Wild Isles

Iolo's latest  programme tonight highlights the diversity and  volume of birds in this area Heather moorland area, different to elsewhere, so perhaps we are doing something right.

I think he is talking about areas where the ‘right’ management is taking place I his opinion! He has explained what this is in several previous conversations and broadcasts. It’s all about balance and proper rewilding! He explores what this is very well in my opinion. Do I need to provide another link to his opinions and beliefs?

I agree, man’s intervention in the Peak District started Centuries ago, but there hasn’t been a deal done on a large scale to make it a more diverse wildlife area. Yes, they were denuded further. Huge swathes are private as well. Visitors are not actively encouraged even to this day. It’s no wonder the great trespass occurred in PD. I regularly drive the Strines area, and the whole area is covered in Keep Out Private Property signs. When you look at the names of Land Owners, they are usually prefixed by Duke of this, Earl of that….. that or Hedge Fund millionaires. 

This website has a number of interesting and diverse topics.

https://whoownsengland.org/

And let’s not forget that Iolo has over the years worked for and still supports the broad objectives of the RSPB, an organisation you apparently know all too well. Particularly when it comes to upland environments like those you talk of he has been a champion of the right way to rewild.

Here is some excellent news, a river rewilded, re wriggled and rejuvenated. A lovely area in Cumbria, tranquil and not visited by the hoards and within relatively easy reach from several CaMC sites. The fishermen amongst us will really appreciate this initiative and returning nature I’m sure.
Humans managing the chaos of nature as it has been called. Still needs careful attention mind. Much more needed!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-65341994

Another reason why we  have it just right. No huge landowner but a series of family farms. The vast majority is "Right to Roam" and provided you dont have a dog to worry sheep very welcomed. We dont have much of a problem with wild camping and the DOE kids use it extensively. Thats why we wont allow the outsiders to try and change our ways.

And that’s where the nub of the problem is. What is right for one person is wrong for another. The real right way places nature and the natural environment at the very heart of the challenge, anything which misses will not help that bigger picture of decline. 
Collectively we all need to get a grip and focus on the real problems facing nature today across both the individual environments/habitats and the nation as a whole. 
The current situation is dire, we are in the bottom 10% of nations globally when it comes to the loss of nature. There are rays of sunshine mind like this river restoration project. It has nature firmly in its focus.

Thanks TDA. . .But🤷🏻‍♂️🤔.

So, a bunch of rich £Millionaires own massive chunks of our Country-they then charge other £rich folk to use the land to shoot wildlife, then the Govt give them £Millions of OUR taxes to ensure they keep excluding the very tax payers that are funding them out of the area because it is their property. Geez this Country is just too soft on exploiters like these people🙄

I only speak for my area. Nothing like that. Our problem is the blue thinking rewilders who try to impose their will on our land. The lot with that big war chest from Hampshire who tried to impose their will on the whole of Mid Wales have alienated us all and the barriers are now permanently up. We do our own thing in our own way and from what we see we seem to have it just about right.