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habitat damage caused by displacement or has devastating consequences. not only man made infrastructure, but also natural ecosystems are destroyed, and animal lives are lost as well as human. but even amidst the most vicious struggles through people fighting to protect the world, we live in and recover. what was last? i'm tanya rashid and bangladesh and the world's largest refugee camps, where people are working to coexist with the elephant for which this region is home . and i'm happy baton lebanon were a group of science. this is rebuilding a seed bag that was displaced by the war in syria. i o. in august 2017. a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing began in me in march. ah, the military and buddhist radicals claimed the lives of more than 6000 bro. hey

guys, in a single month, during death, thousands more fled the country for the forest, the bangladesh. the scale of the exodus was enormous. to day they are still unable to return home with their of a 1200000 ro hang of refugees living inside of the falling cat. the bank of ass. this is now the biggest nato meant of refugees in the world. ah, many of them have access to clean water, sanitation, or even electricity. good after the arrived, the survivors face to new threats. while i was rampaging through a meeting on webcam, witness the initial episode 1st hand. it came from there. with the elephant came through on the past from the jungle over that way,

went directly to her and started beating her hat with this was no one on elephant struck repeatedly throughout the camp. killing 13 people in the space of 5 months. can you tell me a little bit about what happened? a lot of them mother by the who did so i thought about it with, oh oh, i'm not in school and i did it a year and what happened after that? but i thought that i did that i will get a hold of them to deal with a lot of you. i got a partial month, quite a little mama morgan, how to a

the attack sparked an investigation into what was going on. grecki. i mean from the international union for conservation of nature believes the rapid expansion of the settlement had a profound impact on the natural environment. this is the edge of the camp through a cave, right? yeah, and this is where the forest began. yes. what's been going on, what's the cause behind all of these that is the on the old camps. they used to be forest. this used to be an elephant, have habitat. the camp expanded at an astonishing rate of $1500.00 heck. tears of forest were cleared to accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of ro hing refugees. but nobody realised the devastating impact this would have. the growing camp severed a vital lifeline for summer bangladesh. his last remaining wild elephants blocking a herd of 40 from their only path to essential grazing grounds and the east. just

over there, there is a space we call elephant corridor. now the scenes the camp is completely blocking that corridor elephant cannot pass through this camp. is in search of his shelter in search of his food in search of his migration pop. elephants was trying to come inside the cam. elephant came so many times and thus 13 innocent life was lost. an elephant is not necessarily a violent mammal. it's very intelligent, understands it has, is his emotions. and it's just that it's lost, his habitat is desperate. do this, analog migration is in the dna elephant as a genetic memories have been, know exactly where they have been going. when to have been roaming generation after generation, they think the same pot, the elephants of bangladesh are critically endangered. there are just $268.00 left

and they're increasingly under threats. $15000.00 hectares of land are already deforested in the country every year. and this cap only adds to the problem. to help me understand what the elephants are up against. i've hired a local guy. so a man in front of me is shauna. mia. his name is golden boy and he is our tracker for the day. i think we're in good hands with it's not long before we find clues that were on the right path. honda had said, hey, a hunted out that is a full not a bonded little mongolia says his edkey and you fell bon global and gave him it the color the net out. we thought i got a busy guy at that. okay. yeah. the bicycle of anger that we find evidence of hungry elephant everywhere way a key to think how i said that the skies like the elephant westberg. ready shawna

me, it tells me that by the end of the summer, much of the elephant's food here will be gone. then they face a nightmare scenario, attempt to migrate through the camp to me and mar, in search of fresh vegetation or risk running out of food. and again, i split his face with again, i guess if they bundled it very were following the actual footsteps of the elephants. elephants have walked along this path every season for thousands of years. i'm fairly, really excited. i wonder if we're actually going to encounter some elephants. we're being told that just a few steps away that they're there. then against the odds. a moment i can't believe. ah, a majestic elephant. standing proud on the horizon. barry, i can have her seen an elephant like benjamin while my 1st time. ah,

it looked so peaceful in its natural habitat. it's just really crazy to think that before the caps were put in place, that this is what it was. a large forest with animals roaming about and now there is that human made crisis at play with sprawling refugee camps and is just a very sad situation. ah, but a select band of refugees is working to solve the problem with the support of the international union for conservation of nature. they have formed a group dedicated to safely shepherding the elephants from the cap. they call themselves the task force centrals through their strategy are $94.00 watch towers, which they built around the cap perimeter. mm. they are mad by a team of over 500 brave refugees ready to intervene and protect both the people

and the elephants. i'm heading up for a birds eye view. oh, okay. so what's going on there? yeah. assimilating what actually happens when an elephant commerce and usually the yellow shows. yeah. and the i'm the veteran hospitals members. so they are using the megaphone the how to respond. and they want a foreman human shield and slowly move towards alice. i'm sure that the elephant lumber stems was danger. heads down on the ground. it's clear how committed the test more sar aphne initial training caught on me. um, how do i get on my the hockey? i finished my job. i threw up with my loud and scary. i think that was certainly shoe and elephant off since the test 1st

started, there has been no loss of life here. despite $45.00 incursions by elephants, it's an effective temporary solution until a longer term plan is made for managing the animal's migration. the task force has motivated the community with over 500 people signing up to joint. and it has the porters throughout the camp. what are you doing over here? what is this bag i live at the, the, at the la tampa at the to get that happen. get that the layout is of a de la la la viet love ag. i'd be done. all these different patterns, different colors, seems like it's a lot of work to do. why go through all this trouble to do it? it out of the home, how can i by that i had to be as yamashita. busy the one on my bed, only behind with the machine that they ab would have would add the depth of my yard for a ready machine. did you learn to read? examine anybody?

do you feel that there is more danger? a living on the edge of the forest versus people who live in the interior of that campus. i'm lucky to allah with the equity. lucky back that i bought some good money. i sort of philip isn't go to them. as at the did of had i did, i demand onto somebody will love volunteers, it wouldn't be on his own with a lady. i'd been the luggage and not only do people feel more secure, they are also more sensitive to the elephant situation. saving the animals is now even part of the school's curriculum. i mean, the objective is now to build on this momentum rec, eve is already taking steps to find a permanent solution to the problem. beginning with an in depth scientific study of the elephants migratory happen. we are planning to portray the apollo on the

elephant. this will give us a valuable data, valuable science to have a better management of the whole situation. once the exact migration route is, know, the goal is to clear a path for the elephants so that they can migrate unhindered. once again, of course we want to open the portal as soon as possible that are so few issues that we need to consider before doing this. it will take about a 100000 people, going get people to move somewhere else. that would be an immense logistical challenge, but as human refugees continue to resettle around the world, bold moves are needed to reduce the impact on local animal populations. what i've seen here gives me hope animals do not always need to be victims of conflict. and that a peaceful coexistence is possible. there were over 40 armed conflicts happening in the world's day. each of them will leave

the dangerous environmental legacy. we can see that protection, the environment is a norm as something which we do. there are standards in place. we have joined conflict, so mostly, if anything goes wrong cause whatever damage you like and there's no accountability, there's no address. we see very severe found damage to many countries and many different ways. damage to infrastructure such as sewage with so water facilities over extraction of resources. attacks on industrial sites, causing bust massive pollution. so you can have these impacts, there's going to expire on last for decades after the conflict in iraq, in 2016, 2017 islamic states at 4030 coil wells. somebody's been for 9 months covering hundreds of square kilometers in fall out of pollution. dealing with help termination caused by these fires is going to take years. so for the last 10 or 15 years, we've seen increasing interest from governments around protect the environment in relation to conflicts. it's got to me favor,

it's got to me fast x know the conflicts of merriment. fan bombs spend damage in many ways, and that has consequences. so unless we focus on the environment, you are in contract that it's storing up. a lot of problems in future will need to live in a turbulent world where conflicts and climate change are threatening our environments . scary part is that the crops rewind for food are increasingly finding it hard to survive. and in some cases they're going extinct. crop diversity is essential for food security and has to lined by 3 quarters since 19 hundreds. but there is an insurance policy, a global network of seed banks. these are back up repositories of seeds which safeguard their biodiversity. and can be turned to in times of crisis.

when war broke out in syria in 2011, one of these vital stores came under threat on the outskirts of aleppo. the team of scientists charged with maintaining the seed bank were forced to abandon their work and flee the country. ah, but they never gave up hope. when some of them re settled just over the border and lebanon's because valley they began rebuilding their collection. i'm traveling to the i cart a seed bank to meet one of these scientists, dr. alisha harvey. i. allie, good to see that the you, what happened to the seed bank in aleppo, syria, it became on possible access to the gym bank. all 3 got the promises in october 2015 because we banned to exist through the center by the armed group controlling the area they stole the vehicles, they stole the lot of equipments, nothing lift in the headquarter,

except the buildings and the dean by the war forced 5000000 refugees out of syria. right now, it's not safe for a doctor so hot to continue his work at home. how hard was it to leave that the bank behind. i spend more than 27 years of my life working to the bank. so it's like someone who left behind the babies on a long, long history. we dealt with them day by day. we knew everything about the behavior, all of those plans in the field, in the plastic houses, even in the gym bangs, time effort made by everybody. both syria and lebanon. ly, in the fertile crescent, which is where farming began. it makes this part of the world an ideal place to work on safeguarding future food supplies. this is the center of origins or we can probably the center of domestication because it contains all the forms of crops

like barley, wheat, lentil, chick, bees. all these crops originated from this area lou. i want to get a closer look at the operation dr. marianna. yes, big leads a team of 20 scientists, including 3 who have relocated from syria. their task is to painstakingly rebuild the syrian seed collection. the seed vault here has a capacity to store 130000 seed varieties for over 100 years. the seeds are preserved by freezing them at temperatures of minus 20 degrees. oh, there we go. at gold. see, you can see here, samples of the french crops that are being conserved, we're looking here at do to meet this is the heart,

the hard we that is used for pasta making. so we have a big collection of this affair past that say for years with it here again, a guy. yeah. but it's, i see all the crops are here. you have here, barley, a very important crops when you talk about dry areas. and you talk about the 3 main crops, which are we to talk about rice and you talk about corn. so these are 3 main staple food that most of the humanities are using. the report in place, this is a treasure. these are important samples that we have to make sure they are surviving that are monitored. they are available to the international community. there are $1750.00 strategically placed seed banks around the world. each gives a backup copy of their collection at the jewel. in the crown of seed, banks norway's fall barred global vaults. dove the doomsday vault. it is built into

the side of an arctic mountain so that the seeds can be frozen without the need for power. over 1000000 sea variety are stored here. so in the syrian seed bank was abandoned due to the war, dr. yasmina team were able to recall their back ups. so that decision was made to reconstruct our connection with the 3 debt from small bar. we brought part of it here to lebanon, and who could build our collection here? we could make it available again for researchers. all the seeds that come here are tested in the lab for viability. some are then cross bred to increase their resilience and improve productivity. yes, to make sure of 2 things 1st that they are free of diseases. second that they can actually germany. they can produce plaque. they are alive and working live and working. see, the each one of those samples should have at least $85.00 feed out of $100.00.

that's proud and give healthy class. that's the threshold that's, that's fresh. the seeds are thriving. but back in syria, the war has decimated the countries ability to grow food. one of the goals here in lebanon is to create a healthy seed collections to help ensure the future of agriculture and syria. when the conflict ends up here from the roof, i can see that there are fields, there are green houses, there's even some cattle. and it's not just about saving the seeds, but also testing them, trying to find out the best variations that can withstand climate change and secure our food supplies in the future. this region has been struggling with worsening drought for decades. the dry soil in lebanon is similar to serious by testing seeds in the harsh conditions. here. dr. hardy and his team can be confident that the crops will be resilient enough to survive the arid syrian farmland. what are these

plants right here? this plant is a wild week. this is opposed to domesticated wheat. they are very unique and very valuable for our genetic uses because they have adapted already to the harsh environments and has very, very useful genes to overcome climate change effect diseases, drought, frost. he with climate conditions changing. the biodiversity found here is vital not only for local, but also global food security. already one of the wheat strains, bread here, has proven resistant to a disease known as yellow rust and has been sent to the u. s. where crops were failing to fight it but with global warming, seed banks themselves can be vulnerable. what's worrying is that melting permafrost

is even threatening this vol bar doomsday. vault. research shows that the arctic town in which it's based is warming faster than any other. which makes the work being done in lebanon, even more critical. 25 syrians in the same number of locals. 10 the farm land here. so it looks like they're doing some really important work over here. can i give them a hand? yes, of course. they are doing hand reading ah, seems that modern science has in quite figured out an alternative to getting down your hands and knees and just getting your hands dirty. so we're just looking for the weeds. ah, we don't want to weeks interfere with these experiments. we want to make sure that his crops grow right and we have to be careful not to hurt the crops of the weeds kind of grow in between here. she really got to have a good i o. elona hadn't mcneally. i was gone. i should but a settlement on

a but then then it and i had the soon lesson horn im can let is she a mr. friedman, nova america, my son i was at apollo. doctor ali has invited me for lunch, meals are of course the final product of the crops grown here. it's a chance for him to tell me more about the life and syria he was forced to leave behind. this is after the nice memory everybody had the wrong for leaving because we had the field infested by oral wonky. the units had decided to go all together, the breeders, the international staff, the scientists that technicians assistant daily labors, even the t lay the contribute to that field day, happy days. it was a happy days, one of the most beautiful days. and you're sure you'll go back. yes, i'm very confident that i wrote back because i shouldn't go back. nothing like home . ah,

it would have been easy to write up the car to seed bank as just another casualty of the searing conflict. but the hard work and dedication of ali and his team have ensured that their work transcends the conflicts and is able to continue to play a vital role in protecting global food supplies. ah oh, environmental fool, out of who can lincoln for decades. but what is being done to heal the damage? the charity halo trust to create nearly a coach of a 1000000 minds from combo jack. helping to make over 6000 heck tis of land safe farming. in cam a ring o my $50000.00 tree safin be planted on degraded land around men, a wow camp which shelters refugees escaping findings in nigeria. and after 50 years, the conflict ago was able to protect columbia to beek. it's a rain forest,

a former gorilla stronghold, declaring this rich spite of us area to be a world heritage site. in the midst of all the consequential damage to the environment can easily be overlooked. but if we don't act to protect our natural world, though, be nothing left to fight for ah right, the extremes of weather have blown through night,

the time being that's the storm on its way. answer east in canada. so probably the place to look for the next day or so is for the south this here wanting up in cold i will bring some snow to the sudden plains states where the snow meets the rain. you've got heavy rain, i think this se, and cola. then transition to snow in places like pennsylvania, but not likely in new york or washington where it's been on the snow free so far this winter. so pittsburgh is a good example of the rain turning briefly to snow and then disappearing altogether . his temperatures hover above freezing, navigate for the south. the breeze here, pretty standard. now the trade winds brings a big shout off if you're unlucky, overcast and conditions for nicaragua, costa rica, the heavy rains, just touching florida is in the gulf of mexico. but mexico itself, some rain, i think in the middle, but not very, very much the south america, different sort of store. there's a pretty big shower around and full cast all the way from ecuador through brazil,

down towards the bottom right hand corner. and an argentine where there has been some pretty hot weather in the north sound that's being eaten away now as showers are induced to bills are no longer 40. 5 degrees is big thunder. ah, we don't currently focus on the politics of the conflict. it's the consequence of war, the human suffering that we report on. it is one of the most serious about the violence in recent years, we brave bullets and bomb because we give voice to those demanding freedom the rule of law. and we always include the views from all sites ah. ready priscilla's president for us is army commander in the wake arrives by the supporters of.