turned into tragedy. this is not liberation at all this is not the kind of freedom that we. how did it become a gateway to islam. is. an exclusive report from a destroyed city. hello welcome to equal we india a sustainability magazine which puts the focus on solutions to some of the most pressing problems affecting the world to be this week we connect you to change from

india laos and germany people like you and i with the system people their vision to see first sustainable world some of that raghu coming to you from mumbai in india. over the next thirty minutes find out how an illiterate woman in india is educating her community to build a new story that's why an activist in mumbai is holding a few. trees. and. let's look at an issue that forty percent of india's population has to deal with every morning the government is void stored the keys for access to clean and functional door looked in the last few years but open definition is a complex problem in india too extreme poverty and cultural conditioning for the last three decades one woman is revolutionizing access to safe sanitation in the district of cardboard in the north of india.

it's. children it's always a village people shall go to people. she's a company but many of those if you set your mind on something and there's nothing you can audit she. could be five years to see these words with pride and confidence i watched where. she's been the driving force. in history by going door to door to check of homes have functioning boyhood's and also to build them.

jointly began how these she describes him. my dear they used to live like. there was a tiny town that everyone used to be father don't those everybody ended up going there because there was. no. there was a time when a normal very you when you would see feces in the open it was everywhere. a chance encounter with the look lean she would it works towards improving hygiene insanity from of communities was when the violence of change began to dawn.

to go below fifty five in the. mission lived never ending tools need to be dug one and the other. would pass through each opening while one gets filled up the second one we get. our fair one the kind of give our job at the door. but. never mind what they mean a girl after all when i started talking to people about sanitation they would see no good would ever go out of it despite going on strike for a full month nothing happened i was not even from here i want the friends would i be able to me. when a guy yes. i do them i could leave that responsibility with me i also assured them that i wouldn't leave the slum the job was done that's when they agreed to stand by me but those were very challenging days where. people mostly

ignored the women hardly a left. and the men were just not ready to listen to my god maybe i ought an accident cannot go just about any day to avoid that why shouldn't we build and use our own toilets. this is the boy. and this is the mark at which the structure will set you know what i want to. be has built two thousand five hundred. some with precedents pulling in money some with government grants and some with generous donations. we should consider ourselves lucky that we have the space you. don't even have that space. in india more than five hundred. memory mom. i believe that i go in the us there

go exist a lot of country. is for the prosperous while the other lives in what is it with. these other people who are forced to defecate in the open. the biggest problem is that they live in support. of it they have no legal rights which is why they don't invest in the police because there is a fear of their hoses being demolished. so when we got much out there but then a couple i'm going to demolish. this lack of access to sanitation is a much more compounded troubling for. most of the linea and in urban slums like roger. compelled to be company for going into morning and navigate deserted streets and the dog themselves.

find it much easier to relieve themselves in the open they don't feel issues while being shy or of feeling any shame but for women for young girls and for those who go to school the problem is much much bigger it will. be in. a community without toilets also faeces the long term consequences of poor hygiene and health. diageo a fact he still the leading cause of it's in india among children that in the next . hour how many. have been leaked where do they usually use what's under ten feet it's a menace programs by engineers electronic part. of the grassroots is want on the local d.c. general. so were you in. the film creating no money but that there

was about god that they got there about the money find innovative ways to explain to them how flies didn't discord on film and then on our food that's when they realized that each time the deficit in the open and the risk falling sick. there were going to behead another. boat mccue hollyweird american anywhere three hundred . open the day. use saw. the moment there thought and there are a lot of children who pass on these lessons on how to their who then end up listening to them. in your car even the grooves under my sleep was scary traces of mind in them when i entered my house gary's the dr didn't forget since she came to do so do you have gone but as a child right this still enabled the focal out of the fifty five she's now

a good boss on the beaten to the next generation. if i'm a manic anchor matter here or somewhere campaign among what kartik when i started out in the initial years i used to cover my face with. the women i spoke to and tried to mold to be used to tell me if you were covering your feelings how do you expect us to venture out on houses or hunger or defecate any kind of buying and i remember telling them why wouldn't you be able to go out of your moses are men the only ones people who love me don't a difference tell me one task in this world that is beyond the capacity of women. it sometimes takes only one individual determined and persistent to bring about big change now the city of mumbai has three and a half million trees each one essential to maintaining the fragile balance in this rapidly urbanising metropolis our next story is a. and how he's been fighting to save money by his trees for me indiscriminately

cut down. in the end day a city is listing and it seems because there are new buildings there is more traffic we need more water of we need more electricity be needed more telephone lines for the war doubling does not for all that to do we not need more trees. i mean it's not part of the. development of the city. alone neither. the nor does he need more and more trees were dying along the way you would see those in ruins of flood big trees which would be to give the green trees i googled up the issue and i thought that seems he had said that there was a really bug me which was affecting these green trees and therefore the trees were dying i decided to fight no the island i chord saying that this is the issue and

the problem is very simple that one supreme infected needs to be cut and removed. to prevent infection from spreading to the next no and the moment they did that many bugs stop spreading and then please don't die in a lot in mumbai as they work more and more in one day nor is that all over the city this does destruction of becoming. that is a fear which was made in nineteen seventy five it says that on the side of every lord there must be three govern board sides of every one for the war department wanted to do the deed of argument are supposed to use their common sense and times the of the so this jihad thought to be any application which comes up with the fear that if you give me the peace group maze they can get me. to this trees really need to be cut and if they find where they do we need to be i presume ninety percent of the. this is the we just blindly sanction it and then the. public notice in the

paper saying that they'll be proposed to cut so many trees at all so in some locations if there is something where we can object about then i take the time and trouble and the effort to object about it. we had a car station there putting on your. station so there is a becoming the obvious like a photo that we are not going to be off as i said that he is not coming the only the blunder it all leads got this to you so the the three is still somebody and yes back to you sometimes you need to better be my hope it is not to. be should be cut but like i did before going away. to highlight this issue of undeceived we got being there for the mental we decided to hold a symbolic funeral where we actually got it done three on our own does from the one

or two billion we went past month earlier period of in ferguson or the lord we got a lot of support a lot of people came out to shore that symbolic protest at this and you can get a feel like it's not fair. typing back tree or cutting a fifty hundred year old just because you can cut it is a senseless act because nothing is going to be able good implicate that hundred year old me even if i plan on one hundred new days it will not be equal to that one hundred year old trees. now protecting the natural ecosystem is definitely the need of the hour there was a time when the have to block better the moon bit as it's also called time to cross the ship today there are ready to be found in the continent and are listed as a vulnerable species how did they get here i reporter travel to the. in the north

the flowers to find out. come food is absolutely crazy about strawberry jam. there. are only four months old he's the youngest resident in the sanctuary the young bear was just getting bones when he was seized from a legal animal traders. in fact on young spin fattening him up since he arrived. here besides kung fu australian ngo free the bears has managed to rescue three other cubs so far here. needham normally a young bear spend the first three years of their lives with their mothers but she's usually killed and the cubs are kept under awful conditions come from his brother died in captivity he probably starved to death the animals have

a really terrible time. and. this fully grown asian black bear also called moon bear is almost two metres high standing and weighs in at one hundred fifty kilograms and cut one sees sanctuary they try to keep the animals under the most natural conditions possible. the bear refuge lies in the north of laos right next to a well known waterfall the nearby tourist attraction means a lot of visitors take advantage of the chance to walsall see the bears. hardly any of the visitors can imagine the ordeal these poor animals have been through. like colby who lost his right front leg after he was trapped by poachers in a snare. he was destined for an illegal bear farm.

this was lost in luke nichols and explains to the visitors that bear bile is used in chinese medicine. and it commands a high price. a house in torn in cages way bigger than the bass themselves live up to twenty years and saw those pages. is expected to sit for me from the day using the silver age imagine going through that torment the frequency of every couple of days when you begin on is systems a very very big russians afraid. these pictures show up bare bille farm near the la capital d.n. chan. the bears face is a portrait of pain. nobody knows how many farms like this are in laos it's actually illegal and loves to treat animals like this but as

all too often in southeast asia enforcement and punishment are totally inadequate. luke nicholson says the greatest threat to animals is human poverty. you can find products from the illegal wildlife trade in almost every local market here they're popular with chinese tourists. that's a tail there's a been sold with us felicity. we have a cool here. right next to them lao whiskey with animal parks preserved in number including bits of bear. the battle to protect animals and species can't be won without environmental awareness so poncy bear sanctuary regularly invites school classes. i. a lot of the kids don't even know that horses to bed thomas is

a resident in their forest and also a threatened species. i followed his hidden and ball so he bears can train their natural foraging instincts oh that. conservationists are supported by foreign donors. thirty eight asian moon bears now live in the open here far too many. the reserve was only designed to take ten of them. but allowing these colossal creatures back into the wild would be too dangerous. for. this number of reasons why these babies can't return to the wall some have physical trauma some have psychological trauma and some of the hand for little cubs but that they rescued the base that have been hand raised it has imprinted on humans if we

were to release them back to the wall that go directly to a village looking for food and that's where we get human. and that's when people in . today saw monks have come from the nearby village of. beit blessed the conservationists work with a buddhist ritual the ceremony is supposed to bring luck to the workers there and fend off evil spirits free the bear certainly needs every bit of support it can get so that confluence and his friends can enjoy our brighter future in laos. let's not shift focus to an innovation that could be a game changer for women in rural india a lack of running water and rural coombes often means that women have to travel long distances on foot to fetch water an american company is trying to change that

with a simple but significant tweak to the traditional water pitcher. collecting water is a challenge for millions of people. wells are often far away from their homes. the job is done mainly by women and it can take half a day to collect all of those her family needs. carrying heavy loads of twenty liters for hours on end can cause health problems. the buso wheel is designed by the us organization of well it's a rolling barrel with a handle and can hold forty five pieces the force of. the wheel costs twenty chief says he done it was not only does it lies in women's loads the wheel can also help businesses like small scale farms over outside restaurants.

do you like them. you are also doing here tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your. share your story. can big data help us study the effects of changing ecology german ecologist stefan stall is trying to find out just that at one swap national park in germany once the variables that identified the data can potentially be used to study how the national park has evolved over many decades allowing us to study the good and the bad effects of human activity it has endured shows how he's breaking it down. these trees are being felled but for a good cause some light needs to reach the forest floor so that deciduous and can live for us woodland can grow here again. the conservation zone and was established

three years ago mother renamed to ration of the forest progress as researchers will also be collecting extensive data on the local ecosystem a stream flows through the national park the riverbed used to be completely overshadowed by the spruce trees explains hans joachim who's us from the park authority. the stream and the metal will now be able to develop ghana clee the mixed woodland that's already growing here will also evolve and light and warmth will restore the river valley to its natural state. scientists at the nearby environmental campus bill confederate collaborating on the re nature ration project they've set up probes and measuring stations around the forest the institute specializes in environmental i.t. research and teaching staff on show is a water ecologist. this is a multi parameter probe we use it in the town block stream in the national park eight different environmental parameters are measured in the water and these are

sent to the campus via data transfer the data is fed into a german network that is part of a european network that in turn is part of an international network so what we're doing is making environmental data available to help politicians make decisions and react as promptly as possible to environmental problems so. the environmental campus bill confederate brings together international scientists from the field of i.t. technology and the environment geo informatics is a central focus of research here satellites are able to gather data on changes in the global environment the scientists goal is to make data collected from various sources more easily available to experts in africa and asia be a global environmental data network. the major advantage of earth observation data is that it provides us with comprehensive information unlike isolated measuring stations which can only compile selective data we can also get inside ravines and

look at forests on mountaintops that are usually inaccessible basically we can very efficiently get a comprehensive data and when necessary react accordingly. to problems such as pest infestations and over exploitation of the world's forests these are problems that can be tackled tackling climate change on the other hand is more complicated at the environmental campus kelsey and his team are working on developing models based on incoming data that can predict the environmental consequences of increased temperatures the scientists run through potential scenarios and experimental setups in order to measure the reactions of plants to environmental changes as the cause of the main issue we're addressing is the long term effect of climate change on ecosystems one approach is to replicate an artificial ecosystem and we can feed the data collected from the sensors in the national park into this artificial world to see what it will be like you when you're twenty thirty and how temperatures affect

plant growth and the whole ecosystem. flounced off those consequences things the collaboration with the environmental campus has already paid off for the national park there's more and more data on the conservation zone which eventually will be made available in real time to the park rangers by a smartphone. we're taking measures now and plan to follow that progress to see if there are measures that make sense we have no specific expectations we'll just allow nature to run its course the data we gather will help us judge whether our management measures were successful or not the board of management. the project is a long term one rené to ration in the. national park will take years and its benefits will only become apparent in decades to come. i

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