When you think about it, all volcanic islands began with no trees.

@malahammer

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the entire world began with no trees

@haze6647

3 жыл бұрын

What are you talking you stupid invasive species, just listen to me, you dont have the right to think and talk back.

@haze6647

3 жыл бұрын

@@malahammer ofc not, "we" the environmentalist are the one who will conduct shammanism and create a new life out of nothing, then we will decide whose gonna live and whose gonna die, and you will become our next sacrifice to fill today's quota.

@haze6647

3 жыл бұрын

@Qwerty chill, it is just a joke, it is actually the media's fault for making extremely misleading headlines and narration like this. remember back then when flying car was a thing?, it is something like that. Tf is a flying car, we call it a plane, and none of the automobile company gonna produce it since it is extremely inefficient and a regulation nightmare. See, environmentalist probably focused in a more urgent situation, they probably wont even give a glance at this island. Media like to exaggerate. And i like to make a joke.

@Vizible21

3 жыл бұрын

@@haze6647 what drugs you using? I'm interested.

Would have been nice to see a picture of the island with the single tree on it.

@jherikomark

6 жыл бұрын

19th century...

@Dirlo432

6 жыл бұрын

Mark W 8 months ago

@austinjohnson6049

6 жыл бұрын

They drew maps god damnit

@miked3723

6 жыл бұрын

Probably an old wives tale. Im sure it had few trees but just one makes no sense. Without competing species the one tree would slowly spread on its own. Or of the land couldn't sustain trees they woukd all die, not all but one.

@claudelebel49

6 жыл бұрын

I guess we have to take their word for it like so many other iffy documentaries :)

"These changes came to threaten the Island's sparse native vegetation." You mean that one tree?

@binzhang6497

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. And human perceptions of 'native vegetation' is not defined by that one tree. There are other ecosystems which we might not know or understand and when humans step in they got destroyed.

@sashacahill136

3 жыл бұрын

Thats exactly what I was thinking. If you're going to create an artificial ecosystem, isn't this just about the perfect place?

@christopherconnors9258

3 жыл бұрын

there are entire species that may depend on certain shrubs, grasses, mosses, and other low vegetation for eating, mating, laying eggs, hibernating, etc. and then there's the fact that there may have been small mammals and birds that depended on the openness of the island for their own habitation, nature is more nuanced than just add more big things

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367

3 жыл бұрын

yeah idiot babble "give me tax money to protect useless weeds" ect whole island should be forest

@SMunro

3 жыл бұрын

So... does the one tree produce seed? I assume it doesnt based on the fact there are no other trees of that type.

why did I only hear of this now? This is amazing.

"the man who planted trees " great book to read

@Tlactl

7 жыл бұрын

knockoff johnny appleseed

@carrieoff

7 жыл бұрын

hela sghaier check out 'forest man' on here.

@pulkinpulman2028

6 жыл бұрын

hela sghaier wow..i would like to read you more

@mathiyazhagan2045

6 жыл бұрын

hela sghaier does that book have any relation with this island.

@forestsoceansmusic

6 жыл бұрын

to hela sghaier: Yes, my 2nd partner gave me that, I still have it.

"First Artificial Ecosystem"? Get real, birds have been doing that for millennia.

@hackman669

6 жыл бұрын

Birds the world's first gardeners.

@nathanlewis42

3 жыл бұрын

Birds are part of nature.

@AR-cp5dz

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanlewis42 So are humans.

@redreuben5260

3 жыл бұрын

@Trento Humans are natural.

Watching this made me wish I owned an Island like this, just to live a simple life away from technology.

@MarshaNPILoveCanada

7 жыл бұрын

brinegret ikr. And also away from society, economy, rapist, corruptor, ect. And be more close to nature.. :')

@XxScArEcRoWxX1

7 жыл бұрын

brinegret best way to live. just boring though..

@shionmoon384

7 жыл бұрын

I prefer going on this island away from people than technology.

@JG-vh6oy

7 жыл бұрын

You say via technology

@AngobiTMS

7 жыл бұрын

Whenever life goes downhill, I drive out in the middle of nowhere. Throw away your gadgets and stuffs for a while. Rest under a shady tree or Starr at the night sky while listening to your fav tracks, not doing anything.. Just being and admiring the beauty of nature.. Stay there for 2-3 hours.. And then it's time to head home.. But for those 2-3 hours It felt like I had absolute freedom.. Free from all the worldly pleasures. For those 2-3 hours, It felt like I had achieved a higher state of being.. And then, I head towards home and civilization, fresh as a Newborn.. :) Has anybody ever done that? Also I would love to live in a Island someday probably after I become a Billionaire.. :)

This was incredible, world needs more Islands like these!

Amazing! This is terraforming and I remember the story about the men who grew their own forests in sanbars, plateaus and deserts. Such will - amazing!

@hughjaanus6680

3 жыл бұрын

Did you mean: sandbars?

When I first looked at this video I thought it was referring to something that happened recently.😆 It must’ve been an incredible transformation from what it once was.

It looks like the island is off to a good start. I hope it gets some full on forests and ecosystem going there. It looks to have a long way to go. I was amazed that most abundant vegetation was so high up

The begining of the music is hauntingly beautiful ...

@lavo-ld4wm

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder... what's the song's title ?

This is beautiful. I hope we do this more

Um monte de ano sem vulcões e aí a natureza nos presenteia com essa imagem exuberante cheia de árvores com muito verde....

1:28 lol that seagull was really going for the drone

Gracias me han hecho llorar, cuanto tenemos y podemos haser por nuestro amado planeta.🌳🌲💐🌾🌞❤

Thank you Mr Hooker for your dedication..

@HookerUNLEASHEDfilms

6 жыл бұрын

you are welcome! lol :p

I love the music of this video

Great drone shots. And wow, Ascension Island is smack dab between Africa and South America!!!

It's like small-scale terraforming. I find that fascinating.

This place is surprisingly steeped in history. The opening shots are of my favourite place on the island, Comfortless Cove. The square building you can see is where some of the first long distance telegraph cables landed on their way between South Africa and the UK. When I was there, you could still see the cables on the seafloor fanning out into the ocean. An amazing place.

cool Island you have. great for military exercises and and nuclear tests. -uncle sam

@MrPhone123456789

7 жыл бұрын

In 19th century, Naturaliat Joseph Hooker didn't grow trees there for nuclear test ...😑

@sonofriggnarok9320

7 жыл бұрын

I don't believe Uncle Sam cares about Nuclear weapons, he wants soldiers.

@philtripe

7 жыл бұрын

its not American, idiot!...@0:13 it say "A TERRITORY OF THE UK"

@sonofriggnarok9320

7 жыл бұрын

He never said it was American. He said "cool Island you have." Implying Uncle Sam is eyeing the island down for himself.

@jeffreysetapak

7 жыл бұрын

Now it's Uncle Trump.

The island looks healthy at this point much improved!

From one tree to that, I call it an improvement.

The island of Iwo Jima was like that. It was well vegetated until WW2 and the battle. I lived there in the 70's for a short time and it was coming back but slowly. There wasn't a place on the island that wasn't pockmarked with ordinance scraps and the soil was a strange composite of brass, copper, and lead fragments.

thanks for uploade plz uploade more wildlife documentries

may i build my home there please... i can only imagine to live in a place like this. its beautiful

All ecosystems are changing but most people think of ecosystems as something static, which has to be preserved just as is.

More wildlife documentaries!!! please!!!!

Beautiful island! 🤘👽🤘

Wow! Let's go hiking!

Pretty cool stuff. Hopefully things are still going good.

I think that it's Wonderful as it is now!

shows what awesome things we can do!

Spectacular view!

Cool story. I like the part about the tree.

Been there its an amazing magical island

Just awesome !

Visit Rangitoto Island, near Auckland (New Zealand). It was a rather bare volcano island until the 1920s. Then a group of convicts was sent over to plant pohutukawa trees. Now the island is lush green and the pohu honey is sold to the visitors.

That really is a scientific marvel. I feel like you guys could've made a much more impactfull video with such a good title

Wow this is really amazing

this is great, but cant help wonder what would have happened if nobody did anything to the island. i mean, would there have been vegetation and animals unique to the island?

@icarus6492

7 жыл бұрын

Pierre Der maybe it would. but i think the best thing we would be able to see evolve before we get extinct is multicellular microorganisms

@lendluke

7 жыл бұрын

It's hardly a closed off area. If we didn't come along, birds would have brought seeds of other plant species eventually. We just sped up the process.

@gfbtfbtfilyfxbtyewqqef

7 жыл бұрын

Pierre Der No. Humans would come and put coal mines in it

@Law19157

7 жыл бұрын

No

@yseson_

6 жыл бұрын

Pierre Der the Ascension Islands are in the middle of the Atlantic between Africa and South America and are naturally verdant I'm pretty sure human mariners actually originally deforested the isle long before it was replanted.

All right this makes me remember about dune books.... Now im gonna read it again 😓

I would love to see a full documentary about this island. Where did the first tree come from?

omg this beautiful how it would be i cant believe my eyes

I don't see this as an, "artificial ecosystem", I see it as nature doing what it does when you help it.What does it matter if you bring in one new plant to an island, or 10,000 new plants to an island? All throughout time, plants have been competing with each other, whether they were brought together by wind or birds or land-dwelling animals such as people. Ascension Island is beautiful and healthy, and the plants there are grateful to have been given a chance to live there.

Gotta love that water

I cant help thinking this effort wouldve been nice in a place where there isnt a volcano

✊🤩📣 - EASTER ISLAND NEXT!

Wow, beautiful

Amazing

Sometimes I wonder why sometimes, people can't just leave things and/or places alone?!

@melange78

3 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of such places if you look on the map.

@foamer443

3 жыл бұрын

It's not the human way.

@haze6647

3 жыл бұрын

We well also do a full brain scan and reading, if you didnt allow us....we will go ahead without you permission anyway.

@yamyam2987

3 жыл бұрын

People means change, we just make sure to make it for good

@brq267

3 жыл бұрын

There's literally a whole landmass of continent called Antarctica that has no permanent residents. I repeat that, a whole continent, no permanent resident. You're welcome

I feel like if the native plantlife weren't suited enough to cover the island as their niche, then it's not really a huge deal that someone introduced plantlife that could actually survive and reproduce.

@aluminumbeluga

3 жыл бұрын

say goodbye to biodiversity i guess then. lets just fill up every lake and river with asian carp

@Arrica101

3 жыл бұрын

How wrong you are. Just because it looks sparse does not mean it is. By that argument humans can do as they please the world over because we are part of nature too. If trees can't handle is chopping them down well they deserve to be cut down....no they dont. This is an ecosystem no matter how sparse it is, doesnt mean we can just come in and ruin it

whoa amazing

"Threatens the native vegetation of the island" when it only had one tree before. Lmao

@notthatguy4703

4 жыл бұрын

probably just a few species, but possibly seen nowhere else. I think it is important to preserve them

@theviniso

4 жыл бұрын

Trees aren't the only form of vegetation

Beautiful video. This is fascinating. What kind of animals live on the island?

@lucaxh5483

3 жыл бұрын

Donkeys and sheep-all wild, they just roam around . Donkeys usually are found near Georgetown whereas the sheep liked to stay in the more dense air up on Green Mountain. I lived there for three years as the son of the Administrator of the Island so I lived halfway up Green Mountain and it really is truly amazing. We ended up having a pet sheep after finding an injured one with worms in her open wound. So Stedson Stroud and I helped the sheep recover and ended up building a little den for her.

@gagarinone

Жыл бұрын

@@lucaxh5483 What a nice story! 🙂

What's the name of the background music??? Sooo motivating!

Bird's performance is best in last seen I think camera person is expert how to communicate with him

They should probably plant more species of trees instead of the current monoculture in the lowlands with Prosposis julifera being the only species. We have such a good oppurtunity to enrich it, introduce more tree and bird species there.

awesome!

Well that was something new and interesting.

Wow what I would do to live there.

When you spawn on a 30×30 block island that has only one tree...

@Isai314

3 жыл бұрын

And u don’t get a sapling :/

Amazing...

wonderful

beautiful neature😍😍

amazing

Very nice 🌎

sangat memberi informasi yg baik,

I always have a dream like this 😊

So terraforming sort of works... I'm curious- just what species was that one original tree and how did it get there?

Probably there were more trees in the past, but for sure goats were introduced and have eaten everyting with the exception of one until this last one also disappeared if all the goats were not killed.. This has happened in various islands (Trees or shrubs) such as at San Ambrosio Island (Chile).

is no one else hearing an epic version of frerė Jacques? it's the same melody but in a minor key lol

My bald head has one hair. I'm inspired by this video to grow more hairs.

Wonderful The Earth

Wish to be here some day. :-)

Bet that makes the ultimate clean water and eco system . Governments need to take islands and large areas and leave it only for nature . lt will keep our air clean and a haven for wildlife . While pulling back on roads and cement at same time .

@robertknotoff3389

3 жыл бұрын

Its simple every government commits a certain amount of natural space each year .

@gagarinone

Жыл бұрын

99% of Earth's area is "leave it only for nature".

You may think of it as some island far from anywhere else (and you would be right), but it has a part in the Apollo Space Programme. They built an earth station on Ascension in the 1960s so Houston could talk to their Moon-bound spacecraft. Just look up the 1967 documentary 'Apollo in Ascension' and you'll found out. Back in those days, there were far fewer trees and parts of Ascension looked like the Moon (ironically).

Life in this world will be better by sharing ...

Sv Delos introduced me to this island

Strange that NatGeo almost seems to be advocating transformation of “desolate” places to make them more “lush” even though it’s with invasive species. Mixed message on this video. Would they advocate for the kudzu that’s taking over the US because it’s lush and green? What’s wrong with leaving places as they are, even if they’re desolate to our eyes? If we look closely we’d see much to wonder about.

It'll go back to 1 when Amerika visits

Trees are good.Grow more please.

@TheWoollyFrog

7 жыл бұрын

Good for who? Good for you to look at?

@syedzaki007

7 жыл бұрын

The Woolly Eel it protects the environment you dimwit

@bazzatheblue

7 жыл бұрын

The Woolly Eel you dumb?

@TheWoollyFrog

7 жыл бұрын

Protects what environment? The environment of an island that since its creation 1 million years ago never had trees? An environment that consists of unique species of plants and some animals that until the 1500's never saw a tree and are now unable to compete with these invasive species? Wow thank you for protecting "the environment".

@TheWoollyFrog

7 жыл бұрын

The irony...

i wish i could have my own island as well

The music sounds like an instrumental of Frère Jacques

Wow!

US: looks like this island needs some freedom

Leave the island alone!!.... 😭 Let it be!

Once, there was a planet with one living creature. Look at it now.

*Reminds me of the great American, Johnny Appleseed (aka John Chapman), who planted apple trees in the North West. long time ago.

That wouldn't be done today, instead we would watch the island grow on it's own which i think is probably more beneficial for seeing the stages of life on a new land form.

Human is not creating wilderness or balance, but can try to death, however Human brings culture and agriculture

I feel a presence of strong Force at 0:53. (hint: SW saber return)

What an inspiration for the planet Mars, and maybe even Venus! My head is spinning with excitement about bringing life to our nearest neighbor planets. Isn't life precious, the most precious of all? HECK YES! In America, we have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Notice how the first of those is "life". We should bring life everywhere--not just on Earth, but on other worlds as well. Long live life! I expect everyone who loves life to give this comment a thumb's up. If not, shame on you for merely pretending to love life!

The island becomes beautiful

But how long did it take for it to be at this stage starting from a single tree?

@Scorpus85

7 жыл бұрын

It says 19th century so I'm guessing between 150 to 200 years

@hsvr

7 жыл бұрын

joe dalton the real question is how long is a century

@shawnk6490

7 жыл бұрын

E Murtaza If you don't know that I feel sorry for you, but a century is 100 years. We are currently living in the 21st century, and the 19th century was the 1800's.

@hsvr

7 жыл бұрын

1800 years is 19 centuries??? But also the earth is 2100 years old?

@omarboembroek8325

7 жыл бұрын

E Murtaza maybe go to school?

would be nice to live there😍...

If you think about it, every island started with one tree mate

@boldvankaalen3896

3 жыл бұрын

Bob Ross: Let's give that tree a friend.

Do a voice-over how do you watch a video in read at the same time?

Beautiful music