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Watch UK's Natural Land Diminish in 100 Seconds | Short Film Showcase


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·Nov 11, 2024

What does the United Kingdom really look like? To get a better sense of proportion, let's go on a hundred second walk across our nation. Each second of the walk reveals one percent of our lands and how they look from above. Are you ready for the UK in 100 seconds?

We walk through 22 kinds of land, but are gone in a blink. Houses and gardens occupy 5% of the UK, and five seconds of our walk. We spend six seconds crossing natural grassland and wonder for seven over sheep graze. Wars and heathlands, peat bogs which are carbon stores, are something else together. They take off a 9% of the nation, and for 10 seconds we're in forests. There's no place I'd rather be.

For 27 seconds, we walk through fields of crops. Half is fed to livestock. In June, we mostly grow wheat, barley, oilseed, peas and beans, corn, oats, and vegetables. Our last 28 percent, and 28 seconds, takes us through pastures. This is the single biggest use of land, mostly used for feeding and rearing cows and sheep.

In all, at a time when more than one in ten British species are at risk of extinction, do we need to rethink this mix of lands we have and how we use them? I need more trees, please. I think more nature would be greater. So what if we made more space for nature?

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