BBC Making Scotland's Landscape 2 of 5 The Land 

What I love about this programme, and was struck by when I watched it on the TV many years ago, is Stewart's upbeat and optimistic ending. There is a gradual repopulation of the HIghlands, turning it into a region which isn't totally dependent on tourism and grants. The Isle of Eigg is a good place to end on, as it's a model of self-sufficiency - search for 'green eigg'. Prof Jim Hunter only made a brief appearance in the prog, but he clearly influenced its content. His book "The Making of the Crofting Community" is the definitive, and most readable, history of the Gàidhealtachd from the Clearances to the present day. Highly recommended.

I love Scotland and the Scots

I could listen to this guy describe paint drying all day long.

That music in the beginning from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir makes me cry without even seeing the movie!

Respect to everyone who contributed to these series. Thanks xx

Am gonna watch whole series have watched first one already, it's crazy how much Scotland's already recovered I know there's still a very long way to go but they have brought so much natural ecosystem back already and loads of native species I honestly see Scotland getting back to how it used to be if Scotland keep going the way they are, also so glad the Highlands and isle of Skye age getting rewilded the Highlands especially really need rewilding

Well done. Highly informative.

In 2003 FEBRUARY my sister Kathy her friend Brian and I went over to Scotland . While she and Brian journeyed to Loch Ness , I made my trip over to The Isle of Skye, and there I met Joyce Mac Donald. She was a fluent English and Gaidhlig speaker and she said to me that my pronunciation of Gaidhlig was good.

Спасибо за великолепный фильм!

the basic case for rewilding - "The Highlands and Islands" F. Frazer Darling and J. Morton Boyd 1964

As noted, the crofters were evicted during the clearances and their houses destroyed in order to make way for sheep, which produced better income for the owners, and great hardship and misery for the people. Then the landscape and natural trees and grasses were decimated by the sheep.

@16:20 This makes it abundantly clear that golf was created in Scotland!

find making of Scotland's landscape 4 (water) here- www.dailymotion.com/video/x3cwi2j. It's been pulled everywhere else- I think, because of controversy in the fresh drinking water crisis- Scotland, who owns your water now?

Anyone know where the McAlpines posted?

This series of scientific communication are awe inspiring and also constributed to me for studying geology :) ! , I congrat for this series of videos. The only very bad sad thing although not being done by the program itself, is to "glorify" the massive killing of poor animals... whose heads are exposed, I understand sometimes plagues, ecosystems equilibrium, even eating meat although in a lot of cases that is only an option instead of a "must"..., poor animals.

the only time the bbc isnt actually bias when its about scotland haha

Although the paying guest shooter may be mainly interested in getting a good trophy deer stag head, the rest of the beast does not go to waste as the meat is sold for humans to eat.

Not much rain in these films is there?

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What’s this guys name

Bring back the wolf!

sadly the mass eradication of the hare is also taking place as of summer 2018..with over 25.000....killed on cairngorms alone ... it is documented !!

Is the BBC so hard up for background music that they are reduced to stealing from the John Williams score from CE3K? Same track from the opening of the film, looped numerous times. Oh Pulleeese!

I am a Paternal descendant of Brita Monsdotter and Johann Gustafsson.

I'm thinking that Scotland will possibly become a very sought after place to live soon with the slowing and probable stopping of the gulf stream current that brings the warmth the western Europe (due to freshwater intrusion into the system blocking the mechanism that drives the current). As the planet warms and many people are searching for a place that has water and can grow crops, the stopping of the GS will create a temporary cooler climate in Scotland while the rest of the temperate regions warm, such that the climate will stay pretty much the same for longer than many other places on Earth. .

thankfully some of us are still hunting ethically to fill the pot

Is the land beautiful or is it dead? Ian is harsh! Good luck on restoring those ecosystems. Why aren't oaks being planted?

bring back wolves, linyxs and baers.

god, I hate ignorance and greed!

any chances 👱..,😌

Rewilding

This makes me incredibly sad.

Every Man and Woman are on stage .And They play there Their part.

These terrible landowners who shooted every wild living animal - that makes me mad. How dull !!!! Could they not hear their own heart braking???

Whoa! What a horribly depressing video! Don't let anyone who is depressed view it. Greed and ignorance certainly are a large part of this area's past. Will do our best to forget we ever viewed this.

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It always hurts me to see the beautiful landscapes of Scotland so orphanised. For me this is a man made ecological disaster. I have been to Scotland three times now and will always try to get my finances to allow me to come back. What gives ne hope,though is that the forests are slowly but surely treated towards more sustainability like it is here in my country. I stopped watching this video when it came to shooting the deer. No living animal in the wild should be killed as long as we are literally throwing away meat or fish daily which was not sold in the supermarkets. There is so much hunger in the world that I always consider what I buy and where. And also without plastic if possible. Finally the supermarkets realise that people dont want to buy their food in unnecessary plastic which then again goes into the ocean and lands on our plates through the fish eating it. It is the decision of every single one of us if we want to live for sustainability or not. I do and will keep trying to do my best about it although it sometimes is quite hard. But every little peace and bit as well as each of us makes a difference if we want our grand children to be able to see the beauty of nature like we have it today - be it a wale or a deer.

the build up with the shooting and then the twist that the gun was empty was predictable and ineffective.

I love how dour this man is.

use alabi dog kangal dog Kafka dogs to protect the livestock.

It is a pity that the Higlands will be repopulated by people, in all probability, of very few Gaelic ancestors. I think that the Scottish Gaelic Language should be a mandatory item in all Scottish schools and even an mandatory item in all public services examinations, in order to restore the Scottish roots and identity. The problem is that (I am not 100%) I guess that the Scots (related to English) and the Welsh (from the inhabitants of Strathclyde and near Glasgow areas) and also the Norse (related to the Norwegian and other Scandinavian languages) were also languages that made part of the old Scottish populations. Anyways, the kingdon that united Picts and Scots spoke, after king Constantine, the (Scottish?) Gaelic language, which should be restored to the Higlands, as well it´s population. Sorry for the bad English. BR

They should put subtitles. For the sake of us who were not exposed to the Scots accent.

Go back to the beginnings of the reason of destruction of the highlands. Queen Victoria and the English who wanted to be posh! Put the blame where it should be. Queen Victoria has caused so much hurt and destruction not only to the British but also to her family. I know of no other woman who was so selfish.

Sneering at the social mores of the past is adolescent. All Scots are morally superior. Me included.

I feel like I missed something. What does deer hunting have to do with Making Scotland's Landscape? Stick to the topic folks.

24 mins a vagans nightmare