earlier this year, the man got a tobac lobel scored an important victory. the brazilian state finally recognized its plans, which include landmarks of the settlements difficult past. these are the ruins of one of many plantations in rio de janeiro that thrived until brazil became the last american nation. to abolish slavery, in 1888. your zonal domingos takes her son to the places where their african ancestors were forced to work. slavery may have ended 133 years ago in blacks and brazil now up number wise. but the struggle for equal rights, she tells him, is far from over monica. and now give al jazeera munger at sheba. ah, hello, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the white house says it's releasing 50000000 barrels of oil from its strategic reserves. it's

a coordinated effort with several nations to stop soaring fuel prices. federal prices have more than doubled compared to a year ago. our white house correspond, kimberly hawk, it has more. this is being done in coordination with other countries and that could mitigate what some are concerned is potentially going to be just a short term reduction in prices, but that ultimately could lead to higher prices. that is what the naysayers are saying is going to happen in all of this. but the white house is really counting on the fact that this is something that is being done in coordination with other nations. the wild health organization is wanting another 700000 people in europe could die from the current virus by spring. patients in the netherlands are being shifted to germany to ease pressure on hospitals. and our germany is also considering further restrictions is european prime minister says he'll travel to the frontline on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces the year long

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with ah, with insects make up 80 percent of a species on us for over 200000000 of them for every human they play a critical role. pollinating crops, decomposing waste and supporting food chain with a german study from 2017, has caused worldwide alum showing that in some areas,

flying insect numbers of food and i over 75 percent in the last 27 years. and humans are to blame if development and pesticide use continue. we could soon face what some experts the calling and 2nd to get in the ecological collapse of the insect population. what is to happen? it would change life on earth as we know it. mm. i'm yeah, i love him in new zealand where an enterprising group of scientists, a bringing a dinosaur era insect back from the brink of extinction. and i'm guillory to robbie in great britain to see how overlooked industrial wastelands being turned into bug reserves in lieu you zealand is rich in wild and because of its isolation. there are hundreds of plants and animals that evolved here that i found nowhere else that human

introduce pests have threatened and even wiped out many species. one of those in the native went up hunger. it's one of the world's heaviest insects and has been around for a 190000000 years. even out living the dinosaurs. they used to be found all over new zealand, but now be close to extinction. these amazing ancient creatures play a vital role in me co system and without the other native plants and wild life could also disappear forever. the oakland z has launched a set of programs to save the winter pongo with her. starting with a new interactive exhibition that aims to excite the next generation about like a bug land featuring giant 3 d model infects with educational games and

puzzles, bud lab shows just how fascinating with what, what do you like about the really me even re day to be really cool. these children have never seen a wet of hunger yet, had they lived several generations ago. they would have spotted them in the garden hose learning center guide. kirsty mcfarland explains why we should all care more about our native insect. fascinating and people dismissed them and the only that they're really, really important for the environment may is how everything wits together with that and think we will be here. how important is it to teach young people about in a 5th or right for the other one forgot to have to be helping to keep and think fighting to stop coming and danger i can really can wasn't good for that. yeah. it's not with them. i've been that kinda be right,

so this is can be great raising awareness because it's but it's on the other side of the that some really significant work is being done to protect and revive the threatened wet upon. got i meeting ben goodwood, an inter mall just at oakland is weight upon good breeding program. have n t a. hi. good, thanks. how you doing? this is where i went to market this is one of the world's only industrialized insect conservation programs providing be optimum light and temperature conditions who went in hunger. so these are the ones that you read. yep . some adult would appear in here. incredible, massive. they one of the heaviest and 6 in the world. this is an adult a now, so they don't get too much bigger than us. went upon the can way up to 70 grams. that's the equivalent of 3 small mice to think i can call her child. wow,

incredible. today john, do they? why not so they totally flightless, they're really good camouflage. they know they very, very well adapted for predators. but mammals can just tell them out. is that why i thought to die out, though considered really common in the middle part of the 18 hundreds and in human accidentally endless rep, museums and funds in the industry? and i would like to place things everywhere, aside from one on the side, effects of incredible. why would you save the lab from that? they have a function supply and the ecology it's foliage because net to the ground spaces which i read about in up. so the can get my problem with the breeding program started in 2002 with only 12 wet her since then is a 3 and a half 1000 insects have been released onto

a few key islands which still provide the ideal conditions for them to flourish. to day bends readying a batch for transport laser be the easiest ones to know because it, alas, said us hope and comes out by light. hide these little choose to room and it is the size that you want to be taken to the island. yeah. once they've got a bit of size along the a little bit more robust about fuel printers in the site around the world. it. yeah . all right, so that's the 1st thing i also adjuster tele here. once the success rates until reading program, until about 80 percent of all right, which is really, really good. did interesting. they're upset that we're working them up. i'm sure there is one. there was 2 great. since everything was going to be released,

not as bad. here we found 385 ways her packed and ready to move. it's time to head to the docs. ah, we're off to a private island in the how'd. ok golf. when a 4 still hospitable to wetter? it's a one hour boat journey from the mainland. broad and sue neu, to the islands owners. avid conservationists who have given their land over to the protection of native species. you must be rod, yeah, r n a. have you always been involved in the releases as much as possible in 2003? broaden su, finally breed the island of invasive mammals, like rat stokes and feral cats. making it a safe home for wet of hunger. ah,

we never really looked at ourselves as owners, but more as i am, guardian for the wonderful place that we've had the privilege of growing up. and how does releasing the, when a pongo onto the island actually fit into all of your plans. so they're critical to the health of the island. nothing exists and i for license. so the when a pongo or a bit of a, one of the missing links ahead for building it is part of the jigsaw. even though with her are a crucial piece of the landscape here. the young insects still need to be handled carefully, which means selecting the perfect spot for then you hope for voc law paradise. how do you choose the fights where you release? where says yes. so this is one of our lay sites here, and so we want to look for places. got lots of hot spots and somebody that's got lots and lots of good food plants as well. my goodness, this is incredible. how, how old is history?

does estimated to be about 800 years old disease is a fickle pellet from now. one of the, with the plan is massive. good way to em. sometimes to take the presence of you can actually follow. and that's obviously really important for the ecosystem. yeah, yes. so that so thankfully translated recycling with a single could phillips to plants on the soil health finding these droppings isn't tony a sign of a healthy environment, but also evidence of an already thriving population. that will surely bolcom newcomers. this is kind of the ideal spot where the best place now on for them to be released into this is got heaps and heaps, and heaps of potty hose for when upon his one of their preferred plants, they can go from the string and dismiss, ride across the whole forest here, cuz it's a huge crown on the west. i will be released at night when they are most active. this pink tape will help us find this spot in the dark laid, ron. ah,

i can't believe they've trusted me with these letters. or i thought of the really saw here. yeah. hey, can see electrical act of loans. when yes, she goes this one and i'm going to release more on this truck. now we'll move a, how important is it for you to re establish where to pongo? here it's awesome. because the fact of giving back something that probably would have been here years and years ago, hopefully the droppings will end to the forest. m. no, what's another one?

just give me a real soft touch on a back up. so how much longer do you think you'll be doing these sorts of releases for but a few more releases to do. and then after that it's mainly just monitoring populations. alan's big one, wait upon that now exists on for islands. as invasive predators are slowly removed from other locations, that number is expected to rise. the hope is that one day wait a punker could return to the mainland where they once arrived. there is certainly the bill for change here and museum. while people and institutions are taking action in support of native species, the government has even committed to rid the country of human introduce pests by 2015. there is still a long way to go, but at least the future is now looking optimistic, full of better pongo. ah,

ah, a plant reproductive cells, a found in its pullin. when an insect visits a flower to feed off, its nectar, pullin rubs off from the male stamen on the insect, and sticks to the hairs on its body. as the insect moves on to another flower grains of pollen, a transfer to the female stigma that's when pollination happens. so that seats and fruit are produced around 75 percent of all crop species require pollination by an animal. often insects including beads, but also other animals such as birds and bats. but 2 out of 5 insect pollinators disappearing and with them, our food supply. in southwest china, wild bees have been eradicated by intensive farming. so people are doing the work.

the bes once did. every year in hon. one county, thousands of villages painstaking me pollinate every single apple and pear blossom by hand. using a long stick attached to brushes or chicken feathers. the method works with some high value produce, but simply aren't enough people to pollinate all the world's crops. much more effective would be to nurture pollen 80 and set populations in orchards by banning pesticides and planting natural habitats. bees and other insects have been safeguarding our food supply for millennia. the least we can do in return is to provide them with what they need to survive. ah, with a long history of habitat last and industrialized farming here for seen. so are the worst cases of infect decline annexation in the world. i've come to the u. k to see

how all industrial sites are being ta, into bug reserves in an attempt to reverse this warring trap. in professor dave colson has been studying in sex for over 20 years and understands just how damaging their rapid decline could be. but it goes away, or insects disappearing that there's a whole host of challenges, but they face all to do with us. modern farming methods become very reliant on using lots and lots of pesticides which mean the farmer can grow our perfect monoculture. we are not an insect inside. the entire botanical diversity surrounding us is just a handful of species. instead of the hundreds, a spacious, that used to live here, and a lot of people think of this is what the, the british countryside should look like. but it's only been like this for a few decades. it's basically makes the landscape uninhabitable for most insects.

is there anything we can do to turn this around or have we sort of passed the tipping point for some seizures, it's too late. some have gone extinct, but for the majority, they're still here. and we need to make sure we look after that. we should be absolutely terrified to bypass this should should be something that everyone is talking about and everyone is keen to fix. because if, if we don't, we face of really bleak future with that. ah, that's a call to arms if there ever was one. and here in the u. k. some groups are taking the warnings of entomologist seriously. i'm on my way to canvie where to see the you case 1st reserve for in facts. i'm due to me, dr. sarah henshaw, an entomologist, a bug life, an organization dedicated to the protection of insects. but this desolate ex industrial or brownfield site is not exactly what i was expecting. hello, you must be sarah. hi, barry, here. i'm very hi. welcome to can you just see those guys that is one of the most

by it verse, wildlife rich sites in britain. so you want to take a look. i really with one of those places to be if i used to pay an oil refinery, you can see remnants of industry all around us has been abandoned for more than 40 years. and why is an old oil refinery, an ideal spot for protecting bugs? it hasn't been managed, has been passed aside. so it's providing natural habitats that have been lost in the wider landscape. wildlife is using, this is a refuge ready for. ah, zara. what's as it looks, a helicopter should be landing any minute now. is it a large tarmac bass? there's about 30 of them across the site. they would have housed the large oil storage tank case. but as you can see, nature is calling back and how many species of insects are there on the side?

with over 2500 different species on this side alone include him so much found nowhere else. this is why the site is a you case, 1st book reserve. can we try to find so we can little hunting where things about as brownfields i, which makes it who made it is always different habitat and really small place a barrier ground to bath burrow and nest flowers to feed on, scrub and trees to over winter when in quite a bit shelter is an amazing mosaic edison. they need all in one place. so why are these insects so important to the natural landscape? so we need healthy intro, systems invertebrates indicate for us, if the books are happy and the megaphone is happy for the mammals and the birds also happy. so when he's looking for the books and everything else will fall, it's line can't be week, has been described as a little brownfield rain for us. and i can definitely see why there are bugs everywhere. so many that a team of volunteers carry out surveying work throughout the whole year,

rory and imagery and already have their morning's work set out on their tail, which doubles as a lab. i need to reach here what's going on and here this guy's really active. so that all ground beetles, there is a predatory species that a living this bad open grounds, a conduit. we've got a few species that are actually only found here. oh, did you catch these all today or over the past week j, even though it's quite a cold spring day to day, still see those of which diversity of life he on can be what? and what will this help you establish moving forward? so give us a good, a sign of what's here, and then that way we can see how it's improved. and what we're seeing more of what we're seeing less of doing regular studies like this in such a bite of as hot spot like can be weight is really important to see how the rest of the country is doing. do you release the insects or do you take them back to a laboratory? what happens to them? most of them we can isaiah on site so we can release them and make that day. however, some of them we might need to take back to the have

a better look at kind of counselors this. this is a lucky, more caterpillar, where they are live and saw this protective web on the high choice. you used to find an app you went out in the u. k. g too modern landscapes each holiday for these classes willis and kathy wake. we've seen them all over the place. i think this is the perfect example. it shows what the he's at banding sites that are acting as real racking j as a species, a declining elsewhere. well, the surviving on site light then school. since bug life started surveying nearly 10 years ago, 3 insect species believe to be extinct, have been discovered here, it can be wick. it's exciting and i can't resist trying to find a few myself. okay, one thing with soccer. so all right, i had something a, this is a true back here. i have a floor, i have a fi and i really quickly pulls into the ecosystem and a lot of our insect life are quite fabulous. we'll floyers with both boys and bumblebees. yeah, i,

it all seems like good fun, but this surveying is crucial, not only for monitoring insect numbers, but also managing the land so that it provides the best possible habitat for these creatures. the thrive image and has offered to show me a declining species that need some special treatment. or we haven't heard of it and say that a brown bonded car debate and it's one of the 200 different species of beasts and was that you can find on this site. i'm a little what can you do here is to remove some vegetation. so they have some background that they can borrow into and make what we call our b cliffs. removing vegetation sounds counter intuitive to a nature lover like myself, but i mentioned as the expert, so i'll wait to see what she has to show me. she's taking me to find an elevated spot to create our b class. so here we are 3 of them. so what we're gonna be doing is we're going to be coming back

a lot of the grass on the lot of the scrub. a lot of people when they want to save invertebrates, they think that they have to parties while far meadows, which is incredibly important. but also they do really need these nice bare areas that they can live with. and how do they occupy the space? so they sort of burrow into the fans. yes, there. what i'll do is i'll probably find a new whole like this one here. and i think a little mess into there and then no lay the egg new thing. we're good again. tell this to we really base. yeah, definitely learning is so amazing to be so close to it. especially when it's such a rush. when we often think of conservation in saving species, we just think of the meadows and he's perfectly manicured, landscape, or we're in the middle of a waste land. it's not a wasteland to them. it's their home. and it's, in fact the last they say can be in this area. so it's really important that we take that into consideration when we make decisions about line in to date can be

week, has been a resounding success. oh, but to save britain's insects, more land must be given over to their protection. sarah wants me to see another site that bug life is looking to reclaim 20 kilometers down the road at west 30 marshes. if successful it could add an additional 70 heck, tears of protected habitat to the cause. it's been acquired very little with young fight. i've been here few times. i'm really fight show you ah oh. before the site we've abandoned it was a comb fired power station. black, the strike is the fly ash, which is the byproduct later on in these low nutrient pool. call it you really favor lots of wildflowers, that boom will be what, how the flies, bush flies will really love and take advantage of the try. and i,

it looks like wasteland. so we had to do a huge amount of work. campaigning, raising awareness, and we hope he's going to be one of our next book reserves. and do you have a lot of resistance when you approach developers and local governments when you want to talk about conservation on sites that could earn a lot of money for them? of course, because this is prime development land. fortunately in japan, yet half the brown federal person just to land in the thames gateway, already been developed to demonstrate the need for sites just can be wet and hopefully this in the future that preserve and save because we're losing this resource quicker than even finding out how important is the site provides an amazing opportunity to challenge perception on the key driver for fighting good books. they are important and i think we should have more of, you know, i mean the u. k. elsewhere in the well, in after hanging out with sarah and her

amazing team a bug life, i don't think i can ever go by any piece of land, no matter how derelict and forgotten and not see its full potential. and we really need to have the shift in perspective because as our own, the rapidly grows an industrialized land. every square inch counts, and by protecting our insect neighbors were ultimately safeguarding our own future . i ah, insects numbers are in steep decline. but across the globe, people are endeavoring to reverse this alarming trends ah, in the us, conservationists, that oregon do a saving to local butterflies species by breeding and releasing as many as 2000 along the coast each year. mm. and an engineering student at simon fraser

university in canada, has designed to real time be hiv monitoring system to track b health through microphones and heat senses. by helping to pinpoint the causes of colony collapse disorder or invention has the potential to save millions of bees. ah, the race is on to prevent the collapse of the planets in set populations. if life on earth is to continue as we know it, then we need to move fast ah. in columbia, transforming a been waiting to building a still for a same for the west blast of the war. we can finish day, i was in charge of fishing america, me just send you any single poll critical forms and living building. anything you do on land, on the ground, doesn't make sense to do that. i'll pile on a building. now can, we might have not just decorative that can we might get biologically productive

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