BAOBAB FRUIT : The Sad Truth Behind Madagascar's Iconic Tree - Weird Fruit Explorer 388
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2019
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Hope you enjoy this one guys. Its possibly my biggest video yet and there's even greater ones coming up in the near future!
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Treeeeeeeees
That country is really poor and they don't have any choice but to find income. The government of that country should do something about it or it will not gonna change. It's entirely the peoples fault because their education really low and just teaching them about tree planting is hard enough as it is.
USSR had a faitrade relationship with Madagascar and they had forest. USA took over, exploited them with kkkapitalism and turned them into dustbowl.
I've seen bail Bob's I've been to I've been to Kenya where are they sell them now you sweet boy cook special little millennial snowflake but you're still a latte down have some steak have a cigar drink some coffee and get some testosterone in you your plans e yes I called you a pansy because you look so undernourished and no testosterone to speak of anyhow have a nice day
Jared Please! Where can I find mangosteens in NYC or Jersey im addicted to them after my last trip to singapore
This channel is not for beach nerds.
Except for a couple beach fruits
@Iconoclast
Ancient Celtic Magic.
It's a terrible deodorant fragrance...
Beach rats?
Darnnit
Aw 😢
In the West spiking trees is a way to prevent them from being cut down. When a chainsaw hits the spike it blows the chain apart and can kill the logger.
Yikes...
Just a single trip to a sawmill convinced me that spiking is attempted murder. Education is the only answer.
David Culpepper I am not advocating this at all. He mentioned that someone had driven a spike in the tree and was not pleased with it. I was merely adding context
@@nixonvlark6390 Hi Nixon, I understand, I just posted to inform people who might attempt it. If you are ever in a big or small circular saw mill, look at the ceilings. The Sawyer now sit behind bullet proof glass. Band mills can be worse. Thanks, David
Great idea I’m going to spike all my landscaping trees and shrubs,so I can be extra sure some jerk doesn’t take my trees without my permission that I will definitely not ever give because I love all my landscaping plants a lot🤠
The deforestation is such a shame to see
It really is :(
yo wtf you doing here
Yeah I mean here in the United States where most for trees don't take 800 years to grow they act more like a big carbon battery. Chop down a bunch of trees and plant new ones and you can capture a lot of carbon and as long as you don't burn what you just cut down that carbon will stay out of the atmosphere for the most part. The issue is that a baobab tree takes so long to grow and they are sought after so it's a battle making things sustainable.
Whoa you're everywhere I go
It's always refreshing to see a big youtuber watching the same stuff as me
my home town in Borneo, and slowly started to look like thi too. shame
Dude ur living the life u rock
Oh shit, definitely did not expect you here
He’s not dead!
Upload please
Gee, your the billionth person to think and say this. How original.
@@brkitdwn that’s what they called me in high school
Some guy in my city in the Philippines actually has 4 adult baobab trees on his property.
dude, where
Seriously, where
Where?!
@@waspstomper6250 well since you asked. Iloilo city.
It's in the city proper near St. Agustin University but it's private property. I don't want give out the guy's exact address.
bro what, eat him and his fruit
Having been to Madagascar myself I admit I understand how desperate they are to sell literally anything.
They are shockingly poor, the whole country is desperate.
Yeah.. you can't really blame them when they don't have electricity even.
Are you a librul, or what? They are rich with opportunity! They can still sell their souls!
@@Kamamura2 tf is a “librul”
TRAGIC!!!
@Kaneki Ken He was clearly being sarcastic.
I really like that you point out that blaming the locals is not the correct solution, problems like this are always much more complex then they seem at first. It’s good to see that there is a regrowth project being worked on.
He's wrong, though. A big part of the problem is massive illegal logging and international smuggling of endangered trees due to government corruption. :(. Check out CITES data on Madagascar.
It’s easy to cast judgement from the comfort of our electricity and supermarkets, but taking things from nature for survival is how human civilization has been for most of our history. Things has gone extinct due to expansion and settlement, just because Baobab is especially rare and is currently happening that it’s being highlighted. But then do we just tell the locals to “be more advanced” or move away? It isn’t that simple.
How is the problem complex? The people of Madagascar are ignorant snd unintelligent, they have no concept of history, record-keeping or conserving things for the future. They literally just exist to consume. Read up on their philosophy some time.
@@RadenWA yeah, its a great example of how the issue isnt individuals and the most accessible industries that spring up to supply their needs, but the overall systemic structure that make these decisions the only ones that make sense. I think comparing it to earlier human history is tricky though. The issue of scale in the last century and a half has grossly ballooned out problems that were already outpacing and overloading natural systems. It suits those who benefit the most to encourage population booms and keep those people reliant on subsistence for a variety of downstream reasons. An overpopulated, underfed and underresourced people ultimately demand based on desperation because that's the only choice. Worse yet, as long as people in the countries that benefit most from these systemic tragedies aren't doing materially well enough to absorb more representative pricing models, the same issue still essentially applies and we're not about to agree to a doubling of chocolate or coffee prices so that other poor people can see fair returns, because that would literally remove one of a few small material solaces in a system where even being able to eat at all in a metro area requires the kindness of others or a total buy-in to the system in some form or another. Keep everyone in direct competition with each other for resources, and the decisions we make of course are going to reflect it. We live in a globalized world where there shouldn't be a viable excuse for such limited available options. In fact, its fair argument to suggest that when these sorts of problems continue to rise and worsen, it strips the value that such a system could in theory bring to the table.
So what changed for the locals since the deforestation began? If they hardly have electricity, and never did, then what is the excuse?
I have to eat ketogenic for epilepsy.
I basically cannot eat fruit.
Yet here I am watching another Weird Fruit Explorer episode.
That is how good this channel is.
Thanks Dan!
Same here. No interest in casually eating fruit. But it's cool to see all these varieties. Such an adventure.
I too eat ketogenic for epilepsy. Hope others try it.
@@WeirdExplorer Just for fun, a lame joke from the Bible:
In the Garden of Eden, it was not the-fruit-on-the-tree, but the pair on the ground.
Tragic!
It's crazy how those small seeds turn into giant, amazing trees!
Sequoias are the heaviest trees in the world, yet check out their seeds - mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kvpr/files/styles/x_large/public/201605/giant_sequoia_2.jpg. Or eucalyptus regnans (a rival with redwoods for the tallest trees in the world) - museumsvictoria.com.au/media/8000/000008431c.jpg?width=569&height=576&bgcolor=fff
seeds are crazy
@@WeirdExplorer it would be really nice to have one and start growing it. Make it a family tree, or try to live longer than the tree. I would like one.
Ever thought of human seeds (a single semen) und human size?
@@MrPruske Live longer than the tree!? Do you realise these trees can live over 2000 years
Extremely sad to see the deforestation of Madagascar. Same thing is happening in my country, Bangladesh. In the nineties,we had around 25 percent forest land. Around 2010 it became 9 percent. I am afraid to even search latest forest land percentage.
Go vegan or we will all suffer the consequences we have about 11 more years until we destroy this earth
@@ZE308AC stfu. Being vegan won't change anything. Actually, it will kill off more animals, albeit slowly and gradually, as the demand on vegetation and urban expansion will keep on going
Actually at last count over 30 percent of the land on the planet is forest. In the US its around 33 percent I think. And thats a lot considering a HUGE amount of land is plains.
Z E This has absolutely nothing to do with eating meat, first world idiot. Bangladeshis meat supply is mostly fish. This has to do with firewood supply and rice agriculture. We have the same problem in West Bengal.
Maybe you can plant the trees near temples. Everyone can understand that.
The spikes in the baobab at 25:30 are to prevent lumber-jacking, its promised to dull the ax, or produce dangerouse kickback if a chain saw is attempted, so those spikes are actualy protecting that tree:)
In that case I take back what I said about them. keep up the good work spikes!
*T* *R* *A* *G* *I* *C*
@@WeirdExplorer while it does protect the tree in a way it is also designed so the chainsaw violently kicks back and kills the logger. So while it does prevent the tree from being cut down it is also murder
@@josephhuston4186 ahh. If you know something is rare/endangered and you still do this you deserve it. Same goes for endangered sport hunters. I support spiking just like I support poacher hunters.
@@TheBeardedVagabond while I normally agree this isn't really the same issue as something like poaching, many of the lumberjacks cutting these are just trying to provide for thier families and it is the ones who employ them who are evil
Fun (not really, more sad) facts, out of all the species lemurs, which there are 101 species, 95 species are at risk of extinction. There are other species in Madagascar that are endangered, like radiated tortoises that are listed as critically endangered. And yes, the baobabs are endangered. There are 6 species of them, three are endangered, and 3 are listed as Near Threatened.
I am glad that you "were preachy" (I don't think so, btw), influencers show everything "good" and not actual reality. It is so important for people to know what is real/really going on in the world, not just the "nice""scenic" bits.
Agreed! I thought about that as well. Like the influencers who keep on taking pictures by or in that polluted lake - in Russia, IIRC - because it is a lovely blue and don’t talk about how the water is full of chemicals and irritates their skin. It’s nice when someone keeps it real.
Yea, it seems like people will only ever come for the aesthetic
Yep, and the people of Madagascar are destroying their country! There used to be FAR more of those trees, but since their govt is so freaking greedy and corrupt, they've FAILED to create jobs and a decent standard of life for the people! 👎😡👎
@@HighlanderNorth1 Let's not go trying to place all of the blame on just one Government or its people. This is a failure mainly from this world's psychopathic leaders who were too focused on pedophilia instead of looking after Earth.
@@HighlanderNorth1
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conceived and carried out by the psychopathic criminals
who are controlled by the "Old Empire".
The mass extermination of "untouchables" and prison
camps created by Germany during World War II were
recently revealed. Likewise, the IS-BEs of Earth are the
victims of spiritual eradication and eternal slavery
inside frail, biological bodies, inspired by the same
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If The Domain sent ships to every corner of the universe
in search of "Hell", their quest could end on Earth.
What greater brutality can be inflicted on anyone than
to erase the spiritual awareness, identity, ability,
and memory that is the essence of oneself?
Honestly I think you should make more content about the environments that these fruits come from and the current state and future of these amazing places.
I hope to do more like that in the future.
TRAGIC!
I agree...you might think about preserving seeds as well to keep them for future generations. it's so very important. I think you and your other half are bloody amazing!!! thank you.
You know what makes me most glad about this video? That you and I share the same feelings of combined enchantment and dismay at the sight of those glorious but damaged Baobab trees.
Thank you for being down to earth and realistic with your account of the situation.
The solution to this is is to grow bamboo as a wood substitute for the people bamboo has wood properties but is and grows like grass.
and it's a massive fire hazard. Not saying it's a bad idea (it's pretty solid actually), but that it has to be implemented with RATIONALE. This requires any activist to be shot if he gets anywhere close to be able to take decisions.
You can see the idiocy of the "green" people in the latests fires that ravaged Australia. No more fire breaking lines in the forests, created by making controlled fires in the winter, because "meh buh activisth duh, fire killing plant bahhhhhhhd eviiiiiil".
Result? near-extinction event for many animals, greenery destroyed. HOW it started is irrelevant, be it natural or arson (natural MASSIVE fires are actually part of the course). The fact that it can easily be prevented with measures is key. But some people are just dense. Or leftists. Same thing.
@@maxlopolo2415 actually, most ecologists would agree that small occasional wild fires help both the environment (by lettjng nature run its course) and the people living close by. By burning a little bit each year, it prevents huge massive unstoppable fire and keeps the problem more manageable. I'm not sure where you get the idea that leftists are against proper forest management, but I'd love to see a source claiming so. I'm genuinely interested :)
Bamboos are good, but not be all end all replacement for wood. They're weaker, they're more susceptible to fungus, you can't make bigger piece of like beams or planks from them because they're hollow cylinders unlike trees. There are uses where bamboo would make sense, but there are a lot more places where they just can't replace wood.
@@rfldss89 He was criticizing non ecologists, who aren't familiar with controlled burns complaining about them. He was also complaining activists who aren't knowledgeable on the issue.
@@rigen97 in china and some other asian countries it's used as a building material for some buildings
Actually a sad reality of deforestation in Madagascar. I was thinking to this point it had kind of variety of trees which are found nowhere else . Never thought in my wildest dreams Madagascar was so deserted.😢
Caused by deforestation.
Looks like the trees I drew in kindergarten lol
underrated comment
I really wish people where more smart about what there doin to the planet.
Learn to English more gooder.
@@slappy8941 meh, english kinda sucks
I wish people took destroying the planet more seriously. It's way too slow. Burning this place down is the only way we can make a mark.
@Wristguard2888 ah yes eating out plastic containers, the only way to have fun in life.
They’re
"their stupid name on it like they're important" looool
I think they might need an ambulance for that burn
Those graffitists will be dead before long with just their shame surviving them - and the baobabs will endure. Hopefully Madagascar can find a source of wealth that does not destroy the country. Thanks for ending on those lush seedlings being cared for so well.
Not realistic. They'll be gone. All trees wild trees in any forest will be gone.
@@myRefuge3710 We have to be optimistic if we wanna save them. Giving up isn't the answer
@@falcon_arkaig eh no hope just no hope
@@n34x57 Not with that attitude lol
@@falcon_arkaig still no hope
Planting, caring for and protecting trees are modern days acts of heroism. Be a hero!
When you said “I’m imagining that people pee in here, because I would” I laughed out loud on that one! Thanks for another fabulous video man!
its like someone made a yam out of suede
The baobab cribs are heartening. I hope the seedlings live to outgrow them!
the video was so wholesome for half of it and then there was a SUPER hard turn into this depressing reality, almost like it was a different video entirely, still probably one of the best videos on the channel in my opinion
We have many of these trees here in Sudan.
The fruit is a famous snack. we eat it with sugar, or with peanut butter, chilli and lemon.
And also make juice out of it.
We call it Tabaldi.
Nice video.
The babybabs are so cute and unassuming, you'd never know that they'll grow into such huge trees!
I like your icon btw!
Watching the local kids stair at you as you run cracked me up so much.
I went on an ecological expedition to Madagascar in 2010 to the northwest (near Mariarano) and even then I was shocked by the deforestation that I could see everywhere. What has really saddened me is that a couple months ago I looked at the forests that we were surveying on google maps and vast swathes of them (maybe 60%) had completely disappeared. Like Steven said, there is a desperate need for sustainable permaculture techniques to be disseminated amongst the Malagasy population, or very soon they will suffer dire consequences.
EDIT:
I just had another look at google maps and I have to take back what I said. It doesn't look as bad as I thought, definitely nowhere close to 60% (maybe 20% at most). I swear I remember looking and just seeing the forests just gone... feels like I'm gaslighting myself lol... but if the images on google maps are up-to-date, the deforestation (at least where I was) is not as bad as I thought.
not even ten years and that happens.. another ten and I'd hate to see what happens
TRAGIC!
Jared: "I'm not going to climb very far, because if I fall I'll break my head open."
Me: "Hmm, I wonder what the fruit and seeds inside will look like?"
They make those climbing handles to pick the fruit
in Tanzania all these trees been cut to extinction west of madagasca......The sad part they cant be regrown. I think the science behind is they used to grow when that part of africa was a wet land...now most land is dry and growing up ave never seen a young bowbab tree.The burk is a medicine in a alot of remedies
You're right there used to many of these trees in Tanzania called buya and used to eat them by mixing them in sugar syrup with colour but now you hardly see it.
@@jayesjjani2278 your right....i grew up eating that stuff all day in primary school. Now even the price went up cause its hard to find the trees
I didn't know that about Tanzania. so sad.
TRAGIC 2!!
This is beautiful. I envy you. Never apologize for feeling passionate about something important.
"They wrote their name on like they're important" lol so true. One of my dreams is to climb one of those one day. I don't want to hurt the tree, I just want to climb it
Thank you for speaking for the habitat of Madagascar. I had no idea so thank you for documenting & educating me. ❤️
I had no idea Madagascar was in such a condition. I'm sort of angry this isn't discussed more.
I would love to hear from some of the local efforts to preserve the ecosystem. I'm sure they have some amazing stories as to what used to be.
Its not the only place. feel free to look at Haiti, or Brazil, and most any country in Africa.
broski really Brazil’s having it bad?
Worry about ur self, u think where live building stores hwy was there no, u took out trees An animals to make cities , western ppl always want to act like there shit don’t smell
j borrego - seems like you know da way 🙄
@@jborrego2406 the ecology aint some moral bragging points contest u neanderthal illiterate (as much as the vegans make it seem like one)
The global south has much more biodiversity than the lands of the west and has less resources to care for them than the west. Of course theyre the places people will worry about
I understand the plight of the madagascans, they have no other choice, but that doesnt negate the fact that its them that are chopping down all the trees on the island
Madagascar has 2% or so of its primary forests remaining... i had the same reaction when i left there. Cash crops are a problem too, the famous vanilla trade is responsible for the destruction of some of the most beautiful forests.
This is incorrect. Europeans originally thought the highlands was forest however recent research showcasing the biodiversity of the plateau shows a more complex pre European and pre-proto malagasy ecology
@@Leisma92 i think you underestimate the problem there... even Mt. Vatovavy, which is supposed to be a protected forest, was freshly burned when i visited
@@magickpalms4025 contemporary deforestation is real and a result of deep and intrinsic poverty of Malgache peoples. *and* that figure of 2% is inaccurate.
You know..I’m glad to be able to see the way it actually is..rather than looking at something through a lifestyle filter.
"These trees are so freakin' big. I can't even fit it in"
my brain: *beavis laugh*
me: *beavis laugh*
Dude! I'm so stoked you are in Madagascar and checking out the avenue of the baobabs! Look at how far you've come with your editing and channel! I am so stoked for this!
thanks!
TRAGIC!
@@Seven71987 indeed you are tragic
Thank you so much for bringing attention to the deforestation in the area. It makes me sick down to my bones. Our poor planet. The earth is languishing because of our greed and ignorance
We American are destroying forest all over the eat thanks to Animal agriculture. If you want to have a world for our next generations we better go vegan or we have about 11 more years to keep destroying this earth
Bull! America is a giant plain and we simply grow corn/beans in place of the grass that exist prior. If you want to know where the deforestation happens look to Africa/South america, China, and plenty of other places where they refuse to sustain the environment, and simply reproduce, and destroy the environment. Americans have had "Save The Environment" shoved in our faces for decades, and we do!
@@vamperalmighty You're mostly right. Housing developments, office parks, and industrial waste are far more of an environmental issue in the US than farmers cultivating existing land. The only big issues I have with farming are some of the practices that come with factory farming of animals, but the planting of crops don't have all that much environmental impact in our country. It's the development and big corporations that are poisoning us here.
That's probably putting it lightly, I would say there's a surmounting rage
@@ZE308AC there are an estimated 60 harvests left before the soil is depleted in the US. Holistic farming is the solution where the animals are free to dump on the land and after processing their meat the blood and bone meal returned to the soil. Going vegan will not allow for animal agriculture necessary to support the soil, and it will make you weak and ill after a few months to years. The planet will eventually be destroyed, but it's not for all the reasons the tree huggers want you to believe, it's for the intense violence and murder which will not be ignored indefinitely.
Me, even after 6 semesters of biology: "YOU CAN EAT BAOBAB FRUIT?!"
You got yourself a suscriber
You didnt know that they were eaten??
In my home country zimbabwe we have these trees around. When I was small I was told that that was a witches house🤣
thank you for showing the real side of things. fascinating and it is the sad reality all around, land is depleted from chemicals, burning and mono farming... teach locals about fruit diversity and allowing the cycle of nature to take care of balancing the earth
For grass lands, focussed grazing (take the grass all the way to the ground every year before _allowing_ the animals into the next area: leaves the roots intact, but lets the new growth have uncontested access to sunlight), for everywhere else, use unused biomatter for charcoal which you then bury (almost as fertilizing as ash, but sticks around for centuries, and moderates soil moisture). A few decades of this, and the fertility of the place (though the diversity would take a few years still) will have built back to what it once was.
The locals literally don't care. Their philosophy is to just take as much as they possibly can and leave nothing. They have no concept of history or forethought.
Wow! What a sad ending to your amazing time in Madagascar. I had no idea.
It never ceases to amaze me how people never think of the future, only what they can get for themselves now.
I agree that you can't blame them for cutting down trees for making charcoal, but not replanting trees?
They have an amazing opportunity because of the climate and the rain to regrow the forests, but they don't. I have to say, I don't understand that mentality.
It seems the same as in our part of the world where fishermen are complaining about their small quotas for fishing. They don't care about overfishing, because they need the money NOW. But if they go on there will be no fish at all in the future.
Hell there is almost no fish at all left where I live now. I remember when I was a child, I grew up on fish (born and raised in the Stockholm archipelago). There was so much fish that fishing was easy, but now there is almost no fish at all left for regular people, because of the industrial overfishing.
It's the same mentality, except with the trees you can actually replant them as you cut them down!
There are shortsighted people everywhere.
And by the way, carving your name into things like these old trees is such a primitive and idiotic thing to do. Amazing stupidity. People doing that should be put on the next plane out of Madagascar, and be banned from ever coming back. This whole thing really rubbed me the wrong way! I better stop writing now, before i start breaking things around me!
Thanks for the video by the way! This is quickly becoming my favourite youtube channel 👍
Sustainability and Conservation are alien concepts to them, it seems.
Do you know how much time a baobab need to grow?
@ei96boyd just curious. Not meaning to be disingenuous but what is your take on abortion? Again, just curious.
no, people who are eating day to day are not concerned about tomorrow and not everyone has the convenience of having the devastation there lifestyle incurs segregated from there sanitised environment, nor the luxury of time to sit around pontificating about whether feeding their families via what ever limited resources are available is going to cause a panic attack in some self righteous wanker who probably contributes more to "climate change" in a week than they will in their entire lives.
To think beyond the present is the luxury of those with financial stability. When you're poor and your belly or the belly of your children is rumbling it not easy to think beyond that. Can a person who is drowning save another? Survival is #1 human priority. Always has been.
Me again! If you remember. Almost a month of watching your videos and I'm still as enchanted as ever. Your videos harken back to a long gone era of no-nonsense infodumps with an interesting personality that isn't born from overediting and copying. This channel is unique, this video is incredible and seeing that you seemingly have the same zeal to create videos just makes me want to watch everything you make. Man, this Madagascar series was incredible.
you're almost caught up! God speed
TRAGIC!
The Sunland Baobab in South Africa had a pub built inside its hollow center. It was 72 feet (22 meters) tall and 155 feet (47 meters) in girth. The Sunland Baobab died in 2017.
😢😢😢
That round metal thing you found on the road looks like a tap. You'd hammer it into a tree to tap the sap inside. Like we do with maples in North America.
that could be how they get water out of them maybe.
TRAGIC!!
I think the spikes in the tree may be to stop people from damaging it more by making it harder to harvest.
The story of the Baobab is a tragic one, it’s even worse because there’s no one to blame. The locals need to do it to survive, but these poor trees are tortured and deforested.
It’s nice though that even locally there are attempts to restore these trees
I hope someday my kids kids kids will be able to see a forest of Baobabs, these beautiful trees deserve justice
If we can't blame the people of that country, then yes, no one to blame. But thankfully we can blame their backwards 3rd world bullshit.
Since Madagascar was a French colony, then it's no wonder it's so impoverished right now. Colonialism depleted the global south from resources and it's impact is ongoing. There's absolutely a reason why the situation is now the way it is due to long history of abuse, and the abuser is absolutely to blame.
Easter Island
Madagascar: hold my beer.
I think the food forest is a good approach to sustainable agriculture.
What is a food forest?
This country needs electricity big-time. It looks like some basic environmental education wouldn't go amiss either.
Yeah electricity would solve a lot
I I think they should investigate the use of solar energy and wind power before automatically moving to electricity
@@hannakinn Er...
@@poisontoad8007 hahaha yea
@@theelectricant98 I watch people that live off-grid in the United States they use batteries to store the energy from their solar panels. I've also seen inexpensive solar ovens and I've seen people in the United States make use of rotting vegetable material as well as gases from animal excrement to fuel stoves for outdoor kitchens. It's a shame to do for us to Country so that people can use coal to cook with when there are other options that aren't expensive
I looked it up, and they use the bark for medicinal purposes, it helps alleviate pain from flu, colds, and other fever related symptoms
"It's like having a little pet" (proceeds to rip it in half)
lmfao
What a great video. Most under rated channel on you tube. Don't worry about climbing a tree. I'm sure the tree loved it!
Several other tragic things occur with deforestation, more flood risk, more erosion, and less rain actually. I hope the country is able to do things, whatever that may be, to keep up a healthy quality of life and preserve forests as well.
24:00 looks like is to late for that country to return to a healthy ecosystem?
"I imagine people just.. pee in here. I mean, *I* would.."
Lmao
I found your channel in my recommended a couple of days ago and i don’t regret clicking on it!
some of the answer could be sun ovens ,no need for charcoal or fuel , more solar if governments could help out .
I would love to visit Madagascar, and now I'm thinking I'd better go sooner rather than later. Your points about the local people cutting down the rainforests really reminded me of the documentary Virunga - have you seen it? The creeping sense of dread as the oil company stirs up the local people, who already resent the conservation area because they need farmland, is palpable. That film and yours really highlights something we don't often think about or have to grapple with - we assume it's big companies destroying the environment, but it can also be people in need who don't see any other way, or don't see why their lives should be harder to please overseas environmentalists. I agree with Steven that a huge program of permaculture education and financial support to go along with it is desperately needed. Thank you for drawing attention to this!
I wonder if locals would make use of a solar oven if people were to bring one...
@@karenrobertsdottir4101 Hi Karen, they would use them, but very little. To the untrained, they are difficult. The charcoal in poverty stricken countries is universal and difficult to change for many reasons, convienence, taste, cost and availability.
@@DC-uo5hy : Yeah, more practical would be introducing charcoal as a fertilizer as well, since than can lead to a cascade of fertility improvements for gardens & managed woodlands.
Such a beautiful tree.
Love your channel. Please cry for the Lemurs as well.
Baobab isn't very closely related to things like cacao, okra and durian, they only share a family relation (Malvaceae). This is similar to the relation between humans (homo sapiens) and chimpanzees or gorillas. (family hominidae) But not like the same genus or anything.
Still, family relation in plants is a useful taxonomic feature to point out. Like fabaceae and poaceae. Legumes and grasses considered on that broad level are important to humanity because of many characteristics shared across the family members.
I don't think chimps and peole was a very good comparison considering we are each other's closest living relatives
why does steven not wear a belt? lol he is always trying to hold up his shorts
@33Ddg209Ret7 Are there flexible belts? 🤔
@33Ddg209Ret7 He should get suspenders then.
@33Ddg209Ret7 walmart sells stretchy belts, i highly recommend them!! my stepdad was a big guy, he introduced me to them.
This video is fascinating, beautiful, and heart breaking.
Hey Im glad Im back. I took a break from your channel watching every now and then. The longer videos are great. The polictical aspect of this video was unexpected but necessary. I would absolutely hate that if it was being done in my country.
welcome back! more long form videos coming soon. ep 400 is going to be a doozy
*TRAGIC* !!!!!
same deforestation happened in Haiti just poor management.
You can clearly see the border with Dominican Republic from space and air. And that's also not a beacon of good management. But at least they still have trees and fertile land. Haiti seems to aim for the Mad Max vibe.
@EccentricSage thank IKEA for what’s happening in Romania to a large degree. The truly ancient forests are being cut down and if anyone tries to stop it they can get hurt and the government won’t do anything because they are the ones who’s pocketbooks are being lined for the wood.
By far my favorite video so far. I loved all the information. Such a shame to see all the devastation. When will we learn.
Totally off topic, but I just realized Steven is from my city. That farm has awesome fruits, and now I miss the Farmers Market stand they had when we still had a decent farmer's market back in the "Before Times."
Also, Madagascar is on my bucket list. I want to go there while there is still something left to see. Thank you for shining a light on the tragic loss of habitat there. I hope that if they can start really embracing ecotourism, then the locals can shift to making a viable living by protecting the land instead of resorting to destroying it for their short-term survival. Other places have been able to turn around habitat loss in favor of preservation when it became profitable to keep nature intact.
Thank you UA-cam, for recommending me this weird but nice video about a fruit I didn't even know existed
I wonder if bamboo would grow there? If they want to cut something down to make charcoal out of, bamboo grows fast, and so long as you don't dig out the roots, it'll mostly grow back each year till the end of time. Send them some bamboo that's highly invasive, and they could probably reforest that entire island in a couple decades. Maybe even send them some kudzu as well, and in a few years, it'll turn into a green hell on earth. The vine that ate Madagascar.
That would be a great idea to investigate
There is bamboo native to Madagascar, and there are even lemurs who are bamboo specialists.
I don't think introducing violently invasive plants that choke everything they come into contact with would be a good idea on the island where everything is already a bad day away from going extinct
Thank you for being real. I know you don't want to get political / preachy on this channel, but I don't think we can afford NOT to be political / preachy these days. We are killing the Earth and running out of time.
We have to stop destroying everything of value and we CAN
@Cosmin Costea Support or oppose the way things are. Most actions do one or the other, if you think about it. Not really a right or left idea.
@@Fuzzycuffsqt It's not really so much about 'saving the earth', because, in the long term at least, the earth will be fine. Instead, it's about helping these underprivileged people. if things continue to go the way they are going in Madagascar, the local people will not be able to support themselves, and will sink further into poverty, and will either have to move away or die from starvation. It's fine to chop down trees, you just have to do it in a sustainable way that doesn't damage the local ecosystem, and thus the local economy.
There is a right way and a wrong way to go about doing anything in this world.
its not really political at all, its just good vs. bad farming/sustainability and economic decisions. there is a right way and a wrong way to go about anything in this world.
If you really want to make a political connection, you could argue that its actually socialist policies and 'debt culture' in first world countries such as America that cause an economic chain reaction that causes problems (I.e. poverty) in 3rd world countries like Madagascar, which then results in the people being forced to chop down trees for a meager living.
Not blaming America, but rather the American politicians who enable such policies.
@@MaxOakland Nothing wrong with chopping down trees or having palm-oil plantations, you just have to do it in a sustainable, non damaging way that doesn't ruin the land for future generations down the road.
There is a right way and a wrong way to do anything.
I've now watched a few of your videos, and I'm officially a weird fan. Thanks for showing things we'll most likely never get to experience in our own lives. Glad we have the Internet to see and learn about life and people.
I was aware that the forests of Madagascar are in trouble, but, I didn’t realize to what extent. This is deeply saddening to see. I understand mining for minerals has become a significant part of their economy. More evidence of the fallacy of capitalism. Good video. Thank you.
Without question, the best video you have produced. Thank you.
Vomit? I never caught any vomitous flavor in Brazil nuts, or even a sourness really. Interesting.
I was thinking the same thing. But every once in a while I'll get one that tastes like soap. Definitely not vomit.
Papaya has a little bit of vomit flavor to me, but not brazil nuts.
bob bill I’ve heard this about some mango varieties but not experienced it.
Me either. Brazil nuts are rich and A little sweet to me
@MzMindBody&Soul InRepair this is actually due to people's taste buds being different, it's like how a lot of American's don't taste the vomit flavour from Hershey chocolate (they use a chemical that's found in vomit and is what gives it that taste I believe) but you'll find a lot of Europeans can taste it off the bat.
I don't want to sound like one of those tree hippies but what we're doing to the things that we literally need to survive is horrible
The Avenue of the baobabs reminded me of jumping into a Salvador Dali painting!
Thank you for your part in bringing more light to what is happening in Madagascar. There was mention of the cause being deep poverty. I hope that people would think of helping the locals instead of judging them. Think of the effects of colonization and tourism, as well as UNfair trade that leaves locals pretty much in a "sharecropping" situation. The act of cutting down a tree while it is still young is a desperate one. They are living in a state of fight or flight, hand to mouth. I believe they would be open to more options if they came across them. At least some people are trying to regrow the baobab. But like you mentioned biodiversity is the key. They need ANOTHER tree for their charcoal. A fast growing native species. (Like poplars are in America) As for the burning, people should ask them WHY they repeatedly burn. Is there (likely) an imbalance of wildlife that has resulted in a decrease in larger animals, with an increase in animals that need less habitat to survive, like rodents and snakes? Maybe the burning is a ditch attempt to scare away rodents and snakes from their dwellings. Vermin also carry disease. So this may be apart of their fears. Only love can cast out fear. Our love must cast out their fears. Love in the form of action. Then they will be at peace enough to let young trees grow.
Burning of wildlands is usually to improve the fertility of the land by the production of ash. Ironically, if they just _buried_ the stuff and _then_ burned it into charcoal then they'd likely get the same result, but the fertility would stick around for a century or more, making it easier to keep building up the fertility.
The need of a better source of charcoal is real though.
the trees are so beautiful. it is a shame about the deforestation going on.. like you said i don't think many people know about this. i hope they are able to do something to mitigate the damage that has already been done 😔
manda b. agreed.
It is sad to think that one day, this video and its data on a server somewhere could be the only way to see the tree soon
Thank you for posting !
People wouldn’t need charcoal if they had a way to cook with renewables. Maybe you could start a non profit for affordable electric stoves to deforested countries with your notoriety.
What? They _don't have electricity,_ as he said in the video, so electric stoves are useless. What they _need_ is a better source of charcoal (perhaps black locust or something would actually be useful), and improved land management (e.g. the focussed grazing techniques and century-long charcoal fertilizers that have been discovered in the last few decades).
@@absalomdraconis or skip the sunlight-plant-charcoal middleman altogether and directly use solar stoves?
Wood is a renewable energy source when it's harvested sustainably??
How sad is it that people don't realize how hard it is for nature to recover.
PLEASE MAKE MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS.!!! let your opinion out it will give so much awareness!
"people probably pee in there... I would" subbed
Welcome aboard.
TRAGIC!
This is a great video. I'd love if you let us know about organizations working on sustainable agriculture in Madagascar. Thank you for the insight. Deforestation may be political but it (and climate change) is directly tied into fruit and fruit genetic diversity. Please talk about fruit - all about it! Be bold!
Yeah it would be very interesting to see what efforts are being taken.
I guess the biggest and most promising organizations are organized in the GSDM (Groupement Semis Direct Madagascar) -> gsdm-mg(dot)org
besides that, you could google for AIM Madagascar, CTAS and Sulama. Vohimana is also an amazing project in my opinion, should you ever go to Andasibe, go to Vohimana too!
Besides that, many big international development organizations (USAID, GIZ, AFD, JICA, NORAD) have many interesting projects working on sustainable agriculture, food security and climate adaptation.
@@bricelemarechal9628 how do you know so much about these organizations? Im interested
MEGA TRAGIC
As soon as you cracked the fruit I though it looked like a dried cacao pod. Hopefully the efforts to regrow some trees will help.
They are related, so that might be why
TRAGIC!!
Chocolate?
That is sad 😥
beautiful tree.
There is a boab tree in Australia that was used as a prison in the 1890s(called "The Prison Tree"). They'd chain indiginous people accused of theft inside. It's still standing, it's approx 1500 years old and is a sacred site. Still produces fruit.
4:12 CAT: "I really don't CARE!"
The Bark grows back no problem. It is easy for the tree to regrow it's bark. It gives food and water It's actually kinda Amazing.
The regrowth of bark is a slow process that leaves the tree vulnerable to potentially fatal infections. Systems like pollarding can be productive, but just removing bark from a slow-growing tree is _not_ a good strategy.
tbh when he cussed, that really got me. I haven't heard him cuss lol
I was not expecting my google search about fire resistant trees to lead me to a fruit nerd. What an awesome find since I’m working on a food forest project here in Ecuador. Looking forward to binge watching your other videos.
Excellent video Jared! It's great it's so informative. This will definetly get some people to want to help. It's a grain of sand, but a big one!
If you look at a space map of the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and D.R.) you can see the same devastation.
I appreaciate that you can give an honest reality point surrounding the initial task that you were going for. Baobab and the reality surrounding it. Thank You
Thank you for showing us a part of the diversity of the living plants. They are amazing !