we are working tirelessly to keep you informed on all of our platforms and we're all in this together and together and when they can try to. stay safe everybody in the stacey stacey newman stay safe if it's released its face it. comes. from one of these village elders have great issues on their minds. that. they're holding a crisis means him to discuss whether their village has a future or knowledge. of what we've got a large part of our village is already been swallowed by sand but. soon the ranched

will disappear but if. you can see how the palm trees are dying because of drought and the sand keeps on coming we will. claim. the desert is relentlessly encroaching on the air races which like so many others in morocco is at risk of disappearing. it. because. we have come to her meat and is learned 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 of his

pick up. by grew up here in honey and wants to show us what is happening here. that. we are company halim and an acquaintance to the editor of the settlement with the palm groves and farmer's fields are located. pelham says that there's practically nothing left of the green oasis of his childhood. going to the cockpit and i mean the desert is quickly moving in from all sides on the away. from the east and west ham. and i from monitors that little are you to gauge the pain some climate change feel happy. when we arrive in the palm groves the weather suddenly deteriorates a sense stone blows up. that has become the

new normal here less and less rain and more and more sandstorms and so any rash of . this is what the oasis of how meat looks like now. it is sinking in desert sand. the impact of climate change has long been clear here. when the weather has settled humming and his acquaintance after doing get straight to were. i think. they want to fell one of the dead puncture yes it would

as well suited to making furniture of the 11 people but make it worse they've ever come up with a rather remarkable feat of the tree stump producing dates along. the way with a rescue at. the pounds have fallen victim to the encroaching sand dunes. 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 is the least we can do for it socketed all said it was the. color once to make a table from the word for firmness in the region it's becoming increasingly difficult to make a living from agriculture and they're being forced to diversify 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 him self 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 point of course water shortages are being caused by climate change. this is exonerating the process of disaster cation. 30 years ago there were date. trees. there are a lot of important activities going on here but it's not. a

few 100 metres further on there is an abandoned pump the remains of a failed project years ago water was pumped into a tank from deep in the ground the idea was to use the water to irrigate the airway subscribe just. a little bit. more. the government funded the project probably but the extreme heat and increasing numbers of sand storms made the turn to dry out leaving behind only salt deposits. what has happened here is not an exception 2 thirds of all over a season morocco have disappeared over the last 100 years. a few kilometers away nicely old village has. all.

the force of thought comes here with its adobe walls dates back many centuries. in the maze of alleyways limits he's like no we're one of its few remaining residents. he says that only about 10 families still live here. both of them have been. in the past it used to be home to more than 1000 people but most have now moved away. sir and has crept into all of the houses use is one of the few who was prepared to try and stand in the way of the. well now. 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 it's the younger people in particular are attracted to the big cities such as merit cash casablanca and drought but only a small number remain but the key to feel you spoke poorly so believe you don't nothing can stop the sun. it is getting into caspar religion. drafters the reason why people can't live here anymore can't lead contented in everyday life. the problem is forcing them to leave the did is evil. the desert is on the march thanks to the rising temperatures decreasing rainfall and powerful storms but it will ultimately take this cast. this one.

for a boycott of it they're going to look for as well as if. we leave her meat and drive some 50 kilometers through arid lands to the east where helen wants to show us a proper oasis. oh . thanks 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 power plants. it's used to illustrate the every since.

and this is what a healthy away says looks like a veritable forest of pantries. thank the races is like a paradise 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. is a true ecosystem it functions on 3 different levels of leave the. date palms provide shade for the fruit trees and maintain and provide shade for the vegetables but. it is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors got to be thier ignition system or system on the part of the day used to be an ideal crop for the return of the sugary sweet fruit is not very hard to produce but it does me 2 things heat and force at. least. for this

green oasis a well had to be told 100 meters down into the ground causing its own problems groundwater levels are increasingly dropping and the water that is drawn to the surface is salty as can be seen from the like deposits on the drainage ditches in the long term that's poison for the oasis just. that in her mid august alone perhaps 7000 people still live here the one time away 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 morocco but since the dam was built in the high atlas mountains hardly any water flows self. 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. the world is 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. will of the young people go to the cities to look for work our children

have also gone. babysitters 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 helps to keep them afloat. things were better in the past when they were able to sell their dates as far afield as marrakesh as you can. be you know when our oasis was 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. within sight of the sand dunes but hardly tense this small vegetable garden it's all he has left for. he's

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 this 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 us it wants to encroach

everywhere that's why i'm planting bushes like this to stop the sand from finding its way into our garden home right. in the lovely. lovely but hardy is fighting a losing battle. sand dunes now stand right outside his house and a handful of pantries are all that's left to remind him of the oasis. in bygone times desert caravans used to stop out here on their way to timbuktu more recently it has attracted droves of tourists from all around the world. halim spy 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 a space so and internet access but. also acts as a tourist guide offering group tours in the sahara. the region is a favorite destination among more adventurous travelers with the races drawing 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. halim is keen to discuss the problem with scientist mary and 10 after. the trained

chemist works as a climate research at the max planck institute in mines 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. the hotter the desert climate the worse in the future and especially in the summer our increased. chair will be also about $2.00 to $3.00 degrees. in the mine scenario. by 2050 up to 7 degrees in the worst by the end of the. 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 of less specific ation also less water in the site the combination of both will decrease the stocks on each of the songs actually which has a huge impact on the crop growth for the activity and then there's additional dynamics in the song from productive if you can follow her up to 35 percent. is aware of this vicious circle he has experienced the encroaching desert sands firsthand. in the afternoon musicians gather outside his cathay. 2 honeymoon has organized a small you feel constrained the village to have

a plan for your. suffrage of which the prevention of them together with the young people he wants to help preserve the local culture that includes the hypnotically rhythmic non-music if you want to be. and then you know you're looking at the back of the. planet the. fact. that. the. people think. 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 because it leads to migration not really going to it was. educated. 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 we head south still home to morocco as remaining traditional know their 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 move really this is part of our new reality camel it's represent riches when 23 or 10 of camels die and the nomads lose a large part of their well so their traditional way of life is disappearing before their eyes. they carry on the curb aaron 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 vegetation where the animals can graze. the camels are being looked after by young men like me. they only is used to be nomads but they settled nearby long ago. 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 lifestyles. this is partly down to the draw of modern comforts but it's also a result of climate change. thanks to the camel drivers spend the night in the open they don't have a tent. they are perhaps only $20000.00 traditional nomads left in morocco. and with every passing year the numbers continue to do and go. surfing. it's sad obviously one of. the actions 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 while you are in. a little. work.

and so climate change is threatening an entire culture. of. one last look at the oasis settlement of honey. on the outskirts 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. of what could be as the drought increases in severity it will 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 is because of yes people have left because they couldn't bury what they couldn't bear not having any water. i have a well with a motorized pump. running out after money 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 a 100 meters to get water but what comes out of those wells salty water but there's no point irrigating the fields with salt water it's useless right how do you think of a. way where for the moment. 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. you have to. have the early. it's their last ditch attempt to defend their fields and gardens against the sahara. just a few kilometers away are the dns of garda they are the highest in morocco and attract

many tourists. beautiful though they may be these growing pains are also a force of nature to be reckoned with. players respond if you build in the woods the i mean focus on growing up like we have the most beautiful sandy use here and. they have become a big tourist attraction if you put that help to us when things started going downhill with the land. of the sea fast in the desert is both a friend and an enemy it's rich but fragile at the same to be fragile before.

finding the right balance is crucial pulling still holds out hope that humans and the deserts can continue to co-exist. place . i want. to go to india. they're coming. to india there's increasing tension between humans and. animals a name difference damage whatever we can't give it a lot of more of that and early warning system is supposed to prevent escalation and save lives on old songs. played hookey in showing. in 30 minutes haunting until you know. 2

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