Are you on your way to DC? Trump needs you to make him feel better as he slinks away, he's having a terrible time finding people to send him off to Florida, so bad he's inviting political enemies and disgruntled ex employees with +5 invitations (bring 5 guests) and he really wants your entire family there. Better start driving. It's your last chance to see him before he discards his deplorables....he doesn't really like you, he just wants your cash.
Don't be surprised if he asks for a few hundred dollars at the gate.

After missing the last chance to see many species, I'm afraid we have now entered the long dark tea-time of the soul

Great stories, and perfect for Earth Day :-)

FYI - I found this transcript of the talk, with links to some of the animals he mentions, and a link about his favorite book.

Parrots, the Universe and Everything - Transcript
http://navarroj.com/parrots/

"Last Chance to See", Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine, 1990
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Chance_to_See

Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildboyz
Does Stephen Fry gets to do any stunts in Last chance to see as well?

Too bad Douglas Adams can't participate in this show, since he and Mark Carwardine wrote the book "Last Chance to See". But Stephen Fry is a very good stand-in.

Last Chance to See is a brilliant series, Steven Fry is fantastic in his role and this was a wonderful moment!

I love that it's wildlife, but different and it's bits like this that make it even better.

I recently stumbled over a photo of a coconut crab hanging onto the side of a garbage can. I thought it was photoshopped until I looked them up on wikipedia.

"just don't eat it" reminds me of the afterwords of "Last Chance to See", where a reader of an earlier revision of the book states that if she had known that the Jangtze Dolphins are endagered, she wouldn't have eaten the feast of one prepared for her by collegues in china. "So yeah, uhm, sorry."
Right.

lucky760:
For example, some of what jonny described above could be great. We could have a special listing somewhere (maybe a tab, maybe not) where perhaps for 1 Power Point you could *beg a PQ video up where it'll be listed temporarily before returning to PQ if not published. This will be great exposure without creating an overfull list that'd be as impossible to fully parse, and also keep the main queue non-stale and uncluttered with only fresh stuff.

first of all, videos that after 3 days in the unsifted section don't get at least two votes should just be killed on spot - them videos shall be no more. so if anyone else wants to bother with them and submit them back to the queue, let the fool do that, who cares... can you give us a round estimate in percentage (repeating of course) on how many videos that go to pq have less than 2 votes?

next: whats wrong with just throwing all remaining pq videos under one PQ tag and give each sifter, say silver star and up, a chance to promote it (yes, there would be a button) to the top of the queue for a limited time (or we have the 5 top spots reserved for those promotes that would then rotate so that each video gets the same exposure time)? each privileged member would get one chance a month to do so, gold twice a month, gold100 once a week, and so on. if a video after 6 such promotions still lingers in the pq, it should be viciously executed. except videos, that have 9 votes and are just short of that ticket to sifted paradise. those we give one more chance at the top (labeled sort of "last chance to see" or something). if they fail, they finaly expire and are no more.

another thing is time limit: 3 months after it got posted, any video gets a bullet in the back of the head, regardless of the number of promotions they still have left - again, except those lucky 9 vote bastards who get labeled as such and auto-promoted one last time.

[edit] forgot about charter members, haven't I? let's say they get same 6 promotes in 3 months period, but they can use them anytime they choose. heck, give them 10 promotes. just an idea