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not only man made infrastructures, but also natural ecosystems, a destroyed and animal lives are lost as well as human. but even amidst the most vicious struggles there are people fighting to protect the world. we live in and recover what was lost. 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 sciences, 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 $6000.00 bro hernandez in a single month. during death, thousands more fled the country for the forest. the bung with the scale of the

exodus was enormous. to day they are still unable to return home with their of a one point. 2000000 ro hinge refugees living inside of the falling cat. the bank of ash this is now the biggest, not amount of refugees in the world. ah, many of them have access to clean water, sanitation, or even electricity. good. after they arrived, the survivors space to new threats. while the rampaging through a meeting on one bedroom who witnessed the initial episode 1st hand, it came from there with the elephant, came through the past from the jungle over that way. went directly to her home and started beating her hat with. this was no one on elephant's trap

repeatedly throughout the camp, killing 13 people in the space of 5 months. can you tell me a little bit about what happened about mother by the who did so i thought about it with, oh my oh my to a you and what happened after that that i said that i did that i will a mother that the, that i said the whole are going to deal with a lot of you. i got a partial month, quite a little mama. every mark on 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 or cave right here, and this is where the forest began. yes, what's been going on? what's the cause behind all of these that you see on the old camps? they used to be forest. this used to be an elephant habitat. the camp expanded at an astonishing rate of $1500.00 heck. tears of forests were cleared to accommodate the influx of hundreds of thousands of ro hinder refugees. but nobody realised the devastating impact this would have. the growing camp severed a vital lifeline for some a bun lavetia last remaining wild elephants. blocking a herd of 40 from their only path to essential grazing browns in the east. just

over there then sir. there is a speech we call elephant, quoted all. now, the st. the cam is completely blocking that coated all elephant cannot pass through this camp is in search of his shelter in search of his food in central. 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 that they the same pot, the elephants of bangladesh are critically endangered. there are just $268.00 less 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 the man in front of me is china. mia? his name means golden boy. and he's our tracker for the day. i think we're in good hands with it's not long before we find clues that we're on the right path. honda had sent a hunted out that as a sonata, a bottle of wine going to catch his edkey. and you shall bon global and give it the color the net at will thought i will appreciate that. i fear the bicycle of anger as we find evidence of hungry elephants everywhere. weigh akiko typically said hasn't the skies like the elephant westborough. 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 faced

a nightmare scenario, attempt to migrate through the camp to me and mar, in search of fresh vegetation or risk running out of food. i cannot split his face when begin, i guess if they've mambo, disciplinary were following the actual footsteps and 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 r a moment i can't believe. ah, a majestic elephant. standing proud on the horizon. berry, i can have her seen an elephant like my own. this is 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 sub 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. there man, 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 they have the veteran hospitals, members. so they are using the megaphone, the how to respond, and they went to foreman human sales and slowly move towards allison sugar. elephant lumber. stems was deangela head down on the ground. it's clear how committed the tests more sar aphne initial training caught on me about how do i get out of my the hockey. i submit my job. i grew up with my loud and scary. i think that was certainly shoe and elephant off. since the touch 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 join 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. to get that, the layout is of a de la la, la viet is of a d. i. d. been 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 up, bahama has 9 bye but i had to be sha marsha. miss you the one on my bed only behind with the machine that they ab would it would add the depth of my data for ready machine vision learning exam. and then if i did, do you feel that there is more danger living on the edge of the forest versus

people who live in the interior of the cap? i'm lucky to allah with the equity. lucky back that i blossom, we're a mani. i sort of philip is not going as it at the did of had i did. i did madam api. somebody will love melendez. it wouldn't be on his own with a lady. i'd been the lobby 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. the objective is now to build on this momentum. rocky 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 put radio paula on the elephant kiss when he was a valuable data, valuable science to have

a better management of the whole situation. once the exact migration route is known, 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 that animals do not always need to be victims of conflict. and that a peaceful coexistence is possible. ah, there were over 40 armed conflicts happening in the world's day. each of them will leave a dangerous environmental legacy. we can see that's protection. the environment is

a norm has something which we do. there are standards in place. we had joined conflict. it's almost if anything goes, we can cause whatever damage you like, and there's no accountability, there's no redress. we see very severe found damage to many countries in many different ways. damage to infrastructure such as sewage work, 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 a last for decades after the conflict in iraq in 2016, 2017 islamic states that f i c 30. 0 wells. some of these 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 and relations conflicts. it's got to me favor, it's got to me fast ex, know the conflicts of merriment. fan bombs been damaged in many ways and that has

consequences. so unless we focus on the environment during contract and soaring up, a lot of problems in the 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 declined by 3 quarters since the 1900s. but there is an insurance policy, a global network of c banks. these are backed 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 ali good to see the 2. what happened to the seed bank in aleppo, syria. it became on possible to access to the gym bank. all 3 got the premises in october 2015 because we banned to excess to the center by the armed group consoling the area. they stole the vehicles, they stole the lot of equipments, nothing left in the headquarter except the buildings and the gene by the war forced

5000000 refugees out of syria right now, it's not safe for a doctor. so had it 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 or as 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 and ideal place to work on safeguarding future food supplies. this is the central origins or we can probably the center of domestication because it contains all the forms of crops, like wildly 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, here we go. with gold. d, you can see here, samples of the french crops that are being conserved, we're looking here at do to me, this is the heart, the hard we that is used for past i'm making. so we have

a big collection of this affair past that say for years you're gonna get euro types of all the cups 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, stay for 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 of 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. yes. mix team were able to recall their back ups, so that decision was made to reconstruct our connection. we retrieved it 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. you have to make sure of 2 things 1st that they are free of diseases. second, that they can actually germany. they can produce plaque, they're alive and working alive and working. see the each one of those samples should have at least $85.00 feed out of $100.00. that proud and give healthy class. that's the threshold. that's the threshold. 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 seas, but also testing them, trying to find out the best variations that can withstand climate change and secure our food supplies in the future. in 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. hardley 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 wise we,

this is opposed to domesticated wheat. they are very unique and very valuable for our genetic useless because they have adapted already to the harsh environment and has very, very useful geez, 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 hands 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 his experiments. i 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. he really got of it. have a good i o l. o ma'am? nick, need it. i was on a sugar but a sudden loss, elena, but then vanished ahead assume less than haunt him. can let. is she a mr. friedman,

noble america. my son, i was headed by the 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 in syria. he was forced to leave behind. this is after the nice memory everybody had the role for leaving because we had the field infested by oral, wonky. the unit had decided to go all together, the breeders, the international stuff, the scientists that technicians assistant, the labors, even the t lay the contribute to that fin day. happy days. it was happy days, one of the most beautiful days. and you're sure you'll go back. yes, i'm very confident that i go back because i should go back. nothing like home. i would have an easy to write up the car to seed bank as just a casualty of the searing conflict. but the hard work and dedication of ali and his

team have ensured that their work transcends to the conflict and is able to continue to play a vital role in protecting global food supplies. mm hm . oh, environmental fool out of who can lincoln for decades. but what is being done to heal the damage? the charity haine of trust to create nearly a coach of a 1000000 minds from cambodia. helping to make over 6000 heck tis of land safe farming. in common ring o my $50000.00 tree safin be planted on degraded land around men of wow camp which shelters refugees escaping violence in nigeria. and after 50 years, the conflict in ago was able to protect columbia to be cafe, rain forest, a full mega ray, the strongholds, declaring this rich spider bass area to be

a wild heritage sites in the midst of wool. the consequential damage to the environment can easily be overlooked. but if we don't act to protect on natural low building, nothing left to fight for ah a winter obviously isn't over yet. you may have thought it if you live at the very least and the satellite picture doesn't reveal very much,

but it is changing. this breeze it's coming out of the east. i think contains element of the really cool stuff that was stuck ever took managed out for a while, and that's generating cloud and rain. really. nissan sat a sadie down through bahrain, and in see you a, that means a change of the weather type and it's going to last 2 or 3 days blue is arranged. let's pick somebody look a 3 day forecast though. ha, for example, it isn't as we're going to be overcast and will be run at 20 degrees, but it won't feel particularly good and showers a likely on tuesday, maybe wednesday and maybe thursday, and other places we'll see over carson, rather weather conditions, which is not the case now for most of tropical laska, the reins gone further south look at jubes temperature and sink what's replaced that rate, that is really hot for the middle of january. the flood potential of seasonal rain is with us. we seen it in parts of tanza, near and in d r c, where these are big shouts, produce landslides. the risk is still there from angola through zambia,

probably is in barbara townsend towards this circulation here. this, of course, over madagascar, it's the remains an old shop recycling. it may well regenerate ah, unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from a london broadcast center on al jazeera, tough times, the man tough questions. what exactly are you asking for you? what troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge conventional wisdom and demand the truth up front with me, mark lamb on hill. what out there? ah a massive power outage in pakistan. almost 220000000 people are without electric.