Tropical Rainforests Are Regrowing In Puerto Rico
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- Rainforests are under threat around the world, but in Puerto Rico, one has come roaring back. NBC’s Jacob Soboroff reports for TODAY as part of our Rescuing the Rainforest series across the platforms of NBC News.
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When your Boricua ears hear the distinctive coquí and your chest feels with pride, nostalgia and glee all at the same time! Just 4 more days and I’ll be hearing it in person! Can’t wait for Navidad in my island again after 9 years! That emerald green tiny rock on earth is preciosa!
Navidad en la isla es unica!!! Disfruta ❤️
We Puerto Ricans always have our islita
in our hearts.
Enjoy your vacation. My last trip to PR was in late 2008.
Very nice enjoy
@Unedited Life Of Daniel
aygo will stay there right after you go back to where you came from.
So cool to hear the "coquí coquí" in the distance 🇵🇷🥰
As a Puerto Rican, I grew up in its mountainous countryside and this video just satisfied me with happiness
Reminder of our childhood getting lost, dancing in the rain, discovering rivers! I miss it!
@Luda Cris It is not a state, it's an unincorporated US territory. And what op means with "countryside" is the most rural areas...
@Luda Cris Puerto Rico is an island, part of the USA, DR (the brothel, according to the ONU) is a country and part of an island that belongs to Haiti too.
@Luda Cris I have taken them. The island belongs to Haiti and DR. Thanks for recognizing that they are your brothers in every way, including color. You have a lot to learn from them. They work harder in the USA.
@Luda Cris It does not matter, the island belongs to both.
Puerto Rico have the most beautiful rainforest in the Caribbean.
Sorry dude but not even close.
@@josemanuellopezgiraldez404 explain
@@mauropereira187 the Dominican republic and cuba’s rain forest are just that much better.
@@josemanuellopezgiraldez404 siempre hay un hb.
@@josemanuellopezgiraldez404 Venezuela is not in the Caribbean. It’s in South America.
I just went hiking here yesterday. One of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to in my entire life
You can hear the Coquí! I love my homeland 🥰
Puerto Rico is uniquely beautiful
My lungs feel better just watching that hike: cleaner and healthier. I'd like to stand there and just inhale deeply.
You are more than welcome on our beautiful island.
I have stood in El Yunque and done just that! It's so amazing!
El Yunque is also one of the oldest national reserves in the entire western hemisphere (stablished 4 years after yellow stone), stablished by King Alfonso XII in 1876 it was declared a protected area.
This needs to be protected
The forest knows how to protect itself. Nobody's in there chopping wood. Hurricane Maria cracked, bent and destroyed some stuff but nature knows how to come right back. I saw it in my own backyard. On my own land. It was a disaster but today my trees are luscious and big and beautiful. Thank God.
Lmao
@@rebeccagutierrez1960 Maria helped seeds to move all over the island. And the fallen flora fertilized it!
It really is a beautiful Island .
And dangerous, more than 500 homicides in 2021 the Drugs and Guns and dirty politicians are destroying this once paradise.
@@rebeccagutierrez1960 unfortunately it is a world crisis, the Cidra Masacre last month was devastating, doesn’t matter where you are, if you are The wrong place at the wrong time, you’re history. It is everywhere on the Island. The young people smoking the chemical induce marijuana that is destroying our mindset. The food such as the Swine, meats, water, hormones, fast foods like McDevils. We are at war against a system that has been aiming to eliminate all people of color. It is all by design. The Island is in deep trouble, expect famine shortage of food, we need to restart with a new government who stands for 3 things. Truth justice and Equity.
@@masterdeeable1 it’s the same as the US nothing it’s perfect
@@ottneal1 and your satisfied with that. Come out of satan’s world for the Island awaits famine starvation. Amerikkka is under Judgement she is falling like Babylon. She is the modern day Babylon. We need to stop consuming their Drugs, food, and lifestyles. Did you know that if Puerto “no es” Rico was a state it be the Murder capital of Amerikkka? Per capita it is in the top 10 most deadly places in the world. But here you are with the lame childish answer,” it is like the US no where is perfect!”
@@masterdeeable1 Thanks to the drug dealers along the coasts from *Dominican Republic* the brothel of the Caribbean according to Worldwide organizations and public burden of the USA.. The government is working on that and confiscated millions of dollars on drugs and arms from th, according to the USA and Puerto Rico census. DR is the mayor distributor of drugs to the Caribbean, USA, Chile, Canada, Spain and everywhere they live as drug dealers and freeloaders.
Awesome there's a lot of beautiful places in P.R.
Beautiful Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 😍
Can’t wait to see it, I’m going to PR next week!
Enjoy men, you will love it!
You’re here already!!! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄!!! Enjoy!! 🇵🇷💕🎄
I am a landowner in the mountains of western Puerto Rico. A good part of my land was too steep for farming, so the original rain forest remained untouched. For ten years I have allowed and encouraged the other parts of my land, once in coffee, to regenerate. In the tropics this regeneration is fast, so when I leave this life, nature will remain in charge of the land. Puerto Ricp is now heavily forested and healed, and many new land owners want to protect the forests. It will take much longer to grow the ancient huge trees, but they are returning!
Thank you Puerto Rico for greening the world
The sad part is that this video is focused on a specific location of the island. while many americans and international wealthy people destroy other parts of the island to build hotels and expensive structures that drive out the local communities out of their area due to the rise in living prices.
But at least they are giving good news. Not all is bad.
@@valerieblackthorn2792 whats the point of a temporary good news story when in other places in the island are being destroyed by rich americans and outside development running here for a tax break..
Exactly! This is just a patch on a rip off quilt.
My backyard when I was growing up. Loved waking up to the forest view of El Yunque for so many years. Such a special place. Viva Puerto Rico!
Nature will find a way. I'm happy to see my homeland coming back to life. The new job for all of us is to keep the forest growing.
is a beautiful island
Puerto Rico is beautiful. After hurricane maria, there was a lot of destruction and they are still struggling but certain areas are definitely beautiful. That area is Utuado. It is calm and nice temperatures. Central area of the island is beautiful.
El Yunque Rainforrest is in Luquillo, Puerto Rico.
And the other place they showed is in Adjuntas.
Puerto Rico is beautiful ❤️
People need farming they have to eat.But rainforest are important for a healthy world as well.There has to be a balance.
Nature is perfect and we shall never argue devine perfection
Puerto Rico es la isla del encanto!!!!! 🇵🇷
We have another Rainforest in Utuado. So beautiful, mi pueblo borinqueño!
Beautiful. Hermoso....all central america caribbean and south america are beautiful paradise .....
Wow, 65%. That’s amazing!
My family has over 90% of untouched land in Aguas Buenas (the farm is 100 acres). Only a tiny part of it is touched by our family. It’s been like this for over 40 years. I wonder if the untouched part could be considered rainforest?
No.
@@lengue2001 gracias por la respuesta tan informativa. 🙄
@@GoodandDelicious 😂😂 todo es bosque secundario, solo los topes de las mas altas montañas tienen vegetación original. En cuanto al bosque pluvial tiene que tener una cantidad mínima de agua que ningún sitio en PR la posee excepto El
Yunque
@@lengue2001 las partes que nunca se han tocado de la finca son las partes al tope de las montañas. Por eso pregunté.
@@GoodandDelicious Aguas Buenas no tiene ese tipo de montañas.
When I retire I’m moving to PR and growing a forest on my land.
I love Puerto Rico 👍🙂❤️
Can't wait for this to be considerate a US state. So beautiful.
Those beautiful forests and mountains are where enslaved Africans and native taínos escaped to from the Spanish colonizers that is our history as of people we became one
Indeed
@ Luckily, what? Your ancestry is meaningless, it is you as an individual and what you contribute to this world that matters.
@ you are not Puerto Rican and that’s ok buddy 😅
@@tedfebo1741 ok? Puerto Rican’s have made our mark in the world buddy from being the first to win an Oscar to the first Latinos to be in the mlb halo of fame from John Ruiz etc lol we are a small island that is recognized all over the world sorry your mad
@@patsnationok1373 unfortunately I am 😩 and as well i live that "Nido de jíbaros analfabetos"
Puerto Rico is so beautiful and spectacular!! 🇵🇷🇵🇷 I love this beautiful island/nation ♥️
Beautiful 😍 😘 😍
Puerto Rico will ALWAYS flourish!!!!
COQUI..COQUI...COQUI..COQUI...HOW I MISS THAT SOUND.
I love you my dear nature.....you are amazing.......❤️❤️
FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Puerto Rico beautiful island 🏝️🇵🇷🏝️🇵🇷🏝️🇵🇷🏝️🇵🇷🏝️🇵🇷 I love Puerto Rico 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is very exciting news. 😁
I ❤️ Puerto Rican women.
Thank god!!!! My Island is recovery
Its really not
Recover from what?
i miss my island so much Puerto Rico mi islita hermosa 🇵🇷
AWESOME NEWS!! PUERTO RICO IS NOT ONLY REGGAETON!!
Cuando la naturaleza tiene que dar la cara porque el gobierno lo que hace es robar y los tecatos cantar de bellaquerias.
@@jcgrx2251 EXACTO!! SALUDOS Y FELIZ AÑO NUEVO!
@@josebaez8451 Igual a ti, Feliz Año 2022.
That's positive. Puerto Rico has been the butt end of American colonialism & capitalistic corrupt greedy. To see their native forest thrive & evolve is spectacular. My full praise & gratitude🙏 goes to Puerto Rico forestry/agriculture services. Gr8 job! 🤗🤗🤗
Beautiful
1:12 If Puerto Rico went from 7% of Rainforest in the 40's to 65% nowadays, a similar model needs to be implemented in Haití, as the weather and the mountains system of the larger Antilles are very similar and it can really improve the land quality for further harvest. Just look a satellite pictures from the border between Haití and the Dominican Republic to see what can be accomplished when the economy and good environmental policies are well integrated.
So, so beautiful!!!
My Puerto Rico ❤
My beautiful island of Puerto Rico 💙
Beautiful place. Go visit it!
I’m glad that I don’t need to have a passport to visit this beautiful part of the United States 🇺🇸. I’m glad that PR is USA
It doesnt hurt to have a passport.
@@kessler003 while yes, a U.S. passport is a great asset to have, I’m glad that I don’t have to use it to travel to PR, because it’s a part of the same country. The United States 🇺🇸, same if I travel to beautiful USVI, Guam, CNMI. I get to see my fellow American citizens where they live and see the true beauty of one of the many beautiful parts of the United States
@@kessler003 it would be ashame if my fellow Americans living in PR had to forgo their U.S. citizenship should the residents vote for independence, because if they do, I know for a fact that their citizenship of the U.S. would be revoked
@@dylanshaffer2184 I get what u're saying.
I doubt PRs vote for independence, it has never been more than 2-3% voters in every election.
@@kessler003 agreed, they’re our fellow Americans, and I think they’d rather be a US state than an independent country
This is a paradox. The farmers abandoned the agricultural fields which naturally reverted to forest. Now Puerto Rico has to import 90% of the food. Where is the balance?
No, they didn't naturally revert to forest. The forest does not exist all over the island. This forest is located in Luquillo, Puerto. Puerto Rico has cities and towns and country areas, just like you see in the mainland USA.
@@rebeccagutierrez1960 I am from PR too. The TV story covered coffee farm areas of Adjuntas and other places. When they talked about the forests increment they were referring to the entire island, not only El Yunque. I used to work with the very same people that they interviewed.
@@win5276 So they were not talking about the Rain Forest in P.R. reverting but all Forest in the island. Gotcha. I thought it was just Rain Forest.
In DR we import workers on every corner to please the tourists and boost the economy.
@@andith thanks to the Haitians who work in DR, and those Dominicanos that live in the USA and Puerto Rico while using thier welfare checks to send to the Dominican republic. Yes the welfare system is exploited by Dominicans.
If the Haitianos were to stop work, agriculture, and construction...it would prove chaos to DR...that's the truth.
Puerto Rico is beautiful 🤩
Forest gardens were used throughout the Americas for millennia before European colonialism destroyed the social systems that supported them. Ecologists in the Pacific Northwest have discovered the remnants of native forest gardens here are still significantly more diverse and productive than the surrounding forests and woodlands. Farming and forests are not exclusive.
Colonism of Puerto Rico by the U.S. did the same to Puerto Rico not our European ancestors
Yeah, they deforested almost the entire island to plant sugar cane.
@@chingateison That's the part not communicated in this video. The fact the farmers went to city's because it became Domino Sugar island/
It was discovered in the Amazon rain forest as well
Love …..my Puerto Rico paradise island
yay ty
I grew up in the mountains of Arecibo and next to my parents house were 2 big cattle farms. All my childhood memories from these farms were hills of neatly clean land sprinkled with cows. A few years ago I visited my parents and the formerly clean hills were now completely overgrown and full of small trees, tall grasses and vines. The land literally reset itself in 10 years.
Thank you President Trump for giving Puerto Rico more financial aide ever. $90billion dollars.
I miss home. 😢
Yes, Puerto Rico has a RAINFOREST NOT a JUNGLE like so many people think.
Jungle is defined as as an area of land woth overgrown forest vegetation typically in the TROPICS. So, the rainforest is the same thing as the jungle.
@@AlexisVega-xi5yq It's not actually. Jungles have wild animals.🤣
@@rebeccagutierrez1960 I don't know if what you just said is a joke or not; but its wrong. A jungle is not defined by the animals its home to. Perhaps, the forests of Puerto Rico have A LOT of native and endemic bird species, thousands of insect, arachnid and many many more invertebrate species, many reptiles such as snakes (including the Puerto Rican boa), endemic lizards and amphibians.
@@AlexisVega-xi5yq I was kidding, dear. You have a very good point and yes all that is there. ...me whispering behind yo' back...But it's still a forest.
So happy too hear im next door on st Croix our little rain forest is lush and green as well after the hurricane’s
If only it could also happen to the AMAZON RAIN FORREST too man
It actually is happening to the Amazon Rainforest. Farmers in Peru, Columbia, Ecuador etc.... are paying farmers to replant their Farm land with multiple different types of Native species. The only problem is the Loggers and Farmers who think they dont have enough land.
@Erick Romero Start planting FORRESTS in other FORREST regions
@@ZZ_Tops_007 Such as what regions?
@Erick Romero Um AFRICA,CHINA and AUSTRALIA
@@ZZ_Tops_007 Then why not go plant forest in those regions? I mean im pretty sure there is already projects going on in those countries and Continents that are meant to rebuild the biodiversity and forests.
VIVA 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
Ahh como extraño mi isla
Finally a good news
The only rain forest in the USA is in Puerto Rico! #PR51 🇺🇸🇵🇷
PR.... La Isla del Encanto.... y del Cordero(Cristo Jesus!). PR is the Island of Enchantment and of the Lamb (Jesus Christ!) ❤
Wow looks Awmazing and Mystical
Sooo beautiful 😍
Great let's take care of nature
Something positive to hear about. The planet has to be saved! It can’t do it by itself.
nos encanta verlo
This gives us a glimpse of what south Florida would look like if it had mountains or a really hilly terrain of any sort. The only places you can find rainforest here are in the thousands of islands and islets at the Everglades in Florida bay, there those have tropical hardwood hammocks forming small rainforest ecosystems on every island
Amazing
Soo cool
Mi Isla nunca te dejare solo cuando me mude a La Nueva Jerusalen
I hope it's left alone. There have been some developers buying out protected lands and destroying them for commerce.
My island ❤
Thank For My Country Report In Today ❤️🇵🇷
Yesss
Finally, some GOOD news.
Wait. How. Last I heard we have like 6 years left.
I am scared of snake!!!!
no venon snakes on the island
*@Sean Lee*
Stop crying
Puerto Rico naturally has no dangerous animals. The most dangerous are invasive animals like the brown and black widow spider and wild hogs. But the chances of being hurt by them are extremely low.
Most snakes in PR are harmless. I think it’s only the Puerto Rican racer snake that has traces of venom. Just wear high boots if in high grass type areas in the countryside.
Eso a pasado en la antigüedad
Se llama naturaleza
Very grateful to be able to have some good news from My Heritage Island.Queen Arelis Of Scots.
Nice
I heard the Coqui.
Which rainforest is this
El Yunque
Is this in South America
My home is beautiful
Mi isla🌹🐚🌦🥑
Give the earth a chance and she will come back..we are the guardians,not the owners.
It's great for the ecology, but we have to acknowledge that there has been so many people depopulating the villages and towns in rural PR, and if they don't stay in San Juan area, or some other touristic hot spot, they go to the mainland USA for opportunity, understandably so. I imagine something similar is happening in rural Japan, with wild regrowth but there are many ghost villages and many small and medium scale farmers have aged out or moved to the city.
Hello. We can study the use of fungi and bacteria to "refertilize" soils for plant growth someday.
Please do.🙂
El yunque????
🌿💚
More like “ formally known as untouched forest” .
Now on the west side of PR, Greedy people are cutti g dow. The mountains for gravel 🤬
Unfortunately they never mentioned just how the farmers are making a living now.