the mapped out shows the geo political reality. the on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the huge age old trees are a vital importance for our ecosystem. they help to sustain life on earth. my lifelong goal is to say victories. they are probably the most important bar of goes on the planet. but over the world, those big trees are under threat. it's high time. we begin saving the last remaining giants are for us the

. the amazon has been called south americas river of life for a special group of visitors. it's their passage way deep into the peruvian rain forest mccloud on has pioneered research into forest kinda peas. she's taking the amateur researchers on an expedition to see the largest trees of the rain forest. and they're only reachable by water. the why, why, why did any of you come here? and why certain to look at the amazon. you know, truly, this ego system keeps all of us alive. this amazon is also called the long, so the planet, it's in the highest diversity in the world here. the american biologist has dedicated her life to studying the huge trees here that are hundreds of years old.

they help cure a fly, the air safeguard biodiversity, and stabilize our climate. but they're in grave danger from global warming and deforestation. new ideas are needed to protect these giants and their unique habitats neg, loan on, has a clear objective to preserve the trees and make their unique canopy accessible to others, including eco tourist. ok . so follow really, everybody that's ready. you go ahead and find the system property of 3 things being the listen, there's little peer, it's a whole flash. apparently there, welcoming you the doing expeditions, tourists become

a researchers. they begin their study on the ground before later taking to the tree tops together. the group examines the condition of the trees and their leaves and records the insects they find. okay, i'm coming to answer any questions. this is the reason why this is a shredding. all right? that's amazing us it because it is been fighting so they go through the middle and make that's why they're called mine or yeah. so what do you find? there's a full on change. the spider trying to eat that having extra pairs of eyes is useful for picking up all that's going on and is vibrant world image or researchers often notice things that are more experience scientist might not bother with which is white citizens. science is becoming increasingly important in research transfer level. so i'm gonna respected space for

meg law. mine is considered a pioneer in researching tree tops. in the late 19 seventy's, she discovered a world previously unknown to science. 35 meters above the ground. she coined the term arbor, not for a biologist to explores the forest canopy. i'm just a girl from a small town. i didn't have any science as friends, and my parents were teachers. and i sort of, i don't know, i liked to nature and i went to nature. but when i finally kept study and trees, i realized everybody always studied the bottom. the only time they saw the top of the tree is if they cut it down, i called it sort of like if you went to the doctor and they looked at your big toe and said, you know your brains, ok? you're hearing fine, your eyesight screw, you would say this is crazy because it's only the bottom of my whole body. so she

made her way to the very top to study the canopy of these pores giants in the process, entering a world that new research for before hers had ever seen. i've had to the full canopy and it was like full of life because so many species live up there, probably 50 percent of what lives on planet earth. i in a few other started calling as a scott and she discovered a complex ecosystem high up in the trees. whether it's still a well, a species that have yet to be studied back to the present. 8 year old holden is busy discovering life on the forest floor. go up. there you go. so someone say the, oh my say, leslie johnson was keen to show her son more of the world. i know that we live in a city and is really important to us that she get in touch with nature. and this

sounded like such a great adventure. and to go with the real science of world class sizes. one visitor alex smith is a biologist. so for him, the truth is also interesting from a professional view point, a lot more new lives are in the canopy. so that's the place to be the and i guess this here there's already are things. yeah. night here. so i guess my expectations are kind of high based off what make has told us like calling it the 8 the continental. this is just like the real deal but this ecosystem is underneath right over the past 30 years. well over 400000 square kilometers or forest have been cleared throughout the amazon region. that's an area, roughly the size of germany and denmark combined in my lifetime, over half of the world's primary force have been cut down. that's

a terrible track record for me and my scientific colleagues. so of we need to do things differently. it's kind of why i'm branching out on a limb, so to speak, to go into the world of canopy walkways instead of just pure research. by having special walkways built, big, loma, and mix canopy areas accessible to everyone. with rope bridges connecting large old trees, they become places of research and education. and the to our group is about to visit this one. at a height of over 35 meters in germany was one's also rich and primeval forest. remnants still existed into the middle ages. today, commercial forests with fast growing conifers, dominate the landscape. the

kind of i eat as a national park is home to one of your ups, few untouched primeval forest. they now covered just 0.2 percent of europe's land surface. for us to colleges, p a. e bush and start up founder and same schneider want to safeguard what's left. they understand the value of these big old trees. these have been to everybody. well, for the content, so the surface temperature is $18.00 degrees and which is interesting. the air temperature towards the light is $23.00 degrees and look to have a so we have 5 degrees less here. really you're yep. so i would have guessed that by the feel of this trees consist of 50 percent water and help cool the forest. they also absorb c o, 2 and release oxygen. the bigger of the tree gets, the more c o 2, it can store up to half of the carbon that a tree can sequester,

is it stored in the last quarter of its life? i can employ moves and so that falling on. but these old trees are invaluable to a forest ecosystem, and that's an out of pocket that makes it all the site or that you only find them now national parks or small scale reserves. and that's because foresters tend to say, if a tree is 120 or 150 years old, it's time for it to go side. that's almost like as pure a bush and enzyme schneider are fighting for, for us to be allowed to grow old again. after the 2nd world war, large areas of germany were re forested with conifers. but these mano cultures can't withstand climate change. drought forest fires, pests and the timber industry are decimating their populations. the result is large areas bereft of trees and temperatures. in germany are rising and hits increments fi 43.2 degrees. if we turn it over underneath,

it's $15.00 degrees and she'll get the forest canopy is gone and the trees are no longer releasing water vapor. the landscape pizza up in conditions for plants get worse and worse doesn't do much like stuff. that's why i'm sam schneider and 3 associates found it the would have 5 start up barren areas like this or to become a thing of the past tax negatively. these are we believe clearing the lines like this is a total disaster is only given. first thing we knew we're convinced it's totally wrong to continue cleaning trees and our claim is changing this policy. and the claim of on this on for chicago negates who must start up, has developed a business model that aims to use the forest in a completely different way. the idea is that forest owners now make money not from timber, but from benefiting the climate by simply leaving the forest alone. what if i co founder and schneider is actually a doctor? now he's also focusing on the health of forest. this is how it works.

what if i draws up a contract with forced owners agreeing that no trees will be failed for 30 years? in this way, more carbon can be stored than if the forest continues to be used. commercially certificates are issued for this carbon sequestration, which would have find themselves to companies that want to reduce their c o. 2 footprint funds. yeah, i'm fine with when we start with these projects, something really interesting happens. give us put the floors, get some mess like that. that's what people actually tell us. i don't see much. i can't believe that. we just leave full entries where they are the find them point of view task to an else. you haven't even click often via people have this image of far as having to be tidy on and not tube. the natural forest is not tidy. $15.00, and so far this night and it was dead, would dine trees and new life warm leaving plus plus here. and debt would in particular, has an important function fairly similar to this one. this one's been lying here

for a while back and it says that the process of decay is quite advanced. since i'm in the trunk like this is wet inside says of must of been looking back to this and this is they'll do would boots on them that this but squeeze it in water drips out loop. how much liquids there isn't just wanna handle like amazing. and this wouldn't be the cause or fuel of a forest fire is on on. no, no, it's a water tank line on the ground here that would slow down in a fire. right? and then this is literally fish of the forest like these health cool. the air as is reflected in the measurements taken by p, a. e bush and color lina maya. she's another for us to college, is from the ablest by the university for sustainable development. the thing to all

the peak tongue june 6th. so a few days ago it's now going down a bit to spend this in the winter. this is the so we're not seeing the extremely high temperatures that we get elsewhere. you're missing here measuring a micro climate. here we have data that goes for humidity and temperature and they measure and recall the data roughly every 10 minutes. and we've been at it for about a year now ended up off on the site and that's the item. yeah, the one size do you have, i don't want this. this is confirming our expectation that on days when the temperatures are really high, the forest is relatively cool to blind, and that gives it a certain stability 72 to give them this. just in, in the universities experts are also measuring the increase in the bio mass of the forest. that's important information for the startups activities. you will for the, the glad you study the areas we've removed from commercial use of system convention

and what song we want to understand what's happening there must be able to prove that this change has taken place since the, the one 3rd of germany is forest is fine, but if our ideal work site will be able to turn the lots of that back to natural for us and view a few, few this, that's on quite a bit for his work to really take off. can his team need to find companies that are willing to invest the meanwhile more than 10000 kilometers away make loma and also relies on help from others to save the giants of the amazon rain forest the indigenous, my whole community operate and maintain her tree top walkways we're so grateful to come here and see the community using nature saving nature because it's, you know, our hope that we can just help make that process. it's all about local communities

and it's really their lambs and their bio diversity. it's no time for the visitors to experience that bio diversity up in the tree top. oh yeah, i have the tire like school. it's super exciting. and this was kind of like the highlight of the trip in the 1st place. so it definitely feels like we're hitting a climax. every step to the top was financed by donations in total, the walkway cost $750000.00 us dollars. so who wants to go 1st me just the finally, the travelers are about to experience. meg long months world at 1st hand, the 8th continent, as she calls it, 35 meters above the ground. the canopy and the rain forest as

bright, loud and human. the tree top walk is one of the longest in the world. it stretches half a kilometer and connects 14 of the largest trees in the area they wrote down exactly. now here we are in the amazon fantasies store full of activities and life in action in productivity from the sun, through the leaves of oxygen in millions of species buzzing around or has it's just an extraordinary place to be. it almost makes me dizzy. the walkway is maintained by local indigenous families. they also work as field guides and provide catering and accommodation to the visitors. so this generates income for the local communities in ways that don't harm the rain forest. and the visitors come away

with plenty of food for thought. i think it's really important to bring non scientists here, because right now they are the voters. there is a consumers of products that are cutting the forest down. they are the people that need educating the forest canopy is an impressive classroom, mig loma and wants to implement revision in the 10 most bio diverse and endangered forests worldwide after walkways and peru, malaysia, and the united states. she's now working on a new one and madagascar. the conservationist will need $10000000.00 to complete her life's work. if i can save big trees by building 10 canopy walkways in the 10 most important and endangered force of the world, i will go to the grave feeling at peace and know that i've done the best i can for my children. now age 70 meg loma and has long

been an inspiration to others. and that's important because a strong network of supporters is needed if she's to complete her mission. she's also inspiring the next generation of researchers to keep up the good work. the just being a biologist, myself like to come somewhere like the amazon rain forest. so it was really, really cool to be able to come and see everything that's down here and be, be here for like scientific reasons to, to meet, talk to them and see the research facility and participate in some of that research . just really, really cool. so by coming here, people like alex smith are helping to secure the livelihoods of up to 110 local families sebastian, rio. so choice is one of the local field guides. he leads to visitors along the walkway. along with the time we're using the forest in a sustainable way,

we're now protecting our land, the way down the road. and over the years we've noticed that the wildlife is starting to return. you happen to end the month ending mileage. the 70 year old belongs to the indigenous my who now group there are remote community who live deep inside the amazon rain forest. their village can only be reached by boat. sebastian rios ochoa is the village elder. she understands the forest and how to live from that knowledge, pass down from his ancestors that he now shares with visitors to pick them on the economy. because i'm standing here and my friends or family can't find me. and for me, i can get in touch with them this way. here with me while i am going to, it's a very interesting method of communication. but when you get to me, when the defense is fine, we'll hook them up. i was told that we used to cut down the whole tree as the temple. yeah, no one wants to know. we only take the good lead someone. that's all and we're in this. so don't know how many leaves do you need to make a room for

a home 10 and co says that it will have it will have been in the country is last up to a 100 years. and i've worked in the us between 10200 depending on how wide the house is, the automatic project methods off in mexico. and he learned the art of weaving the leaves from his mother go. yeah, thank you. see the tree top walk is not the end of the road for the amateur explores. there's another highlight still a waiting the group but 1st back to germany. the what if i start up has also recognized the importance of raising public awareness of the impact that natural forest have on our climate in the lower life valley on

germany's ryan river. what if i found your enzyme schneider is meeting with you to student? from forrest gump the chewing gum manufacturer wants to purchase carbon certificates and invest in a new forest. betsy mosley, this is the loop of the most old river. this is our latest project with the areas outlined in green $1.00 to $5.00, and we don't include mix for us, but also spruce for us that are dying like in your project funding system, right after you do you have to in, on pre x? no, we also have one plot that's laundry and contiguous, but otherwise, smith, lots protecting forest is part of the company's concept. the ingredients where their product to come from trees in mexico limits. and yeah, instead of using the substance native plastics like with conventional chewing gum, we use a substance native to connect to chick who is the sap from the separate deal of the tree. it's harvested by carefully tapping the tree. i'm sure it's a very sustainable way of harvesting this precept advice. so that's one fullness

ours conservation that we do. but now thanks to put aside, we can also do something locally here in germany to protect forest law enforcement for to, let's see here. so nobody finds was that the company has already invested in a number of areas. today you did, student wants to see how our forest recovers, is left alone. here in the lower live valley, the changes are very visible. it's the region. if we can leave the tree standing thanks for the contribution of companies like yours, there's far more shade and that increases year by year. that's why not alice would advise vision is catching on. companies from telecom giants to management consultancies have already bought certificates. huge to then enter team also made a conscious decision in favor of the start up the home that we spent a really long time doing research because we wanted to invest in a project where we could measure its impact. and we wanted to do that here in

germany, and we would have 5, we can measure how the source eco system is performing thanks to the cooperation with the university of f, as about the and with p a. e bush. we can track it over the years and show others what happens if we just leave the forest alone by them who are less than the intricate disease. so that's if i makes the decision as far as does what really belongs here. i've seen lots of oaks and batches i smoke speech tree in these birches, the old pine trees for a few of the pines are dying. the, you know, some time it came on it plus he had sosnazz assignment changes happening so fast, and we're really behind the curve. this is a time to think big and people design, finding companies willing to buy carbon certificates as one thing. but what a 5 1st needs to gain access to the forest in germany, forests are either private property or belong to local authorities. the one community on the most old river has agreed to set aside some of its forest, where no wood will be harvested for 30 years. in return would have fi,

gives them financial compensation. when was your from the only thing we need or we think that's why it is. it's as far as the owner needs, consider how you can generate new sources of income. a young pinewood will be gone and a few years saw you on vic, finish me about what's involved on when i look at the forest here, it's not 100 percent healthy when it's ailing every way is i'm coming from limited with this project. i can see the forest recovering and few jobs, so you should is that the old friends sometimes the shop. if you look at it in terms of volume creation, the authorities are harvesting the forest claimant performance instead of would ask them to provide us. and that's a change of mindset and of course harvesting would involve shopping dining trees. whereas for climate, the more trees less standing, the better we will pass on today and am schneider is signing a contract with 2 local authorities here. it applies to an area of forest covering almost $300.00 heck tears that will be left to its own devices until 2053 are sent

to our future cooperation. for the next 13 years there's still a long way to go to re naturalize germany's forest, but every new area that is left to recover is another step forward. make my own mind also has a big vision to leave a functioning and flourishing planet for future generations. educating citizens, scientists is another step along the way. together they go through the leaves, they found on their field trip and learn why each one is important. pick of that one darling, this whole data that baby is one of my favorites that's called it's a very steady hardwood tree that supports

a lot of the canopy walkway. look at the stems on the look at the stone. can you say something funny about the stem of at least it's like that? yeah, it's got lea funded that has to sit down with refund. this has been a while. so it's like maximizing its opportunity to make energy from the sun. and then that's why citizen science and bio bullets isn't volunteering, and science is actually emerging as a very important part of getting better science than just the scientist alone. just before the end of their expedition, there's another special highlight awaiting the group. they're about to return to the tree tops. but this time without the walkway, biologist alex smith is bold over by what he's experience so far. so now being in the jungle, seeing entirely new country, an entirely new place, entirely new people group an entirely new way of life. and really just drives home

. that idea is like, hey, there is something larger than just yourself worth protecting and worth working for other meg. loma was one of the 1st scientists to explore tree tops in this way. now, others are following and her footsteps. we really need the next generation involved to become art or not. so the next generation has an opportunity for amazing disco house and they need to do it quickly before so many more trees disappear. um and this is like leg. # when make little mind began her career 45 years ago, the giants of the forest were still everywhere. huge pop up trees over 400 years old. since then, many have been cut down with the tree where it all began is still standing tall. oh my gosh, i looking at that breath reply, i'm just thinking how did we ever do that?

this is really tough to be the only big tree in the neighborhood. you need other big trees, but my hope is that this tree, some day will be joined by others. and that all the rest of the big trees along the amazon will be fair from the chase, the protecting the old trees and helping the young ones to grow old is the only way for us can remain vibrant and healthy and continue protecting our climate. the . it's the margot friedlander is a holocaust survivor. at the age of 19,

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