A dying landscape that is healed against all odds, going on to thrive in astonishing ways. | dG1fQXF1R0hvNzhoMkU
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00:00The wonderful thing about rewilding and I think this is something that a lot of people don't don't realize is that actually it's it's about
00:08Engaging people with nature, but it's also about
00:10Reestablishing rural economies. It's about literally bringing life back into the countryside
00:18When we inherited the estate
00:21The first thing your father said was you'll never make a go farming on that land
00:27It doesn't work
00:29It's a virtual biological desert
00:32We were really inspired by what had begun to happen in Europe with the thinking about how to restore
00:39landscapes that have been
00:41really depleted and ours was kind of soaked in chemicals and nitrates and fertilizers and
00:48Pesticides and herbicides and everything you can think of and be plowed and plowed and plowed
00:52Could we turn this sort of biological desert into something that would be?
00:59Interesting for wildlife. Can we bring back just a little bit of the wildlife that's been collapsing all around us
01:05It was a hugely radical way of thinking
01:09It's never been done before
01:13We depend on nature's bounty and generosity and if we take advantage of that
01:20We've seen civilizations from the Mayans to the Romans
01:25to
01:26to us now
01:28falling because of that that hubris
01:33The outrage it caused amongst locals
01:36The clock was ticking we needed to see that something really was going to happen
01:42For us from the very beginning
01:45We knew we were onto something really exciting because we could see we could hear the insects
01:51We could see the birds coming in after those insects
01:54We could see the worm sign the little worm cast coming up in the middle of fields that have literally been dead
01:59And we couldn't really understand why you know any farmer on land like ours wouldn't want to do the same
02:09The whole landscape was breathing a sigh of relief
02:12I'm blown away by the wildlife photography and the lengths to which Dave went to
02:18Will not only be faithful to the book, but also I mean, you know
02:21He reconstructed scenes
02:24You know the pigs
02:26Turning over tables with canopies on them in marquees and you know pulling in actor pigs
02:33I didn't even know there was such a thing
02:35As soon as the conditions are right these species will find you somehow
02:40Then miracles start to happen. It's a story of hope essentially and and and also hopefully
02:47You know reminds us of the ability of nature to heal itself given half a chance
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