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the old. you. as humans we share our planet with many other species mammals birds fish in saves and plugs it's this biodiversity that makes our world so rich and why pretty excited to see that at least 500 land that will be on the brink of extinction much of it driven by humans but we can also save species that's what we've talked about today on equal india our son but i quote. let's begin this journey in the south of india in the home of woody in. 4 years ago the farmers here faced the worst drought to nearly 150 years their dependence on grain fed farming meant that their problems

were not if there wasn't a course correction all different or is helping their term the sort out his model cooperative forest has improved the water table in the window just surrounding it and follow us can now go to 3 crops cycles every year how is this transformation possible let's take a look. oh few years ago would have seen much less green bile driving along this road but now there's a ribbon of trees and i mean area that's increasingly suffering from drought a hill in the not off in the us time allowed us to bourse 50 acres of forest i'm growing all because my newish had a dream so the dream is that to live in the jungle. so yeah all the good that my friends is that let's good of august. and hopefully the forest will be for profit. saying he's won over around 70 supporters to help meet his dream come true and

that's even though the chances of growing a profitable forest here us limb it's mostly dry in that one pretty district in monsoon season it rained so hard that the ground can't absorb the torrents of water a few invasive plants species are threatening biological diversity the soil has hardened as groundwater levels drop. out but if there's no to make the earth spongy earth back to the level that it can absorb water it can absorb moisture in that and said it will grow so in this effort as a 1st of what we are about is we have sort of step of a more doubtless to success. the region lies in the water catchment area of the river in southern india that's an advantage for local water management members of the cooperative forest or corp as it's become known construct retention basins and ponds the group shares the water the land and the forest.

now presently nor does i guarantee to people we only want people to come and pitch in your stuff their business or their work start living your idea and make merry. for all those involved the co-op has been bought an environmental experiment and a journey in self discovery former i.t. engineer of ignatius and his wife love india see the forest has provided an escape for them from the business world having relocated to a humble and open the forest the nation has spent the last 2 years experimenting but poultry and organic produce. needs are going to say that in the morning i was attracted by the rainwater harvesting work. and the concept of farming as a community. that is why i decided to come. it is easier to do farming in a place that has water. and not everyone can do it. a lot of places where the

rains fail us. this is a big initiative. and it gives us hope to. go to the even upon going to be much. hope in ever more difficult times drought flooding and cyclons have prompted many farmers to move climate change is impacting the streets in part the co-op has also struggled but this year saw a big step forward in securing the group's future. 10 years of waiting and now we have got electricity out so what brought on this bill forms all on top of the locks the small bones the small structures when there's monsoon when this flow of water is good we will pump water from downstream to upstream and as we feel this ponce these he locks in we come into small sponsors. vile the environmental impact is visible in the many water bodies and lush greenery the co-op has also developed

into an economically viable model it now has a fully functional bamboo furniture unit headed by peugeot his wife monica runs across medic unit that uses herbal products made from corporate sources like name alloa and goat's milk a number of young entrepreneurs are also involved in equal businesses the co-op has already grossed an annual turnover of one and a half car owners or just under $168000.00 euros the proceeds come mainly from the sale of its primary produce of bamboo alloa medicine and plans and whether to build the usual news these profits are projected to grow now that the group has electricity we have no ready to invade farmers farmers from all regions to come. so that we can channel experience experience of doing what experience of drawing the most feasible water management plan ever just dig the same or the similar model

and implement it in there yes that's part of it yes and especially in these ngs where they come from a little landscape the reasons green areas are growing visibly the group dreams of achieving dense forest cover and full rivers another time allowed but with climate change advancing that dream may not come true. just because an animal species is on the brink of extinction it's not imperative that it will be lost completely the iberian lynx is one such example despite once been recognised as critically endangered on the i.o.c. answered list conservationists have been able to reclassify this white cat but it's taken a lot of work for scientists in spain and portugal to achieve this let's see what they've been doing. no obstacles can be in the way. today and i thought you were in lynx is

released into the wilderness of spain 63 muggle region. and that is special. about. is that if. there were i once went to a lecture when i was still studying veterinary medicine in the store and during it i heard something that got me very worried or argument rebuttable they said that the iberian links will go extinct in the next 10 to 15 years and that there was no way to avoid it not a matter of feeling. except there was pena is part of a team that releases around $35.00 younglings in the region every hear. the iberian links is part of our natural heritage it's a species in our ecosystem that we humans must learn to respect that in the early 2000 they were on the brink of extinction with only around 94 animals left in the

wild in spain and portugal this was the result of the loss of habitat the christian food sources and the lynxes being killed by traffic now the species is being bred and recreation centers like this one further north of extreme motherhood are gaining access here requires local government approval you have beer and i can is a symbol of nature conservation. things one of the links is an umbrella species in the mediterranean woodland if it's a vives then also other species will survive and with them a whole habitat and a network of ecosystems. if you look at the team of service the animals and their progress via cameras 247. good hunting skills are paramount for their survival in the wild. special stuff only into the reserve if necessary they don't want billings to get used to humans even more so when it's

mating season like now not all reprehension efforts are success via the mail this too high up. it's good that they keep trying. the mating couples are pre-selected so the next generation off i be reeling since is strong and healthy the week before their release the felines also undergo both oral health check in the past the species fell victim to viruses and genetic diseases the veterinarians and biologists examine the physical state of the animals and take blood samples as well as swaps. everything directly in a bit of movement usually they're healthy but we need to make sure they don't introduce diseases into the wild before and that they're fit for release in the wild they have to hunt and find territory here are going to get

a better body. but 1st they need food rabbits are their favorite prey. on privatise states in the matter cho valley there are plenty now around 100 lives here they free balanced the ecosystem by eliminating unfit animals and marking their territory. over the past 2 decades to come back off the i.p.o. in the spanish government and the e.u. at least 70000000 euros road signs and tunnel diversions have been set up in the area to better protect them from being hit by cars. or that yeah. you know you. can come in you know these 70000000 euros actually a bit more also finance jobs a lot of people are involved in the work on the part of the firm and not just directly with jobs like veterinarians guards the people who do the tracking work in

education on this is really a few but also all the in direct jobs involved to improve the habitat that they'll have greater perfectly lovely what are the i woke up funds are also needed for incidents like these an animal in the area has apparently developed a taste for lamp and easy prey to catch the owner called the rangers to check if it was a lynx. this was where it was a target. of awful. lot of the you can see how the links used it's clear was to catch it the distance between the teeth indicates it was a lynx also the type of attack it was grabbed by the neck and the succeeding at it . from well no it can't have been a fox they don't attack like this on the sound of. the farmers played the market price as a compensation at the moment it's $60.00 euros per month. and the team will also pay for $2.00 additional sheep dogs the rangers are keen to avoid conflicts between

humans and the predators in the past that also endangered the next population all the separates and populations to thrive in the wild numbers have increased tenfold in spain and in portugal the species made from critically endangered to endangered conservationists are proud. for the you know the rare and it would have been the 1st feline to go extinct since the sabertooth cats we really had the responsibility to avoid that and to have succeeded the iberian lynx is still here despite having been critically endangered it's a great achievement of an entire community. the next step conservationists want to improve the connectivity between the lynx populations across spain and portugal this should make them more resilient they hope that the eye can also iberian wildlife this back for good.

rewilding animals can have a lot of success as we've just seen but there are other more controversial methods being used by scientists to conserve species some are looking at bringing back those that have already died out can you imagine the long haul being found again and out of the willie brown wood for that matter is that really possible let. me cut who's technically been dead for 22 years. you may have guessed it kurt is a clue. and he's the 1st wild horse ever successfully cloned which makes it quite a big deal. and it wasn't just an experiment scientists are now cloning endangered species to slow down the rate of biodiversity loss and even improve entire ecosystems. in one word it's just wow you know obviously we want to save other

species that we. welcome to the very weird world of wild clones gene banks and bringing species back from the afterlife. cloning has been controversial around the world. with legitimate concerns about us playing god or creating endless copies of species that wipe out biodiversity. costs purpose is the exact opposite to bring dire. back to this population of wild shit walski hasse's. on do 2000 horses alive today have descended from only 12 wild ancestor of. researches use

a unique gene that was frozen years ago that would have otherwise been lost from the pool and they use a domestic loss as a surrogate mother. is not the 1st endangered species to be cloned and there has even been a clone of an extinct species but with limited success the barony in ibex was cloned 3 years after it went extinct using an all frozen skin sample researchers impregnated over $200.00 domestic goats only 7 making pregnant one made it to term but the baby died minutes after it was born. less than one percent of wild clones ever survive and the lack of research and access to wild animals makes the entire process especially difficult. with cut looking healthy scientists thought he would be the 1st clone to directly increase the genetic diversity of a population in the wild. and this is really cool because it's this represents a paradigm shift in conservation where we're no longer reacting to crisis but we're

getting out to being preventative. that's ben novak one of the scientists who cloned could and has been pushing the idea of cloning for conservation. the idea behind it is that we can use cloning in multiple ways to help endangered species either by increasing the size of their populations or by using it strategically to maintain genetic diversity increasing population numbers can help species recover but scientists only have a limited gene pool to choose from. but the method being used here. it's to go back to the strength of the genetic pool by bringing back genes that would have otherwise died out this could make populations more resistant to the effects of inbreeding and disease and even make them better at adapting to climate change.

biodiversity loss is an existential threat we face it puts up basic resources from pollination water and food at severe risk and poor countries are likely to be the worst hit at 1st. species numbers are in such a freefall that since the 1970 s. species populations have declined by around 60 percent today we could be losing up to $150.00 species each day. geneticists around the world have taken notice and are collecting and preserving whatever genetic material they can in the labs and gene banks. i mean today is 2 for many species i'm sure i mean starting a d.n.a. is like a last resort. before they're going to at least have the genetic. ed

louis call founded a british gene bank run by public universities museums and zoos there consortium has collected over $48000.00 so far. at least having any information they're. saving any species. and worth. owning is only one part of assisted reproduction which also includes artificial insemination in vitro fertilization and more recently gene editing. scientists think these offspring one just hope there own species but their impact will extend on to ecosystems. to. some species like wild horses or even elephants are essential for the need to ecosystems to survive. without the horse for example some grasslands of the step have been invaded by moss and trees this means other species that depend on the grass are dying out

completely up setting the balance. once the losses return research should back down to graft and bring the original step ecosystem back. and this isn't just an obscure example similar changes are being observed around the world. the e.u. has demarcated around a 1000000 hectares of land to bring wildlife back along with countries in asia and north and south america. alone in court is just one small step depending on the species we may need up to 500 diverse animals to build a healthy wild population. at the same time conservationists the trying to bring attention back to the massive number of other species we continue to lose it's a real tragedy you know where we're losing species. even if we

have the technology no one is interested in. resurrecting some of these technology tends to focus on the large mammals the other things that the charismatic but where we're losing lots of other things bob smith is a member of the un and firemen program with cost of such technology and rewilding still unknown he insists that more conventional approaches are still the main option it's very. attractive to think that we can have a sort of technological fix but the reality. much. cheaper and more sensible to just go through and try and conserve things. rather than assuming all the go extinct and we can bring them back. the race to conserve genetic diversity is on as a final attempt to save species. of

course biodiversity is not just about animals around 40 percent of the world's long species are estimated to be at the risk of extinction many of them could help us with the help like here at the bancroft in west bengal which are not secret weapons against wider says that bacteria could be found one be a good reason to protect them the potential of mangrove swamps an interview is already being researched in germany and the findings are very promising. the development of new antibiotics is a race against time most antibiotics were derived from substances produced by soil dwelling microorganisms at the helm of the center for infection research in germany sally octavian is studying sentiment for mangrove swamps to isolate bacteria that produce antibiotic substances samples come from nature conservation area in

indonesia. the microorganisms in this habitat have adapted to their tidal environment to thrive in the sediment and brackish water they've evolved to produce a variety of novel unto microbial compounds. something. but then we all know the world needs new antibiotics than. a growing number of pathogens are developing resistance to the antibiotics used in medicine today. well that's because so many antibiotics are being overused in misused. both this. i think. the biology is has been trying to find as many microorganisms as possible to produce antibiotic substances and no work is paid off she's already isolated 28 previously unknown species mostly mix of bacteria. and mix of bacteria

produce a large variety of antibiotic substances. some of them can even produce compounds that are effective against malaria or viruses. and. the mix of bacteria found among grove ecosystems have also attracted the attention of biologist you're watching think. he believes that indonesia which is home to about one 5th of the world's mangrove ecosystems could be a rich source of useful microbes. then he has done a very interesting. mix of materials of this is a special group of book tyria we are. working on and he has isolated a number of novel the specious and characterized them and is now on to states that he can look for bioactive compounds which are produced by the unique are like are

all the missiles. sent me octavian his initial findings showed that the mix of bacteria among grove swamps include many recipe she's. the bio octave compounds they produce will be screened to see if they have hunting microbial properties which could help stem the rise of super bugs that have become a global health crisis. yes so fresh that. they were very surprised to find that nearly every species we identified was a rare one. surely we only read about them in books or online but here we've been able to work with them. directly but anyway i'm very proud that indonesia has so much potential yes. certainly october yana will soon complete her project at the helm on center then she plans to return home to indonesia where she'll continue her work on mixer bacteria and the mission to find new antibiotics

. the oath belongs to the idea of links the bamboo forest and everything and everyone else just as much as us as the most intelligent species on the planet it falls upon us to do all that we can to protect it for ourselves and for every other living organism if you don't stop harming the planet the planet will find a way to sow wife with or without us think about that and i'll see you again next week for all of us in india and germany good bye. little.

different. since genetic material is all it takes men and women to get sick differently. and gender medicine takes this distinction seriously as a man or woman wants to know when it comes to health for better medical treatment

prevention. the next. temple servant was once i respect in professions in india. today the so-called devah dossiers are being forced into sexual slavery. their greatest hope is that their daughters will have better opportunities in the future thanks to education going to. liberate our. 60 minutes. sleep. carefully.

don't simply choose to get. discover who. subscribe to documentary to. look up. the. hello and welcome to new fresh edition from in good shape here we are again are you male or female or do you define yourself differently i'm asking because we want gender equality you're asking why

is this question so important if you're sick or need to see a doctor that distinction might be the game changer men have a higher risk for developing heart disease but women are more likely to die from it with regard to mental health problems you might be unlucky if you're a man according to statistics more women get depressed this could be because doctors are less likely to think about depression in men and therefore don't treat them properly as a man or woman what you have to know when it comes to health and what do we doctors have to do to ensure that there's equality in medical treatment that is what our show today is all about let's take a current example the novel coronavirus research suggests that men fall ill more frequently and more severely. today i'm with your play he's a biochemist turned writer he has written a lot of science books and he's a journalist thanks for having me today when we take

a look at the cool grown up in them make it seems that the men are the weakest sex in this case this is really true when you look at the. corona virus outbreak actually there's some data now from the city of hamburg in germany and they clearly show that. among the people who die from the virus the men are in the majority it's about 57 percent of the people actually ma'am it's because of their lifestyle they have more heart disease they have more problems with their lungs because. among them and that makes them weak and prone to get the virus and a severe. infection leading to the i will talk to your place in more detail in just a moment one thing is clear there are many biological differences between the sexes then it's also clear that diseases take different causes and have to be treated differently but a lot is also due to our behavior women wash their hands more often and they eat

more healthily men on the other hand think that the body simply has to function and what about as doctors we treat headaches or diabetes but do doctors care about if the patient is a man or a woman this question could make a difference between life or death. just never imagined she'd wind up in hospital yet she recently woke up at night with back pain later the next morning she was diagnosed with mild cardio infarction she had had a heart attack it's far from given that you were survived says cardiologist. at the heart attacks are still regarded as something that men get even though it's the number one killer of women yet women symptoms are often misdiagnosed. just as we didn't see in women and their doctors who thought it was influenza.

fortunately irises doctor who is a woman herself thought it might be something to do with her heart you're trying to draft and that's normally a routine consideration with men who are making a diagnosis we have to make sure it's always taken into consideration with women as well. it's not only our hearts that beat to a different rhythm there are many other differences between male and female that's due to our genetics. women have 2 x. chromosomes in each of the body cells while men have one x. and one y. chromosome and there's the chromosomes control a person's hormone levels which differ between male and female and as well as influencing our sexual organs hormones also have an effect on our entire organism. the proportion of fat in a woman's body is fundamentally higher than that of a man it actually confers no benefit at all on men as male fat isn't deposited

around the hips. instead it collects around the liver and the abdomen. and. that's why men are twice as likely to develop type 2 diabetes as women are. on the other hand women have broader hips they're more likely to be knock kneed and their knees have less cartilage this can make them wear out faster. it's why 2 thirds of only replacement surgery is carried out on women. women's immune systems are also more likely to over respond to pathogens that's why they're more prone to allergies asthma and arthritis and when prescribing medication for the use in other illnesses a doctor has to take these differences into account after all medicines that are

highly effective for men might be of no use to women others can have a stronger effect on women then on men that applies especially to beta blockers the consequences can be dangerous incorrect prescriptions can have negative side effects and even to. choir detoxification. that's pretty common people rarely think that side effects or overdoses could be the cause of their symptoms. and that's why women aren't getting the right advice on why side effects might be ignored to begin with. but apart from medication invasive treatments such as heart catheter exams pose higher risks for women including even stop lost. their blood vessels are more sensitive so there's a higher risk we might injure them that's why we insert softer tubes that are very gentle to vessel walls. in heart catheterization a cardiologist inserts

a long very thin tube through an artery or vein to the heart the doctor uses it to locate the constriction which triggered the infarction. here a plastic tube or stent is being inserted to widen the constriction. because women tend to have more problems after receiving a stent fly under better uses digital imagery which allows very precise measurements that shows him how big a stent needs to be. the thing is this is it because i think that's just coming into focus now that women's treatment has to be done just as well as men's. and that's why in the past it was certainly the case that the focus was more on the men in the shallowest was lucky she got switched treatment she wants to stop smoking and lose weight she now understands that women also have to keep an eye on their heart condition. the quality of the

sexes is a major issue in politics or working in social life all over the world at the same time the differences between men and women have been examined down to the tiniest different. for example a study with 5000 persons found that men are funnier than women this is maybe because humor is an important criterion for women when choosing a partner this was found in a study on marriage ads maybe this is why men often display their humor more strongly but everything has its limits for example when a man gets a cold then all fun comes to full stop. it's a phenomenon half the population is affected and they're all man women might get a slight cold in the winter time but man end up suffering full blown influenza.

but why are men by their nature not as robust as women any knowledge of have discovered that men and women have different reactions to infections. there's evidence that it could be true women's and men's immune systems seem to function very differently. and does has to do with hormones women have lots of east region that stimulates immune cells to react quickly that's why women's bodies can fight off an infection faster and more aggressively than men's bodies which contain high levels of testosterone. as men have way more testosterone in their blood than women do we know from various studies that testosterone has an effect on the immune system several studies have shown that is the reason why men get the flu more often than women. do you might come to the conclusion that men with extremely

high levels of testosterone would get sick more often but the opposite seems to be true. high testosterone levels metabolize some of that testosterone into extra dial of female hormones and that in turn has a positive influence on their immune system. this means that men with high testosterone levels are well protected against infections and are less often sick than men with. men also have a genetic disadvantage. even the difference in chromosomes influences their immune systems. of a lot of antioxidants and immunological processes are coded on the x. chromosome which means that when you men like this are white chromosome. that's another reason why we're much more susceptible to infections. so hormones and genes

determine that men fall ill faster but do they get sicker than women do. actually their scientific evidence to suggest that the opposite is true and women get hit harder than men do. many studies about the differences in pain between men and women the conclusion was that women experience pain more intensely. what's more the intense immune response that women experience puts their bodies under a lot of stress and that can lead in the short term to even stronger symptoms. but men are more focused on their pain than women are so they suffer more when men get sick they concentrate on every symptom like a scratchy throat. there's also another reason why men get more infections than women they wash their hands less frequently than women do and washing your hands is the best way to kill viruses whether you're a man or

a woman. i'm still talking could be they're just more squeamish than women. who have a tendency. to lead a life that's not very healthy. there's more folks who have a lack of exercise and they eat more unhealthy food and the repercussion is that. have more medical problems and that they might even die earlier than women in almost every country in the world men die earlier than women here in germany approximately 5 years earlier in russia even 10 years why is that so russian men love to drink vodka and even if they appear to be very

strong and healthy some of them drop dead because they wrecked their liver and that is a problem in russia actually in all societies men have a tendency to to be smokers to exercise less and also they have more accidents and that's an explanation of why the life expectancy of men is lower and this is true in all societies to get to the bottom of this phenomenon you went to the island of sardinia in the mediterranean sea why sitting here there's one village in the mountains that is very peculiar because. men live to be about a 100 years to the life expectancy amongst men extremely high you can say it's one of the highest in the world and the other thing is men and women have more or less

the same very high life expectancy incidentally there was a environment with a lot of exercise because men many of these men would look after the sheep when the weather young so they would be in the field for many many months per year every year they would hardly drink wine they would eat a lot of vegetables and so that was a combination of very healthy food and no smoking by the way and this created a situation where men could really live to become a 100 years old so behavior and lifestyle have a stronger insolence and biology the genes were always overrated there's no real biological explanation it really boils down to the way of life what can every man in regard lives where he lives in the world do to lead a longer and healthier life it is very interesting to see what the men it's

a dinner did when they were young so they wouldn't smoke so my advice is quit smoking eat healthy foods mostly plants and you should have a lot of exercise and if you follow these things. you do a lot to to have the full potential of your own personal life expectancy in one of the cover stories of the most famous magazine here in germany you claimed that men who live in the family and take care of the family live a longer and healthier life but isn't this just boring. at least then you could say it's boring for a longer time so have more boring days but i think also on the same time you have more days full of happiness because if men livin in healthy and good relationships they have less accidents they take less drugs

they have better foods they're not that stupid and so i think the real the real.