These Botanists Are Scaling Cliffs to Save Endangered Plants
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2020
- Adam Williams and Ben Nyberg are like the Indiana Joneses of plant conservation, leading the crusade to preserve Hawaii’s most distinct - and endangered - plants.
Hawaii’s biodiversity is unique, largely because of its isolation: Nearly 90% of native plants don’t grow anywhere else in the world, according to the state’s Department of Land and Natural Resources. But that isolation has also left it vulnerable to threats like invasive species and environmental changes. So even though Hawaii makes up less than 1% of U.S. landmass, it’s now home to nearly 45% of all endangered and threatened plants in the U.S.
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Meet Hawaii's Indiana Joneses of rare plant conservation.
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1:05 shows a SPECIES FROM AFRICA-Angraecum leonis. (Orchidaceae). I know because I own one. That plant is NOT native to Hawaii. The LEAST you could do, vice, is show HAWAIIN PLANTS IN A documentary about HAWAIIAN PLANTS.
“I take it personally as a responsibility to maintain the things that we have”
Respect🙏🏻
I see you vice. Filming a drone with a drone.
Jttv basically droneception
Drones on drones!
VICE News lmfao
Drones on drones. Lol What do you do when a drone catches an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
@@r.williamcomm7693 charge the animal with poaching by poaching the endangered animal
I love botany so much, these guys are doing great work. Losing a species is losing millennia of evolution, not saving them is pointless.
At 1:50 I felt like a was suddenly watching a Disney Movie.
This is the vice i like to see
Thank you Thomas! We appreciate the support!
@@VICENews No problem keep on keeping on
"So what are doing for a job ?"
"Just scalling cliff everyday"
" wow, what is your job ?"
"Botanist"
Just because we don't understand a plant's purpose, doesn't mean it doesn't have one. Everything was put here for a reason. I agree, all plants deserve to live. ... in support of the comments below, yes... great video work on this one. Nice to see a story on something other than the homeless, refugees, and addicts.
This is the vice that I’ve missed. It makes me so happy seeing quality stuff like this getting uploaded. Vice is back on the right track
Thank you dudes for helping our planet 💙
April Vicious They’re helping Hawaii. Localize you’re thanks and mission! Helping the world isn’t much help if you don’t have concrete steps to help a specific part. My point is, ur efforts may not even help the world but are worthy
The earth don't need this fucken botanists to save it
@@conventionalfusion6416 stfu
I just left Hawaii after my second vacation to there. It’s my dream to spend a longer time there and help the Mamane (Sophora chrysophylla) grow. If you go south on the Big Island, they sure don’t look endangered-but they’re the main food source for the Palila (a type of endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper), and the Mamane isn’t flourishing in the Palila’s habitat, even tho it’s found all over the island.
Mamane is ENDEMIC, this means growing *only* in Hawaii. This is different than indigenous, which means originating from a place but found elsewhere.
The Mamane has a *less than* 5% germination rate. Which is so odd, because the seed pods are enormous and plentiful on each plant. Walking in late February through volcano national park is like walking through a maraca festival haha. When I was there, I would open the seed pods and distribute them as much as I could, and I took some seeds and planted them in the Palila’s habitat. I hope I made a little bit of a difference.
This video is the perfect example to combining information and entertainment. I don't even care about endangered plants, trees, shrubs, or botany in general but it felt like I was watching a movie, especially so with the cinema-like film score. Good job Vice!
look at the touching smile on that scientist when showing the three bags of seeds. I feel this is humanity
0:40 Goats just casually strolling across death drop cliff.
That was nothing you should see the ones on dams that grow moss and grasses with only a inch gap to cling to before dropping down hundreds of feet.
@@CaylaFenton-Reeder they climb to lick the salt not grass grass is everywere lol
Wow. It is so difficult to think fpr a whole species of a plant to go extinct, but it really happens.
Those plants need conservation for a variety of reasons.
Honestly I've always liked most Vice videos but you guys are fire lately with your content. Bravo!!
VICE YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS VIDEO
those plants look straight outta Dr seus.
Like the music. really set the tone for looking at Hawaii as a magical special place. :)
It's people like these conservationists that want to make me go back to obtaining a job in "science.." I could easily go volunteer my services (very little to offer, just a Associates in Biology) but what about my bills, food on the table and health insurance? Screw the main stream life style. I'm fine with rotating between 10 (or less) sets of clothes and living in a room/trailer or dormitory. These two botanists will make a difference in the world yet so few people will recognize their contribution to the scientific field and future generations. Keep up the good hard, honest work.. 👍
Man drones can do everything .. can’t wait until i turn into a cyborg
No joke, but this is my dream job (Botanist)
Irish Abella It's my hobby. Citizen science, scientists 😁 I don't have the time and money to pursue STEM courses and have a degree, but I can try to be well versed in the topic and promote the knowledge of the topic (like for example: Botany) in my everyday civilian life.
This Is Beyond Awesome!! 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Why do all the interview shots look like they were directed by Wes Anderson?
Beautiful story!
Thank you for your amazing work. Reminds me of the Karate Kid when Daniel scaled down the cliff face for that bonsai 🌲🌱🌳
This was awesome. Good job guys!!!
I feel vice news is if not one of the best news platforms in America today.
amazing work, i am amazed by your commitment, wish i could join you!
Now go find Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't and do a documentary on him. The man is a botany legend.
Brian some of the best stuff on CZcams!
Thank you to Ben and Adam !!
As a botanist (in California), I can assure you that other botanists in Hawaii talk about how cool these guys are. :)
These guys are taking huge risk going to the edge of cliffs which are great effort, and suddenly "Probably it is not necessary to conserve, because there is not much use" that part makes me wonder why and curious why wouldn't it be conserved. But anyway, to these wonderful guys in the video making this effort and to whoever that are doing this kind of effort of finding and saving the endangered species, thank you, you are amazing.
The music is majestic
No cap I lived in that valley for 6 months with my family.
It’s beautiful.
I love these men. These men are heroes.
Collecting seeds of endangered plants species is my dream job. But i can't do all the studies to become a botaniste... 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I wouldn’t mind working in that kind of beauty. Wow! And thanks for saving these plants.
5:20 lower right, you can see insect nest.
Helinä Keijo woe
Why do the interviews look like a Wes Anderson movie? Great video!
80 percent trust equipment
20 percent confidence
Did they video a drone videoing the landscape
It’d be cool if we can find plants that provide antibiotic properties.
Laaaa Lot of plants need not be discovered just tested whether or not such properties exists. The issue of antibiotic resistance also comes to mind.
bro are you dumb
There are
Garlic, Honey, Echinachea etc..
AWESOME
Where do I sign up
Nice editing
Forgot to mention that the US DOD is giving the people drone’s in Hawaii.
4:28 That music is giving me major _Walking With Dinosaurs_ vibes. (The original.)
I feel you
Vice Editor: “hey we need some beautiful classical music to accompany this B-roll of these amazing cliffs, mountains and such.” Junior Editor/Pop-plebeian: “hey there’s this, it is VERY NICE (high five), they call it “The Moldau””. Other in back of room: “hey wasn’t that written about a river?” Vice Editor: “eh, yeh, it’s fine, there’s water in the shot.” A for effort guys 😂👌🏽
1:05 SHOWS AN AFRICAN SPECIES. That is angraecum leonis. I have one in my orchid collection. The LEAST you could do, vice, is show plants that are ACTUALLY NATIVE TO HAWAII.
Amazing
It's interesting if you think about it, how many species went extinct before humans were even a thing.
And here we are. All those extinctions lead to what we know today.
@Bible Bus 2.0 apparently only 1% of the world's total species are still here today.
You guys rock
Wow. "Let's just mash up a bunch of pieces of Holst's _The Planets!"_ Nobody'll know, and it sounds awesome! /s
I just wish every Indonesian documentary are this simple, quick and interesting 🇮🇩
Vice won't you come to Indonesia?? ☹☹
I thought Steve Pearlman was the Indiana Jones of Kauai. Too old for Vice?
These people are so fucking cool.
Great topics that I am concerned about!
why do you have drone footage of a drone getting footage?
I was so afraid if he fall in his scope 😮
Wow good job on the music
Kauai, boyz . Garden isle!!! hold it down
I love drones!
If you do please fight against the FAA pushing remote ID laws.
I am Kanaka Indy. Hawaiians saving Hawaiians!
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PERIOD
DOT DOT DOT DOT DOT
NO ONE ELSE
Is this a John Williams soundtrack?
Love u all..... 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Good work
i don't understand why drones didn't exist sooner? didn't we have all the tech for them?
Intense botany.
So badass
Sounds like mother earth is in an abusive relationship with humans.
Our VICE drone will follow your bio drone...
OK? Action!
Botanist, its like a perk in dead by day light.
Why can’t they be irradiated with high intensity UV light to kill the fungi? Or something like selective thinning or foster environments to keep the genes from extinction.
Are you sharing your finds with Svalbard seed vault?
Plant is medicine save of all cost take sample from leaf for research
Exactly there are so many undiscovered compounds from plants that could be become used for future cures
Crime Pays but, Botany Doesn't
has been remiss in not approving the video...
Why?
@ 1:56 a drone capturing a drone. . .
Poison Ivy would be pleased.
high quality docs not some dull nonce doing fucking 1 star reviews, right on vice!
6:18... yes a useful plant is more important for conservation? lol
YaBoi im pretty sure they are referring to a monetary value kinda things as apposed to just increasing the natural biodiversity of Hawaii
You have much to learn
What in the karate kid 3 is this?
So much so like a *Movie*
God damn big banana
Vice is nice
so hawaii has a massive ROD issue?
well if you took anything away from that video I hope that was it, xD
@@kavikanaveli8348 I'm not taking hawaiis ROD anywhere. lol.
Thanks haoli
The fact you used it in a un-ironic instant makes it soo weird. Makes you sound like a bigot.
Kn and you are?? Another haoli? It doesn’t have the same connotation as the n word?? it just means white skin if somebody used it in a negative term toward you that’s a personal problem
Kn beside it’s Hawaii slang not a real language so technically I called him a made up word with weight only in Hawaii??
Kn had I called him a cracker then I’d understand if you’d be upset
You mean haole right lol but there was one local uncle at least.
Doctah Drones
drone runs dry of energy mid flight back
oooooooooooh shit
Nice movie soundtracks
Damnnnn how do I get this job?
Cuz I'm in debt for the wrong degree.
get a degree in botany/ horticulture. i don’t know if it’s too late cause u choose the wrong degree but you can work your way up still. i am going to college next year and majoring in horticulture & minoring in botany
Imagine just one huge hotel in the middle of that 1:57 that would be nice where there's no technology just the wild and plumbing
No
@@jaxjohnson5372 It's gonna happen some billionaire will pay off a council member and within a few months they'll start construction look at what happened in California billionaire brought land which wasn't' for sale and built a mansion which he then sold and made a huge profit
Kaizen Mckenzie A billionaire already owns one of our entire islands.
nice
Nice DJI advert. How much did they pay you?
ROD is the worst :(
So let me get this straight, these guys get paid and paid good money to look for plants? Wow must be nice
Where did you see how much they get paid
Sculpin probably not as easy as you would think man these guys a repelling of of massive fucking cliffs.
@@brolygvc I'm sure they so alright, they travel to Hawaii and make a career out of it. Think for a second.
@@averagebloke4474 probably went to and paid for college 8+ years also
I think what you have to focus on is how they got the job, a federal job at that. (Not all governments care about the unique species that exist in and only in their borders.) Being well versed in plant taxonomy, morphology, botany. Studying how many years to become a Botanist. What is "nice" is that there are programs like these that enables botanists to save this world's vanishing plant biodiversity. Easy for you to say it's "nice". You did not choose to become a botanist.
Bio diversity is the most important thing ever. More important than humans. Look at what has happened with bananas.
Daniel Springer Rob just stated that Biodiversity can help humans more than humans can help themselves. How many drugs, food and other consumer products have stemmed from our biodiversity. When we destroy ecosystems we destroy things that can ease the suffering of humanity. This biodiversity, these species have evolved to become and exist as they are for millenia, and we just kill them in a few years or so. As what's happening to the Banana industry- a truly human growing system, is bound to kill itself if they don't change. Emulating nature, in a land ruled by nature. Humans are the threat, they can also be the savior.
Is the fungi natural phenomenal ? humans are the invacive species ?
can you shoot the goats?🤔🤔🤔
i love the discount jurassic park theme.
Jurassic Park was filmed here in Hawaii
Most scenes were filmed on the same island this was filmed on as well.
You have it the wrong way around. The music was from Holst's The Planets. John Williams (Jurassic Park soundtrack composer) took inspiration from this work.