it's young people to be what taking charge of the future of our planet their voice is a bleak and for the people across the world introspective gender audrey's they want politicians to take action to stop climate change they're conscious of the bay of the generation on the cesure and the choice to make sustainable living mainstream isn't largely upon them how are young people changing the course of our life you're a nut that's what we'll talk about today alone welcome this is equal india and. read often oblivious to how much biodiversity we're surrounded with each of these species plays an important role in maintaining the fine balance in our environment but because we don't know about them we often fail to notice how checked into they might be a young scientist in goa is building a biodiversity just

a foothold so she and her community can identify and preserve the wilt they process . it's only morning on the quiet river island off a stop contrast to the rest of go up which is known around the world for its party atmosphere. 25 year old biologist hyacinth prepares to head out for the day of. her job entails exploring every inch of the island she was born on a job that includes striking up conversations with local residents about their lives here. while india is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world 110th of its vile. flora and fauna is and danger. is

gathering local knowledge in the hope of preventing further loss. you know how many households. she's 1st meeting the form of village leader to learn about indigenous communities. this knowledge has been transferred to generations in the form of folklore it's just order tradition knowledge which has been passed down very few have very few have made attempts to record this in people so that you know. this knowledge about our city register is in the 1st place to maintain records of is like is likely to be lost in the near future so all the information that is that might just get lost. down is being written down in words and you know. the bad island is home to 5000 people it's estuarine ecosystem where fresh water meets

salty water evolved on land reclaimed over centuries from mangrove swamps. also need of to the ecosystem not a vibrant idea of medicine in hopes formally undocumented but passed down through generations of human inhabitants like eventually without her who is meeting today. after photographing each home notes down its local name didn't mind its scientific designation and gathers information about its cropping season and its local uses linux. in one way. yes. i don't want to say that it's my enter the store or something that i have done or the credit for it but i'm just a medium ok i just have the exporting of it as knowledged. but this isn't so i am

just a medium through whom the people of the lot are putting that i just in place. to do next stop is the farm of. who used to grow the indigenous core good variety of rice known for trying insulin water recently hybrid species have largely. due to the larger yield the promise for farmers. here 3 years here including me is ready. to die for the war but for the last 14 years before 31st 40 years a fertile soil. through the. help from the biodiversity board. that has lost. but then the demands of the people the what's the state government so the biodiversity can be is

a message from the local level to the state level so if the locals demand are passed on through the register to the state level there would be some help that will come undone if we explain to them that this is the need of the hour. under our 1st present her findings to a representative forum of all the adults in the community to fill in any gaps in knowledge this also ensures that the requests and recommendations come from the entire community and we can hold the state government responsible for any action or more importantly in action. considered result is sitting you know and talking that ok on this ecosystem this is the most important crucial species and on the other event in people's words you can register the people say because of. great concern to due process that has happened that yes this is a species we want to go in marine ecosystem you know you go system in

a forest ecosystem owning all the ecosystems existing in a village and that i think has a major strain because who are going to ultimately protect these villagers. across the country biodiversity registers have struggled with bureaucracy and poor participation at various levels since being awfully required in 2002 less than 7 percent have been completed people like again are hoping to see that number. it's a unique combination because she has a scientific qualification and the same time she has been getting herself for people register of google not really she is the chairperson of biodiversity management governing and i i think she's one of the youngest girl who has accepted . i don't see a profession but when she has toward sort of really. to ensure participation across the board spends her evenings meeting with pupils at

her old school and talking to them about local plants and animals. i keep telling this to the younger folks in the island that i keep repeating the statement saying that the what is around you observe what is around you inquisitive of what's around you in that with science begins. backed with traditional knowledge modern science and most importantly people's participation india's biodiversity has a better chance of being preserved. climate change isn't a new phenomenon and neither is finding solutions to tackle it in 2016 united nations involving program started the 1000000000 tree campaign with people from around the world planting trees to offset climate change at its core the idea is to pass on the witness of the campaign from one generation to the next since 2011 the

huge plant for the planet foundation is now advocating to plant one trillion tree is worldwide. we met with the person who was shot. here today because our future is at stake. to deal with all the problems that adults on resolving today. felix think binary age 133 years earlier he founded what would become a worldwide youth movement and spoke at international conferences to promote his plan for the planet idea climate crisis is planting trees and we will also reach to 500000000000 cheese. it all began with a presentation he gave at school suggesting that children around the planet should plant $1000000.00 trees when the idea took off finkbeiner took his campaign to the streets and even to the heights of mad kilimanjaro. in january 2020 he peered at the world economic forum convincing governments and corporations to make

a greater commitment to reforestation. i would have never expected any of this back when we started plan for the planet we were just a couple of 4th graders planting a tree at our school with out of a real plan of what happens next we were just incredibly lucky that to local journalists reported about our 1st tree and that's how some other schools found out about it and started planting some trees as well and that's how plan for the planet kicked off initially as a competition among the local schools of who plants the most trees the idea picked up pace and took on a global scale. almost 14000000000 trees have now been planted 588000 children on every continent except antarctica so are the younger generation the better climate guardians. at that age we have the power to see the world more clearly how of a lot of reasons why it won't work that we don't know about yet and because of that

it can work and this is really what plan for the planet has been about for the past 13 years not just because of me but because of tens of thousands of young people working together to plant as many trees as possible and the same time calling on governments as well. not surprisingly plant for the planet is particularly active in the country where it was born last year children and teenagers planted trees in 60 locations across germany from sycamores to copper beeches to get help and advice from local forestry experts. the gathering is also both through the arguments youngsters can use when discussing climate protection with grown ups. i think you know you grow older you become a lot more pessimistic about what's possible and i would have never you know a 22 year old me would have never started a tree planting company in because i would have just not believe that it is possible that we can make a difference that way. but 9 year old me didn't have these concerns and that's why

that's why it exists. planned for the planners now foundation receive some of its funding from the proceeds of their own fair trade brand of chocolate customers include nationwide retail chains. as for future aims the sky's the limit. in the next 1020 years we need to plant these trillion trees in the process restore our ecosystems all around the world it protects biodiversity it removes those huge amounts of it removes huge amounts of carbon from that most fear and at the same time we need to start seriously reducing our global carbon emissions there's only a tiny fraction of the governments around the world that are actually currently implementing their paris agreements if we don't change that immediately we will completely fail in keeping the 2 degree limit and a steering towards catastrophic climate change now don't you think we have one

major problem facing our became i don't know 'd the future young people are calling on politicians to secure a scene here in zambia as the group's motto goes stop talking start planting. a cd levels rice the rich ecosystem of the warden see in the north sea is that a risk of disappearing several young well into as an environmental scientists are working together to protect the habitat which is home to thousands of birds animals and plans it's this combination of the knowledge of the scientists and the enthusiasm of the wall and that's keeping the hope alive to save the endangered ecosystem. well they say that all the love for the what i'm doing here is something the sea goes also day what it's called treading for mussels i'm not treading on them it's not an act of aggression but the way that. they use these movements to loosen the ground of the mother so that gradually and you can see how many care already. lots of cockles come to the surface you can see them here. they're

fascinated by the wotton see to these a bit each and since yes or no volunteering for half a year as conservationists part of their work is to take visitors on low tide tours through this unique eco system which is also a national park but hands from the w w one c office says the eco system is under threat that's an i pod but mirrors the national park is profoundly impacted by climate change and it's nice if we don't succeed in stopping climate change we're also busier ducking out of the damage already caused by rising sea levels. then a 100 years from now and that's not much of this is what i'm seeing national park will no longer be here and in 200 years it might be gone altogether as the tide ebbs and flows it's continually changing the habitat of the plants and animals that live here. in the sea here is the early stage of

a field of sea cross you can really see the seagrass. distance leno says especially interested in the geology of the mud flats as gives him back mad that i don't want to see there are 3 kinds of mud. well then you have a lot of sediments the mixed sediments and the finest sediments convenor if you look at the ground you can see the difference in color in the hell is this borne 1st stone in the course of some sediment the oxidation layer is about 3 centimeters in the mix sediments it's around 2 and in the final sediment about one centimeter millimeter to protect the area from the impacts of climate change politicians and conservationists have developed what's known as the one c. strategy 2100. in this modern c. strategy we eliminated the following 2 scenarios in one we worked on the basis of a 20 centimeters sea level rise 520-5050 centimeters by 2100. in

the other which we call the increased scenario we factored in a rise of 80 centimeters by 2100 so i now over we have to reckon with the fact that it could be even higher because the consequence of these scenarios is always that we have to help the one seed to grow up with a pace with rising sea levels. the idea is to apply a process known as beach replenishment that would see sand added to certain areas of the water and see. pilot projects will determine whether it will work. also impacted by climate change is the buffer zone between the sea and protective dikes these salt marshes are important for coastal protection because they serve to break the force of the waves before they crash against the levees the only plants that grow here have to withstand high concentrations of salt but as i know bush adding of the wild and sea conservation station explains the marshes are also home to birds and plenty of insects and this is a stem swelling from

a sea planting stem warning weevil are it does nothing else in the world besides laid eggs in the flower stalks of sea plant saints and its groups develop here in this stem. there's also a c. planting stem boring we have all parasitic wasp's. salt marshes grow when sediment is deposited on them during high tide but for how much longer than. a moment salt marshes are keeping up but if sea levels rise more quickly there will be a tipping point where they disappear because they can't grow at the same rate. and when men when that happens it will be the end of this community of species of plants and insects and nesting birds. on the. because they'll drown. in the water starts to rise that quickly coastal protection authorities will have serious problems to contend with as a source now i think. from

common seals grey seals common porpoises and fish. to crabs mussels ones and snails. and migratory and mudflap birds estimates just there are some 10000 species in the wotton sea. obviously the water and see in terms of its size and biodiversity is pretty unique water is why it became a world heritage site but there are landscapes such as islands mudflats and salt marshes in many other places around the world the experience we collect here in terms of sea level rise can also be transferred to other regions. it's hard to predict the exact future of the mudflats today it's proving difficult to find one prominent if elusive inhabitant the loved one. them but they didn't have any luck

finding a loved one but he has found something else a razor clowne. i was lucky enough to see one on a different tour of the mud flats extremely rare to see want to tall because they can stand up within seconds it's pretty fascinating and then they lie flat and then this foot comes out 6 out from the ground and then the muscle flips upright and burrows its way into the moat. the warden sea is a fascinating place an eco system that might one day disappear beneath the waves forever. abandoned fishing nets was a severe threat to marine ecosystems these units attached to large strollers are dragged along to catch everything in there but if they get stuck just simply cut and 2nd of the bottom of the where they've destroyed the entire marine life and dive out in the media was shocked when he 1st saw the impact of these abandoned it

and decided to do something about it he's now want to mission to clear the waters of these ghost myths. s b r winds life changed when he discovered a dive site 40 kilometers off the coast of put a charity. it was 28 and his team had stumbled upon an undersea wall with exquisite marine life. but admin's wall as it came to be known had a huge problem. when be thawed that was the 1st i thought of the big net lying down on a copper pretty and like millions in fact but i didn't know we'd do it. by people who preferred for dead people who of course were lying on that i'll go about today. the rope on the wall that is the theme i forget a big really big thing that. you could big ate beef to clean the grossman.

since then i've been on his team of divers have spent countless days removing large quantities of plastic. nets discarded by fishing vessels and traditional fisherman . nets end up in the ocean when their damaged are no longer useful. as they drift along with the ocean currents settle on the sea floor drop and kill everything that comes in that way. nets have a devastating impact on medina animals today. fishermen in the area hit hard as discarded nets account for 10 percent reduction in catch but the local community has needed a lot of convincing to change their age or practices when we start diving and all of this really does have no doubt. both of you guys because our diving was presiding over. rated 11 of our peers to interact with the fishermen how the diet

was helping to grow the fish like. we can build them to. presume we can say that we needed to get them food pretty good them then they will understand or we can you dismiss because damages we've built a dam is because the big one give me fish in future all the busy wargrave you can't get any money through the fish so that's the trade we have to protect them. one fisherman in particular who works closely with god and. this comes from a long line of traditional fisherman and fishing has always been the way his family ate and survived. with watching the sea change before his eyes this one has given up fishing and now works as a boat captain with admins organization temple adventures. he has also learned to

scuba dive seeing fish in the natural habitat give these are the fine. push to change his lifestyle but. 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 i started 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. able to sustain ourselves now than. i did when they saw and other fishermen are not just clearing nets but aiming to improve the overall marine ecosystem along the south indian coursed. one of their projects is to build artificial reefs to support life underwater.

because if you want to kid rock before now we have many more reef big things you need that 20 pounds. so now we get 1234 reefs. octave should reach the creative. unbelievable free flow before the ne live in that video all the fishermen doing for their rocky places to rock music like 15000 going to do a line fishing or need to travel like maracana money to have a little for that every night important city to know everybody you can rely on pushing. seen how the area has thrived with these organizations intervention i do not encourages everyone to do something about

destructive practices that exist in their own backyards. but the main concern is individual responsibility it's not ok we're not made for one i'm going to fish and live and clean a bit why you need to wait for that you can augment be one. of the people in the same village if you are standing you know playing for you or going for a beer they leave same time for like 20 minutes between some you're right if you take it off your own media if you were to do that that you fear the worst because that know why there was and pollution that's my dog. a conscious younger generation speaking out loudly and taking positive action is a wonderful sign of resilience as a species but it does come down to each one of us to preserve protect and do whatever little we can for our planet i'll leave you with that thought and see you

next week until then good bye. in the next edition we look at the thousands of people who migrate towards open centers many are follows who are feeling the effects of climate change and cities are crumbling under the pressure. but not everyone wants to give up their livelihood we need follow through betting for climate change by trying out smarter agricultural practices.

including. people called play with physical disability and. we'll talk some more leading productive lives despite their disabilities. and they do them with great strength. to mention patient lots of humor.

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