yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

Defending Virunga's Treasures | Explorer


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] I am hunting down the story, but I'm not your standard, uh, correspondent. I'm a wide-eyed, enthusiastic guy that loves the world we live in. I mean, of course, I've heard a lot about Congo, but I can't sort of get away from these, uh, romantic notions that my childhood built into my head—of peaked volcanoes, of dense jungle, almost Tarzan-like adventures, Romancing the Stone. It's an adventurous paradise.

But as soon as you start drilling into it, you realize that this beautiful paradise has such a complexity, so many layers. Essentially, in the last 125 years of this country's history, it's been viewed as a pot of gold, a huge area of immense natural wealth. There's gold, there's diamonds, there's complex rare earth minerals, tantalum, and coltan. There's timber, there's zinc—there's all of these things that our world needs. And everyone from the outside has viewed it as this treasure trove.

The one thing they seem to have all had in mind is the inconvenience of having people living there. Being with Innocent when we stumbled upon the gorillas was a beautiful moment. Look at this beautiful—here's a guy whose charge is to protect the most important section of the world in relation to mountain gorillas. More than half of all the mountain gorillas left in the world are in his area and are his charge.

And this guy, you can see in his eyes when we stumbled upon the silverback and the gorillas; it all sort of hit me. Actually, I was just thinking—the Rangers there have lost 140-plus guys in the field doing what they do to protect this beautiful, magnificent creature. And I looked at him, and I asked him, "Man, is this why you do it?" He looked at me and didn't have to say anything, man. It was just the power in that.

I feel so privileged to have been in his company and those like him who just stand in front of bullets for what they feel and believe is right—in the defense of these [Music] creatures.

More Articles

View All
The Middle colonies | Period 2: 1607-1754 | AP US History | Khan Academy
Over the course of the 1600s, the English continued to settle along the eastern seaboard of North America. Now, we’ve already talked about the settlements at Virginia and those of Massachusetts, and a little bit about the settlement of New York, which was…
Integration using completing the square and the derivative of arctan(x) | Khan Academy
All right, let’s see if we can find the indefinite integral of ( \frac{1}{5x^2 - 30x + 65} \, dx ). Pause this video and see if you can figure it out. All right, so this is going to be an interesting one. It’ll be a little bit hairy, but we’re going to w…
Deadly Conservation | Explorer
[Music] There are a multitude of issues that are impacting Barunga, 4 million people living just a day’s walk away from the park’s border, and those people have nothing but nature to rely on. So that obviously puts an enormous amount of pressure on the pa…
Correcting a Dachshund's Bad Habit | Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog
All right, so this is the final challenge. It’s a sick sack of obstacles. Caesar works with Millie, a seven-month-old dachshund, whose habit of eating trash off the ground could have lethal consequences. This is serious; this dog can actually get hurt. Ca…
TESLA IN THE S&P 500 | NEW $4000 PRICE TARGET??
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So we got to celebrate today because not only is it a super rare occasion that I actually post a video here on a Tuesday, but this one deserves it because it’s officially announced that Tesla is going to be added to t…
Constant of proportionality from graph | 7th grade | Khan Academy
The following graph shows a proportional relationship. What is the constant of proportionality between y and x in the graph? Pause this video and see if you can figure that out. All right, now let’s do this together and let’s remind ourselves what a cons…