Fascinating yet heartbreaking at the same time. The plight of the Bali Mynah as a result of human vanity is tragic - this species should be thriving in the wild but because they are in effect seen as a fashion item and status symbol, they are being treated more as lifestyle accessories than living creatures. It's great to see rare fungi being championed though - they are so often ignored.
@@all.about.nature1987 Fungi are so overlooked yet so vital to the planet. There must be lots similar to the one you covered that only survived in fragments of forest or even just a few trees and that have been lost forever.
@@all.about.nature1987 I love your videos. These are great, and I love to show my kids. So concise and distinctive. However, now my kids are a little sad, and blame themselves, even when non-human elements cause a species to go endangered. (Thanks propaganda) Have you considered doing the inverse for a video? When I was a kid, Bald Eagles and American Alligators were critically endangered. Now they're off the endangered species list altogether! There are more tigers in the wild in India than there have been in 100 years. There's a lot of good news out there, and I think a video highlighting "These 5 animals almost went extinct but made a full recovery" would be very cool.
@TM2DB hey thanks for the comment. Glad you guys are enjoying the videos. I have a series of videos on animals that have been saved and made recoveries. You'll find them on my page.
@@TM2DB I think it's great that you're showing these videos to your kids and that they're concerned. It's the next generation that biodiversity is going to depend on more than ever. They should be shown in schools, I think.
Everybody talks about endangered/extinct animals, but no one talks about plants or especially fungi of that kind. It’s sad how those types of species don’t get talked about more since they don’t have the same “humanity” we have. People really only save species that are more ‘attractive’. It’s also especially tragic for the birds… you know it’s over when the last of their habitat is going to get destroyed, especially since they come from a part of the world with little to no environmental awareness. This is the first time you’ve covered a fungi, right? Because that’s so awesome and rare to hear that sort of awareness. I actually did a school report on the Bali mynah! So glad to hear comprehensive information on it. It makes me so angry to see people treat birds this way; as someone who owns a bird, the unethical treatment of wild caught birds is so heartbreaking to me. This is why I only purchase birds through a breeder, and I make sure to buy birds that are labeled as least concern. P.S.- I hope you were able to see my comment on your previous video, because I can’t wait to see your reaction to it!
The fungi thing really gets me, because only 808 species of fungi have even been evaluated on how endangered they are. There are 2 million estimated species of fungi. I realise a lot of them are microscopic and thus hard to evaluate, but even if we just include mushrooms, there are 20,000 described species worldwide, the Amanita genus alone has over 600 species. 808 is shockingly low.
20:12 I live in the Vale do Ribeira, there was also a species of bird here called the Purple-winged Ground Dove (Paraclaravis geoffroyi), which has not been seen for 40 years.
I'm also glad you got to talk about the Bali myna! I interned at a zoo a few years back, working with some of their bird species, and I got to help with and watch some bali myna chicks they had bred and were hand-rearing.
Please, never stop doing what you’re doing. Your videos are so fascinating and very educational. I just can’t wait for the next Saturday to come so you would post another video ❤
Here in NZ it's unfortunate we're still ravaged by pest animals from European settlement. A lot of animals are endangered or have gone extinct. Some are so rare, like the kākāpō for instance, that each individual bird alive has a name.
I really love your videos. I have a suggestion in terms of rare species Taiwan has some insanely cool rare species that not a lot of people know about: -Liobagrus formosanus: Extremely rare catfish found only in mountenous streams. Extremely rare with limited info on their population. -Oncorhynchus masou formosanus: Landlocked Japanese salmon only found in Taiwan. Critically endangered but numbers are recovering thanks to conservation efforts. These two are the ones that left the largest impression on me especially the first one because I only seen them once when I was a kid and when I talked to several researchers during highschool they told me that they are extremely rare and very few people know about. Love your videos and I wish you the best.
I love the Bali Mynah. I work in education at an AZA zoo that has a breeding pair. Whenever I take camp groups in the aviary, I challenge them to find the most endangered animal we have. Currently, they are going through a strange molt where the look like a blue vulture lol
Thank you for making sure plants and fungi get covered. While many get tissue cultured, many unfortunate get poached from the wild and end up only surviving in the plant community, the same way some fish only exist in the aquarium hobby because of poaching from the wild. people aren't aware of how many of them are poached every year because only the animals big and sometimes small get all the attention.
for real, we have flowers so endangered that it's illegal to touch them here and no one cares even though it's our state flower! this channel is so refreshing
this fashion of keeping captive birds is also very prevalent in my country, India. Different species like the Indian ringed neck parakeet, Alexandrine parakeet, and so on, are kept as pets here, atlhough all of them are endangered. I had too few years ago, some passed away and some were freed. they cost about 5-12 dollars per pair depending on the species. i was guilt ridden and felt ashamed as soon as i realized about their status in the wild, and i still, that what i've done. I was a child back then and i'm very affectionate of animals that's why i couldn't have controlled myself from buying thenm as my birthday present.
You were just a kid when you got them. You didn't know about how harmful it was to keep those birds. It was up to the adults in your life to have done the research before getting pets for you, and either they didn't do the research, or they didn't care about what they found. What matters is that you know better now.
Although I agree with your sentiment, the rose ringed parakeet you mentioned is not endangered, neither according to IUCN nor the IWA. In fact it's population is increasing across the country
Thank you for making this video and all the others. Is there a way you could study and show us the positive effect of COVID 19 on wildlife populations?
My favorite is the Bali Mynah, has been a goal of mine to see one for several decades now. I can only hope that they stick around long enough for me to actually see one, given that I don't know how soon I could even get down to Bali from the other side of the world.
Will you make one day a video focused in endangered South American birds? There are so many like the Blue-eyed Ground Dove (20 in nature) and the Spix's Macaw (introduced in the wild 2022).
Suggestions for a part 2: Encephalartos woodii Carpinus putoensis Achatinella fulgens (only 6 individuals in 2016, source: search for a news outlet mentioning the species) Partulina kaaeana (only 3 individuals currently, source: Photo Ark)
Look up the Snail Extinction Prevention Program. There is a powerful and poignant photo of them holding the entire known population of A. fulgens in the palm of their hand. Their numbers have slowly, stubbornly, been increasing. There are folks here in Hawaii working their darndest to give this species a better future.
Kinda wild seeing the Bali mynah here when my father owns 2 in his house, kinda hate them since he always made me clean up their cage whenever i come visit.
I would love to see a video of rare species or unique micro ecosystems from major mountain ranges (Rockies, Appalachian, Alps, etc…) by country or eco-geographical region….
Are you a conservationist for your day job or something? Or is this purely a passion project for you? Because your ability to find scientific evidence and research about these animals is insane.
@@AirwrekaDoesntRead I am not a conservationist, though that would be a dream job. I just love research and going down rabbit holes as far as I can. Also, Research Gate is an incredibly helpful website for these sorts of topics.
The royal "we". What are you as an individual doing? Do you work on conservation projects? Do you contribute time, physical effort, or money to help? Do you write articles or publish in any way to educate people?
Out of curiosity on the Earpick; Is each fruiting body a representative individual of a species? I thought individual fungi was the entire mycelia network, and with single populations present on single trees, it would seem to me that the estimated population should be, well, five; same as the number of infected trees. I'm not a fungi expert, though, so I honestly have no idea how individuals are counted.
Great point. I was also confused by this in the literature I was reading. But I think that the estimate is as high as 500 because there are so many unknowns. There are probably only 10 at most in the known locations (5 each), but estimates have a low and high end, with the high end accounting for how many other possible undiscovered populations are possibly out there. So 500 would be the "at most" end of the estimate.
Abbot´s duiker is not that unique in his diet. The most of, if not all, herbivorous animals eat small animals from time to time if they have an opportunity.
The rarest and the fewer they're left are the better So greedily human won't find it easier and the corrupted or off guard authority will eventually has a good responsive response
Like always, a great video. But the Bali Mynah is (hopefully) making a comeback. This guy has reintroduced over 50 Bali Mynahs. The is in german though. th-cam.com/video/dczBd3ySFEI/w-d-xo.html
Fascinating yet heartbreaking at the same time. The plight of the Bali Mynah as a result of human vanity is tragic - this species should be thriving in the wild but because they are in effect seen as a fashion item and status symbol, they are being treated more as lifestyle accessories than living creatures. It's great to see rare fungi being championed though - they are so often ignored.
Might be the first time I've covered a fungus on the channel. It was about time
@@all.about.nature1987 Fungi are so overlooked yet so vital to the planet. There must be lots similar to the one you covered that only survived in fragments of forest or even just a few trees and that have been lost forever.
@@all.about.nature1987 I love your videos. These are great, and I love to show my kids. So concise and distinctive. However, now my kids are a little sad, and blame themselves, even when non-human elements cause a species to go endangered. (Thanks propaganda) Have you considered doing the inverse for a video? When I was a kid, Bald Eagles and American Alligators were critically endangered. Now they're off the endangered species list altogether! There are more tigers in the wild in India than there have been in 100 years. There's a lot of good news out there, and I think a video highlighting "These 5 animals almost went extinct but made a full recovery" would be very cool.
@TM2DB hey thanks for the comment. Glad you guys are enjoying the videos. I have a series of videos on animals that have been saved and made recoveries. You'll find them on my page.
@@TM2DB I think it's great that you're showing these videos to your kids and that they're concerned. It's the next generation that biodiversity is going to depend on more than ever. They should be shown in schools, I think.
Everybody talks about endangered/extinct animals, but no one talks about plants or especially fungi of that kind. It’s sad how those types of species don’t get talked about more since they don’t have the same “humanity” we have. People really only save species that are more ‘attractive’. It’s also especially tragic for the birds… you know it’s over when the last of their habitat is going to get destroyed, especially since they come from a part of the world with little to no environmental awareness. This is the first time you’ve covered a fungi, right? Because that’s so awesome and rare to hear that sort of awareness. I actually did a school report on the Bali mynah! So glad to hear comprehensive information on it. It makes me so angry to see people treat birds this way; as someone who owns a bird, the unethical treatment of wild caught birds is so heartbreaking to me. This is why I only purchase birds through a breeder, and I make sure to buy birds that are labeled as least concern.
P.S.- I hope you were able to see my comment on your previous video, because I can’t wait to see your reaction to it!
The fungi thing really gets me, because only 808 species of fungi have even been evaluated on how endangered they are. There are 2 million estimated species of fungi. I realise a lot of them are microscopic and thus hard to evaluate, but even if we just include mushrooms, there are 20,000 described species worldwide, the Amanita genus alone has over 600 species. 808 is shockingly low.
If you are so concerned about endangered flora and fungi, don't wait for others to make a video of it.
20:12
I live in the Vale do Ribeira, there was also a species of bird here called the Purple-winged Ground Dove (Paraclaravis geoffroyi), which has not been seen for 40 years.
I'm also glad you got to talk about the Bali myna! I interned at a zoo a few years back, working with some of their bird species, and I got to help with and watch some bali myna chicks they had bred and were hand-rearing.
Please, never stop doing what you’re doing. Your videos are so fascinating and very educational. I just can’t wait for the next Saturday to come so you would post another video ❤
Would love a video focused on Indonesian birds and illegal pet trade.
Keep up the great work
Thank you for what you do for my nature heart, but even more for the awareness and love of nature that you propagate.
People can be so short-sighted and greedy. I hope the beautiful Bali Myna can be saved. This is such a heartbreaking story.
Brilliant video! Really enjoyed this one, great work as usual!
Here in NZ it's unfortunate we're still ravaged by pest animals from European settlement. A lot of animals are endangered or have gone extinct. Some are so rare, like the kākāpō for instance, that each individual bird alive has a name.
Not to mention the 3 different kiwis, 2 of them are so rare
I love Kakapos.
the pictures of the caged birds is just devastating 😢😢😢
I wish humans were more conscious about these things... Thank you for showing off not just animals but flora and fungi.
I really love your videos. I have a suggestion in terms of rare species Taiwan has some insanely cool rare species that not a lot of people know about:
-Liobagrus formosanus: Extremely rare catfish found only in mountenous streams. Extremely rare with limited info on their population.
-Oncorhynchus masou formosanus: Landlocked Japanese salmon only found in Taiwan. Critically endangered but numbers are recovering thanks to conservation efforts.
These two are the ones that left the largest impression on me especially the first one because I only seen them once when I was a kid and when I talked to several researchers during highschool they told me that they are extremely rare and very few people know about.
Love your videos and I wish you the best.
I love the Bali Mynah. I work in education at an AZA zoo that has a breeding pair. Whenever I take camp groups in the aviary, I challenge them to find the most endangered animal we have. Currently, they are going through a strange molt where the look like a blue vulture lol
Thank you for making sure plants and fungi get covered. While many get tissue cultured, many unfortunate get poached from the wild and end up only surviving in the plant community, the same way some fish only exist in the aquarium hobby because of poaching from the wild. people aren't aware of how many of them are poached every year because only the animals big and sometimes small get all the attention.
for real, we have flowers so endangered that it's illegal to touch them here and no one cares even though it's our state flower! this channel is so refreshing
I've seen Bali Mynas in Zoo Zürich. They are beautiful. Thanks for talking about them. (:
this fashion of keeping captive birds is also very prevalent in my country, India. Different species like the Indian ringed neck parakeet, Alexandrine parakeet, and so on, are kept as pets here, atlhough all of them are endangered. I had too few years ago, some passed away and some were freed. they cost about 5-12 dollars per pair depending on the species. i was guilt ridden and felt ashamed as soon as i realized about their status in the wild, and i still, that what i've done. I was a child back then and i'm very affectionate of animals that's why i couldn't have controlled myself from buying thenm as my birthday present.
You were just a kid when you got them. You didn't know about how harmful it was to keep those birds. It was up to the adults in your life to have done the research before getting pets for you, and either they didn't do the research, or they didn't care about what they found. What matters is that you know better now.
Although I agree with your sentiment, the rose ringed parakeet you mentioned is not endangered, neither according to IUCN nor the IWA. In fact it's population is increasing across the country
It's so important to protect these organisms!!
Thank you for your video Great job
Bali Myna is looks beautiful.
There is also Gobi bear which is only bear that lives in the desert and only 30 to 40 individuals left in gobi desert.
Thank you for making this video and all the others.
Is there a way you could study and show us the positive effect of COVID 19 on wildlife populations?
That's an excellent video idea
My favorite is the Bali Mynah, has been a goal of mine to see one for several decades now. I can only hope that they stick around long enough for me to actually see one, given that I don't know how soon I could even get down to Bali from the other side of the world.
Will you make one day a video focused in endangered South American birds? There are so many like the Blue-eyed Ground Dove (20 in nature) and the Spix's Macaw (introduced in the wild 2022).
Yes!!!
I am from Darjeeling and I am not too sure but it may be a similar type, mystry bird is still be found in some areas of Darjeeling hills.
Look in Robert Marc Lehmann videos about the Bali bird
One missing snake from México that is quite rare is the mazacuata patuano.
Suggestions for a part 2:
Encephalartos woodii
Carpinus putoensis
Achatinella fulgens (only 6 individuals in 2016, source: search for a news outlet mentioning the species)
Partulina kaaeana (only 3 individuals currently, source: Photo Ark)
Look up the Snail Extinction Prevention Program. There is a powerful and poignant photo of them holding the entire known population of A. fulgens in the palm of their hand. Their numbers have slowly, stubbornly, been increasing. There are folks here in Hawaii working their darndest to give this species a better future.
Could you do all species and subspecies of crocodilians????
Kinda wild seeing the Bali mynah here when my father owns 2 in his house, kinda hate them since he always made me clean up their cage whenever i come visit.
In the 80's a pet store here in NW ohio had a bali mynah bird... he eventually was stolen from the store.
Can you make a video about tarantula species? There's been a fascinating amount of newly discovered ones
My 2nd favourite channel after Lemmino
I would love to see a video of rare species or unique micro ecosystems from major mountain ranges (Rockies, Appalachian, Alps, etc…) by country or eco-geographical region….
Lets get this channel over 100 K, friends
I have seen more Bali Myna or Jalak Bali as we call it, caged in the suburbs and downtown Jakarta, than in Bali, which is pretty sad to be honest.
those little dear are well sweet we had monjack in somerset that look similare
Super ❤🎉
Are you a conservationist for your day job or something? Or is this purely a passion project for you? Because your ability to find scientific evidence and research about these animals is insane.
@@AirwrekaDoesntRead I am not a conservationist, though that would be a dream job. I just love research and going down rabbit holes as far as I can. Also, Research Gate is an incredibly helpful website for these sorts of topics.
great video, ive been inpsired to do art
That's the great decision to aware local people to be serious about the species.....
I hope the Bulmer’s Fruit bats recover 😢
Why is there a legband on the bugun bird?
Could you do the tooth-billed pidgeon of Samoa?
We have to start doing so something about this before it's too late!!!
The royal "we". What are you as an individual doing? Do you work on conservation projects? Do you contribute time, physical effort, or money to help? Do you write articles or publish in any way to educate people?
What about musk deer and blochi bear??
Out of curiosity on the Earpick; Is each fruiting body a representative individual of a species? I thought individual fungi was the entire mycelia network, and with single populations present on single trees, it would seem to me that the estimated population should be, well, five; same as the number of infected trees. I'm not a fungi expert, though, so I honestly have no idea how individuals are counted.
Great point. I was also confused by this in the literature I was reading. But I think that the estimate is as high as 500 because there are so many unknowns. There are probably only 10 at most in the known locations (5 each), but estimates have a low and high end, with the high end accounting for how many other possible undiscovered populations are possibly out there. So 500 would be the "at most" end of the estimate.
@all.about.nature1987 Huh, I suppose that makes sense. Thank you for taking the time to clarify.
what is wrong with the kangaroo at 14:33 ?
I’m a simple man. I see an all.about.nature video and I click.
Mongolian gobi Mazalai is only 26 left
Is youtube your full time job?
Yes, somehow, this has been my job for 14 months now, and I feel incredibly blessed that I get to do this full-time.
Hey man❤
Bali Mynah = Shiny Pokemon
Bird trafficking and animal trafficking should be seriously abolished....
Does Bali mynah talk?
They could
@All.About.Nature. have u seen a mina in person?
I've been to both West Bali National Park and Nusa Penida, but I've only ever seen them caged.
Abbot´s duiker is not that unique in his diet. The most of, if not all, herbivorous animals eat small animals from time to time if they have an opportunity.
The rarest and the fewer they're left are the better So greedily human won't find it easier and the corrupted or off guard authority will eventually has a good responsive response
It is so soul-crashing to see the condition of these species. There is no limitation of Human greed.☹️
Love when I hear China is on the bandwagon to promote conservation
Huh? Native animals are being slaughtered for their ideas about human health and virility. Eg Pangolin scales.
@irened9961 Duh but as I said its nice to see them doing something to show concern to save something. They still as every country have a lot to go.
Like always, a great video.
But the Bali Mynah is (hopefully) making a comeback. This guy has reintroduced over 50 Bali Mynahs. The is in german though.
th-cam.com/video/dczBd3ySFEI/w-d-xo.html
A german animal rights activists brought 50 Bali Starlings back ☺️
th-cam.com/video/dczBd3ySFEI/w-d-xo.html
Everything goes extinct. We’re next.
Honestly what is the point of making a video if nothing is actual footage of what your describing
because there's little to no video footage of the *rarest species in the world*???