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ah ah well we'll see in antarctica, besides an extraordinary bit great. the largest protected area owner. for this special episode of earth rise,

we going on board the greenpeace ice breaker optic 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 a profession. as a team of scientists, photographers and ocean experts says how to prove these voss remote waters must become an arctic ocean sanctuary. ah ah before i set off down south, i'm going to find out a little about the journey. i'm about to embark on, tucked away in this maze of old london streets. something quite extraordinary. ever since i was a boy, i've been mesmerized by tales of the golden age of antarctic exploration of the early 20th century. names of polar explorers like rolled amundson and captain scott

well, this is where some of those expeditions came to get their maps. it was, we filled kansas low courtesy. this is a kind of treasure trove of pass exploration of income. 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 london, called 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 to water. this is what they actually used to place the food depos for the attempt on the pole. it's incredible. here we have in

reaching the south pole. and then of course, the terrible trick back, captain scott died him demonstrate how hard it was. then just how challenging was that? a far cry from today. it's why this period is known as the heroic age. 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 slope. of course, now thousands again every year. like many of the old explorers i 1st had for printer arenas 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 marine 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 before. and 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 hood home for the next 2 weeks. and you 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 to the area and i talked to cushion, sang chain anerio. the widow 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 protect a 3rd of the wall motion. at least if we want to let fish dogs recover if they want to mitigate against the worst them climate change. and then talk to the right place of song and just know months time and hope all is 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 same 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 hulu ziki. 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. 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 cars and found which kind of by the enzyme, since we're not on the web. we'll see. but not yes. at the point we still have perfect it to get there. we've 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 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 is keyed up slight up here

the next day at long. the arctic sunrise has arrived surrounded by some of the coldest, most diverse waters. there are, it was all on board who may yet be the largest protected area on the planet. well, when i did 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 crews on is cargo ships fishing vessels the moment you get through this sound as us and another ship about that. and that's it. and the 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 develop is not call industries never have industry sort of area

that's kind of most on touch, even with in and talk to come i will not do a front got it, i think run of what we're looking at here as well to yes, the eyes are great. i spoke to the doctor glasses sweeping up. james, ross island. the web will see expense way with this proposed area. really about just talk to mikey with activity over is no scientific research is taking place. it is an incredible site, but deeply troubling. 2 glasses 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, off at sunrise and his fe. we will fit with 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, 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 to some of our marketers 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 taking some literally fillings draws with where we certainly 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 white plastic fibers are extremely revising 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 her and to see what lies below the expedition submarine is launched on board the antarctic specialist susanne 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 this. the thought organism has a great 3 d structure which allows other 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 site tree 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. yeah. the same every

day. and we share the life with them and there's 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, but it's been really around all over the place to me welcome. hi colin is marcia 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. i've been a bit saddened by the great big crew shit they're here in, pristine until the current lines inter is going up. there's dormant volcano, which is ridiculous because it's a free world, 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 makes day, was deeming down the west coast of the antarctic peninsula. we are going approximately 60 miles south west to an area called trinity highland,

where we have seen approximately 3 fishing vessel. 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 paint and helping to transfer c o 2 to the depths of the ocean. but crill is being harvested on a growing scale for fish feet and omega 3 oil ships nets are out and they're in the thick of a 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 whales, the feeding. you see them blowing and wail, tales disappearing, slippers showing buds really about the grill company. say they're chopping into a resort. it is sustainable. but the view on board is that that is what they said

about other species like the bikes in north america, or called stocks off new founded before both were decimated. it's essential areas such as well see are protected. so stocks 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 so solution, you can continue to fishing 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, giant 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 say 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's 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 at this place of antarctica, i changing the fur sealed population expanding rapidly. there was

a penguin dial from these last year. the ice is changing, cradle populations are under threat of 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 his 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 decided this is where it's all happening. the headquarters of the antarctic commission, the protects and manages the planets, southernmost waters. everything from territorial claims to fishing, right at being thrashed out right now by 25 government delegations. historically the departure point for several antarctic expeditions. today, hobart is the place with 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 lodge. there was gonna be hard. and then what we seen is

a few countries just really undermine the process and, and essentially block any progress on any issue, not just, not just the antarctic ocean century, but actually progress in, in any field. good luck. thanks for to shoot in the next 24 hours. goodness great. i'm hoping for 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 coast controllers. 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 good that that's just devastating. use our comp edge and how how the greenpeace team are free right now to say the other delegations or the other in june. she supported this proposal, just wanted to nations have gotten the waiver rush from china. lou confirms will's worst fears, but it's not until much later we can speak to him. he's devoted so much to this project. it's terrible nice. i mean, it's a, it's just a complete failure on behalf of the commission on behalf of you know, that 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, no, i,

you know, one by 13 different means and different reasons have just taken it apart and take turns with on grass. i'm from a personal point of view. you've invested so much time and energy and passion and heart into this inner what's, what's the most horrible, you know, it's nearly 2 years of 1st working on it. there it i every year. right. it, i navea, 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 of ours, especially in the face of a current climate of nationalist and political self interest. it is 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 ah ah, a

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