but cusp upis is the exact opposite to bring diversity back to this population of while she walski hasse's. on 2000 horses a life today have descended from only 12 wild ancestors. 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. but 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 tell 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 been know that 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 limb. did you choose from. but the method being used here is to add 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. 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. geneticists around the world have taken notice and not collecting and preserving whatever genetic material they can in labs zoos and gene vax.

i mean today is too late for many species i'm sure i mean storing the d.n.a. is like a last resort. before they're going to. 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 there is. saving any species in our world. 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 that all. species but their

impact will extend on to ecosystems to. some species like wild horses and 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 moths and trees this means other species that depend on the grass are dying out completely upsetting the balance. once the losses return researchers who are they will shoot 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. loaning it 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 are charismatic but where we're losing lots of other things bob smith is a member of the u.n. environment program with costs 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 the sort of technological fix bugs. the

reality is. 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 but a good reason to protect them the potential of mangrove swamps in indonesia 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 70 octavian is studying sediment from mongo swans to isolate bacteria that produce antibiotic substances the samples come from a nature conservation area in indonesia. the microorganisms in this hobby to 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. but then the. whole know the world needs new antibiotics then. 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.

and misused. but. the biologists have been trying to find as many microorganisms as possible that produce antibiotic substances i know work is paid off she's already isolated 28 previously unknown species mostly mix of bacteria. and a 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 mixer 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. tenure has done a very interesting work with this mix of materials of this is

a special group of bacteria we are. working on and she has isolated a number of novel specious and characterized them and is now on to states that she can look for bioactive compounds which are produced by a unique are like are all the missiles. sent me octavian as initial findings showed that the mix of bacteria in mangrove swamps include many recipe she's. the bio octave compounds they produce will be screened to see if they have hunted microbial properties which could help stem the rise of super bugs that have become a global health crisis. yes sir prescott. were very surprised to find that nearly every species we identified was a rare one. surely we only read about them in. books are online

but here we've been able to work with them directly but i know i'm very proud that indonesia has so much potential a lot of us. send the 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 a mix of bacteria and a mission to find new antibiotics. the oath belongs to the iberian 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 survive with or without us think about that and i'll see you again next week for all of us in india and germany goodbye.

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