5 Island Ecosystems That Were Destroyed By 1 Animal

Island ecosystems are some of the most beautiful and diverse ecosystems on this planet. Unfortunately just like may other beautiful things, island ecosystems are also very fragile. Natural disasters and invasive species can completely wipe our native species and sometime just 1 invader can cause a lot of damage. In this video i will be going through just a few of these stories as i will be going through 5 island ecosystems that have been destroyed by 1 animal. Chapters 0:00 Introduction 0:36 Cats In The Galápagos Islands 2:42 Giant African Snails In Cuba 4:13 Rats In Bermuda 5:56 Stoats In New Zealand 7:42 Brown Tree Snakes In Guam Attributions Stoat images: Andy Morffew https://www.flickr.com/photos/andymor... (CC BY 2.0) Chermundy http://www.iucnredlist.org/ (CC BY-SA 3.0) New Zealand images: denisbin https://www.flickr.com/photos/8213479... (CC BY-ND 2.0) Smooth-billed ani images: Bernard DUPONT https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/ (CC BY-SA 2.0) Cat images: Brocken Inaglory https://sites.google.com/site/thebroc... (CC BY-SA 3.0) Shai Barzilay https://www.flickr.com/photos/shyb/ (CC BY-NC 2.0) Cuban crocodile images: Zanbog https://www.flickr.com/photos/zambog/... (CC BY-SA 2.0) Rafael Medina https://www.flickr.com/photos/copepodo/ (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Cuban gar images: Poleta33 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... (CC BY-SA 3.0) Giant african snail images: Alexander R. Jenner https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... (CC BY-SA 3.0) Topi Pigula https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Rat images: Zeynel Cebeci https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Alexandre Roux https://www.flickr.com/photos/3014227... (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Bermuda skink image: brian.gratwicke https://www.flickr.com/photos/briangr... (CC BY 2.0) Bermuda petrel images: Richard Crossley https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... (CC BY-SA 3.0) New Zealand bird fotage: Department of Conservation    / @docgovtnz   Stoat footage: Max Davidson https://vimeo.com/user20123167 CC BY-NC-SA Bernard Scherler https://vimeo.com/user19827143 CC BY-NC Pascal Vagner    / @pascalvagner   Crafty Creatures    / @deniseanderson666   Extinct South Island subspecies images: Naturalis Biodiversity Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Natu... (CC BY-SA 3.0) Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/ob... (CC BY 4.0) Brown tree snake images: Pavel Kirillov https://www.flickr.com/photos/pasha_k/ (CC BY-SA 2.0) John attkinson https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... (CC BY-SA 4.0) Scott Eipper https://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_e... (CC BY-NC 2.0) U.S. Department of Agriculture https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/ (CC BY 2.0) Melissa Bruton https://www.flickr.com/photos/1942744... (CC BY-NC 2.0) Guam predator images: Peter Xiong (CC BY 4.0) leighklotz https://www.flickr.com/photos/leighkl... (CC BY 2.0) I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images. Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Thanks for watching i hope you enjoyed :)