Imagine America's Serengeti: Building the Largest Wildlife Reserve in the Continental United States
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- North America's grasslands, once teeming with wildlife, awed and inspired Lewis and Clark, artists George Caitlin and Karl Bodmer, and other early American travelers. Today an extraordinary Montana-based project is described by National Geographic as "one of the most ambitious conservation efforts in American history." With a goal of reestablishing a wildlife phenomenon of almost unimaginable size, American Prairie Reserve is assembling a wildlife complex the size of Connecticut that is open to the public and is a gift of immeasurable value for the global community and future generations.
As a veteran Lewis and Clark reenactor who traveled through this country during the bicentennial expedition, this is truly exciting and inspiring! I can't wait to visit again..
I wish they would do something like this with the southern plains in Texas. They were exploited even more for agriculture n were able to support even more life. The southern plains on the Texas Mexico border would have supported Mexican wolf, Coyote, American black bear, Jaguar, Puma, Collard peccary aka javelina, Mule deer, White tailed deer, Pronghorn antelope, Bison, Bighorn sheep, and Wild mustang. That would've been amazing to document.
.. what's even more amazing is that were it not for the arrival of humans, those Texas plains would have been even MORE BIODIVERSE ... absolutely teeming with the animals listed PLUS a dozen or more megafaunal species from mammoths/mastodons to the famous giant ground sloths, tapirs, at least two more types of peccary, horses, camels, vaguely hippo-like Toxodons (one species of the uniquely South American notoungulates made it to Texas when continents joined)...
..and of course, everybody's favorites the predator/scavenger entourage following these herbivores, e.g. jaguars, puma, the built-for-speed-like-a-cheetah puma Miracinonyx, lions, at least a 2 or 3 species of sabre-toothed cats, wolves, dire wolves, dholes (now restricted to Asia and known as 'Asian hunting dogs' but fossils found here in southern plains), 3-4 species of bear, large flying predatory/ scavenging teratorn birds and for a while at least one huge flightless carnivorous bird roamed those plains, as well as a large, built-for-running hyena (the only one to make it to the Americas) species..
@@jrodowens bring em back bring em back now
@@releventhurt I wish we could.
DoNot forget Atwater's prairie chickens!!!!!
Now that's an awesome idea. Also, prairie chickens.
I'm 75 now and hope to see this wonderful project when it is finished. Hopefully I will live that long. I've been out West more then a few times and always thought there was something missing. Now I know what it is. You all are doing Gods work. He will bless you for it.
You don’t need to wait till it’s finished, you can go there right now, it is awesome!
I love this big idea. I'd like to know the status of the project today.
www.americanprairie.org/building-the-reserve
this is the current state of it if you're still curious.
They’re growing slowly but surely. An excellent candidate for one’s yearly donation!
Why not allow schools to adopt some of the property and learn how they can get the land back to where it needs to be. That would really get them outside and see what they're studying and wanting to grow.
Amazing in all its many aspects.
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Truly one of the greatest projects here on this planet!
Popped in for a peak ended up watching the whole thing. Absolutely couldn't be happier this is happening!
Perfect presentation I like the idea i thinks is not everyone thinking about nature like Me and You mr presentation
Am from Tanzania 🇹🇿🇹🇿 I love the nature and I feel so proud of my lovely national parks like Serengeti National park
At 4:03 he showed a picture of native American animals. Few people know that the mountain lion is not America’s biggest cat. Rather, the Jaguar is, and was hunted to extinction in the late 1960s. Recently, a couple have made their way back up from Mexico into Arizona.
I think it was one, now dead . A cat named Macho B. The American Sw was the edge of their range, as with the Mexican Gray wolf.
I live in Tucson and there is a Jaguar that is in the Santa Rita mountains south of us.
this might rival Serengeti of Tanzania,Masai Mara of Kenya and Veld of South Africa
It needs to happen because its a Serengeti taking place somewhere that is not africa!
SOOOOOOOO AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!
And as predicted by Sean, as of November 15, 2023, grizzly bears have officially naturally migrated to American Prairie lands in the region of the Upper Missouri River Breaks for the first time in over 100 years. Monumental and incredibly exciting news!!
l have such exhilaration upon learning about this! "_'')
Thanks for putting these together in a positive scientific methods and a grand scale for future growth. Regards.
I hope this happens. i wish for many more of these massive nature reserves. Tell people where to donate and maybe we can all chip in a little amount.
It has already happened, and is happening on an ongoing basis. They have a website. You can read all about it. And you can go visit there right now!
Absolutely fantastic initiative
Visionary. And in the long run it will be a benefit to Ranchers, Native Peoples, the Citizens of Montana - and the Nation.
And all people in the World that love the Earth.
the military base in canada just north of this acts just like a wildlife reserve, but waaaayyyyy bigger. we released 1000 elk in it in 1995, and it ballooned to 20,000 in the 2010. they wont release buffalo because of complaints about disease and damage from farmers though. its complicated
I love grasslands
This project is very uplifting. I hope to come and see it with my family someday soon!
This video is super informative and totally amazing!!!! Thank you so much!
The earth is supposed to be teeming with life... not just human life. Also, don't forget that horses were also there 10,000 years ago.... Looking at these national parks... so grateful that people set them aside. But it's so obvious that we need to preserve way more land...
I am so impressed and moved by this! I am going to find out how I can be a part of making this happen.
We need to do this in Uk 🤩
It's a great work by American Prairie Reserve.
Now please don't let people hunt animals in your huge area coz that will be like putting all these efforts to ruin it again.
it wouldn't year round. just short seasons. so.....
They do allow hunting. Have you seen their website?
Some far sighted person like Gates, Turner could make this a reality I say double it to 6 million acres , 200 years from now they will be giants for the far-sighted vision they had!!
Gates? 🤣🤣🤣
This is supposed to be sacred.
Can you give us more info about the illustrations at 1:00 and 44:25?
Is there any way I can get a transcript of this talk?
I like it I like it
Wie weit ist das Projekt heute voran gekommen ?
Please give us an update on the status of the project today. How may somebody contribute?
APR has a website
Check website and sign up for regular email updates. Also can get maps etc...
Go to the website, and then go there!!
I don't think we can go back in time.this is 2023
get the ranchers to trade land to the edge of the park.
"Thank you, I'd love to clone you!"
Not something you hear every day!
Maybe you should make better choices, and work on world-changing projects! 🤣
Why can’t they do rewinding like the reintroduction of species like reintroducing lions elephants bison and other animals in special reserves
Ramon Benitez no leave the animals that are indegnious to their continent
What next kangaroo ,and kola bears in Africa
This is a fucking joke
Considering the former megafaunal diversity I see no reason not to once the area has a stable population of prey items.
Bison can be increased more by raising them for food all over the country. To some degree this is already happening. There are over 200,000 bison in the U.S. right now.
>3 hibernation of plants is a good food source for them, soon as the snow melts I would think everything goes green, would not need fires if the animals romaed? I heard you said low elevation,, perfect for water Table, wood saturate, and with those hills and valleys would evaperate so well, I so happy to see even canada one said has a militiary park that natural? minus the Bison, looks like u posted it in 2013 today 2022, hope to seee the results, must be mindblowing, we humans have a lot to learn about whats coming our way, with this climate change, I see a project like yours one that is a invauable part of a mintigating the impendding hardship ahead>3 when his pray of seeing the Bison released The gentlman said took a long time to see, was glad one of his prayers was able to be fullfilled! God Bless
I have seen antelope go over, under and through a fence by the way
Shouldn't be an issue
Good custodians of the earth. Greetings from Israel.
So, listen to what he said...an area without any sign of humans. No buildings, no roads, no cars. But the APR claim it will promote and encourage tourism?
Yes. Did you know you can do tourism without buildings? Must be hard for you to imagine!
Eventually, refugee to the Cheetah. The Pronghorns will estimate that. L O V E
Too cold for cheetah it gets down to -30 degrees Fahrenheit up there
@@dangerousdylan6262 Cheetah was around there tell the end of the last ice age .That is why Pronghorn can run as fast as they can they had the cheetah chasing them for untold thousands of years .
The American cheetah not the same as the Old World cheetah but was more closely related to the mountain lion.
@@BigJFindAWay use and genetic editing techniques to give these animals cold resistance genes similar to other animals that used to live there.
@@IkeReviews I'll tell you what I do absolutely support. In Texas there is a massive ranch where they have scimitar horned oryx, addax, and dama gazelle. All these are highly endangered in the Sahara region where they're from, but they're doing extremely well on this ranch. I say that the also rare and endangered Saharan cheetah needs to be captured and brought to this ranch where they can breed and hunt the gazelles, oryx, and addax.
Right, do this in Montana where in 2020 they want to kill off wolves!!! MONTANA, just the place for such a project, the poachers and so called hunters would love it..... I would never step foot in MONTANA !
Lovely talk, but the elk and grizzly distribution maps are inaccurate. For example, there are elk herds in Western Washington and abundant grizzly bear in the Coastal Range of British Columbia.
For the population to increase to the levels you mentioned there needs to be some major problems fixed. There are 2 big problems, 1 is water, or the lack of it and second is food. A significant portion of the worlds population is under fed. If people do not get enough food they will not have kids!!! lack of water will cause the population to decrease.
I feel the worlds population will drop by up to 30 percent in the next 25 years!!! Alot of that will come from the aging population and not enough kids coming through. The rest will be a result of famine and drought in many parts of the world.
Can the land be hunted?
i don't think so. maybe when/if they become populated enough they may have hunting seasons though.
Yes you can! There is a hunting section right on their website.
Not one mention of Alan Savory? America's "philanthropists" must see $$$$ in all of this. These should be public spaces. Restoration cannot possibly be complete without the presence of the original stewards of this land.
buy the land of the migration route of the pronghorn, See if Canada, wants a national park. Cross border .
I’m sure in the last decade no one has thought of your ideas… LOL!
The wildways map does not cover this area.
What??
@@johnp999 The agenda 2030 biodiversity map
@@johnp999 Wildways map. Search it.
Cattle ranchers not watching wildlife on the prairies is so selfish. It’s not about survival it’s about greed.
How does hunting fit into the vision of this project? It is a deeply cherished tradition in Montana and is a very important monetary driver for conservation.
From their website: "Hunting is and always will be a part of American Prairie. It is an important form of public access and a wildlife management tool."
Source: www.americanprairie.org/our-hunting-approach
The diagram he showed was of a Kansas TALL-GRASS prairie.
Wrong.
@@johnp999 @19:46 that is a drawing diagram by J.E.Weaver in EASTERN Nebraska. Just look at the plants, they are TALL-GRASS Prairie plants: Prairie Dock, Northern Prairie Dropseed, Pale Purple Coneflower, Big Bluestem, White Wild Indigo, Indian Grass, etc.
We pay for billionaires stadiums would much rather my tax dollars pay for this and more like it.
tourism is temporary and should always push the biodiversity that nature affords us and... my grammar sucks.. work on local everything. technology and nature. I need a job... I'm coming. no pay is necessary. awesome.
I think it should continue farther to the southeast to include the south sides of rivers in Iowa and Illinois. So it could include seasonal migration for bison AND a double pipeline to move oil from Canada to Louisiana.
Destroy Canada while preserving the USA eh?
This project is going to be going on for hundreds of years. If humans have any brains between them we will be done burning dead dinosaurs in one or two decades. Otherwise we will go extinct, and deserve to do so!
No roads ,no hunting, all violations punishable by death, or life in prison. Only way it can be done. Oh yes, and no flyovers. People welcome at their own risk. No rescues. I found just about every type of animal killed in fences. I doubt you can pull it off the way you're going.
Don't try to copy
It's no where near on par
This is ridiculous
Don’t try to copy what? What on earth are you talking about??
Why not reintroduce animals like horses, elephants, rhinos and lions..... animals that roamed the Americas thousands of years ago (which in geological time isn’t to long) animals that are missing from our ecosystem
Those animals can’t live in that environment-at least with today’s weather.
Did you not watch the video? It is illegal for them to introduce predators!
They should rewild this area, not just bring back these animals but reintroduce animals such as lions, camels, elephants, cheetahs and more animals that used to inhabit these lands, of course mammoths, American lions and some more are no longer here but they are similar enough to take their place
Yes and then the Indians followed by the white settlers, the soldiers, the cattle drives and the cowboys.
@@paulbriggs3072 then what would be the purpose of rewilding if humans are reintroduced?
@@ramonbenitez1323 Okay that was deadpan Yankee humor. Having to explain it makes it worse. But at least you didn't pretend having the Indians re-introduced would be different.
@@paulbriggs3072 when it comes to native peoples it would be a bit different since these people did coexist with the megafauna all these thousands of years ago and are people who lived off the land but introducing cowboys and stuff, yeah that would be a lot different, human conflict with livestock has always been an issue
@@ramonbenitez1323 So there were no Europeans back then? And Indians act differently? They don't drive cars or use guns? How about white people who promise to dress up as Indians and act the same?
I'm not impressed with your approach, the land is never for sale. I have land rights and I am amazed by how truly ignorant people are, should have left it as was so you don't need to count your penny's)!
What in the universe are you talking about? This project is going to be going on for hundreds of years. Eventually everyone will sell. WTF?
Awwww just like the wef was talking about