Grassland management ties into the vision of what we're talking about on a larger scale, about 35,000 square miles.
Grasslands are kind of medium, mid-scale.
grasslands but there have been horse archers for a thousand years and there's no evidence of ecological change to find
So grassland management is an incredible tool to help all these pastoral communities.
as grasslands , peatlands, as well as forests, different forests, so tropical as well as temperate forests.
So grasslands are some of the biggest, about like marine ecosystems, frankly.
And this rolling grassland .
That's a grassland . So this is an actual grassland that is hugged between two of the most iconic mountain ranges in the entire California desert.
Because it's a grassland , and because of its elevation, and because of the amount of moisture it gets, it's super diverse.
That's more than grasslands , than the temperate zones.
And the grasslands , because they're low elevation and incredible forage, they have a carrying capacity for wildlife, a biological carrying capacity for wildlife,
When the grasslands are improved, wildlife comes back.
They've got vast grasslands , also very overgrazed.
This is the Chelsea Grasslands moving north at the beginning of the 13th block straightaway that runs through West Chelsea, followed by the Chelsea Thicket, a more enclosed environment.
Turns out its grasslands , grasslands are the habitat type on earth that are most converted by human activity.
Central Asian grasslands north of China south of Siberia with forested mountains
This is the most intact grassland left in the California desert.
So 100 years ago on this grassland , there were pronghorned antelope, and there were Mexican wolves
they would have moved on a natural grassland like the Serengeti it's the Serengeti but on a farm essentially and
We need to bring our grasslands back.
This is wetlands and savanna grasslands .
These are the world's tallest grasslands .
I talked about biological carrying capacity of grasslands .
What you need in the grasslands is bigger than most places like forests.
And they lease to these wealthy guys grasslands while they're going through.
This is a section in the Chelsea Grasslands .
go back in time when our grasslands were dominated by large herds of grazing animals so bison here in America or
It's considered to be one of the biggest grassland restoration projects in the world, but I never trust those kinds of statements.
And cheetahs play a very key role in this in the grassland ecosystems.
Are we going to cut down more rain forests and grasslands in order to plant more food to get that?
What that came from is conservation biologists looking at grasslands in Africa, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, et cetera, taking a look at if you have
up because there are 3.5 billion he of agricultural grasslands on our planet
lands, the grasslands , the hydrologic cycle, the carbon cycle, including photosynthesis, climate regulation, pollination, seed dispersal, flood and insect control, and so on and so
Can we blame the desert for missing the breeze that tumbles across the grassland ?
You can also see Hyde Park as a mixture of trees and grassland and so on.
So now we have to work on how do we mitigate the challenges between the grassland and the wildlife for cattle and so forth.
So these would be things like forests, grasslands , so-called blue carbon, all the amazing aquatic vegetation on our planet, wetlands, peatlands.
Restoration-- the restoration of forest, the restoration of grasslands , the restoration of our minds, but also, the restoration of extirpated species
And suddenly, there would be grasslands .
through the wildebeest, through the grasslands , through the fire cycle, to the trees, to the giraffes.
And ironically, we missed the grasslands during that golden age.
And it goes into areas where there's more water and where there are grasslands .
wilderbeast in Africa so the Serengeti is one of the few remaining natural grasslands on the planet with these huge migrating herds
in the distance as the titles roll my camera zooms forward over the grasslands
ground because the trees were disappearing and move through very dangerous open grasslands to another group of trees and collect what they
So that area, open, rolling grassland , is the homeland of these people.
Here's a good look at the extent of the grassland .
Mostly, we've taken what you'd define as a fully functioning grassland ecosystem, break it into 10 easily discussable topic areas, and say we want to move up on the scale.
So not only do we have fish banks we also now have grass banks; That are grassland areas that the community agrees to set aside for wildlife like in Northern Kenya we're doing
You have to turn rainforest, forest, into grasslands , into savanna, to drive that fundamental evolutionary change.