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I am somewhat stunned, as this is incredibly pertinent and reflective of the thoughts I have had but I am in no way claiming are unique to me, but that I have been tussling with over the last year as a solution that I felt I had tapped into for the water crisis here in the south of Europe.… It was out of sheer desperation for an end to the concreted conveniences that our roads are for motorised combustion vehicles that are not making dehydration, water scarcity and precipitation shortage any better… The other correlation I understood was with bacteria and how we need to develop a closer relationship to them in terms of how they form our clouds, by not creating imbalances in our oceans with our poor water management systems and sewage systems that poison waterways… There needs to be more on site home-based or municipal water management systematics that incentivise citizens to process their own water as well as collect, regenerate and purify domestic water supply from home to home. You’re the kind of human being that I would deeply appreciate to connect with on a personal level as thought creation and solution finding would probably be as fluid as the issue at hand.😊 We need to transform our cultures to think more seriously about water and how we can make an even fashionable to have ponds and water collection systems and means of water purification and regeneration within our individual domestic settings. Would you like to engage with me?… I surely hope that you do not just see this as another RUclips comment and rather as an opportunity to consider what changes could be brought into action through grassroots/citizen scientific action. All over my local area I am seeing posters that state quotation mark water is life quotation mark and how little do I see the practice of this idea in recognising the seriousness of freshwater depletion in our natural environments because of the unnatural ructions? We persist in perpetuating as part of human civilisation.

Would love a flow-up to this to see who visits!

whats the oak tree at 3:30 called? It looks epic can people visit?

They’re New Forest ponies not Exmoor ponies. Do your research

I live in the countryside. When I don't mow for several months, ticks multiply rapidly in the tall grass and become a serious problem, not only for people but also for cats and dogs. I'm surprised that no-mow advocates generally fail to mention the ticks. Also, the weeds grow so tall and woody that it becomes virtually impossible to remove them with a lawn mower or even a weed whacker. For example, black locust shrubs shoot underground runners and soon there are hundreds of new thorny bushes that get over 2 meters tall and at least as wide in a single season; after 2 seasons, you have to use the chainsaw. In autumn, many of the weeds will die and just stay there on the ground over winter; come spring, new weeds will grow through them, creating a tangled mess that is extremely difficult to remove. I'm curious to know how you all solve these problems.

At the 2:10 mark, you nailed the main issue, but then skipped on to talk about how to adapt to the symptom. Wetland loss due to the need for cropland could be understandable. However, there's a real problem when you're importing people at wholly unsustainable rates. While I'm 100% in favor of repairing the ecological damage, we have to be honest with ourselves. If you're building 200,000 houses every year and each house takes up just a 1/4-acre, how many years could you possibly do that before an entire ecosystem is paved over? What are the 2nd Order Effects of that? Why don't the indigenous people of Britain have a right to their own tribal lands? It might sound "mean", but we're talking about a very small island in the North Atlantic. There's only so much room, and so many resources. Every house built also requires tons of other hardscape - like roads and driveways - and also causes rainfall to simply sheet off, which means more flooding or overworked drains. It goes way beyond the simple idea of just a loss of wetland habitat, and while adding buckets in the yards will certainly offset a fraction of the damage, it's a very very small fraction. If we don't address the root cause, the problem only gets worse.

What a wonderful man. Merlin should go into schools and raise awareness for the next generations.

A little note for hope: almost the entire northern side of a large hill where I'm from has just been planted with native species which will grow into a deciduous forest over the next couple of centuries, which has also been designed to be able to walk through, keeping humans part of the story, not just separating them.

are you and MossyEarth run by the same people?

Shrew McShrewface

Unless the deer numbers are managed they will overeat themselves into starvation

I wonder why the greater white-toothed shrews are causing problems for the pygmy shrews in the UK if both species actually overlap eachother naturally in the European mainland? 🤔

Not soon enough.

My dog is bred to hunt these rats due to the devastation they cause for our farmers and keeping the field in check. I don’t get why you would like to reintroduce these animals to the fauna.

Honestly I and my inner child LOVE this idea, but my current me also dislikes it a lot because it is standing water, making it PERFECT breeding grounds for Mosquitos and Gnats. And that sucks when it is where you're most likely to frequent day to day, you know? And clearly Craneflies (Mosquito Catchers) are not efficient at all nor anywhere close to reliable on keeping their populations down either, while they're also incredible drunk at all times haha. I do not understand why they're so incredibly uncoordinated lol.

Wolves don’t attack humans. Reintroducing them in America has been very successful.

Imagine if we spent the billions of pounds chasing net zero on regenerating forests and woodlands. I dream… (BTW we stopped chopping down trees for firewood because of coal. We released 30% of farmland to growing food for people instead of horses because of oil. )

Turn the bloody music off.

I have been watching your own content and that on Mossy earth. Your inspiration has motivated into building a garden pond on the cheap. I have buried kids old sand pit. Kids and birds love it.

love my mini ponds, tons of dragon flies and frogs!

Great you tube story. Mow once in August. You can mow in early spring thus mimicking wildflower meadow management. However, the unmown area will take years to develop properly Sooooo. Add some wildflower meadow seeds. The most important is Yellow Rattle. It is a bee favourite and is a fascinating annual plant so you must let it flower and seed. If you do so you will realise why it is called Yellow Rattle. Yellow Rattle also suppresses grass growth as it is parasitic on grasses. This opens up the sward allowing other herbs into the mix. Iain at Earth and Leaf.

You could fill it with nothing but water and wait, if you have the patience, or if you're lazy. It will be colonized soon enough.

Unfortunately most of the 15 small gardens around me are barren stone deserts. I haven’t even seen a hedgehog this year, or many birds since the last tree was cut down. But maybe I’ll make a small pond, if I can find the right container.

which definition are you promoting? to make productive use of : utilize to make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage My bet? the second one.

23 would give you some of the most of anybody in the world, let alone a million of them... 23 Million is delightfully bonkers 😅.

As an American, something that I do think we’ve done relatively well at is our parks systems (our national parks alone cover more land than all of the uk, this doesn’t include state parks and other government owned land). We don’t have the right to roam like in the uk but our parks are so extensive that it’s not really that bad. In my home state of Minnesota, we have what are called the boundary waters with the Boundary waters canoe area (bwca) and voyageurs national park which are a pristine glacial lake habitat. Our lakes are protected by tourism and visitors coming in (this is important bc there are massive mineral reserves and mining could cause enormous destruction and pollution)

a combination of predators and hunting

What about all the fresh water in Scotland? You want to trade for some sun?

Ponding is not just a hobby, its a lifestyle. 🐸😎👍

all your videos balance wonder and information really well. keep slaying and defo read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer if you havent already! your content mirrors her nuanced storytelling :)

this was so great I'm one hundred percent making a pond with the kids tomorrow thank you for the inspo and the entertainment. shout out to creepy Jenny 😆

As long as you don’t get ticks.

If you don't pay your water bill, they can't exactly turn your water off, so if everyone just stopped paying them, they will happily give the keys back to the government

A nice space for malaria mosquito to breed.

I dug down an old bathtub under a downspout so its self filling. Put in some stones, charcoal and logs. No plants yet. It looks quite messy after the winter, I dont clean it becuase its hard lol. Seen birds and toads etc in it so its worth it! Did this 3 years ago I think.

Pygmy shrew and great white toothed shrew co-exist in europe, no? would have been good if you could have seen how they are able to co-exist on the continent but aren't able to in britain and ireland?

The Rewilding of the wolf to the UK, seems to be going well. No reports of attacks on humans or livestock so far, but the wild deer population may be taking abit of a hit in the areas the wolves frequent. The Lynx on the other hand prefers sheep and lambs, and is becoming abit of a nuisance to farmers. Glad they are back though, they belong here, and are an important part of our ecosystem.

Great video. Mother nature will be proud of your efforts. Keep up the good work.

It has been proven that trees talk to each other through their roots.