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00:12:01As a kid,
00:12:32it's a place,
00:12:32someday, someday, a female, and someday, a female panther will return.
00:13:03This is where the panther project.
00:13:05began for me began for me, and I wanted to find the wildest, and I wanted to find the wildest,
00:13:12and I wanted to find the wildest, most representative Florida panther habitat.
00:13:16once you drop down, but I pushed it out to play a way, and then, and when you drop down,
00:13:18I used to find the wildest, most部IE還u張hhh, it prevents the wildest, and what they're living.
00:13:29C'est comme là où j'ai été, et c'est le cœur de la florete de la florete de
00:13:33la florete.
00:13:38Vous savez que quelquefois, un panneau de la florete est stalking sur cette florete.
00:13:54Le moment de la vérité est si le caméra de la florete est ici, et si on a la florete
00:13:57de la florete.
00:14:02N'importe quoi.
00:14:13Il y a toujours quelque chose.
00:14:15Il y a quelque chose qui se passe avec ce deal.
00:14:20Le trigger est mort.
00:14:22Le batterie 42%.
00:14:251,914 shots.
00:14:31Il y a plus de 1,000 photos compressées en deux jours.
00:14:36Damn.
00:14:38Il y a des lignes de la florete de la florete.
00:14:41Il y a des lignes de la florete de la florete.
00:14:45Il y a des lignes de la florete de la florete.
00:14:50Ce trigger peut avoir pris le temps, mais à la fois que la florete de la florete, il est déjà
00:14:56là.
00:14:57Où est la première florete ? Il n'y a rien.
00:15:00Il n'a pas de sens à moi.
00:15:03Je peux essayer de deux ans plus, mais ne peut pas réplicer cette florete.
00:15:10Le chances de me voir un florida panther dans la nuit avec une camera en mon hands.
00:15:15Il n'est pas rien.
00:15:20Mais la florete de la florete de la florete.
00:15:22Mais la florete de la florete.
00:15:23C'est un moyen d'avoir la florete de la florete de la florete.
00:15:28La caméra est une ou deux feet d'avant de la panthère et donc c'est
00:15:32nous accès à ce monde. C'est quelque chose que nous n'avons jamais eu l'occasion de voir avant.
00:15:46Ce projet a été le plus difficile que j'ai jamais essayé.
00:15:55Il prend une grande quantité de temps, de l'énergie et de l'argent pour obtenir ces images.
00:16:05Et c'est donc loin d'être certain que nous allons réussir.
00:16:13En tant que temps que je prends obsessivement à photographier les panthères,
00:16:17je pense à la terre.
00:16:20Parce que ce panthère est une emblème de la terre qui est très dangereuse.
00:16:35C'est donc difficile de montrer la histoire.
00:16:41Et vous avez besoin de montrer les animaux pour créer cette connection,
00:16:47cette love, cette appréciation.
00:16:52C'est tout à l'heure de setting le stage et attendre.
00:16:57C'est tout à l'heure d'avoir regardé les 10 à 12 radio-coloured Florida panels.
00:17:12Si tout va bien, nous allons revenir en une partie.
00:17:20Je suis heureux de faire le temps.
00:17:37Je suis heureux que j'ai pris mon Dramamine cette soirée.
00:17:40Wow you really did some turns.
00:17:43Yeah sorry.
00:17:44Yeah it's all good.
00:17:46Yeah so we're on the western edge of the Everglades big cypress ecosystem.
00:17:52Why was the last puma east of the Mississippi surviving here?
00:17:57It is the last breeding population of pumas east of the Mississippi River
00:18:03and yeah you just kind of get a feel for how impenetrable
00:18:08some of the areas as you head farther east of Naples would be especially you know 100 years ago.
00:18:16I imagine this is probably the last frontier where settlers and people wanted to go.
00:18:24Exactly.
00:18:27There he is.
00:18:29I see him on the trail over there.
00:18:32Oh my gosh.
00:18:33He's heading south on that trail.
00:18:36Okay.
00:18:36Could be coming right over him I think.
00:18:40There he is.
00:18:41There he is.
00:18:42Do you see him?
00:18:43I do.
00:18:44We just saw a wild Florida panther.
00:18:48Absolutely amazing rare sight to see.
00:19:06If you're a female panther and you strike out on your own to try to find your own territory.
00:19:17You would only find a narrow ribbon of forested land that's getting chipped away at year by year.
00:19:30This is a turning point.
00:19:32You can see green turning to concrete and land is disappearing before your eyes.
00:19:42As we've developed the state and as we've developed this country, these wild places have been cut into smaller and
00:19:49smaller pieces.
00:19:54These islands for a wide ranging animal are a one way path to extinction.
00:20:04The panther needs that lifeline to the north.
00:20:07It needs the northern everglades.
00:20:08It needs the pine forest of the Florida panhandle.
00:20:11It needs the southern Appalachians and all the way beyond.
00:20:18The wildlife corridor is a way that we can save a path for the panther or it's going to be
00:20:27lost.
00:20:39All new at 4.30, Florida panthers are dying at record breaking rates.
00:20:44Nearly a dozen hit by cars on Lee County roads.
00:20:46Three in just the last week.
00:21:13It was obvious that this guy had multiple broken legs.
00:21:16But it wasn't until we got him to the vet clinic that we really needed.
00:21:18We knew the full extent of his injuries.
00:21:27We think he actually was hit twice.
00:21:29So once we got the x-rays and we could look at those injuries and actually palpate and feel the
00:21:34area where it was fractured,
00:21:35the back legs I think were broken in one time, but probably the front leg was hit even a day
00:21:40or two before.
00:21:42My options are fix the animal and hope that that stretch from, you know, surgical repair and rehab goes well
00:21:48with all the things that could go wrong or euthanasia.
00:21:51There's not a whole lot of in-betweens for wild animals.
00:21:55And I'm not sure even in terms of large carnivore rehab that anybody has done three long bone fracture repair
00:22:02on a large carnivore and then had successful rehab and release.
00:22:06I'm not even sure that anybody has done two long bone fractures.
00:22:08I think a lot of vets and a lot of people would look at me individually as making the decision
00:22:12and maybe collectively us as a group like we're crazy.
00:22:18Five cc's.
00:22:20V-vites.
00:22:23The panther team was originally formed when the population was down to 20 to 30 animals to try to bring
00:22:29these animals back.
00:22:31This particular kitten is the very first Florida panther kitten we've ever had the opportunity to capture and put a
00:22:37collar on.
00:22:37We know that we have a problem with survival of young kittens.
00:22:41And the factors that appear to be important and may all be tangled together related to this are diseases and
00:22:48parasites, possibly nutrition and a real clincher.
00:22:52One thing we're very, very concerned about is the genetics.
00:22:56If you look back in the sort of history of the panther project, we learn collectively as a group with
00:23:02this tiny little population of an endangered subspecies.
00:23:05The info that we get from this cat to me is critically valuable for this population.
00:23:11Didn't, I mean really close to the joint, but obviously it didn't hit it, which is great.
00:23:14Yeah, no.
00:23:15So we shouldn't have long term.
00:23:15Joint spaces look pretty nice there.
00:23:19As you can see, he's got the double plate to counter those like mechanical forces of being a panther and
00:23:25all the things that he needs to do is just to really reinforce those bones.
00:23:33He's gone through surgery, the surgery's gone amazing, and somewhere along the way he gets coined Trey for his three
00:23:39broken legs.
00:23:41There is a spirit to it, right?
00:23:43It's this animal I think truly wanted to survive.
00:23:45I think we see that in animals the same that we do in people is that there's a fighter spirit.
00:23:48It's a spirit.
00:23:48It's a spirit.
00:23:49It's a spirit.
00:24:04It's a spirit.
00:24:18It's a spirit.
00:24:45It's a spirit.
00:24:46It's great you guys.
00:24:48Il y avait trois tracts, une était une complète, une autre partie, une autre partie, une autre partie.
00:24:54Et elle a été dans l'année dernière deux jours.
00:24:58Ok, merci. Nous allons voir ce qu'il y a bientôt.
00:25:02Ok.
00:25:03All right, bye.
00:25:13Pour years, we thought it was only a matter of time before a female crosses the river.
00:25:26The photo is only two days old, small enough to be female.
00:25:29It builds excitement, but it's not enough to say for certain.
00:25:41It's been before my lifetime since the last female panther was documented north of the Caloos Hatchee River.
00:25:50You can think of the Caloos Hatchee River as a dividing line between the northern Everglades and the southern Everglades.
00:25:57And it looks like a line across the map because it's been dredged into a straight canal.
00:26:04And that river has been the northern limit to the breeding population of female panthers for the past 50 years.
00:26:14It's a formidable barrier across that landscape.
00:26:19You can imagine standing on the edge of that and deciding to put your foot in and take that swim.
00:26:27If we can capture the right image, we can show the world who that panther is,
00:26:33that's going to be the spark that lights a much bigger fire to save this whole corridor.
00:26:47The tracks never lie because tracks that small for panther is either going to be a female or a kitten.
00:26:54And either way, it's evidence of potential breeding behavior north of the river.
00:27:02Maybe we can pick up some tracks somewhere, see where they might be cutting across.
00:27:06Florida panther is the most difficult cat I've ever tracked.
00:27:11Because of the terrain, also because of the huge home ranges that panthers use.
00:27:15You need a lot of luck or you need to be able to follow a trail for a long time.
00:27:35I think this could be the spot.
00:27:38It's a shortcut. It's shady. So if they're walking during the day, they're going to like the shade.
00:27:42If I only had one camera to put anywhere in Babcock, this would be it.
00:27:53To be able to pick a spot in the woods, to have a chance of even seeing a panther, the
00:28:01odds are tough.
00:28:03You come north of the Closahatchee River, where there might be fewer than a dozen panthers in total existence
00:28:10across the whole midsection of the state, and maybe one female.
00:28:17Then the odds are going up almost exponentially.
00:28:36I have a lot of anticipation of this particular shot. It's one of the most important of my efforts, because
00:28:41it will place a panther in a landscape that could be nowhere else in the country other than South Florida.
00:28:47So I'm getting kind of anxious to see what's on here now.
00:28:51Thanks for the anticipation.
00:28:55This camera has been bumped more than I just did.
00:28:59Okay, let's see what we have here.
00:29:04Oh yeah, this is a bear. Bear cub. Kick-ass backlight.
00:29:10Come on, cub. Stick your nose up.
00:29:31The camera is pointing straight at the ground.
00:29:39This is going to be underwater any month now, and so my chance to get this shot could be over
00:29:44for another year.
00:29:46To put out a camera and to wait a full month to go back to check the pictures to realize
00:29:51the bears came and wrecked the camera the day after you changed the battery 29 days ago,
00:29:57It's the type of thing that makes you want to just throw in the towel.
00:30:03Nothing. Nothing.
00:30:13Getting emotional.
00:30:27Sorry. It's been a long, a long couple, a long couple years, a long few months.
00:30:36Thinking about
00:30:40all the time.
00:30:45Left flash, not firing.
00:30:50Rebuild lens hood for next visit.
00:30:53Pray for Panther.
00:31:17There's a few along here.
00:31:19Tracks?
00:31:20Mm-hmm.
00:31:22Here's one.
00:31:23Some nice tracks.
00:31:26That's awesome.
00:31:30I don't know what it is, but I'm just fascinated by them.
00:31:33I knew from when I was a little kid that I wanted to work with cats.
00:31:36I mean, it was just something that draws me to them.
00:31:40It sounds odd, but like, I do feel like I have this connection.
00:31:44I think this road looks good.
00:31:45It's a lot of wet areas still on either side, so it's really the best way to travel east and
00:31:52west through this side of the swamp.
00:31:56I don't know.
00:31:57Which one did you want to check first?
00:31:58We got how many here?
00:31:59Four?
00:32:00This is the video.
00:32:00Let's check the video camera.
00:32:02Okay.
00:32:07There we are.
00:32:09So we've had nothing, nothing break the beam since last Friday.
00:32:16Oh my gosh.
00:32:17Look at that.
00:32:19Oh my gosh.
00:32:20Look at that.
00:32:43This female had the tenacity to cross that barrier and set up a territory in this new place.
00:32:51All of a sudden, it's happening in real time. The stakes could not be higher.
00:32:57Since this female is on Babcock Ranch, we've been referring to her as Bab.
00:33:0611 in the morning, 2 a.m.
00:33:10Panther.
00:33:17The male up here at Babcock Ranch has this big blocky head.
00:33:22He's impressive.
00:33:23And you just see the rippling of the muscles.
00:33:27An unimaginable strength in that animal.
00:33:36They know how to sense each other and they know how to smell the marks that they leave.
00:33:40So she knew there was at least one male here.
00:33:43So she's got potential mates.
00:33:45To have a breeding female and new generations of panthers being born here
00:33:52who bring this whole system back into balance.
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00:52:57Oh, my gosh.
00:53:00C'est parti.
00:53:01Cautious, maybe, because who knows what's in that water?
00:53:05Maybe that panther's thinking about alligators.
00:53:07Maybe that panther's hungry for alligators.
00:53:09Maybe that panther's scared of alligators.
00:53:11Who knows?
00:53:11It's all a mystery out here.
00:53:15Here he is again.
00:53:17Whoa.
00:53:18C'est parti !
00:53:51In this project, there's so much disappointment.
00:53:56There's this image of hope.
00:53:59It gives me the energy to go on.
00:54:03And I also see that this animal can persevere in this harshest of environments.
00:54:14I have a glimmer of hope.
00:54:30Good morning, Joe.
00:54:32Okay.
00:54:3310-4.
00:54:34You got all that done last night down there?
00:54:37Okay.
00:54:37Good deal.
00:54:38Good deal.
00:54:40All right.
00:54:41Well, good.
00:54:41Then that'll make everybody happy.
00:54:44If for a day or two, anyway.
00:54:46All right, buddy.
00:54:48Okay.
00:54:49Yes, sir.
00:54:49See you tomorrow.
00:54:50All right.
00:54:50Bye.
00:54:54I guess we're going to be fact-finding and kind of making recommendations back to the
00:55:00governor on a proposed toll road running north through the state.
00:55:07Yeah, I'm not sure exactly where the road's going to go, but if it goes through the center
00:55:12of the state, it's definitely going to open up a part of this state that's still pretty
00:55:19much untouched.
00:55:20That's one of my fears, that it'll open up that opportunity, investors and their wheels get
00:55:27to spinning and turning, and here you go.
00:55:34In two miles, take exit seven toward downtown west.
00:55:42You all know which state in the United States has the most toll roads.
00:55:46It is not California, it is not Texas, it is Florida.
00:55:50We have 734 miles of toll roads.
00:55:53We don't need more and we don't want more.
00:55:55Toll route to nowhere.
00:55:57Toll route to nowhere.
00:55:58Toll route to nowhere.
00:56:01Florida is a vibrant state that continues to grow and requires the development of an adequate
00:56:05infrastructure network.
00:56:07These infrastructure improvements will be built with great sensitivity toward the protection
00:56:11of the environment each year.
00:56:18So, look, here's the other picture.
00:56:21That's what we're contending with.
00:56:24That was one of your trials.
00:56:26Yeah.
00:56:27Here's my favorite one that no one's seen until yesterday.
00:56:33I'll send you this.
00:56:46One thing I know is I researched the website you guys have and read some of the documentation.
00:56:51It said to revitalize rural communities was one of the goals of this project.
00:56:55And that kind of stuck out to me.
00:56:57The word revitalize.
00:56:58I mean, that's a pretty strong word.
00:56:59I mean, when I hear that word, I think that that means that there's something wrong with
00:57:03it.
00:57:03That it needs to be fixed.
00:57:04That being a rural community is inherently bad.
00:57:07Maybe it's kind of what I'm thinking.
00:57:08And when I hear revitalize, I just think development.
00:57:10I think rural communities have a place in our state.
00:57:14Thank you all for your time today.
00:57:15And then there's this big dark area in the heart of Florida where people can see the stars at night.
00:57:23That is exactly where the highway is supposed to go.
00:57:29We're at a really pivotal time.
00:57:31The first breeding panthers in nearly 50 years are showing up north of the Blue's Hatchie River.
00:57:38What people from this group are ultimately doing is deciding the future of wild Florida.
00:57:45I want to read it again.
00:57:50The good Lord set it up to work a certain way.
00:57:52And we come in and try to change all that.
00:57:54And it don't work.
00:57:58You know, it's, uh, it causes more problems.
00:58:02And, um, it's not all that.
00:58:05It's just, uh, seems like the more we, the more we mess and gone with stuff, the worse we make
00:58:14it sometimes.
00:58:38Damn, it's, it's talking about Irma right now.
00:58:52Wow, this thing's getting close.
00:58:55Good thing is that my family is safe way out in the Florida Panhandle, far ahead of the storm.
00:59:01I've got about 12 to 18 hours to decide whether or not I'm going to evacuate.
00:59:06And in about 24 hours, this entire place could be underwater.
00:59:13I feel like this powerful context that this hurricane creates adds a whole nother layer to the wildness of the
00:59:20panther story.
00:59:22Maybe we'll capture an image that brings all that together.
00:59:33I really worry about the female panther out here.
00:59:36I've been moving cameras around hoping to get a glimpse and try to figure out if she's still here.
00:59:41And, and we just don't know.
00:59:43Um, we just don't have the information.
00:59:47Now we've got a hurricane, a category five, Irma, heading straight towards us, looking like she's going to come right
00:59:54up the peninsula.
00:59:56Basically the only population of Florida Panthers occurs right where this hurricane looks like it's going to come through.
01:00:03I just wonder if they have any kind of feeling of this kind of thing coming.
01:00:19The trail is totally washed out.
01:00:25I'm doing my best to try to make sure my equipment is secure and safely above the water.
01:00:31We haven't seen Babs in more than two months.
01:00:35And there's a chance we won't see her again.
01:00:39Maybe she survives the storm.
01:00:41Maybe she moves on.
01:00:51And I think the cameras and flashes are safely above the high water mark.
01:00:59But it's so uncertain.
01:01:03Nature is incredibly resilient.
01:01:05But there are limits.
01:01:08We can't expect increasingly smaller and smaller patches of nature to function and to survive.
01:01:16Those hurricane force winds now stretch across the whole state of Florida from Sarasota over to the Space Coast.
01:01:22It was a harrowing day here.
01:01:24And it was devastating from the moment it hit.
01:01:55We can't expect more of an eye on the car.
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01:02:27The last photo we got of Babs was the beginning of July, and it looked like she was alone.
01:02:33You know, we say all the time that they're super resilient and you're adapted to hurricanes, and it's true, but,
01:02:39like, still.
01:02:42When we get to where the camera is, we're on the edge of Telegraph, so that's why I fear about
01:02:47his camera, is if Telegraph has spilled its boundaries, it's just going to be coming off.
01:03:00This looks like the end of the trail for the truck.
01:03:10This is the highest, driest habitat on this ranch, and we're still covered to our ankles in water.
01:03:19That's a lot of water.
01:03:21I haven't seen water go off into that side portion yet.
01:03:26Oh, gosh.
01:03:27Okay, so there's my trigger system submerged.
01:03:32There's my flashes.
01:03:39This is not what you want to see.
01:03:40That's my camera.
01:03:56This camera is seeing its last picture.
01:04:02That hurts.
01:04:08How many of these are going to make it?
01:04:10How many of my cameras?
01:04:11I could be totally wiped out.
01:04:17This was the last high, dry spot that was in good habitat on this side of the swamp.
01:04:24So there's nowhere to hide.
01:04:26There's no one little bit left untouched.
01:04:28The female, she's in an area that's still relatively new.
01:04:32And they throw a hurricane in the mix.
01:04:35This female panther will be not just the first north of the river in 43 years.
01:04:41She'll be the first to survive a hurricane north of the river.
01:04:45I don't know when I interrupt you, but there are fish swimming around your legs.
01:04:49Oh, my gosh.
01:05:01I'm driving down the road.
01:05:03Holy crap.
01:05:03Holy crap.
01:05:04It's walking right toward me.
01:05:05There's a Florida panther walking right towards me.
01:05:09Holy crap.
01:05:10Here it comes.
01:05:11Here it comes.
01:05:12I'm going to switch the video around.
01:05:12Then I'm going to get my real camera.
01:05:23I can hardly believe this.
01:05:27I'm staring at a Florida panther.
01:05:28He's right out in the middle of the road right here.
01:05:34Oh, he's walking.
01:05:35He's walking toward me again.
01:05:36Why is he doing everything I'm going to make a video?
01:05:38I'm going to put this camera down.
01:05:44I can't freaking believe it.
01:05:46I can't freaking believe it.
01:05:48I can't freaking believe it.
01:05:51There's a Florida panther right under those trees.
01:06:10He's walking.
01:06:42It's crazy because I haven't looked at these all in sequence like this and so one frame is the best
01:06:51panther portrait I've ever taken. The next frame the panther turns its head off to the side. The next frame
01:07:00is a kitten struggling out of the woods.
01:07:01And then I heard a ruffling coming from these palms over in this area. And sure enough the kitten came
01:07:11hobbling out of the palms into plain review here.
01:07:16And I went from like intimidated, excited, like a feeling of like pure exhilaration staring into the wild eyes of
01:07:28this panther staring back at me.
01:07:29And then just seconds later, like heartbreak that this kitten is struggling across, across the sand.
01:07:39It's a pretty swift transition from this gift of a panther staring right at me to this heartbreak of seeing
01:07:51this little fella just barely walk across his clearing.
01:07:59This picture right here kills me.
01:08:07His mother's within reach and you can see him connecting to her and pulling himself closer, getting back up and
01:08:17struggling on.
01:08:28And then it all made sense. This is why that mother panther walked down that road so slowly for 30
01:08:37minutes because she was waiting for her injured kitten to keep up.
01:08:57We're following up on a story we first brought you yesterday about new video showing a mysterious health problem affecting
01:09:04Florida panthers.
01:09:05The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission recently released the footage from trail cramers that show the endangered cats stumbling.
01:09:16And now investigators are working to figure out just why.
01:09:21So Lara, I'm going to go grab the vaccines if you're good.
01:09:25I think we're good.
01:09:29My thought process is they likely were exposed to a more mild exposure or dose of whatever this is that's
01:09:36causing this, which we still don't know.
01:09:38And that they hopefully will remain static and there won't be any progression.
01:09:42So that little bit of sign that we see is hopefully all we'll see in these guys.
01:09:49I'm so glad that they are not so badly affected.
01:09:52That kitten that you got photos of was the most severely affected?
01:09:56Well, maybe these guys are going to give you some answers.
01:10:01When you have an animal isolated, one big storm, one new disease can bring this cat back to the brink
01:10:08of extinction.
01:10:09This is why Babs is so important to the future of her species.
01:10:13What the panthers need, what the whole ecosystem needs is that lifeline to the north.
01:10:29We are probably seven months of rehab now.
01:10:31I think he was June of last year, so we're actually just about seven months.
01:10:36And today we're releasing him.
01:10:41We moved him from the small enclosure to a much larger enclosure, which is 11 acres.
01:10:46And after transition of a few small items like sort of armadillo sized animals, raccoons that we knew he could
01:10:53catch, he was offered live deer in that large enclosure.
01:10:56And it wasn't until he kind of went missing off of camera for a few days following introduction of the
01:11:02deer that we knew that he was probably out there doing exactly what he needed to do,
01:11:06which was that he had hunted the deer, killed it, and was feeding on it.
01:11:09And really was sort of, I think, the end point for us realizing that he was ready to go.
01:11:21All right, show time.
01:11:33When we're looking at decisions in terms of where we released the tray, you're looking at a map and you're
01:11:37saying, you know, my options are not what they should be.
01:11:39You know, where do I have enough green space that's truly wild to put a wild animal back into it?
01:12:15Yeah.
01:12:16That's awesome.
01:12:18He looks phenomenal.
01:12:20Yeah.
01:12:20He does.
01:12:21He does.
01:12:21Yeah, it's awesome.
01:12:22He's right over the top.
01:12:23He is fast.
01:12:24He is fast.
01:12:25He is fast.
01:12:53He is fast.
01:12:55Tout est complètement connecté.
01:12:59Nous devons être conscient de ça, ou ces lands ne seront pas là.
01:13:03Vous ne pouvez pas avoir des vies si elles n'ont pas lieu de vivre.
01:13:19Ils ont déjà beaucoup de game.
01:13:20Ils m'ont dit qu'ils sont moutrenés sur.
01:13:25Ils m'ont dit que j'aise à mes petits légers et qu'ils ont du tout à la fin.
01:13:31Ils ont les petits holder à la fin.
01:13:33Ils vont essayer de se trouver qu'il est réactionné pour qu'ils sont venus.
01:13:35Il n'y a pas de petits hauts ennuis, mais surtout des des.
01:13:40Des cranes, et cranes et la cranes qui loveent les corn.
01:13:45Just an old muddy camera
01:13:47I'm seeing if I got any panthers or bears on it
01:13:51So I can show Carlton
01:13:53How to take a real picture
01:13:54Without having to spend all that money
01:13:58And I've even
01:13:59Got some high tech stuff here that I found
01:14:02I don't know if you can see my stick or not
01:14:05But a little stick there
01:14:06To keep it leveled up where I want it
01:14:08Because the tree leans a little bit
01:14:14There's only so many pieces of unspoiled paradise left
01:14:17You know
01:14:19They get you squeezed down to a certain spot
01:14:22It really ain't worth your time and effort to farm
01:14:53It's hard to believe this whole pasture
01:14:55Is going to soon be covered in rooftops
01:15:09What's our plan today?
01:15:10Well we're going to slip out here and get around these heifers
01:15:13And move them
01:15:13Put them in a new field
01:15:14We're going to rotate them
01:15:15And move them over to another pasture
01:15:27Always got me when I see development going on
01:15:29I look and I say
01:15:30You know that will never be productive for agriculture again
01:15:37You've got to leave places for people to farm
01:15:40You've got to leave areas for these wildlife
01:15:47If you was to put a big road through the middle
01:15:49It may, you know
01:15:50It may entice folks to say
01:15:52Man look at all this land we have here
01:15:54That's
01:15:55They're doing nothing with it
01:15:56But got a few cows on it
01:15:58Or they're farming a little bit
01:15:59You know
01:15:59We can pick that up
01:16:00Fairly cheap
01:16:04Land went from $2,500 an acre
01:16:07To almost $20,000 an acre
01:16:08Within six to eight months
01:16:10We had people coming here buying big tracts of land
01:16:12$20,000 an acre
01:16:15There's no way I can put enough cows on it
01:16:18Farm crops
01:16:19And even plant some marijuana on the edges
01:16:21And pay for this thing
01:16:23But yet these people are coming here
01:16:25Spending all that money
01:16:27I talked to them guys
01:16:28I said
01:16:29Man
01:16:30How in the world
01:16:31Do you ever get your
01:16:33Do you recoup your money back
01:16:34And the guy told me
01:16:35He said
01:16:36Well you're looking at it wrong
01:16:38You're looking at it
01:16:39What the land can produce
01:16:40And this that and that
01:16:40He said
01:16:41I'm looking at
01:16:42How many houses
01:16:43Can I put on that acre
01:16:49I don't know the answer to it
01:16:51To be honest with you
01:16:52You know
01:16:52I know that
01:16:53They're not spending a million dollars
01:16:55To buy a piece of land
01:16:56To preserve
01:16:57A farmer
01:16:58What he does for a living
01:16:59But they'll
01:17:00Spend that money on that cat
01:17:02But if me and that cat
01:17:04Can get along
01:17:04We all benefit from it
01:17:06Yo man
01:17:07Come here buddy
01:17:09What are you doing
01:17:10Huh
01:17:11What are you doing
01:17:12We need to protect them
01:17:14As much as we can
01:17:15Because
01:17:16If we've got habitat for them
01:17:18That leaves habitat for us
01:17:31So I've actually gotten to be
01:17:32Kind of
01:17:34Numb almost
01:17:35It had been so many months
01:17:37Of not getting anything
01:17:38And I see an alert
01:17:40Pop up on my phone
01:17:41You know
01:17:41Here's another empty photo
01:17:42Or a pig or something
01:17:44And I open it up
01:17:45And it's this low res picture
01:17:46That looks like her
01:17:49Okay
01:17:50We're going to walk in
01:17:51This trail
01:17:52To where my camera is
01:17:55She was just here
01:17:57Like
01:17:57Two hours ago
01:18:10She's trying to see
01:18:11If there's tracks
01:18:12There's a lot of vegetation
01:18:13On the ground
01:18:23So yeah
01:18:24I got your text
01:18:24At like
01:18:256.15 this morning
01:18:26Sorry
01:18:27I got a little excited
01:18:29So he came through
01:18:30On the 10th
01:18:30So the mail was here
01:18:32Just a couple days before
01:18:33Yep
01:18:35Let's see
01:18:37Keep the clothes
01:18:40Oh yeah
01:18:41I figured we'd find
01:18:42One of these
01:18:43So if she came across
01:18:44This scrape
01:18:45She'd probably come by
01:18:46And sniff it
01:18:47She'd check it out
01:18:48That's exciting
01:18:49It's like
01:18:5020 feet from the camera
01:18:51So that's a good spot
01:18:53They chose
01:18:54Yeah
01:18:57Camera's going
01:18:58That's a good thing
01:19:00So the question is
01:19:01Which direction
01:19:02Was the camera facing
01:19:03Yeah
01:19:04System is go
01:19:07561 beam breaks
01:19:09This thing's been knocked
01:19:11But it didn't break
01:19:12The alignment enough
01:19:13To where it stopped working
01:19:14But here's to hoping
01:19:17Yeah this camera is
01:19:20Pretty much perfectly composed
01:19:21For a picture of the
01:19:24Oak canopy above us
01:19:26There's not a chance
01:19:28That we get a picture
01:19:28Of any animal on this trail
01:19:30Unless it was literally
01:19:30Like standing above it
01:19:31Looking down
01:19:34Question is
01:19:35When did it get knocked
01:19:38And when did the panthers come
01:19:40Sky, sky, sky
01:19:42On the 19th
01:19:43Wouldn't have been nice
01:19:44If she'd just walk right over
01:19:45That was it
01:19:46Wouldn't have been nice
01:19:47If the cows hadn't
01:19:47Knocked this camera
01:19:49Because that was
01:19:49The first daytime
01:19:50Yep
01:19:51And there's the culprit
01:19:51Right there
01:19:53The little floppy ears
01:19:54On that Angus
01:19:57This is where I'm starting
01:19:58To get pretty anxious
01:19:59We just had about
01:20:00200 pictures of cows
01:20:01But we're back
01:20:03To a level horizon
01:20:06And there's a panther
01:20:07There's a panther
01:20:08At 3.30 in the morning
01:20:12That's her
01:20:12No
01:20:13Oh that's a kitten
01:20:14It's got spots
01:20:14No that's a panther kitten
01:20:16Oh my gosh
01:20:17And look look look look
01:20:19Look look look
01:20:19Look behind her
01:20:20But they're
01:20:21That's two kittens
01:20:23Oh dude
01:20:24Look they're sniffing
01:20:25The screen
01:20:27Look at her face
01:20:30She does look like
01:20:31An annoyed mom
01:20:34Oh dude
01:20:35If one or both of these
01:20:36Are females
01:20:37Like
01:20:38That's just even
01:20:39A bigger deal
01:20:40So here's
01:20:41Here's to hoping
01:20:42These are females
01:20:48This right here
01:20:49Showing you a picture
01:20:50Of the first
01:20:51Verified female
01:20:52North of the river
01:20:53In 43 years
01:20:54But now she's got
01:20:55Two kittens behind her
01:20:56And what are they
01:20:56Sniffing
01:20:56They're sniffing
01:20:57The scrape
01:20:57Of a male panther
01:20:58That's been up here
01:20:59For a while
01:21:00Yeah
01:21:01So we've got a
01:21:02Florida panther family
01:21:04We've got the future
01:21:06This is a big deal
01:21:42So we've got a
01:22:07Nature is a great teacher
01:22:09And the animals
01:22:11The plants
01:22:11The water
01:22:12They're a part
01:22:14Of nature's way
01:22:15Of teaching you
01:22:22The animals
01:22:23They don't see
01:22:24Those lines
01:22:25Those divisions
01:22:27That are created
01:22:28These imaginary lines
01:22:29For them
01:22:30They still see
01:22:31That system
01:22:32Connected
01:22:33And they're trying
01:22:33To get
01:22:34To the areas
01:22:36That they knew
01:22:37It's still there
01:22:38That knowledge
01:22:39Is still there
01:22:40Somewhere
01:22:40It's waiting
01:22:41For you
01:22:42To bring it back
01:22:43Forward
01:22:44To the present
01:22:50There is that
01:22:51Possibility
01:22:51To have those
01:22:52Corridars
01:22:53Throughout the
01:22:53United States
01:23:06You guys ready to see
01:23:07My first story
01:23:08In National Geographic
01:23:09Magazine
01:23:13That's awesome
01:23:15How in the world
01:23:17Did you take
01:23:18That picture
01:23:19That's a camera trap
01:23:33That panther
01:23:34That's a mommy panther
01:23:35With three kittens
01:23:37What's that remind you of
01:23:39Mommy
01:23:39And the three of us
01:23:42Where do you
01:23:43Am I
01:23:51To do
01:23:51What's that
01:23:51I
01:23:51Like
01:24:02To do
01:24:02To do
01:24:03You
01:24:03You
01:24:10Absolutely
01:24:10A bill to be entitled an act relating to the protection of ecological systems.
01:24:15Thank you Mr. Speaker. This is the Florida Wildlife Corridor Act.
01:24:20Have all members voted. Have all members voted.
01:24:23The clerk will lock the machine and announce the vote.
01:24:26115 yays, 0 nays Mr. Speaker.
01:24:28I'm sure the bill passes.
01:24:39The panther is showing us that it's not too late.
01:24:42It's showing us that these remnants of nature can still be reconnected.
01:24:47And if we do that, there's no limit to the scale of life and balance that we can bring back
01:24:53across this entire continent.
01:24:55And to see the way that this story can unify and bring people together.
01:25:01I have tremendous hope of what wildlife corridors can do to bring people together across the entirety of this country.
01:25:24Thank you.
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