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thousands of experts will meet in rwanda to exchange ideas and work out how to come from one of the world's most serious else challenges special coverage on al-jazeera . to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the vast expansion of mining industrial scale farming fishing and other human activities natural ecosystems have lost nearly half their area and $1000000.00 plant and animal species a facing extinction without the ecological networks which regulate our planet's

from cleaning and water to providing food we simply cannot survive but there is still time we meet the pioneers striving to protect 2 of our most valuable remaining ecosystems. brydon sweden where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight deforestation and i'm amanda viral in turkey where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating birds why. the fashion industry is worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year checks out my new fighters make billions of garments and why only be worn once a choice before any. in landfills the so-called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive and perhaps surprisingly one of the key dryly is biodiversity loss and

deforestation. i'm in sweden where one company is working on a green solution to this global problem the 1st i want to understand the impact of fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers of sage still cool is to try to meet the interest of forests that we're on our way there to meet the cool write a book she's conservationist and she's on a mission to protect against forests around the world and it's. great to see you thanks so much we come to stockholm to do a story about fashion why everyone for it is so there's 115000000 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear and slated to double within the next decade i have never heard of that connection between the training fashion and and the forestry the overall it's not an intuitive flick that something that soft and soaking extra skin and actually starts off is

a treat many of these trees come from endangered forests thousands of years old known as primary forests around the world 50 percent already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole brown's canopy an organization dedicated to protecting those still in maine it's a complete breakdown of the ecological function of the area it is a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere and disrupts species have attacks even though trees can grow back ancient and in danger of farce or clay simple. after the forest to clear the wood is poked and processed into fabrics called rail and viscous but it's shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent of the harvested is dumped or incinerated. just 30 percent ends up in the go to be where. kind of people works with businesses that source from primary forests to find green

alternatives one of their main focal points is the global fashion industry what's your strategy how are you going to make a difference in this my experience is that it's some of the speed global brands they have the ability to actually engage their suppliers to stop them from logging in ancient and endangered forest ecosystems and if we can redirect it to be more sustainable now using recycled fabrics rather than ending up in landfill and for the current capacity that's already in production let's just make sure it's not coming from really important ancient endangered forestry chance. so you're talking about kind of a 2 prong approach one is the kind of conservation stopping that deforestation in the 1st place and the 2nd one is this recycling element so reusing what's already been produced so that's a big priority for canopy is to really help kick start commercial scale production on things next generation solutions like recycle clothing being used

a confession to make have to get thermal because i was terrified we're going to freeze and i looked at the label in the way here is that there it's 3 percent there we go i wouldn't feel bad i was surprised when i 1st discovered the link between ancient and endangered far some discos. can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of their partners is a recycling company in the town of christian called. they've invented a pioneering technology that promises to transform textile manufacturing. became of age in 2014 when a catwalk modeled on the yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically research group fabrics the 1st time. c.e.o. matters johnson has offered to show me how old works. starts right at the beginning yes this is coach consumer this is this is jeans blue jeans that people have

a where the chair and them disposed off so what's next for this it goes into our frederick and that is the protests and riots stage when we separate any home and then it goes into what stage we just sold it didn't just lowering that we would take out some of the color and we bleach it a bit and then we draw it what would be happening in itself if you guys weren't using it you approached it most of it would be a landfill or. we're getting from evil know from your guide i think if we don't weed in the machine i don't know if it didn't break down. every stage of the process is being carefully considered. the dyson chemicals are all recyclable. and the water is really used to. after the drawing process the fabric is pristine packed into people like sheets. surprising can expect to see the end product this is not on the basis on taste of the normal channel and that's one of those really

good start for making gold fiber. this is to roma to you from which the viscous fabric is plainly made. and this is the best you can put it like a normal fiber then you can't go on but it could be woven into any our clothing. when we go here this is the famous yellow dress this is the world's 1st chemically recycled piece of garment well ok it's made from blue jeans no. it doesn't look like it but where the environmentally friendly garment this looks like any other garment you would see in the high street absolutely and that's why we are not necessarily call this recycling we call it absolutely. i'm inspired. but we're seeing here when you sell hoping to open another 3 plants within the next 5 years manufacturers are taking steps towards reducing the pressure on primary forests for

all this to make a real difference that needs to be demand and that demand starts here high street. we are aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually do nothing to both of you know what cisco's it's. you know it's synthetic material right. i think material and you know where it comes from no i know you're aware of this connection between the fashion industry and the forestation no i have no idea. but judging by these shoppers there's some way to go before awareness we drive to my. goals organization kind of be working to bring suppliers like we knew so together with brands can stop their products big fashion brands they are driving a lot of the problems that we're seeing how do you dress that sure seems to be a bit disconnected clothing touches all of our lives on

a daily basis it produces 100000000000 gallons every year it has a big footprint and you can not have a big footprint when you're that big and it's exactly because of that reason that we need them to be part of the solution so it's fun to be here i think on on a high street name and tween 2 of canopies brand partners kampala and who are part of $170.00 plus brands that we're working with in the fashion sector to transform the discuss around supply chain so you said you've been working with them and we see some of the stuff you've been working on yeah absolutely let's just go inside and have a look. kind of the success is growing all the time because who soon every store will store clothing. so this is a frac of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality. this product here is really interesting as far as you can tell just a pair of denim jeans that's got 20 percent recycled caught renu so we saw them

producing a kind of a feedstock which was 100 percent recycled quote and you think we're going to get to that point i do and i think you know in the short term this is what's available today and when you sell is hopefully next season it's clothing so that this moves from having 20 percent recycled cotton to 100 percent recycled. recently partnered with the new so to support its continuing research this is part of the clothing joints plates to use 100 percent sustainably sourced clothing by 2030 which should be praised the same cost as non-sustainable items and in-store customers are encouraged to drop of unwanted garments to be recycled by companies like what you sell. i'm quite serious to see if there's anything in here if there's that's the only thing in the air a look at that they can be any quotes they can be any brands of clothing we have been working with big global retailers and designers on ensuring that this

recycling program actually continues to increase so that it gets fed back into the calling supply chain and ultimately becomes next season's fashion so literally kind of closing the loop on it that's where we want to get that's that's where we want to get to. discovering the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was deeply shocking i think with organizations like canopy and when you say oh raising awareness there is hope for the future it's a massive challenge but i think in the public are armed with the right information they'll be able to demand more from the retailer is and then we might see prices forests stop being the victims of fashion. ecosystems. are just like the systems of you but as long as they are looked after and managed well then the body is in good shape and if they're mismanaged and

not cared for the body could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is akin to organ failure in our own bodies if enough of the organs that make up the terrestrial body are removed or are made sick the body dies. again the earth is no different. each of us has a role to play in fixing this problem. we could have a world that is beautiful and vital and alive or one that is quite bleak and quite brutal it's directly related to what we choose to do whether or not we actually choose to do the work necessary to mend and repair and rehabilitate our ecosystems or to participate in their death.

went to the richest habitats on the planet in this remote corner of north eastern turkey is one which is proving to be an ecological jam conservationists have only recently realized its vital importance not only for local birds but also for those migrating from all over the world and yet the arris river wetland is under threat i've come here to me some man who's hoping to save this remarkable part of the world's. chance check a geologist as a world renowned on a solid test suited to become a professor in the united states every year china returns to his homeland of turkey and comes to this hour it's part of the country push draws in here is the 5 kilometer squared packet of land the arid river where. china came across it in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth and i thought the stocks like

a globally important oasis in critical spot for migration breeding and wintering birds and is confident coming here in person and i thought this is it this is a place where i want to do long term research to really understand what birds use this area this rare wetland situated in a dry sub desert region is created when the iris river floods it's ideally located for migrating birds are of 35 global hotspots we're at the intersection of not one but 23 of the eights world's global bird migration flyways intersect right where we are in north eastern turkey it is one of the most special wetlands on the planet if you base it discovered a treasure trove how did you feel it was so exciting and it was so beautiful i mean i really did not expect after 15 years we would have recorded almost 300 burst species the 2 thirds of the end tar even far off the whole country. recorded over

centuries i mean in this one spot of the 290 bird species on eva 4 and i documented here 21 globally threatened or near threatened including the gyptian vulture and to the current but further danger is looming the government wants to down this tar valley as far as that village over there flood this whole place all this will be under 45 meters of water and every season i come here just seeing it still there is like a relief because i'm always afraid it will all be gone i have to come here and see it for myself. early the next morning chantix me to the burgeoning station down in the wetlands and. he's currently fighting the calls to reverse the government's decision to

build the dam he hopes the data gathered here look at the wetlands rich biodiversity and thereby ensure its protection we see everything here from minus 10 to plus 47 grade in the shade during a very cold here or very well that was 10 degrees today exactly to get inside sort of yeah we're going to see on the oh yeah we do we really are right in this turkey inside the team already hard at work. raising the city to the tiny way and i touch i don't want to. miss you've got. $600.00 metres of bird nets that surround the station every hour from sunrise to sunset during spring and autumn migration seasons the nets to check to see if any to flowing into them is going to check the raptor and that. there's nothing there so we go back but it's migrate to find conditions favorable for living and breathing it's early in the season here so

bird numbers are low but there are some beautiful specimens so we've got a bird's ok and then that this is up. to the elect or. they hit the slide into our pocket and then get entangled. some of the birds courts here have flown for days nonstop and migrate from hundreds or even thousands of kilometers initially to be able to survive the journey is one thing they all meet that feel right before migration some birds will double their body mass and that's why places like this are so critical because they need these stop over locations to keep eating and to keep replenishing their fuel reserves now that i'm down in the valley i can get a sense of why they stop because it's warmer than just a bit higher up there's water everywhere it's a phone it's coming out and the thing that you can't see on camera is that there's actually less insects so there's a huge amount of food to be got here by migrating birds one in 8 bird species are

facing global extinction due to perils including habitat loss and pollution so it's only increases the importance of an oasis like this these days if you're studying biodiversity it's almost impossible not to become an activist because you know your study things that are being destroyed every moment you study them one roman ramírez is a spanish on a fellow just one of $400.00 volunteers from $33.00 countries who've come to work here since chancellor station in 2005 now we've got the brits from usenet it would go to the station would bring them think. that on the back of the right. it was born in italy last year and this is the 1st being the nation for this bird it's amazing so even when it's just one year old it knows instinctively where it has to go that's incredible. natural signs including changing day length trigger

the birds who moans which switch on the urge to travel. all the information gathered here is sent to a central database a chance university in utah. ready with on m.l.s. . talkies. and some one of your 6 or. one of those. who will live to get on the. good. front score free for this very very condition on the other one by blowing on the bird's chest one can tell it's fact levels if it is pink they are alive and if yellow the bird is plump enough to travel on its own. ice just so slowly it's and i think that this bird has come from really thousands of kilometers forever for the start of its journey in africa he said it's just extraordinary is it so tiny.

or something. like oh for every individual with a couple of figures. or you can feel its heart beating this tiny little heart once all the data has been gathered the birds can be released we don't want to go. over 14 years the team have ringed around a $108000.00 birds. when they're caught elsewhere researches can contact the station here and their migration can be tracked. i feel like i've learned so much about why this place is so important as a refueling station for those birds which are travelling across the world on their journeys and being here with the team and witnessing of their passion and their commitment to the cool says really brought home sweet just how important just places. but 16 kilometers up the road it's

a reminder that despite its importance the fate of the iris river wetland is far from secure this is why i wanted to bring you here just to see what happens when you build a dam on our us river could birds not live here i've scanned already and there's basically nothing i mean there's a couple things on the arid cliffs but where the wetland birds nothing on the shoreline no waders on the mudflats. about a decade after this is built there's no revegetation hardly anything has come back and remember at our us it's the floodplain of the river that's creating all those wetlands and because here by design there will not be any flooding you're not going to have that rich soil and all the vegetation that grows on the whole valley will look like this ecologically that everywhere you go around the world this that fine

balance between development and nature and of course progress has to be made what's needed is solutions that benefit both populations and the natural world. chan has some reason to feel hopeful in his efforts to win protected status for the arris river wetlands. in 2009 with data provided by him and his team make 70 kilometers north of paris was designated a ram style. international recognition as being of global importance i can see hundreds hundreds or any yeah and i did it and i'm so badly kitted out and see the cranes got there and there are some ducks in there these critical lakes when dealing in going out one by one so could you because one of the last and most important lakes in the entire north eastern turkey but from south dated. doesn't mean the lake is thriving direct impact such as draining it for every geisha and

hunting and stopped it in direct threats from a ground water extraction the 3 need by wells is reducing the lakes water levels and animals still raise the rate beds in september 28th the lake dried up completely it was just dry but during the season when it is the most important for birds there was no water and no birds the chance a it's a rap star sight and declare victory and walk away i mean conservation is a never ending battle like as long as that place is there you have to make sure it stays chan is working on a number of fronts to save the lake and has just signed an agreement to protect it with the provincial governor meanwhile his struggle to prevent the dam from being built on the iris river wetland continues just coming here regularly year after year with eyes being the importance of the work we are doing and even if i lose

i'll have it on my conscience although i have done my best and i didn't just turn my back and gave up. it is estimated as around half the world's wetlands have disappeared in the past century. lake and the iris river wetlands have chanted champion then because global development continues apace more wetlands in other parts of the world are going to need a local hero to fight that corner. across the globe ecosystems a falling victim to human exploitation. one possible way of ensuring that protection is to enshrine their right to defend themselves in the role. and the us in the 1970 s. a legal scholar called christopher stone proposed that nature should be seen as a living entity with the same legal rights as people. it which through human represent. be able to stand up in court and defend itself against threats to its

well being. since then the idea has been. in 2008. constitution becoming the 1st country to give nature the legal right to exist and flourish and in 2017. was given legal status after fought for its rights to be. the way forward isn't simple with the future of conservation ensuring nature has recourse to justice. global food production is waste and it's training our planet. but pioneers are adapting with new food sources. with a very seafood taste and a texture. and innovative production techniques.

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