this is news line from berlin taking stock in the world's fight against coronavirus a year after the world health organization sounded the alarm about covert 19 we'll look at the progress made in the difficult road ahead also coming up russian police warn the public not to join protests in support of the country's jailed opposition leader tensions are high on the eve of planned mass rallies to demand alexina founding be free. and former india take to the streets in the capital delhi they're furious about new agricultural laws they say who will benefit large corporations.

i'm michael thanks for joining us it's now been a year since the world health organization attempted to alert the world to an impending danger declaring the coronavirus crisis a public health emergency just over a month later the global pandemic began on january 30th 2020 there'd be just over 10000 covert cases almost all of them in china there after in the late winter an early spring case number shot up around the world and they've been rising ever since on january 29th 2021 a year after that initial declaration at least 102000000 people have fallen sick with the virus. to talk about this grim anniversary i'm joined by stephen moore

sees a professor an epidemiologist at the columbia university medical center in new york and an expert in health diplomacy an early warning signs welcome to deter you professor. if you could take a view of this sir where are we in this pandemic are we still in the beginning or can you see a very clear way out well i think we're really still in the thick of the pandemic i think that if we had acted early in the us it might have been possible to contain it and reduce the offense but at this point it's like most other pandemics in that we are waiting to be able to have a vaccine which we have now and to give it to everyone to slow down the pace of the pandemic but it's still ongoing in many parts of the world including the united states. we've all been living in an alternate universe locking down at home wearing masks keeping distance even from some of those closest to us will some version of

that be the new norm simply because we can't eradicate this virus altogether any more than we can eliminate the regular flu. yes and theoretically it would have been possible and possible early on but i think it's going to be to some extent the new normal i think the optimistic view is that we have at least 4 known human coronavirus is that have been circulating for a while cause something like the common call your flu like illness during flu season and this might end up being a 5th one adventure only in till then i think we have to be very careful to prevent transmit even after there are a lot of immunizations simply because these new parents will continue cropping up as long as the virus is being transmitted from person. professor herd immunity clearly appears to be the endgame here and the best way to get there is with

vaccinations how worried should we all be that many people not only still doubt the danger of this virus but also the effectiveness of vaccines i worry about that a lot of calls axion hesitance it's hard enough to to get good at here and even the standard vaccines and in this country only about 50 percent of the people take their annual flu vaccine i'm hoping that the motivation for this will be better but i do worry about that because we will not reach your immunity unless we can get at least 80 percent of the world's population it is. just a quick yes no answers sure one year from now or we still going to be talking about this virus but the same sort of in the same sort of dire context i doubt less we will have gotten used to it in the more immunization. ok but we still will be seeing yes stephen morse epidemiologist at columbia university medical center thank

you so much for your time thank you. germany has imposed a travel ban on countries hit hardest by new krona virus variants the measure facts among others britain portugal brazil and south africa restrictions will remain in place until at least february 17th berlin says the ban is necessary to prevent a surge and new infections exceptions remain for people with the right to reside in germany medical personnel and urgent medical transfers by air meanwhile chancellor angela merkel has appealed to the public for patience during her country's groan of hours lockdown schools shops restaurants and leisure facilities have been closed since december in her weekly video podcast merkel noted some encouraging signs but urged people to stay vigilant. thanks to all of our efforts the infection rate is dropping. we are making progress but at the same time

we must be mindful of the danger posed by the new highly contagious mutation that full in the coming weeks we must proceed with caution we're not yet in a position to reopen schools and daycare centers in the wool consistent we are now observing social distancing and following hygiene rules and wearing masks the sooner that will be possible again. russian police have warned activists not to join protests in support of the jailed opposition leader alexina boughner security forces have sealed off parts of cities including st petersburg where demonstrations are planned nearly $4000.00 have been detained at rallies since the valley's arrest earlier this month. russian or thora tees are determined to prevent any repeat of the mass protests which followed the arrest of alec seen a valid me much of simply just bad has been barricaded against demonstrations

planned for sunday officials warn they will crack down hard on troublemakers but that is dealing in means just the living interior ministry and other lauren foresman units will use all necessary means to ensure public order any violent action against offices or refusal to a bay their lawful orders will be prevented individuals who commit illegal acts will be detained and held accountable but he cuts up. a moscow court has ordered novell his brother own leg and several other supporters not to leave their homes they are alleged to have breached coronavirus rules during recent rallies nonsense say their lawyers. the only motivation behind this criminal case is to put all political. activists under house arrest and forbid them from using the internet. in another twist russian t.v.

has been to a building which the opposition claim is a multi-million dollar palace belonging to president vladimir putin state television says nothing more than a hotel is being built here and a leading business figure insists he is the owner. meanwhile security forces remain on high alert to deal with sunday's planned protests in st petersburg and elsewhere. farmers in india have begun a one day hunger strike to protest the government's planned agriculture laws they say the laws benefit large private buyers at the expense of producers the demonstrations come after a week of unrest that has seen hundreds injured in clashes with police. thousands of farmers are in delhi venting their anger at indian prime minister narendra modi they say new agricultural laws who crush them financially giving

large corporations a big advantage. we have decided that we won't go bad unless farm laws are repealed if we don't have anything then it's better to die here than at home. i am just one day hunger strike is part of a movement that started 2 months ago against 3 pieces of legislation that passed parliament last september these protests have been the biggest challenge to prime minister modi since he came to power in 2014 he says the new laws are necessary to modernize indian farming but farmers believe the changes will turn agriculture corporate and leave them behind so they say giving up isn't an option not to be able to tell the 3 laws or take him back we're not moving from here but. you know obviously oregon may go in a surprise move the government has disrupted demonstrators ability to communicate

and mobilize by shutting down the internet near a protest site you look at that is murder of democracy people's rights are being subjugated it's our right to gather but the government is trying to suppress it. the hunger strike coincides with the death of indian independence later mahatma gandhi protesters hope to rehab their image which has taken a hit and recent days because this cornish is with the police. farmers here hope the rally on this day of remembrance will reaffirm the peaceful nature of the protests. well it's been a wild week on the stock markets after small time online investors joined forces to send the value of some unlikely shares soaring. stocks in the u.s. retailer game stop surge by 70 percent on friday hedge funds which had bet against game stop lost billions in value in response some online stock broker apps

a suspended trading by small investors prompting demonstrations outside their offices in calls from u.s. lawmakers to investigate unfair practices. stock markets are closed a good time to take a breather and asked what just happened to be reporter joel has been following this story joel how did online investors caused this disruption well let me take you to where it all started a forum on the website reddit called wall street bets now this website is for people to swap small stop tips and users then noticed that big hedge funds had been betting against a company called game stop using a mechanism known as short selling and they decided to punish this hedge fund by buying up small stocks pushing up the price or sending it to the moon in their lingo and they thought of that over a year ago and it's been going on since it really took off in the last few weeks especially on january 26th when the billionaire on musk tweeted out about it and

not really sent it through the roof so what happened game stop stocks which were just around 2 and a half dollars last year search to over $480.00 at the peak have dropped down now to around $325.00 still very remarkable it wasn't just this one company and it wasn't just in the u.s. investors all over the world started buying up stocks in companies that looked like they might be struggling in order to try and teach these big hedge funds a lesson how we should note that while some hedge funds did lose a lot of money other institutional investors also made a lot of money in all this activity so it's not quite as simple as david versus goliath if it happened it could happen any time why is it happening now well there's one theory which is that people aboard would be forgiving under various levels of lockdown that's called the border market hypothesis also people are quite angry you know that the stock market has been booming lately but the real world economy isn't doing so well and these hedge funds always seem to win when everyone else loses there's also outrage at these trading platforms which have now shut down

access or restricted access to small traders it's been opened up again since but there's anger that they were blocked even while hedge funds could continue trading on the. side there are some in the banking sector who say that this kind of activity by small investors should be banned in these form should be banned because it's akin to market manipulation which is illegal what's likely to happen when the markets open on monday well over the weekend the page wall street bets be getting a lot of traffic as you might imagine everyone's falling in there trying to see what the next big move is so there's been some warnings on that site from users telling people that they're being trying to other people trying to sell stocks which are undervalued you know that people try to make a quick buck for example the price of silver is really soaring at the moment you know there's a being warned that they shouldn't mention anything about organizing because that could constitute market manipulation of regulators decided to prosecute them but the current mean is hold the line meaning don't sell your shares on monday when the markets open again even if you stand to lose money and

a lot of these small investors do stand to lose money but they don't seem to care the point of the game was to make a point which was that small time traders joining together can beat an institutional investor at least for a little while as david bowie said we can be heroes just for one day no doubt many people will be on edge at the opening bell on monday. ditto reported thank you so much. here's a look at all the results from this business leader match day so far byron beat hoffenheim while dortmund in frankfurt both got 31 wins. drew just like braman and shaka in saturday's late game beat laver collision on friday stuttgart beat mines and on sunday cologne will host bill of health and votes for will play freiburg. you're watching the news up next is world stories with

a look at how germany is paying tribute to the victims of krona virus and remember you can keep up to date with all avenues on our website that studio if you dot com i'm michael okuda in berlin for the entire news team here thanks so much for watching state well be safe. it's about billions. it's about our work. it's about the foundation of a new world order the new silk road. china wants to expand its influence with this trade network. but in europe there's a shot of the morning wherever except some money from the new superpower will become dependent on the commission of the state. the chinese state has

a lot of money at its disposal but the focus and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status and position in the world. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d w. the days were flying cars were a distant dream long gone today companies worldwide designing them so when will we be ready for takeoff topic today on shift. whether it's growing well start ups like in germany developers across the globe want us to take off in electrically powered flying vehicles many cities are choked with traffic but in the sky there's still plenty of room and also the prototypes

are supposed to be less harmful to the environment so when will flying cars claim the skies and when they really improve our lives here's what experts have to say. about the hard to predict who will hit cars will go mainstream. or have the necessary infrastructure as well as a social acceptance. but i do believe that flying cars will eventually transform our lives you know. then. in cities like new york it's all follow shanghai beijing and other places where space is scarce the globe it leads people with money want to be able to move around quickly they create demand this will probably just be a solution for the mobility problems of a very small percentage of society i'm ability elite fancy speeds those for the

super rich that's not what i had in mind in japan they're not just planning for the rich by 2023 japanese megacities want to have commercial sky taxis that's why the government's investing in businesses like sky drive in august 20. the start of its 1st manned test flight by called the cassandra ball got an exclusive glimpse of what happens inside the secret research center. this is it japan's 1st flying car i definitely need to see this and of course fly in it too when i think of flying cars i think of that to the future. the robinsons and my childhood cartoon the jetson's are sorry if i imagine nation is now becoming a reality. my team and i began our journey to skydives research center from tokyo

before embarking on this trip we had to sign confidentiality agreements why the secrecy in strictness because the technological details and detesting location are top secret i'm allowed to say this much though we're about 300 kilometers southwest of the capital in the middle of the mountains what a thrill right now i'm standing in front of the are in the center of sky drive and the location is top secret kind of makes me feel like i'm in a james bond movie. or. the air mobility start up was founded in 2012 and is backed up by toyota and behind these doors it's where the magic happens and here is where it's parked sky drives prototype with 8 little rotors to be the place doesn't immediately scream high tech sadly i'm not allowed to test it without a pilot's license well at least i got to sit in it and it was awesome just time

travels into the future well not literally but the kind of use like it. some experts say flying cars will reduce traffic jams in urban areas lower pollution and save travel time. sky drive that's one of about 80 companies worldwide there are currently working on so-called e.-v. to electric vertical takeoff and landing these flying cars run on batteries and they can land and take off from the tiniest bases trouble already exists but it's still very inconvenient our goal is to create a compact and quiet find a vehicle so that people can fly every day little bit. currently the prototypes flight time is limited to 3 to 5 minutes this is supposed to change soon though the developers are hoping that in only 2 years time their flying cars will be used as

air taxis into or ism or for emergency medical services but there are still a number of technical obstacles left to overcome. because this is called little more motors will provide greater safety but when you increase the number of motors you have to build it bigger and heavier so the goal is to figure out the right number of motors in order to assure safety but at the same time keep the aircraft as compact as possible. it's a fine balance test pilot toshio on go tells me that for this year the next milestone for the project is already in the works launching a 2 seater to fire across tokyo bay and one of these i can't even begin to imagine oh this has been quite a journey i learned a lot about flying cars and i even got to sit a warrant but let's be clear the ultimate goal for these vehicles is autonomy and

until that happens there are a number of technical obstacles that we have to overcome and even more importantly these projects. depend heavily on public acceptance if you'd like to see what else because sandra bullock has been up to check out you tube channel sky drives model is made for air travel but hybrids goes step further traveling in the air and on roads sounds great there's just one she was obstacle for many of these ideas you need the runway the dutch company pal v is coming close their vehicle has already been approved for traffic at a top speed of 160 kilometers an hour it could turn some heads when it's propellers unfolded the pelvic turns into a gyrocopter but along with a driver's license and pilot's license you'll need 300000 euros in the bank. most flying car models made for road traffic but work like helicopters or drones they're

called even stands for electric and vital means vertical takeoff and landing and they're quite spectacular check this out. is this the mobility of the future these prototypes are electrically powered aircraft that can hover take off and land vertically they're called multi copters or evie tolls so which company will bring the 1st model to market global players like airbus and boeing have already joined the race as have startups like volvo copter from germany. it will be. the technology is really very simple which allows you to build a vehicle taken offline with much less effort. other than just the fact that there really quiet emission free easier for time. but so far

none of these sky taxis can fly longer than about 20 minutes. for safety reasons though they need to be able to remain airborne 30 minutes longer than their longest trip. current battery technology just isn't up to that. bad weather is another obstacle evie told can't fly in strong wind or heavy rain still there developers believe these flying vehicles will revolutionize mobility and sooner than we might think. governments will also have to give them the green light germany's transport ministry seems open to the idea quite interesting and sees sky taxis become a reality here in germany in 2017 we pass new regulations governing the use of drones and unmanned aircraft the next step would be to institute regulations specifically tailored to sky taxis for the most part this will happen on the

european level. so how exactly will this work perhaps sky taxis will fly set routes and use clearly defined landing spots on skyscrapers for example to handle both manned and unmanned aircraft air traffic control systems will also need to revamp so none of this will happen overnight. that still leaves a lot of open questions like the short flight time of 20 minutes and even those sky taxis won't need paved roads they will need the right infrastructure so when exactly will fly in vehicles take to the skies aerospace experts define even that believes it will take at least 15 years but who will be flying them leave a dock they'll be professional pilots very highly skilled and certified and they won't allow the passengers or people on the ground to be exposed to a higher risk than with an ordinary helicopter whether for this what is space

infrastructure will be needed. how exactly is going to work is still open here and things like whether they will need an external agency that will set the flight routes for example or if that's something that companies because it more or less themselves it's all dependent on factors like traffic density and the infrastructure and data connections available to us and how realistic is autonomy is flying at this point in time do you think you couldn't keep the regulations for transporting parcels already quite rigorous you depended on the size. craft there will be a lot of rules for instance union fighter relations system to ensure an aircraft with technical problems doesn't crash into residential areas so we're still in a way off from having human passengers aboard. most developers aiming for a ton of the sky taxis even if they're still a long way to go no pilot also saves money and space at this year's c.e.'s general

motors gave us a preview and this video by g.m. is still a simulation but the us car maker hopes it's cadillac e.-v. toll will soon become a reality electric and autonomous flying car is designed for short commutes in urban areas. this model has room for a single passenger but general motors is also developing a 2 seater for the 1st and last mile passengers can switch to an autonomous road cadillac. a year earlier at south korean car manufacturer presented a similar vision of the future. taxi that takes off and lands vertically after a test phase with a pilot this flying taxi with room for 5 passengers would eventually be autonomous at hubs passengers could switch to a car or transfer to another sky taxi flying taxis clouding the skies whether it's

transport drones or sky taxis it's clear that we need to think about what the future will bring a recent survey in germany found but just 18 percent of the population could imagine commuting with flying taxis just over 50 percent would be willing to use sky taxis in emergencies for myself i'd be keen to test a prototype so what's your take could you imagine taking us sky takes you to work where do you think it's not safe. on you tube facebook dot com that's all for today . take care and.

become africa. back to the theater when century saunas become one train headsman it's because of an ecological revolution in southern africa abolishing fenced in greys anatomy keeps oil from becoming depleted and protects the habitats up wild animals setting and game since skilled at such abuse into a sustainable future eco to africa. next on the dollar. plain antibiotics are out similar to. the causes of multi resistance are well known factory farming. poor hospital hygiene. the premature use of antibiotics. yes deadly bacteria keeps talking. 30 minutes on t w. w's crime fighters are back to africa's most successful radio

drama series continues in the all of us odes are available online course you can share and discuss on w. africa's facebook page and other social media platforms to crime fighters tune in no. joke. hello to all flooded faces and those present to stretch to by the diversity that was the chilean conclusion of our u.n. report owns the environment so if we carry on this way well ultimately destroy the foundations of all rule life on earth. welcome to our special edition of eco africa about species extinction reversion biodiversity loss i'm krista levs coming to you

from lagos nigeria. thank you crease the recent no 2 ways about it this is indeed a mix shim graph problem bartz heal and equal africa we also want to show you that there's some great projects under gives out there on how to stop the decline in species i am sundra to nogay here in company uganda and here's a quick loop to some of the stories that will be looking not in today's special edition. we go to kenya well species of until because on the brink of extinction bought a breeding program is trying to send them. seagrass baits a marine corps house box they have seen huge losses and we simply can't jump on fantasies of my time and not something. and finally convince expressions of any moves on plants opposing capital in many parts of the one box people in can use

you're a finding solutions. every day we lose more species of plants and animals pollution the forestation pole change and other human activities at the straw in our planet's reach higher diversity species extinction is sharing a hole in the sophisticated well sensitive network of who systems plants go and pollinate it's while extreme weather events leave entire habitats devastated including the coral reefs dug up by tool for many fish big changes brought about by humans at the thriving of joint range of 4 on 4 there of gen not your own homes here are real facts and figures on these warring developments you know who check. the list of animals and plants that have become extinct is already desperately long

and over 12 percent of remaining species are on the brink of extinction according to the intergovernmental science policy platform on biodiversity. extinction means gone forever wildlife populations have collapsed by more than 2 thirds in less than half a century. over that same period the human population has grown considerably. the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystems says pressure on the environment is growing and so is global g.d.p. consumers are buying more and industries consuming more natural resources especially in developing nations plus urban populations have more than doubled in the last 3 decades the loss of habitat is the greatest driver of species extinction particularly in rural areas slash and burn methods are used to clear land for

agricultural and livestock farming the direct exploitation of natural resources such as deforestation and overfishing in the world's oceans are the number 2 cause and the climate crisis is changing many ecosystems just such an extent that some species can no longer find food finally there's environmental pollution caused by industry traffic and by us individuals to plastic waste alone has increased 10 fold since 980 but some action is being taken a network of countermeasures is gradually developing more than 130 countries are part of the latest global efforts to protect biodiversity some countries are now building up databases with d.n.a. samples of endangered animal and plant species. and to be in jordan is asians like the united nations in the world bank have pledged more than

$200000000000.00 in order to further environmental goes. well we are off to kenya the sea wall of the rarest issues of artillery in africa the mountain congo there critically endangered with few of that all over it still even if the wild. to make things even one trees they are of the last porches predict has the disease is only going hard bitten the kenyan government is alarmed and has not implemented a plan to send the species on to boost its numbers animal keep class women more ruthie has come to check on his charges he looks up to mountain bungalows at the mount kenya wildlife conservancy he feeds them twice a day and makes sure the had a very antelopes is intact i like it i love the job and i'm proud you know

having that. but now it's here so it's makes me do it what with me not with me a lot so i like walking here i love it and my aim is to have as many as i can. here in captivity the animals don't have access to all the vegetation they would find in the wild that's why they're given me trish and all supplements known as well good cubes these special pellets i reach in protein them pride we should boost the antelopes immune system. the air force seems to be paying more into the kenyan wildlife conservancy. the mountain was nearly extinct in the wild in kenya and so are a few. and taken to the us is breeding and in pools up in 4 we received. from different in the us and for those 18 we started the breeding program here on

sunday and the. 77. last youngest was born on the 7th of july and it is that is in the sort of the bungle. with the increase in numbers to conservancy plans to release 25 into the mount kenya forest where kenya moore is so obvious ok if it has. 800 acres for protected century. this enclosed area at the foretold mount kenya is not just a sanctuary for mountain bungalows knows a rare white zebras and had buffalo also fine protection here from porches and created. a we divide this bongos into different products because of the species challenge that we have a moment. in the near future when we put them in the sanctuary this is problem

would be so they don't completely so what you can see here is one of the breeding hunts. it's not just poaching the threatens the real antelopes they also have to contend with a variety of diseases and the loss of their natural habitat. every point and other animal keep looking forward to the coming weeks soon 5 new mountain bone will be born equaling this species chance of survival. the i.o.c. and great list is the most important and most. interview of plants animals and a fungus certain with extinction the international union for conservation of nature he's responsible for maintaining the database it contains more than $100000.00 species in categories ranging from the least cost to the extant we said told to us conservation expands how badly africa is affected by the disappearance of species

and how important the red mist is for the protection on the most and plants. by loss of. life. of diversity and when the species is lost it's. that balance. i think it's so important for us because normally. on. almost. species our food. our environment and so on that's very important for human being to put it on as the she is morally unacceptable that it's wrong what it's not. because you know that

the extinction of species is an irreversible sentiment. under species act in the domain of conservation but however. you know some more we consider some are more important some are like we're in it all was a commission insect and even bots really because the. process of the position of or the species but at the same time the produce. or order of our species. i think in my opinion do most important cause of ascension of specie is the last.

minute because most of this. for example when you do for us is petition you tend to transform the primary for us in the country for it in that is the birds that used to nest on top of very big trees no more reproduce and that then. the population and finally lead to the loss of the species in order to hunt down lot of lands that. extension as well. i think it's. for decision making. because you know it's just an open source of information but why there is

a lot of work behind. it has. room for decision making for this young mc in. a very use. thank you to. us you had the start of the program it's not just on e-mails that are dying out in fact plant species even off but up to the point is for equal systems to look tends to be overlooked did you know for instance why sea grass is sold like 2 to a seat and why we can't eat here comes this weeks doing debate with some says. they're known as ocean rain forests large beds of sea grass provide a home and food for countless species they also produce oxygen and sequester carbon

dioxide for a long time. but scientists are warning that sea grasses under threat global warming is causing massive algal blooms that cut off the necessary light for sea grass to grow and that's not the only problem. an important so much to get to see a few there's lots of sea grass in the tropics but it's disappearing because dynamite is often used in fishing because trenches are being cut to lay pipelines. creates corridos through the beds in the sequence can't repopulate those areas. artificial sea grass could help provide a solution universities and industry have been working together for 2 years on the sea art project. just like its natural counterpart artificial sea grass would help dampen why even a g. and prevent seabed erosion providing the right conditions for natural sea grass to

grow back. and a recent study highlights another desperately needed service that sea grass provides it appears to continuously filter plastic debris out of the ocean. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our web sites or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your story. in the what faces and marine species all suffering from an increase in species that have no we're not sure in the new environment we'll see how to news events on trying to get one such problem back under control. and we all seen the same sort of things happening in many other places sundra so when the weather or ships and planes can

transport flora and fauna into eco systems where they don't belong awful think you're in a fight for survival between species impact and the devastated. fisherman out before dawn kalyan their trade in the gulf of god is. the bay on tunisia's east coast is around a 100 kilometers long. in recent times the fishermen have had to stray even further from the coast to catch fish period about darkness now i've been a fisherman for 38 years a lot has changed in that time for 20 years ago we used to catch loads of prawns but in recent years there have been repeated events that have reduced our capital out of the latest problem was the blue crab they wiped out everything with the graph out of. the 1st blue crab so sported here at the end of

2014 it's a species that was previously unknown in tunisia their numbers increased rapidly and within 8 months the crabs had become of you menace they would cut the fishing nets eat the fish and yvonne anything else they could find they became such a problem that the fisherman nicknamed them di ash after the notorious militant group islamic state the blue crab is native to the india pacifist region they came here via the red sea and the suez canal like most of the roughly 1000 non-native species that have rich the mediterranean at's tunisia's national institutes of marine sciences and technology also ben abdallah and her team is studying the blue crabs. the scientists akiane to learn more about this destructive species how fast do the crabs grow how quickly do they reproduce and how do they

impacts other species when they arrive in a new area to help answer these questions they're analyzing the contents of the crab still marks. how come you live crab is an extremely verey should species. and even the crabs are basically insatiable their feed on all kinds of prairie. prawns for example also eat several of pads like squid fish and they prey on the fish that live in the gulf of her important for the fishing industry. but the blue crab could also pose a threat to another much larger marine animal the sea turtle the mediterranean is home to 3 species of turtle all of which are endangered they got her in the gulf of gabbers to feed and to spend the winter to the north korea's island is an

important nesting ground for the log ahead turtle which lays its eggs at just a few sites on the island. just a few kilometers away on the mainland hatem is currently being cared for the adult female is more than 30 years old she's mount norrish and has a large fishing hook inside her fate suffered by many sea turtles the scientists here say injuries from both propellers are also common they found these species of plastic in hatem species the pollution of the seas is another huge threat so the turtles around 2 thirds of the animals examined here have plastic inside their bodies the scientists record and keep everything they find. that of human beings

from sea turtles are very important for the marine ecosystem the whole they maintain the balance in the food chain communication and the loggerhead turtle for example it's everything and it will eat crabs and mollusks fish jellyfish here but make sure no individual species can take over if things start to tip out of balance the sea turtle helps to get things back into equilibrium apparently he or she. in the capital soon is visit another laborde street this one focuses on developing aquatic bio pro dots the research is here to study marine organisms to identify natural substances that could be used in cosmetics and other applications they found that the meat of the blue crab is rich in various proteins by turning the crab meats into a powder they've developed

a protein rich food supplement so now the blue crab has an appeal for the domestic markets to the blue crab allport destroy the livelihoods of many fishermen but now it's become a source of income allowing the fishing industry to survive and by catching the news in the crabs this invasive species is being kept on the control of tunisia's coasts. children to come to terms. one giant problem. in no limit to see the 1st serious. legal case is a feeling of being. how will climate change affect us and our children.

w dot com slash water. anyone who's ever been to south africa will of the thousands of kilometers a friend sent that cuts across the land usually decide to keep the lifestyle in place now faces also have the structure consequences for the local environments in addition to being what life you also prevent animals from roaming freely which leads to overgraze in land predation and biodiversity loss now some herders know reversing the strain. and b.s. on the ecological revolution. livestock on to the great plains of the card room in central south africa the unemotional i won't allow to linger. 2 percent of education from the reason they have to be kept on the move so they can only eat statics will deploy headship at dixon house yes if experience and i've seen hard

landscape has changed since he's been grazing his i mean most here. it has. its. pitches in the past growth was not that much but now since we have got it you see process where. 2 we find it nor is it people now changing or increasing prices more quote actually. the hardest part of the ship biodiversity project supports commercial livestock keepin boost in language to ration on this 24000 hectare from. the car or so much green on home to millions of until up and buffalo loose in the top soil and yet crop and let life step. in a bit to recreate to degrade migrations of the past the project employs shepherds to need lives talk to the blue smocks is a project he's confident that headis can help revive to. do this right from the.

we fundamentally believe that this method or farming give space for wildlife to co-exist with production agriculture so that's really simple vision is to find a make an ism by which we can. foster biodiversity on production farms. the thousands of kilometers of fences needed for intensive livestock i recall one of the main reasons why wildlife has disappeared fences prevent the animals from roman freed as they search for grazing land and water they often end up tangled in. you know not to study the effects of defenseless woman method and environment ecologist are monitoring the project over the past 2 years we center models and a group of students have recorded the number of plant species in selected study

sites cannot dition the group evaluates the air for you teaching index the index is the term in by the amount of being seen on the ground by satellites and allows researchers to compare plant groups different regions over time. and you can already start picking up changes in trains within way the herd is being grazing especially over a longer recent period in parts of the farm and the green index shows up quite pronounced and we compared it to traditional farms where it isn't quite as pronounced and they seem to be quite a significant color it's just looking at the pixels alone you know and taking the green out of pixelization but from that you can really start seeing a difference there are many positive signs areas that have been grazed by the have seen pick up plant growth slowly wild animals are returning to the farm more than $500.00 until counted and even a leopard was recently sighted. the broken promise

however this u.s. number in season turned out to be very successful. 800 sheep to the herd slowly but surely the project is 10 into a profitable venture. by destroying the plants and animals in i call systems without destroying the basis of foreign existence hopefully you found actual us insights with us i did time for me just saying goodbye from the show becks garden in lagos i'm priscilla thanks for watching i'll see you next time . vikings on that show you all of us remember to try and do you beat of conservation you might even want to join one of the many initiatives helping to god away environment do join us next month you can i am send a tweet notice saying goodbye from champa here in uganda.

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