whole world equal india a sustainability magazine which puts the focus on solutions to some of the most pressing problems affecting the world to be this week reconnect you could change me from india laos and germany people like you and i were the system people saw 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 folk community to build a new story lives why an activist in mumbai is holding a few loop of the city's trees. and why more. extreme. 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 see if sanitation in the district of cardboard in the north of india. is here to live. with children source of which a village shall go to people. she's accompanied by many of those if you set your mind on something and there's nothing you cannot achieve. you just. get the five years to see these words with pride and confidence in my own. where.

she's been the driving force. in history by going door to door to check if homes have functioning boyhood's and also. joining big and how we want peace she describes. and i need a the used to live like. there was a tiny pond that everyone used to be a father daughter those everybody ended up going the because that was the. beginning. there was a time when all my very you when you would see feces in the open it was everywhere

. a chance encounter with the look clean she would it works towards improving hygiene and sanitation of communities was when the views of change began to dawn. in the fifty five unit. mission lived never ending tools need to be dug. and the other. two pipes would pass through each opening while one gets filled up the second one will be kept. out of the give our job at the door. never mind where they may go after all when i started talking to people about sanitation they would see no good would ever go out of it despite going on a strike for a full month nothing happened i was not even from want to. would i be able to me.

when a guy you want to be i do them i can leave that responsibility to me i also showed 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 the. people mostly ignored our women hardly a left their homes and the men were just not ready to listen the regard to my god we're all an accident cannot go just about any day to avoid that why shouldn't we build and use our own toilets. this is the door lit. and if this is the market at which the structure will set you know what i want to. be has built two thousand five hundred. some with willing precedents pulling in money some with government grants and some with generous donations i mean. we

should consider ourselves lucky that we have the space here to build our lives when cities don't even have that space. in india more than five hundred million people are forced to difficult because of a lack of. memory of mom. and. i believe their go exist a lot of country. is for the prosperous while the other lives in what is it with. these other people who are in the open. their 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 abolished. when we come out of there but i mean come on cover. this lack of access.

sanitation is a much more compounded troubling for. more stuff will india and a group in slums like roger. be compelled to be compete for dawn every morning and navigate deserted streets and the dogs themselves. go all. find it much easier to relieve themselves in the open they don't face the issues well 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. come here to. a community without toilets also faces the long term consequences of poor hygiene and health. in fact is still the leading cause of it's in india among children that in the make it. half.

hour how many don't have the leagues where do they usually squatch one to ten it's a vanished programs by engineers electronic part of the mind at the grassroots. want on them they still don't know who the world un love scenes are the. creating the one about that there was about god that they got there was a mucky guess about me find innovative ways to explain to them how is lies didn't discord on film and then or now thought that's when they realized that each time the difficult in the open and the risk falling sick with any cut they're going to have a mad dash but mark you want to read to you an american anywhere three hundred model on that one that opened and. used all. the money but their thought and there are a lot of children who passed on these lessons. on aging to the bedrooms who then

end up listening to them. in your car even the grooves on the my slippers go to trees of mind and when i entered my house gary's the door dryden for good since she came to the city of gone but as a child right there is still a neighborhood that is the focal i would be at fifty five she is now a good boss on the beacon to the next generation of the rubble when i walk on and if i'm in my neck a matter of walking here or somewhere campaign on my own red card again when i started out in the initial yos i used to go to my feast with. the woman i spoke to and tried to want to be used to tell me if you were covering your feelings how do you expect us to venture out of our houses or hunger think i'm going to buying it i remember telling them why wouldn't you be able to go out of your moses are men the only ones capable of making a difference tell me one person 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 about. and how he's been fighting to save more by his trees from being indiscriminately cut down. and down if he wants to get his feet because there are no building more that we need. to be like. that. i mean it's not. the end. of the city. either. i was noticing that more and more trees were dying along the way you would

see the wooden rules of floodgate trees we should be thinking of the green trees i googled up the issue and i thought that d.m.z. had said that there was. every day make which was affecting these entries and therefore the trees were dying and he said if i love the island i court saying that this is the issue the problem is very simple that one side really infected needs to be cut and removed. to prevent infection from spreading to the military next not in the moment they did that to me months dogsledding and the injuries don't die any longer in mumbai i say one morning more than one in the north is that all over this if you this does destruction of recovery. because. it is a the act which was made in nineteen seventy five it says that on the side of every the organ there must be governed one side of every one for the war department on

top of the duties the department is supposed to use their common sense and times the of that so this jihad thought it be any application which comes up with the fear that if you visit the school mates it can lead. to this dreams really need to be cut and if they find needed to be in it to be i presume ninety percent of the cases the we do plainly sanction it and then the. public notice in the paper saying that they will be proposed to cut so many trees at all so ends on the occasion if there is something where we can object about then i take the time and trouble to and the effort to object about it. we had a car station there putting on your pulled over because station so there is a plea coming the way it's like a photo that we're going to go let me off as i said that he is not coming the only the bandits so please god this to you should be the keys to salvation and yes practically sometimes you need to go to be my hope within. be should be cut but

like i did before going away. to highlight this issue of. being there for the middle we decided to hold a symbolic funeral then we actually got he'd like to be on i want one of those from the jail in order to go to an event. again i'm not allowed to be going to a lot of support a lot of people gave to shore that symbolic protest that this in uganda feel like it's not fair. cutting 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 to placate that hundred year old like even if i've done one hundred new duties you can not be equal to that one hundred forty. not

protecting the natural ecosystem is definitely the need of the. there was a time when the black better the more as it's also called trying to cross today they're ready to be found in the continent and are listed as a vulnerable species how did they get. to the. mall to fly to find out. there. is absolutely crazy about strawberry jam. very. slow. and 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 hong kong spend fattening him up since he arrived. besides kung fu australian n.g.o.s free the bears has managed to rescue three other cobs. so far here.

normally 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 see 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 on a snare. he was destined for an illegal bear farm. which was lost in luke nicholson explains to the visitors that bear bile is used in chinese medicine. and it commands a high price. to have asked in tony cage is way bigger than the best and so it's like can live up to twenty years and saw those pages is expected to surgical means from the day using this to wage the legend goes through that torment the frequency of every couple of days when you living on a subsistence a very very big russians of for. these pictures show up bare bille farm near the

lao 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 those are being sold for fifteen u.s. felicity. we have a cold here. right next to them law whiskey with animal parts preserved in them including bits of bear. the battle to protect animals and

species can't be won without environmental awareness so often see bear sanctuary regularly invite school classes. i. allot of the kids don't even know that horses to bed thomas is resident in their forest and also a threatened species. i followed us hidden and ball so that bears can train their natural foraging instinct oh. 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 contretemps with some have physical trauma some have psychological trauma and some of the hands for little called spine that they rescue the base that have been hand raised it imprinted on humans if we would release them back to the. village looking for food and that's where we get human. and that's when people invest. today some monks have come from the nearby village of see. a blast 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 bears certainly needs every bit of support it can get so that confluence and his friends can enjoy brighter future in laos.

let's not shift focus to any notion that could be a game changer for women in rural india a lack of running water 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 picture. collecting water is a challenge for millions of people. wells often far away from their homes. the job is done mainly by women it can take half a day to collect all the bills for a family needs. carrying heavy boats 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 leases of course it. will cost twenty two things

he's done it is not only does it liason women's loads the wheel can also help businesses like small scale farms over outside restaurants. do you like them. if you are also doing your bit about. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your bit sharing 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 in whose work was established three years ago the rain h. aeration 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 whose yes from the progress they were ready. the stream and the meadow 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 confed or 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 beer can fed 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 the 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 gather 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 kelso 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 goals 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 we can feed the data collected from the sensors in the national park into this artificial world just see what it will be like you and your twenty thirty and how temperatures affect plant growth and the whole ecosystem of funds and of those consequences to. 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 the 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 ones where the national park will take years and its benefits will only become apparent in decades to come. i hope you had many takers be assumed to be a show we bring you many more stories of innovation and the people driving them goodbye and have a wonderful week oh a. little. odd

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