It is an old wives tale that pigs can`t swim. I have seen wild pigs in NZ swim considerable distances and they are mainly feral Tamworths.
Wild boar could swim the River Severn, expert claims
Sounds incredible but he's right because the wild boar are excellent swimmerswww.gloucestershirelive.co.uk
Coming your way.......
(Also culling figures in there)
Lynx and wolves could return to England as rewilding task force set up by PM
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Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
It was always said that pigs couldn't swim because of their front leg and neck positions . They said if they tried to do the "doggie crawl" they would cut their own throat with their front trotters. Old wives' tale I think .
Paddington
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Photography is very good though.
Packham and his mates are laughing all the way to the bank. One location for Sprigwatch is just up the road from me, some of it on land once owned by my grandfather. The gamekeeper is now officially a wildlife warden. Sea Eagles are due to arrive soon though there is no evidence that they ever inhabited north west Norfolk other than as passing migrants. Good news for outdoor small livestock. .
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
first thing, agriculture only employs about 1.5% of the workforce but doesn't agriculture feed 100% of the population, I think everyone would be starving if we re-wilded and turned everything over to Lynx, Wolves, Bison etc etc, just watching the first minute I feel myself getting annoyed! The crux of the matter is, there are too many people in the world, but, all we can do about it is try to farm as efficiently as possible, make a little room for wildlife, don't waste food.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
just enough truth in the film to make the whole seem believable, I think all this rewilding is the result of a bunch of rich city based people never being hungry or having to worry about where there next meal is coming from.
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- Kent
I doubt they would starve they would bitch and whine still because food would be imported and developing countries would then be clearing forests to keep up with demand for the new cash crops.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
remember the "Arab Spring" was not about an urge for democracy, rather, it was all about the price of bread going up in Egypt.
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- Kent
But don't forget people from different countries tend to react differently well unless there is a respiratory disease going around then everyone buys loo roll but the same ones who campaign for rewilding here where it then pushes land out of food production to the point they would be happy for us to import all our food like Singapore are also the ones that complain and campaign because that demand is then met by countries in other parts of the world including developing countries that a) don't necessarily have the same welfare or environmental protection laws as we have b) have less qualms about taking habitats out to meet the new demand.
I do think we do a crap job of promoting our produce as it seems more along the line of bigging ours up by deriding others on social media I have been more pee'd off at reading sourced from the NFU or even the original copied straight in still with the logo on post saying how livestock are killing the planet. With it coming from one's about feed lot in the States and elsewhere and then read comments when someone has pointed it out about how is that no different than finishing units and zero graze here where they are housed. All it accomplishes is taking an axe to ones they are supposed to be promoting. You then have the fact that when people try to then market to other countries it causes bad blood.
Suffolk Serf
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Meanwhile, the original rewinding Estate, Knepp, has been making a return to farming, albeit in a limited way, with mob grazed beef cattle and a market garden to supply their planned farm shop.
I'm thinking it was 2-3 countries in North Africa, with associated 'bread riots', because of a spike in wheat price
........which in turn had been fuelled by speculators on Wall St.
Think, all that turmoil.........still reverberating
the narrator cant even pronounce our names correctly, American twang/crap i bet he's got a husband and wants children,oh dear.
Paddington
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The Highlands of Scotland as the high lands
And Cornwall should be pronounced Cornwull not Corn waall like ' he ' did. Los Angeles should be rewilded that would shut them up.The Highlands of Scotland as the high lands
primmiemoo
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- Devon
The Highlands of Scotland as the high lands
How much do they think they can siphon from the Devolved Governments? Any ideas?
The sales pitch sounds as though it's come from The Hitchhikers Guide's ads section.
The bloke is controlled by Magratheans.
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Magrathea
thats a good point.Could be al
iens trying to extinguish human life on earth then take over
Pigken
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Ended up watching this on YouTube, the comments and support were truly unbelievable, worth a few minutes looking to see how much Some sectors of watchers back it. But surely food security after the souzers canal and covid and brexit is more important.
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I agree, but the problem is that so many in our society are totally divorced from the realities of life/death and where food comes from, they don't join the dots to lamb in a field-lamb chop on a polystyrene container in Tesco! That is why, programmes, like this weeks episode of My Yorkshire Farm is so important. I wonder how people thought of the chickens feeding, killing, plucking, Christmas dinner link played out. I remember my daughter saying something like, I loved raising and looking after the turkeys, now I loving eating them but I wonder how many would think like that.
Pigken
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- Co. Durham
Very true, so is there a national body that represents agriculture, the countryside etc that can help educate. Why are so many youngsters growing up unaware that milk comes from cow etc. Why are we not still allowing school children to visit farms. But yes Amanda Clive and family are good ambassador s.