SciShow: The First Conservation Efforts Protected… Poop?!

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Content of the Lesson: The idea of conservation might seem like a thing that’s only popped up in the last century or so, but organized efforts to conserve resources that directly benefit humans go back centuries! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ibi.12867 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38104317_Putting_the_rise_of_the_Inca_Empire_within_a_climatic_and_land_management_context https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/inca-empire/ https://americanhistory.si.edu/norie-atlas/guano-trade https://www.intechopen.com/books/seabirds/guano-the-white-gold-of-the-seabirds https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41030-6 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seabird-poop-worth-more-1-billion-annually-180975504/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-36585-9 https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.9b02098 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415787/ https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/what-load-guano-5-facts-you-didnt-know-about-bird-poop Images: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/m7jarbgt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tawantinsuyu_(orthographic_projection).svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_42121_Very_small_portion_of_a_flock_of_cormorants_on_the_south_island_of_the_Chinchas.jpeg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inca_Garcilaso_1879.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inca_Garcilaso_1879.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inca_Garcilaso_1879.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inca_Garcilaso_1879.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ancient-inca-circular-terraces-in-moray-peru-gm1193108957-339240317 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ancient-inca-circular-terraces-in-moray-peru-gm1193108957-339240317 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/ancient-inca-circular-terraces-in-moray-peru-gm1193108957-339240317 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/peruvian-gray-pelican-on-the-water-gm1269708500-372940495 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/peruvian-gray-pelican-on-the-water-gm1269708500-372940495 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/peruvian-gray-pelican-on-the-water-gm1269708500-372940495 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/flock-of-birds-on-the-ballestas-islands-off-the-coast-of-peru-gm1096652424-294464484 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pelicans-and-cormorants-gm472777906-63629797 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/panorama-of-yosemite-valley-at-sunset-gm962031422-262726606 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/coral-reef-gm153971297-17794310


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