those are big changes and most start with small steps global interiors tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world like to use the term the climate to green energy solutions and reforestation. to interactive content teaching the next generation about environmental protection and we're determined to build something here for the next generation the years the multimedia environment series on d. w. . 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 and 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 poaches 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 per kilo. in uganda their numbers have slowly been increasing in recent years our reporter uni a headless man paid a visit to a privately run sanctuary and met with some committed conservationists. vest safe here. sanctuary it covers seventy square kilometers and is sponsored by

the rhino fund. the southern white rhinoceros has been wiped out in other parts of uganda but here twenty four of them roam the savannah and what learns. raymond o.p.o. is trying to find one for us. the ranger sometimes has to track 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 off for russia sent a fence about a young. woman who is like mother like daughter is the same character the mother when he had just a small breaking she is very she is already facing that area that.

that is what who is who. is. anything. that. 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. but when it's due and. we can continue. about ninety rangers work here and you jeanette is in charge she's 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 in the nine hundred seventy nine hundred eighty three rhinos

were pretty secure and then the poaching spot the problem is it doesn't just spike in one country it's parks all over poachers have been killed any animals in the sanctuary the rhino fund has been breeding them here for 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 the trainers are my second home and then go on paying my school fees that

they want and when 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 anyway i would have 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 is we have brought a 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 to stand there past

people is the community reporter cannot come from china in any way at portugal minus right where yeah we have to use the local people and if the local people are you offering it is the best even now they're not going to vote. in four months that . 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 do. this so try to. help us to raise. if we have enough rest we head up to the un was do you agree is more to have made. 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 and i know. what the writers have on their head. how when to hold. writers use their home to protect themselves how they fight using their home if the enemy comes as their whole and fight you know that when we started here. people within this area they were like it's fine to kill an animal to kill. 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 grassroots 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 will go back into

the wild in uganda but do we need. their draft law for that and so 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 in 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 realized this when peggy was twelve years old

she was constantly falling behind in class i think. 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 as. 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 yankee's of the it's expensive but the eyes are the windows to the soul and if she

didn't see anything then the world would be a very dark place and forced to i wanted to have light thoughts. dancing horrible i was so scared of going blind. so i know my mother had already prepared me for a donation she got miss high payoff and told me how to wash in full by sauce for the tome see when everything eventually went dark a lot today. peggy was not 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 but takes a long time to learn because that complicated and difficult to decipher. cross khan was a successful i.t. manager and to just developed

a new software program when he woke up one morning looked at his cellphone and couldn't see anything he had a detached retina hit ignored his short sightedness for too long khan underwent twelve operations without success i actually try to do that then i fell out of course because when you apply it's difficult to do anything serious suicide was so odd those ironic but then it was to the point that my family made me realize no matter what happened to me but why i came here i can move go always going to be there for me that's the love. and because of the family bond things they may realize that perhaps from settled out here myself when i get to something that i can still do something for myself and others. since then has been sure 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 motto for listening. to our common first describes what it's like to wake up and not be able to see. then he tells the students how best to help a blind person so it's a lesson that's become a fixed part of the timetable. the principal wants to attack the problem head on today two professors are visiting she shows them her students high marks. the professors are here on behalf of the government and analyzing study methods a high ranking official sits in the background passing of one that would be 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 good that you pull all the studies are unequivocal what's needed are fewer teacher led lessons more breaks and more natural light. as all of this is that you enjoy

this you know you and your thing that i won. now recent experiments with chickens and monkeys have clearly shown that regular daylight can reduce myopia in children by thirty percent a year this is. something that he said to everyone agrees in the staff room to it's parents that are the principals biggest problem socially bad so they 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 it is for them to be able to see. can meanwhile is breaking more to abuse by suggesting the 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 she will be able to use a very special person. here in taiwan we say he fell from the clouds into a deep valley and had 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 pave the path. khan's 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 people 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 into your weight it may apply to as many as sixty seven percent of the population and that's bad for our health too 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 iran 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 always accompanies his 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 don't take so many pills that's healthier and i'm trying to do that. one for the very good of years 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 the cops wait thousands of people to change their lives at first people used to say carlos is crazy but the physicians got neuron moving in this small town in galicia 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've discovered a new sense of community along the way. and 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 can also therefore. we graze into popcorn it's worth it well not exactly but that's where lorenzo has him he explains maize cops come first and they grow on plants that are this big one the salad you 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 fairly 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 a project. that has me gal 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. and that having 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 at them 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. 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 and 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. at medical and public health conferences 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 same day as the bad boys and girls always play football separately so we can play the old games together and then. 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. i mean i'm there for my name and sharon pian and annalise i'm seventeen years old and i live in qatar go to costa rica. and. i think that as i have three sisters and my mom in karachi i get along really well with. one sister's engaged and one with blown away holes it makes me really happy

to be with my family and nothing makes me happier when i'm away from them i get sad there what makes me happy is still life. 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. on 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 law

a bike sharing boom got underway here three years ago on bicycles making a comeback. car reporter much he is pulling out is in the saddle finding out. and that's all for this edition of global three thousand and twenty back next week and in the meantime don't forget to write to us global three thousand d.w. dot com all on facebook. see you next time.

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lack of water is equally dangerous. days john key to sleep will move south so they can plant crops and find food processor. floods and droughts climate change become the main driver of mass migration you couldn't write any up are going to be snide if you want and probably most of them will come from. the climate exodus starts if thirtieth on d w. two good news jerome executrix channel. a good line of stories. with exclusives. kind of a must see concerning arts and culture team europe. the place to be for curious minds are going to do it yourself networkers lead so for subscribing and don't miss our place. in. the old order is history the world

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