Going home: the story of 3 species being brought back to their former ranges

Once extinct from much of their former ranges, these three species are being reintroduced with the help of scientists and volunteers.
Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber)
Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Nene (Branta sandvicensis)
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[@thehoundofthegamingvilles2012]

As an Indian (from Kolkata, West Bengal), I am giving a God promise that we shall take care of the cheetahs

[@rhiannonm8132]

i live in the northeast US where things like wolverines and cougars were driven away or to extinction, it’s nice to see stories where animals have been able to return to their old ranges :-)

[@angrychipmunkonfire3]

The wild turkey is an example of a Northeastern US reintroduction that went successfully.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

If you don’t mind me asking but can you do a video on the Scottish wildcat and I am asking because it’s a very interesting animal like it has an interesting nickname the Highland tiger even though it’s not a tiger but it also has an interesting history of it being persecuted having its habitat being destroyed and Hybridization with domestic cats and how it once roamed over the British isles minus Ireland and then was forced back to Scotland.

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

They are currently running a breeding program to reintroduce pure bred scottish wildcats. I wondered if you knew.

[@chasechristophermurraydola9314]

@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey I didn’t know thanks for letting me know.

[@thechickenwizard8172]

It's so infuriating that such a crucial, keystone species like the beaver were nearly hunted to extinction...for hats and perfume, effing vanity products.

[@sarahluchies1076]

As someone who lives in Canada, the concerns of those who thought beavers would cause floods caught my attention. Beavers can cause floods in the short term, in the sense they flood areas for their lodges. But in the long term they control the flow of water, hampering the deluges of meltwater in the spring, and holding deep pools in the dry months that sustain everything that needs water.

[@user-qu4ey5yy3f]

"Vanity" rules the world, to hell with the consequences we got to look and feel good. Many of you God's followers swear they put animals here for our amusement. BLESS YOUR HEARTS!

[@isaacdunford6394]

The quality of your videos is great! I was surprised to see under 3k subscribers! Count me as an early subscriber. Keep making quality videos.

[@glenngilbert7389]

You failed to mention the massive contribution of Sir Peter Scott in saving the Nene from extinction through his establishment in Slimbridge Gloucestershire.

[@ianlim4404]

You forgot the Eurasian bison, also known as the wisent.

[@kasiaragan6210]

Zac says: This is the best video in the world! Matthew says: I had no idea! That was super cool.

[@kewpified]

well our cities should be rebuilt with permaculture to incorporate natural habitats & ecosystems instead of how sterile they are now.

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

You know how much money that would cost?

[@kewpified]

@@f.u.m.o.5669 less then 100 billion that we randomly spend on war. We need new priorities

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

@@kewpified The only way for what you want to be done to be done, we must demolished many buildings and replace them. How eco-friendly do you want these buildings? If you want a city that is completely eco-friendly, we would have to restructure every large building. Which might cost more than a war.

[@kewpified]

@@f.u.m.o.5669 you don't need to demolish buildings. lol You work with the structure in place. For example in my city. We have a lot of none productive land that either is all grass or weeds with quite a few abandonned buildings that have sat vacant for years. We could also involve the community with a project to grow gardens not lawns. There is a lot we could do. Anything is better then what we have now..

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

@@kewpified Well, I know many towns in California that have high amounts of wilderness. You should've specified industrial cities (like the ones in New York or Los Angeles). I just assumed any building that got in the way if wilderness. The abandoned buildings in Chernobyl have many animals inhabiting them, so perhaps it is just the fact that the humans are here that drives the animals into the reduced habitat that they have. Also there are many thing we do that affect wildlife completely unrelated to cities. Goose hunters are caused geese to not migrate due to the fact they hunt during the migration, leaving the non-migratory geese to reproduce. This is rarely talked about, probably due to the probable backlash that the hunting community will ensue. In turn this causes old people to get mad because geese are interrupting their golf practice or something. There are also the other basic talking points, like overfishing and poaching. These problems should be dealt with first before we go do something bigger.

[@AaronDC83]

If this channel doesn't blow up I will have lost all faith in KZbin.

[@all.about.nature1987]

❤️

[@Savannah_Simpson]

Am I the only one triggered majorly by him calling baby Cheetahs “pups”?

[@premakPapu]

This shows how india takes conservation first and the british last

[@mcpeguru4060]

Faxxx

[@user-qu4ey5yy3f]

I think India thinks SEX first, second, and probably third. And our collective implosion goes on.

[@MarioV73]

Great channel and videos. I noticed that in this video, the habitat map for the Eurasian Beaver has its color legend flipped. Well, unless there was a drastic population growth for these beavers from 1900 to 2015.

[@OlyChickenGuy]

Spotted Owls aren't yet considered extinct in my region (Pacific Northwest- specifically Olympia, WA and surrounding Thurston County), but they used to be abundant. However, since I started seriously birding (while living in the woods) almost a decade ago, I've never seen one. They've largely been driven out by the Barred Owl expanding its territory, which I've seen plenty of, and I'm certain that the logging industry and development expansion hasn't helped any.

[@funkylittlespacecowboy2372]

What happens to the actual population of the Asiatic Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) though? Are they just considered extinct?

[@mistingwolf]

They'll possibly get absorbed into the population being brought in, if they aren't all hunted to extinction first. They may also be out-competed by the African cheetah and go extinct that way. Either way, the Asiatic species, specifically, likely won't truly survive as we know them.

[@IkeReviews]

The saiga has been downlisted to near Threatened

[@kyuutatsu]

I believe I read about the supposed reintroduction of bisons to their natural habitat somewhere in America

[@erikm8372]

Historically, I am not sure how much actual cheetah hunting went on in India…of course hunting has occurred forever. But from what I read, I think English hunters from the British East India company were the ones who killed the last Indian cheetahs. For centuries, Persian & Saudi royalty, plus the Maharajas & royalty in India kept and bred hundreds, if not thousands, of Asiatic cheetahs for ‘pets’, but more so as coursing/hunting animals. Interestingly they also did the same with caracals, but for use in hunting smaller animals (mostly partridges and birds), as caracals are known to leap several feet vertically and catch birds in-flight. Some people still do it today. But the Asiatic cheetahs were the real workhorses. There are vintage videos on KZbin of this. They were still valued and utilized 50-70 years ago. They’d hunt chinkara (Indian gazelle), blackbuck, goitered gazelles, axis deer, and other fast game. Their handlers/royal family members would ride horseback (or on camel) with them, eventually moving on to automobiles, and the cheetahs were let loose once their quarry had been spotted. Cheetahs really are like the greyhounds of felines. They’re fast, their claws are more dog-like, and they chase anything small that moves across fast expanses. They also behave more doglike I think, thus making them more responsive to training and human socialization. This was the main reason they were so beloved (in recent human history) across their original range. If anything, Asiatic cheetahs did far better when the Maharajas were breeding them. Of course, that’s not life in the wild, but their numbers are apparently said to have been much higher from the Middle Ages to about the time of British rule. And the wild cheetahs were valued because of simply what they were and what they meant. It wasn’t until Europeans came and wanted “trophies” of every living thing they could find…

[@cjclark1208]

The foreign hunters wanting trophies has been identified in many such other instances as well, pattern recognition.

[@user-qu4ey5yy3f]

" It wasn’t until Europeans came and wanted “trophies” of every living thing they could find…" Bless my European friend hearts, they were equal opportunity destroyers. THEY RUINED ALL!!

[@astartesiri8184]

The Iberian lynx is also a good story about an animal being brought back, at some point they were right about to go extinct but now they are recovering at a good pace.

[@m.streicher8286]

Seeing those landowners post bounties on an endangered species really makes me wanna reappropriate private property

[@user-qu4ey5yy3f]

Eventually society will have to create corridors and would have to buy/take from the have's.

[@patriciamurdoch7410]

keep up the videos

[@chereecargill355]

What about the Texas horned toad (actually a lizard) that had effectively gone extinct in the wild, but which is being bred at several universities and zoos in Texas? It has been reintroduced in central Texas and has been found to be breeding successfully although the population is still low.

[@Kaikaifilu1994]

THAT👏🏻IS👏🏻WHY👏🏻WE👏🏻NEED👏🏻ZOOS!! Seriously, these ARA’s are what’s literally causing the biodiversity crisis to begin with!!

[@LowMS3]

I have no proof, but as I kid in the woods where I grew up in Central Texas, I used to see them in the trees. When I'd ride my bike home from elementary school they'd sit and wait. I only saw them when I was young though. I played in those woods till my teenage years and never saw them again!

[@Luke_Go]

I hate the Nene because one of them bit me in the behind when I was a kid 😂 (still: I don't want them to go extinct)

[@sebastiansochanski]

👌

[@JoseLuis-tq4tg]

Are you the guy from TankTested?

[@wingchun07]

😍😍

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

Wouldn't the African cheetas wipe out the Asiatic cheetas?

[@minthantlin9168]

Okay. There were Asiatic cheetahs in India. But they are now extinct. The Asiatic cheetahs are now only found in Iran. So the African cheetahs were released into India. So no, the African cheetahs would not wipe out Asiatic cheetahs. Because you can't wipe out something that isn't there.

[@f.u.m.o.5669]

@@minthantlin9168 I see.

[@user-qu4ey5yy3f]

@@minthantlin9168 Aren't those Iranians the worst people on earth, according to Uncle Sam propaganda?? yet they respect nature?? what gives? another "Weapons of mass destruction" fiasco,,,

[@erichtomanek4739]

Why did you show Polar Bears in the opening image? I've read that there have never been more, than currently. Down Vote.