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Found inside โ€“ Page 36If Paenemarmota were social, as are extant marmots and ground squirrels, it would potentially represent large and ... Application of these methods allows more objective inference and interpretation of locomotor habits of extinct rodents ... ], [ARCHIVE CLIP, Brian Ball: I haven't seen anything. What's different? LATIF: A quick note: in the time since we started reporting this, the number of Saint Francis' satyrs has gone back down a little bit. BRIAN BALL: It's like a symphony going on, for sure. This was actually his first job as a professor. Let's just wait, see what happens, come back next summer. It would mean that conservation biology has come full circle. But how different are their genomes from their relatives, the Asian elephant and band-tailed pigeon? NICK HADDAD: Constant detonation of ordnance. He has to answer, like, why should we care about this butterfly? Violence? NICK HADDAD: And so this is where I had my biggest epiphany. Like, these are deadly places. This extremely tricky process has been proved only once, when a Javan banteng calf (using DNA from the Frozen Zoo) was successfully birthed from a domestic cow. And the name of this butterfly is the Saint Francis' satyr. NICK HADDAD: Honestly, I struggle with this one because you can—like Saint Francis' satyr, you cannot make the argument that they are pollinators or prey in their ecosystem that matter to anything. NICK HADDAD: And they're different in where they are on the landscape. So basically what Tom is saying is that the dwindling populations of this butterfly are just no big deal. BRIAN BALL: In my office, I became where I was kind of the beaver liaison for our office. Choose sustainable seafood. LATIF: There are years where he goes out to places where butterflies were thriving the last time he was there, and now he doesn't even see a single one. Is Tom here?" If a species has a unique function in its ecosystem, its loss can prompt cascading effects through the food chain (a “trophic cascade”), impacting other species and the ecosystem itself. I talked to the editor at the time. The first trip, I remember it in detail. And it's behind those abandoned dams where sediments have accumulated that provide rich soil that then plants can grow into, including—and especially—the food for the butterfly. The way that it came across in the paper it's like, "Oh my God! He remembered it. And they left that out of the paper. Here I am the conservation biologist, the scientist, thinking, "I'm the one. 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The Antiquities of the Jews I.6.139. That was the story I pitched, that was the story I reported, that was the story I wanted to tell. What if there are an overwhelming number of genes that have to be transferred? Oh shoot, I see two more right now. What is this story that you're about to tell me, and about what? So Brian brings out the big guns. But when I told him I was interested in talking about the Saint Francis' satyr, which was not one of the butterflies he was charged for, he was super game to talk. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Do you know what this flower is, Brian? Which for me as a reporter, I was like, he just pulled the rug out from the entire story I just did. We're working on that right now. And at first Nick was like, that would be so great. So the Saint Francis' satyr, they live in an environment in North Carolina that helps plants grow quickly. NICK HADDAD: And so we were able to create the wetlands that the butterflies needed. >Collecting stuff and heaping it up is unique to beavers and ants in Europe. In my office, I became where I was kind of the beaver liaison for our office. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Here it is. So Nick pieces that together, but pretty quickly another population goes down. And so these grassy wetlands aren't grassy wetlands for long. It turns out that other studies have challenged those findings.Â. Like, I felt like I just needed to talk to him. It's going extinct in that form, but its genetics, you know, that everybody seems to be concerned about, continues on in another population. With music from Jeremy Bloom and mix help from Arianne Wack as usual. LATIF: Now this soldier, his name is Thomas Kral, he has been a butterfly collector since he was six years old, and he knows enough about them to look at this one and say, "This is something different." But Nick and his biologist colleagues feel like this is just crucial for the survival of the species, so, he's like, "I have to go find out." I dunno. This is a far larger story than I think you initially signed up for. We've actually studied the Georgia Satyr. It would take resources away from saving endangered species and their habitats and would divert us from the critical work needed to protect the planet. But shifting a whole suite of extinct traits into a living genome has yet to occur. Waiting for confirmation that we can go into the range.]. Like, that's the law, that's the Endangered Species Act. He's like, "Huh. Found insideIts soft under-fur has more than 10,000 hairs per square centimetre, so Beaver pelts were highly prized. ... Exactly when Beaver became extinct is unclear, but most had probably disappeared from former strongholds in west Wales and ... 2. LATIF: He had a room full of cabinets, and the cabinets were filled with butterflies. Just stepped over a big ordnance.]. A beaver deceiver. Basically a pipe through the dam. Found inside โ€“ Page 31Some of the ancient species of beavers in North America weighed less than three pounds; others were nearly 10 feet long. Many types of terrestrial mammals reached their zenith, in terms of size, during the Pleistocene epoch when the ... But with the next step of new habitat regenerating that will be good for the butterflies. There's several hundred different, you know, additional subspecies. Nick thought, "Okay, now the butterflies will come back." That hasn’t happened. I mean, the guy who discovered this butterfly and wrote a paper saying, like, there's so few of them left we need to protect them, also is signing letters saying, "Yours in mass murder," and is involved in this, like, massive butterfly poaching ring. So it really is, like, if we don't save it, it really is going to disappear. And what he starts to realize is basically that, like, everything he knows about the Saint Francis' satyr, everything he knows about conservation, everything he knows about life and death is wrong. The next year, another, the next year, another. LATIF: I mean, I got the sense, like a pretty clear sense that he sees conservation science as totally politicized. LATIF: So this is weird to admit, and I've never actually done this in a story before, but that was supposed to be the ending. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Poison sumac just ended up on my face.]. So they went from, in the early '80s, a hundred butterflies, to the early 2000s, 1,700 butterflies, to now in 2011, 75 butterflies. This butterfly had a feature that just played right into my hands. And the first year we determined the population size to be about 1,000 butterflies outside the artillery ranges. LATIF: Yeah. Like, the way he talks about it, he feels guilty. Phytoplankton are critical to the health of oceans and the planet because they consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen during photosynthesis. Just stepped over a big ordnance.]. And he said, "No, he's out collecting.". Turns out Tom was not just an enthusiast of butterflies, he was an avid collector, including collecting butterflies that you're not supposed to collect. Like, they're thriving! I should say really quickly that Tom, he argued he was confuSed by laws. 1996.The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged. LATIF: And at first Nick was like, that would be so great. Can the important genes to transfer from the extinct genome to a living genome be identified? I've always been kind of a snake, frog, salamander type person. The woolly mammoth is one of them; early next year the passenger pigeon will be the ninth. So far the only proof of the method is a chimeric duck that successfully produced chicken sperm and fathered a baby chick. Took it to a whole new level. Fish and Wildlife Service, and he describes the outfit as a collection of people who get things done -- doers. These bills included efforts to remove the gray wolf’s protected status in Wyoming and the western Great Lakes; a plan to remove from the endangered list the American burying beetle that lives on oil-rich land; and a strategy to roll back protection of the sage-grouse, which also inhabits oil-rich land in the West and whose numbers have declined 90 percent since the West was first settled. What seems impossible one year is merely expensive a couple years later and routine soon after that. Nick thought, "Okay, now the butterflies will come back." So I call it sounds of freedom. And one of those letters from Tom, the way he signed it was, "Yours in mass murder, Tom.". And I think, you know, there's a chunk of that that has to do with his past experience, but there was also something that ran deeper than that, I think. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, over 26,500 species are in danger of extinction. Like, they were last seen decades ago. Like, just to give you a sense, like, there was an explosion where soldiers, multiple soldiers, special ops soldiers, three of them went to the hospital, one of them died. Brian Ball, a biologist who works with the Army. We've tried to figure out if this is happening. That prospect led to a nonprofit I cofounded with my wife, Ryan Phelan (she’s the director; I write screeds like this), called Revive & Restore. And then ... LATIF: Nick. And he doesn't even know if the butterflies are still there. And he's sort of—in his head, he's picturing—what he told me he was picturing was this, like, pockmarked moonscape. And he also names it. That didn't always work. Like a half a horse and a gargoyle or something. And one day, he's sitting in his new office when the phone rings. Books and articles all over the bedroom. He leaves Fort Bragg and becomes a real-estate appraiser. LATIF: Which is a fair point by Nick. An often-cited example is the impact of the wolves in Yellowstone Park, which were hunted to near extinction by 1930. You know, he was arguing that little subspecies of butterflies like the Saint Francis' satyr that are so small, so marginal, it just isn't worth the effort to save it at that point. LATIF: Okay, so did you believe at the time that this ought to have been an endangered species? I'm getting scratched up by thorns and ... LATIF: You know, the growth gets thicker in places. Let's fuckin' go!" However, because it’s unlikely that these kinds of top-down policies will be instituted in the current political climate, she recommends mobilizing grassroots community groups to create “bottom-up” policies. And Tom was not convinced. And a beaver deceiver is—what they do is they take the dam and then they basically, like, just punch a hole and then put a pipe through the dam so that, like, the water is still going through, but the beaver doesn't realize. Kent Redford, former chief scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, points out that the American bisons we avidly protect are only mostly bison, with quite a lot of cattle genes. MOVE – Making the most of a world in (com)motion, Columbia University Website Cookie Notice. Ooh. What you just heard? LATIF: So maybe let's just start with a phone call, I think, right? This is done routinely in synthetic biology these days, usually in microbes but increasingly with vertebrates such as mice. NICK HADDAD: I mean, it was almost in an instant. No : Some would say that we are the most complicated organisms in the world, Which is wrong many species are more complicated then us, For example, Take the microscopic water flies (dafnia pulex) they are the most complex organism on earth currently known. 5. Found inside โ€“ Page 99Giant beavers lived in lakes, ponds, and wetlands. They ate plants and trees. They could not build dams like today's beavers. They became extinct about 10,000 years ago when they lost much of their wetland habitat due to climate change. And a German study found 75 percent fewer flying insects after just 27 years. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: That one makes me nervous. Found inside โ€“ Page 25If the door was shut , it beavers lie in these houses , as the Indian expresses forced them up against it , finishing with a slap of it ... It had a great she goes into a separate bed or chamber , I could antipathy to the Indians . Yes! LATIF: So they went from, in the early '80s, a hundred butterflies, to the early 2000s, 1,700 butterflies, to now in 2011, 75 butterflies. Passenger pigeons were North America’s most iconic extinction. Found inside โ€“ Page 250Mr. Beaver he have four little beaver , and when roots all gone he kill one little beaver and give um to Indian . ... Harold thought it a very ingenious story , but he didn't think many beavers would save their lives through the Indi ... And he's sort of—in his head, he's picturing—what he told me he was picturing was this, like, pockmarked moonscape. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Super wet out here today. TOM KRAL: Absolutely not did I ever think this thing should have been listed as endangered. A group led by futurist Stewart Brand is spearheading a movement to try to use genetic technology to revive extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth and the passenger pigeon. Oh, wow! ", [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Let's see if it goes back to this flower.]. They might run destructively amok like kudzu! All rights reserved. That sounds like a mythological creature. If you have a garden, plant native shrubs and flowers that attract butterflies and other pollinators. They create a more natural world. These things are thriving here. LATIF: Well, because this butterfly, you can't find it anywhere else. Okay, that's 14 then.]. And so we break through, crash through the vines. Within a matter of seconds, I saw a Saint Francis' satyr. So Nick had me back to okay, if you look at the science, if you look at the studies, if you look at the evidence, this thing is super rare. LATIF: This is an argument that Nick has to face all the time. Whoa, shit! It's a big buffet. And yet exactly the opposite is happening. Debate was encouraged, and the subject duly became “controversial.” Arguments against the idea fell into three patterns, depending on who was voicing the doubts — the general public, professional conservationists, or people with biotech savvy. That will actually create, foster more than you're killing. And how do you then get to a living animal? Now the tape you're hearing, Nick recorded it back in 2020. Ooh. LATIF: So, not great. NICK HADDAD: We've searched in the most likely places based on our best knowledge and the guidance that we can get from remote sensing or from experts in the area, but ... LATIF: They had not found even a single one. I don't love saying "fucking," but it just—it does work here. A New Adventures Production MatthewBourneโ€™s Nutcracker!Music by Tchaikovsky Itโ€™sa Nutcracker! NICK HADDAD: That is critically important knowledge if he ... NICK HADDAD: ... found the— he identified the place. It was a—it was mind-blowing how quick it happened. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Stop here. Mixed reaction. CoNLL17 Skipgram Terms - Free ebook download as Text File (.txt), PDF File (.pdf) or read book online for free. This story is about a tiny, fragile critter doing its best to survive in a hostile world, and whether we should help it or let it die. Okay, so did you believe at the time that this ought to have been an endangered species? [laughs]. Let's just wait, see what happens, come back next summer. Absolutely not. Yeah, when I got a call from the army, I for sure furrowed my brow. TRACY JOHNSON: And I'm like, all right, let's go. It would be a reframing of possibilities as momentous as landing humans on the moon was (at a tiny fraction of the cost). They have to wait for a green light to tell them that live fire has ceased. Periodically, a rumor starts on the internet that says natural redheads will become extinct by the year 2060. Like, you know the image they have in, like, every high school history textbook of, like, World War I trench warfare? Picking one or two entities and saying these are endangered. LATIF: We've actually studied the Georgia Satyr. Everything else was, you know, just common. Found inside โ€“ Page 200Society as a whole will have to decide whether removal is necessary, and this will not be an easy decision to make. Consider the example of beavers in Great Britain. Until recently, beavers were extinct in Great Britain. No jail time. 38. Yeah. Naive because it's almost 20 years later, he is still trying to save this little flappy creature. The other worry among conservationists is that the great warning “EXTINCTION IS FOREVER!” will lose its sting, and politicians will stop funding the protection of endangered species with the argument: “It’s okay if the whatevers go extinct; you can bring them back later.” Exactly the same fear was raised 35 years ago when Oliver Ryder at the San Diego Zoo founded the Frozen Zoo to cryopreserve cells and DNA from endangered animals. Going into the artillery range, what I realized is my perception of butterflies as fragile was totally misplaced. This loggerhead was entangled in a line dragging a plastic bucket. BRIAN BALL: It was a—it was mind-blowing how quick it happened. With music from Jeremy Bloom and mix help from Arianne Wack as usual. The collapse of bee populations has hurt many in the $50 billion-a-year global honey industry. So maybe let's just start with a phone call, I think, right? This story was reported by me, Latif Nasser. NICK HADDAD: Lines of soldiers were pointing their guns. What I'm saying is, there's better places to put your limited conservation dollars. LATIF: First Tracy, then Brian, who's pointing the way. LATIF: Well, the fire is a bit harder to manage because it's more unpredictable. Oh sh—! Suzie Lechtenberg is our executive producer, and Dylan Keefe is our director of sound design. So this is now we're in kind of the early '90s. These include measures to allow for the consideration of economic impacts when enforcing the ESA, ending the practice of automatically giving threatened species the same protection as endangered species, and making it easier to remove species from the endangered list. And when it comes to the science, you know, the things Tom says he actually saw, I figured I should just put it in front of Nick. So Tom—they didn't just bust Tom, they busted a bunch of other collectors too, and in so doing they found letters that all of these collectors were sending to each other including Tom was sending, talking about, you know, where to find the best butterflies and how to evade detection. Regardless, the word is just inapt for what beavers do. LATIF: He leaves Fort Bragg and becomes a real-estate appraiser. A dozen species of horses were here, as well as the camel-like litoptern, giant beavers, giant peccaries, woolly rhinos, mammoths and mastodons. Since it's listed as endangered, the military has to save it. I called to get reports from my graduate students to get, you know, daily updates on were these butterflies in the places we'd hoped? If it is due to global warming and pollution, some say the situation could worsen. This thing seems to be surviving on its own. Accuracy and availability may vary. Insect populations overall are declining due to climate change, habitat degradation, herbicides and pesticides. A 2014 review of insect studies found that most monitored species had decreased by about 45 percent. Getting herds back to the subarctic, grazing the mammoth steppe back into existence, will be a century-scale project. Brian, the biologist with the army, was telling me he basically goes around on the back of an ATV with, like, a flamethrower. Goldfarb shares the powerful story about one of the world's most influential species. And I hate saying that because when there's only 3,000 butterflies left in the world, how can you justify killing any butterflies? NICK HADDAD: We've thought about that a lot. In the U.S., over 1,600 species are listed as threatened or endangered. TOM KRAL: These looked a little different. Share this on Facebook (Opens in a new window), Share this on Twitter (Opens in a new window). Or, surely they could not survive because the world has changed so much since their time; with their habitat gone, all they could hope for is a life in zoos, and that would be pathetic. Okay, numbers are running at the bottom. We protect them to undo harm that humans have caused. And so I'm the one that's always looking for snakes. There's truly only one person fit for the job.". Yeah. Like a domino effect. butterflies from protected sites, listed butterflies. And that creates that little pocket of opportunities. I grew up in a rural area of New York - from age 16-20, I hit or was hit by 5 deer in vehicles, including one that jumped off an embankment and landed on and went through my roof. Who will be our wolves? NICK HADDAD: My approach to conservation was literally hands off. JAD: So how does he get rid of those problems? The loss of pollinators could result in a decrease in seed and fruit production, leading ultimately to the extinction of many important plants. If a product contains palm oil, make sure it’s from a. He's off base. You know, we said, "Fish and Wildlife here to execute a warrant. And that's okay. And this just really becomes one of, you know, thousands of other types of butterflies. NICK HADDAD: So first, there's basically no people to muck with the ecosystem. Like, the butterflies are cheating on him or something. LATIF: So then I told him that Tom said that the Saint Francis' Satyr was just mixing with this other group. This left the stream banks susceptible to erosion, and a decline in songbirds allowed mosquitoes and other insects the birds would have eaten to multiply. Elephants also dig water holes that all animals share, and they fertilize the soil with their rich dung, which provides food for other animals. Scientists are studying the venom of some tarantulas to see if one of its compounds could help cure diseases such as Parkinson’s. All right. [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: So now we're at 11, 12, 13! I'm just looking on the ground for things that I might step on that I shouldn't be stepping on. LATIF: He was like, you know what? Oh my gosh. No way.". Radiolab was created by Jad Abumrad and is edited by Soren Wheeler. It's like, "Oh, if this now goes down, it's me that's let planet Earth down on this. Like, these are deadly places. That's after the break. LATIF: This is Radiolab, and today, we've been working on this story a long time, and it feels kind of disproportional because it's, like—it's a big story about a little thing. So that day I caught oh, maybe about eight or so. organizations that are helping endangered animals. NICK HADDAD: Within a matter of seconds, I saw a Saint Francis' satyr. So eventually, green light turns on. Brian, it's—I don't get it, it's coming right towards you. And Guam is covered in spiders because the birds are not there to eat them.”. Let's dam up some streams and make sure we get some water on them. Let's dam up some streams and make sure we get some water on them. LATIF: In this case, Nick was just like, "Nope. LATIF: And they find out that one kind of little thriving, vibrant population they had, it's gone. Through time, through space. It hasn’t been done yet. LATIF: Like, he was just very very—he knew his collection very, very well. And I'll just use this like a phone. So beavers, they create dams. So it's a beaver deceiver. It sounds like a fun little puzzle. Because there's no people, they leave beaver. Found inside โ€“ Page 28When that wasn't possible they put them in social groups and tried to release them somewhere where there weren't ... By 1843 there were many local extinctions of beaver, and by 1900 beavers were nearly extinct throughout North America. At the time, I probably could have named one rare butterfly. Yet kelp forests are rapidly getting mowed down by exploding numbers of purple sea urchin. ], [ARCHIVE CLIP, Nick Haddad: Wading through chest-high ferns.]. So he looks this thing up, you know, just to see what he's working with. Let's make a big mud hole. This one is about ...]. Now that paper is the thing that Nick, our guy from the first part, based the last almost 20 years of his professional life on. NICK HADDAD: This little brown butterfly sitting on the underside of a leaf. Before we go, I just want to—I just want to say that coming up, not now but in a week, is a baller series from our producer Simon Adler starting next week. So Nick still has a fight on his hands. And I saw three at the last site, he saw none.]. LATIF: I should say really quickly that Tom, he argued he was confuSed by laws. They create a more natural world. And one day, he's sitting in his new office when the phone rings. During the dry season, this over-abundance of vegetation spurred an increase in wildfires. [laughs] Yeah, I give him a head start. Its mission is “to enhance biodiversity through genetic rescue of endangered and extinct species.” Genetic rescue, we’ve realized, can have a wide range of applications. Through consumption and digestion, elephants disperse more seeds farther than any other animals; this fosters the growth of plants and trees that birds, bats and other animals depend upon for food and shelter. 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