“The Lost World” is often seen in media, in things like King Kong’s Skull Island, Jurassic Park, or your local Walmart. But there is an actual lost island out there, which harbors a diverse array of bizarre and unique species from ages past. The wonderful, but vulnerable, New Caledonia.
Link to the rest of my excellent music composer Dara Hughes’ work!
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vzw5L5wJcxMZqYkHF3ySo?si=uHSfvueFRk2i0RGuFndb0Q&utm_source=copy-link
Wikipedia Articles for the topics if you want to learn more about them:
New Caledonia (general): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia
Geography of New Caledonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_New_Caledonia
Biodiversity of New Caledonia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_of_New_Caledonia
Meiolania: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiolania
Mekosuchus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekosuchus
Amborella: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amborella
New Caledonian crow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonian_crow
Kagu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagu
Araucaria Trees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria
Sources Used:
https://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/05/13/mekosuchines-2009
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236160485_New_Caledonia_Geology_and_Mining
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/clever-new-caledonian-crows-use-one-tool-to-acquire-another
https://newcaledoniaplants.com/ecology/
https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/new-caledonia-dry-forests/
https://www.oneearth.org/ecoregions/new-caledonia-rainforests/
https://newcaledoniaplants.com/plant-catalog/maquis-shrubland-plants/
source
I swear I'm gonna wake up tomorrow with more information retained from watching this half-asleep than when I want to learn something
Thanks for talking about our population and our diversity the new caledonia thanks u for that .
6:45 New Blood!! ah, what a classic
Comentario de apoyo para los televidentes de la televisión y la radio 😃.
I want to go there!!
South America have two Araucaria trees, Araucaria angustifolia and Araucana.
Rat with wings 😟
Oh but we will
Another place I'd love to visit.
Thanks you to you for this video of my country ❤
It's a weird way to put it but this video felt like discovering magic is real
1:36 does anyone know where is this footage from?
Dang new Caledonia even has a few carnivorous plants. Most notably Nepenthes vieillardii and Drosera neocaledonica with a couple Utricularia as well.
I'm from New Caledonia, thank you for this video.
Amazing New Caledonia plant species :
– ixora margaraeta formerly known as captain cookia.
– pittosporum brevispinum.
And I have them in my garden in suburban Nouméa !
I went to New Caledonia during a cruise in 2018. I snorkled through the reefs and it was beautiful.
I leave in new caledonia and i apreciated your video 😉
great video and very interesting. although it got me heated to hear about people potentially ruining the island do to their greed through mining and negligence through the bringing of invasive species. i would've preferred people study the land first and see how the ecosystem has sustained itself over such a long time but, unfortunately, that's asking to much when it comes to humans 😔
Im gonna change the career im studying (biology) for the fact that professors highly trained for decades cant bother to teach things as good as this…
Islands: *exist
Humans: Let’s ruin this by hunting the native animals to extinction, and introduced invasive species.
This constant destructive human intervention, from the bottom of my heart just makes me wish humanity was noble enough to allow its own extinction for the sake of all life, its as if our species is a child or a drug addict with no better judgment or self control, and chances are we really will face extinction, but by then the planet will go down with us, not deserving such
Nice video, love ur voice and the editing 🙂
When one is on this island,I guess that means one has traveled back in time. It's like walking in a forest when dinosaurs ruled.
We need to get rid of all humans to save the world, send them to Mars or something with their usual farm animals and crops.
Damn, humans really just make the world worse don’t they. Like, we just don’t care about the planet we inhabit.
6:45 The filming location of Walking with dinosaurs: New blood
*Sad Serikornis noises.
Great video, though!
A "lost world" Island exists: 😀
Its inhabited by french people: 😭
Omg that waterfall is from Walking With Dinosaurs!!!!
6:45 freaking walking with dinosaurs ch1
New Caledonia is really fascinating place!