shortly after yelling land ho, those buccaneers would come over the hills and be treated to this, a landscape dotted with thousands of giant tortoises. and that was a huge find for them, because pound for pound, this is the easiest protein any hunter has ever bagged. using a big stick, two men would carry these back to the ship. they would put them upside down in the hold where they could live without food or water for up to a year. providing constant source of food for the crew. and all they had to do was come up with new and creative ways to make tortoise stew. when people finally realized they d been hunted to the brink, the appetite for tortoise meet had reached the end, but a new thing took over, goats.
ho, those buccaneers would come over the hills and be treated to this, a landscape dotted with thousands of giant tortoises. and that was a huge find for them, because pound for pound, this is the easiest protein any hunter has ever bagged. using a big stick, two men would carry these back to the ship. they would put them upside down in the hold where they could live without food or water for up to a year. providing constant source of food for the crew. and all they had to do was come up with new and creative ways to make tortoise stew. when people finally realized they d been hunted to the brink, the appetite for tortoise meet had reached the end, but a new thing took over, goats.
which stops clouds, which brings rain and grass and eventually giant tortoises, but little lava burps make flat, dry desert islands like this one. look at this. oh, my gosh. it s another world. the north seymour welcoming party including frigate birds, flying examples of darwin s theory on adaptation. and they have a curiosity as bold as their red inflatable breasts. basically he s a bachelor looking for a nice girlfriend. yes, that hot water bottle throat is the galapagosial version of match.com or tinder. time for some loving. i ve got a porsche and a good
some mountainous. that was the seed of darwin s theory that on this island that has high mountains and that means clouds stop more rain grass. so there are tortoises that come here and over on this island there are flat and desert and that s more iguana country and each creature over millenia adapted to its prey its predators and the conditions around it and so if you re an animal lover this is the happiest place on earth because it s like going back in time pre-human existence. but even not all species are able to survive forever there, right? george the last of the certain type of tortoise i think a lot of us associate the galapagos with eventually died and you talk about this inner battle of having to play god, basically on the island and what species to keep alive. sure. and what may have to be sacrificed. yeah. you ll see a lot more later tonight, but in the case of these giant tortoises, goats, these invasive goats that were
and ecuador and the darwin station there brought in snippers and helicopters and they shot over 250,000 goats to save a handful of these last giant tortoises is that going to work? it worked. it s working. it s one example of how conservationists in these places have to play god and decide which creatures have to die in order to save others. what is the argument against the tourism? if that s not a problem, that guy is doing exactly what he should be doing? that s where the rub is. they are wrestling with so many people who love animals want to go there and go onto these unspoiled islands and the animals come right up to you. but at a certain point, they start building too many hotels. so it s a real tug of war between only one problem with your years.