Russell Crowe

Yeah, they hunt wild horses in Australia.

But I have to put that love for horses aside to what it's doing to the rest of the native animals.

And in Australia, we're, like, blessed with so many unusual and fantastic creatures.

But we haven't really been good husbands of the land.

And we haven't really focused on what's good for them.

So...

Yeah.

It sounds rough, but, you know, we've got to do something because, quite frankly, the wombats and the platypus and the quokkas and the kangaroos and the wallabies are a little bit more important than the wild horses.

I mean, I don't know how much- The kid that I was talking to you about, Merlin Hanbury Tennyson, came out of school, went in the army, did two or three tours.

but now has found himself in a situation where he's taken over a block of land that his father bought in the 50s or 60s or something, and he's turning that block of land back into temperate rainforest and seeing all of these benefits because of it.

So instead of trying to run sheep or run some other commercial herd, he's just letting...

the country go back to what it should be and seeing incredible results because of it.

Well, what he's shifted now and is using it for now is like PTSD recovery.

So former soldiers or whatever just go to this place and find a new balance because they're in that sort of natural environment.

But just without certain creatures eating types of trees as shoots and fresh shoots, those trees are actually getting –

um a hold so it should be you know oak trees for example you know and there's only like you know was only just a few there but by taking out the non-native animals who's seeing those trees increase i mean there's a book i forget it if you could look it up for me jamie merlin hanbury tennyson the book just came out it's a great book

It really is.

It's an unusual read.

You're sort of reading it and you think, okay, it's like the reestablishment of a temperate rainforest.

How can this be good?