about these little what's so special about these little creatures? i can't believe this is happening. oh, my god, it is so smooth, it is so lovely, it is like holding a baby. the axolotl is not only endemic to mexico, its population is limited to these wetlands and the worsening pollutions is threatening its very survival. 0k, put him back. thankfully, the conservation project armando runs here has been a great success

and, as a result, axolotl numbers are now increasing across the wetlands. armando's work is brilliant but to fully restore the area to its former glory, ultimately the pollution needs to be tackled. eva zu beck there in mexico city and next up, we are back in europe, in the italian capital of rome and if if you have ever visited the city, you'll know that seemingly around every corner there is a priceless work of art, right there on the display. that might be a total delight

for tourists and art lovers but it also makes them vulnerable to theft, as ade recently found out. # la donna e' mobile... they are just over 100 known works by the artist caravaggio. this is one that tourists can come and see and you can understand why he is able to make a name for himself. this one is just so explicit but what is really cool is that you can also see his masterpieces in everyday spaces all around italy, like in churches, for example. but sadly making artworks more readily accessible also leaves them vulnerable to theft and one of the most famous examples in history is the disappearance of a massive caravaggio from a sicilian church. it is estimated that around $6 billion worth of plundered art is being traded on the global black market every year. the carabinieri's cultural protection heritage squad have retrieved more than li.5 million stolen artefacts and relics over the past 50 years.

and i have come to their hq because i have been given special access to the vaults where they keep all the stolen treasures that they have managed to recover. could you take me on a tour, i would love to see more. it feels a bit like an aladdin's cavern here, with lots of strange and wonderful things to look at and the paintings, rows and rows of them. and what is the story behind this artwork, it looks incredible?

so they will just take a little section of the artwork and make money from that. yeah. but there are some success stories. i am heading an hour north of rome to cerveteri and the town's museum. this 2,500 year—old pot, euphronios krater, being its most famous artefact, looted, trafficked, traded and found, it was eventually negotiated back. who knows, maybe, just maybe, a certain caravaggio painting will make its way back home as well, one day.

off to estonia. believe it or not offering hiking, foraging and even swimming. around 7% of estonia is made up of this blog land. in the past not everyone was a huge fan. in fact people were regarded landscape like this is horrible. because folklore would say this to be the kind of place you may be waylaid by evil spirits. times have changed, though, and it's now becoming apparent just how useful these bogs are. it's so effective at storing carbon, that in recent years the estonian government has started re—bogging vast areas of land in an effort to help tackle climate change. i'm christa, good to meet you. nice to meet you. it looks like mud, but is this peat? yes, it's peat. if you look it's almost decayed, but not totally decomposed.

oh, you can still see the fibres. why is it important to restore these peatlands? it is important for carbon emissions. we want to stop carbon emissions here, we want that this peatland will store carbon. but people here also finding out what a stunning playground this environment is. glad to meet you. good to meet you too. i've got my gumboots ready, ready to meet the bog. ivor is a guide who works in, lives, and plays in soomaa national park. he floats through the bogs in his canoe, skates and sledges on them in the winter, and stomps through them in these. any tips? it's not that difficult, actually. you just walk and one important thing, when you want to turn back, you always come with a u—turn, you don't step like this because of this,

but the u—turn works well. these are one way bog shoes. yes, only forward. 0k! laughter. so what's all of this made up of? because it feels like we are walking on a big sponge. yes, it's mostly made of the moss. more specifically, sphagnum moss. so this is the plant here. ah, 0k. and if you take some of it there, like... so you can see. oh, it's really like a sponge, isn't it? it's like... it is growing up, it is rottening down there, becoming peat. in the top it is growing. it is a vine. you know like a... yes! so you can see, it is living. it's sort of... and it is full of water,

doesn't look like water, but if you squeeze it you can see. oh, wow, look at that! and there's just one treat that he is keen to show me. i can really feel how cold it is. actually quite cold. laughter. this water makes you feel like your skin is soft and makes you feel a bit younger. well, it would want to, because it is really cold. 0h! it's really cold! 0h! oh, it's really, really cold. i can see how after working up a bit of a sweat bogshoeing, this would be a nice shock to the system. so how far does this go down? a few metres. so, if you... there is no bottom here.

i think the verdict for the bog swimming is absolutely freezing cold. wow, i mean, what a setting. if you'd like to see a longer version of the programme and why not, had to bbc iplayer. and on social media if i'm not a great travel content from across the bbc. that is it for now. see next time. hello there. we saw a change of fortunes really today. it was more southern and southeastern parts of the country that had the best of the sunshine, whereas further north we saw much more cloud coming into scotland, the stream of cloud coming in from the atlantic bringing some heavier rain in northern scotland for a while. this evening, the worst that rain will move away. and then overnight we'll get this

secondary band of rain pushing back down into scotland. it's been windy in scotland and the winds continuing to pick up in many places overnight in northern scotland. we could have some gusts of around 60 miles an hour for a while by the end of the night. a lot of cloud to come tonight. it's going to be a mild one, particularly in northern ireland. perhaps temperatures no lower than 11 degrees tomorrow. the winds continue to gradually ease down through the day, but this rain is stuck in scotland. could see a secondary band of cloud, a few pockets of rain and drizzle affecting northern ireland over the irish sea into northwest england. there's a lot of cloud on the scene. again, some eastern parts of england, particularly across east anglia, could get some sunshine. it's going to be very mild here, 16 degrees. northern scotland getting some sunshine, but the air is a little bit chillier here. on the whole, though, we're starting the week with some very mild air across the uk. there is colder weather trying to push in from the atlantic, but it's taking a little while longer to reach us. so we're still in this mild south to south westerly air stream on tuesday. the winds continue to ease down on tuesday. but as you can see, there's a lot of cloud. may get some drier weather

coming in from continental europe to bring some sunshine in the south east later. and those temperatures still on the mild side, at 13 or iii degrees. there is this band of rain, though, coming into northern ireland and western scotland during the evening. that weather front will take some rain further east overnight and then the wind direction changes. instead of that very mild south—westerly wind, we get more of a northwesterly wind by the time we get into wednesday. and that will bring some chillier air and perhaps one or two wintry showers into the far northwest. but really, wednesday is a very messy day. there's a lot of cloud. could be some rain here and there and across some northern hills. that rain may turn a bit wintry later on in the day as things start to get a little bit chillier. so we've got seven or eight degrees across the northwest. in the southeast, still temperatures ten or 11 degrees, not as mild as it is at the moment. we start the week ahead with very mild conditions, but with a lot of cloud. then we get that rain around the middle part of the week. then things get a little bit colder, perhaps with the risk of frost at night as well.

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