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  • @FrancoisTHX
    @FrancoisTHX Год назад +3005

    Snakes are an absolute gem on Earth, and constrictors can be amazing pets ; but python leather growing in popularity might be the best solution to encourage Burmese python hunters in Florida to help save this ecosystem.

    • @RaptorRockDrakeJesus
      @RaptorRockDrakeJesus Год назад +107

      Gets annoying when they just don't put the snakes out of their misery in the video. No, no, they gotta be alive for the bounty? And for what, just to cause more stress and pain on those animals. Also I doubt the water hyacinth is the main reason the rivers are losing life, pretty sure it's the floating trash heaps those ppl call villages

    • @hunterhq295
      @hunterhq295 Год назад

      Been looking at this another perspective, If only invasive species could be returned to their homeland as easily as they were brought over? I mean they're just doing what they need in order to survive in a habitat they're not used to and were brought to against their own will.

    • @ShhhHhhhz
      @ShhhHhhhz Год назад +53

      do a little google seach and it will tell you that Burmese pythons are classified as vulnerable species. do you think the hunters will simply stop when Florida's pythons are all hunted out?

    • @serinawong3019
      @serinawong3019 Год назад +21

      just be sure to clarify from Burmese pythons, rather than other snakes who aren't invasive

    • @josephgendrano1193
      @josephgendrano1193 Год назад

  • @stagnantfox3027
    @stagnantfox3027 Год назад +1823

    "but the peta says" I think we can all by now agree that whatever peta says or approves or dissaproves is wildly horrendous. It honestly shocks me that peta has survived this long considering how extremist and yet contradictory they are, like the amount of times they themselves mass euthanized a bunch of cats and dogs some of which were lost pets.

    • @supersaiyanjin2199
      @supersaiyanjin2199 Год назад

      Peta are also invasive species and must be eradicated

    • @EJD339
      @EJD339 Год назад +56

      I actually met Amy a while ago and she freaking loves snakes so I truly believe that she hates having to harm them. This was before she even moved to Florida.

    • @idid1866
      @idid1866 Год назад +45

      I'm as shocked as you are that peta is still around!

    • @caseyphilips3007
      @caseyphilips3007 Год назад

      I can't was fine with the video..till l realized they was a couple carpet munchers😂

    • @max78966
      @max78966 Год назад +30

      Boycott Peta

  • @Emma-lz1tb
    @Emma-lz1tb Год назад +845

    It is tricky to find both a way to get rid of/control an invasive species without creating a market for it but this is so interesting to see and it is lovely how a pest can help a community and create value in the economy, perhaps also take demand away a bit from native species or threatened populations elsewhere

    • @SupraJulie
      @SupraJulie Год назад +22

      Here is the thing, unless there is an incentive for people to get rid of them then they are going to stay.

    • @karenneill9109
      @karenneill9109 5 месяцев назад +6

      I think if businesses think flexibly, then it’s okay to create a market for something with the purpose of denuding it. They can switch to something else similar, but also problematic.

  • @NicolaiAAA
    @NicolaiAAA Год назад +242

    "Rehome them." Yeah. Ok. It's hard enough for places to rehome cats and dogs, people just act like it's gonna be a breeze to rehome a whole ass python.

    • @Vesdus
      @Vesdus 4 месяца назад +24

      Wild pythons are not pets. The pythons available in pet stores have been acclimated to humans since their birth.

    • @draconicrain7609
      @draconicrain7609 3 месяца назад +9

      A lot easier to eat and make boots and bags out of

    • @kevintaylor1434
      @kevintaylor1434 3 месяца назад

      NicolaiAAA, how or where could you even try to remove them.

    • @melhawk6284
      @melhawk6284 Месяц назад +2

      Much as I love a Burm, you're right. They have a shitload of babies at once, and have eaten most everything that will eat their eggs or young already, so very little keeps them in check.

    • @robinphilp6579
      @robinphilp6579 Месяц назад

      PETA kills innocent pets within 24 hours of finding them. Other animal rights groups would and do say that native species should live without interference from these.

  • @IrishAnnie
    @IrishAnnie Год назад +711

    Touring the Everglades several years ago in an airboat, we came upon an area that was brimming with raccoons. The captain stopped and the raccoons came aboard to check us out. Last year, we went out again and I asked where the raccoons were. I got the answer, “The pythons have eaten them.” They are decimating the bird population in the Everglades.

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 Год назад +5

      I mean there are more than just pythons introduced the monitors and other large lizards love to snack on raccoon young and raccoons are also being competing with these invasive species. The python just gets the most blame cause they are the most easily vilified. Alligators do hunt pythons though albeit until a certain size.

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 Год назад +2

      Like the lizards are more of a problem cause they love hunting eggs and newborns

    • @MikeTheMusa
      @MikeTheMusa Год назад +14

      Yep definitely are. Going to college down here Everglades 15 minutes down the road. Memorial weekend there was a 11 foot python strangulating a very large raccoon on the side of the road. We watched and recorded for like 20 minutes before fwc came and took out dispatch the python. 😵‍💫

    • @stephanaeon
      @stephanaeon Год назад +2

      Nooooo

    • @68Tboy
      @68Tboy Год назад +3

      @victory8928 So you’re saying the lizards are eating the raccoon eggs? 🤔

  • @findAplaceToCallHome
    @findAplaceToCallHome Год назад +824

    It ate an alligator, an entire alligator… that is insane…

    • @fuzzymelon1261
      @fuzzymelon1261 Год назад

      berms actually cant eat humans despite being able to swallow gators. humans aren't streamlined in shape, our heads are blunt and out shoulders are more blunt. snakes start eating from the head, so it doesn't occur to them to go from the feet. Clint's reptiles made a video on how snakes eat and its pretty cool. reticulated pythons have been the only snake that has eaten humans and its the largest snake in the world

    • @hunterhq295
      @hunterhq295 Год назад +50

      Well snakes are known to eat crocodilians like anaconda with caiman and rock pythons with crocodiles sometimes.

    • @jakobbauz
      @jakobbauz Год назад +14

      I was gonna write exactly that. What a beast.

    • @MrTheWeedMan007
      @MrTheWeedMan007 Год назад +1

      Haha

    • @sasazapadnik9335
      @sasazapadnik9335 Год назад +34

      He said... "Cya later, alligator"

  • @teng029
    @teng029 Год назад +607

    It's a little mind blowing that they hunt 5000 pythons a year and it doesn't even make a dent on the snake population. Also, the suggested solution of "sending them back to their native country" is about the dumbest thing I've heard in a while.

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards Год назад +30

      They are rare in some of their native lands due to overhunting.
      They actually might have some value in sending some shipping containers back.

    • @taraji_b
      @taraji_b Год назад +32

      @@Steven_EdwardsI highly doubt the Burmese people would want any snakes sent to them.

    • @Steven_Edwards
      @Steven_Edwards Год назад +17

      @@taraji_b There was a comment somewhere on here about the high price that a bone paste extract from them commands.
      Anything that has a high price like that means some industrious person would be interested.

    • @Shaijn815
      @Shaijn815 Год назад

      @@Steven_Edwards didn't humans shipping animals across the world get us into this mess in a the first place? Sure there won't be some unintended consequence and disaster like even a few snakes carrying a new disease that wreaks havoc on native animals populations let alone humans?

    • @strayiggytv
      @strayiggytv Год назад +8

      @@taraji_b they would if the thing the snake eats is overpopulated. Everything has a niche in the ecosystem even animals people don't like. It's dumb to go "lol I hate (insert animal here) therefore I'd rather deal with the ecosystem collapsing then have any more brought in.

  • @kokisivarajah7509
    @kokisivarajah7509 Год назад +404

    I have huge respect for social entrepreneurs who help to solve worlds less talked problems! The government should actively subsides these entrepreneurs to keep solving problems of these nature.
    All invasive species has one in thing in common; introduced by the humans!😢

    • @integratedhatespreader
      @integratedhatespreader Год назад +21

      Not all. Some invasive marine wildlife for example like barnacles and crustaceans can hitch a ride on drifting wood or trash.

    • @craigb8228
      @craigb8228 4 месяца назад +1

      America is a capitalistic system not a socialist system.

  • @BudiandLeo
    @BudiandLeo Год назад +196

    I went to Fiji last year and every time I go to a tropical destination, I expect to hear some birds. There were none, absolutely none that it was a bit eerie. Apparently the Indian Mongoose was brought over to rid of Fiji's snakes harming sugarcane crops. But in effect, the mongoose also ate all native bird eggs.

    • @KMDragonS
      @KMDragonS Год назад +11

      I know what you mean I went to Australia years ago and I know about foxes that were brought in to take care of the rabbits. Unfortunately they now have a taste for the local wildlife

    • @markthomas3730
      @markthomas3730 Год назад +4

      HOW EXACTLY DOES A SNAKE HARM SUGARCANE ?

    • @leadershiphelpdesk510
      @leadershiphelpdesk510 3 месяца назад +1

      @@markthomas3730 That was my exact thought.

  • @soulfoodsmama2980
    @soulfoodsmama2980 5 месяцев назад +79

    Lesbians catching snakes was not on my bingo card but I’m here for it .

  • @eliotdaoust3765
    @eliotdaoust3765 Год назад +155

    As a reptile enthusiast here, i would like to friendly point out that one of the pictues ( 3:42 ) of said "burmeese python" was actually a ball python (aka royal python) and the narator said that "they are not poisonous" but I think what was ment was Venemous. Although, they are neither of those things 😂 (they can bite you or be eated by you, none of witch will result in your death!)
    Keep learning about reptiles! 🐊🐢🦎🐍

    • @laattardo
      @laattardo Год назад

      ❤ herp nerds!

    • @JohnnyDoom
      @JohnnyDoom Год назад +8

      Thanks. I was going to say this too. My rule of thumb is - if it bites you and you die, that's venom. If you bite it and YOU die, that's poison.

    • @exposenetworklimited4497
      @exposenetworklimited4497 Год назад +1

      🙏🏻 thought same thing

    • @n0tfr0mth1sw0rld
      @n0tfr0mth1sw0rld 3 месяца назад

      NZ is poisoning rabbits.
      I bet they'd rather take those snakes

    • @donhardy9248
      @donhardy9248 3 месяца назад

      Interesting distinction. Poisonous vs venomous. I learned something (and I have a degree in English). 🙂 Thx.

  • @Nasauniverse001
    @Nasauniverse001 Год назад +331

    I love to see people tackling problems like these. We may have caused the situation but we can solve it also if allowed to. Brilliant and interesting video. Thanks

    • @bas_ee
      @bas_ee Год назад +8

      Kind of dark actually haha. "Oops, we made a mistake by taking pythons as a pet" "Yeah lets murder them all, one by one, the stinky pests". We really are dumb, ignorant and evil.

    • @nicholaslewis8594
      @nicholaslewis8594 Год назад +9

      No, the messed up thing would be leaving them to wipe out species.

    • @thegamingwolf5612
      @thegamingwolf5612 Год назад +9

      ​@@bas_eeyour so cool and quirky

    • @manchukhan8255
      @manchukhan8255 Год назад +3

      One thing wrong about this statement is that none of the ‘we’ includes any of us.

    • @SkyeAten
      @SkyeAten Год назад

      Yeah um... It's impossible to eradicate them completely..... So no, we can't solve the problem. We can just make it less bad.... 😅

  • @brianlawson363
    @brianlawson363 Год назад +121

    If there are only 100 people licensed to deal with the Burmese pythons, it doesn't seem that they really want to get rid of them.

    • @thekalenichannel1812
      @thekalenichannel1812 Год назад +72

      Or maybe capturing dangerous animals isn't a very popular job? Wonder why that may be...

    • @QuesoCookies
      @QuesoCookies Год назад +35

      It's really dangerous, especially considering the other dangerous animals in Florida, and the market probably can't sustain them. That one lady they featured had a lot of leather just hanging around, probably because she hasn't sold any of the other items she's made with the rest.

    • @craigb8228
      @craigb8228 4 месяца назад +5

      Why did the pythons need to be captured alive.

    • @tjyycgaming7968
      @tjyycgaming7968 4 месяца назад +4

      I think that was for show. Guns probably work better.

    • @denny_dens
      @denny_dens 4 месяца назад +1

      @@tjyycgaming7968they use air guns a lot. after catching them however, for i have no idea what reason. i dont know and i dont wanna know.

  • @thaixp5495
    @thaixp5495 Год назад +98

    Here in Vietnam (and China too) we have something called Python's "cao", which basically the python's backbone stewed for days with other herbs to create a condense peanut butter-like substance. When we get backache or knee ache, we rub this on the part and its work almost instantly. That thing sells for 1-200$ per jar and catching 1 single python is enough for a village family to live for half a year. Thats why python became so rare in asian countries and are redundant in the west.
    And also, python skin could easily become belt or purse, which easily get people 3-500$ per python

    • @PALMA06
      @PALMA06 Год назад +26

      literally snake oil

    • @phatle2737
      @phatle2737 Год назад

      ten tieng viet la gi vay ban?

    • @thaixp5495
      @thaixp5495 Год назад +1

      @@phatle2737 Cao trăn đấy ông

    • @thaixp5495
      @thaixp5495 Год назад +7

      @@PALMA06 oh and Python's fat are used to cure skin burn, really effective. However, it is not as expensive since on 10ml jar can be used for a whole year and one python can product hundreds of them

    • @shahrzadtales
      @shahrzadtales Год назад +7

      You should go Florida and make your business to sell oil snake

  • @terminusest9179
    @terminusest9179 Год назад +100

    I wonder why green crabs have a daily limit when they were never supposed to be introduced to the states to begin with. I think trying to continually eradicate it from certain places would bring that control down much better.

    • @kylieharrison3782
      @kylieharrison3782 Год назад +10

      There was a limit? Sounded like the limit was created merely by the capacity of the people to catch them.

    • @victory8928
      @victory8928 Год назад +4

      I do think a good reason might have to do with other destructive tendencies we did. Like purple marsh crabs in a certain area had their native predators wiped out so the only thing that can keep them in check is the green crab

    • @PhilowenAster
      @PhilowenAster Год назад +9

      The limit for the green crabs is pretty much just the best times to catch them. Males are evidently best at their molting times, and I'd bet the best time for females would be when they're full of eggs.

    • @Hwd371
      @Hwd371 Год назад +6

      Exactly! Why are there only 100 people licensed for python removal ?

    • @MellowhearttheCat
      @MellowhearttheCat 3 месяца назад +2

      @@Hwd371because they’re extremely strong and can easily strangle you to death if it wraps around your neck

  • @lizh4862
    @lizh4862 Год назад +33

    we've been crashing native fisheries for decades because we love seafood so much, why not apply the same vigor we have for salmon and cod to equally tasty invasives??

  • @Miikhiel
    @Miikhiel Год назад +56

    It’d be cool to see the sargassum seaweed and the water hyacinth turned into fertilizer or even better “liquid gold” via compost tea.

  • @kenfamenterprise7204
    @kenfamenterprise7204 Год назад +73

    This documentary is so refreshing..no politics,informative and an opportunity opener...good way to go

    • @longschlongjohnson6470
      @longschlongjohnson6470 Год назад +12

      Lol buddy, if you think "environmental preservation" has nothing to do with politics I have a bridge to sell ya

    • @kb7661
      @kb7661 Год назад +7

      Just because one side doesn’t agree, doesn’t make it political. This was just stating facts

    • @lostonearth7856
      @lostonearth7856 Год назад

      You do know, environmental preservation is a left-wing political idea?
      Or you know, what you would call the "Woke agenda" because they deep states wants to control you using environmentalism or something stupid.

    • @Constantine_Cvl8
      @Constantine_Cvl8 Год назад

      ​​​@@longschlongjohnson6470get back to slapping and clapping, Bolbi

  • @SunGodNikaJoyBoy
    @SunGodNikaJoyBoy Год назад +68

    I believe there should be many more economic incentives for locals and people searching for work to go out and control the population of invasive species, this is will help prevent more mass extinction and keep our environments intact.

    • @Personincrowd
      @Personincrowd Год назад +5

      They would get bred for money

    • @ProfesionalVideoWatcher
      @ProfesionalVideoWatcher Год назад

      Someone could just be catching, bredding3them and realeasing them when they multiply in the wild he catches them for money

    • @archange8030
      @archange8030 2 месяца назад

      Down in Texas, we have a hog bounty. Depending on the county, it can range anywhere from $15-$45 for a single hog.

  • @deveshraj18
    @deveshraj18 Год назад +84

    The thing I love about nature is that it's fair for every species. The moment a specie goes to a place where it doesn't have any natural predators and climbs up the food chain, nature introduces its new predator. And in this reference the humans become its new predator.

    • @redtsun67
      @redtsun67 Год назад

      We're more like regulators than predators. If this were truly a natural process, then the invasive species would simply occupy it's respective place on the food web, and the ecosystem around it would adapt to this new influence in the area. We as humans attempt to regulate nature, because we have advanced to a point where we are no longer a part of the natural order.

  • @kouleeofficial
    @kouleeofficial Год назад +150

    Do you ever think, if they did this to the point where the invasive species are no longer in the habitat they don’t belong to, how do the people now profit from it? I wonder that a lot because usually if you get profit from it, you’d want it to be there still.

    • @ContactsNfilters
      @ContactsNfilters Год назад +44

      When they did it with rats years ago and cobras in India people started breeding them. I would hope we have more awareness now and could just switch to something else because I'm sure there will always be another invasive species or something else that needs management.

    • @rreagan007
      @rreagan007 Год назад +46

      If that starts to happen, the government can pass laws saying that the invasive species must be wild caught and not farm raised.

    • @SkyeAten
      @SkyeAten Год назад

      The sad thing is... I don't think we'll be able eradicate them... They have just been added to the eco system and we have now become their natural predator...

    • @AVA-hu4yf
      @AVA-hu4yf Год назад +10

      They profit from selling elephant tusks but that doesn't stop them from hunting them to extinction.

    • @ZelineZed
      @ZelineZed Год назад +4

      Many people are ready to use one thing until it is totally consumed, we see it daily

  • @veggieboyultimate
    @veggieboyultimate Год назад +55

    Turning native species into clothing is never okay, but invasive ones, definitely.

    • @DannyConeHeadOnceLer
      @DannyConeHeadOnceLer Год назад +8

      Agreed
      I'd pay good money just for that

    • @CBRN-115
      @CBRN-115 Год назад +4

      Invasive species breed quickly anyway.

    • @LinlinSparks
      @LinlinSparks Год назад +2

      No animal deserves to be turned into clothing! No matter if wild or invasive!

    • @babecat2000
      @babecat2000 Год назад +2

      @@LinlinSparks Disagree.

    • @bonusducks127
      @bonusducks127 4 месяца назад +1

      I mean yes it’s perfectly fine as the animal is going to harm the native environment and breed faster than the actual rabbits they’re eating so even if it’s turned extinct in FLORIDA (not the country it originated from) it’s perfectly fine.

  • @Sinful_morality
    @Sinful_morality Год назад +3

    The people in the boat with fishing nets and hockey helmets got me laughing real good

  • @rochellemcdonald9646
    @rochellemcdonald9646 Год назад +10

    I liked the section on sargassum. When we heard it was heading towards Florida, I made a comment somewhere about "There should be some way to recycle it". Many people told me that was a stupid ideas. I see it isn't so far fetched.

  • @owo4470
    @owo4470 Год назад +48

    It's poetic how we're so good at destroying life but we can't destroy these things.

    • @QuesoCookies
      @QuesoCookies Год назад +4

      That's not really a fair assessment. The reason we drive some species into extinction is that the natural environments they live in keep them in check, but we just tip the scales by adding additional pressure to the pressures they already face. Invasive species have no other pressures but us, so our added pressure can only keep them in check. We're not very good at destroying things, we're just really good at wrecking balance in nature, which then destroys itself as a consequence.

  • @jennypai3763
    @jennypai3763 Год назад +9

    it's absurd to me that people are just finding out that crab roe is good. but then i grew up in Taiwan, which is surrounded by the ocean, so fresh, live seafood is always readily available

  • @jannebrija9879
    @jannebrija9879 Год назад +12

    In the Philippines especially in my hometown Zamboanga the is a restaurant that developed a sauce from roe of smaller crabs to put on bigger crabs, lobsters or whatever seafood you like. If they made it from green crab, they would have a market instead of finding a niche market of selling the crab whole.

  • @edwardbyard6540
    @edwardbyard6540 Год назад +7

    Restaurants in the UK are using signal crayfish, an invasive species, in their menus. They taste pretty good!

  • @udayshaw7227
    @udayshaw7227 Год назад +24

    informative as always! love your content! it really helped me out with my studies!❤️

  • @depressedmoose
    @depressedmoose Год назад +42

    Helping the economy and ecosystem, sounds fun!

    • @bas_ee
      @bas_ee Год назад

      We help the ecosystem by murdering them all, one by one, while being the reason they are there in the first place. So, if you hate cats for example, let a few loose in a place where they will wrack havoc, wait a few years, and then you can legally murder them all lol. We humans are messed up

    • @RefiaPhenix
      @RefiaPhenix Год назад +2

      Yup, just a bit sad that we caused the problems in the first place and didn't do any early prevention 😅

  • @Hadeshinai1
    @Hadeshinai1 Год назад +36

    props to the journalists for researching and mentioning about the burmese python breeding facility that got destroyed by the typhoon, exotic pet keepers appreciate that you take in the time as to not to put more shade on the misunderstood community

  • @asherdie
    @asherdie Год назад +44

    Why does one need a license to remove invasive species from public land????

    • @shiny_edin
      @shiny_edin Год назад +60

      That's not the part of which you need a license for, it's the dangerous animal that without training and caution can lead to serious damages.

    • @SharonRaeRyan
      @SharonRaeRyan Год назад +47

      It's to grant them access to protected lands. They need to prove they know how to catch and remove these animals without disturbing the environment further and without hurting themselves unnecessarily. If anyone was allowed out you'd have people driving their atvs over protected wetlands looking for snakes or using excess amounts of light that can disturb the indigenous species.

    • @johnmarks227
      @johnmarks227 Год назад +9

      To supply the GOV. with money, why else. Same reason they have fishing licenses and driving licenses.

    • @agathar7115
      @agathar7115 Год назад +2

      I believe anyone can hunt them but not wrangle them

    • @chac009
      @chac009 Год назад +6

      @@johnmarks227 I bet everywhere you go people tell you that you're not the sharpest tool in the box, right buddy?

  • @Migxy008
    @Migxy008 Год назад +7

    we've had a tourist's from florida once here in the Philippines he hired my uncle as a guide and i just tagged along their hike to Mt. Banahaw we encountered a few animals but when we encountered a python the group of tourist chased it to kill it luckily my uncle stopped them saying they aren't a pest in our country unlike in florida here in the Philippines they arent treated as an invasive species but is a local wild life

  • @quirkyqwerty2840
    @quirkyqwerty2840 Год назад +35

    There's a paper about the Kudzu plant. Apparently, it was actually a staple crop of sorts in East Asia before it spread out across the world. It's tenacity and growth have become a problem now that the industry harvesting them is disappearing.

  • @thekidd423
    @thekidd423 Год назад +37

    It makes no sense to only issue 100 permits for an invasive species.

    • @ChineseKiwi
      @ChineseKiwi Год назад +9

      you have to vet the person doing this as well as why I am guessing it is low. They have to know what they are doing and also, not be tempted to leave some to keep up supply (yes, that has happened before).

    • @tinknal6449
      @tinknal6449 Год назад +4

      It didn't say that, they said that only 100 people are licensed, it doesn't state that licenses are limited to 100.

    • @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor
      @TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 4 месяца назад +1

      If you're not experienced, you're going to do more damage than good.

  • @pkked2
    @pkked2 Год назад +9

    The green crabs and the carp would make very good crab or carp curries Asian style. We have been happily currying and eating aquatic creatures like them for centuries.

  • @Snakelizardexoticskeeper3
    @Snakelizardexoticskeeper3 Год назад +4

    I have a Burmese python as a pet. She’s an absolutely incredible pet and I love her a lot, I caught her in my summer home in Florida when she was a hatchling and now she’s 8ft long. While I’m glad I was able to save her I completely understand the need to cull these invasive pythons and think that using the leather is a great idea, waste not want not!

  • @ChristosSerranoThoma
    @ChristosSerranoThoma Год назад +10

    Can you please make a documentary about the invasive cats in Cyprus? People from all over the world come to Cyprus to feed them and now their numbers are more than the actual human population in the island! The problem is massive!!! The cats kill everything that moves! I remember that we had a lot of different insects. lizards, birds! Now is only cats! The people only feed them, they leave plastic bags and containers everywhere from the food they feed them on the streets, also the cats leave their feces everywhere! especially lets say by the beach that small children play in the sand. Its a mess! And nobody does anything!

  • @Crimson0047
    @Crimson0047 Год назад +10

    21:57 Where I'm from in the US seafood is a staple so seeing new seafood introduced into the market is pretty neat

  • @dylanhester4194
    @dylanhester4194 Год назад +4

    I love how we shoot hogs from helicopters but we have to run around with flashlights, like it’s a snipe hunt, to catch and kill a python.

  • @anhbinbaccuc8850
    @anhbinbaccuc8850 Год назад +30

    There's this Vietnamese noodle dish made from crab: Bún riêu or bún riêu cua đồng (field crab noodle)... Basically small fresh water crabs are caught on the rice fields, since these crabs are small and don't have much meat, they get smashed into a paste, then filtered through a thin cloth to separate the hard shells, what left is this muddy flesh mixture residue from the crabs.
    Vietnamese would use this crab residue to put in boiled soup and it form a sponge like substance call riêu in bún riêu ... Nowadays it's hard to find crab on the fields, and for economic reason, people would mix this crab residue with eggs to form crab cakes for Bún riêu .....If Vietnam has this much crabs they wouldn't have to mix it with eggs at all .
    Vietnam cua đồng or field crabs are like 1/3 or 1/4 the size of these invasive crabs, imagine how much meat residue you get with these big crabs being smashed up and ground to a paste.

  • @rachelefiore9974
    @rachelefiore9974 3 месяца назад +1

    The green crab thing is amazing... They come from Italy, and they are considered a specialty especially near Venice. They are harvested when their shells are soft, and eaten whole, they are called "moeche". The interesting thing is that right now the population of the green crab in Italy is decreasing incredibly rapid due to the invasion of Blue crabs from the atlantic.

  • @lisadawn8856
    @lisadawn8856 Год назад +6

    I love the creative ideas people come up with to solve these problems. Please continue your good work. ✨✨😊😊👍👍👍👍👍👍✨✨

  • @lvjungle2840
    @lvjungle2840 Год назад +11

    For the crab can they dry them and crush it to make some type of fertilizer? Calcium

    • @31oannamphong66
      @31oannamphong66 Год назад +1

      Isn’t chicken egg shells more effective
      I also beard crabs, lobster and shrimps have heavy metal in their shells

  • @Drikkerbadevand
    @Drikkerbadevand Год назад +5

    small correction, at 1:30, except for less than a handful of snakes, snakes generally aren't poisonous, they're venomous

  • @Hambone_Fakenamington
    @Hambone_Fakenamington 4 месяца назад +3

    I love snakes but I love functioning ecosystems more

  • @Wakkajakka
    @Wakkajakka Год назад +9

    You don't have to convince me to eat crabs, We eat crawdads down here.

  • @xeijix
    @xeijix Год назад +4

    Chinese people love seafood (including crab). I haven't heard of any Chinese restaurant use green crabs. There's a particular dish where we would use the tomalley (crab roe and guts) in fried rice. Definitely a missed opportunity

  • @alexhadow
    @alexhadow Год назад +9

    So no ones gonna talk about the crab Whiskey?

  • @laattardo
    @laattardo Год назад +3

    This was an interesting video, thank you. I live in New England and had no clue about the green crabs. Ive known about the pythons in the everglades for a while now and they too struggle with water hyacinth. I went to a aquarium in LA and they had an educational section all about them. I'm highly impressed with the ingenuity of the people dealing with the Typia (spelling?) The clay bricks made with the plant materials are a great approach to handling the plant. I do understand the concern of creating a demand with these approaches but, i also dont think any of these issues will completely go away, so methods and means of controlling them are necessary.

  • @michaels7312
    @michaels7312 Год назад +62

    This is an entertaining piece but I think you have the responsibility to your viewers to inform them that even despite all the python hunters in FL, no significant population level impacts are being made on the invasive pythons from these harvests.

    • @FellsApprentice
      @FellsApprentice Год назад +27

      Because there's not enough hunters.

    • @michaels7312
      @michaels7312 Год назад +3

      @@FellsApprentice A+ for those math skills

    • @botkilleruze4709
      @botkilleruze4709 Год назад +9

      @@michaels7312don’t have to be rude about it

    • @lucidclocks3568
      @lucidclocks3568 Год назад +4

      @@FellsApprenticeManual removal is also one of the most ineffective, labour intensive and highly costly methods of managing invasive species. Reality is that it's extremely difficult to eradicate an invasive species once it's settled and spread. Throwing more people at the problem won't solve it.

    • @joshirish4350
      @joshirish4350 11 месяцев назад

      Good, let the snakes live.

  • @nom6758
    @nom6758 Год назад +5

    Ironic that the typha briquets produce less smoke... but they have to burn them for 6 hours beforehand, thereby releasing all the pollutants that wood would have anyway.

  • @kimberlypatton205
    @kimberlypatton205 Год назад +3

    There is a multi level marketing scheme that profits from a certain invasive species of tree in South and central Florida. The tree is called ” Melaleuca tree”, as children we called it the “paper tree “ as the bark on the trunk peels away like thin paper. These trees were introduced to the area in order to assist in the construction industry, as they were planted in wetlands to help dry out the areas, which they do well at. Now that the trees are spreading like crazy, they are being bulldozed by companies to erect new buildings on those sites. This MLM company has forged a corporation based on buying up these useless dead trees and exacting a very fragrant but objectionally smelling oil from the wood. They sell everything from beauty aids to sanitizing products made from melaleuca oil base and its a huge racket .

  • @allisonshaw9341
    @allisonshaw9341 Год назад +2

    Snake meat is eaten as a delicacy in most places in Asia. We should be using it as well. Same for the nutria, carp, and feral hogs.
    Using sargassum for paper, etc., is also good, and one man figured how to make bricks with it. I'm betting that water hyacinth can be used to make paper as well as material for weaving.
    Crab? yeah, I'll eat some. Same for lion fish. Mmm-mmm good!
    As for making biofuels - absolutely. Using all of the plants for diverse products is just a bonus.

  • @euclideanspace2573
    @euclideanspace2573 Год назад +6

    Green crabs are considered a delicacy in China and it's delicious. Eat them, give it a try.

  • @Poko0Chan
    @Poko0Chan Год назад +2

    this fighting for getting invasive species out is a good thing to help ... minimize human mistakes as good as humans can...

  • @LIZZIE-lizzie
    @LIZZIE-lizzie Год назад +3

    If I wasn't horrified of pythons I would catch them and use those skins for gloves, boots, a cowl necked raincoat. There is such a market for them - but I'm not the one 🤣 Now, my brother....

  • @orboakin8074
    @orboakin8074 Год назад +2

    Great video! This is teh kindd of environmentalism I can get behind. It is practical, solves problems, is borne from human innovation, is capitalist, provides jobs and actually benefits people.

  • @Bunbun10379
    @Bunbun10379 Год назад +4

    I love eating crab roe! They’re so delicious and barely need any seasonings. Wish more restaurants are serving the green crabs

  • @denny_dens
    @denny_dens 4 месяца назад +2

    i am way too much of an animal lover for this LMAO. one side i feel bad for the animals, other side i don’t want the ecosystem to be destroyed 😭

  • @oleaamme
    @oleaamme Год назад +4

    Phyton meat can be cooked as meal too, here in Sarawak, we eat that snake for its meat. Some even believe that eating the snake meat helps in getting flawless skin.

    • @elderzamora9400
      @elderzamora9400 5 месяцев назад +2

      I've had it and it's not bad.

    • @oleaamme
      @oleaamme 5 месяцев назад

      @@elderzamora9400 some said it taste like chicken

  • @yt-venomous1676
    @yt-venomous1676 10 месяцев назад +1

    I respect this women so much

  • @nannerz1994
    @nannerz1994 Год назад +7

    I can't get enough of World Wide Waste

  • @danfawks7164
    @danfawks7164 3 месяца назад +1

    "norman's lionfish closed down", thats a wild way to start 😂

  • @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson
    @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson Год назад +56

    The irony of humans talking about the problem of invasive species

    • @benjaminlehman3221
      @benjaminlehman3221 Год назад +7

      At least we are trying to fix a mistake we made

    • @theclimbingchef
      @theclimbingchef Год назад +4

      ​@Benjamin Lehman but everytime we try to fix, we create a new problem

    • @billionsmustfight
      @billionsmustfight Год назад +15

      The irony of complaining about humanity's actions and its consequences, and people who feel guilty or responsible about it not ending themselves to prevent further harm from being done

    • @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson
      @Jordan_Benzos_Peterson Год назад

      @@billionsmustfight yes makes total sense. If someone points out that humans are the greatest invasive species the only appropriate action for them to then do is kill themselves. I didn't say we shouldn't do anything, I'm just saying if you were viewing this from a top down perspective it's ironic. Get a grip.

    • @vidyanair7546
      @vidyanair7546 Год назад

      Humans had caused extinction of animals than other species combined, destroy ecosystems...What an excuse to kill creatures, "Invasive species"!!

  • @SkyeAten
    @SkyeAten Год назад +49

    Don't buy an exotic pet if you can't be sure you'll be able to keep it 😢 and for the love of god don't set them "free" in a field if you can't take care of them..... Why are humans SO selfish and SO unintelligent. Can't we even consider the consequences of our actions in nature???

  • @averageguy1261
    @averageguy1261 Год назад +6

    Seems like a drop in a bucket the way they're hunting the snake.

  • @scoop9722
    @scoop9722 Год назад +2

    Very very well made and interesting video, great to learn something instead of just scrolling through the usual stuff.

  • @somerandomfella
    @somerandomfella Год назад +7

    If you told the Chinese that Python meat would increase their wangs, I guarantee you they'd go extinct within 6 months 🤣

  • @jamesroachjr4074
    @jamesroachjr4074 Год назад +2

    I love snakes and have several of them! But what they are doing to the Pythons in Florida is necessary! Try eating them they taste pretty good

  • @jordancartier9239
    @jordancartier9239 Год назад +2

    This a historic video frl

  • @drpk6514
    @drpk6514 Год назад +2

    1. Why not shoot the pyrones?
    2. Crabs, turn them into a paste and make them livestock food
    3. Seaweed, compost them or mix with cattle feed. It might even move methane production.
    4. Water hygiene, some live stocks eat it. Turn them into compost.
    5. Lionfish are hard to deal with just make it an event to hunt them and promote eating them.
    6. Asian carp; its a valuable fish in Asia. If they can eat we can too. Start by schools, prisons and the army. People develop a taste for it. You could even make fishcake. Or export to Asia.

  • @TimeSurfer206
    @TimeSurfer206 Год назад +6

    "Never appeal to a man's better nature, he may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."
    - Robert Heinlein.

  • @worldcitizenobjectivethink3764
    @worldcitizenobjectivethink3764 Год назад +1

    An advice for those ladies hunting snakes or any other animals at night: use yellow light flashlight instead of white light flashlight. It will be much easier spotting them at night, because their eyes will give them away. The eyes of all sort of animals gives a better reflection with yellow light.

  • @christopherqchin4319
    @christopherqchin4319 Год назад +6

    I wonder whats wrong not eating phyton and green crab . It is edible .

  • @MHarenArt
    @MHarenArt Год назад +1

    Excellence documentary. I shared it with friends to spread the word.

  • @Desire123ification
    @Desire123ification Год назад +5

    Keep up the good work! 💯

  • @mooonlight778
    @mooonlight778 Год назад +1

    know that snakes never lived in florida until a few hundred years ago makes me anxious

  • @Rain88800
    @Rain88800 Год назад +5

    The way they are going, they'll never be able to solve the Burmese python issue😂😂

  • @WealthFame.1
    @WealthFame.1 3 месяца назад

    I find your videos a great place to explore and learn

  • @NiX_aKi
    @NiX_aKi Год назад +3

    Crab roe is delicious in pasta 😋😋

  • @jeremyn2008
    @jeremyn2008 4 месяца назад

    This was fascinating

  • @yashwanth9549
    @yashwanth9549 Год назад +12

    Python developers after watching this 😂😂

  • @moonluna464
    @moonluna464 Месяц назад +1

    Serious question; why aren't they making dog and catfood from the green crabs? The shells and meat are full of nutrients? Missed opportunity imo 🤷‍♀️

  • @BOMBON187
    @BOMBON187 Год назад +4

    I always wished that good tasting animals (lobster and salmon) were an invasive species.

  • @lisalove6327
    @lisalove6327 Год назад

    I'm GLAD he brought it up .... That's the real issue but I digress...

  • @miscellaneouscogitations7322
    @miscellaneouscogitations7322 Год назад +7

    More world wide waste!!!! Love this series

  • @amazon4716
    @amazon4716 Год назад +2

    Food. Skin. Great work hunters.

  • @Jay-dawg337
    @Jay-dawg337 Год назад +4

    I always had an idea to have an all you can eat wild boar buffet in Texas.

    • @strayiggytv
      @strayiggytv Год назад

      You couldn't because the pos ranchers out here want to charge people to come on their property and shoot them

  • @HappyGuyPassingBy
    @HappyGuyPassingBy Год назад

    @1:10 had me laughing my coffee out of my nose drills :
    "Only 100 people are licensed to capture these snakes" : said licensed professional proceed to boot the python neck. Yeaaaah riiiight mate ! Dis how we do it...

  • @XxALRxX1995
    @XxALRxX1995 Год назад +3

    Lesbian grandma python hunters? I love everything about this

  • @michaelmoore1627
    @michaelmoore1627 Год назад

    This was cool and i look forward to future content.

  • @taotzu1339
    @taotzu1339 Год назад +3

    If the state is killing the snakes after capture, what is the most efficient way that they're doing it? Machete, baton or bullet?

  • @kaitlynleilany
    @kaitlynleilany Год назад +1

    omg this is so informational. thank you for posting this.

  • @catalinavallejor
    @catalinavallejor Год назад +8

    What happens with the snakes really is just fixing the problem you created!

  • @rosegoldbanks4842
    @rosegoldbanks4842 Год назад +1

    All I know I love my python boots , and crocodile jacket and boots , I would love to purchase some of her skins to have some clothes made keep doing what you’re doing ma’am

  • @pauljoseph3081
    @pauljoseph3081 Год назад +6

    Animal activists would get a heart attack watching this 😂

  • @KarenaDucie
    @KarenaDucie Месяц назад

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  • @TheJollyWizard
    @TheJollyWizard Год назад +13

    It's horrible to see aguapé (water hyacinth) causing problems in other parts of the world, I never knew that, because they are native where I live. I guess it's a case of you reap what you sowed

  • @420Tigr
    @420Tigr Год назад

    Super interesting doc!