it was. an innocent transparency fairies can provide comfort you don't like reality create another version of. assume about knowledge and belief trust and deception. democracy of the gullible starts joy 1st on g.w. . player. plays. on this village elders have great issues on their minds. they're holding a crisis means in to discuss whether their village has a future or not good luck or good but i got a large part of our village has already been swallowed by sand you gotta get soon

the rest will disappear but if you can get people you can see how the palm trees are dying because of drought and the sand keeps on coming in and playing. the desert is relentlessly encroaching on the air races which like so many others in morocco is a risk of disappearing. places it. was. we have come to her meet and is learn 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 is filling up his

pick up. by grew up here in her meat and wants to show us what is happening here. 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. could play them from the desert is quickly moving in from all sides on the away susan. from the east and west and. one sees a light from monitors that allow you to gain the pace of climate change feel happy . when we arrive in the palm groves the weather suddenly deteriorates a sunstone blows up. that has become the

new normal here less and less rain and more and more sandstorms and soil erosion. this is what they are a sense 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 halim and his acquaintance after doing me get straight to her. i think. they want to fell one of the dead punctuation its word

is well suited to making furniture but they have a good. but make much they talk about over the rubble of an office but the trees stop producing dates along. the way you are right. the pumps have fallen victim to the encroaching sun 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 don't say 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 they're being forced to diversify change jobs completely

. limbs boy's life has also changed fundamentally. his father used to plant pantries here and could live well from the abundant they toughest. 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. this is exonerating the process of deciding to take a ship that is if you go 30 years ago there would date. trees. there are a lot of important activities going on here that is not. but

with a few 100 meters 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. making the. commitment of. the government funded the project probably good 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 over a season morocco have disappeared over the last 100 years. a few kilometers away plus the old village crust.

the fortified qusayr would have for dhobi walls dates back many centuries. in the maze of alleyways her limits bellies like now will one of its pier remaining residents. he says that only about 10 families still live here. on the. boat have been. in the past it used to be home to more than 1000 people but most have now moved away. sand has crept into all of the houses. this is one of the few who is prepared to try and stand in the way of that as. well. 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. so the younger people in particular are attracted to the big cities such as marquez casablanca and drop but only a small number remain but the key key feel you spoke. nothing can stop. it is getting into caspar drug 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 they deserve all. the desert is on the march thanks to the rising temperatures decreasing rainfall and powerful storms it will ultimately take this cast.

for a boycott of the conflict for us when. we leave her mates and drive some 50 kilometers through arid lands to the east where her name wants to show us a proper way sis. 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 imitate the air races.

and this is what a healthy oasis looks like a veritable forest. the palm trees. thanks to the precious water is quickly distributed by the phone as a location channel that's closed thanks. alex question. and then the you can see just how we did what palin says and i waste this is like a paradise a provide shade and coolness for the fertile fields close to 2000000 moroccans still live in such oases between the atlas mountains and the sahara desert. sands. is a true ecosystem it functions on 3 different levels weekly the. date palms provide shade for the fruit trees and they in turn provide shade of the vegetables but. it is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors got the theory again chansons to

give up water insisted on the part of the. data used to be an ideal crop for the return of the sugary sweet fruit is not very hard to grow but it does me 2 things heat and force at. thanks. for this green he says 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's drawn to the surface is salty as can be seen from the white deposits on the drainage ditches just in the long term that's poison for the oasis. sed. back in her mid. 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 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 through. it's mainly the old people who have stayed behind like the farmer but hardy. the 61 year old has 11 children from his 3 wives. most of his children have left the region. this new is almost 40 percent of all moroccans according to research are

considering leaving the country climate change is a driver for migration. you don't really know you're ready for the world. 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. 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 were better in the past when they were able to sell their dates as far afield as marrakesh you can. be you know when our oasis was still green we had everything we needed we lived

very well we could grow all kinds of vegetables and we kept sheep you know but that's impossible now. will incite have the sand dunes. tenses small vegetable garden it's all he has left. he is 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. if. he 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 go 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. in the 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 of here on their way to timbuktu more recently it has attracted droves of tourists from all around the world. helen's 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 but. 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 race is drying up some people have turned to desert tourism as an alternative source of income. next to the map are a few 1000 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 researcher 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 is twice as much as the global average. the hot desert climate will be 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 kapan it 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 specific ation also less water in the site 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 then digitization dynamics in the sort of the corporate activity can follow 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 cafe. 2 on him has organized a smooth orchestra in the village to have a right hand. suppression measure you know get them to gather with the young people he wants to help preserve the local culture that includes the hypnotically rhythmic now on music. and now you know you're looking. at the back. of the bat. i. think. that. i.

think that. this is our control heritage that we want to preserve. we would like to train young people to play modern music with also to brazil traditions. because they are threatened by today's consumerism but also by climate change because it leads to migration. in our music is believed to have its roots in sub-saharan africa a legacy of the black slaves transported along the transfer and trade routes. with haleem 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. really this is part of our new reality camel hats represent riches when 23 or 10 of camels die and the nomads lose a large part of. 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 camel. yes . 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. so. 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 are being transformed. by danity has left its mark here to. more than 60 percent of morocco's nomads have already given up their number to clark styles. 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 their numbers continue

220-0000 it's sad obviously one of the hot looks and little but 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 going to. look a little bit well. and so climate change is threatening an entire culture. one last look at the always a settlement of her meat and it is long. 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 100 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 is because of us people have left because they couldn't bear it. and not having any water. i have a well with a motorized pump. but to keep it running i have to add money but 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 salt water it's useless how do you think of a. way for the moment. demonstrates the water parks and innovation from the netherlands. to 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 you have to live up to have 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 x. or garda they are the highest in morocco and attract many tourists. beautiful though they may be these growing danes are also a force of nature to be reckoned with. place to sleep you build in the woods the climate of a song going on up like we have the most beautiful sand dunes here and. they have

become a big tourist attraction you could be one that helped us when things started going downhill with the land. you see foster the desert is both a friend and an enemy it's rich but fragile and at the same change if you don't move focus on. finding the right balance is crucial pulling still holds out hope that humans and the deficit can continue to co-exist. play . pick up must stay on the phone as legal sees a. better braman still a good chance the relegation nothing from stuff last in colombia.

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