From the top of the food chain down: Rewilding our world - George Monbiot

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Our planet was once populated by megafauna, big top-of-the-food-chain predators that played their part in balancing our ecosystems. When those megafauna disappear, the result is a "trophic cascade," where every part of the ecosystem reacts to the loss. How can we stay in balance? George Monbiot suggests rewilding: putting wolves, lions and other predators back on top -- with surprising results.
Lesson by George Monbiot, animation by Avi Ofer.

[@vyxxer]

Oh man, Rewilding is such a cool name.

[@jonaw.2153]

Tony Gonzales Sounds like a name for a video game

[@AbsoluteEgg]

keep the few year streak alive

[@marlonborreo]

Wow! Beautifully insightful. And the prose was terrific too. What a line to end the video with: "The silent spring could be followed by a wild summer."

[@junieb1171]

Marlon Borreo iii

[@t.ra-larchangelofthugnezz9010]

You know what silent spring was referring to right? The book..

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[@teampunk1356]

“....the silent spring can be proceeded by a wild summer.” Touches my heart every time.

[@cliffordmceachin306]

So your telling me the largest land mammal which is the Elephant is only so big, because there survivors from a time where all animals where that size?

[@mrbigoofs9820]

No. Woolly mammoths are smaller that African elephants, but the same size or slightly larger that Asian elephants.

[@paxsinica5202]

There were other mammoth species e.g Colombian mammoth and steppe mammoth that are over twice the size of modern African elephants, and other species of giant herbivores e.g Elasmotherium that reached the size of African elephants

[@justafork2642]

@riaz islam 35 that's not true, elephants were and are larger tham ground sloths and woolly mammoths we between Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus in size.

[@justafork2642]

@@paxsinica5202 also not true, no mammoth has ever been twice the size of a African bush elephant. The Columbian mammoth was the closest in pleistocene and was only about the same size as an elephant today.

[@UltimateHulk32011]

@Metal Gear Godzillanthropus your thinking of Andrewsarchus and Arctodus simus a.k.a The Giant short-faced Bear.

[@squigglylines420]

i never understand who would dislike videos like this... :(

[@MegaMGstudios]

Sqiggly lines peoply who dont believe science

[@stupid_cake6319]

they are the ones who didn't understand a word

[@ljubijaubija8373]

Those who hate imperial system

[@DiThi]

I hate the imperial system but loved this video.

[@s_nuka]

YOUR CHANNEL HAS NO CONTENT BUT 8 SUBS

[@santoshd6613]

Awwwwwww, this animation is shooooo cute... I loved it ..

[@santoshd6613]

Randy Marsh Homophobic noted ... :p

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Dr Santosh Dharmadhikar tomorrow is my birthday

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Derek Mcrae HB

[@susmitasaha1792]

Me tooo 😊

[@brighterthansunshine4355]

My favorite parts where the elephant's little tail wag and when the cellphone tower thing turned into a tree!

[@julietobrado4668]

Narration, outstanding Narrator,outstanding Graphics,outstanding Ted Ed👏👏👏👏👏

[@PutuDharmaMahaYusa]

Very astonishing art, feels nostalgic and give me subtle feeling

[@SugerScarf]

Yeah i liked the art a lot. It reminding me of the child's books, me and my mom would read when i was younger.

[@youngchy6385]

i almost cried as a student studying landscape architecture/ super insightful and touching. Rewilding! what a fabulous and excited name and concept!

[@sandyleung7783]

Professional, informative and beautifully illustrated. One of my favorite episodes!

[@AZK303]

No words can describe how grateful this generation -specially youngsters- to TED-ED videos. Great learning tool. Thank you TED-ED doe this powerful, well presented tool.

[@Mar-zt7np]

why is specially youngsters cross out

[@ashishsram]

Sketches in motion...amazing concept, beautifully portrayed!

[@Zootycoonman223]

I absolutely love the ideas behind rewilding! Some current projects I find particularly interesting are the American Pleistocene Park (which is only "talks" now), Siberian Pleistocene Park, and Oostenvarsdersplassen; rather than making humans a "fourth wheel" to the microbes, flora, and fauna it gives us a chance to partake in the sculpting the land and making us part of nature rather than metallic and plastic beings that spy on and exhaust the wilderness. I would love to be able to partake in making a Serengeti with elephants, bison, and other megafauna.

[@vicenzostella1390]

While I am a great supporter of rewilding as well, I wouldn't use Oostenvarsdersplassen as a great example of it. While many creatures were added to the wilderness, they forgot one very important detail: predators. Without wolves, bears, and lynx to control the herbivore population, the prey ended up limiting the amount of food available. This led to the death of almost all herbivores in the reserve. So, while rewilding is a great solution, we must treat it with great care and research.

[@jennymk01]

This is awesome! I hope one day the world figures this out.

[@koriw1701]

This was wonderful! But one thing could have been better: the sound department could have figured out their volume level. It sure would have been nice if we didn't have to turn up our volume all the way up... But otherwise, splendid job folks!

[@anes_m100]

Beautiful animation and narration. I am grateful for these TED-Ed videos, we are fortunate to live in a time with such accessible and engaging content!

[@TiJayEve]

I'm so glad you guys made a TED-ED Cartoon for Rewilding. I really enjoyed George Monbiot's Ted talk

[@vivianchou3465]

I remembered when I read a book about the wolf that returned to the Yellowstone National Park.

[@bigbulk688]

Pure gold....every word in this video

[@MarcianusImperator]

One of your best videos. Nice job TED-Ed.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

We can also introduce species related to those that left vacant niches. For instance we could introduce African cheetahs to hunt pronghorn, elephants in place of mammoths and mastodon to cultivate the land and perhaps even lions to replace the big cats that used to live here.

[@crystalbishop3118]

wow! very fascinating video, thank you! nature is so amazingly complex and interconnected, it blows my mind!

[@micheshawn]

Amazing info and animation! Hope it reaches all people in different parts of the world!!

[@shortievid]

send this video to the president

[@McDADDyK]

Obama is gone

[@McDADDyK]

***** Not literally...

[@vaultshadow]

trump doesnt care about it

[@yemustbebornagain2049]

eric tatemura Trump don't care bout anythin'

[@keterpatrol7527]

Except himself, and maybe his country

[@something.icantrememberany1365]

Damn, this is a good one. Thank you and good job.

[@a_tired_wendigo]

Glad to see this has caught on so well in a lot of places

[@oyamayen8128]

It is really a video gives hope, especially when first learning after 2020. The year not only the pandemic, and also all medias tried to deprive hope from you.

[@truedeadandlife]

I can see this as an archive video seen over a hundred years from now. "Now that was called wildlife and nature, children!"

[@leonardneamtu_]

Beautiful!

[@allisg3320]

Beautiful animation, I have to say that this might be my favorite style!

[@ADSm1a1t1h]

Beautiful write up, beautiful narration :)

[@sfarzanyar]

I love the Animation and the George's soft voice..😊

[@gabe7631]

Beautiful video.

[@geowijayakusumah]

Truly a beautiful and educative video

[@umayyu]

It is a very meaningful content that expresses that life and nature can be restored to us humans. Thanks for your hard work 🤍

[@AMesa729]

The narrator's voice is so calming

[@abeezekielmonteagudo607]

Agreed

[@keeyan2166]

Awesome animation!

[@rebeccalopez3397]

this video is amazing

[@TahirNefjodov]

Such a calm video...

[@michaelpaliden6660]

You don't need to clone woolly mammoths just put a fluffy swtter on an Elephant.

[@kiron84]

Avi Ofers animation is so so enigmatic! Just simple lines but tells stories

[@maxp6902]

Great vid

[@bingedranko36]

Thank you, George Monbiot ! Truely touching

[@skellybone9345]

This is amazing

[@s_nuka]

Well this was just *delicously* amazing And this is the *chain* that leads to my wisdom I am *carnivorously* hungry for these videos

[@kittu31991]

Amazing video... Loved it.

[@poopsock1948]

good job on teaching me this you are the best

[@annabellecheung1001]

4:03 that’s such creative animating

[@chegecate8058]

Ted ed is quite the eye opener

[@abdulrashid88]

well done

[@jianxiongRaven]

so nice that everything changes

[@gephillip]

Awesome video. I'm going to show this to my TED-Ed Club.

[@kylechong8168]

so amazing

[@deadlifternoob]

great video

[@jbz3]

I saw something about this on NOVA. It talked about it in more detail and about other reintroductions along with some of the controversy some humans might have.

[@triplelutzes]

Why didn't I watch this sooner this one is such a well written episode

[@kennethsatria6607]

Beautiful...

[@shenyiyang6507]

This was so poetic...

[@1fishmob]

There has also been consideration of releasing African Cheetahs where Prong Horns live to act as their predator. Sometimes, you don't need to clone for something like that. If an already existing animal can fill a certain role perfectly in the same environment, then they can fit that role.

[@wololo9063]

enchanted!

[@bauhiniafolia9673]

Yea shivers every where on my body

[@anees4youto]

I love the sound you added in the end

[@aawhanadhikari9682]

The sound of the birds and animals at the last was extremely good and peaceful

[@heyeveryoneimbiggiecheese9721]

i really like the animation

[@MrT_Rex]

Rewinding is the best project !!

[@orbit7082]

Why doesn't this guy do voice-overs most of the time

[@CNFClub]

Orbit I am wearing headphones and I can here every breath he takes

[@Samwise108]

I like Addison Anderson, who does most of these videos, but he pronounces an 'L' in the word 'both'! There's no L in both!!

[@decem_sagittae]

Good question

[@mhm77887]

@@Samwise108 it's an accent, most likely.

[@brighterthansunshine4355]

I really like his voice and it's very soothing, but the way he says sloths, pumas, and coyote is just so strange!

[@JoyceHsu]

Great video about rewilding.

[@jawadali6093]

Video is so beautiful the language he speaked is so good.

[@shrutiomar393]

so full of hope

[@siutadru]

that last line

[@timmyasikin4177]

wonderful

[@lovesickblueslovesickblues5198]

Love the animation the narrator everything

[@reecerobin8413]

I liked this video a lot.

[@emmanuelfuentes9589]

Beautiful

[@shibalikchakraborty5344]

Please do a video on Pleistocene rewilding as well

[@user-pq1cj3hy3q]

Like the animation

[@squigglylines420]

lol at 3:40 that guy scratches his butt after scaring that man who hugged the tree

[@xwhateva]

This gives me hope :)

[@eternalassasin6498]

I love it how nature made it so that one animal in that ecosystem impacts all

[@BaconSizzle48]

Very beautiful and concise. I'm gonna say this should be required viewing for children in developed countries.

[@dusanspasojevic123]

That would be amazing! Let us rewild!

[@slokpatel9241]

Awesome

[@wojtekimbier]

Please use the units that most of the world uses

[@DeathbyPixels]

wojtekimbier Lol, I’m American and I still agree.

[@edi9892]

If I'm not mistaken there are 204 countries in the world and only 4 of them use imperial units!

[@edi9892]

GermanGamer7 Not quite: Britain and Australia.

[@ExplosionKid570]

edi I'm in Britain and we mostly use metric

[@edi9892]

I thought you still drink a pint of beer etc. I do know some Brits and they all use pounds, In and ft, but AFAIK, they don't go crazy on derived values like PSI etc. Moreover, I haven't read any novel of a native English speaker that used SI units. At least I can't remember any. Still, it's good to hear, that at least here, we can slowly unite (BREXIT cough cough).

[@shoukathali3284]

My heart 🥺❤️

[@demonickiller6315]

Like scotland for example, predators ran wild a perfect ecosystem, until we came.

[@israelrabbit1943]

bonita animación

[@user-ci2lg1lw5b]

재야생화라는 운동에 대해서 알게되었으며 정말 중요한 발견인 광범위한 영향 폭포의 발견에 대하여 배워보는 시간이 되었습니다. 정말 재미있고 의미있는 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다. 언제나 응원합니다.

[@timewalker6654]

You deserve a huge one

[@dtawist]

I feel like most videos only talk about the sad stuff, not this wonderful chance we have to replenish the earth.

[@disastergaming3949]

This title is misleading. I came in for a food chain. Got Rewilding.

[@4mytd]

It's insightful video. I should read Silent Spring📖

[@LilacJuvia]

Aww armadillos car sized- too much cuteness for meeeee

[@wantedwario2621]

They were actually pretty grotesque looking compared to modern armadillos

[@huongduongthu3166]

Damn beautiful video

[@anitha998]

I would like to react '

[@Tabibito-Tsubasa]

More one eats, the less number of this species. The food chain requires the never-ending of cycling. When you don`t get eaten, or go back to the soil, it`s out of the cycle.

[@transylvaniawildernes6188]

I cried 🥺

[@bkjeong4302]

Everyone must watch this

[@HelloitsNani]

I love this

[@himanshushrivastava3603]

Amazimg! Still some hope left for our planet :)

[@indirapoitier338]

I really like this onr