of the dentist in the $14000000.00 euros of a to been provided to the community is a stuart, but it's only equivalent to what the affected areas produced in just one year. after sunset, the glow from comb, rebekah lights up the landscape yet again. and the threat of the lava 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, i have a quick check of headlines here in al jazeera, north korea says it's testified a new ballistic missile from a submarine a day off to south korea and japan detected a weapons launch. north korean state media reported that the massage was fired from the same submarine involved in a 2016 test. a gang that kidnapped members of a u. s. based christian missionary group is demanding $1000000.00 for each person.

the 16 americans and one canadian were taken while returning to port a prince from an orphanage and the town of gunfire. east of a capital are desirous manual propeller warts. now, from puerto prince information on the status of the 17 missionaries is quite limited. we don't know if those $70000000.00 is going to be shelled out by the aid organization a $1000000.00 per head as the gang has put it, but local authorities here, puerto prints are working hand in hand with us of federal agents to find a resolution to the case of these, 17 missionaries, we know that this gang 400 of my was o is very well known here in port a prince. they are known actually for these types of brazen kidnappings. just in april, there was a, a kidnapping of a catholic clergy by this same group. dozens of palestinians have been wounded and arrested in scuffles with his reigning forces, enough bodies, jerusalem,

as thousands celebrated him was game. holiday israeli forces moved in on damascus gate in the old city for the 2nd day in a row. on monday and tuesday, activities of families were taking place there to celebrate profit bahamas, birthday supporters of pro rainy infections in iraq had been protesting against the results of last week's parliamentary elections. parties linked the apartment to a group known as the popular mobilization forces. so big losses, crowds in bagdad gather to demand the weekend. a u. s. congressional committee investigating january's assault on capitol hill has voted unanimously to approve a contempt report against steve bannon. he was a long time aid to donald trump and pictures of emerged of damage caused by government des strikes on the capital of ethiopia to grad region. at least 3 people were killed in macaulay. the strikes were denied by the government, but some days after new offensive was launched against to grind forces. so those were the headlines. the news continues here in al jazeera after earth rise state

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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 our 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 wear, and inventive clothing companies using groundbreaking technology to fight deforestation. and i'm amanda barrel in tacky, where one man is fighting to protect a wetlands haven for migrating bugs with ah,

the fashion industry worth $1.00 trillion dollars every year, textiles manufacturers make billions of garments might only be worn once or twice before ending up in lanfield, the so called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive, and perhaps surprisingly, one of the key drivers of biodiversity 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'd say still cooler is the primeval interest of for us that we're on a 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. 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 where it's slated to double within the next decade. i've never heard of that connection between between fashion and 4 street. yeah. well, it's not an insured, if like that something that soft and silky. next again, 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 lobby. nicole runs canopy, an organization dedicated to protecting those that remain a complete breakdown of the ecological function that area. there's a massive release of carbon in the atmosphere. disrupts species have attacks, even though trees can grow back insulin. and it far, sir, place after the forest to clear the wood is poked and processed into fabrics called

ray on and viscous, but is shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent, the harvested wood is dumped or incinerated, just 30 percent. and so in the going to be we're canopy works with businesses that source from primary forests to point green alternatives. one of their main focus points is the global fashion industry. and what's your strategy? how 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 regions. 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. his to really help kick start commercial scale production on these 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 live to 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 farce and viscous lou 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, the yellow dress made from 100 percent chemically recycle fabrics. the 1st time t e o mathias johnson is offered to show me how it all works for us right at the beginning. yeah, this is the poets don't humor this is that the blue jays that people have a wear and tear and they have this both all the worse next for this it goes into our frederick and that it, but it broke it dry. it states where we separate an a metal and then it goes in to what stage with this a little bit this lowering than we would pick out some of the color we bleach it a bit, and then withdraw it. what would be happening for the cell if you guys weren't using your, your process? most of it would be a landfill, or of our, we're going from evil or from the guys. i don't read in the machine. i don't know if at the break that 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 and the quickness video product, this is a fall. and if it contains a lot of fellow i'm that's, i don't know that really good stuff for making it go piper. this is the ro, matthew, from which the viscous fabric is finally made to read. you can print it like a normal fiber. then you've got you want it to be woven into any i 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. oh, that's right, same stuff. it doesn't look like

a worthy environmentally friendly garment. this looks like any other garment you'd see in the high street. absolutely. and that's why we're not necessarily call this recycling. we call it up solidly. but i'm inspired, but we're seeing here when you sell are hoping to open another 3 plants within the next 5 years. manufacturers are taking steps towards reducing that pressure on primary forest for all this to make a real difference that needs to be demand. and that demand starts here on the high street. were you aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation? i actually do not think about, you know, what viscous is. yeah. it's a synthetic material, right? organic material, you know, where it comes from? no idea. are you aware of this connection between the fashion industry and deforestation? no, i had no idea. judging by these shoppers, there's 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 product, 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 and not have that big footprint when you're that there. 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 straightened in between 2 of canopies brand partners, can powell and h an 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 can we see some of the stuff you've been working on? yeah, absolutely. let's go hello canopy. success is growing all the time

because hope is soon, every store will store research clothing. so this is a rack of clothing that has a variety of different environmental qualities. this product here is really interesting as far as he can tell, just a pair of denim jeans that has got 20 percent recycled cotton renew. so we saw them are producing a kind of a feedstock which is a 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 a 100 percent recycled o h an m recently partnered with renew. so to support was continuing research. this is part of the clothing joints. pledge to use 100 percent sustainably source clothing by 2030, which will be priced. the same cost is known. sustainable items and in store

customers are encouraged to drop off unwarranted garments to be recycled by companies like when you sell. so i'm curious to see if there's anything in here, if there's actually an inherent 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 he gets fed back into the coiling 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 to that's. that's where we want to get to discover the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was shocking. i think with organizations like canopy and when you sell, raising awareness, there is hope for the future for massive challenge. but i think in the public are armed with the right formations, 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 mismanaged and not care for the body, it could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is it 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. the, again, the earth is no different in 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 death. ah wetlands. some of the richest habitats on the planets in this remote corner of ne and tacky is one which is proving to be an ecological gem. conservationists of any recently realize it's vital importance. not only for local pads, but also for those migrating from all over the world. and yet the iris where the wetlands is under threats. i've come here to meet a man who's hoping to save this remarkable parts of the world. john shaquille

is a world renowned own authentic se, let's see, to come to a professor in the united states every year. chandra tanti homeland attacking and comes to this area part of the country. what draws in here is a 5 kilometer squared pocket of land. the iris river wet plans, 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 it. this is a place where i wanna do long term research to really understand what birds use this area. this rare, wet land, 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 worlds global bird migration flyers that intersect right

where we are in north eastern turkey. it is one of the most special wetlands on the planet. you can face, he discovered a treasure child. how did he fail? 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 bird species. as 2 thirds of the antar, even 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 rejection voucher and the carrier. but further danger is looming. the government wants to damn this and tar valley. as for us, that village over there, flood this whole place. all this would be under 45 meters of water. and every season i come here to seeing it. still there is like

a relief because i am always afraid ill all be gone. i have to come here and see it for myself. early the next morning, chance takes me to the birch winging station down in the wetlands is currently fighting in the court to reverse the government's decision to bill to the dam. he hoped, stay together here will prove the wetlands rich by diversity. and thereby in sure it's protection. we see everything here from minus 10 to are plus 40 santa, great. and the shade king had very cold here, or very all at minus 10 degrees today. exactly. to get invited is yeah, they learn is he or not something? oh yeah we, we do, we only have one in his turkey inside the team already heart at work running. amazing. the said they to in the 1st is tiny way. can i touch my don't with this guy know if you got out was caught amongst the 600 meters,

the glad nets that surround the station. every hour from sunrise to sunset during spring and autumn migration seasons, the net to checked to see if any by the phone in to them, please call and check the wrapped or not. and there's nothing there. so we go back . that's my great to find condition 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 our birds. ok. and the net. what this this i'm over go to the collector. yeah, they, his dinner slide into a pocket and then get entangled. some of the bad coats here haflin pertains nonstop and my great for hundreds or thousands of calamities initially to be able to survive. 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 bird 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're studying 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 them is that it will go to

the station willing them think. so mr. mintz on right on the back to the wife is bed was born definitely last year. and this is the 1st spring negotiation for this bird. that's amazing. so even when it's just one year, oh it know is instinctively where it has to go. as 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 look very awkward on m live tournaments. she that make them cookies little palm, often you chums or so in some other took. yeah, that of your 6, her little muscle, the hydro rolo notice of newton will they lived in under the chalky shit. the small was good that got free on the for these were some very condition on the other one by blowing on the bad chest. one can tell it's fact

levels. if the skin is pink, they are low. and if yellow, the bird is plump enough to travel on simple now, just for slights and to think that this bird is come from little thousands of kilometers from, from the start of its journey in africa said it's it just extra because it's so tiny on them often but the next oh such for every individual with a couple of for this i'm go to the left. oh you can feel it's hard facing is tiny little hut. one for the data has been gathered. the bad can be released to go or doesn't 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 birds, which 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 road 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, there's a couple things on the arid cliffs, but where are the wet lambert's not being 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 of course progress has to be made. what's needed a solutions that benefit both populations and the natural world. china has some reason to feel hopeful and its efforts to win protective status for the iris river wetlands in 2009 with data provided by him and his team, late creature 70 come to the north of iris with designated around wetland getting it into national recognition being a global important i can see 100100 turning. yeah. can i

kicked it out? see the crane yet? there are some ducks in there. these are 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 in turkey. but rumsfeld status doesn't mean the lake driving direct impact such as draining it for irrigation and hunting dog. indirect threats remain grounds water extraction 3 need by wealth is reducing the lake water level and animal grades read bad. 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, constantly, she 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, and had just signed an agreement, protected with a provincial governor. meanwhile, he struggled to prevent the damn 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 this around half the world's wetlands disappeared in the past century, project lake and the iris river wetlands of chant, champion them. but as global development continues a 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

that protection is to enshrine thy right to defend themselves in law. and the us in the 19 seventy's, 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 courts 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 found a new he was given legal status after mary 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

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