after sunset, the glow from country becker lights up the landscape yet again. and the threats of the love of becomes visible from tens of kilometers away. all alvaro can do is watch and hope his farm is spared. alexander lurch, al jazeera la palmer. ah . hello again. i'm fully battle with the headlines on our jazeera haiti's. justice minister says a criminal gang is demanding $17000000.00 for the return of 17. for the christian missionaries, the mostly american and canadian group was kidnapped as they left an alternate me the capital port prince. on saturdays and iraq, supporters of iranian factions are protesting against the result of last week's parliamentary election. parties linked to the paramilitary group,

known as the popular marble is asian forces, sole big losses in the election, crowns in bank that have been gathering to demand every count. dozens of people have been killed in floods in landslides. in india, 7 careless fade is bracing from war after continued heavy rain. thousands of people have been moved to relief camps is fight the high water levels. the government is letting water out of 3 dams to prevent from pressing it from them is one of the worst effect districts in it. okay. she says the state government is trying to warn people, living downstream, it's releasing water. there also emphasizing that the release of the water from the dance is being done in a staggered and in a controlled manner. and catalysts chief minister that the state lead that i've region has said that they have increased the number of relief cams, of shelters in the state. 240. keeping in mind that as well as all of those people

who will ready lost their homes over the past week to 1000, to and shelters. more might need evacuation because of the release of the water from the dams. and if those heavy rains which are projected for wednesday, do come through south korea says north korea has launch at least one ballistic missile into a sea of japan. it says the weapon may have been designed for submarine launches. a trilateral meeting of intelligence chiefs from the u. s. japan and south korea has been held. they agreed to strengthen corporation. and the biden administration's top envoy for afghanistan, who negotiated with the taliban, has stepped down as our mail holly's and lead the trump administration talks in contact for us chose to leave afghanistan. he continued his role into biden's presidency is deputy thomas west will take over. and those are the headlines on al jazeera. i have more news for you after earth. why stay with us? ah

and ah, in 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 plant and animal species, a facing extinction. without the ecological networks which regulate all planets

from cleaning air 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, roberta, sweden, where an inventive clothing company is using groundbreaking technology to fight deforestation. and i'm a man to borrow in taki where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating bugs. ah, the fashion industry worth $1.00 trillion dollars. every year, tedford manufacturers made millions of garlands might only be worn once or twice before in line until the so called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive. and perhaps surprisingly,

one of the key drivers by diversity laws 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 fast fashion. so just 20 kilometers. i would say, stockholder is the primeval enough for us to forest that we're on our way there to meet the call, right? she's a conservationist and she's on a mission to protect against the boys around the world. mm hm. oh, it's great to see you. thanks. so much we come to stock on to do a story about fashion, what i have written for it. so there's a $150000000.00 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear . it slated to double within the next decade. i have never heard of that connection between, between fashion and, and for street. yeah, well, it's not an intuitive flight. let something let soft and silky next skin. 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 hold ready be lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole runs canopy, an organization dedicated to protecting those that remain a complete breakdown of the ecological functioning of that area. there's a massive release of carbon in the atmosphere. disrupts species have attacks, even though trees can grow back insulin in danger. far, sir, or place simple. after the forest to clear the wood is popes and processed into fabrics called re on and viscous. but it's shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent of the harvested root is dumped or incinerated, just 30 percent in so kinda gone. so we're kind of people worked with businesses

that source from primary forests to find the green alternatives. one of their main focus points is the global fashion industry. what's your strategy? are you going to make a difference in this? my experience is that it's some of these big 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 parsed regents. i like that. so you're talking about a kind of a 2 prong approach. one is the kind of conservation and stopping that deforestation 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 face next generation solutions. mike recycle clothing being used. i've got

a confession to make that figure, thermal aha, because those terrify, we're going to freeze. and i looked at the label and the way here is that there is 3 per cent, this good, clever. yeah. i wouldn't feel bad. i as you, i was surprised when i 1st discovered the line between ancient and endangered far some viscous blue can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of their partners is a recycling company in the town of christian. hm. cold renew. so they've invented a pioneering technology, the promises to transform textile manufacturing. it came of age in 2014. when a catwalk model dawned, a yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically recycle fabrics. the 1st time c e o mathias johnson is offered to show me how it all works. so as right at the beginning, yes, this is a post consumer. this is, this is jean blue jeans,

that people have a wear and tear. and that this both all the worth next for this it goes into our thread area and that it father wrote that in a dry estate where we separate and a whole. and then it goes in to what stage. we did a little bit into laurie that we would pick out some of the color we bleach it a bit and then we're dry it. what would be happening for this? so if you guys weren't using your, your process, most of it would be a landfill or a bar. we're good from evil or from you guys. i think every read in the machine. i don't know that the breakdown every stage of the process has been carefully considered. the dies and chemicals are all recyclable and the water is reuse to. after the joint process, the fabric is pressed and packed into paper like sheets. surprising, pregnancy, video, and fraud. this is a fault. i'm bet that

a lot of fellow mental health is really good stuff for making it go fiber. this is the raw material from which the fiscal fabric is finally made. the best so you can find it like a normal fiber. then you've got, you want to be woven into any, are voted or we go here. this is a famous yellow dress. this is the world's 1st chemically recycled piece of garment . wow. oh, this made from blue jeans? no, that's right. same stuff. it doesn't look like a worthy, environmentally friendly garmin. this looks like any other carmen you would see in the high street. absolutely. and that's why we are not necessarily call this recycling. we call it up cycling, but i mean it, but what is seen here and when you sell are hoping to open another suite plants within the next 5 years. manufacturers are taking steps towards reducing that

pressure on primary forests for all this to make a real difference in these to be demand and that demand stores here on the high street. were you aware that there is the connection between the fashion industry and deforestation actually do nothing to both. do you know what viscous is? yeah, yeah. it's the synthetic material, right? organic material. do you know where it comes from? no idea. are you aware of this connection between the fashion industry and d for station? no, i had no idea. judging by these shoppers, this some way to go before awareness will drive demand open nicole's organization. can it be a working to bring suppliers like when you so together with brands, can stock their products and big fashion brands. they are driving a lot the, the problems that we're seeing how to address. that sure seems to be a bit of a disconnect. the clothing touches all of our lives on a daily basis. it produces

a 100000000000 gallons every year. it hasn't been footprint. american top not have their 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 and in between 2 of canopies brand partners can powell and h. m, who are part of the 170 class brands that we're working with in the fashion sector to transform the discuss around supply chain. so you said you'd be working with a to them. yeah, we see some of the stuff you've been working on. yeah, absolutely. let's go inside and have a look. canopy success is growing all the time because hope is soon, every store will store recycle clothing. so this is a rack of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality. this product here is really interesting, as far as he can tell, just a pair of denim jeans that's got 20 percent recycled cotton renew. so we saw the

producing kind of a feedstock which is 100 percent recycle court. 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 renew cell is hopefully next season clothing. so that this moves from having 20 percent recycled cotton to 100 percent. recycle all h and m recently partnered with when you sell to support continuing research. this is part of the clothing joint place to use 100 percent sustainably source clothing by 2030, which will be priced. the same cost is non sustainable items. and in store customers are encouraged to drop off unwanted garments to be recycled by companies like when you sell. so i'm quite curious to see if there's anything in here that's the end of the look at that. they can be any quotes they can be, any brands, 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. that's where we want to get to me. it's got the link between the fashion industry and deforestation. shockey, i think with organizations like canopy and when you sell raising awareness, there is hope in the future. it must have changed. but i think in the public with the great inflammation, they'll be able to demand more from the retailers. and then we might see a precious void, not being the victims of ecosystems are just like the systems of the body, as long as they are looked after and managed well, then the body is in good shape. and if they miss managed and not care for the body,

could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is a can 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. and 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 me 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 deaf ah wetlands. some of the richest habitat on the planet. in this remote corner of northeast and tacky is one which is proving to be an ecological gem. conservationists have only recently realized its vital importance. not only for local bands, but also for those migrating from all over the world. and yet the iris, whither wetlands is under threats, i've come here to meet a man who's hoping to save this remarkable part of the world. chan, shaquille alone is a world renowned own atlantic se listening to come from a professor in the united states every year. chan returns to homeland attacking and comes to this iris part of the country, which draws in here is a 5 kilometer squared pocket of land. the iris river wet plant. john came across it in 2005 and was looking just playing with google earth. and i thought this looks

like a globally important oasis and critical spot for migration breeding and wintering, birds. and it's compet different coming here in person. and i thought this is, this is a place where i wanna 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 out of 35 global hot spots. we're at the intersection of not one, but 23 of the eight's world's global bird migration flights that intersect right, where we are in north eastern turkey. it is one of the most special wetlands on the platter. base he discovered a treasure child. how did he fail? it was so exciting and it was so beautiful. i mean, i didn't really did not expect. after 15 years, we would have recorded almost 300 bird species. as 2 thirds of the antar eva far

off the whole country recorded over centuries. i mean, in this one spot of the 290 bad species or eva phone. i documented 1021 a globally threatened or near threatened including the gyptian voucher and the car here. but further danger is looming. the government wants to damn this antar valley as far as that village over there, flood this whole place. all this would be under 45 meters of water and airy season . i come here to seeing it's 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, john takes me to the birch ringing station down in the wetlands. he's currently

fighting in the coast to reverse the government's decision to build the dam. he hopes stay together here will prove the wetlands rich by diversity, and thereby in shore it's protection. we see everything here from minus 10 to are plus 40 santa great in the shade king a very cold here, or very all at minus 10 degrees today. exactly. to get invited. yeah. we've learned is he on or something? oh, yeah we, we do. we only have one in this turkey inside the team already heart at work on ng raising. the 72 in the 1st is tiny way. can i touch myself with this guy? know if you got out with caught among the 600 meters, the glad net that surround the station. every hour from sunrise to sunset during the spring and also migration seasons. the net checks to see if any birds have flown into them. please go and check the raptor night and there's nothing there. so we go back nights my great to find condition favorable for living and breathing.

it's early in the season here. so bird numbers a low, but there are some beautiful specimens. so we got our birds. okay, and the net what this is a mobile boat to the collector. yeah, they his dinner slide into a pocket and then get entangled. some of the pad, katia haflin pertains nonstop and my great for hundreds or thousands of kilometer initially or to be able to survive to germany is one thing. they owe me fat as their fuel right before migration. some birds will double their body mass and that's why please like us are so critical because they did 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 don't care because it's warmer than just a bit higher up. there's water everywhere, bits of foliage coming out. and the thing that you can't see on camera is that there's actually a lot insect say it says the huge amounts of food to be got here by migrating about

one and 8 bad species are facing global extinction due to perils including habitat loss and pollution. so it's only increasing the importance of an oasis like this these days if you're studying by diversity, it's almost impossible not to become an activist because you know you are study things that are being destroyed every moment you study them one roman remy, this is a spanish ornithologist, one of 400 volunteers from 33 countries who have come to work here since chance set up the station in 2005. now we've got the birds from the minutes it will go to the station will bring them think so measurements on right. on the back to the why is bed was born definitely last year and this is the 1st spring integration for this bird. the delay since i even when it's just a one year old, it know is instinctively where it has to go. like i say,

incredible will natural signs including changing day lengths, trigger the birds hormone switch, switch on the urge to travel. all the information gathered here is sent to a central database at chance university in utah. let them lou, very awkward on unless tournaments you that make them cookies. model promotion you chums also in some other tricky up that of your 6 or the total on the muscle, the hydro roller and i was very little and under the chalky shit, the small, good southcourt free on the for these were some very condition on the other one by blowing on the bad chest, one can tell it's fat levels. if the skin is pink, they are low. and if yellow, the bird is plump enough to travel on simple man, just for slights and to think that this bird has come from little thousands of kilometers from, for, from the start of its journey in africa said it's just extra because it's so tiny

on them often but the less oh such for every individual with a couple of for this i'm go to de la. oh you can feel it's hard facing a tiny little hut. one for the data has been gathered. the bad can be released to go. we just want to go over 14 years. the team have ringed around a $108000.00 birds. when they are caught us where research is 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, for those bad, such a traveling across the wells, on their journeys, and being here with the team. witnessing that passion and their commitment to the cool was his really brought home to me just how important is play says

but 16 kilometer is not the right. is the reminder that despite its important the fate at the iris river wetlands, it's far from secure. this is why i want to bring you here just to see what happens when you build a dam on the are us river could, but it's not live here. i've scanned already, and there's basically nothing. i mean as couple things on the arid cliffs. but where are the wet lambert's? nothing on the shore line? no waiters on the mud flats. about a decade after this is built, there is no revisitation, hardly anything has come back. and remember at our us, it's the flood plain 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 arrows valley will look like this,

ecologically dead. every way you go around the world is that fine balance development nature. and course progress has to be made. what's needed a solutions that benefit both populations and the natural world. sean has some reason to feel hopeful and its efforts to wind protective status for the iris river wetlands in 2009 with data provided by him and his team, future 70 kilometers north of iris with designated around wetland giving it into national recognition. being a global important i can see 100100 journey. yeah. can i have it by the kicked it out. see the crane yet? there are some ducks in there. these critical lakes are dwindling and going out one by one. so could you because one of the last and most important lakes in the entire northeast and turkey,

which runs status doesn't mean the lake driving direct impacts such as draining it for irrigation and hunting dogs. but indirect threats remain. grounds water extraction 3 need by wealth is reducing the lake water level and animal still grades the read bed. in september 2018. the lake dry dock. completely religious black, dry mud during the season. when it is the most important for birds, there was no water and no birds. the chant say it's a ramps on site and declare victory and walk away. i mean, consolation is a never ending battle, like as long as that place is there, you have to make sure it stays there. john is working on a number of fronts, the safe, the lake has just signed an agreement, protected with the provincial governor. meanwhile, he struggled to prevent the dam from being built on the iris river. wetlands continued just coming here regularly, year after year. reminds me the importance of the work we're doing. and even if i

lose, i'll have it on my conscience. all know, i have done my best and i did it just turn my back in diva. it had estimated that around half the world's wetlands disappeared in the past century. project lake and the iris river wetlands have chant champion them, but his global development continues to pace. 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 their protection is to enshrine thy right to defend themselves in law. and the us in the 1970s, a legal scholar called christopher stone, proposed that nature should be seen as a living entity with the same legal rights as people edwards,

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, become the 1st country to give nate to the legal rights to exist and flourish. and in 2017 new zealand, 3rd largest river. the flank ennui was given legal status after a married tribe fought for its rights to be preserved. the way forward isn't simple . for the future of conservation may lie in assuring nature has recourse to justice . busy busy busy busy global food production is wasteful and straining our planet. but pioneers are adapting with new food sources. jelly fish is delicious with a very light sea food taste and texture similar to calamari and innovative

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