Name: 獵殺野生豬可拯救夏威夷的珊瑚礁 (Hunting Wild Pigs Could Save Hawaii's Coral Reefs)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T06:57:43.000Z
Duration: 5 min 10 s
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SPEAKER 1: I'm actually doing this to save coral reefs.

to understand how feral pigs along with climate change

are contributing to the destruction of coral reefs

and they're foraging up there for worms and for snails.

Once the rains come, intermittently, and flood

these streams, that's when we get a big pulse of sediment

If it's smothered, it can't get sunlight.

It can't get oxygen. It can't get nutrients and it's dead.

If the coral manages to survive, every time the waves comes,

continues to do damage, sometimes for decades.

KYLE THIERMANN: Last year, the Big Island of Hawaii

from the division of aquatic resources and NOAA

Even to my untrained eye, I can see that the decaying

LINDSEY KRAMER: To actually see these huge multi hundred

completely bleached and stressed and with that good chance

for me, that the magnitude of this was obvious.

That we might not see recovery from this event

DR. JAMIE GOVE: Coral reefs are important for a number

There's no other ecosystem on this planet that

but it has more forms of life than coral reef ecosystems.

but they occupy less than 1/10 of 1% of the sea floor.

SPEAKER 1: This is Dr. Jamie Gove, a research oceanographer

for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

all of those waves and storms and currents

on all of the shoreline property that we saw today,

SPEAKER 1: Since feral pigs are contributing

to the damage we saw underwater, I met up with Chad back

CHAD WIGGINS: Once a fence is constructed in a priority area

where you want to conserve the forest or retain sediment,

hunters can come in and reduce the populations.

that the eradication of feral pigs is not the goal here.

In fact, pigs are extremely significant to the islands.

CHAD WIGGINS: When pigs and goats were dropped off

by Captain Cook in 1778, they found paradise here.

Domestic pig bread with the Polynesian pig

which was already here at the time of the arrival.

The facts that pigs were here when Captain Cook arrived,

them enough to bring them across the ocean to Hawaii

SPEAKER 1: And pigs are still highly valued by locals here.

The problem is, their population has exploded.

You would have to remove 70% of the current pig population

which is why people like Justin Lee and Wayne [? Cypriano ?]

JUSTIN LEE: Without hunters, without people

is going to be made into appetizers at a baby first luau

It will be food on the table, not just for our family

SPEAKER 1: And Justin makes a good argument,

which is why I found myself on this hunt.

Climate change is endangering coral reefs all over the world.

And our ability to deal with land based intox,

like feral pig, could make the difference

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獵殺野生豬可拯救夏威夷的珊瑚礁 (Hunting Wild Pigs Could Save Hawaii's Coral Reefs)

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