3000 talked to a team of british researchers who take a more optimistic view. the world is not always a good place but it's much much fairer than i was and. is the world really getting better. a global $3000.00 special reports. starts august 19th sunday to the. whole welcome to a brand new episode of india a sustainability magazine that puts the focus on change me because we're finding solutions to the biggest problems facing our world today raghu coming to you from

the city of mumbai in india. over the next 30 minutes our travel company in put a charity is going beyond its call of duty to clean the ocean bed. need to cross is future proofing need against landslides and how an organization in mumbai is helping indian women to break free from menstruation tubs. let's zoom in on an issue that has a deep impact on our marine life often when fishermen abandon their fishing nets in the ocean their drac to the board to entangling fish dolphin sea turtles and many other creatures in them unable to relieve themselves they die from starvation infection and sometimes even suffocation one organization in the southern city of port of cherry is trying to change this and create a safe ecosystem for the marine life in its surrounding seas.

fishing nets one of the most essential possessions of fishermen are now proving to be their biggest enemy. maybe 9 of them which is not biodegradable these nets attached to large strollers are relatively recent departure from the more sustainable practices of traditional fishing dragged along the ocean to catch everything in their path. if that's even it dragging over that leave it was stuck and also if you need to damage it go to break the cord it is damaging the water sometimes it is stuck really very hard to try to pull in it it won't come out so what they do they cut

the need and growing so that they'd grow and sit alone the bottom of the beef that never grows legs trying to meet there's some growth coming was like 2 and we did some work like a kilometer back depends on the whole the whole file they kept in it. a lot of things because of the net. it's destroying the entier. many life the better it did on. these dive out of in the s.b. he's trying to clear the waters off to charity of these ghost nets which are discarded abandoned almost by fisherman. out of him that is quite the local hero inputted charity in 2010 he stumbled upon an undersea wall with an exquisite marine ecosystem of its own during an x. 33 dive 40 kilometers away from the shore.

out of ins whorl as it came to be called was in dire need of help. when be thawed that was the 1st i saw it with the big net lang down and atop of the tree and like millions of fish inside it but i didn't know what we had to escape the appetite of a inside some of my pew pew $55.00 dead few of course were lying on that i was all about to die so when that's when i found the one that if the mean i thought to be really big that. you could be ate beef to clean that big horse and it. out of him that his team of diverse today removed large quantities of course notes from the ocean bed every time they go diving. ghost nets account for a 10 percent reduction in fishing catch. even then the local fisherman have needed a lot of convincing to change how they do their business in mining it better than

that it will go to. the bottom but it would. be one of them would have been out on the water out about a year and worried about any man that would when we started diving in that area. to fill it it had no doubt. both of you guys we got our dive and there was a reason any other. one wanted appears to interact with the fisherman how the divers are helping to grow to fish. and we can say that we did to get them pretty educated them then they will understand or we can you dismiss it because it damages we've these days damaged because i didn't want any fish. and can't get any money for the fish so that the

day we do project no. one such fisherman who was enamored by out of an xbox he's. coming from a family that has nontraditional fishing as the only way of life these are as he's called he's reluctantly but resolutely moving away from practices. there are very few fish left in the sea because of the mechanized boats cleaning it out. we don't even have money to buy nets forget competing. these are trained as a scuba diver and now worked as a captain with out of in stempel adventures which conducts dives for scuba

enthusiasts. since i started scuba i don't feel like fishing because i get to see them underwater and feel i shouldn't be killing them i also go into the water and see them look so beautiful now there are almost no fish left. and i just work as a captain. it's good i can educate my children from the decent salary that i wouldn't get from fishing. and we are able to sustain ourselves now. they sound fisherman like a mutt also helping out of in the improve the marine ecosystem along the coast. this means carrying large rocks to the sea to fortify the artificial reefs they've been together. before the. reef may need the 20.

1 to 24 reef. be creative. unbelievable free flow before this ne levin that all the personnel doing for their rocky places to rock music let 15000 going to be languishing or need to travel like maracana money to tell a little for that every night in port 80 to know everybody you can rely on pushing . hard evidence temple adventures which is funded mainly on the diapers and training it conducts is a prime example of going beyond one's call of duty.

and the main concern is it individual responsibility it's not ok we're not made for when augmentation live and. in a big way we need to wait for that you can augment by you want. to keep them the same village if you're a family you're playing for you're going to play in a league same time spent like 20 minutes between some you're right if you take it off your own media if even if you do that that you feel you do it because of that you know why they were in pollution and that's my daughter. it's changed me like a lot of me and we're making sure we still have a winning chance at a sustainable future shifting focus now to me bring the pot torrential rains in the country have become more and more common often attribute it to climate change the next link in what is seemingly a domino effect is an avoidable landslides wreaking havoc in the lives of people

but one need to variety of cross is proving to be the new hope for this problem let's take a look. once again the rain is to wrench bringing back memories of how a year ago an avalanche of mud and rocks thundered down this very slow. there's not much left of farmer come out particular lease grandmother's house come out and his son cabby are here to pay their respects to her she was killed in her sleep by the mudslide. c.-love move on what's he going with me and. he said me or what have been my dad we cannot all live in this is yet we go from me oh we leave this area where you can go. but they did stay like the other residents of the village

of simponi. lost his fields fortunately he also has a position as a teacher so you can support his mother and the rest of the family. at the foot of the mountain lies the village of done to co-found. here the damage from the mudslide was especially severe 9 people lost their lives. a country in the shadow of the himalayas nepal is prone to earthquakes and landslides in 2015 it was hit by a particularly disastrous earthquake the risk of landslides rises even more during the monsoon season. workers for the international union for the conservation of nature like agronomist cari are trying to mitigate the threat with research.

course it's a tall fast growing indigenous plant also known as broome grass its roots help keep soil in place. for us while directly. and it also not want you to hold this while it does work on called the user and you don't succeed to speed in this it'll be idea. the secret lies in the client's web like network of routes. that of it is small goods leggo a small thing we scan funny to easily into this while that means and if it has it like that of the netbook lego made group like this and it kept years like that all are just benefit to this while and it just all of those life into the net. about 2 hours outside nepal's 2nd largest city takara why is the village of saturn caught in the past landslides were common here.

they swept down this steep slope destroying fields and threatening low lying areas and the village broome grass was planted to try to improve the situation and it's already helped. additionally the drainage canal was built it takes up some of the floodwater reduces the force of the torrents and diverts the water into the fields the village has become a safer place to live. and it has an additional source of income and resale can be used to make brooms farmer john newcombe about all sells them and has been able to increase our income by 20 percent. then you have not led them there i mean there are a number of the thought of that and then if i want to and extra money as a farmer i have to work very hard for it. but with armory so it's faster and more

pleasant it's quite a good feeling when about a warming. baro also burns the armory so to heat her home and cook and its leaves provide good fodder for her livestock food. here. but can broom grass also prevent major landslides and due to co-found where 9 people died they've built walls at the foot of the slope. they are meant to break the force of mud and rock slides before they reach the village. body cari and the villagers are known looking for a solution for upslope barriers the damage is still visible here to really make a difference trees have to be planted and the banks of the river secured. the plunder of the landslide that is not any magic farmer yet that means that we are

not a 100 percent pure. landslide if we planned on this or it wouldn't look or do while i'm back in the early strongly that means it can be just the little bit high powered off. higher up the villagers are now planting them research the plant even grows in the eroded soil of the landslide area helping incorrect. way inside is down and so like we cannot. we cannot stay in bed so i miss all our brigade so young and then all the members of the family. once again torrents are rushing down the mountain and the research won't offer any real protection for another year or 2 until then the villagers just have to hope that the disaster of

2015 won't be repeated. in mississippi is indeed the mother of invention let's not look at a story where a women's organization in mumbai took it upon itself to shackle the top of menstruation and seen no to an age old unhygienic practice how do they achieve this let's find out. this local sanitary pad manufacturing unit set up in a slum redeveloped colony in shivaji i got in mumbai has been diligently working toward starting a movement. established under the foundation it employs local women trains them in manufacturing low cost high quality sanitary products and sells them door to door across slum communities in mumbai.

but the motivation behind this initiative is not in making profits it is in educating people on menstrual health hygiene and sanitation and most significantly in changing mindsets. ass talking point was to ensure that every woman wears a pad but pads and periods for generations these have been taboo subjects that no one wants to openly discuss when we started on our mission we had no idea how difficult it would be on the field. people would be reluctant to listen to us even after a year we had no success but we kept going door to door. almost 90 percent women living in slum areas traditionally use cloth instead of sanitary pads unaware of the risks involved in following unhygenic menstrual practices. you know we explain to them that they should use pads instead of cloth if they want

to avoid infections. the biggest challenge for an initiative like the my now my love foundation however has been in encouraging people to talk openly about menstruation but the sales and distribution team also responsible for spreading awareness amongst potential customers admit that they have come a long way. when i started out i myself used to feel embarrassed the response from people wasn't encouraging i that they would ask me how i could talk about these things husbands and fathers in-laws would show up mistaking us for saleswomen and telling us to move on. but there's been a lot of change over time and we've managed to convert many women from using cloth to sanitary napkins. out of the 10 people we talked to at least 5 get convinced.

what started with a group of just 5 women today employs more than 20. i mean. we've employed women from the community itself there were no criteria for being educated or for being of a certain age these were women who felt stifled because they were not allowed to leave their homes when they finally got the opportunity to leave their homes there was a sense of relief and happiness that's what we all to realise that most of these women what an educated and that's where most problems arose from and we then started teaching programs. i mean clearly if they do my let's say. when i joined i was sure i wouldn't be able to work here i felt embarrassed that's one sohan explained to me that here i would only be working but also learning

a lot of things and that's just what happened. in my. mind not team here it is not just into production we also provide education self-defense classes and skill development sessions one day in a week has been kept aside for our. but he won. as one of the few grassroots organizations working single handedly towards empowering women in slum areas the my now my love foundation has been receiving donations and attracting volunteers from across the world but this team of jane makers feels their journey has only just begun. now let's do it movement started in is the one year in 2008 when $50000.00 people came together and cleaned up the entire country in 5 hours since then the initiative has

grown into a global operation and engaged 20000000 environmentally savvy wallendas around the world where does this movement go from here and what are the big learnings in the last 10 years while interior who's been with the initiative since the beginning breaks this down. crush the trash guys rise to class to class to class to class to class before we were your car you know what. the let's do it movement brings together people from around the world to clean up their countries on so-called clean up day. this civic led mass movement began in estonia in 2008 when 50000 people gathered to collect waste across the country. in just 5 hours they picked up $10000.00 tonnes of illegal trash. from the estonian capital ptolemy has been part of the core team from the outset.

i'm really happy that through this movement we have given people back the understanding that they have power to change things it doesn't have to be organizing a worldwide cleanup for a country like tina it can just be the power of making a little bit different decisions every day because your friends will know it differently will know it it's the most important change you can inflict on the world changing yourself. since then the donations funded movement are spread around the world. the global network has engaged a total of more than $35000000.00 volunteers since its launch in around $160.00 countries not an easy thing to manage. mostly when the clean ups are organized you need a lot of people working together they are very very often spread all around the

country but they need to work together is in a very synchronized way so we must. use their knowledge sheet to to assess the problem to plan the action and to communicate with each other it's crucial otherwise you couldn't done it you couldn't do it in such a large scale. the launch of the waste mopping up mark to model stone in the project's progress it allows volunteers to locate trash are pictures and other data like the type or size of the waste that makes coordinating volunteers an easier task. the team has also developed the world waste platform which provides an overview of the worst situation of the whole planet a global mark for a global movement. it's always kind of highlights when you see people working in a very critical situations there were people conducting cleanups in warsaw always in conflict zones there were people conducting cleanups in 2018 during

hurricanes and cyclons if you see this kind of human bravery and will to make it happen the spite of the circumstances that's really humbling and aspiring. and waste gets everywhere as these project participants in taiwan demonstrated. some other teams are facing other challenges for example in india. with $240000000.00 tonnes per year it produces more waste than any other country on the planet. jim sherman is the regional coordinator for india the us and oceania he's well aware that india only recycles 10 percent of the waste that it produces. there's just not the managed infrastructure that you would want there to be. very fragmented in a country that size and obviously with a large rural population is difficult to put

a recycling scheme in so that you want to because challenge is what to do with all the waste even when you collect it. for the let's do it movement cleaning up is just the 1st step on a long road keeping the world clean is the next part of the journey we call it keep it clean plan which is set off i thought. it is our steps we can take in different sectors in each country so figuring out together with all those people involved through the movement through the work enough day how we can inflect changes in our polices how we can educate ourselves our kids grown ups how to make better choices every day. on her fellow activists know that small steps can lead to big change. i hope you were many take a resume today is short we'll be back next week with many more inspiring stories

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