she painted me. am. i to fasten a school of those who look at me. the secret of mona lisa starts july 3rd d. w. . all this village elders have grave issues on their minds. and they're holding a crisis museum to discuss whether their village has a future or not. but are we really got a large part of our religion has already been swallowed by sand you got to get well

soon the rest will disappear but if you think you can see how the palm trees are dying because of drought and the sand keeps on coming you know we. play. the desert is relentlessly encroaching on the other races which like so many others in morocco is at risk of disappearing. player. playing. rock. we have come to her meet and it is learn a smaller race a settlement in southeastern iraq has. 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 hamlet and wants to show us what is happening here. with you. we're company holy man and an acquaintance to the editor of the settlement with the palm groves and farmer's fields are located. helen says that there's practically nothing left of the green oasis of his childhood. not really could play them i mean the desert is quickly moving in from all sides on the away. from the east to the west and. one sees a night from monitors that allow you to gain each to paint some climate change feel happy. when we arrive in the palm groves the weather suddenly deteriorates a sense 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 other a sense of how many plucks 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 duly get straight to her. i think. they want to fell one of the dead punctuation its word

is well suited to making furniture a feeling good. about somebody who might come closer but the trees producing dates long ago. we gave us here at. the pumps 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 is the least we can do for it so. it was a. fair culture once 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. 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 himself as an activist who wants to draw attention to the dramatic changes in this region. why does this graveyard exist the answer is quite simple it's the lack of water. shortages are being closed 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 meters 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 so square just. the way the. commitment of. the government funded the project would be but the extreme heat and increasing numbers of sand storms made the turn to dry out leaving behind only salt to posit. 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 lies the old village cast.

with. the force a fight cause here with it for dhobi walls dates back many centuries. in the maze of alleyways palin 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 radio. never have i have you. in the past 8 used to be home to more than 1000 people but most have now moved away. says and 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 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 mosque has run out of water. the younger people in particular are attracted to the big cities such as marrakech casablanca and drop but only a small number remain but the key to feel you spoke poorly. nothing can stop. it is getting into caspar drug religion. drought is the reason why people can't live here anymore can't lead contented 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 cost. very slow.

for. the kind of attacks that run well this. we leave her mates and drive some 50 kilometers through arid lands to the east where helen wants to show us a proper oasis. thank you. 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 plants. it's used to imitate the oasis.

and this is what a healthy oasis looks like a veritable forest of palm trees. the precious water is quickly distributed by the farming is it ok sion channel it's clear thank. you. question. then the because she image of what a limb says and i waste this is like a paradise every day 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 likely the. date palms provide shade for the fruit trees and maintain provide shade for the vegetables you know but really. it is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors got to be a theory

a geisha assistant to give up work or to start the. day he used to be an ideal craft for the region this should really sweet fruit is not very hard to pro 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 in the long term that's poison for the. state. that in her mid. to have 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. we're. going to 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 have you know you're ready for the road and 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 were better in the past when they were able to sell their debts as far afield as marrakesh as you can. be 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. we lose sight of the sand dunes. tenseness 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. 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. sure there are a lot of them about 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 wrapped up a lot of. the mud. 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 after 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 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 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. halim is 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 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. hot desert climate is worse in the future and especially in the summer increased. share will be 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 copernicus show the oasis of honey surrounded by desert. and imation 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 sun of less specific ation also less water in the sky and the combination of both will increase the stocks of the sun actually which has a huge impact on the crop for the activity and there's additional dynamics in the song the corporate world activity can fall. 35 percent. is aware of this vicious circle he has experienced the encroaching desert sands

firsthand. 2 and the afternoon musicians gather outside his cafe. 2 honeymoon has organized a small youth orchestra in the village that every. year. some french of russian you know given what i gather were for young people he wants to help preserve the local culture and that includes they have not sickly rhythmic no one music going to be with us and they're you know you're looking. at the. fact that. the from.

the. british. people. this is our country heritage that we want to preserve. we would like to train young people to play modern music that also to preserve our traditions. because they are threatened by today's consumerism but also by climate change as it leads to migration really going to. come. 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 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. if you move really really this is part of our new reality. it's represent wretches 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. oh yes. yes. there is a dried up riverbed and a little better taishan with the animals can graze. the camels are being looked after by young men like me. their owners used to be nomads but they settled nearby long ago. letterman home. 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 their no magic 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 america and with every passing year the numbers continue to 20.

it's sad obviously one of so well 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 when you are in. a little. work. and so climate change is threatening an entire culture. across. one last look at the oasis settlement of her meat. on the outskirts the village elders hold regular meetings in the shade of the puns they meet a yield of dates is a symbol for the problems of this endangered oasis. you're. 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. so yes people have left because they couldn't bury. couldn't ban not having any water really not. i have a well with a motorized pump. to keep it running i have to money but i can't cover those costs with farming you know 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 know. where the. 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. have they live up to have their. it's

their last ditch attempt to defend their fields and gardens against the sahara. place just a few kilometers away other thousands of exit garda they are the highest in iraq and attract many tourists. player plays beautifully although they may be these growing dunes are also a force of nature to be reckoned with. places you sleep you build in the woods the premise of the song grow up like we have the most beautiful sand dunes here. in the real they have become

a big tourist attraction if you put that help to 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 judge it for a human focused on finding the right balance is crucial pulling still holds out hope that humans and the desert can continue to co-exist place . because i must to the fullest the season. ahead of bremen still a good chance to avoid relegation of trial stuff last it.

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