7 point one percent in june to 10 point 2 percent in july still millions of people are without jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic and the stalemate in congress is holding up benefits republicans and democrats are still holds a new emergency package after federal payments to keep people afloat expires the governing party in sri lanka has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections the sri lanka people's front is led by the rajapaksa brothers got a by and mahinda who serve as president and prime minister a japanese carrier that ran aground off the coast of malicious late last month has started leaking oil the panama flag has about $4000.00 tons of oil on board which could threaten valuable coral reefs. well those are the headlines i will have another news update for you here on al-jazeera. do stay with us.

to cope with our growing population we have tripled our exploitation of natural resources in just 40 years as a result of the fast 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 nets works 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 before station and i'm a man to borrow in tacky where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating bugs. the fashion industry is worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year checks out my new partner is made billions of dollars why only be born once a choice before any. in landfills the so-called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive and perhaps surprisingly one of the key draw is biodiversity loss and

deforestation. i'm in sweden where one company is working on a green solution to this global problem but 1st i want to understand the impact of fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers of sage still cool is to try to meet in the forest a forest 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 to them 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 already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. the code runs canopy and organization dedicated to protecting those to remain so 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 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 wood is dumped or incinerated. just 30 percent ends up in the going to be where. people words 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 forest regions i like that 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 recycled 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 and 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 reuse so. 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 recycled fabrics the 1st time you. see your math is 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 just both 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 told you just lowering that we would take out some of the color we bleach 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 not 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 dyson 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 to me make it be the end product this is. the basis on taste on normal channels and that's one of those really good start for

making me go. this is to roma to you from which the fiscus fabric is finally made. and this is the best you can put it like a normal life but then you don't go on but it could be woven into any our clothing . where we go here this is the famous yellow dress this is the world's chemically recycled piece of garment well ok it's made from blue jeans you know 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 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 in this to be demand not demand starts here high street. we are aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually did nothing to both of you know what frisco's is. yeah it's synthetic material right. i think material and you know where it comes from no idea are you aware of this connection between the fashion industry and the forestation no i had no idea. but judging by these shoppers there's some way to go before awareness food drive to my . organization kind of be working to bring suppliers like we knew so together with brands can stalk 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't 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 and tween 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 discourse around supply chain so he 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 hoopy 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 has cut 20 percent recycled cotton 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 will 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 could 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 a precious forests stop being 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 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 is a world renowned on astrologist souljah to become a professor in the united states every year china returns to his homeland of turkey and comes to this arid part of the country which trust him here is the 5 kilometer squared pocket of land the arid river where. china 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 spot 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 subject that 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 generation vulture and 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 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 bad 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 birds ok and 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 that 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 chances at the station in 2005 now we've got the birds from usenet that would go to the station would bring them think. that on the back of the right. it was born. last year and this is their 1st being 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 lengths 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. . junkies. and some one of your 6 or. one of those. who will live to get on the. good. if not score free for this very very condition on the other one by blowing on the bad chest one can tell it's fact levels if it is pink they are low and if yellow the bird is clump enough to travel on it's the. ice just sort of slights and 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. that. 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 bird can be released doesn't want to go. over 14 years the team have ringed around a $108000.00 birds. when they are 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 places. but 16

kilometers up the road is a reminder that despite its importance the fate of the ara through the 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 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 dead 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 while. 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 mate 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 was 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 star state. doesn't mean the lake is thriving direct impact such as draining it for irrigation and

hunting have stopped but indirect threats remain ground water extraction through 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. it to that tomatoes 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 affording 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 works through human represent. to 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 into its constitution becoming the 1st country to give nature the legal right to exist and flourish and in 2017. was given legal status after a tribe fought for its rights to be. the way forward isn't simple with the future of conservation ensuring nature has recourse to justice. 'd global food production is wasteful and it's training our planet. but pioneers are adapting with new food sources jellyfish is delicious with a very light seafood taste and a texture and some that alum ari. and innovative production techniques i've seen

a vertical farm before i would never in a restaurant after say this is great earthrise feeding the 1000000000 on a jersey you know. frank assessments what are you saying in the best of it to 6 percent of the group local police you are facing life to be observed is true and in depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the

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