good times are good for the. warming. drunken. yes. the industry is controlling your thoughts the great books of the 20th century. present a hoax is. showing it strikes me through. as humans we share our planet with many other species mammals birds fish insects and plants it's this biodiversity that makes our world rich and why print

scientists see that at least $500.00 land that will be on the brink of extinction much of it driven by humans but we can also see of species that's what we talk about today on equal india are some that are. let's begin this journey in the south of india in makati. 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 all different war is helping them to have the sort of his model cooperative forest has improved the water table in the window just surrounding it and follow us can now group 2 to 3 crops cycles every year how is this transformation possible let's take a look. over 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 hill in the north of india as time allowed us to bourse to 50 acres of forest and growing all because my newish had a dream so the 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. and he's one of our around 70 supporters to help meet his dream come true and that's even though the chances of growing a profitable forests here are slim it's mostly dry in that one employee district in 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 if it does no good make the earth spongy earth back to the level that it can absorb water it can absorb moisture in there

and said it will grow. so in this effort as a 1st of what we have done is we have sort of step of a more about listing success. the region lies in the water catchment area of the cavities 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 our guarantee to people we only want people to come and pitch in your starve their business or stop their work start living here and yeah i make maybe. for all those involved the co-op has been both an environmental experiment and a journey in self discovery former ip engineer of ignatius and his wife lover now see the forest has provided an escape for them from the business world having relocated to

a humble dorgan 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. so that is why i decided to come in because it is easier to do farming in a place that has water. and not everyone can do it. 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 reason. the co-op has also struggled but this is also

a big step forward in securing the group's future. 10 years of waiting and now we have got electricity out so what we're done is were built on top of the locks these small ponds the small structures when there's monsoon when there's a flow of water is good we will pump water from downstream to upstream and as we fill this ponce these he locks when we come into small ponds us. 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 financial unit headed by peugeot his wife monica runs of course medical 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 plants and whether to build. new cities profits are projected to grow now that the group has electricity there are 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 what the management plan ever can just take the same model similar model and implement it in there yes that's part of it yes and especially in these and where they come from and. the regions green areas are growing visibly the group dreams of achieving dense forest cover and full rivers in 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 links is one such example despite once been recognised as critically endangered on the i.o.c. answers red 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. established through the on. the record i once went to a lecture when i was still studying veterinary medicine the result and during it i heard something that got me very worried or argument rebuttable they said that the iberian links will come or go extinct in the next 10 to 15 years and that there was

no way to avoid it not to me out of fear and. except there was pena is part of a team that releases around $35.00 younglings in the region every hear. the appearing links 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 $94.00 animals left in the wild in spain and portugal this was the result of a loss of habitat decreasing food sources and the lynxes 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 a symbol of nature conservation. face 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 the links to get used to humans even more so when it's mating season like now not all reprehension efforts are success here the male this too high up. it's good that they keep trying. the mating couples are pre-selected so the next generation or 5 derailing service 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 cheli there are plenty now around 100 links live here they free balanced the ecosystem by eliminating the unfit animals and marking their territory. over the past 2 decades the come back off the iberian wings has cost the spanish government and the e.u.

at least 70000000 europe's road signs and tunnel diversions have been set up in the area to better protect them from being hit by cars. or that. in the media in the 2nd coming going to these 70000000 euros actually a bit more also finance jobs a lot of people are involved in the work on the plane in the form of 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 have to give careful of me whatever you got funds are also needed for incidents like these an animal in the area has apparently developed the taste for lamp and easy prey to catch the owner called the rangers to check if it was ever makes. this was where it was attacked them. so they let what you can see how the links used

it's clear was to catch it couple of the distance between the teeth indicates it was the things also the type of attack it was grabbed by the neck and the succeeding at it. one from oh no it can't have been a fox they don't attack like this on the stand or. the farmers paid the market price as a compensation at the moment it's $60.00 euros per month. and the team will also pay for 2 intentional sheep dogs the rangers are keen to avoid conflicts between humans and the predators in the past that also endangered the lynx population all these efforts and populations to thrive in the wild numbers have increased tenfold in spain and in portugal the species made it from critically endangered to endangered conservationists are proud for you know the rare and it would have been the 1st feline to go extinct since the say the tooth 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. in the next step conservationists want to improve the connectivity between the links populations across spain and portugal this should make them more resilient they hope that the eye can also 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 already died out can you imagine the longer being found again a nut or even the willing mom would for that matter is that really possible let's find out. meet caught who's technically been dead for 22

years. you may have guessed it kurt is a clone 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. you would words just wow you know obviously we want to say the species that we can. welcome to the very weird world of wild clones gene banks and bringing species back from the afterlife. and cloning has been controversial around the world. with legitimate concerns about us playing god or creating endless copies of species that wipe out

biodiversity. but costs purpose is the exact opposite to bring die. back to this population of wild shit walski hasse's. mon dieu 1000 horses alive today have descended from only 12 wild ancestors. resurges 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. kurt 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 old frozen skin sample researches impregnated over $200.00 domestic goats only 7 became pregnant one mated to tell

but the baby died minutes off 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 the 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 limited gene pool to choose from. but the method being use here. it's 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 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.

geneticists around the world have taken notice and are collecting and preserving whatever genetic material they can in labs zoos and gene banks. i mean today is to many species i'm sure i mean starting the d.n.a. is like a last resort. before they're going to. have the genetic. ed louis co-founded a british gene bank run by public universities museums and. their consortium has collected over 48000 fans so far. at least having any information they're. used to 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 there own species but their impact will extend on to ecosystems. some species like wild horses or even elephants are essential for their need to ecosystems to survive. without the horse for example from grasslands of the step have been invaded by moss and trees this means other species that depend on the grass are dying out completely upsetting the balance. once the loss is return researchers who are they will back down to grasslands 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. learning code 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 are 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 u.n. and vitamin 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 but the reality . much. cheaper and more sensible to just go through and try and conserve things. rather than assuming all that 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 their 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 silly octavian is studying sentiment for mangrove swamps to isolate bacteria that produce antibiotic substances the samples come from a nature conservation area in indonesia. the microorganisms in this house 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. and. 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. the but. the biologist has been trying to find as many microorganisms as possible that produce antibiotic substances and no work is paid off she's already isolated 28 previously unknown species mostly mix of bacteria. and 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 tried to the attention of biologists 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. don't you has done a very interesting work with this. of materials of the special group of the teria we are. working on and she has isolated a number of novel the specious and characterized them and is now on to states that she can look for bioactive compounds which are produced by a unique are by crawling listeners. sending octavian as initial findings showed that the mix of bacteria among growth 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 superbugs that have become a global health crisis. yes so prescott. were very surprised to find that nearly every species we

identified was a rare one. i only have. we only read about them in books or 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 yes. certainly october yana will soon complete the project at the helm of center then she plans to return home to indonesia where she'll continue her work a mixer bacteria and a mission to find new antibiotics. the oath belongs to the idea that 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 so life with or without us think about that and i'll see you again next

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