Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison explains the process for repairing a degraded ecosystem. We begin with the metrics for assessing ecosystem health, and then go over the steps to triggering biological activity and ecological succession.
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annual weeds or some people call them invasive species lol that's what the Guava is helping out within Puerto Rico and East Africa, it's pioneering the degraded lands by bringing birds to eat its fruit while pooping out seeds of primary forests and eventually those canopy or emergent layer trees will outgrow the guava in which the guavas die and the forest trees thrive
I’m thoroughly impressed with his ability to write backwards
MEGA: Make Earth Great Again
You didn’t mention that these “pioneer species “ must be indigenous to the ecosystem where the restoration is happening. Otherwise, you’re feeding further devastation.
"Aw yeah, this gon' be good"
– Me, every time Millison cracks out the magic whiteboard
Get rid of %100 human populations 😂😅🤣😂😅🤣
We used to ref to Forests as Climax Ecosystem’s, which I prefer to the term ‘’climax communities’’
1/3rd of the Earths (Ice Free) land mass is used for animal agriculture, for the 70 Billion animals unnecessarily bred for eating every year. So using ‘’Manure’’ to make ‘’seed balls’’is defeating the object, as the animals that made the ‘’manure’’ are responsible for mass deforestation, 🌻🌎✊🏽
There's a company called "Seed the North" operating in northern British Columbia that's working on something like the seed ball project. Definitely worth checking out.
I have a section of my land (about 1,5 acre) that's not bare ground at all but rather choked up with Blackberries, Privet, Bradford pears, Poison Ivy and Sumacs, as well as a few species yet to be identified. I want to replace that mess with native species, I am in the South East, US, zone 7, near the Great Smoky Mountains Park. I'm just finishing the clearing process, (left everything on the ground, and called it mulch) This year I threw down many flower seeds and been gratified to see quite a few pollinators (butterflies, bees. . etc) and this fall a few (very few, it's been so dry) mushrooms. I've pretty much tamed the blackberries, (with hands full of thorns and ripped shirts and jeans to show for it.) The privets are a work in progress, and I've reduced several of my Bradford pears to the size of bonsai , I gave up on pulling them out of the ground because of the huge root system, but "I'll be back" I'm thinking perhaps with backhoes or high explosives 😊. Anyways it is far from over but I am determined and as long as my health holds up I'll keep up with it. Thank you for this great video.
my compost-worms: did someone say necromass??? 🐍
you know how to fix this incredibly complex system? Leave a hairless ape that thinks it knows best to do it =) What can go wrong?
How do I do what you do for a living? You have inspired me to pursue ecology when I go to college. I want to know what you do exactly and how I would make a living doing it.
Do you ever intend to work on the San Joaquin valley in California? I am a former resident of the region and it's in desperate need of a lot of policy reform but also your advising. The drought their is getting worse every year and the top soil is being destroyed by all the agriculture.
what about fire dependent ecosystems? The idea “bare ground = unhealthy” isn’t necessarily true. That is the natural state in some ecosystems… I live in historic longleaf pine savanna range and when I started researching habitat improvement for local species I learned that some of the permaculture techniques I was using were counterproductive to helping the natives.. mulch mulch mulch right? well no because here we need to burn necromass to regenerate longleaf pine… threatened bobwhite quail and other species cant even nest without bare, exposed ground.
Nature is so stupid that it needed to evolve hairless, tailless, yapping monkeys in order to save it.
Nature is so dumb. Stupid Nature.
…spreading seeds with drones. Not with birds and their poop. No, with drones and lithium batteries.
MAN, NATURE IS SO FUCKING STUPID.
Great explanation, thank you
we are part of the species 🙂 we are here to live peacefully with nature, in her, in our home 🙂
I'm always intrigued by the notion that humans are somehow separate from nature, not a component part of it. Granted we've been a destructive part of it for a long time, but surely we aren't separate from it?
You are videos is always amazing
But if you don't mind I want ask how you are using the glass like this
What kind of science is this called? I'm assuming ecology but what kind?
So by that definition all deserts are broken ecosystems, which means that they need to be fixed. Including mountain glaciers, Greenland and Antarctica.
Amazon rainforest is also broken because it has very little necromass.
On the flip side, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is thriving (it has a lot of biodiversity and biomass, look it up).
First of all you have to remove the neo cons out of America
Then purify they hearts of greed in people in world power
Pretty simple …..
Wow dude. You made something so complicated so easy 😂 thank you ❤️🔥💪🏾
Me gustaría subtitulo en español porfavor
Great video! Incredible effort put in to summarize an expansive topic like this for everyone to understand.
I own an abandoned for 20+ years field. All this happy talk is just bs. Invasive Russian olives, Rosa multiflora, goldenrod dominate the field and kill everything. There are a few surviving trees clinging to life but it would take literally 100+ years for the hardy survivors to overcompete the invasives. BUT most of the new saplings are ash and elm that stand no chance to mature due to pest and desease. In short it takes planning, lots of $ and/or back breaking labor to return land back to life. It is hard to believe but perma clowns keep promoting Russian olive and such in their blah blah blah bs.
L. I.T.F.A system is by far the best…
Fix the people first, then only then you can fix the ecosystem! Poverty will always find ways to destroy ecosystems…
Gorgeous video! Thank you so much Andrew. I just love how you make them with the glass and colored drawings. So well done! And such awesome worthy content for the effort.
awesome
🤯your delivery is so good. It hits like a ton of seeds every time I watch your videos.
The method of agriculture you described as known as monocropping which is monochropping which is noted as one of the worst agricultural myth agriculture methods in the history of agriculture. Which is why the majority of modern American farms refrain from monocropping. I should know I'm a farmer.
I was just pondering a concept: could you somehow find a way to manage floodwaters in vulnerable ecosystems to lightly saturate areas where people plants and animals don’t have enough water (in the desert), or has it been tried and was too challenging, hope this isn’t a silly question, thanks!
This is fucking stupid af
I work for Tallgrass restoration doing habitat restoration for the Chicago region.
I wish I had this optimism.
I feel like the video gives the impression that restoration will fix our human caused broken ecosystems. In reality a degraded site being able to reach a climatic community is a financial and ecological everest. Conservation of untouched ecosystems at all costs. Restoration is a last resort with expensive and unreliable results
Climax community is natural paradise, is natural evolution, rich biodiversity and the process of attaining a higher level of perfection…until man arrives and insist on sending all nature to a primitive state, to a sad and poorer level of evolution.
This is a very great video to understand the process of nature.
Cool video… thanks!
It's so simple….. Just follow these steps…. They work for me…..
Step 1: STOP CUTTING! Put away the mower! Don't be a "Lawn Zombie"!
Step 2: STOP SPRAYING or spreading herbicides, pesticides, poisons, fertilizers, or any other chemical
Step 3 LET EVERYTHING that will grow… GROW!! More plants means more plants!!!!
Step 4 Help it along by planting some indigenous plants and wild flowers here and there especially some late fall Asters for the bees.
Step 5 Watch and enjoy all the bees, butterflies, birds, and all kinds of other little critters that will return to your world….
Keep it up Andrew. Great video