Hi Matt great to see part 2 Amazing creatures and how fertile the sea is with their food supply Please don’t leave it so long before your next posting Good luck
And yous came and did the same thing to my country😭 I’m from NZ and before Pākehā (British settlers) came with hungry eyes and guns and axes the land was wild from the mountains to the ocean and we had introduced 3 mammal species, polynesian rat, Polynesian dog, and ourselves, who did some harm, moa apparently for example, but when the Europeans introduced scores of predators and pest plants and diseases to the almost all the islands we were flabbergasted at the decline in our taonga species who we depended on for countless uses
👍 Looking forward to part 2 Had the pleasure of a week in Kerry and observing a Dolphin from a cliff top also watching from our accommodation Gannets diving for food marvellous. Thanks Matt
Thanks Neal, still ticking along but mostly just (very interesting) client work these days, I made a couple of playlists on my channel to show some of the work I’ve been doing whilst a bit absent from RU-vid 😊
There is a problem here, removing agricultural land while at the same time the population of the UK is growing. The question has to be asked, are rewilding projects implemented so that other farmland can be sacrificed for development and the building of new houses. Yes it does look like the countryside used to before intensive agriculture took over, but the population was lower then.
Thanks Paul, the growth rate for the UK is quite small (0.34%) and predicted to plateau and even drop by 2050. These fields were for sale and not productive, so it's not necessarily about replacing farmland. We do however have a consumption issue globally, and the amount of meat consumed per capita is consistently increasing. This demands much more farmland, both for pasture, and for the growth of animal feed. So we do need to consider the strain we're putting on the land via what goes on our plate. As you probably know, agricultural land is classified into differing qualities, and so converting a grade 1 productive field to a wild landscape is very different to a grade 5 field. I think we need to be very careful about what farmland might be converted, but also, more intelligent ways to farm and produce food. For example, mixed pasture grazing can still provide rewilded landscapes, produce meat, create agroforesty, and be extremely biodiverse.
@@MattJarvisMedia Matt if those are official government figures, I would be sceptical, based on the amount of housing development that is taking place. Can you see the argument, why are they building large amounts of houses for a falling population?
@@pauldurkee4764 One source was from world bank, another here from data commons: datacommons.org/tools/timeline#place=country%2FGBR&statsVar=GrowthRate_Count_Person&chart=%7B%22count-none%22%3A%7B%22pc%22%3Afalse%7D%7D I see what you're saying. We've been in a 'housing crisis' for decades now and there's a siginificant lag on actually having enough housing, hence why they are still being built. I personally despise many newbuilds as they are so out of touch with nature, and largely built cheaply for profit rather than to last. They also, as you say, are sometimes built on productive land (I made a video to help protect an area of G1 farmland in South Glos in 2021 from a new 'garden city'. This is also exacerbated by an increasing need for the very wealthy to have multiple properties. A lot of the property developers we see building now have held the rights to the land for many many years, and what we are seeing now id probably more reflective of an intention 10-20 years ago.
cheers bud, yea it'll be a mixture of things to do with camera, lens choice, filming resolution, and post processing. In this video, I use a Panasonic GH5 normally at 4K, with a variety of different lenses. Understanding how ISO, aperture, and exposure work together is also important for getting the best image.
Thanks! I haven’t had a huge amount of time for personal video stuff outside of work recently, maybe I can start incorporating it again soon. I post more stuff on my Instagram these days :)
SAW NOTE CRITICS - good job mate - rewilding farm charente, ironically cost allowing cattle to free roam, is cheaper and produces better meat - minimum input costs, no chemicals why bother, animals happier too - naturally cow breeds and pigs are forest wood animals - it was almost bred out of them but odd how quickly they seem at home - less use of expensive pesticides, less vet bills and done carefully selected managed wood cutting added in - making more money per hectare with rewilding - than a fields of winter clover and a barn - counter-intuitive but works - neighbour doing oak and truffles (no pigs allowed obviously) france pattern smaller farms but higher value product - wild ducks, asparagus, soft fruit, organic meat herbs - high value crops are risky but diversity is key - if the black grapes fail we have walnuts if that isnt good we have ducks - and we tend as little as practicalble. brit near does cider and apple liquor - maybe the way to go subsidies cant go on like this ...
That would be great Neil, but it's very difficult when almost all the land is already owned by someone. They are doing a large corridor to the south coast in Knepp for example.
It's just another well-fed idiot. And he doesn't know much about biology. Meat has absolutely nothing to do with it, instead of domestic animals there have always been (and will be) wild ones. I have seen it all with my own eyes for over 20 years.
I am deeply in love with Borneo, have been to Sarawak and several times to Sabah, but this is the crown of Borneo. Your video makes it even more beautiful. Thank you very much for this, I will share it as often as I can! People have to understand, how beautiful, how important Borneo for all of us is!
This looked beautiful and interesting, but I'm afraid I couldn't watch it because of the loud music. Could you please make the music quieter than the commentary, which is what I want to listen to.
This is some of the best filming, editing, and documentation that I've seen on RU-vid. Especially for a fairly small channel. It's beautiful to see wildlife return to agricultural land. I studied the return of biodiversity to young forests in the northeast of the US in graduate school. I advocate for more hands on approaches in accelerating the restoration of agricultural land. However, just leaving aside land for wildlife is still so much better than keeping land in our sterile-feeling lawns or near-monotypic crop fields and pastures. And it's remarkable to see the changes as wildlife returns
Really appreciate your comment David! I also like how you're aware of the nuance here and that a gradient of grazing is necessary, which includes completely (or near completely) ungrazed habitat. I think people see this issue too often as binary, when in reality truly historic grazing was passive and infrequent, with occasional moments of intensity. Still, the results here speak for themselves and the insect biodiversity in particular is absolutely stunning and so hopeful. What strikes me is that this is just 5 years in, which in reality is a tiny amount of time. Hoepfully more follow!
