time for the troops out. time to overcome boundaries. and connect the world. this time for the t w d w s coming up ahead. minds. and. hello welcome to 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 we connect you to change makers from india laos and germany people like you and i were the system people saw a big vision policy for sustainable world son 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 to a community to build a new story lives why an activist in mumbai is holding a few group of the city's trees. and why movies are going extinct. 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 queues for access to clean and functional door looked in the last few years but open definition is a complex problem in india tied to 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 lived in the. children source a group of village people shall go to people of color with the zeal she's accompanied by many of those if you set your mind on something that does nothing you cannot achieve. it is a lot with thirty 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 if homes have functional boyhood's and also to build them. jointly began how these she describes.

an idea where the used to live. there was a tiny pond that everyone used to be. don't those everybody ended up going there 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 leant you that works towards improving hygiene and sanitation of communities was when the views of change began to dawn. a lot of the. fifty five in the. machine lived. tools need to be dug one and the other. by each opening while one gets filled up

the second one will be kept. out of the. never mind what they managed to laugh when i started talking to people about sanitation. they would see no good would ever come out of it despite going on strike for a full month nothing happened i was not even from want to finish would i be able to me. when i got here. i do them i could leave that responsibility to me i also assured them that i wouldn't be the slum the job was done that's when they agreed to stand by me but those were very challenging days where. people mostly ignorant 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 boy 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 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 toilets in cities don't even have that space. in india more than five hundred million people are forced difficult because of the lack of. memory mom. and. i believe that there co-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 houses. when the government out there but i think of i'm going to be modest. this lack of access to sanitation is a much more compounded problem for. most of libya and in europe in slums like roger . compelled to be called the forgotten every morning and navigate deserted streets and the dogs themselves. saw. find it much easier to relieve themselves in the open they don't feel

well being shy or of feeling an issue but for women or young girls and for those who go to school the problem is much much bigger it will. be. a community without toilets also faces the long term consequences of poor hygiene and health. diageo in fact is still the leading cause of bits in india among children that in the making. and. how many do not have that leaks where do they usually use what's on the telly it's a venice programs by insurance like show me a party that. at the grassroots. want on then these two don't want to warn you in the absence of the. game no one ever thought there was about god that they got there was a mucky guess about the money find innovative ways to explain to them horseflies

didn't discord on film and then or now thought that's when they realised that each time the deficit in the open and the risk falling sick or any cut their budget a mad dash in the air but mark you want to read to you an american anywhere three hundred modeling wrong that would open the debt ridden. her use all. the mom up there philip and there are a lot of children who pass on these lessons on to their parents who then end up listening to them. in your car even the grooves on the my sleep was scary creases of mind in them when i entered my house garry's the door dryden for good since she came to the city with gone but as a child right there still and they would risk the focal out with the at fifty five she's now a good boss on the beaten to the next generation when i was there for my neck a matter rockier 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 more to be used to me if you want governing your fees how do you expect us to venture out of our houses or hunger to take a cynical 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 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 about. and how he's been fighting to save more by his trees from being indiscriminately cut down.

and day out fifty years to get it because you're building more that's really what. does that. mean. it is not part of the. development of the city. mom knew the man whom i was noticing that more and more trees were dying along the way you would see the ruins of flooded trees which would be to give the green trees i googled up the issue and i thought that d.m.z. had said that there was a media bug every day which was affecting these green trees and therefore the trees were dying i decided to fight no the island i court saying that this is the issue of the problem is very simple that once a deal infected it needs to be cut and removed. to prevent infection from spreading

to the delivery makes no and the moment they did that many months stop splitting and induce don't die any longer in mumbai as a mark more and more and more in the north is that all over this if you have this death destruction of becoming. it is a yes which was made in nineteen seventy five which said that on the side of every lord there must be be governed board sides of every one for the war department one forgot to do these the department is supposed to use their common sense and times the of them so discreet authority any application which comes up with the fear that if you did visit the school mates they can get any. listees only need to be cut and if they find needed to be in it to be i presume ninety percent of the cases the we just plainly sanction it and then he put up a public notice in the paper saying that they will 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 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 be coming that way it's like a photo that we are going to let be off as i said that he is not coming the only the bandits. please don't got this to you so the appeals to somebody and yes but acting sometimes you need to better keep my hope is in order to. be should be cut but like i did before going away. to highlight this issue off the tree cutting that for the middle we decided to hold a symbolic funeral then we actually got to thank g. on our work for one of those from the jail in order to go to an event by six months of your birthday so i'm not allowed to be got a lot of support a lot of people give out to sure that symbolic protest that there's

a new gun cannot be like it's not fit. cutting back tree or cutting a fifty hundred year old just because you can cut it is the same. because nothing is going to be able to duplicate that hundred year old like even if i put on one hundred new trees it will not be equal to that one hundred year old tree. now protecting the natural ecosystem is definitely the need of. there was a time when the blackberry or the moon bit as it's also called time to cross the ship today they're ready to be found in the continent and are listed as a vulnerable species how did they get here i reporter travel to the. north to find out. is absolutely crazy about strawberry jam. who.

are only four months old he's the youngest resident in the sanctuary the young bear was just getting bones when he was he's from illegal animal traders. in fact hong kong spend fattening him up since he arrived. besides kung fu australian ngo free the bears has managed to rescue three other cubs so far this year. normally a young bear spend the first three years of their lives with their mothers but she's usually killed on 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 bones 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. whisky 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 been torn in cages might be given the best and so it's like to live up to twenty years and saw those cages. expected three surgical means from the day. using a syringe imagine that the frequency of every couple of days living on his system is a very very big russians afraid. these pictures show up bare bille farm near the lao capital v.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 for fifty us felicity. we have a crow here. right next to them la 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 the bear sanctuary regularly invites school classes. i. allot of the kids don't even know that horse is to bet thomas is a resident in their forest and also a threatened species. followed us hidden and ball so he bears can train their

natural foraging instinct. 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 bays can't return to the lot some have physical trauma some have psychological trauma and some of the hand rice and little cubs when they've been rescued the bad is that if they hand raised it at intrinsic on humans if we were to release them back to the wall that gets wrecked lead to a 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.

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 bear certainly needs every bit of support it can get so that confluence and his friends can enjoy op 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. often means did 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 are often far away from the homes. the job is done mainly by women and it can take half a day to collect owners of all 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 leases of course it. will cost twenty to thirty dollars not only does it liason women's loads the wheel can also help businesses like small scale farms over outside restaurants. like them. if 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 germany colleges stefan stall is trying to find our trust that at one top national park in germany wants 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 sunlight needs to reach the forest floor so that deciduous and can live for us woodland can grow here again the conservation zone in one fork was established three years ago ma the real nature ration of the forest progress is 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 meadow will now be able to develop will gain a cli 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 confed 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. 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 cause of faggoty want 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 and your twenty thirty and how temperatures affect plant growth and the whole ecosystem. flounced off 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 time management. the project is a long term one renae to ration in the hunt for coal fired to national park will take years and its benefits will only become apparent in decades to come. i hope you had many takers some to be a show we bring you many more stories of innovation and the people driving them goodbye and have a wonderful week. before

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