put pressure on israel and his allies to ascend, sleep, stop the, the death of civilians on the ground and history will decide what actually took place was the case of the thank you very much. and that's it from me on the news team for now. thanks for watching the russians got issues with a lot, see who. the huge age old trees are

a vital importers for our ecosystem. they help to sustain life on earth. my lifelong goal is to say fig trees. they are probably the most important bar and 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 meg loma and has pioneered research into forest kind of piece. 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? certainly do look at the amazon. you know, truly, this ego system keeps all of us alive. this amazon is also called the lines of 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 purified the air face guard 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 pro, fee of $3.00 things being the listen, there's welfare, it's a whole flash of parents there welcoming you. busy the doing expeditions, tourists become a researchers, they begin their study on the ground before later taking to the tree tops. so 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 question. this is at least my i this is a shredding. all right. that's amazing us. it because it is the lighting so they

go through the middle and make that's why they call mine or oh 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 a transfer level, so i'm gonna respected space for meg longmont 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 arbel, not for a biologist to explores the forest canopy. i'm just

a girl from a small town. i didn't have any scientists, 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 he looked at your big toe and said, you know your brains, ok, you're hearing fine, your eyesight square, 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 forest giants in the process, entering a world that new research for before her head ever since. then i've had to the full canopy and it was like full of life because so many space is live up there, probably 50 percent of what lives on planet earth. i and a few other started calling us at 800. 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 great 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 that is here. there's already are things. yeah. and i here,

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 eco system 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 as 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 once 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'd eat as a national park is home to one of your ups. few untouched primeval forest. they now cover just 0.2 percent of europe's land surface. forest ecologist, piet, you bush and start up founder and same schneider want to safeguard what's left. they understand the value of these big old trees,

the something to everybody. well for the content. so the surface temperature is $18.00 degrees and cool, which is interesting. the air temperature towards of the light is $23.00 degrees last time. so we have 5 degrees less here. really good. yeah. so i would have guessed that by the feel of this with 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 absorbed in the last quarter of its life. i can employ moves and so that falling on by 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 12150 years old, it's time for it to go inside. that's almost like as pure

e 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 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 until 10 kilometers fi 43.2 degrees. if we turn it over underneath is $15.00 degrees and she'll get the forest canopy is gone and the trees are no longer releasing water vapor. the landscape feeds up and conditions for plants getting worse and worse. the most like stuff. that's why i'm sam schneider and 3 associates found it the would have 5 start up baron areas like this or to become a thing of the past attached regularly. these are, we believe clearing the lines like this is

a total disaster is only given everything we knew. we're convinced it's totally wrong to continue cleaning trees. and our claim is changing beyond this policy. and the claim of on this, on for chicago negates from the startup 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. or what if i draw up a contract with forest owners agreeing that no trees will be felt for 30 years? in this way, more carbon can be stored than at the forest continues to be used. commercially certificates are issued for this carbon sequestration, which would have find themselves 2 companies that want to reduce their c o. 2 footprint. lindsey i'm finding because when we start with these projects,

something really interesting happens. if us put the floors get some mess like it wouldn't, that's what people actually tell us once too much. i can't believe that we just leave fall in trees where they are going to find them. point of view task to an else you haven't even click often via people have this image a far as having to be tidy on a not tube enough. and natural forest is not tidy. one part and so far as like me, put dead wood dying trees. a new life, so i'm leaving boss plus here. and deadwood in particular has an important function to at least seen that we just and this one's been lying here for a while back and due to the process of decay is quite advanced. since i'm in the trunk, like this is wet inside says of, of must of been looking back to this and this is, it still would floats in terms of this. but squeeze it. and water drips out.

awesome loop. how much liquids there isn't just wanted a handful on amazing and this wouldn't be the cause or fuel of a forest fire on the it's a water tank line on the ground here that would slow down in a fire. right. and then this is literally system for us like these health cool, the air as is reflected in the measurements taken by p e. bush and co, lena maya. she's another for us to college, is from the a bus by the university for sustainable development. so what the things all the peaks on june 6 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 temperature is that we get elsewhere. you're missing here, we're measuring the micro climate here. we have data that goes for humidity and temperature and they measure and recall the dates are roughly every 10 minutes. and we've been at it for about a year now. ended up well on the side and that's the item yet the one size,

the bottom one does. this is confirming our expectation that on days when the temperatures are really high, the forest is relatively cool. cool. and that gives it a certain stability. somebody to give them is just an in the universities. experts are also measuring the increase in the bio mass of the forest. that's important. information for the startups activities the 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 and must not be able to prove that this change is taking 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 that and that's, that's all i'm kind of going to look for his work to really take off, he and 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 low, those communities and it's really of their lambs in their bio diversity. it's now time for the visitors to experience that bio diversity up in the tree top. oh yeah, the tire looks cool. 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 is 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.

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 cities 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 is field guides and provide catering and accommodation for the visitors. 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

forest se, 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 me 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, real so to us is one of the local field guides. he leads to visitors along the walkway and everything with the time we're using the forest in a sustainable way. we're now protecting our land. we down the road. and over the years we've noticed that the wildlife is starting to return. you happen to the end of month ending mileage. the 70 year old belongs to the indigenous my who now groups, are there a 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. do you understand 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 account number. if i'm standing here on my friends or family can find me and for me, i can get in touch with them this way. here with my wine point, that it's a very interesting method of communication. but when you get to me with the defensive spinal hook, they might that weren't sold and 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 roof for a home 10 and co size that will have or have been able to goodly is last up to a 100 years. and if you're in that the us between 10200, depending on how wide the house is, the or to manage to get methods of method. so 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 amator explores. there's another highlight still awaiting the group. but 1st back to germany. the what if i start out has also recognized the importance of raising public awareness of the impact that natural forests have on our climate in the lower live valley on germany's ryan river. what if i found, or enzyme schneider is meeting with you to the student? from forrest gump the chewing gum manufacturer wants to purchase carbon certificates and invest in new forest testing mosley. this is the loop of the most old river that 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 and plug in the system

right after you do you have to non pre x? no, we also have one plot that's laundry and contiguous, but otherwise, smith thoughts, protecting forests as part of the company's concept. the ingredients for their product to come from trees in mexico. the looks and yeah, instead of using the substance made of plastics, like with conventional chewing gum, we use a substance made of ticket checklist. the sap from the separate deal of trees. it's harvested by carefully tapping the tree. obviously 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 far as law enforcement for to let's see here for the bunch of funds was that the company has already invested in a number of areas today. you did, student wants to see how a forest recovers, is left alone. here in the lower live valley. the changes are very visible. it's

threaten 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. you did. student entered team also made a conscious decision in favor of the startup, 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 ecosystem is performing. thanks to the cooperation with the university of apples about the and was 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 a mix to seduce forest is what really belongs here. i've seen lots of oaks and batches, i smoke speech tree, these birches, the old pine tree,

a few of the pines are dying. the, you know, from the time it came on it plus he had sosnazz assignment changes happening so fast and were 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 one of my 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. what a fine gives them financial compensation. when was opened only thing we need to re think that's why it is. it's as far as donor needs to consider how you can generate new sources of income. a young pinewood will be gone and a few years ago and vic finish me about what's involved on when i look at the forest here, it's not 100 percent healthy people ailing. everywhere is i'm coming from limited

with this project. i can see the forest recovering and few jobs, so you should is up. so hold for minute sometimes. yeah, sure. if you look at it in terms of volume creation, the authorities are harvesting the forest climate 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 ones are best on today. and i 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 upset, 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 see something funny about the stem of at least it's like it's like that. yeah, it's got leaf on it. it has to be to sit down with a 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 viable it says in volunteering and science is

actually emerging is 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 with out the walkway. biologist alex smith is bold over by what he's experience so far. so now being in the jungle, seeing a entirely new country, an entirely new place, entirely new people group, an entirely new way of life, really just drives home. that idea is like, hey, there is something larger than just yourself worth protecting and worth working for other neg loma was one of the 1st scientists to explore tree tops in this way. now others are following in 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. i'm sorry, it's like legs when make little mind began her career 45 years ago, the jillions of the forest were still everywhere. huge cap 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'm looking at that for 3 times and 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 change by 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, the project cassandra, re determined through our investigation that has below was operating like a global drug car. not somebody normally theaters, organization. the object to financially drain has gone up and bring them down to the team. agents from the american drug enforcement agency means as well as another whole level. they wanted to go after their money. they had from lies themselves. we needed to reveal that so world and to their own people. why did the

us government suddenly shut down project cassandra in 2016? 03 pod documentary series. i'm asking has paula dot may 4th on d, w. the a subsidy on the front line and you create your home? yes. and the last word yellow just in the hospital the his family has split out don't want to die. the

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