is there another way officer rules, the environment is not responsible. make up your own mind. dw, made for mines. the huge age old trees are a vital import, this for our eco system. 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 forests. 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 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 lungs as a planet. it's in the highest diversity in the world here. the american biologist

has dedicated his 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 engraved danger from global warming and deforestation. new ideas are needed to protect these joints 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 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 i, this is a shredding. all right. that's amazing us. it because it is the fighting. so they go through the middle and make that's why they're called mine or the 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. mature 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 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 and a few others 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 good. oh my good 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. for us to colleges piet you've ish 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 contents of the surface, temperature is $18.00 degrees and which is interesting. the air temperature towards the light is $23.00 degrees and look to so we have 5 degrees less here. really go. 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 of a site, or that you only find them now in national parks or small scale reserves. and that's because foresters tend to say, if a tree is $120.00 or 150 years old, it's time for it to go inside. that's almost like a peer, a bush and untamed 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. and 15 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 barren areas like this or to become a thing of the past. because 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 in our claim. it is changing 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 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 funds. yeah, i'm fine with when we start with these projects, something really interesting happens. see if us put the virus get some mess like that. that's what people actually tell us once too much. i can't believe that we just leave full entries where they are, but you will 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 and not tube. the natural forest is not tidy. one part and so far this night was dead, would dine trees a new life. so i'm leaving foss plus here,

and deadwood in particular has an important function fairly similar to this, and this one's been lying here for a while back and it says 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 boots on this but squeeze it. and water drips out. awesome loop. how much liquids there isn't just want to handle like amazing. and this wouldn't be the cause or fuel of a forest fire. well, no, 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 system for us like these health cool, the air as this reflected in the measurements taken by p. e. bush and co, lena maya. she's another forest ecologist from the ablest by the university for

sustainable development. so what the things all the piqued on june 6, so a few days ago. it's now gone down to that system this in the winter. this is the so we're not seeing the extremely high temperatures that we get elsewhere messing here measuring a 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 off on the slides, and that's the item yet the one size the of i don't want to. so 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 72 to give us the universities experts are also measuring the increase in the bio mass of the forest. that's important information for the startups activities table for the bladder 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 then be able to prove that this change is taking place. i see that 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 witness that's on clinton. but 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 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 for communities and it's really of their land and their bio diversity of it's no time for the visitors to experience that bio diversity up in the tree top. oh yeah, 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 definitely feels like we're hitting a climax. every step to the top was financed by donations in total, the walkway costs $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 humid. 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, tennessee. so full of activities and life in action in productivity from the sun, through the leaves of oxygen and millions of sushi is 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 for the visitors. so this generates the

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 in on 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 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, rio. so to us is one of the local field guides. he leads to visitors along the walkway. what they can, we're using the forest in

a sustainable way. we're now protecting our land and 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 groups 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. 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 card number. if 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 with the defensive spinal hook, that might, that was stolen. we used to cut down the whole tree as the temple. yeah, no,

no much. now we only take the good lead, someone. that's all we're in this of the photo and not got how many leads 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 seeing i both here and then the us between 10200, depending on how wide the house is, the automatic to different methods of the message. 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 amateur explores. there's another highlight still awaiting 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 force have on our climate

in the lower line 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 and 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, plug into the system. there's nothing you do, you have to non pre x? no, no. we also have one plot that's laundry and contiguous, but otherwise small plots, 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 native 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. i'm sure it's

a very sustainable way of harvesting this precept advisor. so that's one phone the source 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 for in a 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 could measure how the source eco system 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 time to 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 would have fi, give some financial compensation. when was you open? the only thing we need for re think ex wife is it so as far as toner, you need to consider how you can generate new sources of income. a young pinewood will be gone in a few years. so you're on vic, finish me about what's involved on when i look at the forest here, it's not 100 percent healthy people failing everywhere is i'm carrying from me with this project. i can see the forest recovering and few jobs. see, she is up to the old friends and talk the shop if you look at it in terms of volume creation, the authorities are harvesting the forest claimant performance instead of wood and 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 off 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 for us. 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 babies, 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 it's like i said yeah, it's got lea funded that has to sit down with a refund on this in a while. so it's like maximizing it's 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. 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. i'm really just drives home . that idea is like, hey, there is something larger than just your self worth protecting and worth working for our meg. 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 maybe the when make low mind began her career 45 years ago. the joins 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 as 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 chase of 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 block trade routes, networks,

factories on height is critical. infrastructure is becoming a target for people who want to change the rules of the game. there's a real powerfully going on for the global economy or the shields going on. and at what cost made in germany. in 30 minutes on d, w, the,

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