact they are trying to change a landscape thats taken 1000s of years to create. So it was in existence in that state almost well before mans influence. But people have to remember. We fought 2 world wars the last less than 100 years ago. The country needed feeding. No landowner thought that it would be great to spend their own money on draining such vast landscapes. It was by government incentives to graze livestock on areas where we couldn't grow crops, that way more land was brought into arable use to grow the wheat oats etc. This is why we lost our hedgerows also as we wanted bigger fields for bigger machinery to harvest quicker and more efficiently. Now for the last decade or so way before this purchase drains where being blocked as we didn't need to be graze so much on the landscape. Anyone thinking it was for grouse shooting are wrong. Grouse were there living within the landscape well before the firearm came into existence. Sad thing is that some of that vital nature that they are hoping to encourage such as the supposed persecuted Hen Harrier has depleted in such a short time. Fledging rates of successive breeding pairs has dropped. The introduction of eagles being an influence on this probably as footage filmed last year shows a nest cam footage of a Golden Eagle in one of the Hen Harrier nests as the parents try to fight off the intruder. If there wasn't anything to fight for, then the Hen Harriers wouldn't put themselves into that kind of danger. I can envision like others do, a major wildfire occurring on this landscape due to the lack of management. They again hope that the likes of the moss being wet doesn't burn, but as we have seen in other wild fires, it does burn hence why we have seen some destructive wildfires on other nature reserves such as the 100 sq miles of RSPB landscape in the Highlands of Scotland the other year.

What about all those miles of stone walls. ? Perhaps tear them down and form them into mounds for reptiles and rodents to live in.

13:56 ginger chick looks like emma stone

please naturalize native and foreign fruit trees so poor city kids who live in tiny apartments can pick fruit directly from trees for the 1st time in their lives. there's no reason that wild places can't be useful for people and animals. here's a more or less relevant reference... "Native and non-native species for dryland afforestation: bridging ecosystem integrity and livelihood support"

This is horrible The way you wrote it.

😂😂CGTN!! china reclaiming sea and destroying coral reef by building artificial islands and their network is talking about creating little forest ? Hypocrisy at its finest 😂

Just wait until a wealthy American narcissist wants a new golf course and it will be gone!

Would @MossyEarth be able to help with these kinds of projects? =)