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Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades

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

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