The Discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii

A non-broadcast documentary (made just for fun) recounting the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii - one of the largest carnivorous pitcher plants yet discovered.
In 2007, Alastair Robinson, Volker Heinrich, Stewart McPherson and a team of local guides climbed a remote peak called Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. On the mountain’s little-explored summit, they found a spectacular new species of carnivorous pitcher plant which they named Nepenthes attenboroughii.
Returning to Mount Victoria on the 10 year anniversary of the expedition, Stewart McPherson retraces the team’s footsteps through little-known rainforests and across raging rivers to reach the summit of the mountain to see Nepenthes attenboroughii once more.
A full account of the discovery of Nepenthes attenboroughii and many other spectacular recently-discovered Nepenthes species is provided in the recently published book title New Nepenthes Volume 1 (available from Redfern Natural History).

[@agungpurnomo8]

An Indonesian here. It makes me jealous and a bit ashamed sometimes that most people studying my country's nature are foreign scientists/ researchers. Our government and private sectors rarely take an interest in natural science to the point where a sufficient amount of funding for research is as scarce as hen's teeth. This is made worse by the attitude of most politicians who value research's worth only by the invention it makes not the discovery. In other words, they would only fund research that leads to an invention which they can then capitalize for profits. While knowledge discovery is worthless to them.

[@valeriemelanson4131]

Thank you for the wonderful experience this video has given me as an armchair traveller. Fantastic Nepenthes!

[@Fallingxleaves]

Such a captivating story. Thank you for sharing it with us! That guide who had the accident sure is a trooper.

[@calvinhobbes5686]

You’ve again delighted this subscriber! And many thanks for honouring Sir Richard Attenborough. In doing so, you have brought honour upon yourselves.

[@LLTR00]

So amazing! Thanks for sharing your adventure with the rest of us! Looking forward to seeing more!

[@WilsonChin]

As as avid hikers in Sarawak, Borneo. I really love and enjoy watching all your adventure trip

[@cleoxo2566]

Humanity as a great deal to be thankful for dedicated botanists.

[@DeBoswachter]

Simply amazing! Thank you very much for making this documentry and helping to sustain these great forms of art/plants.

[@hugholiveiro2081]

STUNNING IMAGES..UNBELIEVABLE DISCOVERIES ...GREAT PRESENTATION. SHAME ON ALL THOSE WHO CHOOSE INSTEAD......TO DESTROY IT.......

[@mmovido4082]

The Philippines is just blessed with such great biodiversity

[@jeksixten5751]

Palawan is

[@skyinuri8868]

Kinibalu in phillipine?

[@skyinuri8868]

Serawak, kinibalu, borneo all is malaysia and or indonesia ig

[@vacciniumaugustifolium1420]

@@skyinuri8868 kinabalu is the Saint graal of botanical biodiversity, a true natural wonder, but other places are also quite amazing 👍

[@hariniel]

@@skyinuri8868 the video is in the Philippines. Not Malaysia.

[@elgb665]

I live in Palawan. Big mining companies is now a big threat to these mountain ranges..

[@letthesunshinethru2355]

Hope they stay out! Get the word out.

[@elizabethbalazs7322]

Yes the big companies with the government permission slowly they destroy our beautiful earth and no one can't stop them

[@charleshueckstaedt5064]

EL GB WHAT TOWN ARE YOU NEAR ? SALAMAT...

[@wglenbatemanjr9729]

Oh crap.... do they mitigate negative impacts to local WATERS and soil???

[@gregbey9237]

Yeah, and they have the power to just destroy nature. They infect the local water supply, and then you have lumber companies that clear-cut thousands of acres of forests.. here in America, they will destroy an entire population of sarracenia to build a McDonald's or KFC. It's really heartbreaking..

[@killercaos123]

That was beautiful. Made me wanna go there and do some explorin'.

[@gemmajess007]

Can I come too and I'm from Philippines 😊

[@watermill21]

I love all your documentary about plants with a huge flower.❤️❤️❤️

[@jage5256]

Wonderful to learn there's more to learn. Greetings from California. Subscribed🤗

[@amandagarcia5037]

Very, very interesting. Thank you so much for discovering this.

[@sasorishino]

Thank you for Appreciating palawan. Hopefully my countrymen can also appreciate it.

[@pinkhibiscus3695]

Really interesting, I love plants and learn about them. Thank you for the video

[@Juscz]

Great story! I have one on these Nepethes attenboroughii in cultivation for more than two years now.. It is producing beautiful pitchers, but only about 1 to 2 inches in length. Along with my sprawling Nepenthes tenuis, it is my favorite pitcher plant. looking forward to receiving Mr. McPherson's three volume set on Nepenthes, which is reportedly now at the printers.

[@kyddoemiko100]

That was an amazing video on Paliwan , Philippines nepenthes 🍃🍃🍃😚

[@TheHellbillyx]

love the vid love plants I saw small pitcher plants in South Carolina love them

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

TheHellbillyx they’re in South Carolina and Oregon. Also Venus fly traps. They must have similar bogs and climate

[@TheHellbillyx]

@@MatanuskaHIGH seen them too was working in the swamps

[@barry7608]

Congratulations, seek and you shall find, great vid.

[@barbaramccoy6448]

God sure created some varied plants for our pleasure. Thank you for showing us these unique plants.

[@ANTSPlantation]

this species is now publicly available

[@Roxy00726]

Such a determination.. Amazing.

[@TheBoogiedoc]

Grettings from Germany and thanks for your fantastic videos

[@acharyaswagata]

this is lovely!

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

Thnk you for this awesome video

[@ajayvv4383]

Nepenthes, you've got my attention

[@_cephalotus4187]

Well made! Thanks for sharing this great adventure and documentary. Better than many actual broadcast and not-for-fun documentaries. ;-)

[@_cephalotus4187]

And BTW: Congratulations for discovering this enormous plant!

[@oo-xk3ih]

Spectacular plants for an amazing video. Great job and thanks.

[@finac6194]

Foozil I wpwlcpl bj

[@yupiisnaini9868]

Very nice video. Thank you very much for share your experience

[@wenderis]

4:20 what a gesture. I assume Stewart learned this gesture in Sumatera. (touching your heart/left chest after a hand shake)

[@Fishtory]

Great video, Great editing and content! I want to know the freshwater fish out there! Cypranids, specifically.

[@charleshueckstaedt5064]

i thought about fish as well ...salamat

[@deeSK8er]

Incredible story I have 2 different kinds. Don’t know there names , 1 is huge pitchers red spotted with hairs on side and long big 12 inch leaves Ive only had it a couple months. Can’t wait to see what it does😁 I live on the big island of Hawaii at about 1500 feet lots of rain , heat and humidity

[@TheLazyClips]

This video was really interesting and entertaining. I wish i was there too haha.

[@keo8069]

i really want that plant...

[@CarnivorousPlantsAndGardening]

You can buy pitcher plants from Amazon but predatory plants is a better website to buy them from

[@louisgreen3071]

Why did you cut the shrew pitcher open???

[@lynnschwemle2807]

So beautiful

[@justinekusin2969]

Wow. Very interesting.

[@georgefleming4956]

At 17:55 you can see the guides hand all wrapped up. He's a mans man!

[@alnumbers2098]

Amazing experience! Too bad the nepenthes isn't a lowland species, or I would be tempted to buy one!

[@JoanEvangelista]

There are plenty of lowland species! Just make sure to get yours from a proper grower that's not engaged in poaching.

[@sandib4234]

Very interesting!!!

[@eliseolopez2790]

Expeditions are done to strip the world of its beauty ,the king will turn the world into world of wonders and amazement

[@StarwaterHealing]

Any other KZbin algorithm surfers?

[@mariahlee7653]

um yes I started off at growing potatoes and then I ended up here. I think it'll bring me around to Trixie Mattel and Li ziqi

[@user-oz5iy4bl1u]

Hi there

[@suckerbranch9943]

Sub bob surf pen

[@cormac8613]

Did the locals have a name for this pitcher? Surely they had come across it before 2008

[@Toastymarshmallow80]

It's a Victreebell 😊, but seriously though cool plant.

[@TH-tc3ib]

Fantastic

[@BukuiZhao]

Good job I want to go there

[@Lex-tb1wd]

This is inspiring

[@m.v.domingo5363]

Rise of the Nepenthes genus is pitcher plants!

[@mac_is_easy]

Most are unexplored because most of the mountains and islands on Palawan is protected by their local tribes. They rarely allow anyone to step foot there to protect the forest and its habitat. Even people from surrounding cities there has never been that place for the same reason.

[@Glitchesftw]

great vid cheers

[@ihateschool-4444]

14:04 Nepenthes attenboroughii

[@ganeshsiyum3959]

I always wanted to b a botanist ...it was my childhood dream... I also want to explore forest mountains...😑

[@Lotus201877]

The guide that accidentally cuts himself was very manly to continue the journey.

[@TILER96]

i want those beautiful dracaena's in my house lol

[@maintagodisah3829]

the wild banana we make pickle the taste is sour like cucumber. so many cucumber in my village tambunan north borneo.

[@feli0999]

Omg is that nepthes plants?

[@nopenope8418]

Wait, wait, wait.... Leeches on trees... FREAKING LEECHES ON TREES!?!? I tought the 30cm long one we have in some lakes and meadows around where i live were nightmares... BUT THIS!?!?!

[@barbaracovey]

Amazing video visually. Dumbing down of your narration was really off putting. I’ve watched to much “Crime Pays, But Botany Doesn’t “ 🙃

[@scottbridgeforth507]

THE GUIDES are TRUE MEN of the Forest

[@DR-mp4gv]

Jimmying the cans with machetes....natural selection at work.....

[@henzpo]

Only in the Philippines

[@jeksixten5751]

Only in Palawan

[@jeksixten5751]

Only in Palawan we also have the biggest Pearl in the World

[@berd802]

5:51 that is a corpse flower if I’m not wrong.

[@williamfullofwood7421]

Anony Mousse It is in the same genus though.

[@jovertmoscoso7464]

💜

[@whoisfrank6051]

Daaayum

[@iquit3438]

I can buy most of these on Amazon prime

[@apdroidgeek1737]

Such a spoiled brat

[@Fishingadventureuk]

When life is nepenthes

[@clutchuwu1355]

10 years ago dozens of nepenthos species had not ever been studied or *Even Photographed* Victreebel from Pokémon in 1996: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@ihateschool-4444]

10:11 Nepenthes philippinensis

[@ProfessorShyguy]

Don’t use your bare hands to pick up a decomposed shrew, jeez. They know more than me but still that makes me uncomfortable.

[@scottbridgeforth507]

Later I Saw Wild Venus Flytraps

[@eliseolopez2790]

All nature belongs to Cyrus your King

[@eliseolopez2790]

I AM

[@sayjae40]

Let it be unexplored it better those places remain out of human touch

[@adebastian4182]

wow

[@ThienVo1984]

Đang trên mạng ! O__O

[@jeksixten5751]

It's Princess Urduha not Urdudia

[@stutterin]

I was the 69,700th view. I’m sorry.

[@rogerIndianKing]

Not sure why the mountain was named Victoria to begin with and then I am willing to bet the indigenous people knew about the plant before we “discovered” it and then name it after a western guy in Philippines. This needs to stop. One should definitely explore for science but respecting the local culture should come first.

[@robertklotz9319]

@oddi I was thinking the same. They need native guides but for naming and taking the honor/fame, often the locals are no more needed. Thankfully, in this video the locals are shown and even their names are mentioned.

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

Wow I just wrote something similar. Its just disrespect, thinking that they are superior to the locals. They just carrying on with the tradition of Christopher Columbus

[@elgb665]

I'm from Palawan. I know what you mean and I heard it a lot of times from other Filipinos not from the province. The truth is most of these foreigners live here since the early 1900's that why most of the places are named after them. We even have a town named Brooke's Point. And it's no Big deal. Not once that i heard locals have issues about the foreign name.

[@charleshueckstaedt5064]

@@elgb665 I WANT TO VISIT BROOKS POINT ..IVE BEEN TO NARRA .

[@charleshueckstaedt5064]

@@elgb665 I WANT TO VISIT BROOKS POINT ,,IVE BEEN TO NARRA . SALAMAT

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

Wonder if you did try to find out what the locals called it. Because in my opinion you cant go to other people's country and rename a plant to whatever you westerners like. You got to have some respect mr Christopher Columbus

[@williamfullofwood7421]

It’s a scientific binomial name.

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

@@williamfullofwood7421 did he not explain that they "decided to name the giant plant after David Attenborough" ? Like I said, westerners shouldn't think they are superior so they can go to other regions and without regards for the locals, rename whatever they want. It is disgusting

[@user-cx5ni7me6l]

D J They (the westerns or something) (lots of people you generalize) don’t feel superior. They just make their own documentation. There are different languages on the world, therefore different names. He even goes to the plant with the locals. Of course all people should always work together, and one ‘kind’ of people should not see another ‘kind’ of people as exotic or something, but i don’t think that that would be the case with naming plants. You name them for your own languages and database. But asking the locals could be a good part of the naming of a plant. But wich locals should one ask, the people that live the closest to the plant, or all the people in the region, or in the country. At the end of the day we are all locals on this planet. But i do understand your concerns for sure. Interesting but also a bit difficult question you are asking. But once again, always involve the ‘locals’ for sure. They might already have a name. The word ‘discovering’ is of course also sometimes problematic. Personal discovery, or ‘own direct group of people-personal discovering for documentation’ would maybe be a better term. Anyways, Have a wonderful day. Greetings, Sam

[@MD_ENTERTAINMENT]

@@user-cx5ni7me6l whatever name the westerners decide to give it will be the name accepted worldwide. Stop pretending as if you dont know, it is what it is

[@user-cx5ni7me6l]

D J Im not pretending as if i don’t know. Why are you so aggressive. I even recognized you standpoints and share a few of them.

[@handymaninside]

10:22 Fortnite !!!

[@ProximaCentauri88]

22:00 Their discovery was used for the BS political campaigns. The signage displays the face of the politician with its admin slogan which is common here in the Philippines. I hope they really move to protect the forest, not their political ambitions.

[@eliseolopez2790]

Hear the king all world expeditions are illegal

[@deusvult2559]

Nomi scientifici = latino. NO ENGLISH

[@sergpie]

A.k.a., the climate alarm trap. Don’t fall in. Cool Nepenthes, though.

[@myothersoul1953]

That's a non sequitur

[@sergpie]

MyOther Soul As is your other soul.

[@myothersoul1953]

@@sergpie That's why I keep it around, it doesn't make any sense either.

[@DickWigglin]

I thought this was gonna be a Sir David Attenborough meme, where the nepenthes lure animals in as the narrator.

[@lorib1696]

How have I never seen this channel before? I love Nepenthes!

[@matthewhaley2334]

LOVE this video and all the pitcher plant ones you have done!!! KEEP THEM COMING lol!! Great work!

[@rohanplantboyjames6812]

If he comes to NZ I want to be one of his guides. I know a few secret spots for drocera.

[@roneven3420]

Hello there, For a few years this has been a favourite video of mine, as well as all of the expedition videos you've ever shared. Though, I do remember that a few years ago I watched a video in which you've described the expedition where Nepenthes palawanensis was discovered. I tried to search for the video again, and couldn't find it anywhere. Has it been deleted? Could you please re-upload it if so? Thank you very much.

[@chloenoja9582]

thank you for this video. I love my country (Philippines).

[@MarkBalahadiaOfficial]

Absolutely lovely video! FYI, Palawan in Tagalog is pronounced "Palaawan", with the double aa being a long vowel.

[@melanieharvey4537]

Omg, and they r wearing flip flops!

[@lucaciarnold-vasile9022]

And here we are in 2021 where u can find nepenthes in my apartament🙈

[@Serenitynature]

Beautiful documentary. Thanks.

[@NorKal530]

My wife and I just visited her family in Narra in December 2022. I had no idea about these recent discoveries of large pitcher plants on Mt. Victoria. I've always been fascinated by them. Thanks for the video!

[@billlumberg5746]

Use drones to explore easier might help.

[@tengotnco5942]

This is indeed an adventure and great discovery ❤

[@snapperhead51]

I did very much enjoy Climbing Mt Victoria and seeing this great plant with my own eyes, was a tough climb too & making some great friends on the trip ,seeing this vid brought back great memory's of my trips seeing nepenthe's all over Asia , thanks Stew