I enjoyed this short story. It is well written, narrated and with a great combination of old and new footage that describes a complete story of this complex project. Especially special to see so many friends, and past colleagues who dedicated a lot of their passion and talent to this truly multidisciplinary endeavor.
Very nice. I hope we can start working on eradicating cats that decimate native wildlife. They make great indoor pets but outside, they are devastating.
Don’t worry...this planet will be here when we are not. We are not destroying the planet...we are destroying the environment necessary for humans to live.
That's a great achievement. It's amazing what can be done when good people and organisations work together to achieve an altruistic aim without any other personal agendas. It's a pity that we can't apply the same thinking to the other problems plaguing our planet.
What brought you to decide to spread poison pelets rather than using the Good Nature A24 system, which was used with great success in New Zealand? Had you considered that system but decided that the pelets would be more effective?
I don't think it is impossible- but very difficult. May require a billion people going out every Sunday night with a determination to locate and kill rats.
I went to Anacapa in June 2015, it is breeding season, and i think it is a bit overpopulated, the island is full of bird, i can hardly walk through the trail, should this be the island used to be?
Grew up fishing those islands and always found the spitlritual balance. Knew it was the colonist mentality that screw the sea ottoer on san nicholas. Their rats and sheep and cattle screwed so much. The rats are the same everywhere they all came from europe
Rather see birds than rats. RTher see fal ons than white folk. You screwed my chumash friends. I love princess Judy known her for 50 years. Beautiful people
just an engineering note....when you have to look beyond 3 layers of impact with a project...your already on the wrong path. Taking pairs of the preserved species is the more effective use of resource and manpower. Doing the same and making sure there was a source of fresh water available, Ferrell cats would be a smarter use of natural resource.
Well nature doesn't care about layers of impact, and taking just pairs is useless, you'd want to take enough so that there isn't a genetic bottleneck (ie inbreeding) if you only had a few surviving pairs and no cats are an even worse solution as feral invasive cats are just as destructive in small isolated island ecosystems they would kill more birds than rats. Many places are actually eradicating feral cats in places where there were never any predators of their type, again small isolated island ecosystems.
I did the genetics on the project.
I enjoyed this short story. It is well written, narrated and with a great combination of old and new footage that describes a complete story of this complex project. Especially special to see so many friends, and past colleagues who dedicated a lot of their passion and talent to this truly multidisciplinary endeavor.
Very nice.
I hope we can start working on eradicating cats that decimate native wildlife. They make great indoor pets but outside, they are devastating.
Great job,hope we see more of these successes in other Islands.
Beautiful. Thank you for the work you do!
Good general knowledge, well presented. Col, NZ
excellent work and a wonderful video... if only all of humanity could be motivated to conserve our planet instead of exploiting and polluting it.
Don’t worry...this planet will be here when we are not. We are not destroying the planet...we are destroying the environment necessary for humans to live.
A biologists surprise at rats being active predators, surprised me!
Great work keep it up
That's a great achievement.
It's amazing what can be done when good people and organisations work together to achieve an altruistic aim without any other personal agendas.
It's a pity that we can't apply the same thinking to the other problems plaguing our planet.
Thank you!!!! GREAT JOB!!
It's less than ten miles off the coast of Ventura
T'ks so much! Preserve our Natural World for Future Generations to come...
What brought you to decide to spread poison pelets rather than using the Good Nature A24 system, which was used with great success in New Zealand? Had you considered that system but decided that the pelets would be more effective?
They plan still worked tho bru
This raises a question. What if we managed to eradicate rats worldwide? THAT would be really cool!
I don't think it is impossible- but very difficult. May require a billion people going out every Sunday night with a determination to locate and kill rats.
That would not be cool. Read a bout the ways rats are necessary to the ecosystem.
@@Sunny-kn6th Yep. Maybe they read up in the 8 years since posting. ;- )
What a wonderful success story
I went to Anacapa in June 2015, it is breeding season, and i think it is a bit overpopulated, the island is full of bird, i can hardly walk through the trail, should this be the island used to be?
Yes because humans are not meant to be there
Cmon doofus before humans there were large herds of bird.
excellent vision
Achieving Balance ❤️🌎⚖️
How do you know you got ALL the rats? You really didn't say.
Just shows what can be done if you address a problem at source ! The world is full of rats, but they have only two legs ?
Grew up fishing those islands and always found the spitlritual balance. Knew it was the colonist mentality that screw the sea ottoer on san nicholas. Their rats and sheep and cattle screwed so much. The rats are the same everywhere they all came from europe
Rather see birds than rats. RTher see fal ons than white folk. You screwed my chumash friends. I love princess Judy known her for 50 years. Beautiful people
RIP mickey mouse...
YOU HAD ME UNTIL YOU SAIDTHE WORDS CLIMATE CHANGE. STOP BULLSHITTING US.
just an engineering note....when you have to look beyond 3 layers of impact with a project...your already on the wrong path. Taking pairs of the preserved species is the more effective use of resource and manpower. Doing the same and making sure there was a source of fresh water available, Ferrell cats would be a smarter use of natural resource.
Well nature doesn't care about layers of impact, and taking just pairs is useless, you'd want to take enough so that there isn't a genetic bottleneck (ie inbreeding) if you only had a few surviving pairs and no cats are an even worse solution as feral invasive cats are just as destructive in small isolated island ecosystems they would kill more birds than rats. Many places are actually eradicating feral cats in places where there were never any predators of their type, again small isolated island ecosystems.
Releasing feral cats ?? Do u think cats just prey on rats / mice . Feral cats would wipe out the bird population aswell
Wow they removed all the humans sheep rabbits dogs goats rats and anything else? Oh yeah dignity :(
Had to shut this video down when the lisping, whiney guy started to speak.