How the king of the mountain was saved from extinction 

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I found it interesting to learn how not all attempts of reintroducing species are successful and why. Good to hear that the Ibex population is recovering. They are amazing creatures.

A minor geographical correction for 3:59 Dinaric Alps are located in the western Balkan region (mainly on the coast with the Adriatic but also going deep into most of southwestern Serbia), and are not located in central Europe. Slovakia's mountains are the ones called Tatras but are not independent of the Carpathians.😊😁

You guys are such a blessing. After hearing David Attenborough’s “witness statement” about how much forest we have lost in the last 100 years and how badly the earth is suffering I wept over the tragedy and I was all the more inspired to look for wise people who are working to save the priceless glory that is around us in our natural world. You at Mossy Earth are a blessing from heaven. Thank you for using donations for the good of all mankind. May God bless you all and keep you and may He be gracious to you and make His glory to shine upon you and give you peace. Amen

On the map, the Dinaric Alps and the Tatras were confused. When you narrate the introduction of Ibex to Switzerland, you show a map with an arrow pointing at Austria.

I was in Switzerland back in 98 and had the opportunity to see these fantastic animals first hand. Absolutely beautiful creatures.

They're just so silly looking, I love them

I keep getting amazed about the cool things mossy earth members get up to! It feels great to be part of a community of like minded people. Well done on the incredible footage and on the adventure!

Having horns like that and scaling vertical mountains with such ease? They are definitely the GOAT of montane habitat... bad jokes aside, great work all involved and especially Patrik for the remarkable footage!

While hiking in the French Alps, around a corner of the path, we went head to head with a band of ibex resting in the sun. They were as surprised as we and the largest male stood up less than 10 meters from our group. We slowly and cautiously turned back. Nothing happened but it was quite scary.

I've seen them several times in the Swiss mountains, so majestic 😍

What an incredible story! Thank you Italy, as well as for saving the European wolf!

I was todays years old to realise that the Alpes reach til Slovenia. Greetings from a slightly ignorant Swiss 😅 And thanks for this cool shots.

Great video! And thanks for all the hard work. But there is a slight mistake in the movie. At 4:00 on the map you mistook the Tatras with the Dinaric Alps, it's not a big deal, but it may mislead someone.

Incredible footage Patrik. Great to see what a community Mossy Earth is creating on here. Let's go!

Amazing footage from Patrick and neatly informative video done by Mossy Earth ! Thanks for your work guys

Great vid guys, top class production

They're also the icon of my homeisland, the beautiful Mediterranean isle of Crete

So glad to hear they're coming back. Such beautiful creatures. My local art museum has a permanent exhibit called the Silver Menagerie where they rotate through a series of highly realistic fine silver sculptures made in Italy. The ibex is one of my favorites.. I always check to see if he's on display whenever I go.

I really do think ibex are such amazing animals. Unfortunately where I live we don’t have the alpine Ibex, but we do have their Spanish cousins, the Iberian ibex, who are just as stunning in their own right. They’re quite common where I live & seeing them out on a hike is always a treat 😁

Great work Patrik and long live the mighty ibex.

Love how supportive mossy earth is to the small channels it works with, excellent video as always!

How wonderful that, in spite of the small genetic pool and fairly slow rate of reproduction, these beautiful goats seem to be flourishing. I shall certainly subscribe to Patrik's channel. He and his father are amazing.

Interesting video and great idea collaborating with mossy earth members for these!

As Austrian I didn|t know they where nearly extinguished. It is such a typical combination here: Mountains and Ibexes. Everytime we are hiking in the more alpine regions (and sometimes even in woods) we see them.

Great work on the filming Patrik, it really brought a fantastic recovery story to life!

Great work Patrick!! Nice to see the community contributing to the journey.

Wow that was a really close call, almost our ancestor's had robbed us of another beautiful and amazing species.

Very interesting and encouraging to see them return to a better population count. I was also very impressed with the quality of the video. I watch in 4K and this is some of the best I've seen on YT.

Thanks for the well researched history of the ibex. This year was the first time that I was able to see them in the Austrian alps - they are a really majestic species. Btw at 5:17 the arrow shows Austria not Switzerland ;)

Impressive animal and footage, well done Patrik and the team! Would love to see them and their imposing stature in such dramatic settings!

Another amazing video! I loved the shots of the Ibex but also how Mossy Earth are partnering with local creators to help spread the message, sights and sounds wilding.

I saw some Ibex in the summer in Switzerland, amazingly in an area that's really popular with lots of visitors. The Ibex was a few meters away from us, showed absolutely no signs of fear. It knew we were on his territory, not the other way around.

Thrilled to see this incredible species coming back so well! Thank you for the invaluable work you do!!

Great video about such an important keystone species! It would be awesome to see the future more populations of the Iberian ibex spreaded across Portugal Mountains. Who knows if you guys at Mossy Earth will helping that happen ? Cheers 🙌

You have to marvel at their extraordinary ability to climb sheer rocks, very impressive. 👍

Refreshing about the key stone spices thanks.

I did not know, that Ibex came that close to extinction. On the mountain ridges some 20km north of Graz, you will find lots of Ibex. Love them.

Amazing video as always! Just a little note: while it saved the species, Charles Felix didn’t ban their hunting for a noble reason, just elitism, he could still hunt them; there are rooms covered in ibex horns and chamois horns in a few castles here in Italy

From less than 100 to more than 50,000 .. now that's a success story.

Thank you for the great work of preserving and supporting Europe’s nature

Well done Tom Berry, Tom Hikin and Patrik :)!

Patrik seems like such a friendly and cool guy. Thanks for getting that great footage of these beautiful animals and keep up the good work!

The Ibex looks so freaking cool

Ran into these animals while hiking in the French Alps in 2020. Very curious animals, lovely video guys!

3:02 How to make audio recorded separately fit: Step 1: Extract the sound of your video using Premiere Pro or whatever program you are using to edit Step 2: Put the extracted audio in Audacity, press the amplify button and 2 other settings of your choice, put the audio back in Step 3: Enjoy Patrick's crisp voice.

Another great video 🤩 You guys are amazing! And its even greater that you could include an member in the video 😁

Another really informative video. Thank you so much. Really happy to see that such an important species could bounce back like this. Gives me hope that others might do the same.

Love me a new Mossy earth video!

I remember seeing one last year. amazing creatures

Hello, fascinating video and beautiful creatures 💜 I just wanted to point our that on the map 3:59 you have marked Tatras in the wrong place - they are between Poland and Slovakia :)

Whatching this video made me realize how lucky I am to live in the only region where this speace live Thank you Love from Italy

Love from Slovenia! 💟💙❤️

Beautiful! Please continue your beautiful work to protect this precious planet we call home.

Wow this is amazing information what a beautiful animal! 🐐💚

Proud ME member and an Ibex myself. 😀

beautiful animal....

I met three of these beautiful animals at 5u30 in the morning on an alpine climb previous year. Really cool animals.

5:16 that arrow is pointing to Austria, Switzerland would be literally just north of Italy :)

Hi from Piedmont, Italy! Nice recap of this beautiful creature ❤️

Yesterday I was surrounded by 10 males.. spent with them half an hour! What an amazing view! (Piemonte, italy) unfortunately, I’m not able to post pictures here:(

UAU! Beautiful animals!

The start of the video sure it great, specially with the music it starts hyped and than slows than when talking abou the decline of the species

Idk, why, but I've allways loved goats and I think in having some in the future. I just think they are really fun and entertaining animals to watch and can really help fight ecossystem degredation

The picture quality is great looks like an actual documentary

Really interesting video, and some amazing footage from Patrik. He definitely has me as a new follower of his channel

Ibex sounds so much cooler than the Danish word "bjergged" ~ mountain goat

Beautiful

Im from Slovenia and i saw ibex its such a glorious animal

Their "Dew-Claws" toes & pads are also significant in their ability to cling to near vertical surfaces.

Great Video!😀

God bless you, for you are doing an amazing job!

Incredible video!

Thanks

Nice I watch these for inspiration and hope

❤ i didnt know that abd i love this animal becouse i see it so often when i go skiing or hiking in switzerland

Great video.

Thanks!

loved this video :)

In some cases like this or Bison, one could surely say it the species were lucky to not go extint and to have someone protecting them

Great video

Astounding.

During the height of corona they came to places where they usually aren't seen. Two of them wandered really close to where we were hiking, pretty random. Not sure I ever even saw any before, normally it's just, uh, chamois (I guess that's what they are called in English).

Great video. The one thing (or rather 2) you didn't get right was the position of Tatras and Dinaric Alps on the map!

It’s crazy, but at the famous swiss mountain Creux du Van in the Jura Mountains, there is a population of ibex. And they live in the same area, which every (good) day many people hike through up to the mountain top. The animals have grown so accustomed to the tourists, that they literally don’t give a shit about them anymore. I was there two times on different days and I have seen on both days ibex literally walking on the trail, or just laying next to the trail while people walk past them, so that you could touch them! (Which you should of course not do)

Again, an excellent video. What kind of lizzard or smth do we see moving slow at 3:22?

How fantastic.

so gorgeous

The story of the rewilding plans in Switzerland is actually really funny and interesting. 1809 the last Ibex in Switzerland was shot in Valais and then only a few remained in Italy, where the Italian king, Vittorio Emanuele II, prohibited hunting the Ibex in 1821. He founded a corps consisting of poachers to protect the last Ibex in the Alps because they knew the tricks of their colleagues. From now on only the king himself as allowed to hunt the Ibex. But his plans succeeded and by the end of the 19th century to population had grow to about 3'000 animals. Around that time the Swiss government was thinking about rerelease Ibex into the wild and in 1906 they wanted to celebrate a newly built tunnel (Simplon tunnel) by rewilding Ibex. But the Italian king didn't respond and they did not receive any Ibex from him. What then happened sounds like a criminal novel. The Swiss started to negotiate with poachers in Italy and paid them 800 Swiss francs (today ca. 30'000 USD) for every Ibex fawn they smuggled to Switzerland. The Swiss ministry of interior knew about that and even contributed financially to make the purchases of Italian Ibex possible. Between 1906 and 1933 they smuggled a total of 59 Ibex into Switzerland where they bred different populations of Ibex in parks. The smuggling startet in June 1906 and as early as June 1911 the released the first Ibex into the wild. After some initial difficulties the rewilding turned out to be a complete success! In 2011 approximately 17'000 Ibex lived in Switzerland...

In 1970, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) imported 15 Persian ibex from Iran and released them in the Florida Mountains near Deming, New Mexico. Soon after, an additional 27 were released, and a sustainable population was established.- Wiki Amazing survivors

i would love to see more about animals in slovenia too

Do u possibly know where 4:05 was filmed at? ty

Cool video. I know that it does not inpact the video at all , but on the map on 4:00 you got Tatras and Dinaric Alps mixed up. Tatra are suposed to be in Slovakia and Dinaric Apls in Slovenia.

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Amazing video, but there is a mistake at 4:00 the Dinaric Alps and Tatras got swapped on the map :)

damn, was hoping you'd be helping the Walia Ibex, the national animal of Ethiopia, which is currently endangered. I understand why not given the current war but I hope some day you do work in Ethiopia

"Later they were smuggled into Switzerland" You can't just drop that on us and not say anything.

Sadly I dont have the energy to leave a meanful comment. All I can say is thank you for sharing this with us

The GOAT!!! 🐐