this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. i am michaela strachan, a wildlife presenter who is passionate about conservation. my work has taken me all over the world and in that time i have seen huge changes, many due to climate change. in extreme conservation, we meet inspirational people who have dedicated their lives to protecting the natural world.

this time, i'm in turkey. this country's stunning forest are facing devastating losses. but it is notjust the trees that need saving, it is also the creatures. i'm meeting the remarkable people trying to save honeybees. you are a bee whisperer. and those building turkey's brown bears a safe to room. this is extreme conservation turkey. turkey is huge, a vast and varied country stretching over 1500km. turkey is surrounded by water on three sides, the mediterranean sea, the black sea and the aegean sea

and in the east its mountainous and rugged and all that influences the climate in very different ways. it is a country that is so rich in natural diversity, its sweeping pine forest one of its key assets. but as temperatures rise these forests are being destroyed by wildfires, getting ever more intense. i start myjourney on the western coast, a short bus ride from the coastal town of bodrum with thick pine forests stretch all the way to the beaches. like so many places around the world, summers here

have got hotter and drier and recently they have had horrendous forest fires that have completely changed the landscape. all of this used to be green forest and now look at it. here, an area bigger than 100 football fields was wiped out in days. these most recent fires were more ferocious than any wildfire turkey has ever seen before. hussain is one of many thousands of people who have lost almost everything in the fire.

people rely on these forests to make a living, not from the trees themselves but from the creatures that live in them. these trees are vital to the survival of one of the most important insects on the planet, an insect you might not immediately associate with forests. the honeybee. stroll down a street in the region and you can clearly see how central honey is to the economy. this is the honey that is unique to this area, not flower honey, it is pine honey, produced from pine trees and almost all the pine honey in the world comes from this little corner of turkey. i have never tried pine honey so

i am looking forward to this. apparently it tastes very different. that is so good. it tastes woody and almost spicy. pine honey is not made by a bee alone, a small grub has a big role to play. i am meeting yonca tokbas, a bee expert, to find out more about these intriguing insects and how they contribute to making pine honey. she has dedicated herself to preserving the bees�* way of life even running marathons. what a beautiful forest. you get the smell and the sound of the forest.

this is the bug. that tiny thing. it is taking the sap from the pine tree and creating this liquid and that is what the bee is taking from the pine tree. this tiny animal that you have so much difficulty seeing is the magic creator of the whole process. more than half the essential grubs were wiped out by the fires. if you do not have the insects, you do not have food for bees and you do not have pine honey. with natural food sources dwindling and many hives destroyed, yonca warns some honey producers are putting too much pressure

on the remaining bees. we encourage them not to feed them chemicals or unnatural sugars to produce more than they can. we are exploiting. exactly. this man comes from a long line of bee farmers and bees are notjust a source of income but a way of life. they clearly know you. you are a bee whisperer. he uses traditional methods to look after his 10 million bees. look at that.

his way is simple, he believes the bees should be left to do it naturally, collecting nectar from the wild and return it to the hive to make honey. this is not the optimum production method. intensively farmed bees just come out of the hives and drink sugar water and then go back in to produce what he calls false honey. the do not travel around the ecosystem as they should, pollinating plants, including ourfruit and vegetables. he said they get unhealthy and die sooner.

this is a pot of honey naturally produced and it really does taste delicious. it is interesting how we are all familiar with battery farming and exploiting chickens for eggs and meat but how many of us have thought about the exploitation of bees with intense beekeeping and the damage that is doing. it seems to me the extreme conservation for bees is to go back to basics, back to this traditional way of beekeeping. the recovery of the pine forests is crucial and until then these bees have limited resources to survive. what are the main things people need to understand about bees for future conservation? plant some of the flowers they love, it is a food resource for them. this is the amount of honey that a bee can produce in a lifetime. just in that, do not waste it.

finding out a bee producesjust 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey has made me think about how much we use. for yonca, she is determined to save the bees by inspiring the next generation. the youth is amazing, much more aware than we are and they are working on trying to help nature more than our generation. when we think of forests, we hink of their importance to fight climate change but they are equally important for biodiversity, so much of our wildlife lives and thrives in a forest. as we have seen with the honeybee and that tiny bug it would not survive if it was not for all these trees, a precious ecosystem that

desperately needs protecting. continuing myjourney of extreme conservation i am in the mountains of east turkey. i have travelled 11100 kilometres from the aegean coast to the armenian border. in winter, this area is popularfor skiing but it is mainly a farming region. over time, lots of forests have been felled for pasture leaving just a patchwork of trees behind. but i am here as this is home to turkey's majestic migrating brown bear. naturally, the bears would live in these mountains in spring and summer

and when food becomes harder to find in autumn some of them travel over 100 kilometres to the black sea reagion when they fatten up and come back to hibernate for winter. this natural pattern of behaviour has now been disrupted. researchers emrah coban and aysegul 0neren have been observing the bears for a decade and dedicated their lives to protecting them. i am joining them in the hope of getting a glimpse of these magnificent creatures. hi. you're listening for the bears? we are searching for the signal of one of the bears. they have been collecting detailed data on the bears to understand

human activity is impacting the migration habits of the bears. the forest they live in has become fragmented, dramatically changing their behaviour. we are here before dusk to increase our chances of seeing them. and we are in luck. this has been really exciting, we have seen seven bears come out of this forest including two cubs but the only reason we are seeing so many of them together is because they are on their way to this, the dump site and they are going there to feed. the bears are here to scavenge. some of their forest had been overtaken by urban development so they are forced to

feed on our rubbish. oh my word. look at them, so many. 18. is that what you counted? this is really depressing. you can see the cubs even. for me, it is exciting to see bears but not like this, this is really sad. he is too much food, they are trying to eat leftover but many times they eat plastic. the young cubs copy the adults and so learn that the scavenging behaviour. the campus are learning to eat in the garbage. walking off with a whole bag of rubbish.

some bears are very fat and lazy because they are not moving too much. this is a really sad sight and it is all—too—familiar across the world as habitats are being destroyed wild animals for two come into build—up areas to find food. a massive problem that needs a massive solution. the team has come up with an ambitious plan to your bears away from the dump. they want to create a new travel route for the bears taking existing patches of forest they are planting 11 million trees to fill in the gaps. this forested route will stretch over 160

kilometres right up to the georgian border. creating turkey's first wildlife corridor. they hope it will entice the bears to migrate once again. this is perfect for bears, thick forest but then it just stops and then as this vast expanse of nothing and the next forest is 1a kilometres away so this habitat has become really fragmented. the bears have a big role to play in this ecosystem, they keep the balance amongst the animals that roam these forests, the lynx and wolves and even rabbits. we all have a kind of silent agreement with each other, if you take out one species we could think about the health of the agreement

would not exist any more. we are tracking along their route looking for any clues to show at least some of them are still trying to make the journey. look. this is footprints. this is rubbing trees. mrs where they come and rub. some hairs and scratching. i can see. some bears scratch but almost bears like this. that must be great to see. this is the sort of information emrah and aysegul have been painstakingly collecting for ten years. this is like our eyes

in the forest. they have installed around 50 of these cameras which up to document the natural behaviour of the animals and their relationships with each other and they have also column some with gps trackers to map how they move around in this relationships with each other and they have also collared some with gps trackers to map how they move around in this patchwork of forest and see where they are running into trouble. this is the bear movement, it has recorded every hour. we have the information of their movement and behaviour, the time they are spending in the forest. it tells us that these animals need more space to move and go further. also in the way are the pastures cleared for farming.

these are the gaps that are planned to be planted. the data shows some of the braver bears move between forest and hope more tree cover will encourage others to migrate.

the initial trees in the project were planted only a few months ago. i am joining bulent aydin to plant some of the first saplings in the area. i have played a tiny part of a huge and exciting project. it will take years before it is finished but wouldn't it be amazing to come back here and see this whole area forested, full of bears and lynx and wolves and so much other wildlife and become an incredibly precious ecosystem? only when the wildlife

is roaming freely in the forest and can find food and nature can this dump be safely shut off to bears. 20 years later i hope everywhere is trees not open area like this. the bears do not eat the trash, just the healthy food. and can you imagine these large carnivores we are working with hanging around here and having fun being in the real wildlife. we hope so. during my time here i have met incredible individuals fighting to protect the creatures living alongside them. desperately trying to manage the delicate balance between people and nature.

rewilding the forest takes time but it also takes care and consideration of all its inhabitants. big or small. we have pushed so much of our wildlife into unsustainable pockets and we've lost whole ecosystems already. climate change and our insatiable appetite for development has destroyed so many habitats and it is up to us to try and find ways to recreate them. what they are doing here in turkey is ambitious but if it works, hopefully it will be an inspiration for other projects around the world.

it was a very unsettled start to the new year, oftentimes wet and windy and if you look at the first week in the rainfall totals across parts of north wales in the lake district, some just close to or in excess of 200 millimetres of rainfall fell. in actualfact of 200 millimetres of rainfall fell. in actual fact there is more rain to come over the next five days, this is the rainfall accumulations of the darker the blues of bright greens denote we could have 50—80 millimetres of rain to add those totals before the week is through. it stays unsettled. low pressure never too far away. 0n stays unsettled. low pressure never too far away. on monday, the lowest setting to the north and that means a change of wind direction, north—westerly swordfish to things, that north—westerly wind driving cooler air across the country. temperature is about whether they should be for the time you stop but it does mean parts of

eastern scotland and eastern england, a chilly start with some sunshine around, closest to the low will see the frequent rash of showers, western scotland and northern ireland and parts of wales, the temperature around 6—9. ireland and parts of wales, the temperature around 6—9 . we mightjust see double temperature around 6—9 . we might just see double figures down into the south—west. a change to come as we move into tuesday, yet more rain and wind i'm afraid but the south—westerly flow, this sort of triangle shape, this pizza wedge, that is milder hour, it's what's known as a broader warm sector, all you basically need to know is it's a lot of low cloud and rain and wind with wind coming from the south—west so it will be mailed on tuesday. gusts of wind 30, 40 on tuesday. gusts of wind 30, a0 miles per hour going further before the day closes out in the far north of scotland but the far north of scotland but the temperatures back up, seeing highs perhaps of 1a degrees by the middle of the afternoon. as the area of low pressure drifts eastwards, along the southern flank we

could see severe gales for a time that clears away quite readily so as we move through wednesday, on the whole, showers piling in from the west, with sunny spells and scattered showers. the wind is blustery but not gales that we have been seeing, temperatures generally around 7— 11 degrees. what is in store for thursday? more of the same, another set of weather fronts pushing more of the same, another set of weatherfronts pushing in from the west so thursday morning will be dry and bright, quickly clouding over, rain arrives towards the second half of the day, some heavy the further west you are unable gradually push its waste steadily eastwards but north—east scotland staying dry the brightest and longest, top temperatures of around 13. the low looks likely to centre itself to the north on friday so once again, the wind direction coming from a north—westerly or westerly, slightly cooler, still breezy, still most of the showers into the far north—west so that means there is a greater chance into eastern areas of seeing some sunshine but again,

temperatures have sitting in single figures between seven and 10 degrees on the whole. is there going to be much change as we move into the weekend? i'm afraid not. below is going to stay with us and notjust the weekend, further ahead looks likely are going to see showers or longer spells of rain. it does look like it might stay that refresher over the weekend and into the early half of next week. but no signs of any significant dry weather i'm afraid to come. we will of course keep your needed.

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