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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 canopies. 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 or why, why? why did any of you come here? and why certain do 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 sure, a find the air safeguard bio diversity 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 willie. everybody that's ready. you go ahead and find the system pro, fee of $3.00. ding ding, ding, ding, ding, listen, there's all parents, a whole flash of parents. they're 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 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're called mine or oh yeah. so what

do you find? there's a full on chase. the spider trying to eat the and having extra pairs of eyes is useful for picking up all that's going on and is vibrant world image. we're 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 right. 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 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 pores giants in the process, entering a world that new research for before hers had ever seen. then i'd have 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. yeah. so, so much like 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 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 for a so 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've become places of research and education. and

the tour 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 eat as a national park is home to one of your ups. few untouched primeval forest. they now covered just 0 point. 2 percent of europe's land surface for us to college is 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. 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 it stored 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 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 that 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, 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 eats up in conditions for plants getting 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 attached negatively. 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. what if i draw up a contract with forced owners agreeing that no trees will be failed for 30 years? in this way, more carbon can be stored then if 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. then john funding because when we start with these projects,

something really interesting happens. yes. let's put that for us. get some mess like that. 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. find that v task to an else you haven't even click often via people have this image a far as having to be tidy on and i pulled it off and natural forest is not tighty one part is a forest like me put deadwood, dying trees, and new life, so i'm leaving plus, plus here. and deadwood in particular has an important function at least in that was 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 it still would floats on that this but squeeze it in water drips out the loop. how much liquid there isn't. just want to handle like amazing numbers and

this wouldn't be the cause or fuel of a forest fire on, on, 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 colleges, from the ablest by the university for sustainable development, sorted things to 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 messing here 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. maybe that miles on the side. and that's the item. yeah, 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, 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. 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 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 that and that's on quite a bit 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 tops. oh yes i am the tire looks cool. it's super exciting. um, 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. 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 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 to 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's 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 in 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 rios, so choice is one of the local field guides. he leads to visitors along the walkway and everything with the time we're using the forest and the sustainable way. we're now protecting our land. we're down the road, and over the years we've noticed that the wildlife is starting to return. it happens in a month any money. the 70 year old belongs to the indigenous my who now groups of their 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. he understands the forest and how to live from that knowledge pass down from his

ancestors. but he now shares with visitors to pick them on the account number. if i'm standing here on my friends or family can't find me. and for me, i can get in touch with them this way here in my mind that if it's a very interesting method of communication, but when you get to me with the defensive spinal hook, there might that weren't sold and we used to put down the whole tree as the temple . yeah, no, no month now we only take the good lead, someone that's on, we're in the of the photo and not got how many leaves do you need to make a room for a home 10 and co size that will have or have been able to goodly is last up to a 100 years advocating that the us between 10200 depending on how wide the house is the or to manage to get methods of the method. so he learned the art of leading 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 awaiting the group. but 1st back to germany. the what if i start, i has also recognized the importance of raising public awareness of the impact that natural forest have on our climate in the lower live valley on germany's running 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 a new forest. testing was 5. this is a loop at the most old river that this is our latest project with the areas outlined in green one to 5. we don't include mix for us, but also spruce for us that are dying, like in your project tardiness system or not. if you do, you have to know i'm clear. no,

we also have one cloth that's laundry and contiguous, but otherwise, smith, lots protecting forest is 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 2 k 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 3 step. so that's one form of far as conservation that we do. but now thanks to put aside, we can also do something locally here in germany to protect forest law and thoughts on best between. let's see here for the budget funds 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 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 could 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 a 100 makes to seduce forest is what really belongs. here. i've seen lots of oaks in batches. i smoke speech tree, these birches, the old pine tree, few of the pines are dying. the, you know,

from time to it came on it because he had source, no 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 is one thing. but what if i 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 the only thing we need to re think that's why it is. it's as far as donor 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 the ailing, every way is i'm coming from limited with this project. i can see the forest are covering and few jobs,

so you should is up to the old friends sometimes the show. if you look at it in terms of volume creation, the authorities are harvesting the forest claim it performance instead of wood and ask them to provide us. and that's a change of mindset. and of course harvesting would involve the 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, or 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 step 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 i said yeah, it's got lea funding that has people 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 viable it says in 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. with 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, an 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 and her footsteps. we really need the next generation involved to become art or not. so the next generation has an opportunity for amazing this carlos 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 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 for us. we climbed 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, 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

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