Fun fact: the reason why Finland has so much forest left, even though it's one of the world's largest producers of timber, is that by law every single tree that has been cut for commercial purposes must be replaced by three new tree saplings. Why three? Because it's about 1/3 chance that a sapling grows into a tree!
Amit T I don’t know why you made that a reply to the above comment. I believe that the offical 9.8 million sq kms does include the Great Lakes and some coastal waters also (you are still correct that 5.5million is not close through).
The kind of work that you put in to mapping, is patience & commitment on some another level. You deserve a lot of appreciation for what you're propagating.
It’s legit what I look for when I’m on a learning/research kick! I grasp material so much better when I have a map to look at, from geography, history, economy, biology and even just day to day news, I have got to have a map to look at! When I find a video on a specific topic and I see no maps I usually keep on clicking lol
@@V0lgateTrue, but I said with respect to all of the videos. I've been following this channel and just felt like leaving this comment at the time of this one's release. Naivete aside, being humble enough to appreciate effort is also one of my characteristics.
oh yeah i remember there was a Ecologist, or Eco Activist, or Eviro Govt. (i forgot what is his role) in Brazil , assassinated for protecting the amazon.
well others countries destroyed their lands and forests in the name of development and now pressurising under developed nations not to use forest land for their development.. if so they should be paid accordingly.
@Guilherme Silveira yupp they want to keep everyone under a debt trap. amazones are bigger than whole india. there are huge forests in russia two in canada. if amazones are the lungs of the world the whole world should be in debted to them and pay for the oxygen the produce civilisations the preserve atleast interest on the debt of the countries which in clude amazones should be paid by countries who produce most carbon footprint per person.. but they are trying to solve problem without any solution.
Provocateur no USA actually has a law that states loggers must replant seeds from tree and have all numbers count and can only come back when the trees have grown back. lesson here is that you can't say anything about a country until you lived in the country for having generations if family here when you still have a great grandma who says the forests she costed as a child still says it looks almost the same and any trees next to a high way are the old seeds where the highway was now shut the fuck up about America or we shut it for ya and don't complain about any other country cause some struggle for power and laws and don't have democracy
As Europeans expanded and locked down foreign countries under their violent colonisation program the world grew impoverished, polluted, degraded, barbaric, diseased and violent.
Hello, Environmental Engineer from Chile living in Patagonia here. Its great that you consider the Valdivian Temperate Forest, but I must say that in Patagonia, conifers are the dominant type of trees only in some areas such as Austrocedrus chilensis populations up until 42°S, Fitsroya cupressoides and Pilgerodendrum iviferum from 40°S to 43°S (but both in permanent waterlogged terrain mostly). As you said, Nothofagus species are the dominant ones in general terms thoughout the ecoregion. Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) and Coihue (N. dombeyi, N. betuloides, N. berteroana) are the most widely extended tree species, ranging from 35°S until Cape Horn.
Forests are my favorite place to be; they feel like home. I have lived in Maine my entire life, which is mostly covered in forest, so that certainly contributes to my love for them. Forests were considered sacred for most of human existence, and it should have stayed that way.
1) You're not living out of forests. 2) No, they weren't any more than other geographic features. 3) No, it's not good to be superstitious. If you were on your own in a forest, you'd likely starve to death. If you were in a grasland or savannah, you could probably do fine.
@@thecitizenoftheinternet1077 So you are saying they need to die off ... the tigers .. or do you just like to state the obvious? People can go anywhere but the tigers can't. They are pretty much forced onto a shrinking reservation just like the american indians were. So while humans continue to encroach, where can these tigers go? You and the millions if not a few billions don't care obviously as the human species continues to sterilize the planet ...
Diamonds are pretty valuable for tools and scientific equipment. However using them as jewelry is basically same as wearing animal leather; just stupidity.
Massive props for tracing out those forests yourself & for providing/suggesting the idea to help donate in their preservation. You do some serious quality work in your videos and should be commended for your efforts. 🙂
Nice commentary. Although I notice a correction at 2:59 when you mention about Primorye forests. You say it is the only place on earth where tiger, leopard and bear co-exist. That is not correct, there is Western Ghats in South India where they live in same ecosystem. It’s an evergreen forest system that’s spanned on three states - kerala, tamil nadu and karnataka.
western ghats has a lot of biodiversity and it is more of a tropical rainforest. this forest is also the last habitat place for asiatic lion[ all others are gone] that is in gir national park, this place also has tigers,bears,thousands of other species.
In my opinion there are plenty of forests and woodlands that need to be protected worldwide. Even the smallest ones, that we have near our houses need to be saved. Each tree we walk by helps us in so many levels and yet some "people" simply close their eyes on the importance of a tree or a small area containing half a dozen of trees. Like in the Lord of the Rings, "but the hearts of men are easily corrupted". Everyone, everywhere, we must protect the Earth. Have a wonderful weekend, blessed Christmas (or your local cerimonies), a beautiful end of the year/new year. I truly hope your life gets blessed and better. ♥
Yea I know. My small town is surrounded by farmland. Less than 10 years ago they replaced the main roads and took out all the trees that were on the side of the road. And the entire area was wetlands before it was colonized.
Complete bullshit. People stupidly believe exactly what you believe, namely that the mere presence of trees somewhere is a great ethical necessity. You don't ever seem to have reflected on that belief. You just parrot it like everyone else. All of the trees you are likely to find are easily replaced. And there's more than enough trees in total. If you want to preserve some stretch of land in a particular state that should be the exception and you should have very specific reasons for that.
Revisiting in 2023 for nostalgia! This video first popped up in my recommended on Christmas Eve a few years ago, and I immediately became captivated. My academic interests have shifted over the years, and watching this video, along with becoming obsessed with your channel, helped lead to yet another passion of mine: environmental science. Now I'm studying environmental science in college, and I really think this is the right path for me. Thank you for all the amazing content you put out. Not only is it awesome to be able to learn so much stuff through your videos, but you've genuinely helped shape my academic path and perhaps my future.
Nice video. We are in great need of paying attention to how we work with the remaining forests. By the way, Javan rhino is the most rare rhino species, and I would also call colugos by that name to avoid confusion with true lemurs (those are endemic to Madagascar).
This video deserves more recognisation... It's not a funny task to sit for hours and research for valid measurements and information we got to know here...Thanks for the video...it inspired me... maybe I can't go out and plant a whole forest but I can spread inspiration by sharing this video... 🤗🤗🤗
I own and live on 36 acres in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas. Having relocated from southern California in 2004, it is a hidden gem - a true paradise.
There is no billionair in dubai who has the brain to buy the forest to safe it for destruction. Those fools never knew what to do with money but stupid things like building giant houses
@@andreasmoll_0924 amore, e onde fica a soberania dos países em que a Amazônia se encontra? Seria melhor eles fazerem doações para que fosse combatida a destruição da floresta.
Your wholistic understanding of how complex systems developed and interact allows you to paint a bigger picture story on your channel. Amazing content as always
I really rarely ever take the time to comment on RUclips, but this was excellent. Thank you my friend. Outstanding in depth research about a truly worthy topic. Yours is a channel that I genuinely hope spreads.
2:55: It's not true that the Primorye Forest is the only place on earth that bears, tigers and leopards coexist. Many places in South and Southeast Asia are home to all three taxa.
@@tamoghnabanerjee6321 I had noticed it too.. India has the only population of what is left of the Asiatic Lions, making it the only country with bears, tigers, leopards and lions coexist..
The Valdivian forest is undoubtedly impressive, its landscape diversity is unparalleled. You can find dry forests, Mediterranean forests, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, temperate rainforests, mixed forests, glaciers, high mountains and more! 🌲🌳🍁🍂🌴🇦🇷🇨🇱
Hi, I'm from Romania and I want to announce that even the government and the country's president agree to clear the forests in Romania, and no one is taking any action!
@RADAR COMBAT Cutting trees for timber is not was cause deforestation. Deforestation is when the forest is replaced by agriculture land, single-family suburbs and huge parking lots. Wood is actually the most ecological building material when recolted in the right way
@x Well when trees are cut down to replace them by a suburb, huge parking lots or big commercial areas, then it is unsustainable. Otherwise, forest always grows back very quickly
This is why I hate paying taxes! The people elect a government to represent them, they pay their salaries through taxes and the government never listens to the people that don't generate more taxes for them. Now I'm all for capitalism but it's up to government to protect the natural environment
@@luckyunlucky3893 It's up to us to change our lifestyle. Seriously, who would vote for a government saying: "if you vote for me, 4x4 SUVs will become illegal, you won't be allowed to eat to the restaurant more than once per month, you can't take the plane more than once every 4 year and you can't purchase a new phone until you kept it for at least 5 years"??? Businesses make pollution because they produce what society overconsumes, and new businesses that offer better alternatives for the environment won't appear magically out of nowhere. It's up to all of us to change the way we live. Of course the government must pass some laws to make things change faster, but the biggest % of pollution comes directly from our individual behavior.
I want to go to a place that hasn't changed in 140 million years...but the natives aren't very hospitable. I suppose that's one way to conserve your forest!
It's good that they keep modern man out (the dipshits of planet earth) I'd love to see a place that hasn't changed in 140 million years too.... Probably breathtakingly gorgeous!
@@peeweecoco Considering not even the tribal humans who live in these uncharted forests have changed, hence the reason why they're so primitive. Uncharted humans with no contact with the modern world just blows my mind.
The Soviet Union was the greatest country that has ever existed... that is why the west put all of its efforts into sabotaging it. Of course, they wouldn't have been able to had it not been for the last Soviet leader, who was both a complete idiot and a traitor.
@@Aeturnalis Wow, i found one adequate and normal man in that ocean of dumb western kids in comment section! Thank you good man just for the fact that you exist, you slightly restore my faith in western part of humanity. It seems they are not entirely brainwashed by cheap propaganda, endless lie and myths.
@@Aeturnalis are you seriously calling a highly authoritarian, undeveloped and the absolute opposite of liberty good? Mikhail Gorbachev was literally the only good Soviet premier
As I remember from New Zealand, the native forests look rather like the temperate rainforest in Chile than those high-elevation alpine forests. The coniferous forest in the foreground of Mount Cook looks like one of the numerous plantation forests for logging you can find there.
Our "Green" "Liberal" government has eneacted a carbon system where it is now profitable to clear native forest and replace with fast growing pine or cedar. Its like one side of the political spectrum wants to do almost nothing about the environment and the other side wants to do a lot but every attempt just makes it worse :/
This is one of the finest channels on RUclips. And I'm saying that after only 2 videos. As long as you keep it factual and not preachy, you will remain high on my list.
Thank you for your work in producing this. I was a Forestry major in school. I can appreciate the comments on diversity and species. This is one those videos that should be should in every Biology classroom in the US. 20 minutes. A small investment for making students aware of the ecosystems on this planet. Assign small groups to research the climate and species mentioned for each forest and how cutting and climate change are affecting each forest.
@@Crashed131963 There is severe underpopulation. We need way more and soon to think about all kinds of stuff. There's more than enough place for a thousand times as many people on the planet even without futuristic tech.
@@MrCmon113 Name a clean high populated country. If the US had 1.5 billion people like smaller India and not 330 million people it would be a polluted resourced starving mess.
In 90s when I was a child and my father was the conservator of Jim Corbett national park he told me a story that happened there, it was a fight between a tiger and leopard. The leopard had killed the Tigers cub and so the tiger tracked down the leapard and killed him. It was supposedly a furious fight.
I know!!! What is even sadder is every time I try to grow a pine tree or find a baby one that I try to protect, PEOPLE KILL THE BABY TREES BECAUSE THEY ARE EITHER NEAR WEEDS OR FROM SOMTHING ELSE!!!!!😠😠😠😠😠😠(my wrath)
Very important information and well researched and put together. Will spread it though my network that already is interested in preservation and growth of Nature away from human intervention. All the high five 🙌🏼 from here and thank you for your beautiful and intelligent reflections. 🌱🌍🌻🐝🍃🌴
@@jackson.denzler. so why isn't he doing anything? Why is NO billionaire doing anything that actually has an impact, other than cheap vanity efforts? Because they don't care. They've got money, they can buy their way out of the consequences that the rest of us will have to face.
he could go broke and not even slow it it would only work if those goverments put a stop to any more trees cut and reforesting as much as possible hed be better to try and forest large areas of desert in the usa and have that put under protection
@5:04 the sunda flying lemur isn't technically a lemur, or a primate at rather that is just a name given. Scientists still aren't sure how to classify it as it is an oddball animal. Still, I love these videos, and the over all quality is great. Keep up the great work, can't wait for this channel to reach Million+ subscribers!
Several saplings took root in my yard some time back. My brother was like, ' Oh, okay, might as well remove those. ', and I was like, ' Hang on. Let 'em grow. What's the problem ? '. Now got a fancy little cluster of 4 or 5 trees going for about 5 more yards of tree cover going in the world. Some carbon sequestration which otherwise would not have occurred.
I always feel bad about pulling a sapling out of the ground that I see in my yard when I think about the tree that it could become and the life it could provide so I try to save them whenever possible
There has been a successful recreation attempt whereas they dumped orange scraps onto infertile land in the Amazon. 20 years later there was trees all over the place
This is one list where I'm glad Canada is on 2nd place and short of Canada growing more forest. I would hate to become 1st on this list if the Amazon rain forest goes away.
It won't go away, as you can see we are managing to drastically reduce the deforestation over the years. Also, the rainforest has a very high ability to regenerate itself, which should be considered in all those deforestation researches, but for some reason, they aren't. Also, it would help if people from all over ther world (specially from the first world) were not buying lands in the amazon and if their companies were not destro... er.... exploring it.
@@g.araujo1043 One problem is they seem to be burning the land after clearing it. Once a forest is gone and there's nothing left but open grass or a farm which drains the soil of it's nutrients. It becomes very tough for anything to grow in dead soil, at least for a while. Apparently there are places you can go to buy Amazon rain forest to help preserve it, but unless they have proven credit I'm a bit cautious.
*I would love to explore the dense forest and vast wilderness of Canada. Wayback 2015, as we are traveling to Banff National Park in Alberta we passed thick forests and rivers so beautiful.*
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation That might be fun. I was living in Alberta for a year or two, but it was during a very dry season, so there wasn't much greenery around.
Way worse It's speculated that this year have less burnings than any other.At least im Brazil. The concentration of burnings are on Paragay and Bolivia.
@Mike Nkorean Man you're so stupid trying to talk about things that you don't understand things that you don't live, yes no one likes the burning of Amazon, and that's why there's people trying to stop that, actually people that arr trying to do something not type a comment and think that will save Amazon
I really love your videos. Particularly the one son the longest rivers, and the origins of fruits and spirces. A quick ocrrection on this one, tho. You say that bears, leopards and tigers are only found in Primorye forest. Not true. The sloth bear, bengal tiger and the leopard live in the same areas, all across India and other parts of South Asia. Similarly the ranges of the snow leopard, tigers and himalayan black bear overlap. Perhaps you meant, tigers, leopards and "brown" bears.
Regarding the Canadian Boreal Forest: one big factor that protects much of it is the simple fact that we have a fair bit of non-boreal, managed, second-and-third growth forests as well. The coast of BC is non-boreal, largely having a strong backbone of douglas fir, which is an excellent wood for most uses of timber (it is fairly soft and relatively plain, so it can't really compete with the hardwood industry out in southern Quebec and New England bits of the US, or the tropical hardwoods with their fancy fine grains and rich colours). It grows fairly quickly, with many wood lots being suitable for harvesting every 20-30 years rather than the 40-80 year turnover of most slower growing trees. So...large swathes of the Canadian Boreal Forest are unprotected because there's no real need to - it's not economical to harvest trees in a wintery hellscape when they take twice as long to grow as the trees that grow in the place that will usually just make you cold and wet. Also, about 94% of Canada's forests are on crown lands. That is: land owned by the government (technically led by the Queen of Canada, better known as the Queen of England, but also the Queen of Many Other Places, hence "crown"). While it may be true that only 8% of it is in designated protected lands, (the source I found said 12%, but I'm not going to quibble), the government has full regulatory authority over most of Canada's forests. You can't just walk up into one of these forests with a chainsaw and start cutting. (Well, you can, because there are way more trees in Canada than law enforcement people, but if you keep doing it and try to sell the wood and all, you're definitely getting arrested.) And what *is* forested is subject to stringent regulations as to what kind of work is permitted. Any waterway has a riperian reserve around it in which forestry is forbidden. "Clearcuts" have to leave something like 10% of the trees standing because for several of the birds we're actively working to protect, their nest habitat is "anything that's poking significantly above the canopy capable of supporting a nest." (Given these are eagles and hawks and such, load bearing branches are actually relevant - these are not the featherweight songbird types.) Some percentage of each landscape unit (a specific fairly small region of forest) has 30 to 70% of every ecosystem type put into reserves. (So if you've got a simple one that's half douglas fir and half red cedar, that percent that gets designated as a reserve applies to each of those independently.) The actual process of doing this is a hell of a lot more complicated because most LUs have a couple dozen different ecosystems, some of which are very small percentages of them. There's protections on nest trees for bald eagles, goshawks, and a few other species. All in all, it's an astonishing amount of red tape. And this is in actively forested lands that forestry companies are leasing. The majority of forested lands are just empty wilderness as far as humans are concerned - far enough out from any community that it's honestly just not worth going out there even if you could log them. Canada, is one of the largest expanses of largely unsettled land - we have 3.8 people per square kilometer for the country, and at least 2/3 of that number are crammed into the 4% of the country within 100km of the southern border. (The chunk of the US that is not Alaska). (Some people claim more, I'm going by a report released by Statscan based on the 2016 census.) So if you write off that chunk, you come to 1.3 people per square kilometer for 96% of the country...and 63.4 people per square kilometer for the other 4%. So most of Canada is about half as settled as Australia or Siberia (which is not a country, but is a big chunk of Russia that is famously not heavily settled. (Australia weighs in at 3.4 people per square kilometer, while Siberia weighs in at 2.6.) (Of course, there is probably an intelligent way to slash those numbers down for large chunks of Australia and Siberia as well, I just don't know the logical region to point out as being the place with most of the people) Right now (and in the forseeable future), our biggest threat to the Canadian Boreal Forest isn't foresters, it's climate change. One issue we've had crop up is the pine beetle - at least one species of which originated fairly far north in BC. Historically, harsh early winters caused large percentages of its population to die off every few years (it has to be early because they produce a biological antifreeze when they go into hibernation that keeps them alive), which kept them from spreading in large numbers. We've not had one of those winters in far too long, allowing pine beetle populations to soar and allowing their range to expand south beyond the point of freezing. Large chunks of the southern part of the boreal forest in BC have died off, thanks to the uncontrolled pine beetle infestation. Ironically, the best thing we can do for carbon sequestration in these areas is _as much forestry as possible_. These large stands of standing dead, dry, wood are excellent fuel for forest fires, and we've had several bad years in that regard recently. By cutting that wood and putting it to use in timber frame construction, we at least delay the carbon sequestered in that wood from being released in the unstoppable inferno these dead forests will inevitably become. It will rot eventually (unless we haul it to a peat bog and throw it in, I suppose), but even delaying the release of carbon to some future date is good. And good timber frame construction with a properly designed water envelope lasts quite a long time. Long enough that if we're still around to be deciding what to do about the rot in these buildings, we've probably got an intelligent solution for carbon sequestration up and running.
2:58 Bears, Tigers and Leopards co-exist in Western Ghats of South India and probably also in the rainforests of North East India. So, that information is wrong 8:38 Javan Rhino is the rarest in the world 9:36 Papua New Guinea is not a part of South East Asia, although West Papua is politically a part of Indonesia.
U not live in Indonesia so don't assume.!!! It's Like u know everything. But u know nothing. Based on its geographical location, the Indonesian archipelago is between the Asian Continent and the Australian Continent, and between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. And Indonesia is multikulturalisme.. cuz strategic geografic. So.. keep dreaming u all colonizers.. Our people from papua,sumatra,java,kalimanta,sulawesi,bali,timor timor. We Will fight u. No matter what!! Like before dutch and japan, Portugis. Inggris colonizers our land..!!! 🏞️😡👊👊🔫 Come here if u dare!!!
Don't know why these types of videos are disliked by some special ones, i think that those who dislike these type of videos are the most negative people alive. #savethedate #saveearth
Commentary on the #10 forest (Russia) said only place on earth where bears, tigers and leopards are found, which is not true. Most forests in India have bears, leopards and tigers coesxisting. What many also don’t know is India also has the only wild population of Asian lions, so you can add them well to that list. But still great video
Hey, this is a great video, thank you for uploading it! I was wondering if you could please provide the study you mention about the profitability of clearing the Amazon Forest vs sustainable harvesting, please? Also if you left the rest of your references in the video description it would be absolutely awesome. Thanks again.
A browse with Satellite images shows their not that dense anymore. www.theworldcounts.com/counters/degradation_and_destruction_of_ecosystems/facts_on_deforestation
"Shells never belonged to anyone. The same goes for the sea and the land." A very good quote from a character who ended up taking the wrong path. In a way, I agree. It's weird how much one species has changed the world so dramatically to the detriment of most other species on the planet. I wonder if it's really okay that us humans get to decide what belongs to us.
What sappy communist nonsense. Nature is territorial, almost all species claim things as theirs. Not just humans. And YES, it is "ok" that humans get to decide what belongs to us. who else? wtf? do you think nature is a democracy? Nature isn't "fair" either.
@@peterbelanger4094 we're the only species actively destroying our environment, because we make things that are beyond our needs for survival. Our greatest accomplishment from that, in my opinion, is music.
James Merryman im just saying its kind of unfair when comparing forest size due to the amount of water rain forest receive and the constant warm temperatures. This usually means more growth for plants as well. I just noticed most forest on this list were rain forest/jungle
Let's just hope the government will be able to do something about it. Because apparently there isn't any. 😕 Especially with the capital will be moved to Borneo in several years now, we can only hope that the government and people will consider to protect the environment there, rather than destroy it even more.
Thanks, for the very informative video! If possible, try not to use the Mercator projection for comparisons on size though. Like in this video, the Amazon definitely looked smaller than any of the Taigas.
Fun fact: the reason why Finland has so much forest left, even though it's one of the world's largest producers of timber, is that by law every single tree that has been cut for commercial purposes must be replaced by three new tree saplings. Why three? Because it's about 1/3 chance that a sapling grows into a tree!
Nice! That is smart. Finns are also famous for best education in schools in general. Respect
I wish all countries would do that
But not gonna lie, that's actually really smart
Feels good to be finnish
I wish born in Finland
1:57 #10 Primoreye coniferous forest 🇷🇺
4:21 #9 Burmese Rainforest 🇲🇲
6:03 #8 Valdibian Rainforest 🇨🇱 🇦🇷
7:41 #7 Borneo Forest 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇧🇳
9:15 #6 New Guinea Tropical Rainforest 🇵🇬🇮🇩
10:41 #5 Congo Tropical Rainforest 🇨🇲🇨🇫🇨🇩🇨🇬🇬🇶🇬🇦
12:25 *Taiga forests*
#4 Scandinavian-Russian Taiga 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮🇷🇺
#3 East-Siberian Taiga 🇷🇺
#2 Canadian Boreal Forest 🇨🇦
#1 Amazon Tropical Rainforest 🇧🇷🇨🇴🇪🇨🇻🇪🇵🇪🇧🇴🇬🇾🇸🇷🇬🇫
I might've missed a country or two, apologies if I've done that
New Guinea = 🇮🇩🇵🇬
Borneo forest is 🇮🇩🇲🇾🇧🇳
You missed 🇫🇷 in the Amazon
🇷🇺 💚
@@joaoumdoistres123amazônia na França? 🤔
I was blown away by the fact that you traced the outline of each forest to estimate their relative sizes. What effort. Astounding.
5,500,000 sq kms is not even close to USA area
Amit T I don’t know why you made that a reply to the above comment. I believe that the offical 9.8 million sq kms does include the Great Lakes and some coastal waters also (you are still correct that 5.5million is not close through).
sounds like a dumb way to do it tbh
@@devinerentalsltd8708 he got many other things wrong. Still I appreciate his efforts.
The kind of work that you put in to mapping, is patience & commitment on some another level. You deserve a lot of appreciation for what you're propagating.
It’s legit what I look for when I’m on a learning/research kick! I grasp material so much better when I have a map to look at, from geography, history, economy, biology and even just day to day news, I have got to have a map to look at! When I find a video on a specific topic and I see no maps I usually keep on clicking lol
You used the word propagating in the wrong context
@@V0lgateTrue, but I said with respect to all of the videos. I've been following this channel and just felt like leaving this comment at the time of this one's release. Naivete aside, being humble enough to appreciate effort is also one of my characteristics.
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wow!! the ratio of the quality of these videos to the number of views is rage inducing. these deserve millions
thanks! maybe one day I'll get there :)
They're getting better all the time too! I hope this channel is going places.
Atlas Pro you’re getting there now
People just want drama I can stare at maps for hours
But most cro-magnons these days are too busy watching "Gone wrong!" Videos, fake vloggers and celebrity news
It would be fair to mention that there are many people dying for defending the Amazon Forest every year, mainly in Brazil and Colombia...
God bless them
oh yeah i remember there was a Ecologist, or Eco Activist, or Eviro Govt. (i forgot what is his role) in Brazil , assassinated for protecting the amazon.
well others countries destroyed their lands and forests in the name of development and now pressurising under developed nations not to use forest land for their development.. if so they should be paid accordingly.
@Guilherme Silveira yupp they want to keep everyone under a debt trap. amazones are bigger than whole india. there are huge forests in russia two in canada. if amazones are the lungs of the world the whole world should be in debted to them and pay for the oxygen the produce civilisations the preserve atleast interest on the debt of the countries which in clude amazones should be paid by countries who produce most carbon footprint per person.. but they are trying to solve problem without any solution.
@Guilherme Silveira exatamente .
Tracing things online is very painstakingly hard work- and you did it for all 10 of the world's largest forests...
I'm very impressed.
It's not accurate tho
TheUltimateMasters easier if you go to a local library and read an old expedition journal xd
Provocateur no USA actually has a law that states loggers must replant seeds from tree and have all numbers count and can only come back when the trees have grown back. lesson here is that you can't say anything about a country until you lived in the country for having generations if family here when you still have a great grandma who says the forests she costed as a child still says it looks almost the same and any trees next to a high way are the old seeds where the highway was now shut the fuck up about America or we shut it for ya and don't complain about any other country cause some struggle for power and laws and don't have democracy
As Europeans expanded and locked down foreign countries under their violent colonisation program the world grew impoverished, polluted, degraded, barbaric, diseased and violent.
@@theterminator3907 an absolutely shite comment.
Hello, Environmental Engineer from Chile living in Patagonia here. Its great that you consider the Valdivian Temperate Forest, but I must say that in Patagonia, conifers are the dominant type of trees only in some areas such as Austrocedrus chilensis populations up until 42°S, Fitsroya cupressoides and Pilgerodendrum iviferum from 40°S to 43°S (but both in permanent waterlogged terrain mostly). As you said, Nothofagus species are the dominant ones in general terms thoughout the ecoregion. Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) and Coihue (N. dombeyi, N. betuloides, N. berteroana) are the most widely extended tree species, ranging from 35°S until Cape Horn.
But saying that conifers are the dominant tree species in the south is more wrong than right. Great channel, though, I've subscribed :D
7:09 bye everyone, I’m off to live with my new best friends colocolo, pudu, and kodkod.
Hahaha
They're real cute..
They all were so cute and small.
😆😆
@@jenny.k998 suit for their cute name
I I'm going to plant a forest when I grow up I'm 12 because I love nature I planted my first tree when I was 10
"The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is today."
Same im 12, and i want to buy a farm land but instead i will plant trees and soon i will have my forest!
Go for it man, if you wanna plant a bunch of trees do it. When youre 50-60 the trees you plant now will be fully grown.
Do ittt. It helps the earth and will bring you happiness for your entire life. You may even give some animals a new home :)
guys you cant plant tree in farm land they are protected
Meanwhile in 3045
Top 10 largest deserts
@fxc2 I think he/she meant that these forests would become the largest desserts in 3045
Top 10 largest trash dumps.
@@engr.enciso yah right
@@engr.enciso oh and btw, its a he
It’s spelled deserts not desserts. Desserts are what you eat after a meal.
Forests are my favorite place to be; they feel like home. I have lived in Maine my entire life, which is mostly covered in forest, so that certainly contributes to my love for them. Forests were considered sacred for most of human existence, and it should have stayed that way.
Yeah, it’s sad to see them slo-fastly leave us 😭
1) You're not living out of forests.
2) No, they weren't any more than other geographic features.
3) No, it's not good to be superstitious.
If you were on your own in a forest, you'd likely starve to death. If you were in a grasland or savannah, you could probably do fine.
@@urfavleo07 Leave whom? There's more than enough trees for you to gawk at.
@@MrCmon113bruh are you seriously hating on forests right now? 😂
When he said the Siberian tiger population is stable and rising I felt a little bit of hope to humanity
This is because of Russian law. It is quite strict and protects bears and especially tigers
Watch Dersu Uzala film
Until he brought up the sumatran rhino. Im like ooohh this is outdated..
But that puts the people who live there in danger
@@thecitizenoftheinternet1077 So you are saying they need to die off ... the tigers .. or do you just like to state the obvious? People can go anywhere but the tigers can't. They are pretty much forced onto a shrinking reservation just like the american indians were. So while humans continue to encroach, where can these tigers go? You and the millions if not a few billions don't care obviously as the human species continues to sterilize the planet ...
People need to stop buying diamonds
Theyre not as valuable as you may think
And stop eating beef.
@@luismanuelreyesRD nah beef is good
Diamonds are pretty valuable for tools and scientific equipment.
However using them as jewelry is basically same as wearing animal leather; just stupidity.
exactly ..
@@animegod2608 yeah, it's good to destroy nature.
Massive props for tracing out those forests yourself & for providing/suggesting the idea to help donate in their preservation. You do some serious quality work in your videos and should be commended for your efforts. 🙂
Nice commentary. Although I notice a correction at 2:59 when you mention about Primorye forests. You say it is the only place on earth where tiger, leopard and bear co-exist. That is not correct, there is Western Ghats in South India where they live in same ecosystem. It’s an evergreen forest system that’s spanned on three states - kerala, tamil nadu and karnataka.
I think he mentioned abt snow leopard..
The western ghats also cut through maharashtra, Goa and Gujarat
western ghats has a lot of biodiversity and it is more of a tropical rainforest. this forest is also the last habitat place for asiatic lion[ all others are gone] that is in gir national park, this place also has tigers,bears,thousands of other species.
Different species of bear, I think.
@@athulkr1920 snow leopards are only found in the Himalayas
I appreciate your use of the metric system
Emrik Allen shut up idiot
Where's Waldo nobody likes you, you’re a stupid orphan
Well...... Rest of the earth uses metric system...
zqaluna just zqaluna troll
@@whereswaldo1630 thats my cousin, I'm the cute little elf
In my opinion there are plenty of forests and woodlands that need to be protected worldwide. Even the smallest ones, that we have near our houses need to be saved. Each tree we walk by helps us in so many levels and yet some "people" simply close their eyes on the importance of a tree or a small area containing half a dozen of trees. Like in the Lord of the Rings, "but the hearts of men are easily corrupted".
Everyone, everywhere, we must protect the Earth.
Have a wonderful weekend, blessed Christmas (or your local cerimonies), a beautiful end of the year/new year. I truly hope your life gets blessed and better.
♥
Yea I know. My small town is surrounded by farmland. Less than 10 years ago they replaced the main roads and took out all the trees that were on the side of the road. And the entire area was wetlands before it was colonized.
Awww thank you! I Subbed to you!
Complete bullshit. People stupidly believe exactly what you believe, namely that the mere presence of trees somewhere is a great ethical necessity. You don't ever seem to have reflected on that belief. You just parrot it like everyone else.
All of the trees you are likely to find are easily replaced. And there's more than enough trees in total. If you want to preserve some stretch of land in a particular state that should be the exception and you should have very specific reasons for that.
Great Research...
Great Work ...
2:55 to 3:00
Sloth Bears, Bengal Tigers and Leopards co-exist in the forests of Southern Western Ghats of India too
Also in Central India.
yes but being subscribed to t series invalidates your opinion
Wow. Chill, dude.
Prit Singh shush you t gay looking ass
@@konplayz peewk d sh*t pie shut your sh*t d peewk hole
Revisiting in 2023 for nostalgia! This video first popped up in my recommended on Christmas Eve a few years ago, and I immediately became captivated. My academic interests have shifted over the years, and watching this video, along with becoming obsessed with your channel, helped lead to yet another passion of mine: environmental science. Now I'm studying environmental science in college, and I really think this is the right path for me. Thank you for all the amazing content you put out. Not only is it awesome to be able to learn so much stuff through your videos, but you've genuinely helped shape my academic path and perhaps my future.
Local man painstakingly traces forests himself to get accurate measures only to get a mere lousy 1398 views.
local man never makes such a work-intensive video ever again
Local man should not give up, local man will get the much deserved views
Global population may appreciate the effort if the data gets published on written documents or even more, journal papers
@@AtlasPro1 This was one of the most interesting videos I've seen on RUclips. Definitely earned my subscription.
Ohh poor guy
Bears, Leopards and Tigers co-exist in India too... I have seen all three in Bandipura forest
@Alan learn a fact son
@Alan spices eh?
@Alan if you’re into animals and geography you remember that stuff lol. Also I believe they do in Malaysia as well.
Wow!
Now cheetahs,leapards,bears, Tigers and Lions in Kuno national park Madhye Pradesh India
Nice video. We are in great need of paying attention to how we work with the remaining forests. By the way, Javan rhino is the most rare rhino species, and I would also call colugos by that name to avoid confusion with true lemurs (those are endemic to Madagascar).
This video deserves more recognisation... It's not a funny task to sit for hours and research for valid measurements and information we got to know here...Thanks for the video...it inspired me... maybe I can't go out and plant a whole forest but I can spread inspiration by sharing this video... 🤗🤗🤗
tbh there's a lot of misinformation in this video, i think they need to do better research
@@patodonaldinho Oh 😯 like?
@@obstinateheadstronggirl4483 tigers, leopards and bears also co exist in India and Southeast Asia
I own and live on 36 acres in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas. Having relocated from southern California in 2004, it is a hidden gem - a true paradise.
Wow, living the life many can only dream of.
@@keep It's here waiting for people like
you.
@@lisad2701 someday 👍🏻
Wow send pictures
I believe you. Also owning 36 acres is kinda suspicious and wow 😝
As a Brazilian i can say its sad to see our forest being destroyed...
There is no billionair in dubai who has the brain to buy the forest to safe it for destruction. Those fools never knew what to do with money but stupid things like building giant houses
@@andreasmoll_0924 the forest is not for sale
@@andreasmoll_0924 amore, e onde fica a soberania dos países em que a Amazônia se encontra? Seria melhor eles fazerem doações para que fosse combatida a destruição da floresta.
It's replaced with something better.
pues dejen de votar a las basuras de derecha que solo quieren destruir por plata todo
I see your subscriptions are growing by thousands everyday, I think your time to shine has come.. the videos are high quality and informative
Your wholistic understanding of how complex systems developed and interact allows you to paint a bigger picture story on your channel. Amazing content as always
I really rarely ever take the time to comment on RUclips, but this was excellent. Thank you my friend. Outstanding in depth research about a truly worthy topic. Yours is a channel that I genuinely hope spreads.
The Pudu deer is the cutest thing I’ve seen in a while.
What about the smol cat?
2:55: It's not true that the Primorye Forest is the only place on earth that bears, tigers and leopards coexist. Many places in South and Southeast Asia are home to all three taxa.
finally someone mentioned this :)
I thought no one else noticed the wrong statement made in the video....
@@tamoghnabanerjee6321 I had noticed it too.. India has the only population of what is left of the Asiatic Lions, making it the only country with bears, tigers, leopards and lions coexist..
@@sarahoommen :)
And in zoos
@@rahimjoseph211 ha ha good one!
The Valdivian forest is undoubtedly impressive, its landscape diversity is unparalleled. You can find dry forests, Mediterranean forests, coniferous forests, deciduous forests, temperate rainforests, mixed forests, glaciers, high mountains and more!
🌲🌳🍁🍂🌴🇦🇷🇨🇱
You are such an underrated channel, glad to see your videos reaching 100k views, even some having more than 1mil.
Hi, I'm from Romania and I want to announce that even the government and the country's president agree to clear the forests in Romania, and no one is taking any action!
@Hutan Butuh Kamu Yes.
@RADAR COMBAT Cutting trees for timber is not was cause deforestation. Deforestation is when the forest is replaced by agriculture land, single-family suburbs and huge parking lots. Wood is actually the most ecological building material when recolted in the right way
@x Well when trees are cut down to replace them by a suburb, huge parking lots or big commercial areas, then it is unsustainable. Otherwise, forest always grows back very quickly
This is why I hate paying taxes! The people elect a government to represent them, they pay their salaries through taxes and the government never listens to the people that don't generate more taxes for them. Now I'm all for capitalism but it's up to government to protect the natural environment
@@luckyunlucky3893 It's up to us to change our lifestyle. Seriously, who would vote for a government saying: "if you vote for me, 4x4 SUVs will become illegal, you won't be allowed to eat to the restaurant more than once per month, you can't take the plane more than once every 4 year and you can't purchase a new phone until you kept it for at least 5 years"??? Businesses make pollution because they produce what society overconsumes, and new businesses that offer better alternatives for the environment won't appear magically out of nowhere. It's up to all of us to change the way we live. Of course the government must pass some laws to make things change faster, but the biggest % of pollution comes directly from our individual behavior.
The more i learn about things like this, the more i feel ashamed to be of the same species like those who kill this wonderful planet.
These Soviets really like their forests.
@¡i¡Got Crabz Nice.
Plus side to dictators tbh. Can legit just be like no dont touch that Haha.
More like they don't have the means to cut all the forests down so they let them be
This is one reason to support communism...
Good, they cared about their forests more than the people there
I want to go to a place that hasn't changed in 140 million years...but the natives aren't very hospitable. I suppose that's one way to conserve your forest!
It's good that they keep modern man out (the dipshits of planet earth) I'd love to see a place that hasn't changed in 140 million years too.... Probably breathtakingly gorgeous!
I'd say there are places deep in the Congo that man hasn't stepped foot in
U need time machine
@@peeweecoco Considering not even the tribal humans who live in these uncharted forests have changed, hence the reason why they're so primitive. Uncharted humans with no contact with the modern world just blows my mind.
Texas Outdoor Fanatic nope
"Impressive conservation efforts under the Soviet Union"
Maybe I treated you too harshly
The Soviet Union was the greatest country that has ever existed... that is why the west put all of its efforts into sabotaging it. Of course, they wouldn't have been able to had it not been for the last Soviet leader, who was both a complete idiot and a traitor.
@@Aeturnalis 🤮
@@Aeturnalis Wow, i found one adequate and normal man in that ocean of dumb western kids in comment section!
Thank you good man just for the fact that you exist, you slightly restore my faith in western part of humanity. It seems they are not entirely brainwashed by cheap propaganda, endless lie and myths.
@@Aeturnalis your funny.
@@Aeturnalis are you seriously calling a highly authoritarian, undeveloped and the absolute opposite of liberty good? Mikhail Gorbachev was literally the only good Soviet premier
As I remember from New Zealand, the native forests look rather like the temperate rainforest in Chile than those high-elevation alpine forests. The coniferous forest in the foreground of Mount Cook looks like one of the numerous plantation forests for logging you can find there.
Our "Green" "Liberal" government has eneacted a carbon system where it is now profitable to clear native forest and replace with fast growing pine or cedar. Its like one side of the political spectrum wants to do almost nothing about the environment and the other side wants to do a lot but every attempt just makes it worse :/
Please keep updating, its clear crisp and uplifting.
We all need to come together.
This is one of the finest channels on RUclips. And I'm saying that after only 2 videos. As long as you keep it factual and not preachy, you will remain high on my list.
It has definitely grown
"x-men origins: wolverine", and the blip-photo... that cracked me up. Great videos, AP!
Hello from a Canadian forest boy! Wish my government was doing more to protect the forests here.
Canada has one of the most protected forests in the world! And certainly one of the better forest industries.
don't worry. Canada has very little people and has already industrialized and due to the harsh conditions up north, most forests are protected :)
Check out the laws regarding logging in Canada.
We lose about 0.01% of forests each year, mostly due to urban growth and farming.
Canadian forests are much less at risk but should still be protected same with other taiga areas its just too harsh for most humans and farming
Your yt videos are those kind of videos where I press like button before watching in case I forget doing it after watching. you are doing great job
Thank you for your work in producing this. I was a Forestry major in school. I can appreciate the comments on diversity and species. This is one those videos that should be should in every Biology classroom in the US. 20 minutes. A small investment for making students aware of the ecosystems on this planet. Assign small groups to research the climate and species mentioned for each forest and how cutting and climate change are affecting each forest.
At know time has there been 7.7 and always growing people on the planet. Overpopulation and wildlife and Forest do not mix well.
Everything changes. You are hurting yourself by trying to cling on to everything as it is. That is not an education but a cult.
@@Crashed131963
There is severe underpopulation. We need way more and soon to think about all kinds of stuff. There's more than enough place for a thousand times as many people on the planet even without futuristic tech.
@@MrCmon113 Name a clean high populated country.
If the US had 1.5 billion people like smaller India and not 330 million people it would be a polluted resourced starving mess.
Bears, Tigers, and Leopards coexist in many parts of India, Nepal, and Bhutan.
They do, but maybe not big enough forest to put in 10
I was about to say the same.
In 90s when I was a child and my father was the conservator of Jim Corbett national park he told me a story that happened there, it was a fight between a tiger and leopard. The leopard had killed the Tigers cub and so the tiger tracked down the leapard and killed him. It was supposedly a furious fight.
Yeah they do in the Himalayan state of India..
Yep
Wow this made me incredibly sad
I know!!! What is even sadder is every time I try to grow a pine tree or find a baby one that I try to protect, PEOPLE KILL THE BABY TREES BECAUSE THEY ARE EITHER NEAR WEEDS OR FROM SOMTHING ELSE!!!!!😠😠😠😠😠😠(my wrath)
Very important information and well researched and put together. Will spread it though my network that already is interested in preservation and growth of Nature away from human intervention. All the high five 🙌🏼 from here and thank you for your beautiful and intelligent reflections. 🌱🌍🌻🐝🍃🌴
Please humans dont destroy the beauty of our mother earth !!!!!
Ali Ahammed Shawon right on we’ve only got one earth
Dont worry, Thea earth is doing just fine. Its the people that are fucked up. Soon humans wil become extinct and the earth will be revitalized.
Humans aren't going extinct any time soon bud. The only way the earth is going to be revitalized is through our own efforts.
@ We already recycle materials which makes us use the materials of 3-4 planets already. In the future it will be 10 times that amount
Jeff Bezos should go all in on preserving the Amazon rainforest
but he would actually be more likely to clear it for capitalism things.
Gregory Samuel Teo nope 🤦♂️
@@jackson.denzler. so why isn't he doing anything? Why is NO billionaire doing anything that actually has an impact, other than cheap vanity efforts? Because they don't care. They've got money, they can buy their way out of the consequences that the rest of us will have to face.
he could go broke and not even slow it it would only work if those goverments put a stop to any more trees cut and reforesting as much as possible hed be better to try and forest large areas of desert in the usa and have that put under protection
Ne pas confondre Amazon et Amazonie
I’m amazed at how much work went into this video. Learned a whole bunch. Bravo and thanks 🙏
What a superb piece of work! Thank you for the huge efforts in creating it!
Your videos are so good I had to become a patreon (first time becoming a patreon)! Keep up the quality work!
I love this channel! You do such a good job organizing your content and stimulating graphics, keep up the good work!!!
@5:04 the sunda flying lemur isn't technically a lemur, or a primate at rather that is just a name given. Scientists still aren't sure how to classify it as it is an oddball animal.
Still, I love these videos, and the over all quality is great. Keep up the great work, can't wait for this channel to reach Million+ subscribers!
It got a cople thousand over the period of one week.
I appreciate the accuracy of the information presented here. Thank you!
Valdivian forest. The most adorable place on earth.
For me its the Congo rainforest. When I hear jungle I always think of the Congo rainforest.
Several saplings took root in my yard some time back. My brother was like, ' Oh, okay, might as well remove those. ', and I was like, ' Hang on. Let 'em grow. What's the problem ? '. Now got a fancy little cluster of 4 or 5 trees going for about 5 more yards of tree cover going in the world. Some carbon sequestration which otherwise would not have occurred.
if every person would be like you then there would be no global warming .
I always feel bad about pulling a sapling out of the ground that I see in my yard when I think about the tree that it could become and the life it could provide so I try to save them whenever possible
Each and every one wants to think about this and protect the rainforest.
Thank u for creating these clear form of this rainforest.
Save nature
You are so professional, you deserved more viewers
There has been a successful recreation attempt whereas they dumped orange scraps onto infertile land in the Amazon. 20 years later there was trees all over the place
aniinnr choque source?
@@trixfrank1
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/costa-rica-let-juice-company-dump-their-orange-peels-forestand-it-helped-180964666/
www.sciencealert.com/how-12-000-tonnes-of-dumped-orange-peel-produced-something-nobody-imagined
The University's report:
www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-how-orange-peels-revived-costa-rican-forest
@@aniinnrchoque1861 ty for source providement
This makes me happy 😌
Costa Rica is not part of Amazon...
Change your search engine from google to ecosia, with all your searches they plant trees
Thanks for the suggestion. Just switched all of my devices to ecosia.
If only Ecosia didn't suck ass as a search engine.
@@bentleyboy72 Nah, it does its job though.
@@bentleyboy72 if only Ecosia didn't spam the ad space so much with subpar ads... or at all.
@@シロダサンダー I guess that's how they can afford to plant tree per every search
This is one list where I'm glad Canada is on 2nd place and short of Canada growing more forest.
I would hate to become 1st on this list if the Amazon rain forest goes away.
It won't go away, as you can see we are managing to drastically reduce the deforestation over the years. Also, the rainforest has a very high ability to regenerate itself, which should be considered in all those deforestation researches, but for some reason, they aren't.
Also, it would help if people from all over ther world (specially from the first world) were not buying lands in the amazon and if their companies were not destro... er.... exploring it.
@@g.araujo1043 One problem is they seem to be burning the land after clearing it.
Once a forest is gone and there's nothing left but open grass or a farm which drains the soil of it's nutrients.
It becomes very tough for anything to grow in dead soil, at least for a while.
Apparently there are places you can go to buy Amazon rain forest to help preserve it, but unless they have proven credit I'm a bit cautious.
*I would love to explore the dense forest and vast wilderness of Canada. Wayback 2015, as we are traveling to Banff National Park in Alberta we passed thick forests and rivers so beautiful.*
@@LifeOdysseyMotivation That might be fun.
I was living in Alberta for a year or two, but it was during a very dry season, so there wasn't much greenery around.
@@kairon156 controled burns actually promote regrowth.
Respect on the detail rich coverage of each of the forests! This is a treasure trove of a video! Thank you. P.S. Go Forests!
2018 people come to watch all forest
2019 people come just for Amazon
As if that would help
Funny, since the fires in the Amazon were worse last year
Way worse
It's speculated that this year have less burnings than any other.At least im Brazil. The concentration of burnings are on Paragay and Bolivia.
Mike Nkorean You are a fucking ignorant. XD
@Mike Nkorean Man you're so stupid trying to talk about things that you don't understand things that you don't live, yes no one likes the burning of Amazon, and that's why there's people trying to stop that, actually people that arr trying to do something not type a comment and think that will save Amazon
Small correction - 7:19 Bamboo is a grass, not a tree :)
Grass is Bamboo not tree? Fun
@@shakilahmad8246 bamboo is the talliest grass..its not a tree
@@princeaj2076 Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
@@shakilahmad8246 try to google .so that ull know
@@princeaj2076 I know it but doing it for fun my dear....I am graduated in botany ( Study of plants)
I really love your videos. Particularly the one son the longest rivers, and the origins of fruits and spirces. A quick ocrrection on this one, tho. You say that bears, leopards and tigers are only found in Primorye forest. Not true. The sloth bear, bengal tiger and the leopard live in the same areas, all across India and other parts of South Asia. Similarly the ranges of the snow leopard, tigers and himalayan black bear overlap. Perhaps you meant, tigers, leopards and "brown" bears.
Vanakam , thank you for preserving biodiversity & ecosystems which, save the planet 🌎 from erosion, air pollution and excessive heatwaves 🌦🦚
Whos here because of the Amazon rainforest burning
Me🙁
The Amazon rainforest fire make me feel the end of the human is coming.
I always have had nature in my heart😀
Definitely
Me..Mr.Pat detective.. Ace venture..alright then!!..
Hurts my heart to see Amazon forest burning 💔
Nothing made me cry,when I was a child, as a cutdown forest!
Nothing makes me cry, now that I am a old man, as a sight of a cutdown forest!
I've always wondered why the great northern forests were all pines. So interesting!
Regarding the Canadian Boreal Forest: one big factor that protects much of it is the simple fact that we have a fair bit of non-boreal, managed, second-and-third growth forests as well. The coast of BC is non-boreal, largely having a strong backbone of douglas fir, which is an excellent wood for most uses of timber (it is fairly soft and relatively plain, so it can't really compete with the hardwood industry out in southern Quebec and New England bits of the US, or the tropical hardwoods with their fancy fine grains and rich colours). It grows fairly quickly, with many wood lots being suitable for harvesting every 20-30 years rather than the 40-80 year turnover of most slower growing trees. So...large swathes of the Canadian Boreal Forest are unprotected because there's no real need to - it's not economical to harvest trees in a wintery hellscape when they take twice as long to grow as the trees that grow in the place that will usually just make you cold and wet.
Also, about 94% of Canada's forests are on crown lands. That is: land owned by the government (technically led by the Queen of Canada, better known as the Queen of England, but also the Queen of Many Other Places, hence "crown"). While it may be true that only 8% of it is in designated protected lands, (the source I found said 12%, but I'm not going to quibble), the government has full regulatory authority over most of Canada's forests. You can't just walk up into one of these forests with a chainsaw and start cutting. (Well, you can, because there are way more trees in Canada than law enforcement people, but if you keep doing it and try to sell the wood and all, you're definitely getting arrested.) And what *is* forested is subject to stringent regulations as to what kind of work is permitted. Any waterway has a riperian reserve around it in which forestry is forbidden. "Clearcuts" have to leave something like 10% of the trees standing because for several of the birds we're actively working to protect, their nest habitat is "anything that's poking significantly above the canopy capable of supporting a nest." (Given these are eagles and hawks and such, load bearing branches are actually relevant - these are not the featherweight songbird types.) Some percentage of each landscape unit (a specific fairly small region of forest) has 30 to 70% of every ecosystem type put into reserves. (So if you've got a simple one that's half douglas fir and half red cedar, that percent that gets designated as a reserve applies to each of those independently.) The actual process of doing this is a hell of a lot more complicated because most LUs have a couple dozen different ecosystems, some of which are very small percentages of them. There's protections on nest trees for bald eagles, goshawks, and a few other species.
All in all, it's an astonishing amount of red tape. And this is in actively forested lands that forestry companies are leasing. The majority of forested lands are just empty wilderness as far as humans are concerned - far enough out from any community that it's honestly just not worth going out there even if you could log them. Canada, is one of the largest expanses of largely unsettled land - we have 3.8 people per square kilometer for the country, and at least 2/3 of that number are crammed into the 4% of the country within 100km of the southern border. (The chunk of the US that is not Alaska). (Some people claim more, I'm going by a report released by Statscan based on the 2016 census.) So if you write off that chunk, you come to 1.3 people per square kilometer for 96% of the country...and 63.4 people per square kilometer for the other 4%. So most of Canada is about half as settled as Australia or Siberia (which is not a country, but is a big chunk of Russia that is famously not heavily settled. (Australia weighs in at 3.4 people per square kilometer, while Siberia weighs in at 2.6.) (Of course, there is probably an intelligent way to slash those numbers down for large chunks of Australia and Siberia as well, I just don't know the logical region to point out as being the place with most of the people)
Right now (and in the forseeable future), our biggest threat to the Canadian Boreal Forest isn't foresters, it's climate change. One issue we've had crop up is the pine beetle - at least one species of which originated fairly far north in BC. Historically, harsh early winters caused large percentages of its population to die off every few years (it has to be early because they produce a biological antifreeze when they go into hibernation that keeps them alive), which kept them from spreading in large numbers. We've not had one of those winters in far too long, allowing pine beetle populations to soar and allowing their range to expand south beyond the point of freezing. Large chunks of the southern part of the boreal forest in BC have died off, thanks to the uncontrolled pine beetle infestation. Ironically, the best thing we can do for carbon sequestration in these areas is _as much forestry as possible_. These large stands of standing dead, dry, wood are excellent fuel for forest fires, and we've had several bad years in that regard recently. By cutting that wood and putting it to use in timber frame construction, we at least delay the carbon sequestered in that wood from being released in the unstoppable inferno these dead forests will inevitably become. It will rot eventually (unless we haul it to a peat bog and throw it in, I suppose), but even delaying the release of carbon to some future date is good. And good timber frame construction with a properly designed water envelope lasts quite a long time. Long enough that if we're still around to be deciding what to do about the rot in these buildings, we've probably got an intelligent solution for carbon sequestration up and running.
2:58 Bears, Tigers and Leopards co-exist in Western Ghats of South India and probably also in the rainforests of North East India.
So, that information is wrong
8:38 Javan Rhino is the rarest in the world
9:36 Papua New Guinea is not a part of South East Asia, although West Papua is politically a part of Indonesia.
yes in periyar bandipur nagarhole mudumalai wayanad etc we have bengal tiger leopard and sloth bear together
Your right Papua New Guinea isn't part of South East Asia, we're melanasian
Also in the northern part of West Bengal (pretty close to North East India actually!)
Bengal tiger, leapard and sloth bears co exist in many regions like tadoba tiger reserve in Maharashtra.
U not live in Indonesia so don't assume.!!!
It's Like u know everything.
But u know nothing.
Based on its geographical location, the Indonesian archipelago is between the Asian Continent and the Australian Continent, and between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. And Indonesia is multikulturalisme.. cuz strategic geografic.
So.. keep dreaming u all colonizers..
Our people from papua,sumatra,java,kalimanta,sulawesi,bali,timor timor. We Will fight u. No matter what!!
Like before dutch and japan, Portugis. Inggris colonizers our land..!!! 🏞️😡👊👊🔫
Come here if u dare!!!
Who else saw Wolverine at 13:34, played by Hugh Jackman, flash for about 0.25 seconds?
Do you play it on 0.25x speed?
If ur not SPED you can see it at normal speed
editing error
Yes the character is Canadian
Wolverine's only really good in the old cartoon series. The movies suck. Just saying..
Don't know why these types of videos are disliked by some special ones, i think that those who dislike these type of videos are the most negative people alive.
#savethedate #saveearth
🎄 Trees are the earth lungs why are we cutting em down
teddy nyakado it’s actually the oceans
Overpopulation
Because they love beef
Some people care about their lungs and some people don't 😢
@@acesharpshooter1400 but good news bc most young people these days dont have kids so it helps with the overpopulation
Commentary on the #10 forest (Russia) said only place on earth where bears, tigers and leopards are found, which is not true. Most forests in India have bears, leopards and tigers coesxisting. What many also don’t know is India also has the only wild population of Asian lions, so you can add them well to that list. But still great video
True
right bro
@Omer Adnan Do they have Tigers and Lion...does Russia have Lions?
He Means Amur And Siberian Tiger With A Bear Only In Great Russia
@@ssam3826 Tigers and lions do not normally coexist
You're videos are so good. interesting and well done. thank you!
So happy that this channel exists
Hey, this is a great video, thank you for uploading it!
I was wondering if you could please provide the study you mention about the profitability of clearing the Amazon Forest vs sustainable harvesting, please?
Also if you left the rest of your references in the video description it would be absolutely awesome.
Thanks again.
Very good effort. A few inaccuracies, but in general a very good job. :)
We desperately need to protect these wonderful and vital places!
Hello
You did some amazing research here, seriously well done!
Those forests are HUGE! I hope they can stay protected and diverse!
A browse with Satellite images shows their not that dense anymore. www.theworldcounts.com/counters/degradation_and_destruction_of_ecosystems/facts_on_deforestation
13:34 Lol X:men origins:wolverine
He thought he was slick, sliding that in.
I was hoping someone else would notice that.
i've searched for this comment
"Shells never belonged to anyone. The same goes for the sea and the land." A very good quote from a character who ended up taking the wrong path. In a way, I agree. It's weird how much one species has changed the world so dramatically to the detriment of most other species on the planet. I wonder if it's really okay that us humans get to decide what belongs to us.
What sappy communist nonsense. Nature is territorial, almost all species claim things as theirs. Not just humans. And YES, it is "ok" that humans get to decide what belongs to us. who else? wtf? do you think nature is a democracy?
Nature isn't "fair" either.
Peter Belanger “communist” lul
@@peterbelanger4094 we're the only species actively destroying our environment, because we make things that are beyond our needs for survival. Our greatest accomplishment from that, in my opinion, is music.
I recently discovered your channel and so far all the videos I've watched are rich in information and in detail. Will definitely come back for more :D
I am sad to announce tht the last Sumatran Rhino in Malaysian part of Borneo has died & hv been declared extinct (in Malaysia). 😢
Now only found in Indonesia, similar to the Javan Rhino that was once found in Vietnam until the last one killed in 2010😢
So?
There's still Rhinos. And there's plenty of other animals that are extinct.
The image you used to depict Manchurian sika deer (Cervus nippon mantchuricus) actually shows a European fallow deer (Dama dama).
I think rain forest and temperate forest should be a separate list
James Merryman im just saying its kind of unfair when comparing forest size due to the amount of water rain forest receive and the constant warm temperatures. This usually means more growth for plants as well.
I just noticed most forest on this list were rain forest/jungle
great video man!! you did an amazing job!
Half the Amazon is protected? That is awesome! I hope we continue to improve, hopefully one day we can look back to now as a turning point.
Proud to be native of the regions of Congo rain forest ❤❤❤ #bantu
I have lived in the Canadian taiga, and he is incredibly accurate about everything! Impressive
I like watching you vids because they are sound so realistic and just the topics are cool, also you explaine more
Indonesia have to take care (more) their forests.
including me as Indonesian.
Let's just hope the government will be able to do something about it.
Because apparently there isn't any. 😕
Especially with the capital will be moved to Borneo in several years now, we can only hope that the government and people will consider to protect the environment there, rather than destroy it even more.
Indonesia is useless
Thanks, for the very informative video! If possible, try not to use the Mercator projection for comparisons on size though. Like in this video, the Amazon definitely looked smaller than any of the Taigas.
Winters in Sweden (North) are usually very harsh. The forest is also protected by the government and we have a lot of wildlife :D
This channel is a jewel 💎, a lot of information in short time