don't. choose to be. discovered. subscribe to. documentary. welcome to global 3000. mediæval beliefs in today's world in kyrgyzstan sons of priced possessions what about delicious. northern mexico was once home to the mexican gray wolf with

a lot of help the creatures and now return. but we start in the peruvian amazon where there's gold to be found how can locals put a stop to illegal gold mining. gold is the epitome of wealth and decadence and we have an age old fascination with it in ancient times it was prized for its beauty and constancy and it's held an allure for many people ever since in the 19th century hordes of gold diggers headed to north america to seek their fortune. gold is still regarded as a highly commodity and a safe investment in periods of crisis the gold price always rises cheering the current pandemic its value has such. that's attracted criminal gold diggers looking to make big bucks like in peru the world's 6th largest gold producer.

the fight against illegal gold mining and caruso is bringing out the big guns this special unit is on its way to raid gold mine is hidden deep in the jungle. it's a mission fraught with danger they need few and they need lots of it. it's the start of a 3 day rate for park ranger vladimir ramirez and a platoon of soldiers. real get the idea for we're going to use small boats to travel the river to where the miners are. bringing elite soldiers with us but if i was there i might even though. ramirez is the director of the amazon reserve tumble . on the way the group passes through military camp a year ago this was a come full of illegal mining. here in the intact jungle of the tumble part or is it still pleasantly cool. but just 2

kilometers down the track the sun beats down on the scorched desert. it's a scene of massive environmental destruction without the military ramirez was able to drive the criminals out of here a year ago. on this moonscape there were hundreds of gold mining machines operating. around 6000 illegal miners working just in this. this oil is contaminated with mercury which the mine is used to separate the precious metal from the rock. the park rangers have started reforestation another declaration of war against the gold mine this. then the 1st place date. in the intact part of the time because the nature conservation area $2700.00 square of

staggering biodiversity. at 6 o'clock the next morning there on with 10 elite soldiers from the navy without their protection ramirez could not possibly carry out this raid risk you're going every time we find the gold mine as they recognize us and they've threatened me and my park rangers these threats are not to be taken lightly. from here on it gets tricky the money no ski river is gold digger territory on the back they see the 1st winding talents of the illegals. ramirez has been doing this job for 14 years but it's only one year since the government has given him a treat back at. the man in the headscarf is the state prosecutor he's allowed to rest mine is deep in the jungle. now there's a hot lead a man was spotted on the bank he quickly disappeared into the underbrush. the

soldiers follow his trucks. and here they find a camp concealed in the forest clearly the criminals have left in a hurry. the soldiers destroy everything they can find food clothing to lose the government prosecutors disappointed that the criminals were able to flee. in a month and i'm going to get on whether it's a mafia the people in this camp work for the miners who are operating further along the river you know some of the almost is to get on to preserve this campus as a lookout for the gold miners looking for the $7.00 to $1.00 that. the arrival of the team here is no longer a secret the gold mining syndicates has a radio communications network which provides warning as everything burns the soldiers are eager to keep moving. the state prosecutor has seen

suspicious pale patches on satellite images of the jungle here and. then they strike it lucky recently used mining again. the soldiers inspect the tower a mine is closed sly hastily abandon next to it. as i thought they suck the mud up with a strong pump out of a water hole there and they pump it up into the washing slows the gold particles get caught in a piece of carpet for most of the family. there's no trace of the motor that annoys ramirez because that's the only way they can really put the set up out of action permanently. a quick photo then on the way through more and more of these gaping wounds in the rain forest. the water is full of highly toxic mercury

as an ecosystem will take many years to recover and the illegal gold mining boom continues unabated. yes really the gold prices climbed around 40 percent since the pandemic began so obviously many people have joined the gold rush years i've got all. the destruction of the rain forest has been accelerating even more as the coronavirus crisis ramps up the gold fever the soldiers also know that in another hole they've discovered a powerful engine 4 kilograms of dynamite should do the trick. and is splitting explosion which the miners will have heard from their hiding places but they'll be back soon ramirez says and he will too to carry on the fight against them. and now we had from the amazon to the mountains of mexico home to the mexican wolf

it's not easy to capture these shiny creatures on camera these here on loan animals in an outdoor enclosure being prepared for a life in the wild having been driven out of their natural territory in the state of chihuahua it's time for el lobo as the wolves that called in mexico to make a return. christiane is calling out to the wolves about 35 mexican gray wolves or logos live in this area in the state of chihuahua. that is involved in a project to reestablish and grow populations of the mexican wolf or canis lupus by lead to give it its scientific name they are shy creatures it's hard to spot any here in this yet are madly occidental mountain range which extends over almost

$2000000.00 hectares. but aguilar says the evidence indicates some are nearby. a few. really where you have them over here we see several sets of footprints. look quite fresh. so the wolves could still be here this shows that they are alive and looking for food. checks one of the camera traps the photos confirm what he suspected. while crew for being here are a couple of young wolves they're looking good healthy and behaving normally and. have a rare. moment from a brush. this camera only takes still photos others record video

aguilar is pleased these walls look well fed that's good news the mexican gray wolf is an endangered species. he says the composition of their feces is also a good sign. you can see the hairs from the animal in a lovely mulkey camille. wild turkeys are among the animals lobo's hunt in the wild along with deer squirrels rats and peccaries. aguilar will examine samples of wool feces in the lab he says the hairs probably come from a deer or a peccary. so it looks like the wolves here have plenty to eat. with but i'm in favor of viable means the wolves 100 cattle and that should help resolve the conflict with the cattle ranchers.

ranchers and landowners have almost killed off the mexican wolf its natural habitat used to extend from the southern united states to southern mexico. dozens of organizations in the 2 countries have got together to reestablish populations in the wild of robust animals with enough genetic diversity to be genetically viable. eduardo pe young is one of the few ranchers around here who would welcome more wolves. he's even made his land available to the project to wolves will be released here in a few days' time. while his father used to hunt

wolves he says the environment would benefit if they returned and took their rightful place in the ecosystem. they are an important link in the food chain. the advantage for cattle ranchers would be that wolves would displace the coyotes they don't really belong in this ecosystem wolves are competition for them and would drive them away because wolves are the natural predators here on the ranch the preorders not but i'll is that going to run to. wolves often leave remains of their prey behind providing food for scavengers species wolves also help maintain the health of the cattle because they tend to attack sick and weaken down a month. christiane regularly visits ranchers and tries to convince them of the advantages of having wolves in the area it's no easy task

especially when wolves have been spotted within 200 meters as happened here. we live off our animals so we have to look after them. we have to protect ourselves from any predators that jeopardize our livelihood and that often means with guns. which i love with the with a. lot of tells ranchers that under certain conditions they will receive compensation if a wolf kills livestock he also points out that wolves don't normally like to have cattle for dinner wild pumas and coyotes certainly do and they in turn tend to move away from areas where wolves live. at the when i visited there cobra that wildlife facility in the neighboring state of sonora 11 wolves are being prepared for their return to the wild.

today's exercise hunting wild turkeys brought into the enclosure especially for the purpose. veterinarian fastow of men time tries to observe the hunt from a distance. a little bit on the ground but i went up with them we're hoping they'll come out so we are in evaluate their behavior and their hunting skills. these wolves are about to be released into the wild. and we want to stimulate their hunting instinct with life. to survive in the wild they have to be good hunters it's important that as the wolves hunt they can neither see nor smell people nearby. if you look on the look i'm looking for them but i can't see them and that's a good thing it means they've run away from us. i'm going to hope for. the wolves

shouldn't assume people will continue to provide them with food they need to fend for themselves. and it looks like they already are to judge by these turkey remains . back on pions ranch in chihuahua the time has come to set 2 wolves free a male and a female. they leave their human carers and are now on their own they can join a pack or have pups and start one of their own. attitudes from the dark ages in 2021 the idea that women are less valuable the men not whether of being a life femicide is the name given to the killing of women for being women a state of emergency has been declared in puerto rico after 60 such matters nastia in countries anchored in traditional moral concepts when men are seen as as in

providers and daughters as a burden femicide often takes place in the womb. in india almost 470000 female fetuses are aborted each year and those are only the official figures. this dreadful press. this is common in kyrgyzstan too but some women are now fighting against. the name means the long awaited son sullivan is a son after 4 daughters. a son and a quiet family life that was all amr yusupov all wanted her husband left her almost 5 years ago when she was pregnant with her 5th child the ultrasound scan showed it was going to be another girl to everyone's surprise she ended up giving birth to a boy. but her husband was already gone in kyrgyzstan having

a son to carry on the family name is still an important tradition even during her 1st pregnancy with i get him who's 11 years old now husband pressured her to get an abortion he saw these girls his own daughters as a burden. to. marry them off he kept saying. girls aren't people they just marry into other families anyway. i need an air i need a son that's what he said. and that's why we're separated. i always felt fine about having girls i never complained about it. matter how many daughters i have i accepted daughters or sons they're all my children. along with her 5 children and her parents. lives on the outskirts of the care gets

capital she can't work at the moment because she's taking care of her mother who has cancer the family lives off benefits that add up to around 130 euros a month having 2 cows and a few chickens helps. supervisor is grateful for the life she leads even though things can be tough her husband had an alcohol problem and used to beat her. oh plus 10 he drank all the time every day. when i lived with my husband i was always afraid when evening came. i thought it was now come home drunk and it will start all over again i lived with those thoughts every day now i don't have them at night the kids and i calmly go to sleep and in the morning we get up. women and men have the same legal rights in kyrgyzstan they have since the soviet era but patriarchal tradition still determines life here for many even in the capital women

usually keep having children until they give birth to at least one son and girls sometimes are given 1st names like enough names that show they were on wanted. to see. him in the park i think around 60 or 70 percent of women here think that if they don't give birth to a boy they are somehow inadequate but you know they are under huge pressure. even before they start their own families women see the way their parents treat their brothers and how they react to the birth of a son. that makes women feel that it's absolutely necessary for them to have a son of their own. knows that pressure all too well she stayed with her husband for 10 years but she accepts those tough times as part of her fate as what god gave her.

i love you know my life is good thank god i have my parents and my kids when my kids are laughing and playing i feel happy too i'm happier now than i was with my husband i want my daughters to grow up to be conscientious and do to fall and i want their husbands to be due to fall to i don't want my daughters to go through what i went through i want them to have a happier life and wants to start working as a seamstress again soon but her children are her priority a good education and most importantly a happy family that's what she hopes for for her son and her daughters. people without a roof over their heads are similarly in need to for technician around $700000.00 homeless people sleep rough in the e.u. every night europe might be a wealthy continents but there's considerable social inequality here it's particularly hard to be homeless in the winter when temperatures hit freezing and

many migrants to suffer in the cold of winter living in camps with often inhumane conditions proper warm clothing is in high demand. what's a fashion designer doing in the morea refugee. bus terminal is distributing what he calls a shell to suit 2 children with no proper roof over their heads. his original plan was to become a top designer and present his connections on the world's catwalks but now he's on a humanitarian mission helping those in order to keep warm. the shelters see it consists of a jacket sleeping bag and a duffel bag they're produced here in the form of most about factory and skated in the netherlands the idea came to after a personal tragedy. more. 7 years

ago the father of 2 friends of mine died of hypothermia here on the streets of n.c. everyone was so shocked and it really triggered something in me i designed a prototype for a sort of wearable sleeping bag since then i've made $12500.00 of them are we hand them out to people for free all my creative energy goes into the project now it's much more rewarding than just designing nice clothes. hennis people can pick one up at this christian run shelter in amsterdam. our wonderful 4 new suits we can really do with them we just gave one to someone i should go and look for harold he's supposed to be getting his today. more than 60000 people are homeless in the netherlands the figure has doubled in the last decade. it gets more you know you wanted one of these shelter suits didn't you

and yes it's getting wet outside. he goes to the back of the shelter to try it on. if he's from by the way the strap was made by porsche or 40. there is a lot of demand for shelter suits among homeless people. yeah is it warm water to do you really warm you have to have you slipped in one day to me you know should i order that it's brilliant made from 10 fabric and up cycled sleeping bags the suit is wind and waterproof. i look like a mummy. it also has a hood and integrated sky where it's designed to be as wilma's possible homeless people die of the cold in the netherlands every winter so. you have a yes and if i've got a sleeping bag but it's always damp in the morning. even if it hasn't rained.

now you've got a shell to see it had all decade is less worried about sleeping rough in winter. i believe in god and this is heaven sent a shrink for me move. the factory where the jackets and duffel bags are made employs refugees students volunteers and people with a disadvantage in the job market. running the fabrics through the washing machine is the 1st step the materials are all donated old sleeping bags provide the padding and tables provide the waterproof outer. and even middles in a vehicle there's so much money in this world in so many clothes wasted we all have these overflowing closets it shocks me to think that there are still people dying of the cold on the streets for the oil slyness. it takes about 5 hours to make a shelter suit the cost of making $1.00 is about $300.00 euros the project is

entirely funded with donations these tailors here are all refugees they're paid the minimum wage and the glad to have found work. by 9. i worked in my father's textiles factory for years. but in fact i only really learned how to sew properly here in the. best of it only works with quality materials the practical design of the shelter see its practice in the specific needs of people sleeping on the street. but this exhibition is specifically designed for people sleeping rough we talk to homeless people all the time so we can keep making improvement blushing and in. back in amsterdam had all decadence very pleased with his sheltered suit and very grateful. lloyd the game

there are always people inventing things that make the world a better place better. everyone deserves a roof over their heads but the shelter states provide at least some much needed comfort. and that's all from us this time don't forget to let us know what you enjoyed about this week show write to us that global 3000 at d w dot com and we're also on facebook women and d.w.p. label ideas to see you next week take.

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