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  • Every year, invasive species cause up to $1.4 trillion worth of damage in places they weren't meant to live. Now, people are hunting harmful crabs, snakes, fish, and plants to make whiskey, wallets, and dinner.
    Intro 00:00
    Pythons 00:51
    Sargassum 11:22
    Water Hyacinth 12:23
    Green Crabs: 16:58
    Lionfish 26:47
    Typha 29:25
    Credits 32:48
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  • @FrancoisTHX
    @FrancoisTHX Рік тому +2416

    Snakes are an absolute gem on Earth, and constrictors can be amazing pets ; but python leather growing in popularity might be the best solution to encourage Burmese python hunters in Florida to help save this ecosystem.

    • @RaptorRockDrakeJesus
      @RaptorRockDrakeJesus Рік тому +86

      Gets annoying when they just don't put the snakes out of their misery in the video. No, no, they gotta be alive for the bounty? And for what, just to cause more stress and pain on those animals. Also I doubt the water hyacinth is the main reason the rivers are losing life, pretty sure it's the floating trash heaps those ppl call villages

    • @hunterhq295
      @hunterhq295 Рік тому

      Been looking at this another perspective, If only invasive species could be returned to their homeland as easily as they were brought over? I mean they're just doing what they need in order to survive in a habitat they're not used to and were brought to against their own will.

    • @ShhhHhhhz
      @ShhhHhhhz Рік тому +45

      do a little google seach and it will tell you that Burmese pythons are classified as vulnerable species. do you think the hunters will simply stop when Florida's pythons are all hunted out?

    • @serinawong3019
      @serinawong3019 Рік тому +19

      just be sure to clarify from Burmese pythons, rather than other snakes who aren't invasive

    • @josephgendrano1193
      @josephgendrano1193 Рік тому

  • @stagnantfox3027
    @stagnantfox3027 10 місяців тому +1056

    "but the peta says" I think we can all by now agree that whatever peta says or approves or dissaproves is wildly horrendous. It honestly shocks me that peta has survived this long considering how extremist and yet contradictory they are, like the amount of times they themselves mass euthanized a bunch of cats and dogs some of which were lost pets.

    • @supersaiyanjin2199
      @supersaiyanjin2199 10 місяців тому

      Peta are also invasive species and must be eradicated

    • @EJD339
      @EJD339 10 місяців тому +35

      I actually met Amy a while ago and she freaking loves snakes so I truly believe that she hates having to harm them. This was before she even moved to Florida.

    • @idid1866
      @idid1866 10 місяців тому +26

      I'm as shocked as you are that peta is still around!

    • @caseyphilips3007
      @caseyphilips3007 10 місяців тому

      I can't was fine with the video..till l realized they was a couple carpet munchers😂

    • @maxsolrazer786
      @maxsolrazer786 10 місяців тому +14

      Boycott Peta

  • @IrishAnnie
    @IrishAnnie 10 місяців тому +452

    Touring the Everglades several years ago in an airboat, we came upon an area that was brimming with raccoons. The captain stopped and the raccoons came aboard to check us out. Last year, we went out again and I asked where the raccoons were. I got the answer, “The pythons have eaten them.” They are decimating the bird population in the Everglades.

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 10 місяців тому +4

      I mean there are more than just pythons introduced the monitors and other large lizards love to snack on raccoon young and raccoons are also being competing with these invasive species. The python just gets the most blame cause they are the most easily vilified. Alligators do hunt pythons though albeit until a certain size.

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 10 місяців тому +2

      Like the lizards are more of a problem cause they love hunting eggs and newborns

    • @MikeTheMusa
      @MikeTheMusa 10 місяців тому +9

      Yep definitely are. Going to college down here Everglades 15 minutes down the road. Memorial weekend there was a 11 foot python strangulating a very large raccoon on the side of the road. We watched and recorded for like 20 minutes before fwc came and took out dispatch the python. 😵‍💫

    • @stephanaeon
      @stephanaeon 9 місяців тому +1

      Nooooo

    • @68Tboy
      @68Tboy 8 місяців тому +2

      @victory8928 So you’re saying the lizards are eating the raccoon eggs? 🤔

  • @teng029
    @teng029 Рік тому +142

    It's a little mind blowing that they hunt 5000 pythons a year and it doesn't even make a dent on the snake population. Also, the suggested solution of "sending them back to their native country" is about the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards 10 місяців тому +7

      They are rare in some of their native lands due to overhunting.
      They actually might have some value in sending some shipping containers back.

    • @taraji_b
      @taraji_b 10 місяців тому +8

      @@Steven_EdwardsI highly doubt the Burmese people would want any snakes sent to them.

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards 10 місяців тому +8

      @@taraji_b There was a comment somewhere on here about the high price that a bone paste extract from them commands.
      Anything that has a high price like that means some industrious person would be interested.

    • @Shaijn815
      @Shaijn815 10 місяців тому

      @@Steven_Edwards didn't humans shipping animals across the world get us into this mess in a the first place? Sure there won't be some unintended consequence and disaster like even a few snakes carrying a new disease that wreaks havoc on native animals populations let alone humans?

    • @strayiggytv
      @strayiggytv 10 місяців тому +1

      @@taraji_b they would if the thing the snake eats is overpopulated. Everything has a niche in the ecosystem even animals people don't like. It's dumb to go "lol I hate (insert animal here) therefore I'd rather deal with the ecosystem collapsing then have any more brought in.

  • @findAplaceToCallHome
    @findAplaceToCallHome Рік тому +525

    It ate an alligator, an entire alligator… that is insane…

    • @fuzzymelon1261
      @fuzzymelon1261 Рік тому

      berms actually cant eat humans despite being able to swallow gators. humans aren't streamlined in shape, our heads are blunt and out shoulders are more blunt. snakes start eating from the head, so it doesn't occur to them to go from the feet. Clint's reptiles made a video on how snakes eat and its pretty cool. reticulated pythons have been the only snake that has eaten humans and its the largest snake in the world

    • @hunterhq295
      @hunterhq295 Рік тому +39

      Well snakes are known to eat crocodilians like anaconda with caiman and rock pythons with crocodiles sometimes.

    • @jakobbauz
      @jakobbauz Рік тому +12

      I was gonna write exactly that. What a beast.

    • @MrTheWeedMan007
      @MrTheWeedMan007 Рік тому +1

      Haha

    • @sasazapadnik9335
      @sasazapadnik9335 Рік тому +23

      He said... "Cya later, alligator"

  • @Emma-lz1tb
    @Emma-lz1tb Рік тому +697

    It is tricky to find both a way to get rid of/control an invasive species without creating a market for it but this is so interesting to see and it is lovely how a pest can help a community and create value in the economy, perhaps also take demand away a bit from native species or threatened populations elsewhere

    • @SupraJulie
      @SupraJulie 7 місяців тому +8

      Here is the thing, unless there is an incentive for people to get rid of them then they are going to stay.

    • @karenneill9109
      @karenneill9109 3 дні тому

      I think if businesses think flexibly, then it’s okay to create a market for something with the purpose of denuding it. They can switch to something else similar, but also problematic.

  • @Rich77UK
    @Rich77UK 10 місяців тому +350

    The first snake I ever held was a 12ft Burmese Python. It was gorgeous and became a firm favorite of mine. However the everglades are MASSIVELY important wetlands and I applaud the efforts to clean up these invasive animals. I'll look out for some of the products.

    • @Zsignal743
      @Zsignal743 10 місяців тому

      Weak

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 10 місяців тому

      Well pythons and a whole lot of other invasive species that are more destructive like feral cats and monitor lizards

    • @INSPIRE-BOND-jc5pw
      @INSPIRE-BOND-jc5pw 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Zsignal743omaiwa mo shinderu

    • @peyfalehrramp5645
      @peyfalehrramp5645 9 місяців тому +4

      Let's go scaly purses! Really gorgeous, I wonder how much they cost.

    • @annnee6818
      @annnee6818 7 місяців тому

      ​@@Zsignal743Adjective

  • @BudiandLeo
    @BudiandLeo 10 місяців тому +96

    I went to Fiji last year and every time I go to a tropical destination, I expect to hear some birds. There were none, absolutely none that it was a bit eerie. Apparently the Indian Mongoose was brought over to rid of Fiji's snakes harming sugarcane crops. But in effect, the mongoose also ate all native bird eggs.

    • @KMDragonS
      @KMDragonS 8 місяців тому +7

      I know what you mean I went to Australia years ago and I know about foxes that were brought in to take care of the rabbits. Unfortunately they now have a taste for the local wildlife

    • @markthomas3730
      @markthomas3730 7 місяців тому +1

      HOW EXACTLY DOES A SNAKE HARM SUGARCANE ?

  • @kokisivarajah7509
    @kokisivarajah7509 Рік тому +353

    I have huge respect for social entrepreneurs who help to solve worlds less talked problems! The government should actively subsides these entrepreneurs to keep solving problems of these nature.
    All invasive species has one in thing in common; introduced by the humans!😢

    • @integratedhatespreader
      @integratedhatespreader Рік тому +17

      Not all. Some invasive marine wildlife for example like barnacles and crustaceans can hitch a ride on drifting wood or trash.

  • @OpEditorial
    @OpEditorial Рік тому +52

    If humans are adept at anything it's hunting animals to extinction, it's time to do our part!

    • @HiddenGuardian2478
      @HiddenGuardian2478 3 дні тому

      Are you saying that this is bad? Because if so, you didn't listen to the video.

    • @guineverebaroque7331
      @guineverebaroque7331 37 хвилин тому

      I think they're just saying people who do stupid shit like trophy hunting on animals that are actually going extinct should focus their efforts on invasive species​ @HiddenGuardian2478

  • @brianlawson363
    @brianlawson363 10 місяців тому +40

    If there are only 100 people licensed to deal with the Burmese pythons, it doesn't seem that they really want to get rid of them.

    • @thekalenichannel1812
      @thekalenichannel1812 10 місяців тому +25

      Or maybe capturing dangerous animals isn't a very popular job? Wonder why that may be...

    • @QuesoCookies
      @QuesoCookies 7 місяців тому +6

      It's really dangerous, especially considering the other dangerous animals in Florida, and the market probably can't sustain them. That one lady they featured had a lot of leather just hanging around, probably because she hasn't sold any of the other items she's made with the rest.

  • @thaixp5495
    @thaixp5495 10 місяців тому +66

    Here in Vietnam (and China too) we have something called Python's "cao", which basically the python's backbone stewed for days with other herbs to create a condense peanut butter-like substance. When we get backache or knee ache, we rub this on the part and its work almost instantly. That thing sells for 1-200$ per jar and catching 1 single python is enough for a village family to live for half a year. Thats why python became so rare in asian countries and are redundant in the west.
    And also, python skin could easily become belt or purse, which easily get people 3-500$ per python

    • @tomaspalma5168
      @tomaspalma5168 10 місяців тому +20

      literally snake oil

    • @phatle2737
      @phatle2737 10 місяців тому

      ten tieng viet la gi vay ban?

    • @thaixp5495
      @thaixp5495 10 місяців тому

      @@phatle2737 Cao trăn đấy ông

    • @thaixp5495
      @thaixp5495 10 місяців тому +6

      @@tomaspalma5168 oh and Python's fat are used to cure skin burn, really effective. However, it is not as expensive since on 10ml jar can be used for a whole year and one python can product hundreds of them

    • @shahrzadtales
      @shahrzadtales 10 місяців тому +4

      You should go Florida and make your business to sell oil snake

  • @eliotdaoust3765
    @eliotdaoust3765 10 місяців тому +96

    As a reptile enthusiast here, i would like to friendly point out that one of the pictues ( 3:42 ) of said "burmeese python" was actually a ball python (aka royal python) and the narator said that "they are not poisonous" but I think what was ment was Venemous. Although, they are neither of those things 😂 (they can bite you or be eated by you, none of witch will result in your death!)
    Keep learning about reptiles! 🐊🐢🦎🐍

    • @laattardo
      @laattardo 10 місяців тому

      ❤ herp nerds!

    • @JohnnyDoom
      @JohnnyDoom 7 місяців тому +2

      Thanks. I was going to say this too. My rule of thumb is - if it bites you and you die, that's venom. If you bite it and YOU die, that's poison.

    • @exposenetworklimited4497
      @exposenetworklimited4497 7 місяців тому

      🙏🏻 thought same thing

  • @terminusest9179
    @terminusest9179 10 місяців тому +62

    I wonder why green crabs have a daily limit when they were never supposed to be introduced to the states to begin with. I think trying to continually eradicate it from certain places would bring that control down much better.

    • @kylieharrison3782
      @kylieharrison3782 10 місяців тому +4

      There was a limit? Sounded like the limit was created merely by the capacity of the people to catch them.

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 10 місяців тому +1

      I do think a good reason might have to do with other destructive tendencies we did. Like purple marsh crabs in a certain area had their native predators wiped out so the only thing that can keep them in check is the green crab

    • @PhilowenAster
      @PhilowenAster 9 місяців тому +3

      The limit for the green crabs is pretty much just the best times to catch them. Males are evidently best at their molting times, and I'd bet the best time for females would be when they're full of eggs.

    • @Hwd371
      @Hwd371 8 місяців тому +1

      Exactly! Why are there only 100 people licensed for python removal ?

  • @Nasauniverse001
    @Nasauniverse001 Рік тому +313

    I love to see people tackling problems like these. We may have caused the situation but we can solve it also if allowed to. Brilliant and interesting video. Thanks

    • @bas_ee
      @bas_ee Рік тому +8

      Kind of dark actually haha. "Oops, we made a mistake by taking pythons as a pet" "Yeah lets murder them all, one by one, the stinky pests". We really are dumb, ignorant and evil.

    • @nicholaslewis8594
      @nicholaslewis8594 Рік тому +9

      No, the messed up thing would be leaving them to wipe out species.

    • @thegamingwolf5612
      @thegamingwolf5612 Рік тому +9

      ​@@bas_eeyour so cool and quirky

    • @manchukhan8255
      @manchukhan8255 Рік тому +2

      One thing wrong about this statement is that none of the ‘we’ includes any of us.

    • @SkyeAten
      @SkyeAten Рік тому

      Yeah um... It's impossible to eradicate them completely..... So no, we can't solve the problem. We can just make it less bad.... 😅

  • @kouleeofficial
    @kouleeofficial Рік тому +146

    Do you ever think, if they did this to the point where the invasive species are no longer in the habitat they don’t belong to, how do the people now profit from it? I wonder that a lot because usually if you get profit from it, you’d want it to be there still.

    • @ContactsNfilters
      @ContactsNfilters Рік тому +39

      When they did it with rats years ago and cobras in India people started breeding them. I would hope we have more awareness now and could just switch to something else because I'm sure there will always be another invasive species or something else that needs management.

    • @rreagan007
      @rreagan007 Рік тому +39

      If that starts to happen, the government can pass laws saying that the invasive species must be wild caught and not farm raised.

    • @SkyeAten
      @SkyeAten Рік тому

      The sad thing is... I don't think we'll be able eradicate them... They have just been added to the eco system and we have now become their natural predator...

    • @AVA-hu4yf
      @AVA-hu4yf 11 місяців тому +9

      They profit from selling elephant tusks but that doesn't stop them from hunting them to extinction.

    • @ZelineZed
      @ZelineZed 10 місяців тому +4

      Many people are ready to use one thing until it is totally consumed, we see it daily

  • @deveshraj18
    @deveshraj18 11 місяців тому +74

    The thing I love about nature is that it's fair for every species. The moment a specie goes to a place where it doesn't have any natural predators and climbs up the food chain, nature introduces its new predator. And in this reference the humans become its new predator.

    • @redtsun67
      @redtsun67 10 місяців тому

      We're more like regulators than predators. If this were truly a natural process, then the invasive species would simply occupy it's respective place on the food web, and the ecosystem around it would adapt to this new influence in the area. We as humans attempt to regulate nature, because we have advanced to a point where we are no longer a part of the natural order.

  • @SunGodNikaJoyBoy
    @SunGodNikaJoyBoy Рік тому +54

    I believe there should be many more economic incentives for locals and people searching for work to go out and control the population of invasive species, this is will help prevent more mass extinction and keep our environments intact.

    • @daughter44
      @daughter44 Рік тому +5

      They would get bred for money

    • @ProfesionalVideoWatcher
      @ProfesionalVideoWatcher 10 місяців тому

      Someone could just be catching, bredding3them and realeasing them when they multiply in the wild he catches them for money

  • @Miikhiel
    @Miikhiel Рік тому +47

    It’d be cool to see the sargassum seaweed and the water hyacinth turned into fertilizer or even better “liquid gold” via compost tea.

    • @SaltyShaman
      @SaltyShaman 10 місяців тому +4

      Could also make 'crab fertilizer' out of those green crabs :D

  • @kenfamenterprise7204
    @kenfamenterprise7204 10 місяців тому +64

    This documentary is so refreshing..no politics,informative and an opportunity opener...good way to go

    • @longschlongjohnson6470
      @longschlongjohnson6470 10 місяців тому +7

      Lol buddy, if you think "environmental preservation" has nothing to do with politics I have a bridge to sell ya

    • @kb7661
      @kb7661 10 місяців тому +6

      Just because one side doesn’t agree, doesn’t make it political. This was just stating facts

    • @lostonearth7856
      @lostonearth7856 10 місяців тому

      You do know, environmental preservation is a left-wing political idea?
      Or you know, what you would call the "Woke agenda" because they deep states wants to control you using environmentalism or something stupid.

    • @Constantine_Cvl8
      @Constantine_Cvl8 10 місяців тому

      ​​​@@longschlongjohnson6470get back to slapping and clapping, Bolbi

  • @anhbinbaccuc8850
    @anhbinbaccuc8850 Рік тому +23

    There's this Vietnamese noodle dish made from crab: Bún riêu or bún riêu cua đồng (field crab noodle)... Basically small fresh water crabs are caught on the rice fields, since these crabs are small and don't have much meat, they get smashed into a paste, then filtered through a thin cloth to separate the hard shells, what left is this muddy flesh mixture residue from the crabs.
    Vietnamese would use this crab residue to put in boiled soup and it form a sponge like substance call riêu in bún riêu ... Nowadays it's hard to find crab on the fields, and for economic reason, people would mix this crab residue with eggs to form crab cakes for Bún riêu .....If Vietnam has this much crabs they wouldn't have to mix it with eggs at all .
    Vietnam cua đồng or field crabs are like 1/3 or 1/4 the size of these invasive crabs, imagine how much meat residue you get with these big crabs being smashed up and ground to a paste.

  • @lizh4862
    @lizh4862 Рік тому +18

    we've been crashing native fisheries for decades because we love seafood so much, why not apply the same vigor we have for salmon and cod to equally tasty invasives??

  • @asherdie
    @asherdie 10 місяців тому +35

    Why does one need a license to remove invasive species from public land????

    • @Garden_of_Edin
      @Garden_of_Edin 10 місяців тому +40

      That's not the part of which you need a license for, it's the dangerous animal that without training and caution can lead to serious damages.

    • @SharonRaeRyan
      @SharonRaeRyan 10 місяців тому +30

      It's to grant them access to protected lands. They need to prove they know how to catch and remove these animals without disturbing the environment further and without hurting themselves unnecessarily. If anyone was allowed out you'd have people driving their atvs over protected wetlands looking for snakes or using excess amounts of light that can disturb the indigenous species.

    • @johnmarks227
      @johnmarks227 10 місяців тому +7

      To supply the GOV. with money, why else. Same reason they have fishing licenses and driving licenses.

    • @agathar7115
      @agathar7115 10 місяців тому +1

      I believe anyone can hunt them but not wrangle them

    • @chac009
      @chac009 10 місяців тому +5

      @@johnmarks227 I bet everywhere you go people tell you that you're not the sharpest tool in the box, right buddy?

  • @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson
    @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson Рік тому +49

    The irony of humans talking about the problem of invasive species

    • @benjaminlehman3221
      @benjaminlehman3221 Рік тому +5

      At least we are trying to fix a mistake we made

    • @theclimbingchef
      @theclimbingchef Рік тому +4

      ​@Benjamin Lehman but everytime we try to fix, we create a new problem

    • @billionsmustfight
      @billionsmustfight Рік тому +9

      The irony of complaining about humanity's actions and its consequences, and people who feel guilty or responsible about it not ending themselves to prevent further harm from being done

    • @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson
      @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson Рік тому

      @@billionsmustfight yes makes total sense. If someone points out that humans are the greatest invasive species the only appropriate action for them to then do is kill themselves. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything, I'm just saying if you were viewing this from a top down perspective it's ironic. Get a grip.

    • @vidyanair7546
      @vidyanair7546 Рік тому

      Humans had caused extinction of animals than other species combined, destroy ecosystems...What an excuse to kill creatures, "Invasive species"!!

  • @owo4470
    @owo4470 Рік тому +34

    It's poetic how we're so good at destroying life but we can't destroy these things.

    • @QuesoCookies
      @QuesoCookies 7 місяців тому +1

      That's not really a fair assessment. The reason we drive some species into extinction is that the natural environments they live in keep them in check, but we just tip the scales by adding additional pressure to the pressures they already face. Invasive species have no other pressures but us, so our added pressure can only keep them in check. We're not very good at destroying things, we're just really good at wrecking balance in nature, which then destroys itself as a consequence.

  • @udayshaw7227
    @udayshaw7227 Рік тому +23

    informative as always! love your content! it really helped me out with my studies!❤️

  • @jennypai3763
    @jennypai3763 10 місяців тому +7

    it's absurd to me that people are just finding out that crab roe is good. but then i grew up in Taiwan, which is surrounded by the ocean, so fresh, live seafood is always readily available

  • @rochellemcdonald9646
    @rochellemcdonald9646 10 місяців тому +5

    I liked the section on sargassum. When we heard it was heading towards Florida, I made a comment somewhere about "There should be some way to recycle it". Many people told me that was a stupid ideas. I see it isn't so far fetched.

  • @Migxy008
    @Migxy008 7 місяців тому +4

    we've had a tourist's from florida once here in the Philippines he hired my uncle as a guide and i just tagged along their hike to Mt. Banahaw we encountered a few animals but when we encountered a python the group of tourist chased it to kill it luckily my uncle stopped them saying they aren't a pest in our country unlike in florida here in the Philippines they arent treated as an invasive species but is a local wild life

  • @jannebrija9879
    @jannebrija9879 11 місяців тому +9

    In the Philippines especially in my hometown Zamboanga the is a restaurant that developed a sauce from roe of smaller crabs to put on bigger crabs, lobsters or whatever seafood you like. If they made it from green crab, they would have a market instead of finding a niche market of selling the crab whole.

  • @quirkyqwerty2840
    @quirkyqwerty2840 11 місяців тому +31

    There's a paper about the Kudzu plant. Apparently, it was actually a staple crop of sorts in East Asia before it spread out across the world. It's tenacity and growth have become a problem now that the industry harvesting them is disappearing.

    • @rustychristopher597
      @rustychristopher597 11 місяців тому +7

      Kudzu
      Plant that ate the South

    • @divinearcher32
      @divinearcher32 4 місяці тому

      What were humans harvesting from kudzu

    • @jasonnung2645
      @jasonnung2645 4 місяці тому

      @@divinearcher32kudzu root can be used as food

  • @Hadeshinai1
    @Hadeshinai1 10 місяців тому +31

    props to the journalists for researching and mentioning about the burmese python breeding facility that got destroyed by the typhoon, exotic pet keepers appreciate that you take in the time as to not to put more shade on the misunderstood community

  • @thekidd423
    @thekidd423 11 місяців тому +28

    It makes no sense to only issue 100 permits for an invasive species.

    • @ChineseKiwi
      @ChineseKiwi 10 місяців тому +7

      you have to vet the person doing this as well as why I am guessing it is low. They have to know what they are doing and also, not be tempted to leave some to keep up supply (yes, that has happened before).

    • @tinknal6449
      @tinknal6449 10 місяців тому +3

      It didn't say that, they said that only 100 people are licensed, it doesn't state that licenses are limited to 100.

  • @edwardbyard6540
    @edwardbyard6540 Рік тому +5

    Restaurants in the UK are using signal crayfish, an invasive species, in their menus. They taste pretty good!

  • @michaels7312
    @michaels7312 10 місяців тому +63

    This is an entertaining piece but I think you have the responsibility to your viewers to inform them that even despite all the python hunters in FL, no significant population level impacts are being made on the invasive pythons from these harvests.

    • @FellsApprentice
      @FellsApprentice 10 місяців тому +26

      Because there's not enough hunters.

    • @michaels7312
      @michaels7312 10 місяців тому +3

      @@FellsApprentice A+ for those math skills

    • @botkilleruze4709
      @botkilleruze4709 10 місяців тому +8

      @@michaels7312don’t have to be rude about it

    • @lucidclocks3568
      @lucidclocks3568 9 місяців тому +4

      @@FellsApprenticeManual removal is also one of the most ineffective, labour intensive and highly costly methods of managing invasive species. Reality is that it's extremely difficult to eradicate an invasive species once it's settled and spread. Throwing more people at the problem won't solve it.

    • @joshirish4350
      @joshirish4350 6 місяців тому

      Good, let the snakes live.

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate 10 місяців тому +48

    Turning native species into clothing is never okay, but invasive ones, definitely.

    • @DannyConeHeadOnceLer
      @DannyConeHeadOnceLer 10 місяців тому +7

      Agreed
      I'd pay good money just for that

    • @CBRN-115
      @CBRN-115 10 місяців тому +3

      Invasive species breed quickly anyway.

    • @FrostySparks
      @FrostySparks 10 місяців тому +1

      No animal deserves to be turned into clothing! No matter if wild or invasive!

    • @babecat2000
      @babecat2000 7 місяців тому +1

      @@FrostySparks Disagree.

  • @Desire123ification
    @Desire123ification Рік тому +4

    Keep up the good work! 💯

  • @NicolaiAAA
    @NicolaiAAA 7 місяців тому +1

    "Rehome them." Yeah. Ok. It's hard enough for places to rehome cats and dogs, people just act like it's gonna be a breeze to rehome a whole ass python.

  • @worldcitizenobjectivethink3764
    @worldcitizenobjectivethink3764 9 місяців тому +1

    An advice for those ladies hunting snakes or any other animals at night: use yellow light flashlight instead of white light flashlight. It will be much easier spotting them at night, because their eyes will give them away. The eyes of all sort of animals gives a better reflection with yellow light.

  • @depressedmoose
    @depressedmoose Рік тому +38

    Helping the economy and ecosystem, sounds fun!

    • @bas_ee
      @bas_ee Рік тому

      We help the ecosystem by murdering them all, one by one, while being the reason they are there in the first place. So, if you hate cats for example, let a few loose in a place where they will wrack havoc, wait a few years, and then you can legally murder them all lol. We humans are messed up

    • @RefiaPhenix
      @RefiaPhenix Рік тому +2

      Yup, just a bit sad that we caused the problems in the first place and didn't do any early prevention 😅

  • @catalinavallejor
    @catalinavallejor Рік тому +8

    What happens with the snakes really is just fixing the problem you created!

  • @Drikkerbadevand
    @Drikkerbadevand 10 місяців тому +4

    small correction, at 1:30, except for less than a handful of snakes, snakes generally aren't poisonous, they're venomous

  • @kaitlynleilany
    @kaitlynleilany Рік тому

    omg this is so informational. thank you for posting this.

  • @ChristosSerranoThoma
    @ChristosSerranoThoma 10 місяців тому +6

    Can you please make a documentary about the invasive cats in Cyprus? People from all over the world come to Cyprus to feed them and now their numbers are more than the actual human population in the island! The problem is massive!!! The cats kill everything that moves! I remember that we had a lot of different insects. lizards, birds! Now is only cats! The people only feed them, they leave plastic bags and containers everywhere from the food they feed them on the streets, also the cats leave their feces everywhere! especially lets say by the beach that small children play in the sand. Its a mess! And nobody does anything!

  • @alexhadow
    @alexhadow Рік тому +8

    So no ones gonna talk about the crab Whiskey?

  • @Wakkajakka
    @Wakkajakka Рік тому +7

    You don't have to convince me to eat crabs, We eat crawdads down here.

  • @Crimson0047
    @Crimson0047 Рік тому +6

    21:57 Where I'm from in the US seafood is a staple so seeing new seafood introduced into the market is pretty neat

  • @lisadawn8856
    @lisadawn8856 10 місяців тому +4

    I love the creative ideas people come up with to solve these problems. Please continue your good work. ✨✨😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍✨✨

  • @pkked2
    @pkked2 Рік тому +6

    The green crabs and the carp would make very good crab or carp curries Asian style. We have been happily currying and eating aquatic creatures like them for centuries.

  • @SkyeAten
    @SkyeAten Рік тому +49

    Don't buy an exotic pet if you can't be sure you'll be able to keep it 😢 and for the love of god don't set them "free" in a field if you can't take care of them..... Why are humans SO selfish and SO unintelligent. Can't we even consider the consequences of our actions in nature???

  • @mooonlight778
    @mooonlight778 7 місяців тому +1

    know that snakes never lived in florida until a few hundred years ago makes me anxious

  • @Bunbun10379
    @Bunbun10379 Рік тому +2

    I love eating crab roe! They’re so delicious and barely need any seasonings. Wish more restaurants are serving the green crabs

  • @yashwanth9549
    @yashwanth9549 Рік тому +11

    Python developers after watching this 😂😂

  • @dylanhester4194
    @dylanhester4194 10 місяців тому +2

    I love how we shoot hogs from helicopters but we have to run around with flashlights, like it’s a snipe hunt, to catch and kill a python.

  • @scoop9722
    @scoop9722 10 місяців тому

    Very very well made and interesting video, great to learn something instead of just scrolling through the usual stuff.

  • @TimeSurfer206
    @TimeSurfer206 10 місяців тому +4

    "Never appeal to a man's better nature, he may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."
    - Robert Heinlein.

  • @xeijix
    @xeijix 10 місяців тому +3

    Chinese people love seafood (including crab). I haven't heard of any Chinese restaurant use green crabs. There's a particular dish where we would use the tomalley (crab roe and guts) in fried rice. Definitely a missed opportunity

  • @Snakelizardexoticskeeper3
    @Snakelizardexoticskeeper3 7 місяців тому +2

    I have a Burmese python as a pet. She’s an absolutely incredible pet and I love her a lot, I caught her in my summer home in Florida when she was a hatchling and now she’s 8ft long. While I’m glad I was able to save her I completely understand the need to cull these invasive pythons and think that using the leather is a great idea, waste not want not!

  • @allisonshaw9341
    @allisonshaw9341 8 місяців тому +1

    Snake meat is eaten as a delicacy in most places in Asia. We should be using it as well. Same for the nutria, carp, and feral hogs.
    Using sargassum for paper, etc., is also good, and one man figured how to make bricks with it. I'm betting that water hyacinth can be used to make paper as well as material for weaving.
    Crab? yeah, I'll eat some. Same for lion fish. Mmm-mmm good!
    As for making biofuels - absolutely. Using all of the plants for diverse products is just a bonus.

  • @euclideanspace2573
    @euclideanspace2573 Рік тому +5

    Green crabs are considered a delicacy in China and it's delicious. Eat them, give it a try.

  • @lvjungle2840
    @lvjungle2840 Рік тому +9

    For the crab can they dry them and crush it to make some type of fertilizer? Calcium

    • @31oannamphong66
      @31oannamphong66 10 місяців тому

      Isn’t chicken egg shells more effective
      I also beard crabs, lobster and shrimps have heavy metal in their shells

  • @Poko0Chan
    @Poko0Chan 10 місяців тому +1

    this fighting for getting invasive species out is a good thing to help ... minimize human mistakes as good as humans can...

  • @orboakin8074
    @orboakin8074 10 місяців тому +1

    Great video! This is teh kindd of environmentalism I can get behind. It is practical, solves problems, is borne from human innovation, is capitalist, provides jobs and actually benefits people.

  • @nom6758
    @nom6758 10 місяців тому +3

    Ironic that the typha briquets produce less smoke... but they have to burn them for 6 hours beforehand, thereby releasing all the pollutants that wood would have anyway.

  • @somerandomfella
    @somerandomfella Рік тому +5

    If you told the Chinese that Python meat would increase their wangs, I guarantee you they'd go extinct within 6 months 🤣

  • @charlieinthe_box
    @charlieinthe_box 8 місяців тому

    I believe Florida already has a bounty program for snakes. I remember checking out a registration website for it.

  • @MHarenArt
    @MHarenArt 10 місяців тому +1

    Excellence documentary. I shared it with friends to spread the word.

  • @averageguy1261
    @averageguy1261 Рік тому +4

    Seems like a drop in a bucket the way they're hunting the snake.

  • @nannerz1994
    @nannerz1994 Рік тому +7

    I can't get enough of World Wide Waste

  • @User8571
    @User8571 7 місяців тому

    "Then, in 1992, dozens of Burmese Pythons escape a breeding facility, when Hurricane Andrew hit."
    Don't know where you're getting your facts from but, Pythons were already on the loose and out of control in the Everglades long before Andrew. When I was in elementary school, back in the early to mid 80's, we took a couple field trips to the Everglades and the Rangers talked a lot about invasive species and their impact. Pythons were the primary subject.
    Just about every little Cuban boy thought it was cool to have a pet Python, until they grew to large to manage. Then, they'd just release them into the wild because they were a pet and they couldn't be bothered to take them to a zoo.

  • @g.mendoza8138
    @g.mendoza8138 10 місяців тому

    Awesome! Great job 🤗😊🤗

  • @TheJollyWizard
    @TheJollyWizard Рік тому +13

    It's horrible to see aguapé (water hyacinth) causing problems in other parts of the world, I never knew that, because they are native where I live. I guess it's a case of you reap what you sowed

  • @jordancartier9239
    @jordancartier9239 Рік тому +2

    This a historic video frl

  • @Sinful_morality
    @Sinful_morality 7 місяців тому

    The people in the boat with fishing nets and hockey helmets got me laughing real good

  • @michaelmoore1627
    @michaelmoore1627 8 місяців тому

    This was cool and i look forward to future content.

  • @hillbillysceptic1982
    @hillbillysceptic1982 10 місяців тому +6

    I don't know what license these people hold. A license is not required to remove invasive species.

    • @kb7661
      @kb7661 10 місяців тому +4

      The license is to access government protected government lands.

    • @hillbillysceptic1982
      @hillbillysceptic1982 10 місяців тому +1

      @@kb7661 And now I know. Thanks KB!

  • @BOMBON187
    @BOMBON187 Рік тому +4

    I always wished that good tasting animals (lobster and salmon) were an invasive species.

  • @abihebb6720
    @abihebb6720 9 місяців тому +1

    You Guys should prpbably check out the possum fur trade in NZ, where the possums are not only an invasive species, but is dangerous to our native wildlife

  • @whatalsaid
    @whatalsaid 8 місяців тому

    I went to Florida in 2019 and was super disappointed when I couldn’t find a place that served lionfish.

  • @miscellaneouscogitations7322
    @miscellaneouscogitations7322 Рік тому +7

    More world wide waste!!!! Love this series

  • @Rain88800
    @Rain88800 Рік тому +4

    The way they are going, they'll never be able to solve the Burmese python issue😂😂

  • @guiladlevy3152
    @guiladlevy3152 9 місяців тому

    @1:10 had me laughing my coffee out of my nose drills :
    "Only 100 people are licensed to capture these snakes" : said licensed professional proceed to boot the python neck. Yeaaaah riiiight mate ! Dis how we do it...

  • @laattardo
    @laattardo 10 місяців тому +3

    This was an interesting video, thank you. I live in New England and had no clue about the green crabs. Ive known about the pythons in the everglades for a while now and they too struggle with water hyacinth. I went to a aquarium in LA and they had an educational section all about them. I'm highly impressed with the ingenuity of the people dealing with the Typia (spelling?) The clay bricks made with the plant materials are a great approach to handling the plant. I do understand the concern of creating a demand with these approaches but, i also dont think any of these issues will completely go away, so methods and means of controlling them are necessary.

  • @elvenkind6072
    @elvenkind6072 Рік тому

    Homer Simpson would love the crab whiskey. I remember from one episode he drank something like 20 cans of crab juice.

  • @Jay-dawg337
    @Jay-dawg337 10 місяців тому +4

    I always had an idea to have an all you can eat wild boar buffet in Texas.

    • @strayiggytv
      @strayiggytv 10 місяців тому

      You couldn't because the pos ranchers out here want to charge people to come on their property and shoot them

  • @christopherqchin4319
    @christopherqchin4319 Рік тому +4

    I wonder whats wrong not eating phyton and green crab . It is edible .

  • @peterparsons7141
    @peterparsons7141 7 місяців тому +1

    “ they keep the snake on the ground, lifting it in the air, would scare it “
    Really? I didn’t think snakes were afraid of heights. How do they know ? Do they ask the snake to rate its fear level.
    Compared to having someone step on your neck, would you rate heights as the scariest thing ?
    I really enjoy these videos, and the camera work is very well done. The narration often is questionable.

  • @tenderapple1671
    @tenderapple1671 9 місяців тому

    Thank you for sharing this.
    I don't live in any of those places. Could you do a video on invasive plants/animals from lots of different places? Something that I could identify and use. Show how to identify it and how to use it. I want to do my part but the internet is big and not all together trustworthy also there is a lot of conflicting information.

  • @dennythemenny3930
    @dennythemenny3930 Рік тому +6

    Idk how we can drive other things extinct but not invasive species

    • @QuesoCookies
      @QuesoCookies 7 місяців тому

      Things are being driven to extinction already in their natural habitats by their natural predators. Our removing enough to keep them from being able to repopulate quickly enough to sustain themselves agains natural threats is what causes their populations to collapse. It's not like we're going out and killing every single one of them. We're just tipping the scales until the problem cascades irreversibly.

  • @NiX_aKi
    @NiX_aKi Рік тому +3

    Crab roe is delicious in pasta 😋😋

  • @iangordon9869
    @iangordon9869 10 місяців тому

    Just keep up the good work!

  • @shamarebanks2740
    @shamarebanks2740 Рік тому

    That high five was horrendous😂

  • @pauljoseph3081
    @pauljoseph3081 10 місяців тому +5

    Animal activists would get a heart attack watching this 😂

  • @taotzu1339
    @taotzu1339 Рік тому +3

    If the state is killing the snakes after capture, what is the most efficient way that they're doing it? Machete, baton or bullet?

  • @aprianto1985
    @aprianto1985 11 днів тому

    Great information

  • @kerzeratechgaming7024
    @kerzeratechgaming7024 9 місяців тому

    Those species would be in check in the Philippines in no time. Those yellow crab egg are fermented here, made in some sort of paste as spice to cooking. Mass produced them and try to sell in asian market.

  • @Bogie3855
    @Bogie3855 10 місяців тому +5

    I wish I lived where you do. I would be SOOOOOO into this. I have a 5ft ball python and a baby cornsnake as pets and the python is a Reptile Rescue animal. I love snakes and grew up along the Ottawa River so I have encountered many different wild animals. As much as I love my animals, I would not have a problem hunting these snakes just for the thrill of it. Also they would probably be meeting up with my BBQ as well.

    • @TinaTissue28
      @TinaTissue28 7 місяців тому

      I'm in Australia and i grew up with my parents being wild life carers. Taught me how to love an animal but also be fine with being let go or euthanised. Like foxes and rabbits are a massive invasive species here. We did not hesitate to play with the fox cub for an afternoon, but was completely fine and understood why it couldn't be alive in Australia.

  • @Motorjunkie67
    @Motorjunkie67 Рік тому +3

    Not gonna lie, I aint eating that green crab

  • @Pippi-Longstocking
    @Pippi-Longstocking 10 місяців тому

    It’s about time!! Lion fish sushi! I’ve been saying it for years now!

  • @BruncvikCZ
    @BruncvikCZ 7 місяців тому

    Nice license plate at 5:21 :D