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actually know enough about living under fashion. and with life on equal broadcasting, thumbnails have been august night bought a happy al jazeera english proud recipient of the new york festivals broadcaster of the year award for the 5th year running ah, with insects makeup, 80 percent of the species on us. there are over 200000000 of them for every human create a co ro, pollinating crops,

decomposing waste and supporting food chain. which a german study from 2017 has caused worldwide alarm, showing that in some areas flying insect numbers of fallen by over 75 percent in the last 27 years. and humans are to blame if development and pesticide to use continue. we could soon face what some experts calling in sick to get in the ecological collapse of the insight population where this to happen. it would change life on earth as we know it. ah, i me are below him in new zealand, where an enterprising group of scientists are bringing a dinosaur era insect back from the brink of extinction. and i'm guillory to robbie and great britain to see how overlooked industrial wastelands are being turned into bug reserves. noon

blue new zealand is rich in wildlife and because of its isolation, there are hundreds of plants and animals that evolved here that i found nowhere else that human introduced pests have threatened and even wiped out many species. one of those in the native, when a pongo, 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 they close to extinction. these amazing ancient creatures play a vital role in me to a system and without the other native plants and wildlife could also disappear forever. the oakland zoo has launched a set of programs to save the way to pango whitter, starting with a new interactive exhibition that aims to excite the next generation about insects

like a bug leg featuring giant 3 d model infects with educational games and puzzles. blood lab shows just how fascinating a so what do you like about these really even re day be really cool. these children have never seen a wetter punker yet. had they lived several generations ago, they would have spotted them in the garden learning center guide coast to mcfarlane explains why we should all care more about on the eighty's insects escalating and people dismissed them. and not only that, they're really, really important for the environment may as how everything works together with that and think we will be here. how important is it to teach young people about in the 5th? all right, but other ones are going to have to be helping to keep them fixed. right. and it's

not coming in danger. they can really connect with them. fix of it, young. i am in love with them. i've been that kind of be great for our pizza. divisions can be great raising awareness for causes, but it's on the other side of the view that some really significant work is being done to protect and revive the threatened wet hunger. i meeting ben goodwood, an entomologist at oakland, zeus went upon go breeding program a ran pay higher. good thanks. hi. this is where i went to pull market. i'm seeing this is one of the world's only industrialized insect conservation programs providing the optimum light and temperature conditions. her weight of hunger for these are the ones that you've bred. yep. so some adult would appear in here. that's incredible. massive. they one of the heaviest and 6 in the world versus an adult for now. so they don't get too much bigger than us. which upon the can way up

to 70 grams, that the equivalent of 3 small mice to think i can hold her in the hope service shall. wow. i seemed of all to a john do they? why not so they totally flightless. they're really good camouflaged. they're not, you know, they are very, very well adapted for predators. but mammals can just now them out. is that why i started to die out? so considered really common in the middle part of the 18 hundreds and in human ex, devilish rent, new zones and funds in the industry. they were basically everywhere. so i went home for the side. the fact that they incredible, why would you say the lamp and they have a function supply and the ecology foliage because net to the ground as bases which i read about. and but the problem with the breeding program

started in 2012 with only 12 with her since then. over 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 bens readying a batch for transport. mm. so this will be the easiest on today because it does help and come down. they'd like to hardly but choose me. and is this a sign that you want to be taking to the island? yeah. once they've got a bit of size on them, they're a little bit more about like to say now, so just tele here wants to success rates as your rating program to that, 80 percent of all right, which is really, really good. did interesting. they're upset that we're working them out. i'm sure there is one. there was

great since everything was going to be released at night, it's been without 385 with her packed and ready to move. it's time to head to the docs. were 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 su roy 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 barrel cats making it a safe home for wet hunger. we never really looked at ourselves as owners, but more as i am guardians of 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 pango or a bit of a, one of the missing links ahead for building it is part of the jigsaw. even though with her or a crucial piece of the landscape here, the young insect still need to be handled carefully. which means selecting the perfect spot for their new home walker wildlife paradise. how do you choose the fights where you release, where so? yes, so this is one of our lay sites here. and so we want to look for places. got lots of hardings bought,

and somebody that's got lots and lots of good food plants as well. miss, my goodness, this is incredible. how old is history? does estimated to be about 800 years old. the disease was a fickle pellet from one of the with massive good way to em, sometimes to take it presents, if you can actually, bonham. and that's always a really important for the ecosystem. yeah. yes. so that, so thankfully translated recycling the beijing could. phillip anson, the soil health finding these droppings isn't only 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 to go on for them to be released into his heaps and heaps, and heaps of body whole school went up on his one of their preferred plants that can go from the string and boston is right across the whole forest here, cuz with a huge crowd 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 things. well, all right, the thought of the early thought here. yeah. hey, conceal it lacked of loans. when you get this one in and we're going to relate more on this trunk. we'll move along in your how important is it for you to reestablish that upon? go ahead and think of just giving back something that probably would have been here

years and years ago. hopefully the droppings will end to the forest. am i speaking to another one? it is getting a real soft touch on the back. for how much longer do you think you'll be doing this for the releases for but a few more releases to do. and then after that it's mainly just monitoring the populations allen, the big one. weight upon the now exists on full islands. as invasive predators are slowly removed from other locations, that number is expected to rise. the hope is that one day later ponder could return to the mainland where they want thrived in. there is certainly the bill for change here and you see more people and institutions are taking action in support of native species. the government has even committed to

the country of human introduce pest by 2015. there is still a long way to go, but at least the future is now looking optimistic, full based upon ah, a clothes reproductive cells, a found in its pullin. when an insect visits a flower to feed off, its nectar. pullin rubs off from the mail stamen on the insect, and sticks to the hairs on its body. as the insect moves on to another flower, grains of pollen a transferred 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, declined annexation in the world. i've come to the u. k. to see how all industrial sites are being turned into buggers nerves in an attempt to reverse this warring trap, ah, professor dave colson has been studying insects 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 method. so i've become very reliant on using lots and lots of pesticides. which mean the pharma can grow our perfect monoculture with 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 by says should should be something that everyone is talking about and everyone is clean 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 and fax. 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 through. i'm very high. welcome to can you just see those guys that is one of the most bio diverse why live rich sites in britain? so you want to say hello, i really with one of those places to be for this 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 made pesticides. so providing natural habitats that have been lost in the wider landscape. wildlife is using this as a refuge rarely for. ah, sarah, what's as it looks like helicopter should be landing any minute now. is it

a large tarmac base? there's about 30 of them across the site they would have. how was the large oil storage tank is but as you can see, nature is corin back. and how many species of insects are there on the same 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, funny things about brownfield site, which makes it who made and it's always different habitat and really small play. so therapy grounds, bath burrow and nest flowers to feed on, scrub and trees to over winter and find 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 their 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 table. which those as a lab, i need to reach here. what's going on here? this has really active. that all ground beetles, there is a predatory species that a living this bad open ground 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 this of which diversity of live p 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 take them back to

a laboratory? what happens to them? most of them we can isaiah on site so we can release and then 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 may i live in saw this protective web on the head. joyce, you used to find an app. you went out in the u. k. g too modern landscapes, holiday calling these caterpillars. and can you 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 wrapping 2 species, a declining elsewhere. well, the surviving on sites like this blue since bug life started surveying nearly 10 years ago. 3 insect species believed to be extinct, has been discovered here. it can be wick, it's exciting and i can't resist trying to find a few myself. one thing with soccer, so i add something, so in this is a true back here. i have a flaw. have a fi,

but i really quickly pulls into the ecosystem and a lot of our insect life are quite fabulous with lawyers with visor bumblebees. yeah, i love 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. what do we have in here and say that a brown banded car debate, and it's one of the 200 different species of bees and was that you can find on this site. i'm a little, what can you do here is to remove some vegetation. 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 clips. so here we are 3 of them. so what we're going to be doing is we're going to be going 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 part these 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 they'll do is, oh, probably find a new whole like this one here. and on think a little math into there and the know lay the eggs knew they were really good. again. tell this to we really base. yeah, definitely we go, louis is so amazing to be so close to it. especially when it's such a rush. when we often think of conservation and 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 waste plan to them. it's their home and it's in fact, the last place they can be in this area. so it's really important that we take that into consideration when the make decision is about line in to date can be week, has been a resounding success. a safe britons in sax, 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 7 heck, tears of protected habitat to the cause has been acquired very little with young fine. i've been here a few times. i'm really excited show you o before the site we've abandoned it was a coal fired power station. this black substrate is the fly ash, which is the byproduct later on in these low nutrient poor quality. so you really

favor lots of wallflowers that bumblebee was hover flies, which flies would really love and take advantage of the untrained eye. it looks like wasteland. so we've had a huge amount of work campaigning, raising awareness, and we hope he's going to be one of the 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. or fortunately, in just 10 years, i've half the brownfield person just to land in terms gateway or even develop to demonstrate the need to cite, to can be way and hopefully this in the future that preserve and save because we're losing that resource quicker than we even finding out how important is i prize an amazing opportunity to challenge perception on the key drivers side books. they are

important and i think we should have more of the no, i mean the u. k. but elsewhere and the wells 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 forgotten, and not see its full potential. and we really need to have this shift in perspective because as our own species rapidly grows an industrialized land, every square inch counts and by protecting our insect neighbors were ultimately safeguarding our own future. insects numbers are in steep decline. but across the globe, people are endeavoring to reverse this alarming trends ah, in the us, conservationists at oregon to a saving to local butterfly species by breeding and releasing as many as 2000 along

the coast each year. and an engineering student at simon fraser university in canada has designed real time b, hiv monitoring system to track b health through microphones and heat senses by helping to pinpoint the causes of colony collapsed disorder or invention has the potential to save millions of bees. 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 urban waste into building blocks to use this to for us and the waste left of the war. we can finish their house in charging nothing america in just 10 years. and in singapore critical farms and living buildings,

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