REWILDING IRELAND: These 3 Animals MUST be Reintroduced 

We have reintroduced the European Beaver in Scotland and it is contributing a great deal of positive outcomes to our environment.

It's so interesting to hear of a place where wild boar would actually be *beneficial* to the ecosystem. As someone who lives in a part of the world where feral pigs are considered a major nuisance, it's fascinating to me to hear of a place that could really benefit from their wild ancestor's reintroduction.

This is my favorite video from you, I am from Northeastern United States and have a friend at work who grew up in Cork, he would tell me how Ireland really lacks wildlife compared to some parts of the USA. Especially when it comes to large mammals.

lynx is the first and probably least controversial step and i really want them to get reintroduced

I really hope we get to see Wolves roam the UK and Ireland once again!!!

I watch so many videos on rewilding and it’s so reassuring and inspirational to hear hear in an Irish accent discussing this! I finished a masters in illustration a few months ago and the first few minutes of this video could almost be the script for my final presentation. I’ve researched and half finished a book on encouraging school age children to shift their mindset on Irish green spaces and begin rewilding at school and home. It’s so good to hear it talked about. There’s no way to contact you on here but if you’d be willing I’d love to discuss any other projects or creators like yourself or other artists talking about this. I’d love to find ways to get this passion into the Irish public.

I think that part of the issue is that people are not living with the landscape, we see nature as a tool, not Mother Nature, when people live off the land and not merely on it we are an ecosystem engineer.

Garden centers in Ireland still sell rhododendron & laurel. Legislation needs to be passed to stop this.

I love this video brother. I am buying acreage in cork soon, saving for the mortgage currently, I plan on planting native trees and buying boars and red deer from the UK (Cannot find sources locally) once my trees have matured to the point where the animals wont ruin them. Ther boars are great rotyavotors for preparing the ground for tree regeneration

FR !!! I live in central Poland. I live next to a forest where wolves have been present for like 2 years. I have never seen or heard them before. Same with foxes. This is due to the fact that the forest district (probably, I'm not sure) runs some kind of fallow deer breeding, and we also have a lot of roe deer in the area. People are afraid of what they shouldn't be of

It'll be hard to convince people of reintroducing those animals but it would be class

Regarding reintroducing wild boar as described in the video, let alone pigs that are capable, I wonder if the Irish pork industry can get behind that, let alone landowners that could try that out, where the pigs could eat the needed vegetation as described, and humans are the predators with timeless pork recipes. There is also the flipside argument of how bison and other historically wild animals being ranched as livestock having medical check ups versus having their wild instincts be what they are against native predators.

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Lynx never got wiped out up here in Sweden and have seen an increase in the last few decades. The number of domesticated animals killed by them is tiny, and since the state "owns" all predators the farmers get compensation. Reintroducing wolves here was very controversial, and still is! Even so, the Swedish wolves are slowly increasing and spreading out (started by the southern Norwegian border), but the genetics are constrained and really needs to connect with the Finnish wolves bu that hasn't happened yet. Boar? Have they really only grown to a couple of thousand in GB since the 80s? Some escaped from pens in Sweden in the 70s and now there's hundreds of thousands! We're not as densly populated as England :D and there were no wolves around at the time. Boar got wiped out in medival times here. I think we ate them all? The next animal being discussed/studied for reintroduction in Sweden is Visent. I would love that. And reintroduce is kind of the wrong word, apparently they never got established here after the ice pulled back since humans moved in well before the land became ready to be a visent habitat. i.e. if not for us humans being here they would be here already - so a kind of reintroduction, I guess. all that said: Your list seems very reasonable! And in that order. Do it now!

What an inspiring video. Could one join and assist you when you are filming your next one?

5:20 interesting thought about deer psychology

The goats are native. They're Celtic wild goats.

Love this video and love the message. I wonder if there's any organisation, private or public, actually working towards any of these species reintroductions in Ireland?? PS Always great to know that no matter how evil I think Oliver Cromwell was, there's always more deep dark sh!t to find out about him 🤯

Wolves have an interesting relationship with people

Thank you for another amazing episode But when we start?

When you mentioned the history of the wolf’s extermination in Ireland because of one man, it reminded me of the movie Wolfwalkers, which the premise takes place in that point in time when the land was being heavily pushed back and as a result, much of the wildlife had suffered from it. It is a shame how many animals across the planet were once worshipped ages ago and now they’re being hunted or extinct for so long that it has become a distant memory. Humanity has always undermining the value of the natural landscapes that due to our arrogance and ignorance, the balance has been severed and we tend to forget that in the grand scheme of things, we’re insignificant and we shouldn’t expand our power. I hope that the Irish people will embrace their natural heritage and let Mother Nature do her work.

The wolf and lynx is a must for any balanced eco system to work. Farmers and land owners in Europe know how to work around these predators. talk to them and see what they do.

Thanks for this mate. Was wondering if you could cover the UK, possibly going over site selection for rewinding in this process. Also, was wondering if you could offer advice on how to get involved with and how to support rewinding, particularly in our fair isles. Thanks.

Why not do something unique and radical and introduce endangered species. For example endangered dholes instead of very common wolves, endangered Iberian lynx or the critically endangered Balkan lynx (Lynx lynx balcanicus) instead of the very common Eurasian lynx or a rare subspecies of Sus scrofa such as the Maremman boar (Sus scrofa majori) instead of the incredibly common European boar ?

The most beneficial species of all that we desperately need is the Beaver. We have approximately 30,000 kms of now shaded out streams and small rivers where our trout and salmon used to spawn, kept open until the mid fifties by the rabbit and human cutting for firing. Of course they were here before, what we now call the island of Ireland, being contigous with the rest of the so called British Isles, Doggerland and across. Anyone interested in ponticum issue, please contact me.

where's the brown bear ? a video on every species that disapeared in the holocene in ireland and uk would be nice

If we can get the lynx back and no babies or dogs get got then the wolf will be an easier sell.

The beaver was 'accidentally' released in the UK. When they had visibly restored the landscape, beavers were 'discovered' & beaver reintroduction was legalised. Can someone please release lynx in deer areas. Our government moves way too slowly, constantly pandering to nimbys. I don't have the resources myself.

Wild boar is already here in ireland though its considered an invasive species as its not pure wild boar but nevertheless its here

Any chance anyone watching this would like to be paid (or knows someone who would) to herd their pigs through large areas of bracken as part of a habitat restoration project?

Did lynx live in Ireland?

I live in Greece in the city of Peiraeus which is part of the larger Athens /Piraeus urban complex numbering some 4 million people. There's a large national park nearby, at the mountain of Parnetha only 20 klms from the Athens centre. It hosts red and row deer, boar, Cretan wild goat and other animals. It is probably the most widely visited mountain in Greece. Back in 2011 people begun to see strange wolf like animals and notified the local forest department. Photo traps were placed, experts came and finally it was official. Wolves were back to Parnetha a century after they had gone extinct. Since then no incident of a wolf attack has been reported, ecological balance has returned to the mountain and packs of stray dogs who used to plague the place have been exterminated. And may l remind you that literally hundreds of people visit the mountain especially in the winter. That's the threat that wolves pose to humans.

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