life on earth is one of a kind and. a. coincidence. or the improbable happens. to the awfulness of the day of the creation of our solar system of the planet is a bit like winning the lottery. what is more unique start september 18th on t.w. . welcome to global 3000. this week we visit the mountains of colombia home to the speckled bear but for how much longer their numbers are dwindling. we report on the

burner frost in siberia or what's left of it climate changes all too visible here. but we begin in thailand where the pandemic has left many sex workers without income the entire industry is struggling to survive. the coronavirus is like one long nightmare for the global economy thousands of companies will not survive the pandemic what's often referred to as the world's oldest profession is especially hard hit there are around 13800000 sex workers worldwide and that's just the official number. female male and non-binary the largest workforce is are in china india and the united states lockdowns social distancing and hygiene rules mean a large majority can't do their job. before the pandemic the sex work industry was worth around $186000000000.00 us dollars worldwide. this entire sector has

collapsed more or less overnight leaving those who work in the industry wondering if things will ever be the same again. but time out is often called thailand's sin city. it's a resort normally frequented by tourists from around the world for dominantly men. for sex tourists in particular a hedonistic paradise where money can buy you anything. but the coronavirus has left the sex industry here in limbo. as main party strip is now so quiet that the click of an as high heels is practically the only sound to be heard. the 33 year old is transgender and a sex worker with a clientele that has all but disappeared. at night to tie on has become

a ghost town with sex workers comprising over a quarter of the town's 120000 inhabitants the time has lost its biggest source of income. weeks under lockdown have brought tourism here to a standstill anna has been living and working here for 11 years her services as a sex worker used to be in high demand and a good month she would earn 850 euros a very decent income here now and has to get by on just 100 euros before. they will have to change. the all be in big. come back. to me. and now i have to. come back. again so i have food. and change is

something anna has gotten used to which also includes changing her work outfit he. she now house out at a soup kitchen that provides 500 meals a day for sex workers and meet. demand is actually far higher but the charity has limited funding. the government has set up a pandemic aid programs but they do not cover workers in the sex industry. and i think the government wants to take the opportunity to make a regular holiday resorts without sex tourism but that won't work with the sex tourism is important for it provides an income for a lot of people and i hope that when the pandemic is over it will become a normal business again. of the you tube. and in the meantime sex workers are just trying to survive so the hot meals delivered by anna and her colleagues are highly appreciated. most of the workers

are from villages where their families depend on the money they earn and put. there's no money coming in from any way i work as i'm assuming i'm not ending anything if things continue like this i'll have to find a job as a shop assistant but of course that would mean earning a lot less. the underground nature of the sex industry means workers are often stigmatized without state support they're desperate to get back into business. but there are limits as to what is feasible under the conditions. if we can reopen. impose a lot of restrictions like girls keeping their distance and not doing. but the men come here. almost without touching their body who came up with that idea.

in the capital bangkok. the workers. except now. guests have to provide their name and phone number and have their temperature checked. i'm happy that we've been able to reopen but i don't know if the customer accept the condition or whether we'll ever be able to get back to where we used to be. so i hope that's where you go i go over to bali. to get pretty much just the. statistically speaking thailand has had a comparatively low incidence of the corona virus the government says that's a result of the lock down but the past weeks and months have been desperately hard for a lot of people including. my. a

lot better so i can go back to live with my family but. all. for all that saw here is the freedom. the pandemic has turned life here upside down for anna who knows a lot about change and upheaval it's a more uncertain future than ever. what's been bad for people's livelihoods has given the environment a break companies closed planes grounded and the streets more empty than usual. some climate goals now seem more achievable than before the pandemic compared to the trend of years and decades this is just a brief trying to use climate change is continuing the coronavirus hasn't changed that. deep inside the arctic circle especially the areas in northern canada and

russia have continuous permafrost shown here in light blue where at least 90 percent of the ground is permanently frozen. we traveled a long way to the town of butler guy in siberia where increasingly the permafrost is melting. the. a growing. the boats a guy crater is about a kilometer wide and a 100 meters deep. it's the biggest ever for crazy in the world. day by day mulay is of ice melt away exposing ever more ancient penna frost to harsh wind and weather. but despite the continuing melt the regional environmental inspector isn't too

concerned about the rising temperature. suited them as i got. from what i've observed the crater grows by about 10 metres every year. i don't think that's very worrying. the melting of the permafrost can have an effect on us but the process is very slow. nature and the locals here will adapt to the changes. they created started off as just a small gully a section of forest was cleared here in the 1960 s. that meant the icy ground below was no longer protected by trees the layers of permafrost contain animal and plant remains from hundreds of thousands of years ago when that will get a massive thaws it rots releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere which scientists warn is further speeding up global warming.

on a small scale the processes that we're seeing with the butter guy crater are happening everywhere the ice melts onto the ground the ground sinks down. toppling all over so when people look at the bottom guy crater they can see the perfect example of why you shouldn't joke with the permafrost boys for. life in boats a guy just a short drive away from the crazy is still determined by the ice underfoot. temperatures drop to minus 50 degrees centigrade here in the winter there are village streets but getting to the guy on land is only possible for 4 months a year when this river freezes and can be used as a road. and people here use the pema frost as a resource year round these so called ice and is a built directly into a slope. only if run several shops even in the summer it's minus

15 degrees celsius in his eyes because the town is so remote food supplies can be a problem here that makes permafrost refrigerators like this one practical. here we have some flowers seed oil potato chips canned meat. cassim says he could still some products here for up to 2 years without them going bad. but he's had to take some precautions this summit due to the record heat their brother who is having a refrigerator is expensive for an entrepreneur upkeep and here nature keeps things cold in the permafrost we close the cellar off with these sheets so there wouldn't be any heat loss. the temperature in here went off by one or 2 degrees this year. but that change isn't critical. it's bearable. tidbit moving.

but the change could become critical soon enough buildings and you could usually stand on stilts designed to drive down into the permafrost and give houses a solid base. that means rising temperatures could soon threaten the very foundations of many villages and cities here. increasingly hot and dry some is also a danger to the surrounding woods forest fires are common here but things have been disastrous in the past 2 years this year the blaze in siberia destroyed an area larger than the size of greece and the flames have a long term consequence for the permafrost. the destruction of plant life means that the permafrost is not protected from the sun's heat. sums. we need the permafrost to remain intact.

so we shouldn't cut our forests we should put out fires and not leave them to burn . or what. we shouldn't inhabit much of the area covered by permafrost so that it doesn't get to please or or what. the region yakutia is huge and largely uninhabited the forest fires often smoldering the distance far away from any road putting them out would be hugely expensive and allowing them to burn is actually permitted by law in many regions in russia. families from the regions a working on a clear day is a luxury the wind often blows smoke directly onto their fields. the fires burn every year there's smoke everywhere there's smoke over there too.

when the building is right we can't lie around just because there's smoke we have to work in the fields and cut the hay this smoke everywhere you can't hide from the . people here have accepted forest fires as a fact of life but ignoring those fires threatens to change the landscape and ecosystem in russia's arctic beyond recognition. in our global i do series we report on ecosystems and endangered plant and animal species all over the world and we meet people dedicated to protecting those species . today we look at the spectacle bear port and being bear whose numbers are dwindling due to habitat loss or team went to the colombian highlands where the bears can still be found. on the edge of the shingles or national natural park they met up with 2 men with devoted their careers to saving the bears.

located high up in the n.d.s. the part of most grasslands are a vital source of fresh water for people and animals. the spectacle bear is one of them. and live arctic animals native to the andes and the 2nd largest mammal in south america after the mountain tape. daniel is a biologist for the past 35 years he's been dedicating his work to preserving the species so. they're not often as important as. one of the reasons why we protect the spectacled bear is its important role in nature companion or both i think it's a kind of gardener and it's because eating habits help to spread see that it consumes in other places in the form of fruits and leaves then gold so the spectacled bear contributes to the conservation of the forest on the spot on the.

consumables but. it's also the only species of fish and native to south america. to find out more about how the animals are doing quadriga swallows their tracks in the forest. ok but again as a group i love most bears are carnivores but the spectacle bears considered an omnivore is a minimal community it only what i might be and we can see signs of them eating on these bromeliads. there was a bear here a week ago as most. but the bears numbers are low even the national park and conservation area. ringback poaching together with rapid urban growth and increasing forestation have been forcing the spectacle bear to look for new habitats often in the grassy highland. a growing issue now is bear attacks on cattle appear the livestock provide

a major source of income for the local human population. ricardo gonzales is a cattle head responsible for about 50 cows any large scale bear attack could cost him his livelihood. they've already killed a number of my animals. i lose 2 or 3 every year so we tried to handle the bears before daniel talked to us but he kept on telling us how him. and so he convinced me that instead of killing them we should be able to talk to him it would be so now i help. we work together to protect. the education is a key element of the conservation campaign. before the coronavirus arrived in

colombia. and workshops like this one he told us about the importance of the spectacle bad for the local environment and the region as a whole. and with the aim of the workshops is to make people aware of the bear's relevance to our ecosystem. but we're also keen for the farmers to appreciate the growing importance of sustainable farming. our camera traps are a big help there because they provide a record of what's happening in the immediate surroundings. today this is retrieving camera traps and installing new one he'll use the footage for the future workshops but also as research data just said there are understanding of the behavior and the tip of the animals. if the people i mean this is there in

london for us it's an instrument that provides a good if you actually different picture of the bears as opposed to when they're dead. we see them moving about and. whenever we look at these images together the farmers always take a great interest and want to find out more. they see for themselves how they move around and play with each other what makes them living creatures that they want to know more about. protecting the spectacle is a way. one for which one drink is has found many like minded health partners a land of feliciano runs a sun tree a spectacle around 80 kilometers from the capital. when an idea. when i found out that the bears were endangered my 1st thought was to set up a rescue center. their natural habitat is shrinking and it's at risk of disappearing

completely by succumbing to. we wanted to provide a safe refuge where the bears are protected. and where we can treat any injuries they might have. one of the biggest challenges facing the century is funding monthly costs for transportation and food amount to 25000000 pesos or around 6000 euros until now the center has got by thanks to private donations. once a week feliciano drives to this market where he buys 2 tons of food for the baz the menu features pineapples papaya isn't bananas but also carrots. now. in the most important aspect is the people who work with us and take care of the bears around the clock so that we can release them into the wild. soon as possible but in some cases that's not possible like with bam bam he. needs extra special

care peace and quiet here. a lot of the animals living in the sanctuary have been injured. or were captured by illegal animal traders. pennsylvania is being prepared for the big day when she'll be released until then she saw her have as little contact with humans as possible. our hope is that pennsylvania will settle down quickly in the wild and get used to her natural habitat again. she needs to learn to behave like an animal in the wild again because you know what i mean but most importantly we hope she'll soon have offspring. and new generations of the ultimate keen to the survival of the spectacle of the

colombian andes. the pandemic affecting our mental state and emotions. more than 850000 dead and so much suffering around the globe. for more than 6 months images like these have dominated the news and become part of our lives information that each of those processes differently even many adults find it hard to comprehend what's happening . and what about children how are they coping with the crisis with. patients lining. the statue of liberty wearing a mask and nurses as knights in shining armor. 10 year old and has put her hopes and fears about the coronavirus pandemic onto paper her 1st picture

depicted the outbreak on the diamond princess cruise ship which had docked in vietnam's famous how long bay shortly before hand. i drew this picture because i was scared i couldn't stop thinking about the people stuck on the ship. next the leaning tower of pisa under attack by the virus together with london's big ben and the eiffel tower in paris. this shows the different countries affected by the virus i gave the virus bright colors but the countries in the background up pale because they've already been taken over by the virus and then they collapse just like the economy. mangano. even this mighty spanish bull looks worryingly weak and here death looms over sick

people in intensive care units eager to snatch new victims. like. this picture says that i'm safe despite the pandemic it's also a thank you to the doctors and other people fighting in the hospitals i was hoping they wouldn't be discouraged. the girl in the middle is me and everything around me is what's happening in my imagination. began during her pictures while she was stuck at home with school suspended expressing her thoughts and feelings with colored pencils is a talent she's inherited from her father himself an ellis traitor. so i suggested she also display optimism in our art to see the beautiful aspects of life that are revealed during challenging times. despite all the deaths caused by the pandemic she's portrayed it with a forward looking view. towards a brighter future. vietnam has so far managed to keep the

coronavirus largely under control the country spent weeks under lockdown but and wasn't bothered by the lack of activity on the streets. go we when i was. 19 has helped nature recover because there was no traffic suddenly the trees were getting greener and my family were very happy because everyone was at home and we had a lot more time for each other. and then has sister went back to school in mid may which means she now has less time for jury but she's sure of one thing that she wants to be a professional artist when she grows up and the pandemic is by then hopefully a distant memory. repression and discrimination are part of life for many women around the world on our new facebook channel d.w.

women you'll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others to do the saying d w women gives a voice to the women of our wilds. and that's all from us this time thanks for watching we'd love to hear from you you can e-mail us at global 3000 at g.w. dot com. see you next week.

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