Such an undertaking is much bigger than some might realize! Knowledge and experience drawn from the Lord Howe Island restoration program could be used as a template to help restore every other island habitat severely damaged by human activity. Humans still have centuries worth of destruction to make up for, but initiatives like these give me hope that our own species is finally maturing and able to take care of life more than we exploit it.
The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect story is one of my favorites when it comes to Lazarus taxons and conservation efforts. I find it so fascinating! It gives me hope that maybe we will be able to find other species too.
You are such a good channel, so informative and educational, while still entertaining! We need more like yours. Also you deserve so much more attention to your videos.
I don't know if you've produced anything on the Wollemi Pine, but an in-depth video about its discovery and conservation would be really interesting to see.
This is a brilliantly made and extremely informative and fascinating video - thank you so much! It's tragic that so many amazing vertebrate and invertebrate species have gone forever from Lord Howe Island, but the story of the stick insect is truly amazing. Hopefully the cockroach too will go from strength to strength, and the protection of Lord Howe will inspire other similar projects around the world.
It's very sad watching your videos as it lets us know how many species have become extinct..... However watching Howe Island gave me hope....I wished what is being done there could be done on Australia's mainland....so many invasive species decimating our flora and fauna....it's heartbreaking.....
I’m not happy with how humans have handled the land and ecosystems of many places on earth, especially islands. While it’s gone through catastrophic extinctions, Lord Howe Island today is a fantastic example of what should be the standard across the globe (minus the golf course, ew). The conservation measures in place, especially leaving most of the land as undisturbed forest, has done so much for this unique environment. Even if the stick insect was what made the island famous, it was the cockroach that I personally found out about its existence and status. It’s an amazing ecosystem and I’m happy about its current position. Personally I’d love to see you cover the European owl moth (Brahmaea europaea) in a video. It’s such a unique creature, much more distantly related from the others of its genus being in its own subgenus Acanthobrahmaea (it’s the only one with a spiny pupa!) and its range is restricted to a ridiculously tiny area surrounding Mt. Vulture in Italy. The moth itself is absolutely endangered and there are conservation concerns surrounding it; I’d love to see it on this channel.
I'm really happy I found this channel. I appreciate the well researched topics presented in a calm and professional manner, and the subtle press to inform how looming extinction always is, and encouragement to help fight against losing the amazing biodiversity of our world.
I really enjoy this style of video from you. I enjoy all of your content, but I like this style a bit more than the list types. Overall I’m glad I found your channel a little more with each upload you make.
Your channel was in my reccomended feed today and after I watched one video, I couldn't get enough and have been watching for a few hours now. I've also subbed. You're doing a wonderful job! The information and the videos themselves are fascinating!! Thanks very, very, much!! 🙂👍
Great coverage of this unique and very cool island. It also had a giant land turtle meiolania and looked like a mini ankylosaurus considering how convergent it was in it’s evolved defenses.
This has got to be one of the closest brushes with extinction a creature could get while still miraculously being found and rescued. Victory from the jaws of defeat 😤😮💨 incredible
By the way, the banyan tree where he wood eating cockroaches were rediscovered is also an endemic variety: Ficus macrophylla var. columnaris. The Lord Howe Island Banyan.
i’m only on the second animal but so far it’s like “sailors could kill them easily with sticks” and “he broke it’s leg so that it’s cries of pain would attract more” 😢 these poor birds
They are doing a great job there. The seabirds should start to return now the rats are gone. They could introduce swamp hens again to replace the swamp hens that went extinct. They could also introduce the most similar species of birds to replace the others that went extinct. They could use genetic analysis to find the species closest to the extinct ones. That way the ecosystem would be more restored.
I really appreciate you doing long form content instead of lists! Keep it up!
This was one of your best. I like the long form.
I am Australian. I have had one wonderful trip to Lord Howe and I hope to go again.
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What a wonderful ending. Thank you for sharing
Such an undertaking is much bigger than some might realize! Knowledge and experience drawn from the Lord Howe Island restoration program could be used as a template to help restore every other island habitat severely damaged by human activity. Humans still have centuries worth of destruction to make up for, but initiatives like these give me hope that our own species is finally maturing and able to take care of life more than we exploit it.
It feels like almost every small island had its own woodhen, rail and pigeon species. Its such a shame that many of them are extinct.
The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect story is one of my favorites when it comes to Lazarus taxons and conservation efforts. I find it so fascinating! It gives me hope that maybe we will be able to find other species too.
You are such a good channel, so informative and educational, while still entertaining! We need more like yours. Also you deserve so much more attention to your videos.
Thanks so much!
No problem!
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That filled me with such hope.
Thank you!!
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I don't know if you've produced anything on the Wollemi Pine, but an in-depth video about its discovery and conservation would be really interesting to see.
I did! I have a video on lazarus taxon
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I love your long form content please keep it coming!!!
You’re videos are amazing!
Wow, another great video. So much more information than anywhere else. Well done.
The inglorious history of "humanity" and the resilience of Nature
❤ thx ...i enjoy your Stories and your beautiful voice😊
One of the best success stories in terms of conservation. Although species were lost, other species are saved. I love this video, keep it up
This is a brilliantly made and extremely informative and fascinating video - thank you so much! It's tragic that so many amazing vertebrate and invertebrate species have gone forever from Lord Howe Island, but the story of the stick insect is truly amazing. Hopefully the cockroach too will go from strength to strength, and the protection of Lord Howe will inspire other similar projects around the world.
It’s so crazy to think that there is animals we will never have the experience of viewing with our own eyes.
Brilliant video! Thanks.
It's very sad watching your videos as it lets us know how many species have become extinct..... However watching Howe Island gave me hope....I wished what is being done there could be done on Australia's mainland....so many invasive species decimating our flora and fauna....it's heartbreaking.....
Thank you for this fantastic video...I have been binging on your videos for last few days... thanks for your hard work and dedication !
I’m not happy with how humans have handled the land and ecosystems of many places on earth, especially islands. While it’s gone through catastrophic extinctions, Lord Howe Island today is a fantastic example of what should be the standard across the globe (minus the golf course, ew). The conservation measures in place, especially leaving most of the land as undisturbed forest, has done so much for this unique environment.
Even if the stick insect was what made the island famous, it was the cockroach that I personally found out about its existence and status. It’s an amazing ecosystem and I’m happy about its current position.
Personally I’d love to see you cover the European owl moth (Brahmaea europaea) in a video. It’s such a unique creature, much more distantly related from the others of its genus being in its own subgenus Acanthobrahmaea (it’s the only one with a spiny pupa!) and its range is restricted to a ridiculously tiny area surrounding Mt. Vulture in Italy. The moth itself is absolutely endangered and there are conservation concerns surrounding it; I’d love to see it on this channel.
Thanks for sharing about the Owl Moth. My now you know moment for today and it's nature related so super bonus
This might be one of my favoeite videos of this channel. If this is the start for a series of video focused on insular fauna I'm all in!
Yay! Another video!
Great video, great channel. Thank you!
I didn't know about this story, very informative and amazing redemption for this island.
Thank you so much. A heartwarming environmental success story and you don't get many of them.
Excellent. Thanks for making this. Want to go there some day.
Such a grim story, but it's absolutely incredible.
I'm really happy I found this channel. I appreciate the well researched topics presented in a calm and professional manner, and the subtle press to inform how looming extinction always is, and encouragement to help fight against losing the amazing biodiversity of our world.
Great video! Thank you.
Great video as always mate
I really enjoy this style of video from you. I enjoy all of your content, but I like this style a bit more than the list types. Overall I’m glad I found your channel a little more with each upload you make.
Always love your videos.
Please cover more about successful Conservation projects.
oh gosh, would you tackle pink pigeons? Your videos are awesome!
Your channel was in my reccomended feed today and after I watched one video, I couldn't get enough and have been watching for a few hours now. I've also subbed.
You're doing a wonderful job! The information and the videos themselves are fascinating!!
Thanks very, very, much!! 🙂👍
I love your videos and i really love this kind of histories, keep the work ❤
Great coverage of this unique and very cool island.
It also had a giant land turtle meiolania and looked like a mini ankylosaurus considering how convergent it was in it’s evolved defenses.
This has got to be one of the closest brushes with extinction a creature could get while still miraculously being found and rescued. Victory from the jaws of defeat 😤😮💨 incredible
Hi, new subber here. Fantastic video. Thanks for posting, cheers, John.
Humans really have a lot to answer for
Great video
I love these big bugs they're very cool
By the way, the banyan tree where he wood eating cockroaches were rediscovered is also an endemic variety: Ficus macrophylla var. columnaris. The Lord Howe Island Banyan.
i’m only on the second animal but so far it’s like “sailors could kill them easily with sticks” and “he broke it’s leg so that it’s cries of pain would attract more” 😢 these poor birds
Insects that make paired bonds are incredibly fascinating, its a shame to see them so close to the brink.
loved it
Can you also make a video about the Chatham Islands? It also used to have an abundance of megafauna before the arrival of humans.
This video is great
wo wo wo half a HOUR sheesh--I sub
NLG the last part kind of sounds like an advertisement for Lord Howe island😂😂😂
The cockroaches on Blackburn/Roach island and Lord Howe were also somewhat genetically different
Hey thanks for the vedio.
Dope as fuck .
Someone make a comment with timestamps for each chapter. I won’t but somebody should
Do little barrier island
Yay!
They are doing a great job there.
The seabirds should start to return now the rats are gone.
They could introduce swamp hens again to replace the swamp hens that went extinct.
They could also introduce the most similar species of birds to replace the others that went extinct. They could use genetic analysis to find the species closest to the extinct ones.
That way the ecosystem would be more restored.
comment and like to get the UA-cam algorithm going
Finaly some happy ending
We can try and blame the rats, cats and whatever else we introduce but if it wasnt for humans none of it would have happened
I've never ben so happy to se a cockroach in my life 😄
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stickbugs
Amazing to see dispute the ecological disaster, we can restore the natural beauty of places like this if we try❤️🩹
Do little barrier island