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is a thinking animal a mandate is to use our minds to maintain balance and harmony on our not to create imbalance there are millions of different species which inhabit the planet for that and many of them are going extinct because of our committee how do we make sure the earth inhabitable not only for us but for every other living organism that's what we talk about a bit hello welcome to eco india and some of that i could. let's start in the northeast indian state of assam at the start of the 20th century there were only $201.00 horned dr remaining in the what the largest royal species they could be found all over the northern part of the indian sub continent in the last 100 years conservation efforts have brought the numbers up to 3700 contributing to this

effort is an organization which is using viable dogs. and is raising a venice about the well notable species. this material has a very special structure and each eat its own unique composition it's used to make lampshades notepads and even clocks for a global clientele. the paper manufactured by the woman in the small workshop in assam is chiefly comprised of rhino and elephant droppings a notion that may have some turning their nose up but this done is actually ideal for making paper as entrepeneur explains from a paper making point of view these are the 2 i'm the most with dung is the most fibrous they eat long grasses they have what these animals have a big digestive process so where you definitely for 5 is available to us to just boy and basically get the fiber the pulp can all go on like

a lot of other i move where they would they existed that would be not in the 5 of you which is why we work with the fiber of the size of 5 of their symbolically and functionally good for most people. inventive. and there's no shortage of dung in these parts the woodlands of the state of our home to around 2400 rhinos and at least twice that number of for the fence fertile territory for an innovative concept. recycling by left excrement to make paper was in fact an idea born out of necessity. animals and. people who live in close proximity here the roads villages and farms are increasing the intruding on the habitat of local vite life not to mention the sprawling plantations growing to famous a sonti. many of the animals live in the protected natural parks and meant seasonal rainfall causes the river brahmaputra to flood twice

a year there's an additional problem. over here is our village. and just over there less than one kilometer is the bark there are a lot of wild animals living there but i know those elephants diagnose and water buffalo when there we were birds its banks their animal you know they are in danger and end up roaming through our religion and vice seeking refuge they also look for food rice harvests here i regularity devastated by rhinos and elephants. i grew up near. me we would always find the animals on the streets everywhere taking one bunny home with. during the rainy season they would come and forage for food in our farm lands and when we woke up they would be

out in the fields. the whole. day sure come our nothing is out collecting rhino down we chill then dry out before it's made into paper he's very much an exception however. typically the villages are not in the. collection process because we don't want to start monetizing it because that could again lead a forest resources is a very sensitive issue so we have to play very carefully but we do collect dung from straying animals on one hand it travels then to us the fact we are now which is where we make people. the idea for employing local villagers to turn dung into paper came from the shovel or us father retired call mining engineer wanted to give something back to me. and that undertaking has been a boon for local communities creating new livelihoods for most people had no

regular jobs among them is model because. they were one of the capital of what i now plan to save up and buy a tract of. we have to pay a lot of money to hire tractors to tell our land that for their that i want to buy $1.00 of our own around. the dung is combined with natural fibers sourced from farms waste such as jude fruit and cotton. the resulting product is therefore also better for the environment than regular paper. people making is a loosely while the most water intensive industries in the world and it's responsible for a lot of what we did in a lot of work goes on around this. we use we don't you that i know what it would be also the water that you use because it has no chemical in it because he was a basic nutrition courses and it gets pumped back into the. recycling on water in.

the past year was a tough one for the company as demand plummeted to just the coronavirus pandemic over the next 2 years they're planning to break down production into smaller units to enable their team to work from home. the enterprise has provided a welcome source of jobs plus a son of the company's product saves $27.00 trees from being failed to make conventional paper and with the rhinos providing the paper manufacturers with the raw material relations between the villagers and their animal neighbors have also improved. deforestation can be devastating to animals in indonesia over 300000 picked as a forest was lost and 29000 they rounded on population as a result has been declining heavy with many left in front and i mean what to fend

for themselves there's a jungle school trying to help these orangutans to live and find their way in the wild but the pandemic is not complicated this work let's see how this humans have to keep their distance from a regular tang's to even at lunch time. because both species are at risk of contracting the new coronavirus. these are rang a tang's are under lockdown and have had to stay in their cages for months. this is yellow school if. you can train them. financial system to get them for it so we bring in the forest for them so it's like. right. and all this for us. so they can learn that

it's their meals are delivered wrapped in leaves so they have to figure out how to get the food useful practice when they're later released into the wild. cages or disinfected twice a day. hygiene is of crucial importance. the teams who care for the animals rotate every 3 weeks before they start work staff have their temperature taken another coronavirus precaution they shot the video for this report themselves we talked to the head of the project by video call. or we're going to. want you. to buy long time d.n.a. is 97 percent identical to the out of humans so they're extremely susceptible to all our diseases especially those affecting the risperidone tract. you know that's the main reason why we've imposed such a strict quarantine to make sure there's no transmission of

a virus replicating in humans to a population in the wild. it would probably have no immunity atoll to such a virus or now it's. the effects could be devastating. through has been reporting on this project for years 3 aim is to prepare a ragged tanks for survival in their natural jungle habitat in the. rain forest in central sumatra. many were rescued as orphans often held captive as pets under terrible conditions they had forgotten or had never learned how to move through the tree tops forage for food and build nests their keepers at the jungle school teach them all these skills usually out in the forest itself. a racket things enjoy piggyback rides many of them don't like to walk much this was before the coronavirus pandemic. so no exercises in the forest for now even though they

have so much to learn. it's. probably the most important item on the curriculum at jungle school is learning about fruit trees what they look like and when they bear fruit. and which season or in which years. in order to survive every rung in town has to develop a 4 dimensional map in their head covering space and time it takes time to learn all that but we've had to suspend the learning process where the trees and when do they bear fruit as the iraqi towns have to stay in their cages. the lock down can only be relaxed once the pandemic has been contained this is not good for the animals their fitness deteriorates and they become bored even the not the best preconditions for release and survival in the wild. those that have already been set free currently lead better lives keepers go on patrol to check on them and

provide extra food if need be. here to social distancing applies over the past half century 80 percent of the region's rain forests have been cut down to make way for vast plantations. on our last visit paid to pot to stress the importance of saving the forest and teaching the orangutans survival skills. and you. if the orangutans are able to survive here and all the other animals in the rain forest animal community will be to the tigers elephants and old the other species that's why it's so important to protect them. the number of covert 1000 cases among humans in indonesia continues to rise. the project has a backup plan if the lockdown goes on for too long. it will release it's a ring it hangs into the wild before they've completed their schooling but will then provide them with longer term support out in the forests that way the irag

attains will be able to settle and have offspring and their numbers can grow until the threat of extinction here is banished britain is a country of tidy and landscape gobbles at least that's what some groups like how the. water more brits are letting them along. and than doing that in england he's hoping to convince others that maintaining a natural environment can help combat rana shing biodiversity. these large blacks as they're called are allowed to dig around in the ground almost anywhere on the summer lakes in a state in the east of england acting as a secret weapon of sorts for the estate owner and farmer lord sommer lake and. they're very efficient because you can afford to have quite a fix. for quite a short time to get thee to century to the grind to

a lot open space for new seeds. lord some relations a state sponsor of or 20 square kilometers and he calls the mansion home. jason park provides space for all the animals to roam freely. far from the stereotypical english along the state owner's allowing nature to completely reclaim on one 5th of his property. his father also run a farm but of the conventional sort where it would have been unthinkable for cows and pigs to wander right up to the doorstep always been very keen on. nature and so wanting to do things better than my dad particularly found it very frustrating he had a sort of almost victorian hangover of tardiness. and so we we clashed a bit on the. lord's summer lake pigs are slaughtered but at the same time they also help conserve nature by lending greater biodiversity to the forest a fern species had run rampant there for centuries and the pigs can help keep it in

check. and in order to. you know stimulate the soil to suit the the seabed the floor see that underneath here we need to disrupt broccoli. assoon as they completed their task the pigs have to leave the forest again if you just have pigs you'll only have this and that it's a disaster of a different kind so you you know one has to control so rewarding is is a great time but in that sense it's farming so i would try always thinking to try and keep the balance right between different species to try to get the perfect sort of mosaic of habitats to get the most biodiverse environment. lord summer laden and those who share his convictions try to win over their neighbors most nearby farmers are skeptical. that resists change at best times. to traditional bombers and.

i think in that respect it's it's always you know i mean. there's a lot of people. but. when you run into. some relate and doesn't agree that only wealthy landowners can afford to conserve nature and see them self as a pioneer venturing down new paths. but he's convinced everyone will need to rethink things and has already found 200 associates into the few farmers and neighborhood initiatives as well as the nearby warren school for children with disabilities such as autism. the brits were incredibly good farmers and gardeners but that tends to mean tidying stuff up and managing everything to savvy i mean they disobey a great example of this or that whether this is a school playing field or whether it's. a public park that's kind of. typical management you know for 50 years and this is you know it's

a new form of management. this garden meant to stimulate the senses is largely left to nature. lord summer late and says finding a bond with nature is an experience that as many people as possible should benefit from and he wishes to transform the over 100 square kilometers of neighboring marshlands into a nature park attracting eco tourists. and what kind of walking up and down this river valley but still with cattle and with. farming systems but that have to be gentle. but 1st he has to persuade his neighbors because pigs roaming free on the property really is too much for most farmers. animals along just impacted by what they can be instrumental in how we live our lives to insects for example are essential in awful

production in fact the un's food and agriculture association estimates that up before 71000000000 new ovals worth of global food production relies on pollinators like bees how can we protect them in here marshal predation india beekeepers are experimenting with ideas to life their population. episode and out in because the indian honeybee they are at home in the mountains of the indian subcontinent once there were many species of bees in the nothern state of the matter predators beekeepers even get in traditional hives on the walls of their homes there. are still keeps his bees this way it's a practice he learned from his father. holly was one of the typical characteristic of the so-called march in the march quarter just every household had the heights to harvest honey for their own you.

know. as one of the few people who breeds bees according to the old tradition he was the bee hives much like his ancestors but instead off in the walls of the house the bees now live in the garden. the materials that uses to build the highways are from the region using local products makes the hives board affordable and by mentally friendly their appearance is reminiscent of the traditional him are to. cottages. i buy them in the past i only used to be used to produce honey i was satisfied with whatever little money i earn from it when i started taking courses i learned about the significant growth of the plane pollination especially here in the margin courses like the one school leaver commodity ended are offered in conjunction with the governmental programs in an effort to aid b.

preservation this is important because these are a source of income for beekeepers. my hands are saying from here martin you know our city says honeybees are endangered especially in this region. one of the biggest threats to be is the destruction of their habitats the b. flora. in here much of the truth is even more imminent because fruit orchards in this state are often full of insecticides and pesticides we have seen that in our research boards are insecticide press or you can issue. this species of bees that the government conservation programs are focused on our italian beef the so-called mellifera during the 1960 s. india imported them in hopes of motivating people to breed bees commercially while

indian honeybees produce an average of 7 to 10 kilograms of honey for colony annually mellophone are these produced 3 times as much each year but this is also how honey became an inexpensive industrial goods today beekeepers receive between 60 to $65.00 rupees per kilogram of honey that's around $69.00 to $75.00 euro cents the prices have also contributed to the decreasing number of small scale beekeepers in him. cannot sing from them issues b. collector wants to change that. and initiative aims to aid in the conservation of native bees which are considered more robust and resilient than italian be they also don't require a large expanse of land. the reasons garden stuff ice as habitats for the small colony that are meter to the area as a result indian bees are armed against best and climate change and the news of their positive characteristics is spreading. now people coming up to us and asking

us that can you please come and help me with the hive that i used to have in my old house so people are more. people are more responsive to be the end of. the initiative is involved with various projects including women's groups that expound on the walk of beekeepers like. manufacturing live bomb and candle provides many women with their 1st opportunity to. their own money since the mid east so everyone benefits from the preservation of in be the beekeeper their wives and of course the bees themselves they all do their part in meditating biodiversity. killing wildlife for profit is coming back to haunt you once many experts believe wildlife train a keen dry wardens watching to see all the seasons which are transmitted from animals to humans may have caused the call the line 900 pandemic when does the need

to move instructions that the benefit wildlife and biodiversity let's take a look. wild animals in cages many of them injured and weak it's filthy increment in the animals or in close contact with humans. the corona virus may have started to spread in an animal market like this is the perfect breeding ground for new diseases. markets like this provide an opportunity for pathogens to make the leap from one species to another. in the process the pathogen can develop characteristics that make it easier to spread to a 3rd species in this case to humans. experts have long been warning that the trade in wild animals could be a ticking time bomb more than 2 thirds of infectious diseases that affect humans originating wildlife those include deadly diseases such as the ebola virus sars and

hiv aids scientists call such diseases zoonotic because they originate in animals. do not have diseases can be dangerous because the pathogen can develop new capabilities in its new host the new host has no immunity so infection can often lead to serious disease and. the current virus pandemic has thrust these wild animal markets into the spotlight around the world many are calling for a total pound. the animals are sold not just for food for private households some species assault to make traditional medicines or aphrodisiacs others and those pricey delicacies on restaurant menus animal protection activists like these in vietnam say that the only way to reduce the risk of pandemics is to ban the commercial trade in wild animals would be of the viruses don't really make a distinction. you know. a lot on the higher trade chain

they don't make that distinction which whether their trade is legal or illegal whether their training is for bush meat for have sold for medicine or as exotic pets. activists agree the desire for an exotic pet is part of the problem there's a flourishing illegal online trade in them especially involving reptiles. that wild animals are also sold online illegally they pose the highest risk for transmitting viruses to humans. all of the countries are having well that's right in this very connected world we live in and so now more than any time. more than any other time we need to unite all of the countries need to be a night to address while that crime which is the root of the pandemic china has now

temporarily pound the trade and consumption of wild animals. but as long as the worldwide market exists the threat of new viruses will continue. with great power comes great responsibility this famous line born from pop culture applies to our relationship with our planet our responsibility extends beyond just ourselves it extends to and new living organism we share tweet i will leave you without thought and see you again next week until been a lot entire team going back. to. the.

good shape. what effect climate change have on our house from me is that you it's a very important really if you. want to eat in the future and want to bore myself. to the. next w. . and this to face is

a good day. since 2 tourists disappeared some are struggling to make ends meet. for others. almost nothing has changed and they are always online. this is how local news and digital nomads experience the crisis differently. 3002. 160 minutes on d w. it's about billions. it's about power. it's about the foundation of the new food order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network also in europe. china is promising its

partners rich. but in europe there's a sharp morning whoever exception money from the new superpower will become dependent on it china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. welcome to the health show on t w. k c i used to cast in liquid taps. hello and welcome to in good shape did you know that more people die from air pollution than from smoking. and that's just one problem because this is chilling all planning to. exhaust you change at all times even for me as a g.p.

it's a very important self will there be such as what will we eat in the future and what about the rising temperatures move to harm our bodies in the year 2. 1800 injured me no more than 1000 people with. extremely hot days and lingering he took night for days in a row that's becoming more common in many parts as climate change advances. it's not good for our health in fact heat can kill it's a country and her cheek can become a health risk factor especially if it goes on for a long time but even dr hits the subject of the body to enormous stress at some point the body gets exhausted after here. during lengthy heatwaves hospital emergency rooms are overrun. it's good for me to

view there are more viruses and bacteria and we have to take that into account we also see cases of flu and i don't usual times of the year so significant changes are indeed underway. extended periods of great heat can trigger cardiac arrhythmia that has to do with sweating a mechanism whereby the body tries to cool itself sweater that operates it draws heat out of the body the body cools. but sweat depletes the party of water amino acids you react and salts otherwise known as electrolytes. we need electrolytes so that we don't get cardiac arrhythmia or feel extremely weak in our patients notice when say their potassium level is low because they have occasional extra heartbeats well their heart misses a beat have all said that when it gets very hot our blood pressure comply met that

too is a result of the body working to cool itself down. if our body temperature rises above 37 degrees celsius our blood. vessels become dilated which expands their surface area. the veins stand out helping to cool the blood but dilation means the pressure in the vessels declines that can be risky for patients who already take drugs to lower their blood pressure it can drop so low they faint that's what happened to erica on an exceptionally hot day after i felt strange all of a sudden here i felt really awful so i went inside and at that moment everything went black in front of my eyes and fear. for her doctor the case was clear. often medication needs to be adjusted to cope with

long hot spells. on can reduce the dosage or stop taking a certain drugs varies and depends on the underlying disease some patients don't just have high blood pressure but also have heart disease or kidney disease. at charity university hospital in berlin climate change has become a topic of research one hypothesis is that a warming environment jeopardizes the healing of wounds for example after an operation. are lots of bacteria on our skin and in our gut we're seeing more and more wounds that get infected one possible explanation for that is that these bacteria change during lengthy hot spells. as good. pathogens lacking in hospitals also budget and when it's warm.

enough i wish for the inside of a follow up studies confirm that there is a link between warmer weather especially for lengthy periods and the incidence of infected wounds that could constitute a risk to patients. that conditioning could help according to dr one ski domenica he studies public health on the environment and says health care facilities across germany need to adapt to rising temperatures and lengthy heat waves. to some hospitals in france for example have one air conditioned room for patients on every floor says that's certainly something worth considering. climate change is set to become a major challenge for all of us and for our health care providers. 2 hours of c yes when it's hot outside i mean bringing those southern lifestyle to the north this could be one way in dealing with climate change but honestly this is

not the solution what the solution could be this is what i'm going to talk about his suv your husband today she's from look this is the german alliance for climate change and to help. the climate crisis as a whole so the health crisis but with a healthy lifestyle we can protect our wellbeing and planet at the same time. we here at the labyrinth judy museum in berlin currently an exhibition about climate change and this is our topic we'll talk about because you're a co-founder of an alliance called luke which means smart so what's the alliance about so rigid german climate change and health once and we found it. years ago personally and we're interdisciplinary. health professionals doctors nurses and so

our main goal is to put health into the center of climate change discussions so weiss is so important because everybody's talking about the health of our planet why do we have to focus on health 2 because as humans we are connected parts to our direct environment people can only exist on a healthy planet earth and climate change will influence of course nature around us but also human health and what are the affects of climate change has an odd body direct effect are for example if you have heat waves or extreme weather when 3rd a direct effect of these on our human health and indirect f. example if we have. warmer temperatures and higher concentrations of c o 2 trees are producing more paul for example so people who have a low g.'s will suffer more from these conditions and. some different

diseases coming out of this climate change so they're not new diseases coming up but diseases we normally know for a deceleration reaches of our world will come to us as well so for example talking about. insects who transmitted diseases day will come to our regions as well what about different parts of the world where it's already hot and warm if you have a look at the areas around equator in 2050 there will be areas where humans won't be able to live anymore and just because the heat is so extreme that we conduct trade physical these people living around these areas they will have to look for new areas to live so people will migrate and they will also come to your obviously so you are fighting against climate change in your lines so what did you achieve so far. for example this year the german doctor said we will talk about climate change and health as a main topic so it's a really big achievement because the years before did never really talked about it

and also our health minister he just claimed saving to climate means saving our health so he starting to talk about it morris world and we also have local groups who act on a local level they're talking with directors from cornice but also from universities to bring up this topic more and more so there's some political pressure building up actually but what can i do what can we all do so of course we can change our way of living and it's definitely one thing we need to do but there are 2 other things i think that are even more important the 1st thing is that we have to talk with our friends and family about a topic because only by talking about it we will find solutions that have a broad acceptance and i was society and as well we have to be get politically engaged so that we can demand for the politicians for the change really to reduce emissions so that for example cities built cycling pathways that the cost we have

to pay for products really represents a cost that is put onto nature also and of course there's some of that contains are for more the cherry and meals and then of course we have to change our way of living also eating less meat taking the bike more often so our lives will change actually in everybody's just talking about traffic go to electric cars about taking the bikes but you said the vegetarian diet might be important as well because we have to talk about livestock and the industrialised meat production we think that more than 50 percent of all the pollution gases are coming from life stock so maybe it's time to turn to vegetarian diets. pig and cattle farms and industrial scale meat production consume a lot. of energy and have a major impact on our environment and climate so what effect does our diet have on our planet and our health. these questions were the focus of

a recent study by climate scientists. and an international team of research is. the 1st time ever we do a scientific assessment linking health and sustainability of food and what we find which is. this healthy diet. we would actually cut down by by half the food system. climate change for example a very significant contribution to the study shows very clearly the repercussions of diet the production of food takes up 40 percent of the earth's land surface and 70 percent of the world's fresh water and it's responsible for 30 percent of greenhouse gases soil depleted of nutrients requires more fertilizer and the global appetite for meat means that more and more rain forest is being cleared to make way for cattle grazing land and feed crops. the researchers also made

dietary recommendations. advice no more than 40 grams of meat per day around 500 grams of fruit and vegetables. 250 grams of dairy products. to much of the world this would entail a substantial change in how we eat. this diet would be a major benefit to our health. the health of the planet. my call here is to get the food agenda right into the climate negotiations and right into all the climate action to understand that it's not enough to just decarbonize the world's energy system we need to decarbonize to get sustainable food systems as well your nose a change of mindset is what's needed after all it's consumer habits that shape demand. each one of us has to decide what we do for our health and the future of our planet. so how much meat do you eat i actually have been eating meat

for by new years already so you return yeah ok so the vegetarian diet a diode you would recommend for say everybody there definitely are the least i would recommend to reduce the consumption of meat because it's way healthier as well for of course for our planet and as well for human health but it's very very difficult to change habits especially the eating habits so you've got any tips how to change and it's not about everything or nothing i think reducing the meat consumption step by step with the key to how to deal with this problem so of course their meat imitation product and you can use them and also there's a pleasure in health fire to it is the recommended by the lancet the center for joe we've been talking about and they're. recommending a died which includes meat and fish but only in their amount so if somebody

wants to go plan based on his or her diet would you recommend using. a turn it is like a meat in the beginning i think it can make things easier but still those purposes often very processed and contain a lot of salt so in the end you should aim for eating more well until it's been for example so products like tofu or tempe and also nuts and see. or if you want to top off your protein levels you can even eat insects i mean many people around the world eating insects on a regular basis they are very nutritious tasty they are high in protein and they harm our environment much less then for instance cars. is this the food of the future it could be since 2018 the european union allows insects to be processed into food and supermarket chains are already offering

products made of insect flour or even entire larvae like buffalo and meal worms in many parts of the world insects have been consumed for millennia certain insects and even considered delicacies. but in europe a relatively new carbon or a concept the e.u. has strict hygiene regulations for insect farming species raised for food include grasshoppers and crickets meal worms and buffalo worms the worms are fed a special powder after just 2 weeks these lovey are ready to be harvested and then put on a diet to empty their bowels that's where most bacteria would be found. then they're washed and fro.