i mean that is what. i was interested in my message getting through so i saw that in my speech if i'd use that word the door would have slammed shot but i describe the situation the riots that no one should be excluded citizenship to allow me my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have thousands of israelis have rallied in tel aviv to protest against government corruption it was a law just in a series of demonstrations triggered by allegations made against prime minister binyamin netanyahu earlier this year yahoo denies any wrongdoing. the united states has pulled out of a united nations pact to designed to improve the handling of refugees and migrants worldwide says the plan is inconsistent with u.s. policies u.s. secretary of defense jim mattis has made egypt's president at the federal c.b.c. the defense minister said key soapie in car this comes a week after more than three hundred people were killed in an attack on

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us to this is the hail mary or is. this is a technique a show about innovations that can change lives we're going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and we're doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. the vet kita is the most endangered marine mammal is a naturally elusive this has never been captured tagged was studied up close by marine biologists. techno is married to davis and chris would take a crisis that's in the meshes he plan to stave off extinction the gulf of california one of the most beautiful marine sanctuaries in the world it is here in the turbot gulf waters at the edge of the baja california desert the world's

smallest cetacean has found a home. for the money that one of the. america that was in the motor. and the wreckage is found nowhere else right this is the only place that it exists yes exactly this is the only place this is a species. ok only we can find it here on the place in the war mexico we are so lucky to have these as these. belongs in mexico you know if they might get a bird here. or. is an acoustic researcher for mexico's government sponsored the rescue project today when his team planned to deploy several submerged pods or underwater listening devices the pods are used to track but keep us his research picked up the early warning signs that indicated the bucky the population was crashing the data is sent to researchers in san diego

crystal dilworth has that part of the story tell me what is that the key to and why do you love them so much. as are especially i think a lovely part because they have a nice paint job they have sort of like black mascara black lipstick serve a god. few scientists have studied the key to as intended. as barbara taylor she heads up in advance genetic laboratory based at the u.s. national oceanic and atmospheric administration in san diego california her main partner renzo row has brought show who heads up the mexican project is equally passionate about saving the key to losing that in a way it's just a minute eunice a masterpiece if someone destroys the chicano or. whatever the world be exactly the same nothing is going to change you're going to wake up in the

morning you're going to help but the world is going to be poorer in many many ways and i think that just because you know i think renzo and i always thought we could save them you know we knew it was one issue it was throughout was and we thought we could change it and it's. it's a hard thing to say you know hard it's not happening. so what is killing the vicky according to scientists the main culprit is gilman used to capture and another endangered species found the gulf of california a fish named. the environmental investigation agency demand for to can be traced to china bird has sold illegally. for about this town called trans out which is also in southern china on the coast which is said to be a major center for trade in. some chinese believe the dry swim bladder at the to

twelve improve skin and liver conditions and figure a circulation and stops bleeding none of this has been proven medically but the illegal trade into twelve is extremely lucrative. to twelve a fishing in the gulf is illegal because the same nets used to catch and snare of akita they have decimated the key to population. merida davidson. the proof that they work it back and not the take this this was in they work for the brain where they work if they can get in time with their hair here or there or their friends so obviously they work if i can do to refer to the surface and then they get things so they just get stuck when they perish we're going to break.

three adult that we started operation and two new nets pre-born. and the other all of them were next and the results of this examination show that they're all die of asphyxiation and all had like marks of nets under so they dying because of the. pressure no way zero is captain of the sea shepherd a marine conservation group that voluntarily patrols the approach of four to twelve . five dead lucky to us were found in the gulf from january to may two thousand and seventy it's a horrific to see how much sea creatures are trapped on those nets it's heartbreaking but it is protected marine mammal is tired dying for no reason they're just died just to to live on it it's it's horrible.

the story of the guy is a classic collapse of a species scientists began tracking but in the late one nine hundred ninety s. and we determined twenty years ago that the fishing ban was unsustainable for of akitas and that they would we predicted that they would be declined in about this problem for twenty years. well i mean the people who originally found them found them dead on the beach. from fishing nets and said hey here's a porpoise nobody's ever found a porpoise here it can't be very common and it's dying in fishing nets and so yes he is was discovered because it was dying yeah it was found dead on beaches and in fishing dubs you know it's sort of odd that people wouldn't see it but the more you get to know this sharia animal the more you understand that you really have to know what you're looking for and you really have to look for them to see them because they avoid any motorized vessel and they're really small they're only in groups of

one or two so they're really difficult to see they aren't like the flashy dolphins and come up and ride your bow and you know you get to see every aspect of their lives porpoises are very shy and they move away and so you really have to look for them with like really big binoculars with bucky that's on the brink of extinction the team made a decision that was as bold as it was all day ships in order to save the bucky the remaining population now numbering less than thirty would have to be taken into captivity the plan was going to come into it in november two thousand and sixteen. at the eighth meeting of sort of the international committee to save the bucky the only option is separate. from the main reese factor voted skilling them. full time again it's at this point in time and also i mean they are of known but what we really know is that if we don't take them out they wouldn't get so this is the lesser of two evils h yeah and so it's black or white techno was given preliminary

plans that spell out how to capture the elusive but keep us and bring them to the northernmost cove in the gulf where they would be held in sea pens and kept under guard twenty four hours a day seven days a week there are also plans for land based tanks systems and support apparatus to keep the captured porpoises alive in case of emergency where we've brought in this amazing team we're going to have about forty people from all over the world all with different levels of expertise and we have specialists and capturing harbor porpoises from denmark and the netherlands we have veterinarians that have worked with porpoises from hong kong to to the netherlands we have people who have specialized in taking capturing so we have that that team that we have the team of people who i work with that are experts in finding them will be using both

acoustics and visual and we're even going to be bringing in maybe dolphins to help us try to track this really elusive species the u.s. navy's marine mammal program utilizes bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater sea mines little is known about the vacuum no one has ever tagged them or been able to study them up close the problem of how to capture them and large but during a scientific team meeting a breakthrough from a scientist who works with the navy program in here that you can ever think of using maybe don't fence or miller and i mean. it's completely out of my. toolbox and he said well you know if they can find divers and objects in the water i'm sure they could find what you. next day we went to the navy facility years they trained the dolphins they took them to the golden gate in san francisco where they have harbor part of his swimming in the dolphins wherever to find them so when we

solve that part who would seem to be the most difficult when i say well there we are there. i'm floating in the middle of the bucket the refuge area here in the gulf of california now this refuge was set up by the mexican government to protect the fact that the populations are what's left of them they've set up here because over the past several years through observation and through acoustic recordings this is where the rocky does really tend to hang out at least recently we've been out here for a while trying to see if we can find anybody that's no surprise to me that we haven't seen any and that really underscores how difficult and complex this mission is really going to be stuff as data analysis indicates the remaining bucky the population may be concentrating across three sections in the upper part of the gulf today's sea pod drop we'll try to confirm those locations so we've just arrived at one of the points where they're going to drop down a moorings and attached to that is going to be the sea pada so it's the acoustic

measuring device that they leave for four months here to measure and and pick up the sounds of the vacuum clicks so that's what we've done we've we've navigated here via via g.p.s. it's a really vast area and they've set up and they see it that much in place eighty seven they're going to put out eighty seven of the c. pods right now we're putting out the last eight. years. later back on shore stubble showed us a computer program that allows us to hear the bucky humans can't hear the clicks because they're too high frequency but there's a way for you to modify them so that we actually could you have me listen to this of course michael walker oh my. these unwanted by the program and now you. are looking for wow for. the bucket the refuge measures in area

sixty four by nearly one hundred kilometers along the upper third of the gulf of california when you are in it the refuge seems vast and problematic to police effectively. since two thousand and five gill net fishing has been banned here but the real story is much different. especially at night it is pretty dramatic and it is crazy every night it's so busy it never stops we have are amazing radars on our bridge of the same time going into farley mowat and under us radars we can see the new activity at nights because poachers really go out at night the night of march eleventh two thousand and seventeen this year the most the sea shepards farley mowat here on patrol for poachers spotted a small fishing boat in the back of the refuge. and when we see a target ladies we can get our ship as close as possible and then the drone team is

going to be ready to buy their drugs the drone was able to film is illegal fishermen with what appeared to be a boat load of twelve of the fishermen noticed the trone and began hurling objects at it then we get the fourth age for our own these illegal fishermen retreating to two odd minutes getting to a two hour bus i call into the authorities tell them to position. tell them what we're seeing at the same time and and then they calm and they tried to arrest them the next day the ship caught another seemingly bolder group fishing in broad daylight this was the first time the drone was able to capture full daylight images of a boat load of coach to twelve until twelve minutes can the big problem is money just like always this illegal fishing activity for to two hours brings out a lot of money because china is opening the black market that is attracting

a lot of organized crime says it's a two hour bus and batteries sold out for more than twenty thousand dollars a kilo of course when you come to those fishing villages where the minimum wage is so low and they can make our five thousand dollars a kilo locally with a with one. same bladder. the mexican government has invested so far over a billion pesos in compensating fishermen and from someone got forty isn't a scientist but he co-chairs the baccy the rescue program in mexico he created a plan to use economic incentives to keep the all nets out of the gulf for the past two years mexico has paid fishermen not to fish until alternative gear that don't kill that gaeta could be developed you can imagine going to the communities and trying to convince families not to go back and fish which is what they have

been doing for generations that's who they are right as part of their identity i would say and that's a whole purpose also of these programs to have them go back and fish but being able to do so without arguing with you. it's important for mexico to save the the from extinction and i would do it's equivalent to the same efforts as china has been doing to save panda mexico's efforts have seen mixed results progress has been made but the numbers don't lie the baccy is almost gone there recently that we are where we are it's because our fishing ofari does have failed to come with alternative fishing gear for two decades i mean that's incredible they haven't been able to do it even if i had twenty years ago if they had hired the mit creation lab where we would have already something. but the preacher is barman has a monopole embury the only one tests alternative theories with that's horrible. it

is early morning in ensign on the mexican techno has been invited to travel out to the pacific ocean to see where the bucket the rescue plan is truly taking shape these pens belong to bottle farms a mexican tuna farming company the back he's a rescue team turned to them for help but we are aware of the natural these big problem we have the big down you're losing the back you know so we are aware of that we are delighted to be part of or it. is the operations manager of a quad you'll see on the a c. penn designed to give tourists an up close view of the tuna farming business this plan is currently located off the coast of ensign out of mexico on the pacific side of baja california and contains hundreds of bluefin tuna but before long it will be moved to the gulf of california and if all goes well with

a bucket the rescue effort instead of china there will be by keep us swimming within it be bunko provided renderings of the redesigned bucket the pen which feature two observation tubs this tourist attraction will become a floating laboratory you know we're looking at the tuna in the observation area it struck me that they're feeling very close to the surface and that's not normally how they feed right. so they've had to learn a new way of feeding and that will essentially be the case for them i keep them i suppose so. as far as i know the rocky days eating the same thing that the dolphins two of the open ocean and i mean they are eating small fish and that sweet things play out there for when those kind of organisms of the ocean differently they record. if you're going to learn how to eat the rocky the pen will be taken here to the northernmost end of the gulf in an area called much or

a cove gustava showed us the area during our golf tour the blue building i'm sure is an old trim processing plant that will be converted to an onsite veterinary care center so you think that's the best shot absent of the it's not only the best shot but it's the only shot that we have we're going to have facilities in the ocean we're going to have some also limited land and we're also looking to one of the. most important pieces of these project is to have a facility right in the heart of the key. area where we can have vets where we can have twenty four seven care for but keep those there we can be monitoring them we can learn a little bit more about but he thought there is a little opposition to the rescue plan within the scientific community the conservation groups led by the sea shepherd society believe the problem should be solved without captivity. he's always been fighting against captivates and

cultivates and for me it's not a solution and first ship is not a solution because saving on anymore is not having it in a swimming pool and it should be free and leaving its life and contributing to the eco system kind of a maybe it's not working right now and plan b. those two means. there were many questions surrounding the capture program but if scientists are successful the next step in the process will be to try and breed that you keep scientists in san diego are getting ready these will be the ancestors of all the cute and into the future this breeding program so we need to make sure that we know what we've got and keep that variation that natural genetic variation in that population into the future philip morris and works with the key to rescue teams. in san diego he's a research molecular geneticist is that the key to can be successfully bred in

captivity he will have to figure out how to make the genetics work so that they keep a special because it lacks this genetic diversity that other species do how is it managed to survive for so long so what we believe happens in a population like species like the key to it is that they've been at a small population size for a long time so that bad person has slowly been purged from the species so that means they have less of the bad diversity they also have less of the good diversity . but in a stable environment like the northern gulf of california they've managed to survive and there is still diversity is not to say they have none because of this lack of diversity in the vicky is it possible to accidentally do harm to the species through the breeding programs that you're developing. yes yeah i mean there is no way to avoid that we're going to lose diversity. there's no way to avoid that because we're collapsing the population from thousands down to

a few and then they're going to have to breed to some extent with the same individuals in order to build that population up. more and has been studying the key to using tissue samples stored in the deep freeze at the san diego fisheries science center it's cold in here minus twenty degrees celsius and besides myself in this open here there's about two hundred thousand tissue samples from a variety of marine small c s forty five of those samples are from the khuda and that's the hope that those samples contain some still current and i think information that can help save that species and how long the samples keep at this temperature all these samples are about thirty years old now and we're still extracting d.n.a. from them. so we're hoping they're going to last a long time so it's like science evolves just the right time to be able to help the big key to right before it they go extinct the ability to culture cells and transform them is changing right now so that if we get living cells from the skins

of of these pickiness are brought into captivity we can keep them alive in the lab we can transform them into any types of cells we want so even if we catch an animal . that may be too old to reproduce or only reproduces once and if forte it can't reproduce a more if we have those cells it's possible we can convert those into dam eats into sperm and egg cells in the future and use them put them back in the population as if that and a most alive. advanced genetics may end up being the game changer for that the key to san diego's frozen zoo has played a key role in trying to save many nearly extinct species a porpoise and a rhinoceros might not seem to have that much in common but scientists here at the frozen zoo at san diego zoo global now working to save the noise. they're in white right now and techniques they developed could act as a blueprint to save that the kita we are pretty confident that if we get a good quality sample will be able to grow and successfully freeze the cells that's

going to tell us more about the vicki it's going to say something about its population history it will provide may be. very useful information about whether there's enough genetic diversity in the remaining population to allow it to recover and expand all of a rider is director of the frozen zoo it holds more than ten thousand living cell cultures if nothing else works the frozen samples would become a last resort for an extinct species the vicky is such an endgame at the end of the day all we may have are cells and we mustn't though ignore that. were engaging in a in an enterprise that we don't know ultimately what time is running out for the

vicky to science maybe its last hope but it comes with a price tag the rescue effort is expected to cost five million u.s. dollars u.s. national marine mammal foundation says it has four point five million on hand three million to come from the mexican government the rest from private donors many of the scientists that donating their time all to give the keita a fighting chance for techno i'm sure the same araa. glowing green bacteria in a bar a tree and a super heated gas escaping from. this is really the hearts of innovation in the for what happened to experiments. and. how counter the effects of climate change the science of capturing them. on the

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