differently to. what they. were. and. this culture. starts more change. a new beginning is often a wonderful opportunity to examine our choices and at our life if these trying times for something it's this inspiration to make a positive change towards a more sustainable real life all around us today we introduce through to some people who have visited their lives who was making environmentally friendly choices

hello welcome to eco india. coming to you from my neighborhood in mumbai. india is the largest producer of milk in the world because of rising demand it goes without saying that the primary reason for raping a college. but a fall in india which is more than $100.00 does not commercially produce a single drop of milk what may be your own little visit to make such a contrast choice let's take a closer look. at. 28 because of lush farmland in the busy city of noida. organic farming is not uncommon even in the city this farm has taken things so new level. as it is called has built a community of farmers that is self-sustaining and practices natural farming met.

with the focus on the wellbeing of livestock. what makes this far more unique is its relationship to its family of cattle. meat could edge a native of good out scotch. from the sindh region. this beauty is called red cindy. from time and especially suited for farming. areas of indigenous cattle from across india this farm doubles up as an animal sanctuary. cows and bulls have always been a part of agriculture but indigenous breeds are disappearing at a frightening rate thanks to the introduction of machines and the growing focus on dairy which prefers imported breeds to native ones because of the higher milky.

some indigenous populations are down to as little as 100 animals. the john has a herd of 135 indigenous cattle of various breeds of which 40 are bulls. it's striving to reverse some of the mad practices in farming in india today. which. i think everyone knows how cruel the dead industry is and when i got into this and when i started seeing how many beautiful indigenous gappy were there and how the history of us importing from the west for this nuclear evolution and a lot of other things then the need to protect these cattle the kind of you know became very strong these beautiful indigenous cattle. on the farm and many of these are brought in cappy which don't actually give a lot of men. and i realise that these cattle. dying because our whole focus is on

me. to preserve these breeds logical focus had to shift away from dairy. and so be germs dung whole project was born i delayed the fight and by the down in all guatemala and it's going this and. a lot of dung lying around all to means release it releases and you can get it's not even going to that i believe. that dung whole project promotes an economy around cow dung. every day sometimes in $400.00 kilo's are gathered to be converted into a vigilante of products. ensuring a 2nd income for farmers. suitable been out there he says we make seed boards like these using seeds from big trees like the new. if you scatter them on empty fields before drains they start growing.

we also make images of the day it is going asia and luxury using dung and mud these are used during the valley and customers come here to buy them and here are. the dung is also used as many on the fields doing away with the need for chemical fertilizers. you're going up your mind to them he says when we came here the feel of a sandy we couldn't do anything without dying of. boredom once we had enough stock of dung we started making natural mineo and used it for the fields and it took us about 2 years of preparation time or now the soil has regained its natural for to lety and we are able to grow vegetables very well. most of the plants are grown from heirloom seeds. the farmers use traditional systems of into cropping companion planting and crop rotation. all food is

grown organically. the vegetables harvested here include bitter gourd squash and pumpkin. be june produces its own solar power off the grid. it's home to a large community of farmers from all over india. it runs its own school a clinic a women's group and has direct access to weekly markets. the women's new skills allow them to generate extra income and the aim is to become completely self-sufficient. is one such woman whose husband farms while she knits and stitches products that are sold to visitors i'd be charmed. she says now we're mostly making mosques like this we make about 20 in a day and each $1.00 costs $50.00 rupees. it. takes a sustainable approach to farming with

a focus on caring for the land and the animals. found. hopes for farming journey nondairy kawas eyed its heart will inspire others to follow. the world biking is becoming more the popular not only is it trendy it's also good for your help and the mint and if you do says well chances of getting infected 19 times but many of bikes often multiply audited by especially if you'd move to the city or don't plan on staying for very long. we found some biking enthusiastic we're preparing bikes for refugees and short of visitors so that. its benefits.

kai wanya sifi repairs bikes for refugees here in berlin. he fled iran 4 years ago last year he started working at the hook invented tailwind association. a bike is important for refugees. so it helps the model. mean when you look for a bike online somebody cost 50 or 70 or 100 euros or longer but i had to put in there and we accept a donation of 5 or 10 euros from a refugee from forward the senate well i've got 6 almost everyone who works here is a volunteer the bikes they were pat old donated once they've been fixed up they go to refugee. if. only one yes sifi has a paid job but the association and it's partly financed by the national volunteer

service it all began 5 years ago when germany took in a large number of refugees the team not only want to help the new comers they also want to promote cycling as an environmentally friendly mode of transport and recycling old bikes is especially sustainable. because we use everything if a bike can no longer be ridden we take it apart and use the components for another bike you could see that from 2 broken old bikes we create one new or usable one is wrong as opposed. to the team coming from many parts of the world irishman graeme pope who's been helping out here for 2 years. outside of the convince pope and some friends have set up a bike sharing nonprofit organization called bikes off it maintains a fleet of $25.00 and people come for them 1st small donation. bike so doesn't aim to compete with commercial bike rental firms uses mainly come from

the sharing community. their idea that if you can count for somewhere or you can see there's cheaply somewhere. and then maybe you can find somewhere to stay you can maybe find some cheap places to eat or for free then you might have pretty wife i then the next thing getting around a big city like berlin is the obvious answer is to be on a bicycle it's environmental it's good for you good for your health. pope says he hopes the idea catches on you can't currently borrow a bike in many other cities. you can book a bike theft bike online. and you can usually keep it for a few weeks or even longer. look invented meanwhile has a new project it wants to visit school classes to talk about bikes and sustainability

. we want to get children and teenagers interested in cycling again so they think it's cool to ride a bike we want to show them how easy it can be to repair a bike we hope to get them so excited about biking that they don't even think of buying a car or even getting a driver's license but want to move about the city on wheels. convinced says stuffing such a project with volunteers is difficult they're looking for funding so they can hire and pay more people. book and dip their pot of an unavoidable eternal cycle of nature be the all encompassing. of the debilitating floods natural events destroy life yet at the same time create a base for a new life conservationists are now studying a similar phenomenon in military training areas i mean deputy army with was

a constant tank movements and artillery exercises make nature conservation at this army training ground a complicated affair before the ecologist start work the search party patrols the area to make sure there are no nasty explosive surprises lurking in the grass they're always accompanied by munitions expert from the german military or. they found a missile its location is marked down and laser bomb disposal experts will pick it up. you have to search carefully as we use everything from. small 20 millimeter ammunition to large ordinance and explosives of course it's much easier to find bombs that to find small munitions and don't forget we've been using this troop training area for 80 years so you find all sorts of stuff here. just those 80 years of army maneuvers have helped create a very landscape in bomb holder or grasslands with wild herb's as well as woodlands and brush all ideal for biodiversity. grasslands are

so valuable because they're hard to find anywhere else there's no arable land so no pesticides no nutrients no fertilizers this is only for military maneuvers. the army has all the heavy equipment it needs to preserve the natural environment this armored vehicle is used to take care of open spaces to make sure they don't get overgrown it turns up shrubs and it flattens small trees. germany has 1400 square kilometers of land for military drills the environmental group nabu commission to study and found something astonishing although there are pollutants like heavy metals and kerosene residue the sites are ecologically important. didn't let some of those on know the situation in these areas is unique the exercises create a patchwork environment there are temporary changes what we ecologists call disturbances in areas where soil is removed there are pioneers sites where rare

plants can grow as well as animal species you can't find in the regular landscape. destruction by tanks and artillery creates new ecological niches says army ecologist wilfried korten pons foreman tank trails and bomb craters where frogs and new can spawn. it's extraordinary you have the damage we see here from tanker trucks you only see this in military training areas is especially important for nature conservation this is not static environmental protection habitats are constantly changing they're also valuable areas not in regular use by the military where nature can evolve organically. in the areas used less often they deploy sheep several 1000 sheep graze all summer long of the military training ground so that's what makes sheep really useful is that they get

into all the corners under the bushes into parts of the woods we can't reach a machine can't do that the sheep saw prince grazing and droppings at the turf into the state that nature needs. the sheep of spent numerous summers in the military zone and are well used to it so shepherd karl-heinz kinkel. in there regularly generally whenever they're shooting even heavy fire you'd be amazed how fast they adapt if they do get frightened they huddle together. in germany large sways of the natural environment to being wiped out chiefly through intensive farming the untamed land an army training areas is highly valuable in ecological terms. despite the bombs and grenades this unique environment get special protection. a majority of pylons elephants leave. their huge boulders to traction and have to perform tricks on command for the

hordes of applauding tourists who visit them every year the streets are often perfect and by shooting them repeatedly but the pandemic is put in the land of incoming tourists while on the one hand this is good news for the elephants on the other their future their means threatened some of them now have received a new visa on the life of me accompany them elephant rescue team to see for ourselves. just one look and she knows exactly which elephant is which she now has 80 of them each one has suffered lect child learn knows all their stories. until just a few years ago this elephant worked in a nearby riding camp as the conservationist explains he had to carry tourists around every day if he didn't obey his trainer would pierce's thick skin with

a bullhorn the thai activist has been working to protect elephants for 25 years with her foundation she aims to improve the lives of the package durham's donations enable her to buy up animals who've suffered especially harsh treatment most of the elephants have spent decades being ridden or in showbiz but in china elephant nature park they no longer have to work or be in chains paying guests are allowed to watch the elephants but nothing more. people come and visit they don't disturb a friend their death be yours the money to come and become great skill more and more. again and again like child learned has exposed animal abuse using a hidden camera for centuries wild elephants have been subjected to prolonged violent taming methods now there are laws in thailand that prohibit animal cruelty . but charlie says this has done little to change the taming practice known as

elephant crushing. not now is the plan for them to do with the whole. there's a lot of the brush raiding everywhere. the baby bravely you can see the blood when i walk. i have the will i have the retained up i had ordered i don't care why i don't get that i don't get that from there. but up a lot of how i cry i cry with a lot of disappointed about human. i angry angry a bit rude to people who have is. that. she day. and her team are once again on a rescue mission this time the conservationists will collect 7 elephants from this riding camp southwest of bangkok and bring them to the reserve near chain my the camp owners themselves contacted chandler's foundation and asked for help as hardly

any tourists are coming to ride the elephants to the corona virus pandemic. and adult elephant is usually worth about $2000000.00 baht or more than $50000.00 euros but due to the pandemic the animals have become more of a burden for their owners. it cost them nearly a $1000.00 euros a month for food and care. gonna put kyra is happy to at least get $1000000.00 baht per elephant from china its foundation. our situation has been dire since the start of a pandemic we had to close the camp from a month before but regardless of whether we're open or closed we still have to take care of the elephants and we need to feed them every day. we were allowed to reopen on july 1st but there are simply no visitors. that might make it.

the convoy sets off in the early afternoon. listening to love them they love to hear. that feeling out there know. that i'm hungry and no one. believes in them i think the journey old kids are. the next morning after a nearly 20 hour drive the convoy reaches its destination the elephant nature north of cheney the team is exhausted lecture i learned has hardly slept but nothing can dampen her mood. all they have because the journey is. elephant angry so yeah. i feel believe. once that restraining bars have been removed it's time for the elephants to take their 1st cautious steps into a new life. look

at the newcomers will have to be isolated from the rest of the herd for 2 weeks in order to prevent the possible spread of disease. the rescuers freeze the animals from all their ropes and chains. so beautiful. lecture i learned has. divided a new home for well over 100 elephants a home where they're no longer forced to put on a show where they can simply be elephants. the lives of women in india changing slowly but steadily more women are getting an education and. despite this 20. india the top of the list of countries considered most dangerous for women we met the founder of

a nonprofit organization in mumbai encouraging women to stand up against sexual violence and gender discrimination this brought us to the day to day struggle it's 5 steps forward 2 steps back 5 steps forward 2 steps back and the protest has to be a daily protest to you know let the government know that. the fact that you have a child who was brutally gang raped and murdered as a crime of ethnic cleansing that you had political leaders across party lines take to the streets with indian flag and in defense of this it's just something you have never seen before. no child's body should be subject to that kind of brutality let alone religious grounds. i am

a lawyer and a social activist back in august or anything. along with a group of fellow young amazing family we started an organization she says which is a new movement in india to fight against all sorts of gender based violence and discrimination and fight for equality. at that point i started receiving extremely. aggressive and real threats. if you know i'm following you i have people following you i know where you live i think the idea of a woman cleaning agency an idea of a woman to sort of be demanding for her rights a sort of the fighting for justice. scares all structures and these weak people the only thing that they can resort to do is quit online and threatening us thinking that that is somehow with their silence our way says. that while i'm still here i'm still fighting and. it's obviously taking

a toll on ben but evan and credibly support a family my family's realizes that the walk we do. has a significant impact on people's lives. everything is stuff below deck to you being a woman they looked up to you being young they'll object to your very best and look they'll object to you very meek up they'll object to you speaking english. objects to you. fighting against discrimination based on religion they will object to you for raising your voice too much there's this notion of. there's this notion of speak up and fight for your rights but do so politely you know without offending people too much. and dream that we don't pass on these realities to our future generations as accepted be of life that my

those don't have to tell their daughters marital rape as a view of life you just have to adjust to it i dreamed. you know more children are not being subject to child sexual abuse like so many of us war. i dream. that. equality would be a normal way of life and would then anything. my dream is do you know the she says do not be needed. now each one of us has access to a new lease on life many junk has a far lot of it comes down to how we grab it and run with it i hope to be as episode has inspired you to take a step in that direction i'll see you again next week until then please stay safe and to care of yourselves and your loved ones who are back.

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