Our plan to reconnect the giant trees of the Amazon

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In this video we're heading 30 metres above the rainforest floor into the canopy, the most biodiverse yet least explored part of the Amazon rainforest. 🦜To support our work you can become a member here: https://mossy.earth MOSSY EARTH MEMBERSHIP =============================== The rewilding membership that restores nature across a wide range of ecosystems. 🌲 Support a diversity of ecosystems 🐺 Rewild habitats to bring back biodiversity 🦫 Fund neglected species & ecosystems Learn more and become a member here: https://mossy.earth 💪OLLIE THE TREE CLIMBER =============================== Ollie’s Website: https://ropeyscience.com/ 📝 Field notes channel - https://www.youtube.com/@MossyEarth-FieldNotes ⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ =============================== 0:00 Intro 0:56 The first climb 5:00 Camera traps in the canopy 8:11 Sentinel trees 10:22 Bioacoustics 13:00 Camera trap results 15:45 Canopy bridges to combat fragmentation 🔎 ABOUT THIS PROJECT =============================== Back in August 2023 we purchased 194ha of land next to the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador, comprised of a mix of habitats from untouched rainforest to abandoned cattle pastures. Since then we have purchased an additional 15ha attached to our land, taking the total up to 209ha, and we've been working towards numerous ways to improve the habitat quality and monitor its health on our land and beyond ever since. This video covers our efforts to set up ambient biodiversity monitoring systems using camera traps and bioacoustics, as well as our plan to test and develop canopy bridges to combat the effects of habitat fragmentation for arboreal animals Read more about this project here: https://www.mossy.earth/projects/yasuni-rainforest CREDITS =============================== This project is managed by Fredy Gualinga Aviles and Adriana Brossmannova Filming: Julie Schleiss-Andreassen, Duarte de Zoeten, Tiago de Zoeten, Fredy Gualinga Aviles and Oliver Thomas Writing: Duarte de Zoeten Editing: Duarte de Zoeten and Thomas Hikin Scoring: Charlie Hernández 📄 REFERENCES =============================== Canham, C.D. et al. (1990) ‘Light regimes beneath closed canopies and tree-fall gaps in temperate and tropical forests’, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 20(5), pp. 620–631. doi:10.1139/x90-084. Moffett, M.W. (2000) ‘What’s “up”? A critical look at the basic terms of Canopy biology1’, BIOTROPICA, 32(4), p. 569. doi:10.1646/0006-3606(2000)032 Wang, X. et al. (2016) ‘Vascular epiphyte diversity differs with host crown zone and diameter, but not orientation in a tropical cloud forest’, PLOS ONE, 11(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0158548. McCracken SF, Forstner MRJ. 2014. Herpetofaunal community of a high canopy tank bromeliad (Aechmea zebrina) in the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve of Amazonian Ecuador, with comments on the use of “arboreal” in the herpetological literature. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 8(1) [Special Section]: 65–75 (e83). Müller, J., Mitesser, O., Schaefer, H.M. et al. Soundscapes and deep learning enable tracking biodiversity recovery in tropical forests. Nat Commun 14, 6191 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41693-w New Laurance WF, Vasconcelos HL, Lovejoy TE. Forest loss and fragmentation in the Amazon: implications for wildlife conservation. Oryx. 2000;34(1):39-45. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3008.2000.00094.x Kauffman, J. Boone. “Survival by Sprouting Following Fire in Tropical Forests of the Eastern Amazon.” Biotropica, vol. 23, no. 3, 1991, pp. 219–24. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2388198. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024. Littlewood, N.A., Rocha, R., Smith, R.K., Martin, P.A., Lockhart, S.L., Schoonover, R.F., Wilman, E., Bladon, A.J., Sainsbury, K.A., Pimm S. and Sutherland, W.J. (2020) Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for terrestrial mammals excluding bats and primates. Synopses of Conservation Evidence Series. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.