discovered. subscribe to the documentary. today on global three thousand we're off to spain where obesity is a serious problem the solution finding strength in numbers. near-sightedness is skyrocketing in asia we go to taiwan to find out why. and in uganda we meet some courageous animal lovers who are helping to save the rhino.

rhinos are one of the world's most endangered species in africa only zimbabwe kenya and namibia and south africa have reasonably sized populations of them the reason is poachers who it came to profit from their valuable homes they fetch a fortune on the global black market traders get around sixty thousand u.s. dollars. in uganda their numbers have slowly been increasing in recent years are reports a uni a headless man paid a visit to a privately run sanctuary and met with some committed conservationists. that's safe here in this century it covers seventy square kilometers of the sponsored by the rhino from. the southern white rhinoceros has been wiped out another part. but here twenty four of them roam the savannah and what lands.

raymond o.p.o. is trying to find one for us. the ranger sometimes has to trek far into the bush to track one down. finally we catch a glimpse of who and her baby who was born in june. the gestation period for the species is eighteen months. we have to be cautious rhino mothers offer righteous in defense about a young. woman who is like mother like daughter the mother is the same character the mother when he had just a small stick breaking she is very a lot she's already facing that area that action that is what who is who. is. so and i think she would attack.

three rhinos cross our path the driver's getting a little nervous. which is just. the safest move when you see a rhino is to freeze that it understands you don't represent a threat. and we're going back when it's due and. we can continue. about ninety rangers work here and you jeanette is in charge she has been running the rhino fund since two thousand and eight but has brought a lot of new staff on board. and the number of animals in the sanctuary has almost doubled under her direction while the situation on the run is a unique guy if for a long time there was a short period maybe and then nine hundred seventy nine hundred eighty three rhinos who pretty secure and then the poaching spot the problem is it doesn't just spike in one country it's parks all over poachers haven't killed any animals in the

sanctuary the rhino fund has been breeding them have eighteen years now the first was brought in from kenya others from various zoos. went out in the bush among the rhinos it's important to remain quiet walkie talkies can make the rhinos restless the rangers observe the animals behavior during the day and at night documenting where they graze sleep and wonder. the data shared with researchers and zoos all over the world. martin look hero is more involved with the rhinos than he is with his own family and he sees them twice a year. trainers are my second family then i went and paying my school fees that i won and then my family is. keeping them safe and free. the rhino fund is financed largely by tourists who come here from around the globe

the sanctuary is one of the few places they have a chance to see rhinos in a natural habitat. we've been all over africa western africa and southern africa and the rhino is the one thing that we've not seen so anywhere with been looking for the big five we seen that the rhino had just defeated us so this looked like the one opportunity to be able to see them the rhinos the only safe in the sanctuary because so many rangers work here ramit o.p.o. explains that strategy. i think he's pretty successful up to date because of the when you get around because we walk hand in hand with the community around and for this kind of project and if past people is the community airport or cannot come from china it is yeah it in a way at portugal minus right where yeah we have to use the local people and the

local people are you offering if you give the business you know they're not going to vote. in four months that it and that includes the farmers in the area. they're allowed to graze that cattle in the sanctuary up to forty animals each per day. to get. this out try to. help us to raise was if they have enough rest we head up at the end was to increase on board of milk. and the children in the area can now also attend school it's financed by the rhino fund. the rangers regularly come to talk to the kids about the rhinos and explain why they're so important. to you all of you know what to do. what the writers have on their head. how when to hold on to. writers use their home to protect

themselves how do they fight using their home if the enemy comes they will use their home and fight do you know that when we started here. people within this area there were like it's fine to kill an animal to kill a wild and it is fine to do anything to their wild cutting trees it was fine for them and when we came to be here it was a big tug of war to get the grass root person to understand why was she. spends a lot of time out on patrol he hopes that one day rhinos will again be able to live free without need of protection it will happen that the writers who go back in the wild in uganda but we need. a very affluent for that and also we need people very much committed in conservation my dream is to see

the rhine is being put back into the national park and multiplying in numbers in the national park of uganda. but that will take at least twenty to thirty more years. only then will the organization have bred so many southern white rhinos that some can be released from the sanctuary to roam free and uganda's national parks. according to an international survey of eye doctors in thirty years half the world's population will be short sighted that means everything past a certain distance will be out of focus for four point seven billion people researches sadly predict that a billion of them will be almost blind shortsightedness can be hereditary but that can't possibly account for the dramatic increase in numbers the condition begins in

childhood while the eyes are still developing if you don't practice looking into the distance you can end up short sighted in many countries children spend too little time out of doors and too many hours staring at phones or tablets starting at a very early age this development is particularly acute in countries like singapore south korea china and taiwan. a dragon boat race in taipei an exciting event especially if you can tell who's out in front yet many here can see about this much practically nothing. some eighty percent of taiwanese children like peggy are severely short sighted by the time they leave school peggy's mother only realised this when peggy was twelve years old she was constantly falling behind in class i didn't like one day she came home and couldn't read anymore the doctor told me that peggy would need an operation if i

didn't do something about it straightaway right now i thought. that. peggy was about to go blind then tragically her father died and her mother couldn't afford laser eye surgery for her daughter and so from their small flat peggy's mother began selling insurance policies should then so until the early hours of the morning scraping together enough money for a treatment that's become very popular in east asia night lenses. the extra thick contact lenses reshape the patient's cornea while they sleep but they're only effective if worn every night and peggy's mother has to keep buying new ones. in a n.-g.'s of the it's expensive but the eyes are the windows to the soul and if she didn't see anything the world would be a very dark place and thoughts too i wanted to have light thoughts.

dancing well i was so scared of going blind. so i know my mother had already prepared me for it oh i should she got mistyping off and told me how to wash and folk myself for the tome see when everything eventually went dark a lot like. peggy was naki yet cases of sudden blindness as a result of short sightedness becoming ever more common in taiwan then mainly due to the immense pressure of succeeding at school in university and the continued use of old chinese characters is also problematic they take a long time to learn because they're complicated and difficult to decipher. plus cohen was a successful i.t. manager and to just developed a new software program when he woke up one morning looked at his cell phone and couldn't see anything he had a detached retina hit ignored his short sightedness for too long khan underwent

twelve operations without success as she tried to do that day and i fell out of course because when you apply it's difficult to do anything serious suicide was so odd there was ironic but then it was to the boy to my family made me realize no matter what happened to me but why i came here i can move there are always going to be there for me does not love them because of the family problems things they may realize separate lives from settled out here myself that i guess is something that i can still do something for myself and others. since then has been chore in taiwan schools as a living morning to others this principal invited him personally she wants to move away from conventional teaching that classes which can be bad for the eyes and instead bring in a mother play for less than a. common first describes what it's like to wake up and not be able to

see. that he tells the students how best to help a blind person so it's a lesson that's become a. fix part of the timetable. the principal wants to attack the problem head on today two professors are visiting she shows him her students higher marks. the professors the hair on behalf of the government analyzing study methods a high ranking official sits in the background that has to go beyond that when it pretty short sightedness is now a national security problem for taiwan we're struggling to find engineers and soldiers. and the first students can see then in the end they can't learn anything . that you put. the study is unequivocal what's needed are fewer teacher led lessons more breaks and more natural light. there's all the data you enjoy that you need to think of how on. our recent experiments with chickens and monkeys have

clearly shown that regular daylight can reduce myopia in children by thirty percent a year and this is. something that he said to everyone agrees in the start from two it's parents that are the principals biggest problem socially bad so you keep telling me that there are no grades for being able to see well it's exams they care about they say it's more important for their children to do well and those that this is for them to be able to see. can meanwhile is breaking more to do so by suggesting that children learn less. every half hour we give our eyes a break for how long. ten minutes. and how long you have to play outside each day at the very least two hours. is something that many of their parents would rather not admit that mr khan is these children's ideal teacher a real person talking from his own experience instead of delivering

a conventional lesson that you will be able. he's a very special person. here in taiwan we say he fell from the clouds into a deep valley on talk to start all over again the children understand us and i admire him for his courage in sharing his story with us. what will one pair of. hands recommendations are immediately put into practice it's time to get out of the classroom from now all afternoon classes will be held outside. the peoples here are now learning that the health of their eyes is more important than intense study and good grades. and that this sort of learning can be really fun. so most of those here in any case. the fact is we human beings sit around too much according to

a study by the world health organization forty two percent of people in germany a couch potato's that's more than the global average in cure weight it may apply to as many as sixty seven percent of the population and that's bad for our health too little exercise can give rise to diabetes heart and circulation disorders and weight problems two point three million people were overweight in two thousand and sixteen in the small town of run in northwest spain people are actively tackling the issue. hard as it may be they set off at seven in the morning. and carlos pinero knows only too well just how hard it can be. that's why the general practitioner or the companies whose patients on their daily walk twenty to forty people take part depending on the weather some are overweight others have heart problems or diabetes but after three quarters of an hour they all feel great

. when my friends are all around like barrels drink too much beer and then it's cough and here we come carlos our doctor says move around don't eat so much and don't take so many pills that's healthier and i'm trying to do that . for that every little here and you don't want to end up like your friends no i still have some fight me. you need to be pretty optimistic to believe that our compass weight thousands of people to change their lives at first people used to say carlos is crazy but the physicians got no wrong moving in this small town in calista in the far northwest corner of spain almost four thousand people taking part in this collective exercise young and old healthy and sick. and they discovered a new sense of community along the way. sowing beans is pretty tough work

but this group of preschoolers doesn't seem to mind now it's time to add a kernel of maize to each bin. and of course everyone knows what maize kernels are there for. the grazing to put on. well not exactly but that's where lorenzo has in he explains maize cops come first and they grow on plants that are this big one the sun and he can show the kids the apples where apple juice comes from. and the children are even allowed to collect the eggs late by lorenzo's chickens the eight year old is one of the many volunteers who have embraced the health project he believes children should learn where food comes from. i show them that salad and cabbages are healthy and completely normal food how can they know if they like something or not if they've never seen it. alice some draw has lost nine kilos because she's

a veteran of carlos pena as project. miguel a relative newbie is also here for a weigh in. if you keep up your twelve thousand steps every morning then you're on the right path. everyone who signed up to the project thinks that the most important thing about it is that they're not alone. that have they said there's an advantage to doing things together you don't want to look stupid in front of the others so on some days when you really don't feel like getting out of bed you do it anyway with. everything and if your neighbor takes part two you get this let's do it feeling. one in two adults in spain are overweight and obesity rates have doubled in the last twenty years in a relatively poor region the development is particularly visible unemployment here is high many people don't get enough exercise obesity is frequently linked to

poverty and the response of course everyone is responsible for their own health but it would be a mistake to blame individuals for this disease the problem is more common in particular social backgrounds. seafood and fish used to be a staple part of the diet hearing alysia today many of these products are fairly expensive meat bread or eggs often end up in people shopping carts instead. restauranteur diego platter says that doesn't need to be the case that he's making sardines today. they're currently in season and he says they're full of healthy fats and very affordable. ten restaurants in iran including diego's are participating in the health project. their mission is to return to atlantic cuisine with simple to prepare food that people can also cook for themselves. and the chefs

are happy to tell customers how. this is not sorcery prepare good quality products well in enjoy them whether it takes three minutes or an hour but people don't take the time to cook these days but there must be a. medical and public health conference is delegates are being informed about this health project that draws on the expertise so chefs retirees and patients researches say what's happening in iran is trailblazing. their initiative really attempts to engage the full community they're talking about interacting with almost every single member of the city and that really doesn't happen anywhere else . and if you want to work it must be fun to the line local schools are taking sports teaches say kids should be motivated and not preach to children and getting a chance to try out games and pastimes that their grandparents used to enjoy.

everyone had forgotten about the old games now we're playing them again. but if i forget a rule i just asked my grandparents to remind me that the same name as the bad boys and girls always play football separately so we can play the old games together. over the next two years the aim is to get up to twelve thousand people moving on the project leaders are convinced sell achieve this goal thanks to new ideas and the revival of past traditions together they have taken a big step forwards. i am. ok to cheat.

today our global teen comes from costa rica. and you know beth my name and sharon pian and annalise i'm seventeen years old and i live in qatar go costa rica. i think that as i have three sisters and my mom in karachi i get along really well with them. one sister's engaged and one lives in point blown away of course it makes me really happy to be with my family nothing makes me happier than me when i'm away from them i get sad there what makes me happy is to live.

in my free time i like to watch t.v. or play with my sister sometimes i play football or listen to music. when i'm older i'd like to open a beauty salon with my sister we'd run it together that's my dream if that doesn't work out i'd like to design clothes i'd also like to have children with my boyfriend and i want them to finish high school and not drop out like i did then they could do something with their lives.

there are serious problems here people leave trash all over the place there isn't enough money some people live on the street. others can only afford to rent a home they don't have enough money and they suffer along with their children. is a bank. from the next edition we head to the streets of beijing the capital of what was once called the kingdom of bicycles but a growing middle class has brought with it more cars and increased traffic. a bike sharing boom got underway here three years ago on bicycles making a comeback. car reported much he is pulling out is in the saddle finding out.

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