Ireland's Invisible Rainforest

Explore how news stories are framed across the globe and political spectrum at https://ground.news/aidin. Use my link to get 40% off the Vantage Subscription for unlimited access! The mysterious past and precarious future of the Irish Atlantic Rainforest. 🎧 Sound effects I use for my videos: https://bit.ly/2WI2aJ7 📧 Contact Me: hello@aidinrobbins.com 📸 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/aidinrobbins Sources/Further Reading: Hall - The Making of Ireland's Landscape Since the Ice Age: https://tinyurl.com/5ayja8pt Viney - Ireland: A Smithsonian Natural History: https://tinyurl.com/45cvz34r DellaSala - Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: https://link.springer.com/book/10.5822/978-1-61091-008-8 Irish Wildlife Trust - Atlantic Rainforest: https://iwt.ie/episode-4-the-wild-atlantic-rainforest/ Peatland Conservation Council - Raised Bogs: https://tinyurl.com/mvsr3kmj National Botanic Gardens - Bryophytes: https://tinyurl.com/3rdrp54w Botanical Society - Kerry Mousetail Fern: https://tinyurl.com/32j2xubx Irish Times - Ice Age Plant: https://tinyurl.com/erb7e2yt Montgomery - Origin of the Holocene Mammals of ‘These Islands.’ http://www.jstor.org/stable/24394331 Woodman - Ireland’s Native Mammals: A Survey of the Archaeological Record: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24394323 Mitchell - WHERE DID IRELAND’S TREES COME FROM? http://www.jstor.org/stable/20728598 Biodiversity Ireland - Atlas of Mammals in Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/mpjy3v8f Vincent Wildlife Trust - Stoat: https://www.vincentwildlife.ie/species/irish-stoat Corlea Trackway Visitor Centre: https://tinyurl.com/h3sp9t3r National Museum of Ireland - Faddan More Psalter: https://tinyurl.com/yvphcyvy Montaño - Cultural Conflict and the Landscape of Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: http://www.jstor.org/stable/26333463 Sands - Dewilding ‘Wolf-land’: Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/2ajzp76u Britannica - Irish War of Independence: https://tinyurl.com/ymj3yxkh Women's Museum - Matilda Knowles: https://tinyurl.com/bdhtzwzy Dictionary of Irish Biography - Praeger: https://tinyurl.com/3p8yauuk Killarney National Park: https://www.nationalparks.ie/killarney/nature-conservation/ Earth Observatory - Cutaway Peatlands: https://tinyurl.com/yt2yh88p Irish Examiner - Peat Harvest Ends: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40207565.html Maps/Graphics: British Library: https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191735/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/157970/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/144020/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191882/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/176910/ Peatland Conservation Council - Raised Bog Formation: https://tinyurl.com/4mxbcwsn Costello, Kelly - Biogeography of Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/mt44xrpr Ben and Alison Averis - A Provisional Definition of Temperate Rainforest in Britain and Ireland: https://tinyurl.com/bdhy22jk Edwards, Brooks - The Island of Ireland: Drowning the Myth of an Irish Land-Bridge? http://www.jstor.org/stable/20764499 Clare Island: https://tinyurl.com/37wcjnxc Illustrations: Britsh Library: https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/156139/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191891/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191892/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/191587/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/181468/ https://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/asset/155791/ Giant Irish Deer: https://tinyurl.com/mjvpwrjv Kerry Slug: https://tinyurl.com/ypdkdhzm George Edwards - Smooth Newt Robert Brown - Peoples of the World, Vol 5 Crannog: https://tinyurl.com/4tyhth9u Edward Mortlemans - Iron Age Trackway Norman Invasion Tapestry: https://tinyurl.com/5b98zh8m W.H. Bartlett - Carrickfergus Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland Charles Whymper - Peat Cutting W.H. Bartlett: View of Torc Waterfall, Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland Derricke - The image of Irelande: https://archive.org/details/imageofirelandew00derr Photos: Praeger: https://tinyurl.com/56utdwrn Articles: Guardian - Kerry Mousetail Fern: https://tinyurl.com/yhhtfhtb Guardian - Faddan More Psalter: https://tinyurl.com/esyw9sbv The Journal - Eagle Reintroduction: https://tinyurl.com/3uwjbcdr BBC - Wolf Reintroduction: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl39xvdnljo Irish Times - Lynx Reintroduction: https://tinyurl.com/ytaz7s67 Documents: Knowles - Lichens of Ireland: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20490349?seq=1 Praeger - Irish Topographical Botany: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20488793?seq=1 Irish Naturalist Journal: https://tinyurl.com/yxdxe32x 0:00 - Intro 1:59 - Landscape 5:52 - Biogeography 8:27 - sponsor 10:39 - The First People 11:48 - The Iron Age 13:02 - The Early Christian Period 14:03 - The Norman Invasion 14:48 - The Tudor Invasion 18:04 - Irish Independence 21:15 - What Remains 23:06 - Outro- Drawing the Line The links above are affiliate links, from which I gain a small monetary compensation when purchases are made. They help keep the lights on ;)