The John Muir Trust is a UK conservation charity dedicated to protecting our precious wild places. We work to protect and enhance wild land through ownership and partnership, by engaging with communities, politicians and policy makers and by encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to discover wild places, explore their wildness and take action to conserve them. Over 10,000 members support us in our work.
We currently own and look after some of the finest wild areas in the UK including Ben Nevis, Schiehallion, Sandwood Bay, part of the Cuillin on Skye, Quinag in Assynt and 3,000 acres on the remote Knoydart peninsula. We manage the land we own according to our wild land management standards. Read more at www.wildlandmanagement.org.uk
The John Muir Trust runs the John Muir Award, an educational initiative that encourages people of all ages and backgrounds to connect with, enjoy and care for wild places. Read more at www.johnmuiraward.org
Huge economic potential from increased tourism with a widespread expansion of natural woodlands in the Highlands, but that's really something the children of tomorrow would benefit from.
Enjoyed the video, thanks for posting. However, no mention of the deer's natural predators and the sustainable regeneration of biodiversity resulting from their reintroduction. If deer numbers are purposely maintained at artificially high levels in the absence of predation, does that mean that shooting estates in Scotland are therefore the major barrier towards ecosystem restoration and meeting net zero targets?
Thanks JMT for an excellent film about a tricky topic. Changing the world takes a while, especially with such a diverse range of land usage and ownership in the highlands. NTS at Mar Lodge have demonstrated that natural woodland habitats will regenerate if deer numbers are reduced. JMT can do the same on its properties (especially Assynt) if it commits to a big reduction. How this is done is of less consequence than getting it done. Once JMT can demonstrate progress we will be walking the walk as well as talking the talk. Protection of wild land is what we do and regeneration of woodland habitats is key.
As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises? The short answer is that we cannot deal with them unless we take care of nature's inner balance. We live in a tightly-closed and interdependent system in which everything boomerangs back to us. While living in such a system, we need to reconsider what we want and think, and how we treat each other, because our human connections are the primary influence on how nature responds to us. It is common to think that climate is dependent on factors outside of us-whether it be balances between heat and cold in the environment, or the effects of various kinds of pollution we emit-because we lack a complete picture of how our attitudes to each other bring about the strongest responses from nature toward us. No creature distorts nature the way that we people do. And it is not simply a matter of switching to renewable energy sources, electric cars and the like; it is a matter of how we relate to each other. If we truly wish to witness more balance throughout nature and not have to deal with all kinds of cold waves and other natural disasters, then similarly to how we have electricity, water and gas meters in our homes, we should also have meters that count how much evil we emit into the world from our negative attitudes to each other. What I mean is that if we could feel the extent to which we emit negative forces into the world, which negatively ricochet back to us, then we would wish to change this negative driver within us. We would want to switch it to a drive that makes our human connections positive, and which harmonizes us with nature. In simple terms, when we get up in the morning, we should first and foremost consider what we need to do in order for all people to have it good. Developing such an attitude is not so simple, yet we will need to seriously work on it as we head into the future. A life of increasing blows from nature or a life of peace and harmony depends on the extent to which we impact a shift in our attitudes to each other-from negative to positive.
Of course this map is now outdated. A recent article said 19,000 more turbines could be fast tracked in Scotland. The U.S. is slated to be overrun with these eyesores by 2050 (see Princeton Net-Zero America Project map).
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I have just found these John Muir trust RU-vid videos which give you enticing snippets of various areas and projects throughout Scotland. The area just covered Just reminded me of our Holiday last year staying in achiltibue. The area is just breathtaking - and confirmed by going up stay polly and Suilven - the trust help repair the path up it. I had the fortune to meet a prawn fisherman from Lock broom who took me out in exchange for a days labour in the lock hauling in about 500 pots. This was one of the most fantastic experiences I have ever had on a holiday. We also managed to do some Kayaking and visited Taner mor and kylesku Bridge and restaurant. The work these guys do is tremendous. AH
Our (wife,sister,brother in law etcetc) Favourite scottish mountain. Once or twice if i am lucky a year i walk this hill. Not too many knee killing steps on the well formed path. Once we met two eagles about half way up shouting at each other,grouse aplenty and ravens on the top croaking their protest at the intrusion. Sit on a slab if the wind allows and just breathe.
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I try to imagine a better world where conservation organisations do not oppose much-needed wind turbines. Mass extinction, for example, makes any concerns about visual impact seem trivial and narcissistic (and that's just one of many genuinely severe climate change impacts). We can't conserve Scotland's environment until we accept that urgent and extensive measures are required to stabilise the climate.
We would need thousands of Lynx to reduce deer numbers to allow woodland regeneration, and they would start eating the sheep - unacceptable. Lynx may play a limited part , but in modern Scotland, man will always be the main deer predator.
@@TheKevzx6r There are estimates of 750000 deer in Scotland. They would need to kill 20% of these, i.e. 150K, each year to stabilise the population at this number. If each lynx killed one deer every week, the number of lynx needed would be 150000/52 = 2923, i.e. 3000 lynx. Even more lynx would be needed if the deer population was to be reduced. I agree that too many sheep in the wild hilly areas is also a big problem, and they should be kept in enclosed field systems on the good farm land.
@@molecatcher3383 Agreed, we need a trial in Scotland with Lynx. We are so far behind the rest of Europe in terms of native wildlife. It’s fucking embarrassing we have nothing - it’s dead woods out there!
