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people and wildlife depends on the health of the land. is destroying the land and all it targets. are consumption of the earth much has increased by fifty percent in the last that. with over use mismanagement and climate change of the planet's land has become severely degraded. each year we lose fifteen billion trees and twenty four billion tons of fertile soil and at least ten thousand species become extinct . the land has been strained to breaking point restoration and conservation a key to it by. our innovative devices helping to protect the forest from expansion and exploitation from the city and i write your hawking in western

australia. an ancient culture is leading the way of protecting the unique does it world enough's. look at it in southern and what are settled as one of the last remaining dry forests in the country threatened by the expanding city illegal settlements hunting and coaching the forces in 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 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 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. but effective. so he has been working to protect the forest for over twenty years but this has become increasingly difficult as they were found only one been. told and the you'll. never effect ima. if you look into whether your mama or mon. a long legal. well you know what i did go to in the model. you put a short i used to come you know but i just solo you but i hear that in your 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 this. is the only song. or not because you both. seem to have meant that he knew or didn't. remember yeah it does have one do you have. it what up. you know. you're doing. this so you don't live in our own reality if you. are on the other model. at the end the game. in but. the rangers

not only protect the forest but the native wildlife that inhabits it. right. 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 several blanco'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 low. and so. welcome madison. borrow it on the grammar book value. 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 forests. so for i think air. 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 these guardians that can listen to the forest and pick out all sorts of stuff like chainsaws or gunshots or even just animal noises. 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 join me up there and see how it all sort of comes together that every isn't far away but i think you can manage now you got it. when you know there is 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 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 this data stream yet to a server that we have to this intended that we have not the peer but wow now we stream it over the standards of our network which even out here in the forest is pretty good. even our conversation right now is being you know is being screened to bring forth mentioned system 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 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 existing cell phone service or using ecuadorian cell phones and eventually we're hoping very soon that these rangers themselves can feel these phones a problem so they're 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 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 here is that these letters are restless and in there is this time with the word location goes away over the phone and then you can start seeing all these are that. there's far more because there isn't there is there are only a few things she's going to let me explain 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. in the history study that there were rolled. over. there to. take it away right i mean there is going to be attack when people are caught 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 those boxes rather than the other guy i don't know a better way we're going to have. a whole and i want to see me will say any ground . that. 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 with a great green. i'm with you on the i phone book and y.o.l.o.

y.o.l.o. here are. these wristbands. that i'm only an emigrant that are able to have their. among them and be here. though the no then they'll go by oh yes i think the yellow arrow on same with a bio i gave. you a song that i have on my humanity with that but they're looking for that as they do . with the global population increasing the rush to use an exploit our finite 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 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 benteke acid us who have a campaign to get some construction of a dam was murdered and hard hard in march twenty sixth to. follow activist gustavo castro who was with her that day he was interviewed by al-jazeera is folk lines. that are bent this year young green away for editing. a missing woman in the us economy. which aren't by our partners friends by national schools i've asked for more yes well because he went through in the the in and. and they'd be so i'm sure you know his son but he isn't a possum you know to think i am

a lawyer. was joke you know created k.-r. bit host p.c. here. because no nikka i can't periodical but you know he could but yes. but he has talked to those but see 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 ecosystem a sense colonise ation many indigenous people have been forced off their land. in their absence large wildfires have moved in are divided 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 christmas tims 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 all seles. since then enormous wildfires have. devastated the landscape with around the animal species disappearing from the area. on my way to

the desert i'm stopping up to me. 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 the image taken over ten knots and it shows some of the flaws in the west and that. this fog is emitting more what the. there's a mega flaws as are extreme events we're saying they just huge events where there's a lot of pride of some of what's across growth and then you end up with a landscape. fun and you know with the first lot instructions that you're coming stones and that's something left unchecked this sort of thing will only get worse so how important is a to have country auto plants that the interaction of people really does it hasn't. and 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 that land morning and they have since started a ranger program a key part of which is continuing this ancient practice to have a 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 hold right anyway without looking. 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. turner annoyed. about things before you became a right i'm not really there. is one of the relatively few aboriginal elders left he 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 learn the government of the world on the lower number then and then the love for your money. then the dinner. and then you realize you're the word that entered you know well and. i got a bit of clamor for you to act like tough but having it and watch other folks want

to have oral or going to hurt us rob. this traditional method forms thousands of small clear patches that can prevent large wildfires from taking hold but where the birth rate goes up the way i look at it how does lighting a fire stop fire if they wreck a fire like that and make a fire break the logjam 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 with nine 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 the money to buy the lady a little. low money buy a regular blood boil. really got a lot of the weird. night

. they crawled off of the file here their eyes a so in sharing with what to look for on the sled. under the union. and right now you know very. well a lot of a good number you know. oh and they are getting. a lot of them right. there. when serious have been bent and they provide a divest mix of habitat that can save the native flora and fauna. the regrowth in this small burnt patch provides perfect foraging grounds and the ranges now map and monitor the animal this is a male lead and it's got a. big new year's. australian 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. trackers and camera traps and then beyond that have been a big oh they really need to track them from now. on why the camera then i would you know if you can bring it with if i'm. not serving him and his work mata over and i think i'm in my other one we're not. 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 tells him. good like this but i used to just sit back and watch my tears to. wake him because there's so many of them all over the country in the mud who have a will be let out of a man i'm not a little but the mother of the woman the little. girl 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. 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 my skills

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. sugared told you that they were rough full of pizza i was lucky enough to come out and say these exact forms like i tell it in a way of being able to work with people one can pay ninety countries 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 any of these ranges really takes its toll on the soil a really good fart program is really important and i'm the country so much healthier because monsters are. in the letter. 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 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. 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 it really brought home to me. remember the moment you know. there were. 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 at. the roots of the facts of a plant which can be over seven meters long. to prevent. solutions like these are

vital to help us protect 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 they say that by twenty twenty on. which to me only electric. car mental grassroots campaigns are joining forces in the u.s. there is a global connection that is happening and we're going to utilize that power to make change not only for today but for the future generations as well. this time on al-jazeera.

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