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al-jazeera. the relationship between humans and animals has always been one with elements of conflicts but as the number of people on the planet continues to grow it's becoming increasingly strained and imbalanced with the world's human population approaching an extraordinary eight billion sprawling settlement some activities are encroaching on animal habitats more than ever scientists estimate humans are driving species extinction at around one thousand times the natural rate largely due to habitat loss and climate change we urgently need to find better ways to live together on

our shad planet i'm juliet peace and i'm here in richmond australia to see how team of scientists and volunteers to help in quotes to survive in jungle and i'm russell beard in bangladesh for the locals are learning to co-exist with their car your neighborhood. and it was once time to have a one meeting quality in the way the relentless pace of human expansion the numbness and dropped by almost eighty percent is ninety ninety one of the human population is still growing and a few thousand people away and that number is only said to growing putting for the precious on surrounding law without immediate intervention. but a group of local residents and experts now trying to reverse this trend. the last land that hugs australia's east coast is one of the most desirable places for human settlement but it's also a prime koala habitat as

a result increasing numbers of these must a been forced to live within the city. john hannah is a wildlife fit and founding member of the quality research network. you brought me terry this an area that i would have thought could possibly have qualis been so busy why why this area this park really illustrates like this in a really good quiet hell that sort of a wall a sufficing like it turns on the roads because often like cross annoyed when the difficult to say and draw is just on see them so they'll often get you on this ride in fact destroyed is really a hot spot for all of this in the area certainly when they get on the royal lawns with the zero one trying trying to get rid of us are exposed to soon to be an injury and death so his life and so there's really a whole range of threats they're exposed to in the sort of informal.

local experts like john a committed to protecting the koala before it's too late. but with a population scattered throughout the city the first step to saving them is monitoring them. john and his team have been intensely studying a population in the motion bay region increased and today they're tracking by radio signal and prayed. tag that name sonny. so the guys are heading up the chain now but if the clients to catch capture colossal they can then check it out for the health check later on. through. i.

don't like that. i let him have the. strength to yank. me and i felt my heart. and his to the blood just like this just a lot but on top of his head. that it was refused when i'm quite well sunny's are in a loss of blood so this pretty. now son he will head off to the vet where he will be screened for diseases. koalas a car and he listed as under threat if nothing is done they could be extinct in less than fifty is the seriousness of the situation isn't lost on some local

residents who are trying to tackle have attended ration. care and nice to me really to what do you guys doing here today i was just making sure this little ass dyke had a mockery and so we're now into warsaw qualifier trees here being just guests there are two hundred spaces of co-op if you can it's in queens and the quality is only twenty two so we had to be very specific about what we found and why how important is this to the quality incredibly important because this area will never be cleared for any sort of development so we're surrounded even though you can't see it with high density or been developments so if we can increase the carrying capacity of the site for a while as it will encourage them to me. we just might try them them out to be just one cool. eight upwards of five hundred lives per day moving from tree to tree said

i browse bicycling all day because eucalypts a fairly new pool and she was. all right so how many more trees are cut to do half yes and of three or four over the. planting trees provides one solution for protecting the koala but as urbanization continues roads and railway lines will inevitably expand putting these animals in harm's way. currently up to three hundred killed by vehicles here. but i'm making up with that john again he wants me to see an intervention which is making a difference and around my line. it's essential awarded drawn into covert but there are a few additions there's a post in royal to help the water launch get off the ground how do they. call it well i guess initially they don't know. the familiar with the habitat as it was

some when we put these impacts in and trying to landscape they have to learn to use it but the essential feature is really all that we would put a koala prevents along the road corrido and that ensures that they don't go onto the road corridor and get killed and if they do work there while along the fence ultimately dolly end up finding one of more of these coverts and so with a bit of exploration aloft i'm going. to get an idea of how effective they are john in the tame and push up motion sensitive camera that's in this shot right engine of of wardlaw fusing the codes including that on. so he's a koala going into a group of tollbooths who explored a culvert but didn't go through it and then we've got a group of kangaroos using a possum another koala at a different top. and then tell me on one of the echo all those.

helping koalas navigate the urban jungle is essential to boosting the numbers but the most significant factor in ensuring their survival is disease prevention. back at the clinic was sunny the caption is ready for his check outs. that amy robbins is about to give sonny a sedative this is just settling in so he can get his injection here to go into it all sense of security making things about to happen. you know what a good boy what a brave little boy. making sure he's got good. time which is a sense of how good glad pressure is. to look at the bladder not. a big important thing. so you cause

a psystar test so that causes inflammation of the bladder wall i guess clip media has reached epidemic proportions amongst koalas in australia with a huff the population infected if left untreated it can cause infertility blindness and average generally his blood as compared. sunny is in the clear tell me about the significance of you know when you're testing six media. projects diseases being charlotte if you can control that one factor then you can actually turn around to call the population. side by going in there and turn the treatment in the vaccination against company out actually coming around and. now. you know it's phenomenal would never have such a big significant project in the hours before so three valuable scientifically and i'm going to go in my mom and he's waking up yet as he's making out with matt. on

camera. before letting the koala recuperate amy fitz another try to call them. it's now time for sonny to be released at john studies side they've had some amazing business. the fact they get so we can show you might be individuals healthy but the population is on a growth trajectory now so it was on quite a state. downward decline towards extinction and so now we have we're getting around to twenty percent right around which is just ahead downingtown around seven may very gratifying. to. get. there.

as the globe. population continues to grow cities a sprawling further more land is needed to grow food more infrastructure is being built through fragile ecosystems. take roads rampant road building over the last century has divided the earth into six hundred thousand fragments over half of these are less than one square kilometer too small to support significant wildlife populations with twenty five million kilometers of new road expected by twenty fifteen the struggle for animals to survive in the face of development will only get harder resolving these kinds of conservation conflicts

is far from simple the solutions that work best around the world are the one where local people have the ownership of the process of finding the solution people need to be able to value the species that they're close to and by value i mean perhaps culturally or spiritually they want to have a species around it requires inputs from all sorts of different areas of expertise it's not a matter just for biologists we need social scientists economists people who know how to work with poor communities they all have to work together to figure out how to solve these conflicts. just a century ago there was thought to be over one hundred thousand tigers prolonging asia's swamps and jungles. but now numbers have declined by a staggering ninety percent. and heading through the summer been mongul forest in

western bangladesh is one of the last remaining havens for the bengal tiger and there's often conflict with local villages walsall depend on the forest for survival of come to meet a network of volunteers and conservationists who are coming together to try to stop the violence and save the title process. all right bangladesh's population has doubled from eighty to one hundred sixty million in just forty years forcing humans into what was once exclusively the tigers to rain alex amazin i mean you can't. defend the fires just play out over the huge margin of it right up again but. here in monologue just on the edge of the national park they really do seem to be people everywhere. which charge too much and that this area is home to tigers too

but it is that's where the conflict comes in. conservationist my alarm runs tiger a network of volunteers dedicated to changing attitudes and reducing human time to violent how many targets do you have here and it's on the minds we have one hundred six with the historical data about two to three tigers killing by the local managers every year but if that the total population is estimated just around one hundred two to three starts to sound like a very big number but try to do fifty two men killed every year and wound on this in fifty eight year and not just in the number thirteen off the year this is not a little number i mean like want to week. can you talk to us about the interface like how are they coming into contact with people here and what's the result. in

some areas which don't have that marcelo feel given up we'll be right in between forest and when it is in that part of from the one. that comes out on the boards into the building. shimon tiger interaction here is fraught with violence see if. i'm on my way to a village right on the frontier of a conflict zone. so that edge that you can see there that substance in the forest right there and there's nothing between the tiger habitat and the human habitat. we can understand how scary it must be because everywhere you look there's livestock

you know and they they build these fences but it just made of those sticks and they like gauze. here many of not just seen tigers from a far they've had direct encounters with the. local fisherman has a story to tell. can you talk to somebody about your experience here and i'm with the tigers and i'm going to must not think oh sure look i just wish me luck on the foot of that was before then i see i think the one. for. the sea. oh well oh my goodness you could see that little puncture marks from his what are you thinking when you're on the ground did you think did you think you were going to die at that point the bit. of the but the point to get to soak up on years ago. but it. was a little mark up

a little bit. so behind the skate with his life but those who don't need behind families to fend for themselves. i've been told they're around a thousand women known as tiger wood who's in this region. i'm here to meet a lady called rita who lost her husband through a tiger attack twenty years ago. we know that the funding is maybe just a hundred yards away did you think of leaving it at that is that a look and as i get one up on that i doubt. that that's true then as i. say i am. but. like many people here greta prays to bone b.-b. before entering the forest to collect wood or honey she's agreed to take me to me

to. some country. and theistic in. this particular god he's here to protect the people against attacks from him. but it seems to me the help might not be enough the fact is that the tiger's habitat is shrinking while humans is expanding one against the other disastrous soaps. as the predator at the top of the food chain the tigers role in the sunderbans ecosystem is pivotal if he becomes extinct the whole system will collapse. to prevent unnecessary killings my boob and his team have pioneered an education

program for local villages is aim is to change attitudes towards tigers i'm here in a community center enjoy money where the tiger scouts are having a lesson more to do when a tiger in his religion. if you. thank you. can you can you see how many people here have seen a tiger if it's a. movie. and so why can you tell me why is it important to come here and learn about saving the tigers. and it was obvious what this is exactly when there was a practice that it won't even just the woman that if they did it they asked if it got the stick whatever they wanted to come be able to say baby no she was the one if i don't have any back i'm going to get i did

a little bit about it in the back way back i was. all right guys come on then so what this is the idea is that this is a pledge to save the tiger i guess so. we're not signing our name in blue collar in. high fives pinkeye five feet high five for a well done guys to do good work. outside the center the community tiger response team assembled. convince a bunch of people this good idea to start chasing while tiger number one motivating factor for them to saving the tigers goes if they can save her from the world would be saved and their lives would we be ensured that much. like us that was in the process of our life together i would have thought of that but you are right the pledge. that i see and i know you have some online. right to this government that i

. write. three that i. love myself. i. think. this may look a little unorthodox but tiger is a naturally solitary hunter's only a turkey. isolate to prey being surrounded by a group of chaotic orange colors making strange noises be enough to scare them away and as long as there's an escape route tiger will use it that's amazing and you say those forty tigers that had been managed he said yeah so is that basically forty tigers think you should back into the into the forest and so i thought it wasn't if it wasn't for you doing what you're doing here and changing the kind of attitudes you think it's fair to say that those fourteen tigers i became you might be killed might be killed by the army and you're right i said looks like we're getting ready

to move and i think the guys are going to go into it with. probably more of a training mission and the money doesn't have to take a stake in a certain amount of time. ok. i'm going to. go presents and say that i'm right that the government is looking at your mike with admiration. so if ten years ago tiger came in here and he met you would you have killed him. then yes ten years ago. again by stereotype of eleven.

he denied. it back and what then. can you tell us about the first time that you you chased off a tiger with the team but you're going to look at i think it's from the what if they didn't want to. get to. well to much harder to get along without the grandmother that needed the camera. to drama mama busy backus if bush little lady would really sense the same for all who do you feel the same from but if you want over the years. you know just say no because the cameras . are out there so much and thanks for going to take me i'll give you your stick but feel very safe around you guys thanks so much for that cute country. all right ok listen if i feel safer with these guys or even though we know there's well tell us right there that they're all pows what were they doing and you know

maybe if in the future communities or other countries can follow their example. maybe there's hope for the time to. thank you. guys just is two years. even with the growing human population and shrinking boldness there are ways that people and wildlife can co-exist. in india mobile phone technology is being used to warm workers of elephants passing through te plantations when their spotted an s.m.s. alert is sent to everyone in the area preventing surprising count has and in kurdistan locals who used to poach snow leopards now protect them in return for a lucrative business in snow leopard friendly products. further encroachment is inevitable but if communities can learn to live alongside the animal neighbors then

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