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weddle see in antartica, besides an extraordinary bid. great. the lodge is protected area honor. for this special episode of earth rise, we going on board the greenpeace ice breaker arctic sunrise, following one of the biggest campaigns in the environmental organizations, history, witnessing the spectacular, biodiversity, and the many threats to life climate change to the fission. as a team of scientists, photographers and ocean experts set out to prove these vas remote waters must become an arctic ocean sanctuary. ah ah, before i set off down south on go to find out a little about the journey i'm about to embark on. talk to way in this maze of old london streets. something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy,

i'd been mesmerized by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early 20th century. names of polar explorers, mike rolled amundson and captain stone. well this is where some of those expeditions came to get their mass. you asked me for lucas is no good to see. this is the kind of treasure trove of parts exploration come hello, turns out mankind has forever been hooked on the concept of a mysterious continent. at the end of the world, this map from the 15 eighty's is the last of the classical worldview. this is the world as it would have been understood by the ancient greeks and romans still got this great taro, australia snomed on cold nita, the unknown southern land spin forward 3 centuries to the time of men like captain scott, who died on his return from the south pole. philip shows me

a sledging mat from mad expeditions. this is what they actually used to place the food depos for the attempt on the po. it's incredible. here we have in reaching the south pole. and then of course, the terrible trek back captain scott died here. it is demonstrates how hard it was then this, how challenging it was, then a far cry from today. it's why this period is known as the heroic age. and they were truly great heroes. up until the 1920s, there were probably less than i should think. 50 or 60 people had actually ever stepped on to the cold lip. oh, of course. now thousands are going every year. like many of the old explorers i 1st had for printer, our anus in southern chile, but unlike them,

i'll be flying into antarctica to king george island. at the northern tip, harold joined the greenpeace ship. the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea . with luck will reach our target, the 64th parallel, which marks the northern edge of the proposed station sanctuary. an internationally supported marian reserve covering 1800000 square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impacts. like fishing, oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately, it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent of become. the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch. and of you with the out like before 5, i think it's a cold, murky arrival. i'm surprised at how many people there are around. dozens are coming

and going to haley are king george island and daughter can we made and i guess i landed on not so remote is more of a transport hub. you can see lots of tours gathered down. they're taking ribs out to inflatable bites out to meet the cruise ships for the holidays. i also had a lot of research stations with the weather closing in. we need to get a move on the home for the next 2 weeks. i give hi stakes. were under way immediately heading to the proposed ocean

sanctuary. there's no time to lose. not just for the arctic sunrise. winter is not far away and the ice will soon close in, but it's also a race against time to protect areas. like the way we'll see before it's too late. we'll mccallum, it's a greenpeace campaign leader. we can pull the largest take that area and i've talked to cushion sanctuary in an area of the weddell said to me about 5 times the size of germany. the proposal is already on the table, it's already got the backing of the scientists are saying we need to set a 3rd of the motion at least if we want to let fish docs recover if you want to mitigate against them, like climate change and then talk to the right place of song and just know, months time and hope all's australia a decision will be made by the antarctic ocean commission, the international party responsible for the conservation of these waters on whether to accept the starting tree proposal. the aim of the expedition is to build the

case that it needs to happen. the hours go by and the temperature drops significantly on the bridge, they're on high alert. we're heading into dangerous waters 10 times to skip a cool raziski. you have what they call burglary bits. growler and icebergs depending on the size, but they can all damage is ship when you're steaming at night. the key thing about ice is avoiding it. but now we're going to look for the ice and we will intentionally go in to some of the ice and there is room down here. now i think to push our way through a bit more comfortable, climbs into the crow's nest transport leads through the ice. come through the antarctic found which covered by the enzyme, since we're not on the web, we'll see. but not yes. at the point, we still want to perfect it to get there. we got to get through all this ice.

there's a lot of it around it. we're finding these clear passages trying to, we've all way through the i everyone on board is just willing the ship to make it into the proposed century. the big problem is getting people to realize why they should care about the you know, this is wildlife that most people have never come across will never come across. and so being able to tell us story relies on us getting that and getting the footage back and help talking about the importance of race center is the fact that the fist will only recover. we put these areas of limits, the fact that climate change will be not as bad if we manage to put large areas of the ocean of them. in darkness falls, but there is no rest on the bridge for the captain. and the night crew

floodlights on the bow show the ship now nudged up quietly against the ice. an intentional maneuver for the remainder of the night. but everyone keyed up slight 0 and the next day at last the arctic sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest, most diverse waters. there are, it was all on board, may yet be the largest protected area on the planet. well, when a good news, very good news made it, made it to 6 was sitting there. now there's awesome one other ship in this entire space. and you just go over this side and suddenly start getting sort of tens of of ships. but cruise line is cargo ships fishing vessels. the moment you get through this sound as us and another ship about that. and that's it. and that whole whole that said slightly scary. yeah, terrify, exciting as well. but it's,

i think kind of just makes the case that this is christine, this area is not developed is not call industries never have industry sort of area that's kind of most on touch, even within and talk to come i with front got it. i think run of what we're looking at here as well to yes. see, eyes are great. i spoke to the doctor glasses sweeping up. james, ross island weddle c expense way with this proposed area really about just talk to like you would activity over is no scientific research is taking place. it is an incredible site, but deeply troubling. 2 glances have always collapsed and carved into the antarctic

ocean. however, with global warming that doing so with increasing speed and as the ice sheets retreat, sea levels rise. this right here is humanities problem for decades, perhaps centuries ahead. ah. it is laundry day. i'll knock at sunrise and his face. we will pay for being good citizens by wearing fleeces, which are laid out to recycle plastic bottles and sort of thing. but when you wash the hundreds of thousands of micro fibers end up in the world's oceans. so here on board it's woollen and natural governments and of course, sick pollution in our seas is one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. and the team makes the most of

a rare opportunity for research. these are some of our mergers was on the planet. they'll be appalling to data that could be classes in the green pc, conducting experiments, taking samples for the water to see if any market plastic have infiltrated this environment with quest fibers that may be present. so they're both subject to the feelings, draws with where we certainly hope you find that this is very remote or just the way to caesar very close troyer system. and there's very few local sources at micro plastic fibers should be coming from. however, evidence of growing around the world studies that micro plastic fibers are extremely to release and they all be found even the very remote location. that's

a bizarre thing. be afloat on these wild and remote and desolate waters. feel quite exposed. mujica gps a google map and zoomed out. we'd just be a tiny speck unless you've offered advice water. yet, beneath the surface of this magnificent desolation is just tv. with life and these are some of the remotest waters on it. and to see what lies below the expedition submarine is launched on board the antarctic specialist suzanne la carte . what she sees is a stunning underwater realm compose of all manner of life. life not yet touched by mankind, but enormously at risk, not least from the effects of industrial scale fishing. it has a 100 percent coverage at the see thought of the organism has a great 3 d structure which allows other all reasons to come in in the past. and a really interesting space is composition. and all these factors make it really

difficult for our community to recover after a disturbance, such as bottom pitching, we call these areas fundable, marine ecosystems and the estimated $14000.00 species on the sea bed of hon. not just to fishing, but to other threats like warming see temperatures and plastic pollution. and that's why the expeditions all round research so important in the bid to protect these waters. all the scientific data will be compiled to form a body of evidence in support of the sanctuary proposal and present it to the antarctic commission in less than a year's time. but the team needs to find out more about the growing threats encroaching on the region. we leave the lonely waters of the weddell sea heading back through the antarctic sound. are they shaped by the routine on board? everyone has different ways of filling sparrows from the tar practice to running repairs. and of course, cooking for all. i was cooking today for the ride

and best bag money for but he will know the customers are the same every day and we share the life with them. it is not everybody who has a view like this in their restaurant kitchen with. that's why we're here. later we had for sure making land phone on the south shetland islands near the to the antarctic peninsula. it's quite a relief to be back on dry land off baseball really around all over the place to me welcome. hi colin. the 30th penguins, chateau 3 with the seals, one making the most of the comfortable feathers, the melting juveniles. but here to evidence,

once again of how the world is closing in on antarctica. the number of terrorists 20 years ago was around 4 to 5000 a year. now it's more like 30000 old like me, desperate to see this wilderness while it's still here. yet despite myself, i can't help the sense of unease and surprise about the sheer numbers a bit saddened by the great big crew shit there. here in pristine until the current lines inter is going up. is dormant volcano, which is ridiculous because it's a free well. but it does just demonstrate the the new accessibility that there is here and the dangers in these areas becoming tainted by the footprints of humanity. next day was deeming down the west coast of the

antarctic peninsula. we are going approximately 60 miles south west to an area called trinity island, where we have seen approximately 3 fishing vessels. we want to go investigate with the vessels off from china, ukraine, and chile. their fishing for crill, a small shrimp like creature on which the whole ecosystem depends. there are keystone of the ocean cycle that die to plant and helping to transfer c o 2 to the depths of the ocean. but currently being harvested on a growing scale of fish feet and omega 3 oil ships nets are out and they're in the thick of the crill swamp. the corolla, obviously densely packed in this area up against the island, is a bite. so just circling round and round to bring them up amongst at all, all the wails, the feeding. you see them blowing and wail, tales disappearing,

slippers showing buds really about the grill company. say they're chopping into our resorts, it is sustainable. but the view on board is that that is what they said about other species, like the bison in north america, or called stocks off new founded before both were decimated. it's essential areas such as well see are protected so stopped can replenish the proposal for the area, would put the area 30 kilometers off shore off limits to the fishing industry. so we'd say that solution you can continue to fission and taught caution, but keep it outside of these areas currently being proposal protected areas because the reason being proposed is because i saw importantly ecosystem down here. soon we'll begin the long journey home. but this time to make another landing, and the variety of species here on livingston island is just astounding. to like it .

it absolutely spectacular. just a lot more diverse. i mean how into species penguins time petals, elephant seals, rental sales has not been another landing a quite a variety. is when you look at this place from the ship, it is gleick and, and yet you arrive here is just to be me teaming with us. and is thriving right now and you can see all around us, it's thriving. who knows what it was like a 100 years got out. it was doing even better. but right now it still compared to most other places on that. it's doing a lot better on the point of protecting is to allow it to continue in this way. we haven't yet messer's place up. we have the opportunity to protect it. oh, ah,

no question that the, the dynamics in this place of antarctica. i changing, you know, the fur seal population expanding rapidly. there was a penguin dial from the east last year. the ice is changing. korean populations are under threatened terrorism. i mean this is allows great wilderness love. it means protecting me. it's time to head back and for 5 days we crossed the stormy seas of the drake passage to south america. before heading home an opportunity to consider the wonder of what we've seen and the challenges that lie ahead them winning the protection of a precious part of our planet. and whether or not this protection would indeed be granted in hoboken in 9 months time. ah,

so after months of campaigning and intense lobbying by the greenpeace team and all comes down to here, hobart, on the island of tasmania, in australia, with the future, the weddell sea, we've decided this is where it's all happening. the headquarters of the antarctic commission that protects and manages the planets, southernmost waters. everything from territorial claims to fishing rights are being thrashed out right now by 25 government delegations. historically the departure point for several antarctic expeditions. today, hobart is the place where the fate of the continent hangs in the balance. after our voyage together in antarctica, i hook up again with will. he's been lobbying hard for the weddell sea sanctuary since i last saw him. and the news he brings is unexpected. to say the least, it's not looking great. i think we've seen a rail a bit of a disaster of

a meeting to be honest, something and on was really expect they were i, we were always in the large, there was gonna be hard. and then what we seen is a few countries just really undermine the process and, and, and she broke any progress on any issue, not just, not just the antarctic ocean century, but actually progress in any field. good luck. thanks for to shoot in the next 24 hours. goodness me. i'm hoping to the best. perhaps we'll hear some good news to morrow. is decision day and the country delegations have been locked in talks. journalists aren't allowed in. so we wait and wait for you. we have development somethings of just had a cool so because again,

trying to find out what's happening to that is the head of the indian delegation talking to australia to tell us what are you saying it has come out of the conference every to real respect wadel superintendent dead in the water is not going to be adopted. it's just not gonna that's just devastating. use our comp edge and how, how the greenpeace team are free right now. what to say, the other delegations or the other in june. she supported this proposal. just one or 2 nations have gotten the web or rush from china. lou confirms wills, worst fears, but it's not until much later we can speak to him. is devoted so much to this project. stairwell nice. i mean it's a, it's just a complete failure. on the behalf of the commission on behalf of you know,

the millions of people who sign this petition who wanted this to happen, and we've just seen the entire thing. trash. yeah. 22 countries. i for the 25 support it. they believe this is a good proposal, but china, russia, neu, you know, one by 13 different means and different reasons have just taken it apart and kicked into the long grass. i'm from a personal point of view. you've invested so much time and energy and passion and heart into this what's, what's the most horrible? you know, i am nearly 2 years of 1st working on it. there it i, every year write it i know via, you know, there are other good proposals on the table and this proposal in it is still a good one. i and we'll get the chance next year to resubmit it. but something's gonna have to shift in the next year. it is intensely disappointing for everybody involved, but it does just demons. the challenge we face in protecting this plan is especially

in the face of a current climate of nationalist and political self interest. you know, it's not just about the wales in the penguins, in the wonder of antarctica. it's about us, us and our descendants. where do we want to leave them? a world without wilderness, without healthy fish, dogs, with ecosystems in tatters. with the 1st generation to realize the gravity of this crisis that we may be the last to be able to do something about it. i the musician performa, visionary teacher,

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