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a war. one i want to use joins a mother's journey to begin tonight with the son she lost more than sixty years ago in the korean war on al jazeera. i do wedo see in antarctica the site of an extraordinary pitch to create the largest protected area on a. for this special episode of a prize we're going on board the greenpeace icebreaker optic sunrise following one

of the biggest campaigns in the environmental movement ations history witnessing the spectacular biodiversity and the many threats to life from climate change to a to fishing as a team of scientists photographers and next but set out to prove these vos remote waters must become an antarctic ocean sanctuary. before i set off down south i'm going to find out a little about the journey i'm about to embark on tucked away in this maze of old london streets something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy i've been mesmerized by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early twentieth century names of polar explorers like roald amundsen and

captain scott. well this is where some of those expeditions came to get them apps it was really because of the low good to see this is a kind of treasure trove of past explorations coming out of that. turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent at the end of the world this from the fifteen eighties is the last of the classical worldview this is the world as it would have been understood by the ancient greeks and romans still got this great terrell stylist moment on called me to the unknown subtle and spin forward three centuries to the time of men like captain scott who died on his return from the south pole philip shows me a sledging match from an expedition is. this is what actually used to place the food don't pose for the attempt on the pole. incredible here we have him reaching

the south pole and then of course the terrible trick. back tattoo scott died here demonstrates how hard it was then just how challenging it was that a far cry from today it was this period is known as the heroic age they were truly great heroes up until the one nine hundred twenty days there were probably less than should think fifty or sixty people had actually ever stepped on to the cold lip. of course no thousands are going every year. like many of the old explorers i first had footprint to our anus in southern chile but unlike i'll be flying into antarctica to king george island at the northern tip here all join the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea with luck will reach out target the sixty fourth parallel which marks

the northern edge of the proposed asian century an internationally supported marine reserve covering one point eight million square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impacts like fishing oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and if you. want to. feel like they're going for fun. it's a cold murky arrival surprised at how many people there are around dozens of coming and going here with no king george island and tells him we made it seem like that they don't. look so

remote as we're going to transport you can see lots of tears gathered down there taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to meet cruise ships for the holidays i also had a lot of research stations. with the weather closing in we need to get a move on. into. the next two weeks. thank you. right a. program. well we're underway immediately heading for the proposed ocean sanctuary is not a time to lose not just for the arctic sunrise winter is not far away and the ice will soon close in but it's also a race against time to protect areas like the weddell sea before it's too late will

mccallum it's a greenpeace campaign leader we campaign for will be the love world's largest protected area as an antarctic ocean sanction an area of the bottle say to be about five times the size of germany the proposal is already on the table it's already got the backing of the. scientists are saying we need to protect a third of the world's oceans at least every one to let fish stocks recover if you want to mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change and man thought is a great place to start in just nine months time in hobart australia a decision will be made by the antarctic ocean commission the international body responsible for the conservation of these waters and whether to accept the sentry proposal the aim of the expedition is to build the case that it needs to happen. yeah go by and the temperature drops significantly. on the bridge they're on high alert we're heading into dangerous waters tense times to skip

a pool ruzicka you have what they call bergie bits growlers and icebergs depending on the size but they can all damage a ship when you're steaming at night key thing about ice is avoiding it but now we're going to look for the ice and we will intentionally go into some of the ice and there is room down here now i think to push our way through a bit. of our. right . to pull climbs into the crow's nest to try and spot leads through the ice. come through the ontologies sound which advice. next you can talk to prince that we're not in the wedding see but not yet at the border which they want to protect it but to get there we go to get through all this ice there's a lot of it around there we're finding these clear passages trying to wean you always through the ice. everyone on board is just willing the ship to make it into

the proposed sanctuary the big problem is getting people to realize why they should care about the i'm talking to you know this is a lot like that most people have never come across it will never come across and so being able to tell that story relies on us getting there are lots of us getting the footage back and tell talking about the importance of marine sanctuaries so the fact that they stopped would only recover if we put these areas of them it's the fact that climate change will be not as bad if we manage suppose large areas of the ocean off limits. dogma's falls but there is no rest on the bridge for the captain and the night crew there is an illusion there are. no. floodlights on the boughs showed the ship now milledge dumped quietly against the ice and intentional maneuver for the remainder of the night but everyone is keyed up flying off.

the next day at last the arctic sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest most diverse waters there are the most all on board who may yet be the largest protected area on the planet we will want a good news very good news made it made it to this is for sitting there now. as someone of the ship and this entire space and you just go over this side and we suddenly saw getting sort of tens of of ships both cruise liners cargo ships fishing vessels the moment you get through this sound as us and another ship about that and that's it and i'll. whole area that's slightly scary yet terrifying. but very exciting as well but exciting kind of just makes the case that this is pristine this area has not developed has not called industry has never had industry it's an area that's kind of the most i'm touchy even within and thought. oh no

are you. going to. do next month i think it's right around my grammar. what we're looking at here is well to yes see i said great icebergs to be the classiest sweeping up james ross island at the weddell sea spent way to the distant proposed area already about just touched by human activity always scientific research is taking place it is an incredible sight but deeply troubling two classes have always collapsed and carved into the antarctic ocean however with global warming they're doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat sea levels rise. this right here is humanity's problem for decades perhaps sentries

ahead. it is laundry day or not sunrise and here's the thing we all think of being good citizens by wearing fleeces which is made out of recycled plastic also bottles that sort of thing but when you watch the. hundreds of thousands of micro fibers end up in the world's oceans so here import it wouldn't and not for governments. and. course plastic pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time and the team makes the most of a rare opportunity for research. these are some of the americans who is on the planet there would be appalling to do they could be blasting says in the greenpeace

to conduct this experiment taking samples from the water to see if any marker plastics have infiltrated this environment. just into the sea surface like west point was that maybe first so they're both taking something a feeling just a bit more to. the. extent. they. find that the this is very hopeful just the way the seas are very close try a system and there's very few local sources of micro plastic fibers should be coming from however evidence is growing around the world from studies that like the plastic before the spike stream because pretty soon they'll be found the right reply to locations. you know it's a bizarre thing be afloat on these wild remote and desolate war says feel quite exposed you to be a g.p.s. google map and zoomed out we could be a tiny speck in this and to go off by yourself. and yet beneath

the surface of this magnificent desolation is just t.v. with life and these are some of the remotest pools on it. and to see what lies below the expedition submarine is launched on board the antarctic specialist suzanne lockhart what she sees is a stunning underwater realm composed of all manner of life life not yet touched by mankind enormously at risk not least from the effects of industrial scale fishing it has one hundred percent coverage in the sea floor i've been isn't it has a great three d. structure which i. the other organisms to come in and live there and a really interesting species composition and all these factors make it really difficult for a community to become after a disturbance such as bottom fishing we call these areas fundable marine ecosystem and the estimated fourteen thousand species on the seabed vulnerable not just to

fishing but to other threats like warming sea temperatures and plastics pollution and that's why the expeditions all round research so important in the bid to protect these waters all the scientific data will be compiled to form a body of evidence in support of the sanctuary proposal and presented to the antarctic commission in less than a year's time. but the team needs to find out more about the growing threats encroaching on the region we leave the lonely waters of the weddell sea heading back through the antarctic sound a day shaped by the routine on board. everyone has different ways of filling sparrows from the top practice to running repairs of course looking for old guys. to get what's cooking today but they do it their way and best of it is that when you know that's a moment when the customers there are the same every day and we share that with

them it is not everybody who has a few like this in their restaurant that you produce but that's why we are here. later we had for sure making landfall in the south the night and the tip of the antarctic peninsula. it's quite a relief to be back on dry land off but it's been careening around all over the place to be welcomed. by colin your first. in the shed territory with the seals one making the most of the comfortable feathers the melting juveniles. but here too evidence once again of how the world is closing in on antarctica the number of terrorists twenty years ago it was around forty five thousand a year now it's more like thirty thousand. all like me desperate to see this

wilderness while it's still here. despite myself i can't help the sense of unease in surprise about the sheer numbers. of them a bit saddened by the. great big cruise ship that here in pristina on top of the care and lines of terrorists. is dormant volcano which is ridiculous because it's a free will. but it does just demonstrate the. new accessibility that there is here and dangers here. and there is becoming tainted. by the footprints of humanity. next day was steaming down the west coast of the antarctic peninsula. we are going approximately sixty miles south of western area both pretty violent where we have seen roughly three fish

we want to go. there all. the vessels off from china ukraine and chile they're fishing for krill a small shrimp like creature which the whole ecosystem depends there are a keystone of the ocean cycle that diet of plankton helping to transfer c o two to the depths of the ocean. but current is being harvested on a growing scale the fish feed and omega three or ships nets are out and they're in the thick of a cruel swarm the krill are obviously densely packed into this area up against the island is the basic just circling around the grounds to bring them up at the. months ago over whales the feet of see them blowing and whale tails disappearing flipper is showing as we go about. the grill companies say they're tapping into a resource that is sustainable but the view on board is that that is what they said about other species like the bison in north america all called starts off new found

for both were decimated it's essential areas such as weddell sea are protected so stocks can replenish the proposal first area would put the area thirty kilometers offshore off limits to fishing industry so when so that's a solution you can continue to fish an entire depression but keep it outside of these areas currently being i was a protected areas because the reason they've been proposed it's because a solemn autumn for the ecosystem down here. soon will begin the long journey home but this time to make another landing and the variety of species here on livingston island is just astounding. just like the folks at heart. truly spectacular just a lot more diverse me having to use fish is

a pain when it's time petrol that opened the seals went all tilts has not been another landing with quite a variety when you look at this place from the ship that's really good and you're right here you should be teeming with life and is thriving right now and you can see all around us it's driving who knows what it was like a hundred years ago thought it was doing even better but right now it's still compared to most other places on earth it's doing a lot better at the point of protecting it is allowed to continue and that's why we haven't yet met this place up we have the opportunity to protect it. there's a question that the dynamics of this place about thoughts get changing get the full seal population expanding rapidly it was a penguin die off in the east last year. is changing krill populations are under

threat to. i mean this is the last great wilderness on. the need protecting. it's time to head back in for five days we cross the stormy seas of the drake passage to south america before heading home. an opportunity to consider the wonder of what we've seen in the challenges that lie ahead in winning the protection of the precious part of our planet. and whether or not this protection will indeed be granted if you bought it nine months time. after months of campaigning and intense lobbying by the greenpeace team it all comes down to here how about on the island of tasmania in australia with the future

of the weddell sea we decided. this is where it's all happening the headquarters of the antarctic commission that protects and manages the planet's southernmost waters. everything from territorial claims to fishing rights are being thrashed out right now by twenty five government delegations historically the departure point for several antarctic expeditions today hobart is the place where the fate of the continent hangs in the balance. after a voyage together in antarctica i hook up again with will he's been lobbying hard for the weddell sea sentry since i last saw him in the news he brings his unexpected to say the least it's not looking great i think we've seen a real. a bit of a disaster of a meeting to be honest something that noma's really expect they were i we were always in the knowledge that was going to be hard and then what we've seen is

a few countries just really undermine the process and essentially block any progress on any issue not just not just the antarctic ocean sanctuary but actually progress in any field good luck thanks fortitude in the next twenty four hours goodness. i'm hoping for the best perhaps we'll hear some good news tomorrow. it's decision day and the country delegations have been locked in talks journalists aren't allowed in so we wait and wait. we have development something's afoot just had a. hall so we're going to go and try and find out what's happening. is that is the head of the indian league agent talking to australia post and you told us what he's saying is that it's come out of the conference every two revealed is that

where they did in the interest not to be adopted it's just not going to have it's just devastating news are cops come at you and how. how the greenpeace team of three right now now let's say the other delegations all the other n.g.o.s you supported this proposal it's just wanted to nations who go the way of russia and china. it confirms will's worst fears but it's not until much later we can speak to him. he's devoted so much to this project. it's terrible nice i mean it's. it's just a complete failure on the behalf of the commission on behalf of you know the millions of people who sign this petition who want a visit to happen and we've just seen the entire thing trashed here twenty two countries of the twenty five supporter they believe this is a good proposal but china russia norway you know one by one. three different means

and different reasons have just taken it apart and kicked into the long grass and from a personal point of view you invested so much time and energy and passion and heart into this. what's what's the food it's horrible you know it's. nearly two years of us working on it. in an r.v. you know there are other good proposals on the table and this proposal in this is still a good one. and we'll get a chance next year to resubmitted but something's going to have to shift in the next year. it is intensely disappointing for everybody involved but it does just. challenge we face in protecting this planet evolves especially in the face of a current climate of nationalist and political self-interest. not just about the whales and penguins in the event it's about. us and.

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