the just education makes the world make up your own mind. made full minds. the are for us really to support our existence inclusive. like what do we do for them? hello and welcome. i'm sorry because everybody annual watches the queen deal. we all know how important these photos, software us, and how much they do for us from providing sustenance to food, to livelihood, and even the oxygen that we print. but in today's episode, let's find some inspiration on what we can do for them from small efforts to community extra. 2023 was the your why fi us across the world?

human made climate change increases the risk of extreme that events like heat, fees and droughts. and these in done become a key driving factor for forest fires. let's have to domino's sacred mountain forest to learn more about the community's efforts to prevent forest fires . ready sacred oh not to know him. as green as it was a long time ago. it still seems like a my number goes to massena, money hell grew up in the area when you would model. uh, and when i was growing up, my mother used to go to the forest to cut down trees for firewood, where i'm going to board way i would join home. so i go on some money on the hill was all about that and what's your degree? but that would only be somebody scheduled here, and there did you did the one the but that was long ago. in fact,

for the past 2 decades. let's see, the money has been working for the organization for his tweet, which has been restoring the forest on the holy hill in the indian state of them. and now it's a matter of close to the hop. so the founders are for us to be in particular, i don't think adult i'm going on. he to grow up here and remembers, well, what the hell looked like without tree cover? and just how hot it was. so 1989 a. this whole idea of this look would be close enough for us to was putting direction. there was no top side, it just costs to hurt people and nothing would suffice because those so much good. anything going on in the hill? the annual forest fires added to the problem, the finished of any siblings. the only thing that really thrive here was lemon grass planted by local residents once used it to catch their rules. for the past 40 years, people have lived in stolen houses. and so the grass has grown unchecked,

lemon grass contents, a lot of oil and bones like a torch expos. see, climate change is also making some no hot and dry up and why not? because of the fires. it creates both it's conditions for them to spread. the tinkling fios uh so that the, according to um, the last feature many indeed was that i could add frequencies instead of 5 higher than that you levels of fire. i'm because of that board it has visited in is well explanation. also fired or live in speed, sees such as the let me get out to the forest. we are fire fighters have tried out various ways of tackling the problem. they have finally found a simple method to keep the fires in the control us. and the way we have planted on 10 to 15000 trees, where they would stop growing little and after a fire out into play, everything would vanish. we wondered how we could avoid losing everything to file

with united. that's when we started creating a fire line to save the trees. yeah. like they bought the trees we planted, and the naturally growing trees started to flourish together on v that no matter what you had gather and what, what i can do seem to put somebody it's all send a bit different balancing act. oh not you're not his is a popular place of pilgrimage, as it is regarded as the physical manifestation of the him to guard shiver. every year, thousands of pilgrims flocked to the festival of got to go deeper in the town of the light. at the foot of the hill. it's a real challenge for the firefighters. i love of people for getting the people festival. people like plans across the like an anywhere in the hills. we have a team members monitoring the entire place and to be put out fires. as soon as this start, the organization has been working with the local forestry office. since the outset, the office has not just provided fire engines,

but also made sure that forestry workers have the right equipment to double up as firefighters to put aside go if i can, it, can you ask them to fight fires? nowadays? we use advanced technologies like early warning systems, california. so if you're in the us fire load website website to which we get to real time information, i mean for me. so those good be have as far as the and then goes to the spot with the thousands, the fire with the local people for a few, fortified to cool those good nickel john nick, i'm good this only to disclose cooperation with the residents and the forestry office has the organization forest we be able to bring new life to the who of the the data came back and here like and the parking binds and the white board and bud spaces. it's dramatic and for the district be able to go to duplicate for species or the following. let's go to the but also the, the please have created that sponge like thing like, you know, so so,

so much on is the name of gets absolved. the co founder is also going to share his interest e. as in for the transformation. once a week, he takes students from a nearby school to the him, to demonstrate that walking to prison of nature really can fail from time a lot or less now have to spin in europe where why fi is destroyed housing. so vehicles of land in 2020 feet as it is out as the spanish spade ford has 5 campaign was put in place. we met a firefighter and history for now becoming ever more skilled in dealing with why fi is the roads are dry and dusty and it's hot. $35.00 degrees celsius enriques up his is scouting the cadillac for us, but his special unit on a mission to prevent forest fires. and that's what i think i'll heat waves are

becoming stronger and more frequent alone. we can only try to stop by us from spreading by observing and responding facts in the 1st half of 2023, almost 70000. hector is a forest burnt down. that's an area greater than all of the madrid of all the land burnt by wild fires. in the you over half is in spain and rick is very concerned. he checks the soil for moisture and keeps finding the same result. yeah, so yeah, it's dry down deep into the earth. meaning fires can break out at any moment to go to. so they have to take action with local massage, simply add to the sum of the car, they put the fuel in. instead i think we've created a strategic protective strip here and was that include all the brush from the 4th floor the month. oh yeah, they will get that those the get the how do i mean if

a fire does break out, it can't spread and can't read the tree tops. you get it, go to that as a comparison, we left everything over the day or the way it was going to start. i guess we're going to see all of the other of the firefighters back at the station are also on high alert at even the slightest sign of a forest fire. they head out in nearly done mile is specialized in these kinds of disasters. and he says, extreme climatic conditions are straining the 4th best plan is that still saying what you when i find the plants are really suffering and desktop, some are dead, others are losing bio mass. the low gap has got you on that, which creates you better fuel for a forest. fire of people in them via phone names, and it's a firestar. it's under those conditions. that's all the more violent from the outset within those. yeah, there's that any c o in late june,

a fire broke out in the back country around time we're going to, firefighters fought the blaze from the air and ground bottles immediately monitored the operation from the station without marking. uh, recall uh about harvesting machine caught fire and set light seal people from there . the flames quickly spread to the adjacent for as well as the special unit, conduct the regular aerial surveillance, also to observe harvesting activities. and enrique cents fire trucks to the fields, just in case there's an activity that there will be as well because of the harvest thing is dangerous instead of to death because it takes place from the heart and from the body and send you in a fire. can start at any moment, it's done with the support of it,

and that's why we stay close so we can respond quickly and we'll get it out in a fight with almost happy. that means that it is actually give them the farmers are thankful to have the firefighters around. tomas every has been in too dangerous situations, but manage to extinguish the fire on his own in the nick of time. with this company of the owner, there was a sudden bang and the exhausted and a sparks flew out onto the hay hanging from the machine. yeah, just because you've been a fire broke down, goes into your the firefighters, anticipate things getting tougher in the future. emily sees climate change as the primary culprit last and most of it ask if the name was gone gone, then the intense heat is making the atmosphere increasingly unstable. basic that causes higher wind speeds and those wins make buyers way more destructive than normal in illinois model. enrique and his prevention team are also concerned about

the humanities, climate footprint. they say prevention alone isn't enough. and better policy measures are urgently needed. but oh yeah, most gotta be not all the stuff with it and all the way. and then when the, the world is transforming into a force are burning everywhere and get them out of going through and the other countries need to realize we can't leave this kind of heritage for our children scorched or the stress forest has made it through yet another hot and dry day, tomorrow and week and his crew will head out once again to try and prevent the worst from happening when we let us. 8 the spanish one of the major impacts is desertification. 32 percent of indians land is degraded. weiss 25 percent is undergoing desertification. here in and out. this also contributes heavily to dust storms, which i'm

a lot of things contribute to major health concerns for thousands of people in the northern at albany mountain jeans, citizens have bottled an idea of building the green water to protect these mountain photos. but will these create green was actually walk the videos like these are popping up for the social media. they show colossal dust storms raging through delhi and the surrounding states. but this isn't a freak weather event. the storms are becoming seasonal. the desk comes from the thought doesn't like the sahara and the going to be expanding and destroying vital living space. i forgot and china i've responded with, i'm fishes prompting project. great green pools of trees to try and stopped as though to vacation in india. india is lucky, the north has a natural green bar at the arrival of mountain range, which is held back to thought as it for centuries. that is until now to make a dust storms and hot winds blowing in from the doesn't correctly millions of

millions in the national capital region. in 2019 india made a promising announcement. it will be planting its own quite green when the rob leads to help fight design to vacation. but as we're about to see, was of trees have shown mixed results in other parts of 12. and the revenue mountain range is facing some serious threat to that side. so what can india do better? and will it be able to slow the advancing? does that the powerful dust storms have led to a spike and bronchitis, breeding difficulties and lung disease. they also destroy soil and damage crumbs. but this is not just the fault of climate change. direct human actions such as the legal mining deforestation, and screw eating with the mountain barrier and turbo charging deserved vacation in the why to region. the mining is happening to us such a big extent that he loved in units being raised to the ground. there are millions

and millions of people living in york without the use. the desert is going to completely engulf entire on northwest into 2018 governments. study estimates that at least 20 percent of the arrival of hills and broad just on the ready been lost to mining important ground water systems have been disrupted, and many rivers have disappeared altogether. the robberies h and for us to also in trouble. scientists calculated that since 1975 over 1000 square kilometers of trees have been cut down and replaced with housing and farm land and taking into account illegal deforestation. almost 6000 square kilometers a 3 carbon has been lost. that's the equivalent of more than 3 180000. cricket bitches. in 2019 after season of especially punishing dust storms. the government proposed solution in this ministry of environment forest and climate change would create a great green gold. 1400 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide to restore 1500000

hectares of degraded land and the revenue region. and stopped the expansion of the thought as it would run through the states of good rot raw just on cardona and delhi. but was just building a great green will actually mean the concept was made famous by the african union in 2007, as a way to collect to the re green the saw. how does it region and create livelihoods for the people living that the original tree will project started off stretching from senegal in the west to booty in the east, pulsing through starting different countries. but of course, the progress across the continental is being sparsely distributed. you know, some countries have done much, much more than other countries, and it's not just the idea of planting trees because you know, it could go out and boundaries. but what's really important is justin and believe you, how do you ensure that these things route to maturity? so we have to be creative about the type of trees that are planted, you know,

and make sure that there's some sort of aviation altering the trees, proved a tough challenge. but impulses lessons will on to results suggest that the most successful recreating on the continent has actually been achieved, like thomas planting trees alongside the crops and countries like me, sharon malawi, one of the things that i would advise to any country embarking on on these the project to ensure that the people, the communities are part of based, right from the, from the get go and the participate and have a clear understanding of what is the benefit of the project will be to them. because this is going to be the incentive event of any work towards the success of the project as well. ok, because great greenville is aiming to restore 100000000 hacked as a degraded land by 2030 but saw fault. well, i'm to hosted the restoration target, has been achieved un estimates that the project still needs about $33000000.00 of investment to complete it. the question is though, would that be money?

well spent great green walls around the world and particularly the ones in how in west africa, algeria. ready ready and china that have recently been reviewed in depth, do not have a good track record at all. but here's the dessert, application desiccation drying. things like this are happening. they're happening primarily because of global climate change patterns. and the idea that you know, trees are going to stop a desert and advancing simply doesn't, doesn't hold water. trying to start it's prompting. it's great greenville known as the 3 north shelter belt project over 44 years ago. since then, the government has spent billions on tree planting. the plan is to plant an area or forest, colorado as big as bronson italy combined by 2050. so there's still a lot to do. but can china is large scale, planting power, set it apart?

china is, is quite different from these other cases. and the primary difference is just the way china is governed kinda way the chinese government gets things done. so can india as government, get the great greenville done? the initiative was officially launched in march 2023. but since then, no planting is yet being done. the ministry of environment forest and climate change says it's still preparing the state by state plan and identifying vulnerable hotspots. no one from the ministry agreed to be interviewed. local communities have responded to this government in action by experimenting with the own replanting strategies. we decided that we're going to plant or be newkirk species because in exports on high re, uh, we reached out to exports to you about what it needs to take on. and that obviously flores, i'm the guys 1st project transformed an old mining site into what is now the roughly

biodiversity pock. ready the team collected seeds from the revenue, or as to recreate hundreds of native plants and trees species. the planting projects also made use of indigenous work to capture techniques to support the plants. they were generated in old good, and that's an environment and ditch structure i used to channel to during the monsoon range. and they also cleaned out several jo, hot, small towns that helped to recharge ground water. very, very clear that no water from our projects, big long and be those fine risk of taking what is on the road or bid it would be, can get except what the into the into our project. so kind a great greenville helped to restore. india is a roughly mountains. well, probably not the way things are going. the government doesn't actually take steps to protect that and actually one from minding from real estate development from

commercial activities then are these kind of schemes are not fairly uh, you know, they're just going to be cosmetic, with communities, taking the lead on localized, replanting the responsibilities now and the indian government to make good on it's great greenville promise enforcing legal protections in the arrival. these would be a good start. let's now have to the 1st thing for us to send a caller in the northeast of the state, have a sizable shylie population. indigenous people here shed a very close relationship with the environment and the phone systems. they are now losing the diversity of these plants and trees, but technically, you know, how and ancient knowledge are helping them build better sustainable ad receive. so, uh mm hm. yeah, mm hm. uh, by the name of your yaki,

may he some by that ancient cause these folk song describes the close born between humanity and nature. nature johnny belongs to the 50 or so families who live here in the mountains of cheat up wednesday in northeast india is make on the state. oh my the song asks me to put her get like the wind plants growing among the flower bed. so so, so to me by making them can hold him, can you come all these are garlic, china, which we eat about and ship long. this is a was and then we have bonded pals which we cultivate for buying for them. come not the name for the month of september and october. they're ready to have it. so when i and because of it by not provide on the edge of a lot like open when you're cutting them. so i don't that many to hack and re

johnny's home. village of nobody else is remote, and anyone who wants to visit has to escape 2 and a half 1000 steps. the inhabitants here are an indigenous people to the traditional real life. they make an important contribution to biodiversity. 3 quarters of migalia is $46.00. so people here go the across among the wide trees and shrubs, agra ecologist, grab yeah, that good works for the ne, slow food and agro biodiversity society, or the next task for shopped. the n g o wants to preserve that, he just traditional kind of duration nutritional practices. so if we look at the, with the indigenous communities have manage the a foot system, you will see a component of diversity where you will see that it's in the system in the of the

system. there's multi cropping, where a variety of grubs see if we do uh, to a mapping exercises. we have found that a community have about more than $202.00 foot loans. just a few years ago. there was more diversity according to service by and that's fine. but slash and burn. ford is cleared and i'm increasingly heavy. the info have both taken their toll on the soil. in the 1990s, the lucas on most of non co, started calculating dress to own a living. it's useful lives to feed, to make boot and fuel. but this morning go to has severely degraded destroyed body. so football, i need to have you got up when able to walk me, who is a highly competitive blonde and you have gone to london without the other crosses because the damage has to crop on. finally got home. but when do i leave? i'm getting to the blotted because of the most and lot one graphic. if i let me

know, model by as market price is for bluegrass rules, thomas calculated more and more of it to the detriment of biodiversity in the region. most foss has launch programs to revise what's being lost. like at the moment, the logo primary school, the reason the dishes are now back on the menu. elements have been replaced by the traditional jink up in peanuts by pretty low seats. and let us buy the canadian, blocked a bunk bed. jack, today i'm eating neutral out of it. bump data garbage with bella seeds, nay's, eyes and wide edibles. i find the whole world really days deep. my absolute favorite is the palm game. this is what the ingredients are supplied by local farmers. most thoughts as also help to build a garden at the school. we do

a competitive study of the local food with a government. 5 comment be available for an open time. we. we try to promote that uh, the nutritional content off after the students who disagree much more higher than to the food that we buy from the market. miss not now supports more than 130 villages in northeastern india and with the help of the engine knowledge from the region. agriculture in the mountain for it is becoming more sustainable for future generations. so that instead of whose slopes we saw the flats that for us in india and in europe are facing. and it is what is, what is the state of the forest where you live to let us know you can email us or reach out to me directly on my social media handles. i will see you next week until then take a good bye. almost gosh, the

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