„This Is One Of The Most Biodiverse Places In The World“ - Ep. 73 Thula Sailing
this can't just be lost [Music] true so today we woke up really early in the morning and we are doing a small national park tour in pakistan for provider so we're hoping to see a lot of animals and it's a really nice weather and yeah well really looking forward to it let's conserve some coffee so that way they they hide from predators and also wild turkey they confuse predators they confuse two guys hunters the frequency called travel faster and farther in the ground before when people come to the peninsula that was one of the main food resorts man what do you do with turkeys right thanksgiving birthday has a very very strange beak it's kind of oily foreign so we see here one of these beautiful macau birds ah we just learned they they even can live longer than humans so they their average lifetime of this birth of 70 to 90 years [Applause] [Applause] and now there's some green and cozy as well yes some green ones but not blue ones no no the green ones are ready [Music] little pieces of fresh in the water hot water so the fish come on they grab them we saw them in the current with a stick in the feet like calling the attention for fishes this is the main predator of crocodiles [Music] termites mushrooms and other microorganisms like help to make the process of producing minerals producing good soil they will transform the material into minerals and trees can absorb you know and they help to process so other plants can have it they do the nest in the tree because that way they protect from flooding you know from a lot of rain there are few species some of them live on the ground this one is protecting from the rain so they can use the level of the tree also for regulation of temperature main predators are ant eater the formulae and either is the main predator and he control the population of those and many other species frogs these are birds will feed from them too and sometimes the birds come and eat woodpeckers they make a big hole or an eater and they will refill the walls and seal it and that will come a cavity than other animals can use toucans will nest parrot will nest you will find bats using still when they are still on on use they can share the nest with other species you also can eat termites if you are hungry they are really good in protein you can try one i can invite you one they taste like wood [Music] so i always thought that this is like a like a tree um i mean it is a tree but it's a parasite so it grows on the other tree and from the top and once it's big enough it's strangulate the other tree and the other tree dies and then you eat the other tree and in the middle there is a kind of tunnel where you can go up and where all the animals live snakes and spiders monkeys sometimes they use it as a drum to make rituals and dance and pray around it they bring a lot of gifts to it it's called k-pop tree in english you have a cotton then fly with the seeds and spread the seed by wind you know [Music] they pick the woods to get larps out of it to eat them they also do it to build their house and also they do a for communication they will knock the the trees with a good resonance very hard wood so he will make an echo and send a message to other marketing territorial or just for meeting couples or more and he comes to the ground and then first you is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] huh all you need a little bit of cotton right here poison their frog and go and shoot the turkey you know they have a neurotoxic voice on the frogs so they give you a paradise in your body a cramp you cannot walk further so that how they hunt monkeys and other species hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] sometimes [Music] the regular station which is small little tiger so we are here at the park national coco vado together with sandro he works for the park and we have the opportunity to ask him some yeah some questions about the park so um can you tell us some key facts about about the park key factor the park corcoval national park just to start this is one of the most biodiverse places of the world we're supposed to have more uh life by a square meter than anywhere else in the world about the 2.5 percentage of the biodiversity of the world you know yeah that's why we name it national park because actually this is like the last remind of a tropical rainforest like a replica from the amazons or symphony from south america we share a lot of the vegetation and fauna with south america so it looked very similar and of course we have a lot influence from the north part of uh of america so that mean then this is a place where many species will gather together so that might be one of the places where you can see the most life wildlife acting for example like this is the the best place to see like birds in costa rica like about the 40 percentage of the avi fauna of costa rica is in south costa rica and also the vegetation is very important because there is a lot of special woods and democrats from the peninsula and very hard to find in nature so we are preserving a lot of a big resource of flora and fauna and of course we have over a hundred species of mammals that are protected right here in very endangered a lot of those like wild boars than we saw before and then the deers all of those animals they have a lot of shoes with people that live here hunting you know that was the main resource of food so that's the main resource of food of many others like predators so we are trying to take here and keeping balance the place by try to don't uh overheat the place regulate the people amount of people is coming in you know we are supposed to be one of the most eco national parts of costa rica that means that the relationship of us and wildlife here is a little bit more strict and more different than the rest of costa rica or other places in the world so we don't feed the wildlife we don't scare them we respect the distance so the relationship with animals here with creatures is very nice they will never come to attack you for food or they don't get a scare and can you name uh some predators some some big predators you have here well in the park we have uh like six six type of cats like we have the the jaguars we have pumas all salutes margaise on syria small so we have a lot of big predators then back in the time they were like trying to find food and go out the forest because we were overheating using too much the resources but now since we start protecting the park like the main food of the hours they increase population so now it's a better population of jaguars and pumas where you can see it actually easier if you dedicate some time in the forest eco-tourism and national parks is quite a big big deal in costa rica can you maybe explain how how the development changed from the earlier years to um to now and how does it change people's minds thinking about their own country and their own nature and how they force themselves to to protect the nature yeah we see a lot of radical changes especially in this part of costa rica but in general costa rica was a country that dedicated for for mass production meat cows we used to sell a lot of food to united states cows so by the 70s and 60s that was the main economy people was open areas just to have open fields to grow your cows and and to sell you know to export but out of the sound like uh they were the commentary in north america and say and then if you support mcdonald's you were destroying or supporting the destroying of the tropical rainforest so they stopped buying us meat in north america so we didn't have nothing else to another resource to make money so that's when a few peoples smart and conscious people jump into national park and say hey what about if we share this natural beauty maybe people want to visit and then we jump into tourism we name one volcano the first national park and then corcovado national park which is to protect area you know to protect the area as well so that way we start jumping into tourism we didn't have any environment education at all we didn't have information or knowledge about what to do you know so it's been a hard process because most of the time the laos just made more laos and regulation but they don't explain or educate people about it until now we have more environment education and we're trying to bring this to local school and teach kids the importance to protect and preserve nature for me and for many other people was a little bit hard to change because nobody explained us what was going on we didn't have any conscience culturally we were hunters and farmers produce you know from land leaving from just from the nature resources which is okay it's nice if you are just the only one in a big territory but that's not the case we are too many but we are aware of everything independent sudan thanks to those people we all already have the national park right here and protected area conserving nice species and here you can see there is a few institutes institutions and helping to educate kids so they will go like corcorado foundations for example or others around it's a foundation then they go in school and teach kids natural environment education in the school like about recycling about classifying you know the trash about being more conscious about what eating you know and all those things also like educating teaching them nature like about plants and trees and animals so the kids now they are a completely different mind like what i was when i was a kid you know so you can see the kid being more conscient you you don't see kids anymore killing birds or hunting like we did when we were kids you know now they have a different mind i think they got it it's more easy for them they can see just us as examples so for them it's much easier and i have a big hope for for the conservation in costa rica for the new generation any any human developed will have an impact and environment somehow but in this case it's a positive impact probably we are using still lands to build to host people but also by you guys being here that we are protecting like i mentioned before without tourism there is no protection because doesn't mean one of the main economies of the country tourism become very important economy there is so many people involved in tourism like making the their everyday you know so costa rica is going in a good direction for protection and a big example in the world for for conservation and i hope is getting better i feel than always more often there is more people like letting the trees grow you know recovering open areas so since the tourism come to costa rica we have recovered more than the 25 percentage of the territory in vegetation again it was open 25 and we let it grow because the animals tourists come for that from nature so we are trying to preserve as much as we can so we can share most more with people we can protect more our resources then there's no hours everybody's resources but we are meant to take care of them and be here i have one last question you have any idea like how much of the percentage of costa rica is national park like about i have i have that they i have the the number but it's over 20 20 to 30 percentage of protecting area in costa rica since they become tourism we start protecting areas and a lot of national park wildlife reserve you know different management and conservation and also private reserve so people are buying to preserve so it's increasing the the forest you know vegetation in costa rica in general in southwestern costa rica we found tropical wilderness sandy beaches and a remote national park just touched by tourism thanks to sunro we learned astonishing facts about the amazon of costa rica as the tickles referred to it we saw species some of which we would have rather not expected in the tropical rainforest of the corcovado national park thinking back of our tropical rainforest books we had read as a child costa rica's main leg to stand on is tourism as you heard sandro explain which also suffered heavily of the absent tourists due to the corona pandemic he himself was one of the affected ones needing to feed a family and having to rethink how to make a living with so little tourists being able to come so together with a small family he moved back to his parents farm in a small village on the osa peninsula to build cozy wooden guest cabins by hand and take care of the family's biodynamic farming activities biodynamic what if you'd like to find out more about what this is all about join us in our next episode where we visit him and his family learning so much more about the secrets of costa rica's natural treasures to support our filming project join our team of patrons or just whip around our webpage where you can find out more about our sailing journey muchas gracias
2021-08-03 12:32
