The Beltie Burn: A River Restored 

As a non Scot, I love how these projects are popping up everywhere in Scotland, a land ravaged by man activity with so much potential to become a thriving paradise of biodiversity. Congrats on this amazing milestone! Keep making beautiful Scotland even more beautiful!

Sincerely hope it works and reassures other landowners that their relatively unproductive farmland is better suited to being rewilded.

It gives a lot of hope to see people get together on such a scale to support the recovery of Nature. Thank you!

And to think that humans previously thought that wetlands was stupid and pointless. It really shows how ignorant they were. Wetlands are so so important, good to see that knowledge spreading. We need to restore as much wetlands as possible and fix those straight rivers that acts like drains.

This is great stuff! I hope we'll see much more of this happening in Scotland from now on. Nature lost, must be restored. Well done to everyone involved in this inspirational project.

So refreshing to see. What a world we could have..again.

When I saw the straight canal, I shuttered in horror, but then the earth works and focus and "Fish!" proved your brilliance. Water loves to wind and follow curves and meander and swirl and twirl. Who doesn't? I am wiping away tears of relief and joy to witness our true nature being restored as regenerative stewards, co-creating, honouring and loving Nature. We are Nature. Ripple this across Scotland. I'm moving to Scotland to assist.

So glad people are starting to get it ✌️

From here in the States we say Bravo, and carry on and the best of luck and thanks for sharing.

Fantastic guys thank you for all your efforts

Just thrilled and my heart swells at the difference this has made, with the formation of a beautiful landscape, rich in wildlife.

Very inspirational. Watching from the USA.

Thrilled to see this!! I hope the surrounding forest is restored as well!

Inspirational. I'd love to see more wetland like this in my area of SW England.

Wonderful…simply that!! ❤ Thankyou to everybody involved 🐞🍀🥀🍀🌷x

wonderful. great to see there are still some humans left on earth, passionate humans.

Great work all !!

That Is Just Increadable work How It Can Be Done And just think if it looks good now what is it going to be like in 5 to 10 years well Done Glad Ive subscribed past few year but can i say like more the longer more informative Vlogs The shorties do nothing for me thanks Best Wishes To al the Teams Tc

Great video, thank you for creating such an impactful work. Happy to hear of the restorative project.

Any chance beavers will be reintroduced? Would be like having a dedicated maintenance and operations staff! 🙂There seems to be some movement in this direction elsewhere in the UK.

Brilliant work. Roll on many more like it.

This is what mother nature needs just a little help and quit destroying what we have left 🙏

All these projects make me happy for the future.

I'm thrilled! You've done a wonderful job! It's very surprising that you have so few subscribers, it's just not fair!

The quality of your video is at the Hollywood level, it's very, very nice to watch

good job - youve done something often overlooked - the credits allow others to see who was involved for contacts and advice - well done -

Great work guys 👍

This is great to see. We have destroyed so much of our eco systems. It is good to see projects like this put this legacy destruction behind us

I really love river restorations. Thank you for this!

Great Job! It would be fantastic if we could re-establish wetlands all over the world.

This is excellent, I wondered what was going on. My parents live in the area and we go past it when they take to and from the airport. What a fantastic project :), please get citizen science going it’ll be brilliant to see how the landscape evolves

Fantastic to see, well done,well done to all involved

Brilliant work. Extremely labour intensive, but what a fantastic result.

Keep up the great work. Thank you

Beautiful!

Awesome work!!!

doing god's work! thank you!

It's so great to see that there are people doing such great things for the world ❤️

More of this needs to be done , fantastic

This would be my dream job.

love this! glad people are helping nature in ways like these

Fabulous!!

As someone who lives near the confluence at the Dee, I'd love to see some science as to whether this has made any improvement to preventing floods downstream. My own evidence says otherwise - we've had the river in our back garden 6 times this year vs. zero times last year, but I don't have rainfall data to hand.

Great video thank you!

well done!

What a great project and video this was, all the best on the next one!

Simply love that lovely work , make me happy . We have to do alot more fore the nature, and we hawve the power to do it

Very nice efforts. Namaste 🙏

Absolutely great

Fantastic

Perfect

Brilliant

Great succes!

God bless! All the power to you!

nature knows best

What a great project. Hopes for a start of many more!

In NW Ohio we lived in an area once known as the Great Black Swamp. Drainage started in the late 1800s, partly to curb malaria. In the 1970's there was a big push for further "channelization", improving drainage while eliminating nature. Since then they've restored about 10% of the lands to something close to natural.

Please do an annual update on this project. A before and current condition.

undeniably good work, providing undeniably good jobs

Such very cool work you’re doing.

Absolutely amazing

This is great to see! Made my day just a little better.

%:45 sprirised me with a north American native monkey flower. Your sandy loam soils look prime for this type of wetland restoration!

I'm really excited here in the pacific northwest USA for your lands the rebound of nature is amazing isn't it!:)

This is amazing. Sincerely hope it works; no reason why it shouldn't and others take note and act accordingly in their areas.

A wonderful project. I wish there was more of this around the world...

Riparian wetlands plants and biota common to those elevations, deserve attention to Plant Associations of various Plant and Vegetation form as Species vital like Sedges, Cattails( Typhus Family), Willows ( Saliceae sp.), Populus, and successional stages, various plant assemblages including bulb forms of aquatic and terrestrial seeds which germinate, but also remain as active Individual reproduction form gaining vitality and size as they age.

Restoring habitats and waterway’s is wonderful. Learning how we can coexist with them will be another step. Maybe one day wars and political asshats won’t be so common and expensive and the world can afford to fund these all over the globe 🌎!

greeat video

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Just needs beavers now!

Now that'd a proper project ,ireland please do this stop opw wrecking our rivers

Interested to know what the carbon footprint of this project is VS just planting some trees and letting nature take its course with regards to the un-straightening of the burn. Also how long it will take to sequester the carbon released for the deep excavations, land moved and subsequent fuel used on the same site.

doesnt just impact nature as well, everybody living close by now has a chance to wander along a lovely area filled with a diverse natural population of birds and plants, as opposed to a boggy field and a ditch of water

Let the beavers sculpt it. They know just what to do.

Incredible that we still see tilled agriculture. They show a farmer tilling his fields and the birds just feasting on the biology (worms grubs etc) - then will spray pesticide/fungicide/synthetic fertizers and wonder why he can't make a profit.

cool

Are you planting trees in the riparian area around the adjusted land?

Combine this with agroforestry and farmers would have productive, climate stable farmland for plants and animals all year around.

(when every living cell holds an ocean within water wants to flow slow )

Any chance for an update on this project?

It keeps amazing. Great video, fantastic work, awesome idea behind the project. Yet, out of over 18.000 views (as for now) - only 725 likes, 44 comments. Are people really so lazy nowadays that they cannot hit a dang button on the screen? Or write a comment - even as silly as this one ;) - as a sacrifice to the youtube algorythm, tuhs helping to spread this splendid idea?

New world varieties of these broader Plant Species, habitat types, favored conditions for rooting, annual or perennial lifestyle, colonial or stolon like rooting capabilities all start to better Inform the compatible Species native to your local jurisdictions that would span these Site Specific Variables more intimately.

Get some beavers. They will do the work.

I hope it was worth the 1500 litres of diesel and machinery hours, erosion, and public money - if you stick to agroforestry and regeneration the river will reform over time.

The removal of beavers also contributed to the loss of wetlands. Mind you they breed quickly.

That's got to be the most man made natural river in the history of man made natural rivers.🤔

As someone who lives downstream of here, I can confirm this has not helped at all, things are worse, there is now worse flooding with less rain.

Have you thought about reintroducing Beavers?

do you people know that the northern part of Scotland actually belongs to North America....

So how will you replace the lost food production? In an already over populated island with limited resources?

How many gallons of oil drank by bulldozers to make these modifications?

Shame about all the geese now wrecking the local carbon capturing farm land and all flooding that it's created in the village ....

It's a brook, not a river. This is just a couple bends to slow it down. You're not saints saving the world, cut the dramatic bullshit.

Amazing work