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one on one on 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 have a touch 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 britain australia to see how team of scientists and volunteers to help in quality to survive in jungle and i'm russell beard in bangladesh for the locals are learning to coexist with a tiger neighbor. and of was one time to about one million qualities in the way the relentless pace of human expansion the numbers and dropped by almost eighty percent is ninety ninety one of the human population is still growing and a thousand people away and that number is only set to growing putting for the precious on surrounding law without immediate intervention and extinction. 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 why hell the mistress of having wallace sufficing like it turns on the rides because often like cross annoyed when that difficult to say and draw this 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 moment of trying trying to for each of us are exposed to significant 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 increase that. today they're tracking by radio signal and pray. tag that name sonny. so the guys are heading up the chain now but if the clients to catch capture koalas they can then check it out for the health check later on. through.

then i got. the letter rather than. the. spirit of the d.n.a. . and i felt my heart. and heinous to face them was just like this just a lot but on top of you had. the thought what if you were not quite well sunny's are in a loss of blood. this pretty. now sonny 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 habitat 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 didn't qualify for the trees here being eucalyptus yes there are two hundred spaces of co-op if you can it's in queens and koalas a tiny twenty two so we had to be very specific about what we found and why how important is this to the 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 move into here we just might try for them to now 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 on 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 we 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 culverts and so with a bit of exploration a lot from guys trying to get an idea of how effective they are john in the tame and push up motion sensitive camera that's in these. of wardlaw fusing the codes including the 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 on one of the back of all those.

helping koalas navigate the urban jungle is essential to boosting their 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 to settle in so he can get his injection here to go into a ball sense of security thinking something's about to happen. and. you know what a good boy what a brave little boy. get in the car making sure he's got good. time which is a sense of how good glad pressure is. to look at the bladder. over say 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 media the most diseases being charlotte if you can control that one factor then you can actually turn around the population. going in there and turn the treatment in the vaccination against company out of actually coming. around and. now. you know it's phenomenal would never have come to be exact if it got a project in the hours before so it's very valuable scientifically and now we're going to go in my mom and he's waking up as he's making out with. time.

before letting the cool recuperate amy fits another tried to call them. it's now time for sonny to be released at john studies side that had some amazing business. the fact that yes that we can only might be individuals healthy but the population is on a growth trajectory now so it was on quite a state. downward decline towards extinction of the sun now we have we're getting around to twenty percent growth around him which is just downingtown around seven may very gratifying for. good bye. ok.

as the global 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 tada 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 are 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 would 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 prolix asia's swamps and jungles. but now numbers have to. signed by a staggering ninety eight percent. heading to the sun to been mangled forced in

western bangladesh is one of the last remaining havens for the bengal tiger and there's often conflict with local villages were also depend on the forest for survival have come to me and network of volunteers and conservationists are coming together to try to stop the violence and save the tigers in the process. rights 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 imagine that mean you can hear. the sound of fire just play out of a huge margin of it right up against it but. here in monologue just on the edge of the national park they really do seem to be people everywhere to take charge too much in 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 a historical that i want to trade tigers came 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 hard to do fifty two men killed every year and. feel like it's a fifty eight billion yet year and not just in the number thirteen off the year this is not a little number i mean like one of week. can you talk to us about the interface like how are they coming into contact with people here and what's the result down

in some areas which don't have that marcelo feel nothing will be right in between forest and villages in that part of from the one. tiger the consol or the fords into the building. was. human tiger interaction here is fraught with filings and 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 i mean human habitat and you 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 little sticks and very like gauze. here many of not just seen tigers from a far different directing counters with the. local fisherman has a story to toe. can you talk to somebody about your experience here i'm not going to tell you just what i'm going to must not think oh sure look i just wish me luck the foot of that was for you then i see i soon going on. for. you see. oh well yes i could see that little puncture marks we use for you thinking when you were on the ground did you think did you think you were going to die at that point the bit. about the boy together so keep on years ago august.

so behind the skate with his life but those who don't leave 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 fundamentalist is is maybe just a hundred yards away did you think of leaving it at that is that the look in the psychic would have gone up on that i doubt. that i asked you that as i. don't ask why. they are adamant. i had made up. but whatever. 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. hold bangladeshi service in this and country. and in the. theistic religion many gods this particular god is here to protect the people against attacks from the tiger. but it seems to me the bomb babies help might not be enough the fact is that the tiger's habitat is shrinking while the humans is expanding to 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 it 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 enjoying money with the tiger scouts or having him listen more to do when a tiger is interesting to watch. this is. how. the mother that's if you. can it can i see how many people here have seen a tiger but if it's over really. and so why can you tell me why is it important to come here and learn about saving the tigers. and it was obvious why this is a condo i said that this is the one that if you think that anybody has said that the stuff that they want to copy is a very big no it was the one if i don't have any back in the media i did

a lot of macedonia back to 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 blood. high five think a five feet high five or a well done guys doing good work. outside the center the community tiger response team assembled. convince a bunch of people this is a good idea to start chasing while tiger number one want to be a thing factor for them to saving the tigers hugo's if they can save her from the world would be saved and their lives would we be ensured that does not. look like us that was in the process of our life together running out of them to do right the pledge their oil. but i see and i know you have some online. right to discover that

. right. along with my i. was. like. this may look a little unorthodox but tiger is a naturally solitary hunters only attacking 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 as amazing and you say those forty tigers that had been managed he said yeah so is that basically forty tigers that you've ushered back into the into the rest and so i thought it wasn't if it wasn't for you guys and 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 enemy and you're right i said looks like we're

getting ready to move i think the guys are going to go into battle. probably more of a training mission and the man doesn't have to take a stake in. my. presence and take that. as a licking and normally with that person. so if ten years ago a tiger came in here and he. would you have killed him. then yes. i did today. he denied.

it back then but here can you tell us about the first time that you still photographers. going to look at i think 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. send the same for all who do you feel the same from but if you want to have again. you know just say no because the cameras. pointed out 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 i feel safer with these guys or even though we know there is wild tigers right there

with their own post 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 tigers. thank you. guys just is. even with a growing human population and shrinking wilderness 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 countess 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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