Hope floats in the Amazon as young manatee Bacuri fights for survival
Bacuri’s care is shared by three institutions: the Emílio Goeldi Museum, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, and the Bicho d’Água Institute.
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Bacuri’s care is shared by three institutions: the Emílio Goeldi Museum, the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, and the Bicho d’Água Institute.
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00:00Deep in Brazil's national forest, a young Amazonian manatee named Bakuri is becoming a symbol of both ecological fragility and hope.
00:10Rescued as an orphaned calf, weighing just 10 kilograms, Bakuri is now thriving thanks to a coalition of environmentalists and researchers working tirelessly to restore the species.
00:22These cows are orphaned calves. The mother was probably hunted and the calves are very vulnerable without their mother, so they need to be rescued and sent to a rehabilitation program.
00:38The fact is that the population has actually decreased so much that today every animal that is hunted has an impact on the population.
00:46The Amazonian manatee, once hunted for its height and now threatened by climate change and illegal poaching, is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.
01:00A very favourable moment for us to start conversation dialogues. There is no better way than doing it like this with children because they are going to be multipliers of this with their parents.
01:17Its greatest predator is not a jungle creature but humans.
01:24Its rehabilitation has taken years, requiring thousands of bottles of milk and a strict diet of chopped vegetables.
01:32The only predator of manatees is human beings. So we need the community to embrace this cause together with us and help take care of this new individual that will be there in its environment.
01:48Prof. Bacari's care is shared by three institutions, the Emilio Museum, the Chico Mendez Institute for Biodiversity Conservation and the Bichu Dagwa Institute.