フロリダのエバーグレーズ源流を通る狭い道で、3 人の友人が旅に出て、壊れやすい荒野の回廊が永遠に消える前に調査します。 大規模な開発と人口増加を背景に、彼らの遠征は、急速な変化の状態にある生態系の活力とつながりを記録しています。 母なる自然は回復力があるかもしれません – しかし、最後の緑の糸が限界点まで伸ばされたとき、私たちは進路を変える勇気と機知を呼び起こすことができるでしょうか? クレジット: Grizzly Creek Films Danny Schmidt Films Florida Wildlife Corridor Eric Bendick Danny Schmidt Carlton Ward Jr. Mallory Dimmitt
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I guess that's 75 north of Pinellas.
Thank you REI and everyone involved with this production! It is alarming how little remains but there is still hope thanks to people like y'all spreading the word 🙂
Green swamp is my favorite hiking area in FL. It would be awful to think of this area gone, it is beautiful with a wide variety of wildlife. It's also a major aquifer. Good that people like this and REI (why I'm a member) are speaking up to make sure the concrete jungle doesn't push out everything else, seems easy to forget in the building frenzy.
That's the real Florida. Save it forever.
You're welcome everyone!
Thanks for all you do for Florida! What are some ways average people can help?
A beautiful sight and oh so hard to watch. Thank you for shining a light on this pressing need to save the very essence of Florida and all it has to offer to the southern ecosystem.
Well done 👏🏼
7.5 billion
This is the truest thing ever. I live in Naples FL, and the speed of building ugly developments is unbelievable. Every week I see some new section of clear cutting for development that used to be gorgeous wilderness. Just last week a bear was struck 3 times by separate vehicles on I-75 causing a massive pile up.
Thank you.
Very well done. As a lifelong wanderer in Florida's wild places, it's heart-warming to see there are people out there still fighting to preserve it. Thank you!
This was so well done thank you. I'm wondering if REI could also do a piece about how Trump's proposed wall would damage Wildlife corridors also dividing many more ecosystems literally in half and making them impassible for the animals who live in them. I feel like we're not hearing enough about that these days thank you
Building upon land without regard to the natural environment is a repeat of what has happened to the indigenous, people, insects, and fauna. In the future National and State parks will become the Zoos of the future. Elevated highways & fewer subdivisions are solutions to wildlife survival and keeping their habit natural.
finally.. take a page from Patagonia's playbook of environmental marketing with a great ROI because of socially conscious company. Patagonia grew like 30% last year, this is capitalism at its finest. Companies finding ways to veil their for-profit motives with social/ environmental justice. Not all bad… but still shady.
Damn. I can actually smell it. Not the turkey legs at Disney or the car exhaust. The swamp. If you're from Florida, you know it. Gorgeous piece.
Gosh they look awful fresh & clean after days in the swamp.
Should be required viewing for every Floridian.
Oh man R.E.I., thank you so much for this! Florida is being strangled by highways and subdivisions. Huge swaths of land are being plowed in a day. It's not looking good here.
They do great work in showcasing the importance of the Florida wilderness and wildlife
Stop paving Florida!
Population growth does not equal an improved quality of life.
This is gorgeous and sad all at once.
Decades of going backwards…Rich Scott cut all the funding the people had voted for and DeSantis is all talk and PR…..says out loud that they aren't going to limit building at all. Without moratoriums and tens of billions invested it simply is not going to happen until some future generation gets a clue.
Right now the M-CORES roads to nowhere for no need are begging for opposition letters/email/calls. Only massive outpouring of outrage will have any effect. Please help. All existing highways need overpasses and underpasses for wildlife, and human habitation developments MUST have better land use planning implemented. Growth management regs have been dumped by the state for reasons of greed, and we need them back, for our own quality of life and that of all the other species and our freshwater resources.
It makes me very sad.😰
Hi REI – I would like to screen this at a film festival – how do I get permission to do so and ideally, get a downloadable HD version that will hold up on a big screen? Thanks.
Where can I purchase this video? Is this the complete recording?
This is remarkable. We all take for granted that all the commercial development is good for the state. It's not. We deprive so much of nature's treasures to live as they did years ago. I heard a special on this years ago on NPR. Most people don't know about it. Keep up your efforts. We appreciate it!
I can not understand how some give thumb down. All they know We humans are an invasive specie, the least we can do is respect the rest species sharing with us this planet we are destroying…
Great job people…I watch the two big journeys you have done…Thanks a lot for showing to the world…
If they want to save this corridor, they need to start by getting rid of their corrupt and greedy elected officials.
Florida Rights of Nature Network is working with 30 communities to create rights protections for local ecosystems. We are here to assist residents make the laws a reality to give themselves legal standing to represent the ecosystems and give themselves the legal rights to clean water.
Orange County did it .. now for the entire state.
“How may the 'rights' of water affect properties in Orange County? Meyers & Stanley attorney explains.
A legal battle over the rights of water in Orange County may upend development.
By Jack Witthaus
Staff Writer, Orlando Business Journal
2 hours ago
An Orlando environmental activist's lawsuit may upend real estate development in Orange County on and near waterways.
The lawsuit filed April 26 seeks to prevent construction on Orange County wetlands on 1,923 acres south of State Road 528 and east of State Road 417 for a mixed-use project called Meridian Parks Remainder. The lawsuit is the first major test of Orange County's new charter passed in November 2020 that gives water in Orange County rights to "exist, flow, be protected against pollution and maintain a healthy ecosystem."
In fact, the plaintiffs in this case are literally the water bodies that will be affected — the Wilde Cypress Branch, Boggy Branch, Crosby Island Marsh, Lake Hart and Lake Mary Jane.
The legal battle has been billed as the "first U.S. rights of nature" case, according to the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights, and has the potential to affect construction in other Florida counties that may pass similar charters.
Real estate executives privately are concerned about the lawsuit's repercussions, which could chill development in Orange County and may drive up costs in terms of legal fees for developers. Meanwhile, environmental advocates argue that whatever profits from developing on or near water will be washed away by the costs in eventually cleaning it up.
Orlando Business Journal spoke with Orlando attorney Steve Meyers of Meyers & Stanley who is representing activist Chuck O'Neal in the legal battle. Here's what Meyers had to say about the lawsuit and why Orange County residents and developers should care:
What water does this charter protect? It's all natural water bodies and wetlands in Orange County. The law gives local citizens a right to file a lawsuit. Our waters are collapsing everywhere. Almost every major body of water in Orange County is classified as impaired.
Doesn't this legal battle cost the government money? It will cost taxpayers more eventually to clean up these waters. It's much cheaper to try to prevent this even if there are litigation costs to the government.
What does it cost Orange County currently to have impaired bodies of water? I look at it like this: What if Lake Apopka was a beautiful, clean lake? What would the property values be around there? If we lose the Wekiva River to pollution, what does that do to property values and tourism? Florida is a state of lakes, and we're losing.
Why are more people paying attention to polluted waters in Orange County? Before this charter, there wasn't much people could do if development hurt their water. Our statewide regulatory system is set up so that if a developer gets a permit, they are immune from local citizens wanting to protect their water. As people learn more, they understand that nature and bodies of water should have legal rights like a corporation. Is it not worthy of someone defending water beyond a permit in a regulatory system?
What happens if you lose? This lawsuit is driving water rights into the mainstream. The old paradigm that water is to be simply used and consumed is over.
Should we build on any wetlands? We've gone way past what's sustainable. I wouldn't want any more building on wetlands. However if a developer wants to pave over wetlands, then the community has to have the right to challenge that in court.
Why should Orange County residents care? Developers always talk about their property rights, but they rarely pay sufficient impact fees to protect the waterways. They do their damage, and a lot of them don't live here. But there are people who live on or near polluted bodies of water. So someone in New York makes a fortune while the residents here live next to a lake that's ruined. But we should all have the right to canoe down the Wekiva River, for example, and not have it ruined.”
very cool and sad at the same time
Where can I go to see the actual expedition?