Riverwoods: An Untold Story | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Three years in the making, this feature-length documentary shines a light on the perilous state of Scotland’s salmon,  | dG1fWk5SVnh4bF9UdUE

Transcript

00:00Nature in Scotland is in a bad way.

00:09One of our biggest problems is that people think what they see in Scotland is normal

00:13and natural when it is anything but.

00:17The last few years, you know, we've really noticed a big decline in them.

00:22They're hugely down and there's no denying that.

00:24They've reduced at least by 70%.

00:27Salmon are in crisis.

00:28I think it would be lazy to say that all the problems for Atlantic salmon are at sea.

00:36It's becoming more apparent that survival of salmon at sea is also linked to the conditions

00:42in fresh water.

00:45The surrounding land use has a huge effect on what happens in the river.

00:52We don't look at the upland river catchments and think they should be trees, but they actually

00:57should be trees.

01:00What we've done essentially is turn the hills from a thatched roof into a slate roof.

01:06If we don't get trees in them in the next few decades, we're going to lose salmon from

01:10over 300 kilometres of river potentially.

01:15What salmon do is they take marine nutrients and bring them back into the river systems.

01:21That nutrient that they've taken from the sea gets taken up by all the animals, the

01:25vegetation and even the trees.

01:29No one animal exists in isolation.

01:33It's a deeply interconnected web.

01:36I don't think anyone wants to be known for abusing the land anymore.

01:42We've all been guilty of it.

01:45Scotland without salmon is definitely a possibility and it would be a tragedy.