This goofy bird vs. the fossil fuel industry
The sage grouse looks funny. It's also really important.
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The mating ritual of the sage grouse is one of nature's most bizarre and alluring performances. It's also very predictable, which makes the bird really easy to count. That's part of why the sage grouse is what's known as an indicator species, meaning that its survival tends to correlate with the health of its entire ecosystem. It's also why the sage grouse was recently the target of one of the largest conservation efforts in US history. And it means that if we lose the sage grouse, there's a good chance we'll have lost a lot of the other 350 plant and animal species that live in the American west, too.
A previous version of this video misidentified the bird at 0:58. The error has been corrected.
For more on the sage grouse, check out University of California, Davis researcher Gail Patricelli's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa5o4E6x2EU6qQPiEYwCDVw
Read about the Audobon Society's conservation efforts around the sage grouse: https://www.audubon.org/conservation/issues/greater-sage-grouse#
More on the sage grouse's precarious situation:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-the-sage-grouse-win-the-west
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/climate/trump-sage-grouse-oil.html
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The mating ritual of the sage grouse is one of nature's most bizarre and alluring performances. It's also very predictable, which makes the bird really easy to count. That's part of why the sage grouse is what's known as an indicator species, meaning that its survival tends to correlate with the health of its entire ecosystem. It's also why the sage grouse was recently the target of one of the largest conservation efforts in US history. And it means that if we lose the sage grouse, there's a good chance we'll have lost a lot of the other 350 plant and animal species that live in the American west, too.
A previous version of this video misidentified the bird at 0:58. The error has been corrected.
For more on the sage grouse, check out University of California, Davis researcher Gail Patricelli's YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa5o4E6x2EU6qQPiEYwCDVw
Read about the Audobon Society's conservation efforts around the sage grouse: https://www.audubon.org/conservation/issues/greater-sage-grouse#
More on the sage grouse's precarious situation:
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/will-the-sage-grouse-win-the-west
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/climate/trump-sage-grouse-oil.html
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com.
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
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