(27 May 2025)
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Carolina Beach, North Carolina – 22 March 2025
1. Close up of a hand examining carnivorous plants during a hike in Carolina Beach, North Carolina UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"So, you can actually see there is new leaves coming up in the middle there."
2. Wide shot of the entrance sign to Carolina Beach State Park
3. Wide shot of Jesse Anderson leading the carnivorous plant hike UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"I’m gonna teach you about kind of the the actual plants along the way."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
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"Venus flytraps only found within 100 miles of Wilmington, nowhere else in the world, right? And they’re really important because they, you know, that they are a symbol of of really healthy longleaf pine ecosystems and a healthy ecosystem that that has seen a natural cycle of fire ."
5. Wide shot of the Flytrap Trail sign at Carolina Beach, highlighting the starting point of the carnivorous plant hike.
6. Wide shot of Park Ranger Jesse Anderson talks to visitors during tour UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"The trap will actually open back up, and the exoskeleton or what’s left of the insect will just dry out and eventually blow away in the wind ."
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
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"The hike is is generated or directed to teach about the habitat first and then, kind of explore the carnivorous plants that inhabit it."
8. Mid shot of a park ranger watching visitors during tour
9. Close up of pitcher plant in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, during a hike UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"They don’t bite at all, no."
10. Mid shot of a park ranger explaining pitcher plants to a group of visitors UPSOUND (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"Those are pitcher plants, like a drinking pitcher."
11. Close up of Venus flytraps
14. Wide shot of park ranger talking to visitors looking for Venus flytraps SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
"So tiny, low to the ground, need lots of sunlight."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
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"Venus flytraps are protected by the state of North Carolina, it’s actually considered a felony to remove Venus flytraps from the land. So, you know, they’re heavily protected because they’re so sought after, you know, there has been many cases where those felony prosecutions have gone through."
16. Wide shot of hikers gathering on a boardwalk during the carnivorous plant hike at Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mackenzie Francis:
"I think it’s pretty cool how like where they’re native is like right where we’re living."
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Ashling Francis:
"Yeah, so we get to see to see some things that not everybody gets to see."
19. Mid shot of a group of hikers listening during a carnivorous plant hike
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Anderson, Park ranger:
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"Education is vital to keeping these plants here and preserved in the wild, you know, both protecting them from a legal standpoint, but also protecting their habitat, right? So if it wasn’t for, you know, well defined and well managed longleaf pine habitat. With, you know, fire being an aspect of that, It wouldn’t necessarily, Venus flytraps wouldn’t necessarily have the the home that they do."
21. Close up of a Venus flytrap in its natural habitat at Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
STORYLINE:
Once inside, the insect is doomed to become plant food, Anderson said.
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