interact with their branch offices in africa but they want to keep their h.q. in london. that's where they find the programmers and engineers they need. it's also where the money comes from. the boxes yet to make any profit but they've just raised $50000000.00 u.s. dollars from international investors. one of the key things to be able to achieve millions hundreds of millions of people with access to electricity is to bring in partnerships the likes of yes we joined within the last few years in office in togo and mitsubishi invested in b books in the middle of 2019. those sort of partnerships help us achieve the scale that we need to to achieve over the next few years in order to make a real significant impact the concept could be put to work in europe as well according to the b. box founders but battery prices would need to go down for that to happen still their main goal remains to serve developing countries. my dream would be at least

to spark one of many sparks traits that transformation that entire nations need to lift themselves out of poverty if even if we create. a universe of electrification in one country i would be extremely happy and there's so much more to do there are still around 900000000 people worldwide who have no access to electricity. forests the lungs of our planet and an effective way of hoovering up pollution and according to scientists also help slow the global average temperature rise. carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and lock it away in their trunks and soil collectively they also protect biodiversity and provide natural resources we continue to chop them down at an alarming rate. for centuries our species has had a close relationship with the forest forests are more than

a backdrop for fairytales they provide us with food fresh air and clean water and played key roles in biodiversity and climate their essential habitats that are now under threat. every single 2nd a wooded area the size of a football field is destroyed. and almost always we are the destroyers there are no monetary reasons why humans would want to protect wooded areas on the contrary when turned into raw materials forests can bring in big profits. wood products are growing in popularity whether it's for paper furniture or chopsticks in some regions of the world it takes up to 7 trees a year per person to meet demand. many of these wood products come from illegal sources up to 17 percent of the global trade and is illegal in brazil

that number jumps to 80 percent an estimated 19 percent of you timber imports come from illegal logging and that's not all humanity also destroys forests to create farmland for the production of other bomb materials like palm oil soybeans sugar cane or beef billions of dollars worth of those products are bought and sold every day and how many of the companies that depend on these raw materials are trying to participate in what's called the green economy which seeks to ease humanity's impact on nature only around 13 percent. if humanity needs more farmland or space for new cities the forest always has to give way. as our numbers grow the forests suring. worldwide 40 percent of them have all. already been cut. with no thought for how much we owe them they've

given us life saving medicines paper corks chewing gum and one of humanity's favorites chocolate. have it you didn't know this if you flew into germany you'd noticed the highly industrialized and biggest economy in europe is actually quite green a 3rd of the nation is covered in forests that's a lot of work for a forest ranger my colleague all of creagh decided to put himself in the shoes or boots of a forest for the day oh hi i'm the new guy here grading for us to. talk to your high cougar ready to go into the woods not like that get your boots on . ok but. this is their.

natural momentum. the lens i'm slowly but surely krieger is turning into a force that something like a. regular the risks here are tripping over a root being attacked by boards and being hit by a tree they're a threat to everyone in a forest i don't think most people crawling you know that is often true could be. a model but you shouldn't be able to see through a healthy tree so this goes into good eating even though you might think i'm not

everything so green you know nice. this was not you we've got it all good god not at all if you don't recover even if it's completely dead not a single leaf left the bark has burst open and. what's this is that you know this is dust from the beatles who've truly their way inside they already inside and they're working to insects that are already inside the tree if you look a little higher when you can see the drill holes where they are out in and the index from a woodpecker looking for larvae. and thus what do we do with this guy name it has to be failed. this one to. this one definitely not spelling. how long do these trees usually live a little boy called the beech tree can live up to 400 years or. 400 years and these trees are over 150 years old.

so i guess it's getting dangerous i'll go in alone. good idea. i'd rather not go and. go. come come come. across as on this being a force there's nothing i'm sure but i'm a bit scared of these bourse they huge in the made looks aggressive and they are all on high alert because the babies post about the mom is really looking up here they are now. look at the cars tusks super shop. best

day out again. he's driving them on. very good. oh. it's all about the swing you need to tell me this isn't a name fight it's an axe swing swaying swing it's very. very. i have a blister no one cares. so

we're cutting wood it's easy. and i think i look pretty good doing it. jokes aside it is tiring imagine having to cut enough wood to heat your home for the winter. when also when they get blisters so easily yes and i know here's one. that's probably work. for what i've wanted to be a forester since i was in 1st grade but it's always been my dream and i found my dream job i'm living it. what about the next generation of foresters. luckily the career prospects are really good and it's always nice to have a grown up with it or didn't see much food and i'm really proud that my daughter is studying forestry and maybe someday she'll become a forester herself would feel like for some of the back to me to my outfit i think

i cut quite a good figure i've proven my woodcutting credentials would you say i've got what it takes to be a force to. defend your image down running around here in that outfit in all these temperatures can be quite a strain as a forester you have to roam around a lot in the forest you seem to be up to that you were a pretty quick learner i describe you as an internal with potential. being a forest road stuff. much for ever. with this i don't. it ruins your hasbara. tru

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