lebanon's president michel own says that the prime minister saad hariri has been in his words detained in saudi arabia he says it represents a breach of human rights and that it's an act of aggression against lebanon this is after such a really surprise resignation from riyadh u.s. age of state rex tillerson has called for a credible and impartial investigation into the crisis he's made leader and son suchi and capital to listen once those who have committed crimes to be held accountable he described the scenes of what happened to the rangar at the hands of myanmar's security forces as horrific six hundred thousand range of fled to bangladesh to escape a brutal crackdown the turkish president is in doha for talks with the cattery emir type one has been a major supporter of since june when four arab countries cut ties and imposed a blockade on cattle on tuesday the emir said the saudi lead blocker has no desire

to end the crisis uses said cattle is looking for sustainable ways to meet its needs those are the headlines the news will continue here in just under half an hour but for the moment let's turn over to our programs and tries. his captivity in the only hope for china's panders one on one he's ventures deep into the mountains of western china in search of you while. at this time on how does iran.

the survival of people and wildlife depends on the health of the lambs but as a mom for resources it's destroying the armed and all it hearkens. our consumption of the us not to a science 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 i'm 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 leading the way of protecting in a desert world enough. reason.

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. ecuadorian dry forests are incredibly biodiverse habitats yet due to human activity they have been reduced to just one percent of their original coverage. i've travelled here to see how listening devices made from recycled technology could help protect the forest and its endangered wildlife. the population of one. keil has increased tenfold 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 is now spread within the boundaries of the set along the reserve. 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. than only. yes and. that respect ima. or mon. a long legal. will you know as well a border in the model. you put a short i used to know but it surely a but i am sure that the weather 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 this. is the only song. or no idea you both were simply meant that you knew or didn't. remember yeah if there's a corner you have. what up. getting. enough to follow. this so you don't live in our own reality. on the other model. at the end the day we are. in but. the rangers not only protect the forest but the native wildlife that inhabits it. 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 . and that's what they're going to we are going to go by you. deforestation and hunting has left a 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. welcome letter said no. word 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 tougher white has developed rain forest connection a surveillance system consisting of an old mobile phone external micro. phone and recycle solar panel shards which listens in on the sounds of the vortex. so for three share. our wire these listening devices and more that'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 journey up there and see how it all sort of comes together that every i think you can manage now you got it. went you know to here it is if it's working ok i'm ready ready. ready. to go with you. know these are the little solar panels these panels i want 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 in 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 this data stream yet to survey we have to this

internally have mounted appear 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 be important in system and he should 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 there's a cop on inside in that little matter you were trying to make sure they were using within 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 these ranges themselves can build these phones the problems out there the ones who are now forced we're just here to buy them special tools to help them find with the . edges so laden ok so lighting is ok 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 far here is that these birds are restless and in there is this time with tyler and location goes away over there. and then you can start seeing all these are that. there's far more because there are some various there are only a few chains just kind of whom you expect i guess 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 we give it a little bit of hints it's because training data and they can pick out so what we're looking for in their own forward ok let's give it a go. if

you're ready that there were roll. over. there and. thank you james all i did you know larry i'm right here is. that when people are caught they're changing their guns will be confiscated and they could face jail time or be fined up to a quarter of a million dollars a day almost a year of one of those most boxes for the other guy i don't know

a better way we're going to have. a whole and i want to see if jamie will say any ground. that saturday 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 are one of the few nesting places in the forest for the great. i'm with you on the a. and y.o.l.o. y.o.l.o. here with. the three of. them knew the name of the 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 yellow arrow on same one of you i gave. you a song 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 suffer. since twenty fifteen at least two hundred forty seven lands and environmental to fundus have been killed globally. that's more than four people each week. in the philippines and learned nearly 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 benteke acid us you have a campaign to get some construction of a dime was murdered and her and hug and march twenty sixth. fellow activist kristoffer castro who was with her that day he was interviewed by al jazeera is fault lines. that have been this you know young green away for editing. a missing woman and honestly gotten. us which are by our partners friends by national schools are after more useful because your own healing in the than and . and they'd be some would you know a sign that he isn't a possum you know to think am oh you know. what our bill.

was joke you know created k r that host p.c. here. because no one acre i can't peer at it 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 the whole must believe it's 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 ecosystem

since colonize ation 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 earnest are returning to their ancestral lands rekindling ancient practices to protect one of the largest and most intact already systems in the world. for tens of thousands of years of soft area of the western desert was high into the muddy some of them were contacted by europeans as late as the one nine hundred sixty s. and they were cleared all seles. since then enormous wildfires had. stated the landscape with around eighteen animal species disappearing from the area. on my way to the desert so i'm stopping off to me. on how far has affected my country.

have there been any particularly sad five. country the biggest was a brain somewhere in the order of total million active this is the image taken over ten knots and it shows some of the flaws in the west and that. this fall is a mini mall watch and see. there's a mega flaws as are extreme events we're saying those huge events where there's a lot of try to sum up what's across right and then you end up in the landscape. and you know what with the first lot instructions that are coming stone's next on the left on checks this sort of thing will on the get with us 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 morning and they have since started a range of programs a key part of which is continuing this ancient practice. dry season has just begun to rise so i'm joining one group as they go deep into modern 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 pre-con tree 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. turn and not a crowd that you know about things before you became

a right 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 ton to tearing 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 learn to learn man government of the world only the lower number billion and the love for your money. then the dinner. and then you realize you're the one that entered you know well and. i've got a bit of a plan for you to act like tough but that was cutting it and watch other oh what a horrible horrible part. of. this traditional method forms thousands of small clear patches that can prevent large wildfires from taking hold

but where the birds go up the way i look at it how does lighting a fire stop fire if they wreck a fire like that they make enough fire breaks the rug strikes and if not the big will for about the time that we fight gets here and just stop yeah and friends are yeah within a matter of as their fire breaks yeah. the ranges are only bad when it's cool and as the vegetation is still green from the rains the small file will soon go out. for their money to buy the lady a little. low money buy a regular blood boil. little girl and a lot of the weird. night . they crawled out of the pile air their eyes a so in sharing with what to look for on

a sled. under you or you had a. great night you know. well a lot of again we're going to let you know. oh and they are getting. a lot of them right. when syrians have been burnt and they provide a diverse mix of habitat conserve the native flora and fauna. the regrowth in this small burnt patch provides a perfect foraging grounds and the range is now mac and monitor the animals this is primarily it's got a. big years ok. a stray leah has the worst rites of mammal extinction in the world. like other animals the bilby a small nocturnal masuk peel has been in decline since the modern left the land the

ranges now math and monitor population numbers using g.p.s. track is and camera traps then behind with a big i didn't really need to track them from i don't want the camera there so i would you know if i'm counting on it with if i'm. not serving him and if i have worked mata over and i think i'm a fighter when we're done. 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 tales yes. good like this but i used

to just sit back and watch my tears to. him because there's so many of them all over the country in the modern having will be what out of all men i'm not a clue but the mother of the woman i live with well i remember the mood of the album the bit that tomorrow we're going to head out to monitor another of the endangered species and blacks 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 they are in a mess i mean yeah you say. that i were going to hold the traps up in those hills good at risk of extinction in the past few years black flagged rock wallabies have

been found in several new locations on modern country elation who told you that they were rough full of b.c. i was lucky enough to want to come out and say this exact swans look at teligent they are very young 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 you for a qualities large scar while far as the ending of the is right just really takes its toll on the soil a really good father program is really important and i'm the country so much healthier because military. in the end. 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 model 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 the desert in areas where they're burning the overall size and intensity of wildfires have reduced dramatically but the moderate on to learn there are 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 he 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. 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 you know them with. the serious consequences of destroying on land approaching the development of new methods of conservation. is trying to do from the u.k. aims to reach used to forestation by sowing seeds boston 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 crocs 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 bind to the soil to prevent. solutions like these are vital to help us protect us but more important still is that we limit our consumption says the future of our planet depends on it.

transport measures employed to tackle pollution in one of china's showcase cities anything that might twenty twenty all an attack in its intended i'm going to meet only on lightning. and how environmental grassroots campaigns are joining forces in the us there is a global connection that is happening and we want to utilize that power to make change not only for today but for future generations as well. at this time on al-jazeera. business update brought to you by current are always going places together.

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