Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades
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0:01 - 0:03So I've had the great privilege
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0:03 - 0:05of traveling to some incredible places,
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0:05 - 0:09photographing these distant landscapes
and remote cultures -
0:09 - 0:11all over the world.
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0:11 - 0:12I love my job.
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0:12 - 0:15But people think it's
this string of epiphanies -
0:15 - 0:17and sunrises and rainbows,
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0:17 - 0:20when in reality, it looks
more something like this. -
0:20 - 0:21(Laughter)
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0:21 - 0:23This is my office.
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0:23 - 0:26We can't afford the fanciest places
to stay at night, -
0:26 - 0:29so we tend to sleep a lot outdoors.
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0:29 - 0:31As long as we can stay dry,
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0:31 - 0:32that's a bonus.
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0:32 - 0:35We also can't afford
the fanciest restaurants. -
0:35 - 0:38So we tend to eat
whatever's on the local menu. -
0:38 - 0:41And if you're in the Ecuadorian Páramo,
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0:41 - 0:44you're going to eat
a large rodent called a cuy. -
0:44 - 0:46(Laughter)
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0:46 - 0:49But what makes our experiences
perhaps a little bit different -
0:49 - 0:52and a little more unique
than that of the average person -
0:52 - 0:55is that we have this gnawing thing
in the back of our mind -
0:55 - 0:59that even in our darkest moments,
and those times of despair, -
0:59 - 1:03we think, "Hey, there might be
an image to be made here, -
1:03 - 1:05there might be a story to be told."
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1:06 - 1:08And why is storytelling important?
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1:09 - 1:13Well, it helps us to connect with our
cultural and our natural heritage. -
1:13 - 1:14And in the Southeast,
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1:14 - 1:17there's an alarming disconnect
between the public -
1:17 - 1:21and the natural areas that allow
us to be here in the first place. -
1:22 - 1:24We're visual creatures,
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1:24 - 1:27so we use what we see
to teach us what we know. -
1:28 - 1:30Now the majority of us
aren't going to willingly go -
1:30 - 1:32way down to a swamp.
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1:33 - 1:36So how can we still expect
those same people to then advocate -
1:36 - 1:38on behalf of their protection?
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1:38 - 1:40We can't.
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1:40 - 1:44So my job, then, is to use photography
as a communication tool, -
1:44 - 1:48to help bridge the gap
between the science and the aesthetics, -
1:48 - 1:49to get people talking,
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1:50 - 1:51to get them thinking,
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1:51 - 1:53and to hopefully, ultimately,
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1:53 - 1:54get them caring.
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1:55 - 1:58I started doing this 15 years ago
right here in Gainesville, -
1:58 - 2:00right here in my backyard.
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2:00 - 2:03And I fell in love
with adventure and discovery, -
2:03 - 2:05going to explore
all these different places -
2:05 - 2:07that were just minutes
from my front doorstep. -
2:07 - 2:10There are a lot
of beautiful places to find. -
2:10 - 2:12Despite all these years that have passed,
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2:12 - 2:14I still see the world
through the eyes of a child -
2:15 - 2:17and I try to incorporate
that sense of wonderment -
2:17 - 2:22and that sense of curiosity
into my photography -
2:22 - 2:24as often as I can.
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2:25 - 2:27And we're pretty lucky
because here in the South, -
2:27 - 2:30we're still blessed
with a relatively blank canvas -
2:30 - 2:34that we can fill with the most
fanciful adventures -
2:34 - 2:36and incredible experiences.
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2:36 - 2:40It's just a matter of how far
our imagination will take us. -
2:40 - 2:43See, a lot of people
look at this and they say, -
2:43 - 2:44"Oh yeah, wow, that's a pretty tree."
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2:44 - 2:46But I don't just see a tree --
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2:46 - 2:49I look at this and I see opportunity.
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2:49 - 2:50I see an entire weekend.
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2:51 - 2:54Because when I was a kid,
these were the types of images -
2:54 - 2:56that got me off the sofa
and dared me to explore, -
2:56 - 2:58dared me to go find the woods
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2:58 - 3:01and put my head underwater
and see what we have. -
3:01 - 3:04And folks, I've been photographing
all over the world -
3:04 - 3:06and I promise you,
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3:06 - 3:07what we have here in the South,
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3:07 - 3:09what we have in the Sunshine State,
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3:09 - 3:11rivals anything else that I've seen.
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3:12 - 3:16But yet our tourism industry is busy
promoting all the wrong things. -
3:17 - 3:19Before most kids are 12,
they'll have been to Disney World -
3:19 - 3:21more times than they've been in a canoe
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3:21 - 3:24or camping under a starry sky.
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3:25 - 3:28And I have nothing against Disney
or Mickey; I used to go there, too. -
3:28 - 3:31But they're missing out on those
fundamental connections -
3:31 - 3:34that create a real sense
of pride and ownership -
3:34 - 3:36for the place that they call home.
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3:37 - 3:40And this is compounded by the issue
that the landscapes -
3:40 - 3:42that define our natural heritage
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3:42 - 3:45and fuel our aquifer
for our drinking water -
3:45 - 3:50have been deemed as scary
and dangerous and spooky. -
3:50 - 3:52When our ancestors first came here,
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3:52 - 3:55they warned, "Stay out
of these areas, they're haunted. -
3:55 - 3:58They're full of evil spirits and ghosts."
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3:58 - 4:00I don't know where
they came up with that idea. -
4:01 - 4:03But it's actually led
to a very real disconnect, -
4:03 - 4:05a very real negative mentality
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4:05 - 4:09that has kept the public
disinterested, silent, -
4:09 - 4:11and ultimately, our environment at risk.
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4:13 - 4:16We're a state that's surrounded
and defined by water, -
4:16 - 4:17and yet for centuries,
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4:17 - 4:19swamps and wetlands have been regarded
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4:19 - 4:22as these obstacles to overcome.
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4:22 - 4:26And so we've treated them
as these second-class ecosystems, -
4:26 - 4:29because they have
very little monetary value -
4:29 - 4:32and of course, they're known
to harbor alligators and snakes -- -
4:32 - 4:36which, I'll admit, these aren't
the most cuddly of ambassadors. -
4:36 - 4:37(Laughter)
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4:37 - 4:40So it became assumed, then,
that the only good swamp -
4:40 - 4:41was a drained swamp.
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4:41 - 4:43And in fact,
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4:43 - 4:46draining a swamp to make way
for agriculture and development -
4:46 - 4:50was considered the very essence
of conservation not too long ago. -
4:51 - 4:52But now we're backpedaling,
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4:52 - 4:55because the more we come to learn
about these sodden landscapes, -
4:55 - 4:57the more secrets we're starting to unlock
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4:57 - 5:00about interspecies relationships
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5:00 - 5:04and the connectivity of habitats,
watersheds and flyways. -
5:05 - 5:07Take this bird, for example:
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5:07 - 5:09this is the prothonotary warbler.
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5:09 - 5:11I love this bird because
it's a swamp bird, -
5:11 - 5:13through and through, a swamp bird.
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5:13 - 5:17They nest and they mate and they breed
in these old-growth swamps -
5:17 - 5:18in these flooded forests.
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5:18 - 5:21And so after the spring,
after they raise their young, -
5:21 - 5:23they then fly thousand of miles
over the Gulf of Mexico -
5:23 - 5:25into Central and South America.
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5:26 - 5:27And then after the winter,
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5:27 - 5:29the spring rolls around
and they come back. -
5:29 - 5:32They fly thousands of miles
over the Gulf of Mexico. -
5:32 - 5:35And where do they go? Where do they land?
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5:35 - 5:38Right back in the same tree.
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5:39 - 5:40That's nuts.
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5:40 - 5:43This is a bird the size
of a tennis ball -- -
5:44 - 5:45I mean, that's crazy!
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5:45 - 5:48I used a GPS to get here today,
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5:48 - 5:49and this is my hometown.
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5:49 - 5:51(Laughter)
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5:51 - 5:52It's crazy.
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5:52 - 5:56So what happens, then, when this bird
flies over the Gulf of Mexico -
5:56 - 5:58into Central America for the winter
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5:58 - 6:00and then the spring rolls around
and it flies back, -
6:00 - 6:03and it comes back to this:
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6:03 - 6:05a freshly sodded golf course?
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6:06 - 6:09This is a narrative that's
all too commonly unraveling -
6:09 - 6:10here in this state.
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6:10 - 6:13And this is a natural process
that's occurred for thousands of years -
6:13 - 6:15and we're just now learning about it.
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6:15 - 6:18So you can imagine all else we have
to learn about these landscapes -
6:18 - 6:20if we just preserve them first.
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6:20 - 6:24Now despite all this rich life
that abounds in these swamps, -
6:24 - 6:26they still have a bad name.
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6:27 - 6:30Many people feel uncomfortable
with the idea of wading -
6:31 - 6:32into Florida's blackwater.
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6:32 - 6:34I can understand that.
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6:34 - 6:37But what I loved about growing up
in the Sunshine State -
6:37 - 6:38is that for so many of us,
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6:38 - 6:42we live with this latent
but very palpable fear -
6:42 - 6:45that when we put our toes into the water,
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6:45 - 6:48there might be something much more ancient
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6:48 - 6:50and much more adapted than we are.
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6:51 - 6:55Knowing that you're not top dog
is a welcomed discomfort, I think. -
6:56 - 7:00How often in this modern
and urban and digital age -
7:00 - 7:04do you actually get the chance
to feel vulnerable, -
7:04 - 7:08or consider that the world may not
have been made for just us? -
7:08 - 7:09So for the last decade,
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7:09 - 7:13I began seeking out these areas
where the concrete yields to forest -
7:13 - 7:15and the pines turn to cypress,
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7:15 - 7:18and I viewed all these
mosquitoes and reptiles, -
7:18 - 7:20all these discomforts,
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7:20 - 7:24as affirmations that I'd found
true wilderness, -
7:24 - 7:26and I embrace them wholly.
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7:26 - 7:29Now as a conservation photographer
obsessed with blackwater, -
7:29 - 7:31it's only fitting that I'd
eventually end up -
7:31 - 7:33in the most famous swamp of all:
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7:33 - 7:35the Everglades.
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7:35 - 7:37Growing up here in North Central Florida,
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7:37 - 7:39it always had these enchanted names,
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7:39 - 7:42places like Loxahatchee and Fakahatchee,
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7:42 - 7:44Corkscrew, Big Cypress.
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7:44 - 7:48I started what turned
into a five-year project -
7:48 - 7:52to hopefully reintroduce
the Everglades in a new light, -
7:52 - 7:53in a more inspired light.
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7:54 - 7:57But I knew this would be a tall order,
because here you have an area -
7:57 - 8:00that's roughly a third the size
the state of Florida, it's huge. -
8:00 - 8:02And when I say Everglades,
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8:02 - 8:04most people are like,
"Oh, yeah, the national park." -
8:04 - 8:09But the Everglades is not just a park;
it's an entire watershed, -
8:09 - 8:12starting with the Kissimmee
chain of lakes in the north, -
8:12 - 8:14and then as the rains
would fall in the summer, -
8:14 - 8:17these downpours would flow
into Lake Okeechobee, -
8:17 - 8:20and Lake Okeechobee would fill up
and it would overflow its banks -
8:20 - 8:24and spill southward, ever slowly,
with the topography, -
8:24 - 8:26and get into the river of grass,
the Sawgrass Prairies, -
8:26 - 8:28before meting into the cypress slews,
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8:28 - 8:31until going further south
into the mangrove swamps, -
8:31 - 8:35and then finally -- finally --
reaching Florida Bay, -
8:35 - 8:37the emerald gem of the Everglades,
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8:37 - 8:38the great estuary,
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8:38 - 8:40the 850 square-mile estuary.
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8:40 - 8:45So sure, the national park
is the southern end of this system, -
8:45 - 8:48but all the things that make it unique
are these inputs that come in, -
8:48 - 8:51the fresh water that starts
100 miles north. -
8:51 - 8:54So no manner of these political
or invisible boundaries -
8:54 - 8:59protect the park from polluted water
or insufficient water. -
8:59 - 9:02And unfortunately, that's precisely
what we've done. -
9:03 - 9:04Over the last 60 years,
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9:04 - 9:08we have drained, we have dammed,
we have dredged the Everglades -
9:08 - 9:12to where now only one third of the water
that used to reach the bay -
9:12 - 9:14now reaches the bay today.
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9:15 - 9:18So this story is not all sunshine
and rainbows, unfortunately. -
9:19 - 9:21For better or for worse,
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9:21 - 9:24the story of the Everglades
is intrinsically tied -
9:24 - 9:28to the peaks and the valleys
of mankind's relationship -
9:28 - 9:29with the natural world.
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9:29 - 9:31But I'll show you
these beautiful pictures, -
9:31 - 9:33because it gets you on board.
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9:33 - 9:36And while I have your attention,
I can tell you the real story. -
9:36 - 9:38It's that we're taking this,
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9:38 - 9:41and we're trading it for this,
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9:41 - 9:42at an alarming rate.
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9:43 - 9:45And what's lost on so many people
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9:45 - 9:48is the sheer scale
of which we're discussing. -
9:48 - 9:51Because the Everglades is not just
responsible for the drinking water -
9:51 - 9:53for 7 million Floridians;
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9:53 - 9:56today it also provides
the agricultural fields -
9:56 - 9:58for the year-round tomatoes and oranges
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9:58 - 10:01for over 300 million Americans.
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10:02 - 10:06And it's that same seasonal pulse
of water in the summer -
10:06 - 10:10that built the river of grass
6,000 years ago. -
10:10 - 10:15Ironically, today, it's also responsible
for the over half a million acres -
10:15 - 10:17of the endless river of sugarcane.
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10:18 - 10:20These are the same fields
that are responsible -
10:20 - 10:24for dumping exceedingly high levels
of fertilizers into the watershed, -
10:24 - 10:26forever changing the system.
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10:27 - 10:30But in order for you to not just
understand how this system works, -
10:30 - 10:32but to also get personally
connected to it, -
10:32 - 10:35I decided to break the story down
into several different narratives. -
10:35 - 10:38And I wanted that story to start
in Lake Okeechobee, -
10:38 - 10:41the beating heart of the Everglade system.
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10:41 - 10:43And to do that, I picked an ambassador,
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10:43 - 10:45an iconic species.
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10:45 - 10:47This is the Everglade snail kite.
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10:48 - 10:49It's a great bird,
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10:49 - 10:51and they used to nest in the thousands,
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10:51 - 10:53thousands in the northern Everglades.
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10:53 - 10:56And then they've gone down
to about 400 nesting pairs today. -
10:56 - 10:58And why is that?
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10:58 - 11:01Well, it's because they eat
one source of food, an apple snail, -
11:01 - 11:04about the size of a ping-pong ball,
an aquatic gastropod. -
11:04 - 11:07So as we started damming up
the Everglades, -
11:07 - 11:11as we started diking Lake Okeechobee
and draining the wetlands, -
11:11 - 11:13we lost the habitat for the snail.
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11:13 - 11:16And thus, the population
of the kites declined. -
11:16 - 11:20And so, I wanted a photo that would
not only communicate this relationship -
11:20 - 11:23between wetland, snail and bird,
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11:23 - 11:25but I also wanted a photo
that would communicate -
11:25 - 11:28how incredible this relationship was,
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11:28 - 11:32and how very important it is
that they've come to depend on each other, -
11:32 - 11:34this healthy wetland and this bird.
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11:34 - 11:36And to do that, I brainstormed this idea.
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11:36 - 11:39I started sketching
out these plans to make a photo, -
11:39 - 11:42and I sent it to the wildlife biologist
down in Okeechobee -- -
11:42 - 11:45this is an endangered bird,
so it takes special permission to do. -
11:45 - 11:47So I built this submerged platform
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11:47 - 11:50that would hold snails
just right under the water. -
11:50 - 11:54And I spent months planning
this crazy idea. -
11:54 - 11:57And I took this platform
down to Lake Okeechobee -
11:57 - 11:59and I spent over a week in the water,
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11:59 - 12:03wading waist-deep,
9-hour shifts from dawn until dusk, -
12:03 - 12:06to get one image that I thought
might communicate this. -
12:06 - 12:08And here's the day that it finally worked:
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12:08 - 12:11[Video: (Mac Stone narrating)
After setting up the platform, -
12:11 - 12:14I look off and I see a kite
coming over the cattails. -
12:14 - 12:16And I see him scanning and searching.
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12:16 - 12:17And he gets right over the trap,
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12:17 - 12:19and I see that he's seen it.
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12:19 - 12:22And he beelines,
he goes straight for the trap. -
12:22 - 12:25And in that moment,
all those months of planning, waiting, -
12:25 - 12:27all the sunburn, mosquito bites --
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12:27 - 12:29suddenly, they're all worth it.
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12:29 - 12:33(Mac Stone in film) Oh my gosh,
I can't believe it!] -
12:34 - 12:36You can believe how excited I was
when that happened. -
12:36 - 12:38But what the idea was,
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12:38 - 12:40is that for someone
who's never seen this bird -
12:40 - 12:42and has no reason to care about it,
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12:42 - 12:45these photos, these new perspectives,
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12:45 - 12:48will help shed a little new light
on just one species -
12:48 - 12:52that makes this watershed
so incredible, so valuable, so important. -
12:53 - 12:56Now, I know I can't come
here to Gainesville -
12:56 - 12:58and talk to you about animals
in the Everglades -
12:58 - 13:00without talking about gators.
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13:00 - 13:02I love gators, I grew up loving gators.
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13:02 - 13:06My parents always said I had
an unhealthy relationship with gators. -
13:06 - 13:07But what I like about them is,
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13:07 - 13:10they're like the freshwater
equivalent of sharks. -
13:10 - 13:12They're feared, they're hated,
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13:12 - 13:14and they are tragically misunderstood.
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13:14 - 13:18Because these are a unique species,
they're not just apex predators. -
13:18 - 13:19In the Everglades,
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13:19 - 13:22they are the very architects
of the Everglades, -
13:22 - 13:24because as the water drops
down in the winter -
13:24 - 13:25during the dry season,
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13:25 - 13:28they start excavating these holes
called gator holes. -
13:28 - 13:31And they do this because
as the water drops down, -
13:31 - 13:34they'll be able to stay wet
and they'll be able to forage. -
13:35 - 13:37And now this isn't just affecting them,
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13:37 - 13:39other animals also depend
on this relationship, -
13:39 - 13:42so they become a keystone species as well.
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13:43 - 13:47So how do you make an apex predator,
an ancient reptile, -
13:47 - 13:49at once look like it dominates the system,
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13:49 - 13:52but at the same time, look vulnerable?
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13:53 - 13:57Well, you wade into a pit
of about 120 of them, -
13:57 - 13:59then you hope that you've made
the right decision. -
13:59 - 14:01(Laughter)
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14:02 - 14:04I still have all my fingers, it's cool.
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14:05 - 14:07But I understand, I know
I'm not going to rally you guys, -
14:07 - 14:11I'm not going to rally the troops to
"Save the Everglades for the gators!" -
14:11 - 14:13It won't happen because
they're so ubiquitous, -
14:13 - 14:14we see them now,
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14:14 - 14:18they're one of the great conservation
success stories of the US. -
14:18 - 14:21But there is one species in the Everglades
that no matter who you are, -
14:21 - 14:24you can't help but love, too,
and that's the roseate spoonbill. -
14:24 - 14:28These birds are great, but they've had
a really tough time in the Everglades, -
14:28 - 14:31because they started out with thousands
of nesting pairs in Florida Bay, -
14:31 - 14:33and at the turn of the 20th century,
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14:33 - 14:37they got down to two -- two nesting pairs.
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14:37 - 14:38And why?
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14:39 - 14:42That's because women thought
they looked better on their hats -
14:42 - 14:44then they did flying in the sky.
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14:44 - 14:47Then we banned the plume trade,
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14:47 - 14:49and their numbers started rebounding.
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14:49 - 14:51And as their numbers started rebounding,
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14:51 - 14:53scientists began to pay attention,
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14:53 - 14:54they started studying these birds.
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14:54 - 14:56And what they found out is that
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14:56 - 14:58these birds' behavior
is intrinsically tied -
14:58 - 15:01to the annual draw-down
cycle of water in the Everglades, -
15:01 - 15:04the thing that defines
the Everglades watershed. -
15:04 - 15:06What they found out is that
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15:06 - 15:09these birds started nesting in the winter
as the water drew down, -
15:09 - 15:13because they're tactile feeders,
so they have to touch whatever they eat. -
15:13 - 15:16And so they wait for these
concentrated pools of fish -
15:16 - 15:18to be able to feed enough
to feed their young. -
15:19 - 15:22So these birds became the very icon
of the Everglades -- -
15:22 - 15:25an indicator species
of the overall health of the system. -
15:25 - 15:29And just as their numbers were rebounding
in the mid-20th century -- -
15:29 - 15:33shooting up to 900, 1,000, 1,100, 1,200 --
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15:33 - 15:37just as that started happening, we started
draining the southern Everglades. -
15:37 - 15:41And we stopped two-thirds
of that water from moving south. -
15:41 - 15:43And it had drastic consequences.
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15:44 - 15:46And just as those numbers
started reaching their peak, -
15:46 - 15:49unfortunately, today,
the real spoonbill story, -
15:49 - 15:54the real photo of what it looks like
is more something like this. -
15:55 - 16:00And we're down to less than 70
nesting pairs in Florida Bay today, -
16:00 - 16:02because we've disrupted
the system so much. -
16:02 - 16:05So all these different organizations
are shouting, they're screaming, -
16:05 - 16:08"The Everglades is fragile! It's fragile!"
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16:08 - 16:09It is not.
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16:09 - 16:10It is resilient.
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16:10 - 16:14Because despite all we've taken,
despite all we've done and we've drained -
16:14 - 16:16and we've dammed and we've dredged it,
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16:16 - 16:19pieces of it are still here,
waiting to be put back together. -
16:19 - 16:21And this is what I've loved
about South Florida, -
16:21 - 16:25that in one place, you have
this unstoppable force of mankind -
16:25 - 16:28meeting the immovable object
of tropical nature. -
16:29 - 16:33And it's at this new frontier
that we are forced with a new appraisal. -
16:33 - 16:35What is wilderness worth?
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16:35 - 16:38What is the value of biodiversity,
or our drinking water? -
16:39 - 16:42And fortunately, after decades of debate,
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16:42 - 16:45we're finally starting to act
on those questions. -
16:45 - 16:47We're slowly undertaking these projects
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16:47 - 16:50to bring more freshwater back to the bay.
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16:50 - 16:53But it's up to us as citizens,
as residents, as stewards -
16:53 - 16:56to hold our elected officials
to their promises. -
16:57 - 16:59What can you do to help?
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16:59 - 17:00It's so easy.
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17:00 - 17:02Just get outside, get out there.
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17:02 - 17:04Take your friends out, take your kids out,
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17:04 - 17:06take your family out.
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17:06 - 17:08Hire a fishing guide.
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17:08 - 17:10Show the state that protecting wilderness
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17:10 - 17:14not only makes ecological sense,
but economic sense as well. -
17:14 - 17:18It's a lot of fun, just do it --
put your feet in the water. -
17:18 - 17:20The swamp will change you, I promise.
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17:21 - 17:23Over the years, we've been so generous
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17:23 - 17:26with these other landscapes
around the country, -
17:26 - 17:29cloaking them with this American pride,
-
17:29 - 17:32places that we now consider to define us:
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17:32 - 17:35Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Yellowstone.
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17:35 - 17:37And we use these parks
and these natural areas -
17:37 - 17:40as beacons and as cultural compasses.
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17:41 - 17:43And sadly, the Everglades is very commonly
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17:43 - 17:45left out of that conversation.
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17:46 - 17:48But I believe it's every bit
as iconic and emblematic -
17:48 - 17:50of who we are as a country
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17:50 - 17:53as any of these other wildernesses.
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17:53 - 17:55It's just a different kind of wild.
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17:56 - 17:57But I'm encouraged,
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17:57 - 18:00because maybe we're finally
starting to come around, -
18:00 - 18:03because what was once deemed
this swampy wasteland, -
18:03 - 18:05today is a World Heritage site.
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18:05 - 18:08It's a wetland
of international importance. -
18:09 - 18:12And we've come a long way
in the last 60 years. -
18:12 - 18:16And as the world's largest and most
ambitious wetland restoration project, -
18:16 - 18:20the international spotlight
is on us in the Sunshine State. -
18:20 - 18:22Because if we can heal this system,
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18:22 - 18:26it's going to become an icon
for wetland restoration -
18:26 - 18:27all over the world.
-
18:28 - 18:33But it's up to us to decide which legacy
we want to attach our flag to. -
18:34 - 18:37They say that the Everglades
is our greatest test. -
18:38 - 18:41If we pass it, we get to keep the planet.
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18:42 - 18:43I love that quote,
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18:43 - 18:45because it's a challenge, it's a prod.
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18:45 - 18:47Can we do it? Will we do it?
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18:47 - 18:49We have to, we must.
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18:50 - 18:51But the Everglades is not just a test.
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18:52 - 18:54It's also a gift,
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18:54 - 18:56and ultimately, our responsibility.
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18:57 - 18:58Thank you.
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18:58 - 19:02(Applause)
- Title:
- Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades
- Speaker:
- Mac Stone
- Description:
-
For centuries, people have viewed swamps and wetlands as obstacles to avoid. But for photographer Mac Stone, who documents the stories of wildlife in Florida’s Everglades, the swamp isn’t a hindrance — it's a national treasure. Through his stunning photographs, Stone shines a new light on a neglected, ancient and important wilderness. His message: get out and experience it for yourself. "Just do it — put your feet in the water," he says. "The swamp will change you, I promise."
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 19:15
Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | ||
Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | ||
Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | ||
Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | ||
Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | ||
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Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades | ||
Brian Greene edited English subtitles for Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades |