(5 Oct 2022)
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Pine Island, Florida - 4 October 2022
1. Various of boats en route to Pine Island
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Bryan Stern, founder, Project Dynamo
"Today is day five, or six, of operations. We have a four-boat operation going on today to rescue 100 cages of birds off the island before they die."
3. Bird cages lifted from boat onto dock
4. Various of volunteers arriving at bird sanctuary
5. Tight of bird in cage
6. Wide of volunteers
7. Various of birds being put in cages
8. Tight of birds in cage
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Alexis Highland, Volunteer
"But we're going to try to crate up as many parrots as we possibly can, get them to safety. They were short on food. Fish and Wildlife was able to get them food two days ago. So we're just going to try to get them all out. And they're going to probably be with us for at least six months to a year, we're projecting, before they'll be able to repair everything at the place they're at now before we can move all the birds back onto the island."
10. Wide of damage to bird sanctuary
11. Volunteer wheels cart with bird cages
12. Various of birds in cages
13. Wide of home where birds were kept during hurricane
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Peratino, Owner, Malama Manu Sanctuary
"So we were in the stilt house behind me that's 12 feet off the ground. We had all 275 birds and our two lemurs out there with us."
15. Fish stuck in fence after hurricane flooding
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Peratino, Owner, Malama Manu Sanctuary
Peratino: "We had three-foot whitecaps in the front yard. I'm not kidding you. I have a five-foot fence around the property and the water was a foot over the fence."
Reporter: "And the bird cages?"
Peratino: "Aw, completely submerged. If we had not captured all the birds and put them in crates and put them 12 feet up, we would have lost all of them."
17. Peratino puts bird in cage
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Peratino, Owner, Malama Manu Sanctuary
Peratino: "If you're an animal lover, you don't think about yourself first."
Reporter: "What do you think about?"
Peratino: "Just protecting the animals."
19. Various of birds in cages
20. Various of bird cages in back of truck
21. Various of bird cages being loaded onto boat
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Ghassan Aboud, volunteer
"We know lot of these parrots are losing habitat in their original countries. So maintaining these species in the United States with captive breeding helps the survival of these species in the future."
23. Wide of bird cages on boat
24. Various of birds being unloaded
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Will Peratino, Owner, Malama Manu Sanctuary
Peratino: "You know, now that we're back on the mainland, we know we're halfway to get the birds safe. We got about a four-hour drive and we'll be good."
Reporter: "You know, I saw you hug your wife in that moment. What were you thinking about?"
Peratino: "It's been a long week. I can do another take."
Reporter: "No, but it has been a long week. So what does this represent now?"
Peratino: "Well, this represents have been able to accomplish what we wanted to do was save all these birds. You know, we heard other people just abandoned their pets and there's no way we could do that."
26. Wide of birds being unloaded
STORYLINE:
Will Peratino and his partner Lauren Stepp would not leave their Pine Island compound in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian, even as authorities pleaded with residents to abandon their homes because of damaged roads, including a collapsed bridge that prevented deliveries of food, gas and other life-sustaining supplies.
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