relationship with the people of lebanon and we will be there to help it looks like a terrible attack. columbia's former president alvaro uribe says the supreme court has ordered his detention it's part of an investigation into alleged witness tampering and fraud is a mentor of current president even duke a who's right wing party is known for its loyalty to the former leader has repeatedly declared his innocence and questioned the court's independence another $1154.00 people are confirmed to have died of corona virus in the last 24 hours in brazil on 5000000 infections and more than 200000 deaths have now been reported across latin america. to stay with us earthrise is coming up next next watching. 15 years ago an explosion ripped through lebanon's capital killing prime minister graphene hubby and $21.00 of those now the special tribunal for lebanon in the

hague will deliver its verdict on august 7th find out what this means for lebanon and for those indicted and follow all the developments on a 0. 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 the 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. buried in sweden where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight before station and i'm a man to borrow in tacking where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating birds. the fashion industry is worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year textile fight is far better is to make billions of garments why only be born once a choice before. ending up 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 states is to try to meet the interest of forests that we're on our way there to meet the cool right both 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 train and fashion and and the forestry the overall it's not an intuitive flick that something that soft and soaking extra skin and actually it starts off as a tree many of these trees come from endangered forests thousands of years old

known as primary forests around the world 50 percent are already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole brown's canopy and organization dedicated to protecting those to the main it's a complete breakdown of the ecological function of that area and 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 play 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 wood is dumped or incinerated. just 30 percent ends up in the going 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 in 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 is 3 percent this go 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 when you sell. 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 i. see your math is johnson is 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 in a dry state where 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 we bleach it a bit and then we draw it what would be happening in itself if you guys weren't using it you approach it most of it would be a lamp failed or. we're getting from evil no from you guys i think if we don't weed in the machine i think both of them break. every stage of the process is being carefully considered. the dice and chemicals are all recyclable. in the water as we used to. after the drawing process the fabric is pristine packed into people like sheets. surprising and expected to be the end product this is. the basis contains

a lot of sentiment that's one of those really good start for making gold fiber. this is to roma to you from which the fiscus fabric is plainly made. and this is the best job you can put it like a normal fiber then you don'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 no it's from the same stuff it doesn't look like a would be 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 called this recycling we call it. i mean. 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. yeah it's synthetic material right. think material but 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 will drive to my . 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 of a disconnect the 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 high street name a tween and 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 hope is soon every store will store clothing. so this is a frac of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality. so 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 pledge to use 100 percent sustainably source of clothing by 2030 which would be traced 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 your 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 the ford station 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 pressures forests still be in the victims of fashion. ecosystems. are just like the systems of the 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 it's vitally important 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 out your lawn as a world renowned i want to tell attest to do something a professor in the united states every year china returns to his homeland of turkey and comes to this arid part of the country bush draws him here at the 5 kilometer square pocket of land the arid river where. chan came across it in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth and i thought this looks like

a globally important oasis in critical spots for migration breeding and wintering birds and is confident coming here in person and i thought this is a 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 the 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 on a raising the city to the tiny way and i touch i don't want to. miss you've got. $600.00 metres of bird that surround the station every hour from sunrise to sunset during spring and autumn migration seasons the nets to check to see if any bad flowing into them is going to check the raptor and that. there's nothing there so we go back birds 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 got a bird's ok and then that's what this is up. to the electorate. they hit the slide into a park 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 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 ornithologist one of 400 volunteers from 33 countries who've come to work here since chances at the 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 it's been the nation for this bird so 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. jockeys . and some one of your 6 or. one of those. who will live to get on the. good. fat score free for this very very condition on the other one by blowing on the bird chest one can tell it's fact levels if it is pink they are alive and if yellow the bird is clump 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. it's just extraordinary is it so tiny.

or something. like oh for every individual with a couple of years. or you can feel its heart beating this tiny little heart once all the data has been gathered for 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 a team witnessing of their passion and their commitment to the cool was has really brought home to me just how important this place is. but 16

kilometers up the right it's a reminder that despite its importance the fate of the ira through the wetland it's far from secure this is why i wanted to bring you here just to see what happens when you build a dam on your ever could but it's not if you scan already and there's basically nothing i mean there is a couple things on the. cliffs but where are the wetland birds nothing on the shoreline no waders on the mudflats. about a decade after this is built there is no or 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 the everywhere you go around the world the south

find 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 clear 70 kilometers north of paris was designated a ram style wetland international recognition as being of global importance i can see hundreds hundreds or any yeah i said it can serve as a kid out and see the cranes got there and there are some ducks in there these critical lakes when dealing and 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 star status doesn't mean the lake is thriving direct impacts such as draining it for

irrigation and hunting have stopped but indirect threats remain groundwater extraction through need by wells is reducing the lakes water levels and animals still graze the retired state in september 28th the lake dried up completely it was just like dry mud during the season when it is the most important for birds there was no water and no birds the chance a it's a ram sar site 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 you win if i lose

all have it on my conscience no i have done my best and i did it just turn my back and gave. it to that tomatoes around half of 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 are falling victim to human exploitation. one possible way of ensuring that protection is to enshrined their right to defend themselves in law. in the us in the 1970 s. a legal scholar called christopher starr proposed that nature should be seen as a living entity with the same legal rights as people. it which through human representatives be able to stand up in court and defend itself against threats to

its well being. since then the idea has been gaining traction. in 2008 ecuador wrote it into its constitution becoming the 1st country to give nature the legal right to exist and flourish and in 2017 new zealand sad largest river the frankie knew he was given legal status after a marriage tried forth for its rights to be preserved. the way forward isn't simple for the future of conservation may lie in ensuring nature has recourse to justice. the latest news as it breaks there is increasing pressure to turn its back on beijing and u.k. is finding itself a corpse between 2 superpowers with detailed coverage. tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure. from around the world human rights groups say that at

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