Colombia's *ILLEGAL* Coral Dealer... 

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lol shut up. Of the hundreds of years that scientists have been studying corals this guy has the audacity to say "I do it for science and they don't know anything!" It's like growing weed for science, except science is actually money.

He did say that he might have Zoanthids that no one else has because he got some from a diving expedition.

It's not 100% illegal technically speeking you can sell and buy coral in certain parts of Colombia but you need a special permit and or paper to own, sell, or buy them.

All the dude want is it to be legal, or at least have the government actual explain what he can't or can do. If Columbia makes it completely legal, I can see him opening up an aquarium so people can see and learn why coral is an important part of our ecosystem.

He should go to court and found innocent

Ironically if he got caught all of those corals would probably be destroyed by the law.

@@TankManHeavy exactly, which is why I hope he doesn't.

Are I love @@dinogamerandcoder5007 ;-

maybe he will never share his knowlage, keep in mind that he make that for money not for science.

America has one of the largest coral farms in the world, he comes the the US and get's information from the US. It's the other way around..... what a weird thing to say.

Why is it illegal to grow them I don't get it

@@33incognito because in the beginning it’s a bio resource so you can’t harvest it

Pretty sure the coral farms already know what they are doing. lol

@@Mudes126 yeah only America can harvest /s

because every legal person out there wants to steal his work, product and credits.

he seems more of a collecter then a dealer

@@OsamaBinBombin da coral plug

You think this is a good thing? Theres laws to protect nature from this type of business. Im sure the Ivory trade would appreciate your support. Dummy

@@yeahman1756 Exactly greedy scientists that don’t want “normal” people showing them up

Crazy that he does stuff responsible but would face the same charges as someone in the exotic pet trade. Eventho this here is harmless af and the exotic pet trade is at fault for the near extinction of a lot of animals.

But he literally showed his location there are agents and people in governments that can pinpoint your location using geological scenery and everything else lol

@@aceneto9386 something tells me the Colombian police has other stuff on their plate

@@hjertrudfiddlecock4394 the "other stuff" is probably what pays for the police force in the background so im sure theyre not that focused on it

@@r2Kd0ugernaut you really had to slap me with reality like that?

Yes but unfortunately you have Miami which ravages the ocean with trash and tourists destroy the reef

Amateur divers are one of the main reasons coral reefs get damaged. Having tourists feed businesses doesn't help the coral reefs. The money is going to the wrong people while conservationists are struggling with funds.

He won't, because he doesn't care about the field. It is just something he does for fun. The whole "you should study the animals" is just his excuse for taking coral. Otherwise he would have gone to a lab.

@@fxDELTAx man you must be related to him or something, you seem to know everything about him!

@@fxDELTAx He couldn't have gone to one even if he wanted to lmao it's a third world country and me being from there I can already tell you the opportunities the country has to offer are scarce.

@@fxDELTAx otherwise he would go to a lab... yeah because in countries like colombia everybody can just study for free and go to a lab because they want to. You do realize the world isnt like your homecountry...bet even there its not that easy.

@@anonymousbanana204 Privileged wokers as usual thinking the world revolves around them, right?

Oh please

@@brianredban9393 Do you risk losing everything for any of your hobbies? I thought not.

@@brianredban9393 shut up brian

How is he amazing? He’s only doing it to make money. No other reason.

@@happychappy27 4:41 Maybe you should actually watch the video.

Yeah seriously tf?

bro even said "here in Medellín" i hope its a bluff tho lmao

@@cornelius76 on second take I honestly think there is probably much more corruption in that area that they probably can't stop a couple reef farmers.

@@Djp1989 I am from Colombia and you are right, although you must be careful in case they discover it, the Police are only interested in the bribe you can give them, if you do not have enough they will take EVERYTHING and that monumental effort will have been in vain

I thought the same thing a few seconds in.

facts. i think the governtment should regulate the harvesting of coral but theyre missing an opportunity there by banning the hobby entirely. I'm actually surprised because so much of the freshwater trade is from this area but governments allow companies to pollute the waterways and wipe some fish to extiction. there are multiple south american fish that are extinct in the wild and only survive through the aquarium trade.

The oceans aren't sick because of coral harvesting it's because country's like china and India treat rivers and oceans like dumps. India throws human bodies in rivers

@@brianredban9393 I never said that the ocean is sick due to coral harvesting. I said that if they hadn't harvested corals in Florida we would have lost them all to some bacteria that is killing them. I think regulated harvesting should be done.

Nah, we humans have fucked the planet too much and it only gets worse day by day. We’re all responsible. Too many people on the planet.

@@happychappy27 It's been calculated time after time: The amount of people isn't the problem. It's the governments and big business ruining literally everything. Stop letting yourself be gaslit by corporate shills.

it's called control son. A stranger controls every part of our lives

Its only illegal if you get caught. Your choice to make.

@@GrimTactics No, it's illegal whether you get caught or not. It's your choice to do something illegal. Just because no one knows doesn't mean it's any less legal.

Give thanks to the #MATARIFE for that, it is the origin of all evil in our beautiful country

its always a question of tax, if they don't know how to make money from it but you do, its illegal

Why are you quoting animals

Why the "" on the animals?

Agreed, but it's not just pollution. It's commercial fishing, and dredging also. Seaspiracy is well worth a watch.

Corals are flowers bro not animals

@@671Neuhof no they’re animals, like jellyfish. This is obvious in deep sea species which have very large polyps (the individual animals) and will overpower small fish. Flowers don’t do that, at least not in the same way.

It’s minds like you which has taken nature to where it’s at… saying you can’t save it so let’s steal some and grow it and raise it in enclosed spaces. You make me sick

He sells them. It looked to me like they all had a price.

I don’t think they are being 100% truthful

I think the columbian police have bigger fish to fry, no pun intended, especially in his neck of the woods. Ever hear of the Medeine cartel? Now, maybe if he was shipping cocaine packed with coral they would take some interest.

He actually never mentioned jail. He just said they take all your coral which leads me to believe it’s not that serious of an offence. George definitely did him dirty with the filming though if he was truly trying to keep it secret.

@@KnarBurger Well he is obviously trying to keep it secret or he wouldn't be attempting to hide his identity.

@@rawbmar1166 which is why I said George did him dirty showing what he did.

idk if that's an actual question or a joke

Really? Lol. It’s Columbia. Gotta be a joke

Drugs/ Prostitution /Kidnapping/ Guns/ Black market /Murdering🤷🏻

@@TailEndCustoms that's what I'm saying but then there's people in the world who don't know much about other countries

This comment made my day

We live in a very fragile ecosystem. Fish and other animals imported and exported to another area can quickly destroy an ecosystem.

They aren’t animals

@@younggoose7315 They are.

in colombia is not as easy as said everything is fucked up over there i tell you cuz i have family there and i havent been able to go to colombia another way of it being fucked up country if yu 18 yu can get caught by sum type of military and they will basically kidnap you n make yu a soldier yu dont get paid or nothing just a soldier forced to work under them

It's his business. He takes coral out of the ocean and sells them.

@@douglasr.c.5622 *farms coral

@@hakimmahardhikaproductions5160 OK, appreciate that.

Gotta get that columbian good stuff! XD

Weed and coral are totally different ballparks. One's a drug you can get pretty much anywhere and the other is a group of symbionts that could be key to staving off a near-future extinction for so many species including ourselves. This guy is no marine biologist, trust me. Not when he knows his price for each of his specimens. He's no researcher. He just has a few well-maintained tanks that are hardly going to 'seed' the world's oceans should / when we get round to killing them. What next? Maybe we should entrust gamekeepers around the world with the future of persecuted raptors??? Sad, sad, world, we live in, indeed!

Have you watched George's other videos in Columbia? Freshwater fish are being decimated in the wild. Only by creating a broader aquarium hobby in many parts of the world, will many species have a chance of survival

@@adammyers380 While true i still dont think that should be the solution to the problem, the solution is protection for these animals in the wild not preservation through captivity and selective breeding. Time and time again we have been able to maintain extinct species in captivity only for them to never be able to be reintroduced in the wild.

I think you really need to look up some statistics on the things you claim before claiming them in a long winded rant. Wild collection and mariculture of coral are sustainable if done properly. It’s also a big economic boom to third world countries with not many other options. You sound like a pie in the sky idealist. Do you realize how hard it is to take an extinct animal with very few left in captivity and then repopulate an area with them? Like I said it’s all pie in the sky type stuff you really need to take a step back and look into what you are talking about.

@@KnarBurger i dont think i ever said the opposite of what youre saying here, youre so angry at me for saying something i didnt

I don't know anything about marine life but aren't those laws generally passed for risk of invasive species?

@@TheOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It should be like that , risky species but despite the fact that to import fish you must obtain permits in Cities and the law exists , a group of lawyers who do not know about the sea argued that the importation of all species not native to Panama should be prohibited . In addition to a government entity that without prior analysis attacked and said that no fish could be imported for aquariums, in the end and after many struggles the law was that only species that exist in our mares can be imported, absurd but we have a government that is useless

He put out a video a few days or a week ago with a Florida aquarium that's trying to restore a dying reef off the coast. The people he spoke with said that coral keeping hobbyists have been a huge resource in learning how to replicate their natural conditions well enough to successfully breed corals in captivity. It changed my perspective on hobby keeping of certain exotics. The reality of our current social and economic systems is that places like professional aquariums have to do too much with too few resources. They've been struggling to breed corals in captivity for decades. I didn't even know it was possible until his recent video about it, because aquariums have struggled to do it for so long. But there's big money to be made if you can breed captive corals for hobbyists, so producers have been working like crazy to figure out how to do it, and they've had great success. Places like the aquarium in Florida are now able to adapt the knowledge that hobbyists have gained to successfully breed and grow huge numbers of corals for eventual transplantation into places where reefs are dying faster than they can naturally replenish. Regulation is definitely important so that poachers aren't decimating reefs, but outright banning the hobby won't help places like Columbia in the long term.

He literally made a video documenting the various marine biologists and institutions that are creating a coral bank to grow/store corals from Florida's dying reefs whilst they are trying to work out what's causing the diseases.

@@suchnothing All due respect, I doubt you know what is the reasoning, the science or the work behind a legislations like the one COlombia has in place. You need years of work and study in conservation, ecology, sociology and thousands of hours of field work. Something that any person in this video has. This is like listening Paul Logan talking about boxing. Regulations in animal husbandry aren't only for poachers, are mainly for irresponsible hobbyist.

@@fenrisejsl Oh, I definitely know nothing Columbia's wildlife legislation. I was explaining that he has talked to conservationists in the USA, and it changed my opinion on the role of hobbyists in ocean conservation. Also, when I say "poachers" I include people who take live animals for the exotic pet trade, not just people who illegally hunt or kill animals. I understand now that you meant you want him to talk to conservationists in Columbia specifically, which would be really cool to see. While there will be similarities between the issues in Florida and the issues in Columbia, there will be lots of differences too. The reality may be that he doesn't have those connections right now, and we may have to wait to see content like that. It's good to tell him you want to see it though, it might push him to do it!

Yeah that’s what I was thinking. If anything this is gonna make wild coral worse off.