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the survival of people and wildlife depends on the health of the land but as a mom for resources it's destroying the land and all it hearkens. our consumption of the us much reserves has increased by fifty percent in the last thirty years with over use mismanagement and climate change a flood of the planet's land has become severely degraded. each year we lose fifteen billion trees and twenty four billion tons of photons soil and at least ten thousand species become extinct. the land we live on is being strained to breaking point restoration and conservation a key to its survival giuliana shots and waggle accurate are where an innovative device is helping to protect the forest from expansion and exploitation from the city and i'm rachel hawking in western australia where an ancient culture is waiting the way of protecting in a desert world enough. look

at it in southern and what i said all along was one of the last remaining dry forests in the country threatened by the expanding city illegal settlements hunting and coaching the forcing critical danger of extinction along with the state of wildlife. dry forests are incredibly biodiverse habitats due to human activity they have been reduced to just one percent of their original coverage. i have travelled here to see how listening devices made from recycled technology could help protect the forest and its endangered wildlife. the population of why akil has increased ten fold over the last sixty years and is now home to nearly two million people. drawn here by employment opportunities migrants are often only able to afford to live on the outskirts which have now spread within the boundaries of the set of reserves. and heading into the forest to meet the

people who are conserving this protected area. don't perfecto is the reserves chief ranger. that effect. so he has been working to protect the forest for over twenty years but this has become increasingly difficult . as there are only. ever or more you. will you know where. you put a short. but i fear that the new where the rangers have managed to

stop the city moving further into the forest they still have to deal with criminal activity such as land trafficking illegal logging and hunting. ground there. is there with a song. or no idea you both were. simply mandate the new more d n r g m ok yeah it does it can do you have a katie it would apply to keep us all but us that's us. you know. you're doing. this so you don't live in our own reality. on the other model. at the end the game. in but. the rangers not only protect the forest but the native wildlife that inhabits.

i know i've been there and i have. a ranger here for eleven years for the past three armando has been fighting to protect one of sort of longo's most iconic birds how are you going to we are going to go by you. deforestation and hunting has left the great green macaw in critical danger conservation programs have been successful in increasing their numbers in captivity but it is not that there are now less than ten left in the wild here and said. these mccall's were recently released and still need support from the rangers forget the. land that there is a low. road on the grammar by your. government. the rangers are doing their best to stop all illegal activity in the forest but with sixty square

kilometers to patrol and armed men to face it's a big and dangerous job for just nine of them. it's especially difficult for them to see or hear when somebody is just passing legally but there's a new technology on hand to help out. engineer two for white has developed rain forest connection a surveillance system consisting of an old mobile phone external michael. phone and recycle solar panel shards which listens in on the sounds of the boards. and so for i think chair. or wire these listening devices and more it's not really feasible for the rangers themselves to walk around in and patrol the entire place but noise travels pretty well through the forest and so we can put these devices up in the trees guardians they can listen to the forest and pick out all sorts of stuff like chainsaws or or gunshots or even just animal noise. the guardian of us

how do they work what are we made of these are basically old cell phones that people send to us to put them up in trees and they can last for years they listen to the forest and you can pick out anything you're looking for let's go up the tree right now and uncle johnny up there and see how it all sort of comes together that every i think you can manage now you got it. you mention up to here it is it's working ok i'm ready ready. ready. to go with you. know these are the little solar panels these panels are wanted to be had to build out of recycled shards they're lined up here appeal to make use of sunlight under a tree canopy. how many guardians do you have in set along so there are a tentative local right now just at any different locations around at the location and because the microphones are pretty sensitive we can pick up

a lot that happens within a pretty broad area all of the static streaming out to a server that we have to descend kind of that we have not the pier at the top of the hour now we stream it over the standards of our network even out here in the forest is pretty good. even our conversation right now we've seen you know he's being screened to being first mentioned system and he could open up a map and you can listen to yourself for the. worker who misled you. or. just a little higher up is the unit containing the phone that the solar panels charge listen up on inside and that's a lot of my you know. we're trying to make sure that we're using what's in the country already to allow this thing to grow so using the existing cell phone service or using ecuadorian cell phones and eventually we're hoping very soon that these ranges themselves can build these phones a problem so they're the ones who are now forced we're just here to buy the special tools that help them find with. just a latent ok so lighting is going to be with a storm brewing it's time to make

a quick exit from the tree time. eat. eat. the next day i find out exactly how this device can help stop the illegal activity in the forest so these letters arrested us and in there is this time with the alert location goes away over the phone and then you can start seeing all of these are that. there's far more because there isn't there is there are only a few things she's going to whom expect ok you finally i. took her and i are today's illegal loggers. armed with our chainsaw we want to check the ranges are able to find us using the device which can cover an area of three square kilometers . so tell me a little bit about how this works i mean how do we know what we train this artificial intelligence model that we built to give it a little bit of hints as big as training data and they can pick out what we're

looking for in their own forward ok let's give it a go. getter . the world. over. there and. take it away they're already. that i think there is going to be attacked when people are caught there chainsaws or guns will be confiscated and they could face jail time or be fined up to a quarter of a million dollars

a day come out of one of those most boxes rather than the other guy you know a better way we wouldn't have it which i don't own i want to see if any ground for . that battery for. the reinforced connection devices are relatively new to sort of long but they have already had great success in sumatra in cameroon in stopping illegal loggers and poachers the world has lost nearly half its forest through human activity simple and sustainable these guardians may be able to make a real difference to the forests and wildlife that lives within them. armando takes me to one of the critical locations for the listening device in that you know one of the few nesting places in the forest for the great green must. i'm with you on the i phone bird and y.o.l.o. y.o.l.o. here with. these three found. a. new intimate that

are able to land there they're going to. among them and be here. you know ending. all of the no then they'll go by oh yes i think the same one or a bio i gave. you know. that i have on my humanity that both they're looking for that are set up. with the global population increasing the rush to use an exploit all finites natural resources is set to intensify. but it isn't just the environment that suffered. since twenty fifteen at least two hundred forty seven land and environmental to fundus have been killed globally. that's more than four hundred people each week. in the philippines and learned early one hundred activists have

lost their lives since twenty times while trying to protect land. meanwhile in honduras more than one hundred twenty people died during the same period including the country's most prominent indigenous environmental data data cassaday us you have a campaign to get some construction of a dime was murdered and her and hug and march twenty sixth. fellow activist gustavo castro who was with her that day he was interviewed by al-jazeera is fault lines. that are bent this here young graham we forget to take. anything i mean internally kind of which. is which are fire power power those things by national sponsor of africa well yes well because he went through in the the in and. and they'd be so i'm sure you know a sign that he isn't a possum you know to think am odeo.

was joke you know create a k. are made host p.c. or. what can we know nica i can't periodical but you know he could but yes. but he has talked to the host but say you if you noticed that he told you is it all must believe it was ok. up to sixty five percent of the land on the planet is managed by indigenous peoples and communities and yet it's estimated that less than twenty percent is legally owned by them with these vulnerable environments increasingly becoming a battleground the fight to protect them has never been more important. a stray or is one of the most buyer the best countries on it and for tens of thousands of years its land has been skillfully managed by its best people. traditional small scale banning was an integrity part of maintaining the very

system since colonize asian many indigenous people have been forced off their land . in their absence large wildfires have moved in aggravated by climate change and rising temperatures. i'm in western australia where the traditional ernest are returning to their ancestral lands rekindling ancient practices to protect one of the largest and most intact already her system is in the world. for tens of thousands of years of soft area of the western desert was higher into the muddy some of them were contacted by europeans as late as the one nine hundred sixty s. and they were cleared off seles. since then enormous wildfires had. devastated the landscape with around the animal species disappearing from the area. on my way to the desert so i'm stopping off to meet the next on how far has affected my country

. have there been any particularly sad five. countries the biggest was a brain somewhere in the order of total million active this is an image taken over ten knots and it shows some of the flaws in the west and that. this fall is a mini mall what the city. there's a mega flaws as are extreme events we're saying huge events where there's a lot of pride of some of what's across drive and then you end up in the landscape it's. fun and you know with the first lot instructions that are coming stones' next on the left on checks this sort of thing will only get worse so how important is a to have country auto plants when the interaction of people rethink does it hasn't. been that the solution to these destructive wildfires is surprisingly. traditional burning practiced for millennia is now being

brought back to the land. in two thousand and two the modern one native title over the land of the morning and they have since started a range of programs a key part of which is continuing this ancient practice. with a dry season has just begun to rise so i'm joining one group as they go deep into my country for two days to start their fire program before wildfires can take all that any way to get out of it. i'm indigenous to from well pretty country i spent part of my childhood in a remark community northeast of here so i'm looking forward to getting back out to the desert carol williams has been a range of if the last five he is what made you want to be a ranger. turner annoyed. about things before you became

a crank i'm not really there but i don't know. what the is one of the relatively few aboriginal elders left here remembers using five hunt during his bushman day. he's in. good knowledge of the landscape means he can show you the younger ranges how and wet to bend to keep the land healthy. little you learned all around the world of the world really low end of the billion and then the love for your money. then the dinner. and then you realize you're the world that entered your new you know well and. i got a bit of clamor for you to act like tough but that was cutting in and watch out for one who aren't are going to disrupt. this traditional method forms

thousands of small clear patches that can prevent large wildfires from taking home but where the birds go with the way i look at it how does lighting a fire stop fire if they wreck a fire like that and making a fire break on the rug strikes and if not the big win for about the time that what if i get scared just stopped yeah and a friend start yeah right now moderate as their fire breaks yeah. the ranges are only bad when it's cool and as the vegetation is still grain from the rains the small file will soon go out. for their money to buy the lady a little. no money buy a regular blood boil. little ember was a weird. night . they crawled off of the file here their eyes

a so in sharing with what to look for on a sled. under you're looking. at right now you know bit. of a love of a good number you know. oh and they are getting. a lot of them right. when sirius have been benched they provide a diverse mix of habitat conserve the native flora and fauna. the regrowth in this small burnt patch provides perfect far reaching grounds and the ranges now map and monitor the animal this is primarily it's got a. big years ok. a stray leo has the worst rites of mammal extinction in the world. like other animals the bilby

a small nocturnal masuk people has been in decline since the modern left the land the ranges now math and monitor population numbers using g.p.s. trackers and camera traps there behind the big oh they really did attract them from last night and want the camera there so i would you know if i'm counting it with if i'm. not serving him and his work mata over and i think i'm in my other one we're. here. right. now we've got a bit of bush tucker it's time to set up camp for the night oh yeah but look at. us .

this is going to cook up some kangaroo test yes. good like this i used to just sit back and watch my tears tonight but we can and because there's so many of them all over the country did the modern have a will be like god woman i'm not a clue but the mother of the woman i mean the one well i remember the. the umbrella the but tomorrow we're going to head out to monitor another of the endangered species and black like to run well in. the ranges didn't always work alone in their conservation of the wildlife here on modern country one of their pond is is aleisha withington from hawks and wildlife has been working with the ranges for the past five and a i don't mess i mean yeah you say the right to die we're going to hold the traps up inmates who own them good at risk of extinction in the past few years black

flagged rock wallabies have been found in several new locations on modern country l.a. chevron told you that they were running full of pizza i was lucky enough to come out and say these exact swans look at teligent they all fail to work or think one can pay neither country so i will really help us out these tribes will enable the ranges to monitor the health and genetic diversity of this well a big population. i once just found some scots. here and that's a good sign you can find your for equalities large scar while far as many of these ranges really takes its toll on the soil a really good far program is really important and i'm the country so much healthier because military aren't. angela. jared managed to recover a camera truck which could show whether a healthy population of raw qualities is persisting here thanks in part to the

continuation of traditional body burning in the area and then boom now. that's incredible. what about when it's right oh. my hero and. since modern have returned to that in areas where they're burning the overall size and intensity of wildfires have reduced dramatically but the moderate on to learn there are over one hundred indigenous ranger groups across a stray leo hoping to restore over sixty seven million hectares of land. when you're out here and you see people like walk out lighting fires you see the ranges caring for the endangered species you understand that. without them this country is not going to support them. it's made me think about my own country it's something that's hard to articulate you know that connection that aboriginal people

have to their home country. and that really brought home to me. remember the moment the moment and. the serious consequences of destroying on land appointing the development of new methods of conservation. is trying to do from the u.k. aims to reach used to forestation by sowing seeds faster and more efficiently than ever before. while the alley cropping technique in central america replaces slash and burn a culture by planting flowers of anger trees this creates healthy soil allowing crops to be cultivated in the alley ways. internet and tobago the roots of the parts of a plant which can be over seven meters long. to prevent. solutions like these are vital to help us protect us but more important still is that we limit our

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