it causes huge mortality. and other ones, you know, they fledge a lot lighter and smaller than they ought to be. that is a horror story. in the papaya use to attract them. so she lives out here trying to save birds she can barely see from flies she can barely catch. what do you say to someone who things, well, there are 13 other kinds of finches in the galapagos and maybe there s others we haven t discovered and this saul pais all part of the cycle, some survive and some don t. why is it worth all your time and money to save this one little bird? because it s sort of humanity s problem that s up to us to solve. we broke it, we should fix it. yeah. heading off the first man-made mass extinction seems like a thankless task.
story-teller. i ve reported from all over the world, and i have seen so much change. so i made a list, the most wonderful places to explore right before they change forever. this is the wonder list. there s a special exhibit in my favorite museum and his name is lonesome george. he is or was the last of his kind. you see, when he died in 2012, the punta tore tus joined the myriad of species large and small that have blinked out in the current mass extinction. there have been five other mass extinctions in history, but this time we can t blame giant asteroids or an ice age. this one is our fault.
forms, functions, but with 7 billion people now sharing the globe, it s getting harder to find places where life goes on without us. and we are moving a scary number of our planetary roommates from out here to in here in just my lifetime. which makes me wonder, how many more will disappear in my kids lifetime? well, the answer could be in a cluster of untamed islands where a few hardy souls are determined to stop history s first man-made mass extinction. so this is a journey to hear their stories, a search for creation and evolution. this is a voyage to the galapagos. my name s bill weir, and i m a