dear judy. the history of the slave trade is africa's history. describes how the greed for power and profit plummeted and entire content into chaos and violence. this is the journey back into the history of slavery. our documentary series slavery routes starts march 9th on g.w. . its 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 genda audrey's they want one additions to take action to stop climate change conscious the baby 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 so far life that's what we'll talk about today hello and welcome this is equal india and i'm sung. rudolf i'm oblivious to how much biodiversity did 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 stepped into they might be a young scientist in goa is building a biodiversity there just a foothold so she and her community get identify and preserve the wilt they post this. if. it's only morning on the quiet river island off a stop contrast to the. go up which is known around the world for its party

atmosphere. 25 year old biologist hyacinth prepares to head out for a 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 or knowledge which has been passed down very few have very few have made attempts to record this in before so that you know there are records that i'm and this knowledge nobody knows about our city register is in the 1st place to maintain records of what they have or is like is likely to be lost in the near future so all the information that is that might just cut off and get lost. down is being written down in words and you know mundane in the future just. learned as home to 5000 people it's estrogen ecosystem there fresh water meets salty water evolved on land reclaimed over centuries from mangrove swamps. also need of to the ecosystem out of vij variety of medicine in hopes formally undocumented but passed down through generations of human inhabitants leg. eventually video of her who is

meeting today. after photographing each home notes down its local name due to mines its scientific designation and gathers information about its cropping season and its local uses clinics. in london. thank you. i don't want to say that it's my honor to store something that i have done or the credit for it but i am just a medium just how the exporting is and a bit of knowledge to put this in place so i am just a medium through whom the people of the lot are putting that i just don't intend. to do next stop is the farm of none who used to go the indigenous school good variety of rice known for travelling in some line water recently hybrid species

have largely replaced schoolgirl due to the larger yield the promise for farmers. here 3 years here including. these ready. to die for the war but for the last 14 years before 304040 years able but the soil. through the be able to store it in the man help from the biodiversity board in the vibing agriculture that has lost. but then the demands of the people towards the state government so the buyer was to convey 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. first present her findings to

a representative form 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 they 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 or to register the people say because of. great concern to due process that has happened that yes this is a species we want to grow in marine ecosystem you know greegor system in a forest ecosystem early in all the ecosystems existing in the village and that i think has a major strain because who are going to ultimately protect it is religious. across the country biodiversity registers have struggled with bureaucracy and poor participation at various levels since being awfully quiet 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 dedicated herself for people. of color do not really she's the chairperson of biodiversity management committee and i i think she's one of the youngest girl who has accepted these but. i don't see a profession. she has towards sort of really. to ensure participation across the board or 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 this statement thing that see what is around you observe what is around you inquisitive of what's around

you in that and begin. 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 onus of the campaign from one generation to the next since 2011. planned for the planet foundation is now advocating to plant one trillion tree is worldwide we met with the person who's leading this charge. you know we're here today because our future is at stake it will be left to deal with all the problems

that adults on resolving today. felix think byner 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 500. i think 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 appeared 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 2 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 some 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 the 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 gatherings also boast of 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 steering towards catastrophic climate change now don't you think we have one major problem facing our be here i don't know 'd the future young people are calling on politicians to secure a scene here and. as the group's motto goes stop talking start planting. a seed level's rice the rich ecosystem of the wall don't see in the north sea is

that a risk of disappearing several young while 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. also here give all their love for that's what i'm doing here is something the sea goes also doing what it's called trading for muscles i'm not trying on it's not an act of aggression so way that the girls get through this and they use these movements to loosen the ground of the muscle so that branch only and you can see how many hair already knots of cockles come to the surface and you can see them here. they're fascinated by the wotton see today's a vintage 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 hans from the w

w c office says the eco system is under threat that's and 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 busy adapting to the damage already caused by rising sea levels. you know 100 years from now and that's not much of this one see national park will no longer be here and in 200 years 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 grass you can really see the sea grasses. do stunts lino says especially interested in the geology of the mud flats as gives him but now that i've got underwater and see there are 3 kinds of mud. 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. for the 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 line of 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 sea strategy we eliminated the following 2 scenarios in one we worked on the basis of a 20 centimeter 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 why now however 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 c. 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 because i know bush adding of the wind and sea conservation station explains the marshes are also home to birds and plenty of insects and this is a stand 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 plants change and it's grubs developed here in this stem laugh and there's also a c. planting stem boring we have all parasitic wasp this. 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 more men when that happens it will be the end of this community of species of plants and insects and nesting birds. 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. that. obviously. more than c. in terms of its size and biodiversity is pretty unique water is more it became a world heritage site but there are a landscape 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 who do go to. it's hard to predict the exact future of the mudflats today it's proving difficult to find one prominent elusive inhabitant the loved one. with them but we didn't have any luck finding a log but he's a has found something else a razor clam. 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 they lie flat and then this

foot comes out from the ground and then the muscle flips upright and burrows its way into the moat. the warden see as 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 reef where they destroy the entire marine life and divert in india was shocked when he 1st saw the impact of these abandoned it and decided to do something about it he's now on a mission to clear the waters of these coarseness. winz life changed when he discovered a dive site 40 kilometers off the coast of put the charity believe it was 20 ft and

then his team had stumbled upon an undersea wall with exquisite marine life. but i've been his wall as it came to be known had a huge. problem. when be saw that was the 1st i saw with the big net lying down on the top of the tree and like millions in fact but there's no way to escape. from a. few pieces or dead few of course were lying on that i was all about to die so when that on the wall. scene i saw that their big really big. base to clean the course and that. since then i've been on his team of divers have spent countless days to moving large quantities of plastic nets discarded by fishing vessels in traditional fisherman. nets and up in the ocean when they're damaged are no longer useful. as they drift along with ocean currents all settle on

the sea floor they 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 accounts a 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 in that area all the fishermen really did have no doubt. because of you guys because our diving was presiding over. takes maybe later like 11 appears to interact with the fisherman how the divers are helping to grow the fish like. we can build them to. use this net. to underline pressing we can say that we needed to get them food pretty educated them then they will understand or we can you

dismayed because we used this method of damages we've these days we've had damage because i didn't want guinea fish in future all to be a war be rebuilt. getting the money. so that the trade we do protect them. one fisherman in particular works closely with god and. this comes from a long line of traditional fisherman and fishing has always been the way his family survives. but watching the sea change before his eyes this has given up fishing and now works as a board captain with organization temple adventures. he has also learned to scuba dive seeing fish in the natural habitat give these are the final push to change his lifestyle. 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. we're able to sustain ourselves now as. 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 coast. one of their projects is to build artificial reefs to support life underwater. if you want to be dropped before now we have many more reef big things you need the 20 pounds. so there 1234 reefs are to be created.

unbelievable freeflow before this north. all the personnel doing for their rocky places to rock music like 15000 going to do a line or need to travel like maracana money to have a little for that every night important city to know everybody you can rely on fishing. seeing how the area has thrived with these organizations intervention. encourages everyone to do something about destructive practices that exist in their own backyards. and the main concern is need individual responsibility it's not ok to want to wait for when i'm going to fish and run the can there be why you need to wait for that

you can augment by your own. pick up like 5 people in the same village if you're standing you're playing for you're going for me and i leave same time spent 20 minutes between some you're right if you take it over your own area if you were to do that that you fear the worst because they're worried the origin of pollution that's my dog. a conscious younger generation speaking out loudly and taking positive action is a wonderful sign of our 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 farmers who offer. the effects of climate change and cities are crumbling under the pressure. but not everyone wants to give up their livelihood we need far most good bedding for climate change my

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