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the. fact that. this is the news live from berlin the world mobilizes to turn around india's deadly coronavirus cross germany and the european union have medical aid on the way if so do the united states and britain desperately needed oxygen and other supplies needed to keep people alive bill arrived in the coming days. also on the program putting an end to resistance russian prosecutors tried to label him saying of all these political party extremists if they succeed his group will be banned from
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elections and posting political material online. plus historic night at the academy awards and the concourse crew. who is our momentous. jars nomad land wins best picture at the 93rd academy awards to china born job also became the 1st woman of color to win best director as a very diverse group of winners took home field with us. welcome to the program medical help is on the way to india as the country has set a global record for new infections for the 5th straight day the european union and the u.s. are sending
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a clip and like ventilators and raw materials needed for vaccines on the ground this situation is critical hospital beds us gas morgues are full and the oxygen that is most needed to save lives is in short supply. a seriously ill covert 900 patient arrives at the hospital in a rickshaw but he is turned away aside outside displace the number of available intensive care beds. my father 70 years old last not have both an oxygen tank on the black market for about $440.00 euros but it's empty there are no beds and no oxygen. india's doctors are comparing this wave of infections to a tsunami this special clinic in delhi is overflowing with severely sick patients. at the entrance to the hospital patients like to see stone trolleys.
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leave. something in the least some of the 5 people leaving here we believe to be with you. at the beginning of the year indian prime minister narendra modi declared the country had beaten the virus with it saw an upcoming elections the government allowed huge political rallies to go ahead. and despite rapidly rising infections it also permitted millions to gather for the komei the largest religious gathering in the world where hindu pilgrims pay then the river ganges gatherings are now limited to $500.00 people but the virus has already spread rapidly scientists are fearful about the weeks ahead only 10 percent of the population has been vaccinated. or you think that if the government should send people door to door to vaccination they should concentrate on the us. germany is among the country sending urgently needed medical supplies as india comes to grips
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with the scale of the catastrophe. for more on this story i'm now joined by a man on professor of physics and biology at the shocking university and so about in india just last month the health minister said india was in the endgame of the pandemic today it's in global records infection so what's gone wrong i think no one anticipated that the last city in the speed with which knew there would be cool with the landscape in india i think much of the increase in cases that we've seen beyond february can be attributed to multiple knew of it in the u.k. variant a new bit in called the 1617 in the state of shock and different events across the country all of that seem to have taken off at about the same time it's really the pressure of cases coming from the that is completely deaf and the thing the public health system at the moment in this in the example that you saw professor you are an expert in modeling infectious diseases when do you expect this massive wave to
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peak. most models as if it will take at least another 2 to 3 weeks so with. the ground to tend to the 15th of may is the best guess at the moment there are some encouraging thing in the city of bombay which have been hard hit by the by the current of a 3rd year we're already seeing interesting declaimed for both the weak no cases but to compensate that another part of the country keith stumbles out right and we have to see what happens over and on the 10. international help is coming in you think it's going to be enough to reserve to reverse the now. at this stage we need to really to make sure that they should who are desperately ill get the oxygen get the medication that they need in hospital that you can see have been running out of this throughout the country whether this will have a longer term impact would be enough to stand the deaths that are going to happen in the next couple of days is anyone's guess my feeling would be no but we'd have
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to see. last week i spoke to a director also a number of clinics across india and he told me that the supply chain would be a massive problem as well do you see that is that one of the main reasons that isn't a theory that we have multiple states in the country now under lockdown we have the sections on plates and to get medication to get talk that remote it is that the country will continue to be a problem in these countries have started these states have been historically underserved especially in the far reaches of india and it and if this bill could be neglected. in the next few months so isn't that the government's job to improve things it is the government's job and in principle we should use the time between the beat that we saw in september in the months before that as well as the months after that to try to strengthen the central structure put really we this is so
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trying to divert the boat into 30 years of neglect of the public health system that it partly to perform but there are other parts that it has in your book a special attention to them how's interaction asian temperament going. to currently bethany to do around $140000000.00 of our people which is a little less than 10 percent of the population the number of people with 2 shots of that we have to short of actually then indeed it's probably less than about 2 percent so they're moving slowly we need to move much faster and now the supply of that thing is critical that's slowing down. the time in a professor of physics and biology at a soccer university thank you very much for your time. here's a look at some of the other developments in the pandemic the european union is suing vaccine make us to zeneca of the delays in deliveries earlier this year the company unexpectedly reduced the number of boxes it had committed to deliver by a tooth. hong kong and singapore have confirmed they're launching
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a so-called travel bubble in may travelers will be allowed to fly between the 2 cities without going into warranty once they meet strict conditions and israel's health ministry says it's examining whether cases of hot inflammation are links to the pfizer vaccine most are reported in men under 30 because in russia has formally suspended the activity of jailed kremlin critic alexander valleys and to corruption foundation and its regional networks according to a statement bonneville news group state prosecutors in moscow requested the suspension pending a decision to designate the vollies opposition group as extremists this nationwide suspension do is another blow to the kremlin but its movement. now let's cross over to do that we have correspondents around in moscow and what consequences does this . well it basically suspends the work of all these anti-corruption foundation in the broader russian federation moving forward and if the designation as an
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extremist organization is upheld it would basically bring them in line with extremist groups like far right groups terrorist organizations or neo nazi groups they would effectively banned their symbols banned their work and would also place criminal penalties on people working within the organization now the higher ups in the organization could face multi-year jail terms with them for if they continue to work for the anti-corruption foundation and i think even more chilling than that people out there at the grassroots level the ground level could also be facing jail terms if they continue to work for the anti-corruption foundation now it comes at a critical time for the country is a real critical blow for the anti-corruption foundation moving towards this fall's elections so what's the motivation behind this. well it really seems that you're putting more broadly the russian government has kind of run out of patience both with the election of all me and also with the anti-corruption foundation you have to remember they're not only a group which helps prosecute what they see is widespread endemic corruption within
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the russian government they're also a potent political force really kind of rallying support against the kremlin throughout the country at the grassroots level now they have 37 bureaus distributed throughout the country and they've really managed to use those grassroots networks to really bring people out on the street to protest against the government that's part of the reason we've seen such an unprecedented wave of support throughout the country outside of the more liberal centers like moscow and st petersburg and this is precedent especially critical moving towards this fall's election now last time around with their intelligent voting system they were able to not necessarily challenge lead into power but give him and his party kind of a black high in the elections and it seems that at least this time around they don't want to take another chance of getting another black eye after the elections so what do you options now sold the day should. well not only steam in the anti-corruption foundation more broadly have said they plan for all possible contingencies now we don't know specifically what their plan for this contingency was but one model that they're likely to discuss is actually moving the
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organization of broad now we've seen other opposition aligned media and political figures like me show what a costly for example move abroad in an attempt to continue with their work from a neutral country however as i was saying earlier it's really kind of that grassroots support which has propelled an evolving and his team to such success in recent years and it's kind of an open question whether or not they would be able to continue that type of grassroots organization from abroad so right now we don't specifically know what their plans are but will likely to see some type of action from their side in the coming days or weeks. briefly what's the latest on the volley himself as you dude. well we know that not only has ended or is in the process of ending his hunger strike now he's still complaining about pain in his back and numbness in his limbs now he has said that he's been seen by doctors he trusted and they have suggested that he actually need specialist care and that he would move to moscow they say some of the pain and the numbness may be in connection to his know which are poisoning last year and they think that he could
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be best treated by specialists in moscow as he continues to recuperate right now that doesn't really seem to be like a likely move the government's not likely to allow that but they are repeatedly and have repeatedly called for of all need to receive special treatment here in moscow did i spent an hour until that in moscow thank you don let's turn now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world. been helpful some of the 82 victims of a hospital fire. officials say the blaze broke out when an oxygen tank exploded as it was treating some of the city's most vehicles with 19 faces the families of victims say that the jinns and corruption contributed to the disaster. relatives have been holding memorials for the victims of indonesia's submarine disaster the military officially announced the death of all 53 crew members on sunday the wreckage was found at the bottom of the bali sea after
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a 4 day search it is not clear why the submarine sunk to the ocean for. a massive sandstorm swept through northern china's in a mongolia region on sunday cities were hit by a wall of blowing sand stretching hundreds of meters authorities advised the public to take precautions against the heavy winds and poor visibility until the storm let up on monday morning. the pandemic has slowed down a lot of things but not the demand for military weapons in fact according to a new report global arms sales are at a record high the stockholm international peace research institute annual study has found military spending worldwide rose to almost 2 trillion dollars last year that's the highest amount institute has recorded in more than 30 years as in previous years the biggest spenders are united states china india and russia last year the united kingdom joined them in the top 5 spending on arms rose in europe 2
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with germany moving into 7th place worldwide just ahead of from its. bring in their diego lopez the silver he's a researcher on arms a military expenditure at the stockholm international peace research institute sipri there is a clear trend on spending is increasing has the pandemic had any impact on that at all. well it's possible to conclude with some certainty that the 1000 did not have a significant impact on global nuclear spending and 2020 hour this conclusions need some cabinets 1st some countries have explicitly allocated part of the plan moved towards spending to the pandemic response such as chile and south korea south korea for instance has revised down its initial budget twice to allocate more funds to to the cold response chile has postponed some allocations to the arms of positions
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because of the pandemic or while sever other countries including brazil russia spent considerably last their initial move her budgets for 2020 result from this is spent 88 percent of its total planned spending. secondly the a fact in the country is not the same hungary for instance increase its military spending because of the. part of the financial single us package in response to the democrats ought to create more jobs in the military to curb rising unemployment but of course dispersed assessment that we have is just a 1st snapshot more data will become available throughout 2021 would you give us a more clearer picture of what happened 2020 let's talk about china briefly that china's i'm spending has been rising for 26 consecutive years it's gone up 76 percent in the last decade alone what's what's driving this trend. well. china's winter spending is really matched by economic growth the country has kept
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the policy to keep its military burden and that's a matter the use of military spending as a share of g.d.p. quite stable throughout the years as a means to balance the security with economic development it doesn't want to increase interest bending as a share of g.d.p. too much because it also can in a fact it's akin to the growth but the increase is driven mainly by a long term military move in the station plans and expansion program that aims to turn china into work class military by 2049 what china really wants with its increase interest benny's to narrow the gap between its own armored forces and the world leading this military as a who could germany germany's military spending is up 28 percent from 10 years ago what's the 3rd. well. 2020 that's a 5.2 percent that's one of the highest among the top spenders and it's seems that it will continue to increase in the coming years as the provided for 2021 foresees an increase as well as the draft board or 2022 there are 3 main factors driving
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germany to spending 1st this is that increasingly the spending is part of the christian democratic unity party off the coalition agreement of the government states a commitment to nature's 2 percent target between the 19 germany's minister of defense announced a plan to meet nature's target by 2031 so this of course can change with with elections in september secondly there is the security assessment of germany that has changed the past decade we have the 2016 white paper mentioning if that shift in the europe secured landscape and that this of course in fact affects germany's move just spending and finally the pressure coming from the united states to trump administration by the bush for german meter spending but that's something that has been present in previous administrations as well but one thing that is different recently is that nato as well has been joining the call for germany to increase
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secretary general of nato stoltenberg has said that germany should be more vigilant of its need for spending so it's also contributing to the pleasure all these 3 factors are contributing to the increase due to lopez de silva research at the time for you very much thank you. hollywood finally got to roll out the red carpet for the film industries biggest night of the year and in stark contrast to previous yes the 93rd academy awards saw a very diverse lineup of nominees and with us 2 of the top prizes went to chinese born close joe she made history as the 1st woman of color to take home the best directs a trophy robey no matlab struck a cold with the economy who turned her into the evenings. from the center of hollywood prepared demick to the main los angeles train station mid pandemic a nice room down where this happened. oh that was this year's
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oscars best actress frances mcdormand who had the star role in the best picture of 2020 nomad land a tale of down and out americans living on the road. and they also concourse to. momentum around. it was directed by china born chloe's out the 1st asian woman to take home the best director award. there is for anyone. who had the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves in a delayed intimate event in a socially distant space the winners were a diverse group far more than years past and the oscar goes to. take korean years union who took home the best supporting actress award. oh i'd like to
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thank to my 2 boys who made me go out and. so. did our son oh i don't know if. this is because mommy will. also picking up a statuette the movie judas and the black messiah is supporting actor daniel kalu. who in his youthful way offered to wait for what moment to include my mom that. it's amazing what i just said i'm here you mean so i'm so happy to be alive so as a result tonight. you are probably at a diverse array of reactions to the top honors amidst a diverse array of nominees and winners. on hollywood's biggest night let's bring in our resident movie buff scott rocks for scott tell us more about this best film why was wasn't so convincing apparently for
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the academy. yeah i think the no man's land was the big winner at the oscars because it really speaks to this moment in time i mean after the year of the pandemic i think a lot of people around the world but also in america are feeling vulnerable and maybe starting to question the assumptions of their life and that's sort of what nomad land is about it's about a woman who has lost everything and is living out of her van traveling around as a modern day nomad and i think after this year that we've been through that a lot of people in the academy who voted for the oscars really felt something felt in touch with with this story and particularly with the incredible performance by frances mcdormand. little surprise that she wanted any surprises the other when is this you. well the very big surprise came at the end now in an unusual move the oscar organizers put the best actor prize at the very end usually that's reserved
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for best picture but i think they were assuming like we all were that the late chadwick boseman would win an oscar he died last year and he was nominated for his final performance in ma rainey's black bottom but when the actor or ward was announced it was anthony hopkins who won so what was seen to be planned as a as a dramatic and emotional moment to end the oscars end up being a bit of a damp squid especially since anthony hopkins wasn't even there to accept his prize so in the process because as we all remember have been heavily criticized of being too whites about has that changed now for good well it's changed a bit i mean we saw that chloe as you said is the 1st asian woman to win a best picture and to win best director we saw 2 actors of color in the among the winners and some people of color in the technical awards which has never happened before but let's put this in perspective of the around 40 people who won oscars
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this year 25 of them were still white men so i think there's still a long way to go. to my next question how did women do across the board. yes very well i mean chloe was the only the 2nd woman to win best picture and best director and i think she did it with a film that is very female centric which i think is interesting also. who won best original screenplay for a promising young woman again this is a very female centric story and i think that's the interesting thing that's changed with the oscars normally that women directors and talent are starting to win but that they're doing so with stories that are told from a very female perspective. so what do you think what kind of feel have the ceremony on the pandemic conditions. yeah it was definitely different i mean as you saw the main ceremony took place in union station which is the main train station in downtown l.a. a very different look for the oscars in general the tone was a bit more somber a bit more downplayed it wasn't the glitz and glam that we're used to except for
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the best actor. flub at the end which seemed to end the see early 0 ceremony on a bit of a down note i thought it was it did work but for these unusual times but i think everybody is wishing that we get back to the normal red carpet glamour oscars next year hopefully. thank you very much still to explore it from showbiz to sports the title race is unexpectedly heating up on match day 31 off 34 on the light signal near that anything less than a win at home and stuff like god would effectively hand the league title to buy and munich lucky for them the visitors one obliging and. byron's surprise last months on saturday meant that leipzig went into this one knowing that to win would keep the championship race alive for another much day. on their task seemed simpler to 15 minutes stooped cuts no you know amount that was
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sent off the young french news one jim i'm with you haidara looked worse with every viewing leipsic dominated proceedings thereafter put function to good keeper keep a cool and unbeatable form. the swiss made sure it was no going into the break. but coble couldn't stop like 6 and taking the lead in the 1st because i thought i should know aftereffects of that but tackle to thumb pull the header when no leipsic. will produce more heroics to keep the score at one nil. but then soft and you'll force a penalty within a minute of coming on after a clumsy tackle konstantinos moffat panos. and the sweet self too late sick after 67 minutes accounted for miss of the season by late 6 believe or been meant to score state. run by the result mean she got european ambitions
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all but dodged well not goldman's many to win the remaining 3 games and hope by a drop point if they are to secure the unlikeliest of titles. is a coach in high demand german media reporting that he will leave the club to take over from coach hudson flick us by in munich so the 3 year old novice monk could come with a hefty price tag according to reports says the cost of the defending champions around $30000000.00 euros that would be a new record for a job coach as most current contract plavsic runs up until 2023 and he made history last season but taking them all the way to the champions league semifinals. it watching t w news here's a reminder of all top story medical aid is on its way to india as the country faces a devastating surge of coronavirus cases the european union and united states have
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both sets of buys us hospitals are inundated with critically ill patients most needed to treat them is also in desperately short supply. and that's it from me and up to date don't go away though up next is india involved. in berlin for me as a teen.
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igo india. the world needs new antibiotics because more and more pathogens are becoming resistant to the ones that already exist indonesian biologists and we are tough yana is researching new samples from mangrove forests in her home country and she discovered some valuable microorganisms. on a d.w.i.
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. maintain 86. it's their story their very own personal trauma. to. the people who survived the catastrophe remember. and they share private footage with us does she never been seen before up. to chernobyl storage april 20th on g.w. . let's get right to the heart. of times are good for the.
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drunk i was. like yes. the industry is controlling your thoughts the great books of the 20th century. the present day hoaxes. great memory. starts me through. as humans we share our planet with many other species mammals birds fish insects and plugs it's this biodiversity that makes our world rich and white print scientists see that at least $500.00 land out on the brink of extinction much of it
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driven by humans but we can also see of species that's what we talk about today on equal india. let's begin this journey in the south of india in. 4 years ago when the farmers here faced the worst drought in nearly 150 years their dependence on grain fed farming meant that their problems were not if there wasn't a course correction and all different war is helping them to the sort out his model cooperative forest has improved the water table in the window just surrounding it and follows can now group 2 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 in an area that's increasingly suffering from drought
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a hill in the north of india asked i'm allowed to state boards 50 acres of forest i'm growing all because my newish had a dream so this dream is that to live in the jungle. so yeah all the dead to tell my friends is that let's create a forest and hopefully the forest will be for profit. he's one of our around 70 supporters to help me his dream come true and that's even though the chances of growing a profitable forests here are slim it's mostly dry in the temporary district and monsoon season it rained so hard on 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 it does no good make the earth sponge. back to the level that it can absorb water it can absorb moisture in that and send it to the ground. so in this effort as
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a 1st of what we are about is we have sort of suffered a more about listing 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 a 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 maybe. for all those involved the co-op has been both an environmental experiment and a journey in self discovery farmer id 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 to open the forest the nation has spend the last 2 years experimenting but poultry and organic produce. molyneux going to say that in the ponytail
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i was attracted by the rainwater harvesting work. and the concept of farming as a community. so that is why i decided to come because it is easier to do farming in a place that has water and not everyone can do it. you know a lot of places. this is a big initiative. and it gives us hope to. go to the even of. our own the very much. hope in ever more difficult times drought flooding and cyclons have prompted many farmers to movie climate change is impacting this region hard to co-opt has also struggled but this year saw a big step forward in securing the group's future. 10 years off and now we
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have got electricity so what brought on this were built on top of the locks the small stones 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 filled response these he looks at becoming too small spawns us. vile the environmental impact is visible in the many water bodies and lush greenery the corpus also developed into an economically viable model it now has a fully functional bamboo financial unit headed by peugeot his wife monica runs of course 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 court orders on just under $168000.00 euros the proceeds come mainly from the sale of its primary produce of bamboo alloa medicine and plants and whether to
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build. new cities profits are projected to grow now that the group has electricity they are now ready to invade farmers farmers from all regions to come. so that we can channel experience experience of doing what experience of growing 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 the zones where they come from a little landscape the region's green areas are growing visibly the group dreams of achieving dense forest cover and full rivers in nothern time allowed but with climate change advancing that dream may not come true. just because an animal species is on the brink of extinction interop imperative that it will be lost completely the iberian links is one such example despite once me
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recognised as critically endangered on the i.o.c. answer friend 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'd be really links is released into the wilderness of spain $63.00 muggle region. and that is a special word about. is that if the young. there were that i once went to a lecture when i was still studying veterinary medicine the ritual and during it i heard something that got me very worried 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 any at all found. except there was pinion
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is part of a team that releases around $35.00 younglings in the region every hear. the iberian lynx is part of our natural heritage it's a species in our ecosystem we humans must learn to respect that in the early 2000 they were on the brink of extinction with only around 94 and a most left in the wild in spain and portugal this was the result of a loss of habitat decrease in food sources and the next is being killed by traffic . now the species is being bred in recreation centers like this one further north of extremadura gaining access here requires local government approval you have beer and i can is the symbol of nature conservation. things one of the links is an umbrella species in the mediterranean woodland if it survives then also other species will survive and with them a whole habitat and
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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 the lings to get used to humans even more so when it's mating season like now not all reprehension efforts are success give the male this too high up. it's good that they keep trying. the mating couples are pre-selected so the next generation are 5 as 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
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veterinarians and biologists examine the physical state of the animals and take blood samples as well as swaps. everything breaking in a bit of the usually they're healthy but we need to make sure they don't introduce diseases into the wild and that they're fit for release in the wild they have to hunt and find territory here are going to be better 30. but 1st they need food rabbits other favorite prey. on private estimates in the matter cheli there are plenty now around 100 lives here they free balance the ecosystem by eliminating unfit animals and marking their territory. over the past 2 decades to come back off the iberian wings has cost the spanish government and the e.u. at least 70000000 year us road signs and tunnel diversions have been set up in the
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area to better protect them from being hit by cars. or that young. you know you're in a community 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 the have to give careful of me whatever 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 mix. this was where it was attacked. from awful. lot of you can see how the links used at close to catch it from the distance between
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the teeth indicates it was the things also the type of attack it was grabbed by the neck and the 6 yet it. on from oh no it can't have been a fox they don't attack like this on the stand or go but the farmers pay the market price as a compensation at the moment it's $60.00 euros per month. and the team will also pay for 2 to tional sheepdogs the rangers akim to avoid conflicts between humans and the predators in the past that also endangered the links population all these efforts and populations to thrive in the wild numbers have increased tenfold in spain and in portugal a species made from critically endangered 2 endangered conservationists are proud for you know really 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
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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 i can of iberian wildlife is 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 longer also being found again an arc of the willing mom would for that matter is that really possible let's find out. what meat cut who's technically been dead for 22 years. you may have guessed it kurt is
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a clue. and he's the 1st white horse ever successfully cloned which makes him 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 obviously we want to say of a 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 creating endless copies of species that wiped out biodiversity.
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but costs purpose is the exact opposite to bring dire. back to this population of while sure walski hasse's. do 2000 horses a life today have descended from only 12 wild onset. researches use a unique gene that was frozen years ago that would have otherwise been lost from the pool and they use a domestic horse 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 pair in the end ibex was cloned 3 years after it went extinct using an old frozen skin sample researchers impregnated over $200.00 domestic goats only 7 became pregnant one made it to term but the baby died minutes after it was born. less than one percent of wild clones
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ever survive and the lack of research and access to.

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