because the government claims to put us. conspiracy theories spread like wildfire on the internet. and in the same transparency fairies can provide comfort you don't like reality create another church and. assume about knowledge and belief trust and deception democracy of the gullible starts joyce 1st on g.w. . come on this village elders have great issues on their minds. they're holding a crisis meeting to discuss whether their village has

a future or not. but we're. a large part of our religion is already being swallowed by sand you've got to. soon the rest will disappear but if you go. you can see how the palm trees are dying because of drought and the sand keeps on coming in the room and. play. the desert is relentlessly encroaching on the away service which like so many others in morocco is at risk of disappearing. it played. it. because. we have come to her meet as he has learned a smaller race a settlement in southeastern iraq has. this the horror of desert starts right

behind the village. in the morning we meet her limbs by as the spelling of his pick up. by grew up here in honey and wants to show us what is happening here. with you. we are 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 of the west and. one sees a light from monitors that allow you to gauge the pain some climate change feel happy. when we arrive in the

palm groves the weather suddenly deteriorates a sunstone blows. 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 hermie looks like now. it is sinking in desert sand. the impact of climate change has long been clear here.

when the weather has settled her name and his acquaintance after do any get straight to her. i think. they want to fill one of the dead pantry it's wood is well suited to making furniture but the other one could pull. back about the right of them but the trees stop producing dates longer. the value if you're still at. the pumps have fallen victim to the encroaching sun 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 is the least we can do for it sucker said it was his. affair color wants to make

a table from the wood 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. boy's life has also changed fundamentally. his father used to plant pantries here and could live well from the abundant they tell us. 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. shortages are being caused by climate change and. this is accelerating the process of disaster. that is if you go 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 up into a tank from deep in the ground the idea was to use the water to irrigate the airway just. making the. point more. the government funded the project through a bubble but the extreme heat and increasing numbers of sandstorms made the tank dry out leaving behind only salt to posits. what has happened here is not an exception 2 thirds of all the way seas in morocco have disappeared over the last 100 years.

a few kilometers away lies the old village. the fortified kooser with had for dhobi walls dates back many centuries. in the maze of alleyways limits bellamy's like no we're one of its fear 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 pale i use is one of the few who is prepared to try and stand in the way of the desert. well now. i can only keep on saying it our problems stem from a lack of water. 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 mosque has run out of water. the younger people in particular are attracted to the big cities such as much cash casablanca and drought that only a small number remain but the key to feel you stop all you so believe nothing can stop. it is getting into caspar villages. drafters the reason why people can't live here anymore can't lead contented 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 cause. very slow. for the better part of the going to be the 1st where. we leave her meat and drive some 50 kilometers through arid lands to the east where her name wants to show us a proper oasis. thank 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 plant.

it's used to imitate the oasis. and this is what a healthy oasis looks like a veritable forest. the palm trees. thank the precious water is quickly distributed by the finest immigration talents. thanks. to. question. then the because she did image of what palin says and i way says is like a paradise a provide shade and coolness for the fertile fields close to 2000000 americans 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 that. date palms provide

shade for the fruit trees and maintain provide shade of vegetables but. it is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors got to be thier again system to not work on psystar the part of the day used to be an ideal crop for the region this should really sweet fruit is not very hard to grow but it does me 2 things heat and water at. its. full this green embraces a well had to be told $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 like deposits on the drainage ditches just in the long term that's poison for the oasis. sed. back in her mid. to have 7000 people still live here the one time away

settlement she sunshine came. 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 america. 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. this new life is almost 40 percent of all moroccans according to research are considering leaving the country climate change is a driver for migration. of no no you're ready for the world. there isn't any work here anymore at least nothing that provides a living. 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 hard life. money transfers from their grown up children helps to keep them afloat. think some of that 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. religion science has the sand dunes the hurdy tends to small vegetable garden it's all he has left. he's a subsistence farmer 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 as 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. but look 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. 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.

in bygone times desert caravans used to stop off here on their way to timbuktu more recently it has attracted droves of tourists from all around the world. 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. halim 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 father 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 m. 10 after. the trained chemist works as a climate researcher at the max planck institute in minds 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 hot desert climate would be even worse in the future and especially in the summer the increase of temperature will be also about $2.00 to $3.00 degrees. in the mine

scenario. 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 can panic has show the basis of how many 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 bespeak ation means also less water in the site the combination of both will increase the stocks on each of the song actually which has a huge impact on the crop with activity and the digitization dynamics in the song

from activity can fall up to 35 percent. is aware of this vicious circle he has experienced the encroaching desert sands firsthand. and the afternoon musicians gather outside his cafe. on him has organized a smooth youth orchestra in the village to have. sufficient measure. to gather with the young people he wants to help preserve the local culture that includes the hypnotically rhythmic now a music. and not help young look at the back.

that. this is our control heritage that we want to preserve. we would like to train young people to play modern music also to brezhnev our traditions. because they are threatened by today's consumerism but also by climate change because it leads to migration that really going to. be. 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. really this is part of our new reality camel represents riches when 23 or 10 camels die and the nomads lose a large part of. their traditional way of life is disappearing before.

we carry on through a barren stony landscape until we reach a chain of mountains and a large herd of camel. yes 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 hermie. their owners used to be known but they settled nearby long ago.

how many tales that finding places where the camels can graze remains difficult and they have no choice but to buy fodder for the animals. the lives of the camel drivers and herders of being transformed. may danity has left its mark here to. more than 60 percent of morocco's nomads have already given up their nomadic 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

iraq. and with every passing year the numbers continue to do in the. service reserve and it's sad obviously one of saddam looks a little bit 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 we're in. a little. work. and so climate change is threatening an entire culture. of one last look at the always a settlement of how meat. 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.

but 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. thank. you 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 a because of yes people have left 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 money but i can't cover those

costs with farming that's why we definitely need. it. 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 salt water it's useless how do you. have a. way of well 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 island. of the early there but. it's

their last ditch attempt to defend their fields and gardens against the sahara. just a few kilometers away other dealings 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.

plain to. see son if you build human and wisdom i mean the song going on we have the most beautiful sand dunes here in my area they have become a big tourist attraction look if you are going to be one that helped us when things started going downhill with the land did. you see fast the desert is both a friend and an enemy gets rich but fragile at the same change the fundamental. finding the right balance is crucial. still holds out hope that humans and the deserts can continue to co-exist. play . play.

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