Izembek

[@BlueHillScience]

I've banded Steller's eiders at Izembek and am so grateful to see this video. It is a truly magnificent place and I will always cherish my memories of working there in both the summer and winter. I am so glad to hear the road project has been derailed!

[@marialopezramos6496]

Thank you Gerrit. This documentary is wonderful!!!! I hope they don´t build this road in this wilderness. We need this kind of wildlife sanctuaries for animals.

[@Christopherastbury]

Incredible, just the kind of awesome place that you are bursting to share with everyone but at the same time want it left alone. No road! Just leave this beautiful amazing place alone.

[@paulazawadzky9607]

This beautiful area should not be touched. It's beauty and the creatures that inhabit the area are priceless.

[@alexanderstraus1130]

Hi there. It looks like the land swap was deemed invalid by a judge a few weeks ago. Is there any update to this? It looks like the road will now not be built.

[@judymeyer4315]

It was stopped. the road will not be built.

[@aq9714]

Thank you for this. It made me feel blessed to see this stunning landscape with all the life it contains and protects. The colours must have been stunning. What is happening now about the road? I have added this to my comment from 3 years ago. I hope this landscape remains intact

[@northwestpacific]

Oh my god this was an incredible piece. I lived on the Aleutian chain for three years. It's profound. Thanks for drawing attention to the road being planned. That would be a tragedy. Thanks for this beautiful imagery and story.

[@scrumhalforegon]

What a beautiful piece! When the wolves started howling at 11:25, I couldn't but think that it sounded like a dirge. For an invaluable place that could yet meet its end at the hands of man.

[@ronthompson8542]

Beautiful footage. An amazing wildlife that truly should be left untouched by man.

[@AUZohaib]

when humans come wildlife gone keep preserve wilderness of this area.

[@DavidCarillet]

Thank you for producing this and sharing Izembek's raw beauty. What a breathtaking place! I sincerely hope the plans for the road hit a dead end.

[@sandyhughes3096]

Ohhhhh - it looks so wild and pristine, thank you for sharing one of the last places wild animals can live without civilization encroaching into their home.

[@oujdaazerty7909]

Thank you for your patience awesome video. God bless take care we need people like you

[@asmrbeast]

Relaxing and calming video💚💚💚i love Nature🍀🍀🍀👌

[@janineivory1646]

What a beautiful do umrntary of this wilderness place. I have signed n hought gorbyears for the Alaska Nationsl Wildlife Refuge to stay as it is n now I have another place to fight for. It makes my heart sing to know these places exist for all wildlife that came here to feed birth in peace n solitude. Thank you for this touchingly beautiful video.

[@tongmu7890]

Thanks for the footage and the story. Beautiful, calm, but powerful words and scenes. Reminds me of the other side of the Bering Sea. Thanks Gerrit!

[@dawnswartout9815]

Bravo! You captured the wild beauty and essence of the place. Long may it be this way.

[@tarjei99]

Such congregation of birds are one of the few things that make me envious.

[@shrinivas.a]

Such spectacular landscapes and pristine wilderness !

[@johndoe-nh9sh]

Outstanding work, quite moving when you think what we could do to ruin this wilderness.

[@jordangabenite6594]

Beautiful place !!!a million of birds, bears ,salmon, wolf an amazing place IZEMBEK is!

[@stancunningham7612]

Beyond Excellent! Great videography, with a conservation message that should inspire people to act.

[@frankhaugwitz8178]

Just came across this great piece of documentary … I hope three years later … the US govt won’t construct the planned road! Thanks again!

[@bravofoxable]

Amazing presentation, well done Gerrit! Let's pray that road never materializes....

[@huntermclaren322]

absolutely magnificent piece. Thank you for producing this and bringing it to a larger audience.

[@TruthLegend]

Hey Gerrit! Nice work on this film. You have one of the best jobs on the planet!

[@davidbrown7932]

Yours was better , no roads hallelujah 🙏🌠 David from Detroit

[@davidbrown7932]

Protecting renewable resources is what it’s all about , a keystone species to this is the wild Salmon runs ......great job David from Detroit

[@joycee5493]

Protect, protect, protect!!!

[@mortalclown3812]

Vyn = hero.

[@ythesap]

Stunning shots, this piece is levels above likes the ones from BBC and such... Appreciate all the effort Gerrit Vynn and the crew made!

[@dianestiner8602]

NO road please 🙏. This stunning area must stay wild and kept safe !!!!

[@dianestiner8602]

OMg this road would be a tragedy. This marvelous wild area MUST stay intact ! Thank you for the information but it seems very very worrying 😣

[@grabfear]

Wonderful documentary

[@debbiewall2160]

Our poor, poor planet is much too close to her tipping point for us to be enacting policies that will only serve to push her over the edge. We must preserve whatever pristine wilderness remaining and re-wild much of that stolen from the animal nations. Blessed are the wild beings who never encounter a human. This brought tears knowing such intact wilderness still exists on our ravaged planet.

[@kieronmcdonnell3258]

Great film.a road should never be built near this wildlife rich area.hope it remains as it is.

[@KanceRimbe]

world class documentary, keep up the good works

[@51hondarc]

Nice work Gerrit! Would hate to see this magnificent wilderness go away to a road...aggghhhh

[@naturecontents2635]

Unbelievable Nature Sceneries

[@bhaskarmukherjee8366]

Its wonderful। ডকু,

[@joycethoresen8909]

This is so amazing and well done. More people need to see this!

[@fine_artist123]

yes they do

[@TheFlowia]

Your work is appreciated.. good luck

[@kenenglert4162]

Just amazing Gerrit!

[@alexandranesterenko]

Amazing film, thank you!

[@The3mbered0ne]

Very well done, similar in quality to BBC, looking forward to more :) please don't let them build the roads and effect the wildlife meant to be protected by the refuge status of the area. :(

[@kentcornish1857]

WOW! Nancy Cornish in awe

[@francescaa8331]

Thank you for this excellent video.

[@tworiversak]

I hope and pray that few people visit Izembek. Humans have a tendency to destroy wildlife, and Alaska has suffered too much already.

[@jeffkatzer]

Beautiful video.

[@wendywelsh4422]

Beautiful Video ! No Road!!!!

[@24aEnnisRoad]

please put out some information on how to protest against the proposed road. it is useless to 'hope' that the road won't be built; we need to fight it. is there no organisation out there organising some sort of protest/ the collection of signatures against the proposal?

[@AUZohaib]

amazing to know about such place now it is in my wish list as i am a birder.

[@Raydensheraj]

They are out of their God damn minds proposing that road

[@cgrsworld]

this was absolutely spectacular. I've written my letters advocating to keep this wilderness intact, but not enough people understand the assault that could occur. I'll be sharing this widely, esp now that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in the Trump and Biden administrations’ favor, putting Izembek at risk once again.

[@sokhakho7154]

so amaziing

[@sonnytanod8862]

Blessings

[@sinclairmarcus]

I hope the road is not built. There are very few places like this

[@rogeriopeccioli1616]

Um paraíso.

[@sydoz1956]

whats the purpose of the road??

[@Galacticdude1]

Emergency service for medical emergencies from King Cove

[@bmolitor615]

I've been there

[@katarzynajaninakozowska1893]

♡

[@shannonduke1627]

Absolutely no road!

[@frankblangeard8865]

1:03 "Over two-thirds of its area is designated Wilderness. The highest level of Federal land protection in the United States". Roads can't be built in wilderness areas. You can't even ride a bicycle in Federal Wilderness.

[@ab0727]

You are missing the point if you even watched the entire video. They are trying to work around the wilderness designation by doing a land swap.

[@cs5414]

Global warming is melting the Arctic Ocean ice and Alaska permafrost. The lowest swampy islands at the heart of the wildlife refuge will soon be submerged. Any road in this area would quickly be washed away by wind and high tides. There is a complete absence of rational thought in proposing a destructive, short lived road to connect two small villages. The process of global warming is already irreversible. Travelling between these two villages by boat or plane are more realistic and less destructive alternatives. How many years ago were the survey markers for the road placed? Was the surveying authorized and paid for even when it could be predicted that sections of the road would be under water and destroyed by storms? Thank you for making this beautiful documentary. However, something is wrong at a different level, by proposing and surveying a road that would never be usable due to climate change. What a waste of tax dollars, which is government as usual.

[@jbkulenek]

I don’t understand the actual ‘need’ for this road. I hope they never build it! 😱

[@pibly7784]

Joanna Kulenek Same here!

[@jillianbjornstad949]

The road would give people access to more reliable emergency transport. Many people have passed trying to get out of King Cove for medical attention.

[@mars54mars54]

@@jillianbjornstad949 difficult situation for sure, but isn't that always a problem when living in isolated places?

[@supertyfon1736]

Most Alaskans are bush pilots.

[@gregdubois1320]

@@mars54mars54 Cold Bay airport is long and large and planes can get in an out whereas they often cannot at King Cove. The proposed road would only be used for emergencies.

[@supertyfon1736]

Why not fly since most Alaskans are bush pilots.

[@RichRich1955]

Stay away from these medications

[@romanjarch]

To keep pushing the fallacious idea of an "empty wilderness", particularly when it is pitted against local communities that have used lands for much longer than white people, is incredibly lazy and very insensible at the present moment. This work purposefully empties the Aleutian landscape of its people and oversimplifies the landscape into an over-aestheticized abstraction that is unrealistic. It's contrasting in the worst possible ways to Cornell Lab's Voices of the Pacific Flyway, which is exemplary of the sort of vision we should be portraying instead. Very disappointed.

[@ghostcrew3482]

Industrial civilization destroys. Honestly, this video is more in protest of modern industrial society rather than against the indigenous people. Wild nature has a transcendental beauty that is tread upon by ruinous tracks. Always expanding and modernizing, never ceasing.