do you think she painted me. am. i missing a school days who look at me. my and say. i am an unsolvable bridge player the secret of. starts john 3rd d. w. . play. place some of these village elders have great issues on their minds. that. they're holding a crisis meeting to discuss whether their village has

a future or not. but we've got a large part of our village has already been swallowed by sound you've got to go soon the rest will disappear but if you go up there you can pick up and you can see how the palm trees are dying because of drought and the sand keeps on coming in the mean and playing . the desert is relentlessly encroaching on the other races which like so many others in morocco is at risk of disappearing claim . because. we have come to her meat and is none a smaller race a settlement in southeastern iraq. the sahara desert starts right

behind the village. in the morning we meet her limbs by as in spelling up his pick up. this guy i grew up here in honey and wants to show us what is happening here. we are a company halim and an acquaintance to the editor of the settlement with the palm groves and farmer's fields are located. palin says that there's practically nothing left of the green oasis of his childhood. i mean the desert is quickly moving in from all sides on the away. from the east the west and south. when he sees an eye from monitors the are you to gauge the pain sometime a change. when we

arrive in the palm groves the weather suddenly deteriorates a sun storm blows up. that has become the new normal here less and less rain and more and more sandstorms and soil erosion. this is what the oasis of honey looks like now. it is sinking in desert sand. the impact of climate change has long been clear here.

when the weather has settled humaine and his acquaintance after doing any get straight to were. i think. they want to fell one of the dead puncturing its word is well suited to making furniture but the other one could. but make mess with a book about somebody who might have been looking at the tree stop producing dates long ago. if you were here you would see. the plants have fallen victim to the encroaching sand dunes so. we are paying our last respects to this palm tree it's like burying someone look around we're in a graveyard. putting this palm tree to a good use the least we can do for a 2nd thought it was it. up there carter wants to make

a table from the word for farmers in the region it's becoming increasingly difficult to make a living from agriculture and they're being forced to diversify or change jobs completely. life has also changed fundamentally. his father used to plant pantries here and could live well from the abundant data harvest. now a few decades later his son sees themselves as an activist who wants to draw attention to the dramatic changes in this region. why does this great god exist the answer is quite simple it's the lack of water. the political water shortages are being caused by climate change. this is exaggerating the process of disaster declaration that is if 30 years ago there were date. trees. there are

a lot of important activities going on here but it's up. there . with a few 100 metres further on there is an abandoned pump the remains of a failed project years ago water was pumped up into a tank from deep in the ground the idea was to use the water to irrigate the airways just. the way the. connection with. the government funded the project for bob woodward but the extreme heat and increasing numbers of sand storms made the turn to dry out leaving behind only salty posits. what has happened here is not an exception suit thirds of all over a season morocco have disappeared over the last 100 years.

a few kilometers away plus the old village has. the force of 5 coups here with it for dhobi walls dates back many centuries. in the maze of alleyways her limb meets bella east leg know with one of its fear remaining residents. it's just he says that only about 10 families still live here. on the moon. never have i have been. in the past it used to be home to more than 1000 people but most have now moved away. send has crept into all of the houses. this is one of the few who is prepared to

try and stand in the way of the desert. well. i can only keep on saying it our problems stem from a lack of water from the nearby river dried out quite a long time ago. and as a result many people have left the village even the well of the moscow has run out of water. the younger people in particular are attracted to the big cities such as mark pesce casablanca and robert only a small number remain but the key to feel you spoke poorly savile if you don't nothing can stop the sun. it is getting into caspar drug religious. drought is the reason why people can't live here anymore can't lead contented in everyday life. the problem is forcing them to leave the it is evil in.

the desert is on the march thanks to the rising temperatures decreasing rainfall and powerful storms it will ultimately take this cast. this long. for. the correct 1st rough weather this. we leave her maids and drive some 50 kilometers through arid lands to the east where helen wants to show us a proper way says. thank you the 1st thing we hear is a sound that we haven't heard for a long time. water flows out into a channel pumped up from great depths by so the palate pellant.

it's used to the oasis. and this is what a healthy away system looks like a veritable forest of palm trees. the precious water is quickly distributed by the phone this immigration channel and it's clear thanks. click question. when the because she did i mean she would tell him says i waste this is like a paradise you know it provides shade and coolness for the fertile fields close to 2000000 moroccans still live in such oases between the atlas mountains and the sahara desert. yes. this is a true ecosystem it functions on 3 different levels likely the. date palms provide

shade for the fruit trees and maintain provide shade for the vegetables but. it is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors got to be clear again consistent enough water also struck the part of the. death used to be an ideal for the region says sugary sweet fruit is not very hard to grow but it does need 2 things heat and water. thanks. for this green he says a well had to be drilled $100.00 metres down into the ground causing its own problems groundwater levels are increasingly dropping and the water that's drawn to the surface is salty as can be seen from the white deposits on the drainage ditches 1st in the long term that's poisoned. just. back in her meat. perhaps 7000 people still live here the one time

a wesley settlement keeps on shrinking. at the edge of the village there's a dried up riverbed the river drug used to run here one of the longest rivers in iraq. but since the dam was built in the high atlas mountains hardly any water flows south. the markings on the bridge are a reminder of better times now that there is little rainfall to this region is becoming less and less hospitable to humans. it's mainly the old people who have stayed behind like the farmer hardy. the 61 year old has 11 children from his 3 wives. most of

his children have left the region. through this new. almost 40 percent of all moroccans according to research are considering leaving the country climate change is a driver for migration. you know. there isn't any work here anymore at least nothing that provides a living. all of the young people go to the cities to look for work our children have also gone and. they visit us maybe once a year because here you really can't earn anything. it is a simple hard life. money transfers from their grown up children help to keep them afloat. things with their stay in the past when they were able to sell their dates as far afield as marrakesh you can.

be when our away says we still green we had everything we needed and we lived very well we could grow all kinds of vegetables and we kept sheep but that's impossible now. thanks. religion sites have the sand dunes but hardly tensely small vegetable garden it's all he has left for. his a subsistence found their living from hand to mouth when he grows here is purely for his family's consumption. but the family doesn't know how long his garden will still bear fruit it all hinges on one thing water. has his own well but drawing water is becoming more and more difficult and he's having to dig deeper and deeper.

there's less and less water by the day a little while ago we had to go 9 metres down to reach it now it's 16 metres and even there there's not enough water. oh sure there are a lot of them but look at how the sand is threatening. to encroach everywhere that's why i'm planting bushes like this to stop the sand from finding its way into our garden home. with a lot of. love but hardy is fighting a losing battle. sand dunes now stand right outside his house and a handful of palm trees are all that's left to remind him of the oasis growth.

in bygone times desert caravans used to stop of here on their way to timbuktu more recently it has attracted droves of tourists from all around the world. by runs a small cafe in the center of the village which has become a meeting place for visitors and locals to a certain extent it has become a little oasis in its own right with espresso and internet access. also acts as a tourist guide offering group tours in the sahara the region is a favorite destination among more adventurous travelers with the race is drying up some people have turned to desert tourism as an alternative source of income.

next to the map are a few photos limbs father a highly regarded tribal chief and the young king mohammed the 6th the old photos evoke a time when water was not a problem in the oases. limas came to discuss the problem with scientist mary m. 10 after. the trained chemist works as a climate research at the max planck institute in lines and at the university of casablanca one study that she's worked on predicts that summer temperatures in north africa will rise twice as much as the global average. hot desert climate and worse in the future and especially in the summer are increased.

about $2.00 to $3.00 degrees. in the my action are you know. by 2050 up to 7 degrees in the worst scenario by the end of the century. satellite images captured by the european earth monitoring program copernicus show the oasis of honey surrounded by desert. and animation shows how the vegetation has been changing over the last few years and fluctuations in rainfall and humidity. the higher temperature means that there will be more of operation from the soil less specific ation also less water in the site and the combination of both will increase the stocks on each of the songs actually which has a huge impact on the crop with activity and there's additional dynamics in the song

comparable for the activity coming forward. to 5 percent. is aware of this vicious circle he has experienced the encroaching desert sands firsthand. and the afternoon musicians gather outside his cathay. 2 honeymoon has organized a small youth orchestra in the village that i haven't. yet. seen friendships of prevention you know getting them to gather were for young people he wants to help preserve the local culture that includes the hypnotically rhythmic no one music. and video you're looking. at the. back. to.

keep people think that this is our control heritage that we want to preserve. we would like to train young people to play modern music also to preserve our traditions. because they are threatened by today's consumerism but also by climate change as it leads to migration. education. in our music is believed to have its roots in sub-saharan africa a legacy of the black slaves transported along the transfer her and trade routes. with her we head south still home to morocco as remaining traditional nomad

communities but their future too is at risk from climate change. after just a few kilometers a limb stops by a tree. he shows us the skeleton of a young candle which probably starve to death. and it's far from being the only one camels and dromedaries are extremely frugal creatures but even for them it's more and more difficult to find sufficient food. to to move. this is part of our new reality camel herds represent riches when 23 or 10 camels die and the nomads lose a large part of their wealth so their traditional way of life is disappearing

before their eyes. we carry on through a barren stony landscape until we reach a chain of mountains and a large herd of camels. you know. yes. yes. there is a dried up riverbed and a little better taishan where the animals can graze. the camels are being looked after by young men like me. they own is used to be known but they settled nearby long ago.

so the market will bear them. how many tales that finding places where the camels can graze remains difficult often they have no choice but to buy fodder for the animals. the lives of the camel drivers and herders are being transformed. maidana t. has left its mark here to. more than 60 percent of morocco's nomads have already given up in america styles. this is partly down to the draw of modern comforts but it's also a result of climate change. the camel drivers spend the night in the open they don't have a tent. they are perhaps only 20000 traditional nomads left in

america and with every passing year the numbers continue to 20000. it's sad obviously one of. the actually we grew up here in the south. but what we were used to no longer exists. i only feel good when my animals feel good i look where you are in. a little bit. and so climate change is threatening an entire culture. of. one last look at the oasis settlement of her meat. on the outskirts of the village elders hold regular meetings in the shade of the poems they meet a yield of dates is a symbol for the problems of this endangered oasis. listening

to these men it becomes clear how creeping environmental changes linked to global warming have slowly undermined the foundations on which these people's lives have been built. the climate crisis has become an everyday reality. thanks. as the drought increases in severity it'll make things more and more difficult you can see how the palm trees are dying off how the desert is encroaching more and more and making the situation worse and worse and that's why most people have moved away and only a few people like us have stayed on. this about all of us people have laughed because they couldn't bear it they couldn't bear not having any water really not. i have a well with a motorized pump. but to keep it running i have to do what i can cover those costs

with farming that's why we definitely need help. many of the wells are 20 meters deep but some people are drilling down 100 meters to get water but what comes out of those wells salty water but there's no point irrigating the fields with her daughter it's useless how do you know. whether the whale for the moment a mother or a limb demonstrates the water parks and innovation from the netherlands. the seedling is placed inside the biodegradable container and then planted into the soil. then the water box is filled up with water. with its own little individual water tank each plant has a better chance of surviving. the people here desperately hope that these trees will act as

a barrier to hold back the desert island to have their live out of the really. it's their last ditch attempt to defend their fields and gardens against the sahara . just a few kilometers away are the thousands of garda they are the highest in morocco and attract many tourists. useful though they may be these growing indians are also false of nature to be reckoned with.

cicely pre-built that was the premise of the song going on we have the most beautiful sand dunes here and. they have become a big tourist attraction if you want that helped us when things started going downhill with the land. you see fast the desert is both a friend and an enemy it's rich but fragile at the same teach the fragile and. finding the right balance is crucial polling still holds out hope that humans and the deserts him continue to co-exist.

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