I feel unless you have been born and raised in NZ you don’t really understand this concept. Since I was young we have learnt how to protect the native species, we found diffrent ways to protect the birds then killing the rats and stuff. We are called kiwis, we see beautiful birds daily, these birds represent us.

@jesseward568

5 жыл бұрын

Oi, these USA hippies were like "why can;t you vibrate at the frequency of the possums?" and I'm like, "we tried but they kept killing our birds". They were thinking of "being one with the buffalo and the coyote" not able to imagine a mammal absent ecosystem. Americans get really upset when they hear about 1080 and stuff.

@jimm7346

5 жыл бұрын

@@jesseward568 we're not all like that. But yeah a lot of my country men have no idea what an "invasive species" is.

@astridicarus

5 жыл бұрын

@@jesseward568 "The usa hippies" I'm just laughing because you guys teach pest control the same way America teaches racism & xenophobia

@evermoreisthebestalbum

5 жыл бұрын

You're right when I was little I learnt to kill pests

@abtaco3038

5 жыл бұрын

Wow so you guys are just like ok let’s kill all the rats and possums because WE only like birds. Smh if that’s not discrimination

Some birds lost since human colonisation of NZ: The dinoornithorns (moas), a dozen species of flightless browsing ratites over 6 genera The haasts eagle and eyles harrier ,birds of prey large enough to eat children The adzebills,two large, flightless gruiiforms that may have acted like vultures The new Zealand goose (a big flightless goose) The north island takahe The laughing owl The Chatham and whatiwha penguins And many other species from anseriforms to passerines to parrots...

Good luck with that New Zealand, you're going to need it. Just trying to get rid of the rats would be a helluva feather in your cap.

Finally something by Vice I approve of. Wherever you live, research what detrimental invasives are in your area and go after them.

@marina7935

2 ай бұрын

you mean yourself? humans are worst parasites and most invasive.

"You can either be a kindergarten or Auschwitz, not both." - Some Australian guy that I forgot the name of. (This is a joke, I do understand the importance of preserving native species.)

This video gives me nostalgia for primary school in NZ lmao

Humans got rid of all the cool nz animals like megalania, moa, haast eagle.. but if any other mamal does it its somehow evil.. in my opinion these flightless birds just suck at living the lack of predation turned them into unimpressive weak shadows of what they once were set up to fail. If a wild animal cant survive w/o human help it is basicaly a pet.

@4doorsmorewhores298

2 жыл бұрын

Those aren't mammals lol. A moa is a bird, same with the others except the megalania

@SimonASNG

5 ай бұрын

@@4doorsmorewhores298 Tell me you are bad at reading without telling me you are bad at reading? And if he had actually made the error you mis-read, would it even have changed his point? Did you basically just agree with the substance and focus in on one word you thought he wrote?

@sirderpsalot

5 ай бұрын

Megalania was not in NZ...

@dancingbanana168

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, and now humans are indirectly responsible for the endangerment of other amazing animals in New Zealand via introducing invasive species

I would suggest that the posters should read NOT WANTED rather than WANTED

i never knew they came to my old school

Just export the invasive mammals . They're in high demand as exotic pets

@user-ue3pl2gf4o

3 жыл бұрын

no its illegal and dangerous. Over 98% of all pets are captive bred. Wild caught is bad for the animals and the humans

New Zealand is in a world of its own 😆

This is making me a bit uneasy, I live in The Bronx and WOULD LOVE TO RID THE PLACE OF RATS....but why is THIS METHOD AND LANGUAGE feeling so wrong?

Offer half a pint for a possums tail and a shot of tequila for a stoat and you'll get rid of all of them

@SimonASNG

5 ай бұрын

Yup, its all about the motivation... Except people will then start to farm the animals for the free drinks.

NZ is a beautiful country would love to visit one day

thumbnail feels like two Chinese/Japanese kids and two indian kids caught a white boy..

Man screwed up the Hawaiian Islands killed off the hawks ,now they know they messed up ,trying to fix

How about the humans who are not native to NZ. Humans are always after the poor animals. Let them live and change the environment as humans did

@ABoxIsMyHome

Жыл бұрын

Stup!dest thing I’ve heard in my life. So basically wipe out over a million unique species for a bunch of mammals found elsewhere?

Kids its time to pay the bill on the feline tab get em

Pet cat killed dotterell. Nesting on beach with babies No eat just kill ... CATS R A MENACE

In comparison with Kiwis Americans seem to be pretty noisy and annoying. Love their way of speaking our language.

It’s sad because most the native birds to New Zealand have evolved not to fly due to no predators but when these possums and stoats were introduced there was no real way the birds can defend themselves

@simbarashekunedzimwe1372

6 жыл бұрын

so you are saying they used to fly before they "evolved" to not being able to?

@phoeix940

5 жыл бұрын

I've read that one species of wren in NZ was exterminated by a single cat 'cause it's flightless.

@IamINERT

5 жыл бұрын

Simbarashe Kunedzimwe frankly yes

@rebeccaanderson5626

3 жыл бұрын

@@simbarashekunedzimwe1372 yes

the thumbnail makes it look like they just caught a blonde white boy

@Shabab-_-

6 жыл бұрын

😂

@surii867

6 жыл бұрын

Subliminal messaging.

@Shroudedleaves

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I noticed that

@VegemyteSandwich

6 жыл бұрын

I was actually looking for this comment

@wchi8391

6 жыл бұрын

stereomike111 DIVERSITY!

Should also get children make sure there cat's stay indoors. Cat's kill so many native birds.

@jordonliverett3160

6 жыл бұрын

Vicky Mc you probably saw that on facebook fool lol

@beyondthelol

6 жыл бұрын

Cats are horrible for the enviornment, its such a shame that they make such adorable pets

@emil.2019

6 жыл бұрын

Vicky Mc *maintain bird population

@TigerTT

6 жыл бұрын

Cats rule the world though lol

@killahpriest9528

6 жыл бұрын

cats do vicky... they are responsible for millions of birds in straya alone

Growing up in New Zealand, this culture of wanting to kill these pests has been driven into my head. I never realized that other developed societies do not have this culture.

@smolgok384

5 жыл бұрын

Other countries don't have 80% of their endemic species threatened by extinction.

@magdalena_dewinter

2 жыл бұрын

right? gives me a laugh seeing people saying “oh it must be so traumatising for the children!!” like.. no it’s not

@marina7935

2 ай бұрын

yeah, you just keep your psychotic children in NZ please))

@marina7935

2 ай бұрын

@@smolgok384 humans keep wiping not only birds but the rest of nature. Look up latest report how climate changes (caused by dumb humans incl you) is going to reduce population of bees, birds, etc.

As an Aussie, even I am concerned about the beautiful nature around my Kiwi friend's across the Tasman. Fact is, these kids won't go about and trap and kill these invasive species once they leave school, nor will they encourage others to do it. The only way to get people to start trapping and killing these species is by paying them a small amount per animal killed and dropped off at an incineration centre. I'd say $1-5 per item of vermin and you'll soon get people doing it. Imagine getting paid $50 for handing in a dozen invasive mammals at the centre. You'd rid the country of almost all the vermin within a few years..

@sahildhaliwal5831

5 жыл бұрын

FunkteonRecordings they did that for snakes in colonial India and for gators in Louisiana. What happened was people started capturing the animals and breeding more of them in order to cash in.

@philhutchings5774

5 жыл бұрын

Can kids have 22lr's in New Zealand? I think sending the kits out with one of those or a good air rifle would be fine way to occupy them at times. Plus they could collect pocket money. Wish I could have been paid to pick off pigeons at the farm etc when I was a kid, I did it for free to rid the nuisance.

@philhutchings5774

5 жыл бұрын

that's a good scam actually. makes sense because that could be tempting I suppose for some species. The pay would have to be low enough that breeding is non-viable.....

@nathanpearson8915

5 жыл бұрын

You can sell possum fur if you kill it

@matthewmartin5501

2 жыл бұрын

about the $ per item of vermin last time i checked it was $50 a kg for possum fur ( that 4 to 9 possums) it is a good side job for some one who like the outdoors

Omg kiwi accents are one of the most wholesome sounds in existence.

Just because it's "cute" doesn't mean it's "good".

SAVE THE KIWIS !!!!!!!

@ABEL-cd2sp

6 жыл бұрын

Grey Garcia nah let's kill them

@HatDawgBoi

3 жыл бұрын

@@ABEL-cd2spwhy it’s a our native animal

It's nice to see these kids learning how to protect and conserve wildlife.

Bizzare indeed. It feel right and wrong at the same time!

@Amerigo_Vespucci

6 жыл бұрын

supernpstr these birds didn't evolve. So they gotta go

@supernpstr

6 жыл бұрын

aatechca i guess thats darvinism for you.

@Amerigo_Vespucci

6 жыл бұрын

Erik Ruiz in our little primate brain perhaps

@subculturenz

6 жыл бұрын

they evolved to not need to worry about mammals as they were the dominant species, so their wings grew smaller and their bones thicker.

@JoBT42

6 жыл бұрын

aatechca they did evolve, without preditors. humans introduced these mammals so we should get rid of them.

What a beautiful childhood these kids have

@insaneskater0065

6 жыл бұрын

TheHornet79 Right why not leave it to adults?

@TheHornet79

6 жыл бұрын

Of course the adults are working on it. But at least they can use that event as a learning tool. The children are learning about animals, habitats, the idea of making sacrifices to make a community grow, and not being scared to be in the wilderness. Its good for them.

@ericcheese7594

6 жыл бұрын

Its really cool they have an environmental studies teacher at such a young age.

@Elggdos

6 жыл бұрын

I wonder why these kids have beautiful childhoods? Interesting that some of the happiest cultures have one major thing in common.

@donjulio1166

6 жыл бұрын

New Zealand is one of the best places in the world to grow up.

When govt fail,kids have to take responsibility

@napoleonibonaparte7198

6 жыл бұрын

Abhay Singh *whispers U.S.

@bayleykalach4242

6 жыл бұрын

Actually alot of these initiatives are NZ government run

@milanthakkar9493

6 жыл бұрын

Abhay Singh Dude I see you on Vox videos too you're everywhere

@user-uy6uc5ey5q

6 жыл бұрын

I take it you know nothing about New Zealand or this issue. First off the teacher is a paid government employee in a public education school providing a program designed and paid for by two NZ government departments. The Ministry of Education and the Department of Conservation (which controls about one third of the entire NZ landmass). Second almost all invasive species which are destroying the country's native flora and fauna were introduced by PRIVATE interests. Either individuals wanting to have a plant or animal which the liked and just shipped them (or in cases smuggled) and released them. There were even private clubs in the 19th century, called Acclimatisation Societies, which brought breeding stock, mainly from Britain, into the country because the felt that native species weren't "proper". The control of these pests has since the late nineteenth century has almost exclusively been organised and paid for by the NZ government.

@hogatiwash7750

6 жыл бұрын

Majime how do u know he's french? and what does that have to do w/this video or comment thread?

Humans are the ultimate invasive mammal

@avykh99

6 жыл бұрын

Guybrush Threepwood That makes no sense.

@filipt7866

6 жыл бұрын

Guybrush Threepwood Who hurt you?

@TheGreekSpawn

6 жыл бұрын

But LeChuck is dead

@greygarcia3808

6 жыл бұрын

Were technically Apex predators. But true. Its mainly capitalism tho, so very rich/selfifh humans arebthe most invasive.

@napndash

6 жыл бұрын

A Nigga With A Rocket Launcher What doesn't make sense?

basically most pacific islands have at least one invasive species, thats why hawaii banned snakes as pets here.

Never expected my old primary school would ever be on a VICE.

@iquelh16

4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@Souppreium

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@candycorndandy2293

2 жыл бұрын

one of my friends went there

I like the diversity of New Zealand... Indians, Chinese, American, European, African and Weird Haircut!

@bok..

6 жыл бұрын

Come to Canada its the same.

@timetodeliverapizzaball

6 жыл бұрын

ETAHGAL AKNAYIRP vice made sure they rounded up a good mix. "But teacher I'm your top student let me be in the video" "no you don't fit our racial aesthetic needs!"

@saurabhparate

6 жыл бұрын

time to deliver a pizza ball Hmmm...... Interesting..!

@DoughBoy45

6 жыл бұрын

So progressive

@lejiffstix6229

6 жыл бұрын

no, we don't. there are hoards of asians that set up their own communities and refuse to learn or speak english.

This lady is a legend, the idea should be to teach children while they are young that a sustainable environment is more than putting recycling in the right bin. I remember getting into a heated debate one night with social worker about whether animal population control was ethical. Largely it boiled down to whether killing large amounts of a species was ethical if it meant preserving an entire ecosystem. The go to example for population control in Australia boils down to four main creatures; non indigenous frogs/toads, camels, bush pigs and kangaroos. Three of these were easy arguments to win as the social worker couldn't understand how taking one life to save many was justifiable, but understood that frogs/toads, camels and bush pigs were a great danger to Australian ecosystems. The final one went on for about three hours with the social worker being unable to understand that the current kangaroo populations along the south eastern coast were out of control and that we had to take responsibility for it due to removing the old natural population control measures as we colonised. I still don't understand how people can advocate for the lives of animals, but get in the way of fixing issues we have created within the Australian wilderness.

It's a shame, I personally love all mammals, but humans introduced these species to an isolated environment that has no way of dealing with them - and now they have to eradicate them. It has to be done.

This is really disturbing to be honest, hearing kids talking so casually about killing. This is fine, but in hindsight... If today they taught the kids to kill, say, something else.. I don't know. It's just wrong enough to give a very, uh, eerie feeling.

I absolutely love stoats, they are an amazing, admirable little predator. But, I get her point. Possums, and and stoats are amazing animals but they don't belong in new zealand so I understand why they want to get rid of them. Humans introduced them where they aren't natural which is destroying their unique population.

@kakapofan6542

Жыл бұрын

@Christopher Van Norden There is something like 26 million sheep in New Zealand and 6.3 million dairy cattle in New Zealand. There have been 28 recorded cases of mistaken poisonings in the last 10 years all of animals. Not all of New Zealand is readily accessible and we cant just shoot them all because of the impracticalities. We cant trap them all because we cant get the traps to them and it cant kill them fast enough by themselves (in remote areas). If we get this done now it will never need doing again.

The possum was introduced in New Zealand for the use of their fur. This person is misrepresenting the possum to the children as if they are a pirate of the animal world that's 'come here' of its own accord. I think although it's a problem, people need to take responsibility for the actions of mankind and tell people the truth about why there is an overpopulation of an animal.

@Marx9728

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine trying to explain the fur trade to a 7 year old

New Zealand has got to be the most fragile ecosystem in existence, next to that of Australia.

So put on your boots... ITS WEASEL STOMPING DAY!

@jaegerthegreat7619

5 жыл бұрын

It's tradition, that makes it okay!

@bundleofdaisies7523

5 жыл бұрын

That was a good one. 10000000000000000000000000000 BONUS POINTS!!!!!

@Marx9728

2 жыл бұрын

10 points for the head!

remember when the Australians had a war against the emus and lost even though they used machine guns

Love it !!! Thanks fr doing this!!

The irony of a human calling these animals ferocious killing machines, meanwhile tigers may not exist in 3 years because people want their meat and bones.

@frotmodo

6 жыл бұрын

Hummingbird but they’re tasty

@SunMysts

6 жыл бұрын

clarence b I really don't care what tiger babies tastes like. They are too precious to be poached. Just like that species of rhino that went extinct the other day, tigers will follow if they are not protected more. And then there will be no more tiger for anyone.

@siggitiggi

6 жыл бұрын

The thing is we destroy habitat, we always have. That doesn't mean we shouldn't slow it down where we can, like for instance killing stray cats and dogs. We may not like it, but it's something we caused and we have the means to fix it.

@lillooly

6 жыл бұрын

Hummingbird I don’t think you understand that in New Zealand our endemic species is some of the most special int who works as the evolved 80 million years prior and there’s no other alive like them so once they’re gone it’s not like we have a similar one or can genetically clone them, once they’re gone New Zealand’s species are gone, i’m a kiwi and New Zealand’s wild life is so threatened we’re actually moving the life off the mainland into pest free island because it’s far to dangerous for them.

@SunMysts

6 жыл бұрын

Lily Jane But the fact of the matter is that we are in the middle of a mass extinction brought on by humans and species go extinct regularly. trying to rescue certain species because they're "special" won't cut it.

People can say what they want but sometimes you have to kill. For instance in the UK activists tried to say that mother nature could control deer populations so they fenced them in. In a short period they started starving due to lack of predation and food. If there are no natural hunters we have to be them.

You probably shouldn’t try and get Australia to help, considering they lost a war against emus

@vice why didn‘t you talk about the use of 1080 at all?

This is the correct approach for invasive species

Every year I go for a walk with my grampa placing traps around a place called cape kidnappers every year more stouts and possums appear around the area

I love how man corrupts the land, then when man tries to fix the problems everybody gets mad.

@meegz149

6 жыл бұрын

Jv I love the euphimism you use for mass killing. You live in Africa? If not I suggest migrating, better yet www.vhemt.org/

@alexanderstraight2604

6 жыл бұрын

"The land" does not make moral judgements, nor can it be judged by moral standards. We did not corrupt it, we just changed in in ways we have come to dislike, and now we are trying to reverse those changes.

@macbookproearly2011

6 жыл бұрын

go learn what "corrupt" means.

@naughtywizard

Ай бұрын

⁠@@alexanderstraight2604 Reddit level philosophy lmao

The reporter and the teacher scissored after the interview.

@paisano4450

6 жыл бұрын

they bumbed clams

@jrizzle3124

6 жыл бұрын

Haha......

@chiakijeremy6094

6 жыл бұрын

Oxygen what's wrong with you

@xyg6543

6 жыл бұрын

chaiki jeremy, nothing. My mummy always told me that I am very special.

@chiakijeremy6094

6 жыл бұрын

Oxygen I kinda know why she's saying that....

0:53 edgy kid

that's how hate is created in child's mind. Replace possum with anything you want.

its kinda wierd to watch how easy it is to teach kids to kill things

Myxomatosis and Calicivirus might be ugly but they have been devastatingly effective at controlling the rabbit population here. Targeted biological weapons are so dangerous to contain, but I am sure someone somewhere is working on weaponising something like Tularemia or one of its relatives.

@russellngwinn6800

6 жыл бұрын

Mark Harvey with small predators like stoats it would be something like the parvo virus which would also affect domestic dogs and cats.

@user-uy6uc5ey5q

6 жыл бұрын

Except they aren't. Both diseases though have massive death rates never achieve 100% kill rates. The Calicivirus introduced illegally in mid late 90s probably only got to 90% (partly due the way rural communities carried it out) it meant very quickly a quick breeding species like rabbits breeds an immunity population relatively quickly. Rabbit problem is now back a bad as it ever was. You comment about Tularemia is just terrifying. You know though it called rabbit fever, its a human affected disease, and it not really know if it would kills rabbits. What could go wrong with using a known biological warfare agent, WITH NO KNOWN VACCINE, being introduced into NZ.

I don't disagree with the end goal, but does this _really_ belong in primary school education??

@GL-ys8je

6 жыл бұрын

Good pocket money for kids.I used to think I was a millionaire catching possums good eating too.

@ABEL-cd2sp

6 жыл бұрын

Yes they should, they should learn not only the job but what it means and what it takes to keep the environment working properly before some of them turn into mentally retarded vegans who won't let humans kill these pests.

@CheerfullyNihilistic

6 жыл бұрын

Yes

@kingoftech

6 жыл бұрын

If not primary, when? Later education has to prepare you for the world and beyond, primary school is the best time for civics.

@thatcow86

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does. Ecology is one of the most important subjects you can teach people. Our place in the natural world and the importance of maintaining nature's balance is more relevant to the average person's life than Calculus will usually be.

Not my Kiwis. What am i supposed to make fun of if they all die?

We did this at my school (private Christian all girls, very suburban & prissy)- we had an adventure camp/nature reserve 4 hours out of town the school used for outdoor education, life skills like cooking and budgeting as well as kayaking etc - we would go on hikes to set and clean out the traps - in under a decade they’d made it 95% pest free and counting. Walking through restored native bush in New Zealand is truly special and even as a 14 year old, as much as killing a possum seems cruel, you know that it’s restoring the land to its natural state and taking back the mistakes that were made by settlers. I don’t know why the reporter is so PC concerned about the stoats being cute etc - maybe that’s an American thing ?

Plot Twist: Humans are the WORST invasive mammals in NZ

Cringe Haircuts Unite

@ericcheese7594

6 жыл бұрын

Kurai Sekai haha lol, they look different than what I am comfortable with, so weird!

@camwhite1697

6 жыл бұрын

Does it matter what they look like?! This video is about killing rodents not their haircuts.

@tontonpacute

6 жыл бұрын

its like they all met up on instagram and decided to do a piece in new zealand

@BobSmith-pi5eq

6 жыл бұрын

They must be lesbians

@Gyva02

6 жыл бұрын

Never knew what compelled a woman to wake up one day and say "I want to be ugly and unattractive from now on, I think I'll cut all my hair off today"

I know this sounds weird and cult like, but as a person in their final year of nz high school this was taught to us as children so we never questioned it. In fact, I joined academic Academy in year 8 (age 12-13) we spent the whole year building traps to kill them. Now watching this I realise how weird that is, as I no longer eat meat personally. Can't believe this was a religiously taught part of our education.

@Francois39

Жыл бұрын

Oh would you rather all of your bird die out? In the end we need to fix our ancestors mistakes.

Without context this sounds a lot like right wing extremism lol

@thewallachianbard6975

6 жыл бұрын

It still does to me.

@joshuaellery6167

6 жыл бұрын

American leftist must be so fucked that they think everything is political or right wing.

@oliverwilson11

6 жыл бұрын

Right wing extremism is when people try to apply the same logic to humans (as if different cultures of humans were like different species of animals which of course is nonsense)

@mrpopaskidd

6 жыл бұрын

Or far left

@jesseward568

5 жыл бұрын

yeah the hippies were crazy in the states when i told them about this

Cruel but if it's for there survival then do whats necessary.

You know, this is actually humans fault TBH. Animals are just animals, do what animals do to survive.

I’ve been doing the same thing with starlings and different bugs, it’s a loosing battle but it’s brought me many feathers so it’s a win

I wish them the best of luck over there! :)

They are getting ready the next generation of rugby players.

@lizziehardiman

5 жыл бұрын

Of course we are, we need to beat the Wallabies!

They should get the engineer from TF2. "Need a sentry here!"

@carlosvonbismarck1217

5 жыл бұрын

Yay a fellow tf2 player

I'm from Auckland and I never thought that our country would ever make it onto Vice News. I'm sad and happy. I'm happy that the rest of the world knows of our existence. I'm sad because I never thought that our country was bad.

@spacebirb7934

4 жыл бұрын

???? why is new zealand bad?

@angusmcdonald1223

Жыл бұрын

Aucklanders at it again.

@Francois39

Жыл бұрын

Not sure that protecting eco systems is a bad thing.

They should introduce the predators that feed on other ones!

@ericcheese7594

6 жыл бұрын

Aryan Zagros I do like me a reverse-turtles all the way down, scenario.

@saltysocks1074

6 жыл бұрын

20 years down the line i want to hear about new Zealand grizzly bear problem

@DiDoAnimates

6 жыл бұрын

They tried to do that in Maui, it ended poorly.

@lillooly

6 жыл бұрын

Aryan Zagros they’ve tried once it didn’t go well.

@angusmcdonald1223

Жыл бұрын

Thats how ferrets and stuff got here originally, we got them to kill the rabbits but then the ferrets went haywire.

Kiwi are so mental 😂

@bok..

6 жыл бұрын

Penal Colony

@lillooly

6 жыл бұрын

we’re not, we just care about our native wildlife.

@yassersaeed3056

6 жыл бұрын

Bok you're think of Australia. NZ has never been a penal colony

@annakeye

6 жыл бұрын

*+Yasser Saeed* Actually, there was a penal colony in the Marlborough Region. Or at least, it was where the toffs, or aristocratic criminals that just couldn't be tolerated by polite society in mother England, got sent too. Those that had run up big debts, or raped one too many servant girls, that sort of thing, ended up in Marlborough.

@GL-ys8je

6 жыл бұрын

Mental or Meentaal.

You can really tell the accent difference aye?

Make a piece on how Germany took in millions of refugees and how that will effect us in the future.

@AdrianMartinez-ek4kl

6 жыл бұрын

Ufstermonster111 Kocker1 they have.

@trevorprime2274

6 жыл бұрын

Ufstermonster111 Kocker1 - AFFECT*

@madsdavidson4292

6 жыл бұрын

Diversify culture, bigger work force and saving innocent people. Good from my point of view.

@geraldsoria1764

6 жыл бұрын

unless they are integrated into german culture and made into citizen then youd get a massive workforce for the economy.

@hyawill8944

6 жыл бұрын

Mads Davidson And diversifying culture is always OK, no matter what cultures come in or emerge within? Bigger workforce is good when it is skilled or at least there not many things about culture that cause problems in getting those skills to people. Moreover, level of social help demands from a given group is also very important. And I am not even starting on social and political stability, attitude toward members of other groups, eagerness to use vilence if some cultural conflints emerge.

Kind of ironic seeing a bunch of white kids talking about invasive species in New Zealand.

@tjfiso6407

6 жыл бұрын

britshell Don't be that guy.....

@britshell

6 жыл бұрын

TJ, Did you just assume my gender ?!

@meegz149

6 жыл бұрын

It is ironic though.

@Uhcip

6 жыл бұрын

would you also say the same about Maori kids since ancestors killed and ate the previous indigenous settlers? please...

@PabloJustChillin

6 жыл бұрын

People in general. The people of Australia and New Zealand weren't introduced of their own free will, and if you knew history you'd understand that.

Train the *Kea birds to catch rats :-)* Good for native wildlife = great for tourism. Nobody will come to see rats in NZ :-)

I live in Crofton downs and we were the first predator free community in NZ. Auckland has done jack

Same problem in the US.....Trump supporters.

@lizdamienii3063

6 жыл бұрын

48162342 Still crying over an election I see. (Sigh) At least I'm European so I don't have to deal with people like you.

@ABEL-cd2sp

6 жыл бұрын

Liz Damien II I'm Mexican but I might have to deal with retards like him since my fiance is in the US (I lived there for two years left because family reasons)

@48162342

6 жыл бұрын

No one needs to cry to realize how mentally unstable trump and his supporters are....

@ABEL-cd2sp

6 жыл бұрын

48162342 I mean most people aren't and Trump hasn't done anything inherently evil so you don't have much to complain about I'm Mexican and I'm not complaining about every single little thing he says I actually support many of his ideas.

@48162342

6 жыл бұрын

He hasn't done anything wrong? What are you brain-dead or something? He continues to attack and belittle everyone who doesn't agree with him when he is supposed to work for EVERYONE in the states. He is profiting off the hard work Obama put over the years even after the republicans tried their best to annul everything. He plays more golf than he even steps into the oval office, costing the public millions of dollars. Then he cheats on his wife, rapes women, continuously commits treason to the US, grows his business on the side while making staff and foreign government members stay at this ugly hotels. And these are only a few......your passive attitude is the reason why there is a serious problem in the world.

New Zealand’s invasive mammals include white people. Take your refugee selves back to Europe.

@woden3894

6 жыл бұрын

Actually there's numerous evidence to suggest the Moari are also not indegenous to New Zealand and had instead eaten their way through a 3 course meal of fair skinned natives, like they did with the Moriori.

@lillooly

6 жыл бұрын

Anbyrdnes My Maori teacher at school actually taught me this; the Maori originally came from a pacific island, is unknown which one but there are 3 theories, personally i believe they came from Rarotonga as they’ve got a story about 7 canoe (waka) leaving the island to find a new and when Maori came to NZ there were 7 main tribes at first from 7 Waka, at least that’s what my Maori teacher taught me when learning the language.

@meegz149

6 жыл бұрын

Actually all humans.

@alexanderstraight2604

6 жыл бұрын

I would just like to point our that the Pakeha, who colonised NZ were not refugees, they were migrants, there is a big difference. My ancestors were not, as a rule, running from anything, they left the shores of Britian because they chose to, not because they would be killed if they stayed.

@maxparker1321

6 жыл бұрын

Yep and take back the steel and ships fishing rods anything that's not natural to the Native people's so y'all back to sticks and stones enjoy

you would think the Stoats would be dealing with the rodent problem in Australia.

Christine is very honest, appreciate it.

Another example of humans thinking of them above nature *Paradoxical*

@rayyanali4471

6 жыл бұрын

Prakhar Pandey Actually those invasive species were brought to NZ by humans.

@tevitaphillips3196

6 жыл бұрын

humans are the apex predator, our job is too keep populations in check by killing

@jamesstuart3536

6 жыл бұрын

Humans are the most inteligence species. We can control our own destiny. We are the top of the food chain.

@Dubaikiwi

6 жыл бұрын

Am from NZ, this is us corrected a human-made mistake, not slaughtering needlessly.

@ABEL-cd2sp

6 жыл бұрын

LostStudent nothing wrong with correcting our mistakes as humans it's our responsibility

Dike on dike action.

@wille2680

6 жыл бұрын

Beef Curtain Slapathon.

@stateofexistence2049

6 жыл бұрын

*DinkleBerg* 😾

@janruudschutrups9382

6 жыл бұрын

Scissor me timbers!

I don't think it right to teach children to kill animals like that. Instead would it not be more beneficial if the government had programs put in place to reach out to lands where these invasive animals are needed or sought after?

@Francois39

Жыл бұрын

They have. They are. If younger generations don't get behind it I don't doubt that most of our native birds will die off by the late 21st century.

What about us humans being super invasive mammals, destroying the whole ecosystem of the world,

"...Possums have evolved to become predators in NZ..." This is how evolution works, if there's a niche, something will fill it. If you eliminate all of the animals that are exploiting these birds and their nests for food, another animal will come along and exploit these birds and their nests for food... It's kinda just how nature works? Even if they eliminate all of the predatory mammals, and there isn't any negative consequences, it's still only temporary at best.

@ericcheese7594

6 жыл бұрын

Hungry Hungry Hobo Sometimes a "niche" in nature isn't filled because the ecosystem had already struck a careful balance with its species. An invasive species causing mass extinction on an island isn't accelerating the inevitable, it is needless killing biodiversity and worst case scenario, destruction of an entire ecosystem. If the land birds populations were already kept in check by the native predators, letting invasive species run their course would massively disrupt those birds and every species above it on the food chain/pyramid.

@TheRealHungryHobo

6 жыл бұрын

That's the lovely thing about homeostasis, nature knows how to keep and restore the balance. If these mammals over-hunt their prey, they will struggle to find food sources and die off, causing the preys population to boom. Then the predators population grows, which lowers their preys, so on and so forth, until equilibrium is established. I'm just saying, this is a matter of time. If you have a massive amount of resources (food in this case) not being exploited, something WILL come along and exploit them. That might be a foreign species, or it could be a local one that's adapted to take advantage of the situation it is in. This is what living things do, they find a way to survive, at the expense of other living things.

@ericcheese7594

6 жыл бұрын

Hungry Hungry Hobo But the ecosystem was already at homeostasis for, I'm kind of reaching here, millions of years. All the population checks you brought up were already there before the introduction of invasive species. The native species should be allowed to evolve with each other because it is less of a shock to the ecosystem. Possums and stotes may "fill a niche", but it's the equivalent of dropping a bomb on a ship. Perhaps it will continue sailing but with fewer functional parts. The worst possibility is that homeostasis is reached only after many species go entirely extinct, both the predators and the prey.

@TheRealHungryHobo

6 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair, the invasive species that's causing all of this strife, is us. Would you advocate for our removal? The old homeostasis, is broken, we broke it. Now it's a matter of letting nature find a new balance. Even if they eliminated every single offending mammal tomorrow, new invaders will find their way in on boats, planes, etc. If even one mouse/rat/possum lands in NZ, and is naturally unopposed, they will take off. It's an unrealistic goal from the get-go to just say 'we'll get rid of them all' As long as humans are around, the animals that have learned to live off of us will follow.

@ericcheese7594

6 жыл бұрын

Hungry Hungry Hobo Not advocating removal, but humans are gonna have to lessen their environmental impact. Not doing so will result in a far reduced quality of life (climate change and ecological damage is no good). And at around 5:00 in the video, the man says total eradication seems unrealistic but it should be feasible to keep the problem species population low enough that it will not impact biodiversity.

Seems like a bad idea, humans are non native to NZ too you know. Let nature work it out.

@cheeseyexoticbutters

6 жыл бұрын

This is not work of nature. Ever heard of "Invasive Species"? They're accidentaly transported or somehow released into land where they does not fit into and then they invade habitat of native species which lead to this kind of situation. So, this mean that *nature won't work and can't work itself out* and we need to fix this. The native species will be killed.

@FunkyMonkey-ip4xy

6 жыл бұрын

Nathan Powers Say that to the Maori's.

@nathanpowers310

6 жыл бұрын

Even these "native species" as you call them long ago came from somewhere else then evolved due to the isolation, so if these animals now took over eventually they too should evolve into new and different subspecies. So yes I say let nature work it out, because only it can.

@cheeseyexoticbutters

6 жыл бұрын

Hope I don't die until I see a possum turn into a kiwi.

@HotFish

6 жыл бұрын

I’m glad you’re not in charge

When they said all the animals were a killing machine,they are just didn't realize that they are going to force extinction an certain type of animal.

Never even heard of stoats. Kind of like a weasle? Who would bring those along? Stoat stow-aways maybe...

@russellngwinn6800

6 жыл бұрын

josh scott stoat is just the England English word for the short-tailed weasel

We have a similar problem in my country and the local Goverment pay you 6€ per kill. People do it like fishing.

How do you keep rats away that came from boats?

It would have been great to have a more scientific approach to this topic (VICE should really get a devoted, skilled science communicator), which is one of the worst threats to biodiversity world-wide. What is being done to FINALLY gain control over these invasive/introduced populations is a bit late - thats what makes it so ambitious - but it is SO necessary. Excellent work!

The teacher's choice of qords with these small children was slightly unnerving at 0:37

this is slightly unsettling

I wish we had this much awareness in Canada.

I’ve been going to school in New Zealand all my life and I got none of these classes

asking kids"which one of the animal you want to kill the most?" wow just wow ahhahahhahah

New Zealand have the most diverse endemic species because while the world was still all one land mass New Zealand broke off 80 million years earlier, this means we’ve got life other countries don’t have. the sad thing is literally nearly all of our endemic species are dying out, majority are borderline extinction from the kauri trees to maui dolphin and then to kakapo.

The last footage can be titled as "Trapped"