the, you know, we are not afraid to katherine's delicate. the african population is when people clearly have the solutions that do job 77 percent. now, every weekend on the w the news crees relied essential services. she food habitat and also the lungs of the absorbing climate change inducing carbon dioxide with such an important drawing.

you think we take more care of them, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. they're not people, however, taking care of them and feeding them will need them to be re guardians from india and europe on this week's eco, india. hello, welcome. i'm son. let's start with counting trees. what government would call a tree census? city authorities around the world have a plan in place to get this stuff in germany's capital berlin, for example. we know that there are more than 400000 trees lining the streets. but in delhi, the number is not for clear. and because of this, it's not uncommon for trees to simply disappear the domain to protect the cities. trees. activists are picking pings into a one hands. we met some of them for this report. fin before the call, the 1900 situation wilson in the city free at last.

the roots of these urban trees in death had long been buried in concrete but no city a torrence busting the root out of their presence letters. fresh topsoil replaced the cement on average bud my, what the do ready has to fight with the authorities for 2 years under the agree can be saved in this way. she loves the box of dandy. she is known as a tree guardian. when he chokes the trees with cement, the roots on top get burnt in the heat. you know, i mean most of the roots are on the top one meter. so the, i guess it does take a huge dog on trees when you chose them because they are not the roots are not edited. they get burned under the heat. they cannot, in the micro organisms, cannot exist in that soil and they don't get any water. the president, he has gap and not doing with in the past 20 years, around half of urban forest area has been lost to new buildings the building,

but it's easy to get from the authorities. despite rooms that say cutting down trees should be avoided whenever possible. decrees also make convenient support for illegal electricity and internet gibbons strangle the trees and stop them from growing. people have lost connect via trees, which they are title them inferior. you know, there's an inferior looking down upon the local part alarms the john lee for the. so the call is young. you bought a and that's because we no longer depend on them for sex, for our needs. you know, there's a huge disconnect and the distance between them and because all of these are being met by products that come on the shares in crease are important to cities for the resident. they are a natural air filter. they also provide habit dance for countless microorganisms. small animals and bird, ah,

to preserve the greenery the ready has been organizing, creek comes but anyway. she involves a residence of several district, but she ought of to the number of colleges and schools where i wish to train, i, in a certain colony place, identifies to take a rough data on the number of trees, and then they are supposed to do what she walk so that you get the by enough the stakeholders then v awesome to start a walk subgroup and with a date saying that this is a day when we are going to start tree centers. i do the 1st workshop, so that includes the number of the trees and taking the circumference of good to hide the condition of the ground. what is happening on the tree and the flogging because that's the appreciation ready also organize, re walk, mr. people who help nature love rediscover, indigenous plans like property barn and dug. the books meant inspired people to

keep an eye out for the trees around the homes and residential areas. i go back with the feeling that the trees around us are actually on it. as for all the human race, and they did talk more respect that we get if on a station is a very, very important competent us of our future. if you want to survive as a race, valerie, she learned the necessary skills to be a cregan from do ready. today's ukraine, students and young people in her neighborhood and organizing creek on to says they have to work for despite the rules are called for most for crease in delhi to be replugged. there is little evidence that this actually happens in reality. she and that was why they just cut it off last

night on the to move on the roof and remember who laid out. so there is no evidence that the tree exists. so even if i wanted to go to the authorities, i had no evidence. the only way to, you know, stop it was by building a database of trees. and once we have a database, once we have the trees number ones, we have some photographs. you know, if something illegal has happened, we can approach photography. but more, more than that, we can pro actively prevented city officers designed with the crease can be cut down to make space for new buildings between 20152080 not a single telling application was rejected. more than 17000 trees were cut down in this way. it seems like a res with the authority valid sheila and her colleagues in delhi of recorded number 5 cause increase. the number of interest of city to engines is growing among them is ok, so he's

a system analyst at the university and has been involved. some city trees have become part of his life. so next planning the census of near way locality selected a particular location for the reasons for a long weekly plantations. and i'd like to be spending them into the doing a door all ready repeatedly points out the importance of native trees. there are increasingly displaced by invasive species like kelly under the coil bomb. but these non native species on more susceptible to peck than the look indigenous 1 may have evolved over millions of years. ok, so they have their own intelligence and their form, their own web of community. it's like a way of being on and off into relationships with other flora and fauna. so the logical services that they offered are not,

it's just we have scratch the surface and studying lee in fact, so far do ready and her team have landed around 2000 native prison deck of more than 1500 trees have been freed from the concrete dorms, but the work is far from old. me just outside the city of confidence in western spin, europe 2nd biggest lithium deposit is bedded mining. this valuable resource would give the entire continent the ability to power. it's all cars and other electronic devices, giving it independent from big manufacturers and asia and south america. there's just one big problem. the, the deposit threatens the cities neighboring forest time to change pastures for these rap lack marino sheep. life stock rotation keeps the soil healthy and by diversity rich on sallow, paloma has revived this farmland,

just outside catheters in the south west of spain. they produce organic olive oil, meat, and fabrics. this farm has the potential to be a farm of the 21st century, the way the european union once farming to be done in the future. a little bit. t with partners, he invested at least 60000 euros in the sustainable farm plans to open a lithium mind right here. a casting, a cloud over the future of the venture of growth we're standing in is located where they would store the waste of the mine. but it's incompatible, right and not only during the time of extraction but forever, this will completely disappear. somebody one of your up to date is 2 lithium deposits has been found here in the seattle m. oscar. the natural area, just the stones throw away from catheters, historic city center, unesco world heritage,

and now placed the great tensions citizens are protesting against the planned open cast mind. the hosting a bit is, is part of the big initiative that organizes the protest. no, my worst thing is that they will destroy a green space, which is the lung of costs or is because it is very close to the city. in reality, there are people who say it's 1.5 kilometers away from the center, but the water purification plant starts only 300 meters away. it's here and this is where they want to make the whole bar. barrick houses are not far and it's very close to the population of the citizens. so worried that the extraction of lithium could contaminate the air and the ground water the mainly australian own

mining company, presentable, futuristic approach in their corporate video. and mining lithium in europe is also key part of the use strategy to make batteries for electric cars. the move away from fossil fuels and to push for independent from resources overseas for the company open cost mine is a big opportunity. i was in the end it's a necessary transition to adapt to the plans of c o. 2 reduction. all the car manufacturers are opting for electric vehicles with lithium batteries or a many deal with this video experience with our mining explain their project, they want to extract yearly. $15000.00 tons of lithium hydrate seen in its sustainable way waste water would be used for the mining necessary explosions to extract what happened only a few times a week and woodland could be restored. they say the lithium

deposits cannot be moved in here. but what's important is the industrial development that comes with it. this is not about interacting lithium along bring me elsewhere to process it. we are building an industry and to produce lithium hydroxide. and right now that industry doesn't even exist in europe. certainly deal independent production could put stain in paul position in the lithium battery business spots. the company is also promising 1000 jobs, 218 of them directly at the mine. even if unemployment is high in the region in cost, that is most people don't buy this promise. as you know here, there are no specialists. you know how to run the machines, the laurie or the explosives. there are also no specialists and chemistry who will work in reality, the people who are unemployed now will not work there. the workforce will come from

the outside. from any locals. the wealth and project premises is not tangible. manolo sanchez was up at 400 euros when he caught work. as of the mining company chopping down trees on his s date without permission, they wanted rock samples blevins, and i simply asked them to leave. i could easily have reported to sanchez, his house would be next to the processing plant. he grew up here. nobody told him about the mining plans. he feels threatened me of it that this affects me because maybe they're living with me. my mom got kicked me out of the easy way or the hard way lung the cells yet if you don't want to leave, who knows? maybe they'll use the police force to kick me out. man that own her away and then the machines come and demolish my house. i'm not that i'm just also

money. and sanchez worries about environmental and health risks. mining experts say dust emissions risks while the ground water could be further reduced if the mind was planned completely on the ground. that is not the case at the moment, but they see extracting lithium in europe as a huge chance. because we cannot say we want to do something for the environment and the climate keeping everything here in europe clean and then leave behind the lunar landscape somewhere in chile, for example, it's neither fair nor honest. it's got nothing to do with environmental protection or global responsibility of all here in europe. there are enough experts we can develop new methods of mining actual intelligent ways to process these resources in a way that they don't contaminate the environment for. and these are also technologies that we can export to look in the x procurement comes an opportunity

at one which catherine years don't want to exploit the doorstep industry that kitchen tammy needs the water reserve or the atmosphere that makes noise that would destroy our heritage. this landscape in the blood by the mono bye, so it's just not compatible with our lives. more recently, the regional government rejected the permission to extract hair. but extreme mining is ready to challenge this division in court if needed. confound palomo and the other catherine years are wary of getting into a legal battle. deforestation is a bitter reality into the world, especially when it comes to making space for agriculture. in india, as western modern tra, region a local organization has flipped the scenario that incentivizing farmers to plant trees and contribute to the local forest cover. let's see why.

these women are planting saplings of native trees and western mud astra. it's not just a reforestation project. they're planting trees on farmland, which otherwise stays barren. the idea to don't abandoned land into forest scheme from the organisation. farmers for forests. if you really think about forests i pink, you know, they're not just sort of, you know, carbon storage follow houses, right. they provide a range of ecosystem benefits, you know, everything from being goblins requested to, you know, providing sound water recharge, you know? so in conservation, you know, habitat for bio diversity, our markets or our systems don't put a financial value yet on such you know, the services that these ecological systems provide. that's the market failure that the image for ecosystem strikes to correct for most of the forest is approaching

small scale farmers. lego nation, tombly, he leased out to a cause of his unused land in 2022. the organisation they went on to plant 8000 sapling, setting the groundwork for growing a driving carbon sequestering forest as the owner of the land. li will now be paid yearly cash transfers of just over a 100 euros for the next 5 years by farmers for forests, for ecosystem services. the trees will soon provide garnish, heavily mainly runs of small garage business. the 23 year old belongs to a family of land holding farmers in western russia. but agriculture alone, he says, has become financially and viable to support his family of 6. and it was imperative that he find a means of livelihood. she'd be very many, many people have a great family when they have become industrial laborers and some have started

their own businesses because farming is not the same anymore. and i think which is why i started my workshop again, stephanie and farmers and now seeking legal rains have become very interactive in the last year. if this continues from in the region will disappear. when you put in a this is kanisha land, graham. oh, graham and tread land would farmer forest have been piloting the payment for ecosystem services? b. e. s. approach with do objectives in mind to protect existing forests and grow new forests on degraded land through gps tags and satellite images. the teen closely monitors the health of each tree after planting. the project also supports women, farmers and labourers. today they're working on this 3.5 acre plot of land

belonging to the shandy. schindler currently works part time by the petrol station. he holds the cash transfer from the p. s. project will help and get back into farming drum nation day and going nation have a hope. the investment will also benefit the next generation that have been the farmers before this has landed all the trees, the rights to the land are entirely over. despite the 5 year rental agreement of the organization, presenting everything that grows on the land is to sell the food that these trees will bed in the years to come. and that they will provide all belong to as a half later the even if the project ends in 5 years far, most for forest wants to attract more donors in the near future. this will allow for a station in this region to keep progressing. helping local farmers to become less

vulnerable to the effects of climate change. schuman are not the only creatures on earth who crackling the existence of trees, animals talk, and do some damage. we know that for us and why life work in a delicate balance. how there can be controlled that damage without causing an imbalance, thought of strangers in germany already on their way to figure this out. sandra schmidt is delighted to finally be back in the forest hunting. she goes to a hunting license 7 years ago. it's made her appreciate nature, the more he goes out and then come to the recognizes conservationists in germany. these days, the training involved in getting a license includes a much bigger focus on ecology and nature. conservation was and that's a lot more information on plants trade heads. insect cas appeal isn't variance than

phoebe and sick. you know, you think it's only going to be about hunting game that is not the case. the yard boot hunting is strictly regulated in germany and requires a license guessing a license means undergoing training for several months and passing exams. in recent years, the number of women applying has grey sandra schmidt goes hunting, just outside berlin, mainly on land managed by forest. among the only works with hunters who are interested in protecting the forest. rather than collecting trophies. they only get to hunt twice a year in the spring and in the autumn when the animals are particularly active and they only hunt certain species. young my waterloo, and we hunt red and followed your age group one. and so that's last year's funds, and i wish you all happy hunting and rich picking wild 4 and deer in particular,

love, fresh shoots. they do a lot of damage to young trees. so the forest ends up with no new trees and the bushes that best mark illinois shows us some examples. he's even fence stuff, one area completely. animals have done a lot of damage to the saplings here for a number of years. nobody's ever made us their lights. you can see this rowan tree has its head branch broken off and eaten by a red deer. i heard this is an oak. it must be at least 15 maybe 20 years old. but you see its new shoots have been nibbled off by wild animals every year. as but fencing of areas is expensive and further restricts the animals in them movements. germany is relatively rich in forest, about 30 percent of the country is covered with trees compared to just 12 percent

in india. but the forest some intersected by roads and fields, so that the areas of uninterrupted forest are relatively small. animals congregate in those areas. red deer and wild boar has few natural predators like wolves, which are fairly rad. here, easily, dear can find endless amounts of food. here, the farms provide plenty of grazing opportunities during the summer months, as far as are separated by roads and fields. and in some areas seemed out enough to provide grazing land for game that they wouldn't find in a large primeval forest course. and what is for common gordon? most of the forest here is no longer primeval with a variety of tree species. after the 2nd world war evergreens were planted here on mass. but for many years now more situ, as trees have been planted,

we manage 6500 hector's, of farmers, and heavily dominated by pine trees. it was 96 percent pine when we took over. we've now replaced half of that with a new young tree. this wishes to you. a pine tree monoculture causes the soil to dry out and become acidic. the trees are more vulnerable to pests and mixed forests in shows the more human in the soil. the trees can better withstand insects and heat an important benefit in times of climate change. in the spring, many juvenile animals around in the forest mark a huge, raised d, a stand when hunting to ensure he only hits his intended target. his main aim is to protect his young deciduous trees. was going to be viewed. you guys head in item, where do we have more bio diversity? pine forest where the ground is covered with grass and dear can grace. but there

are no butterflies because there are no flowers. beauty of his head, who i am not to do, we have greater biodiversity in a far as that's more like a natural forest, with many different types of trees. shrubs in plants, of whole, different range of species. i'm of that somehow it's likely to be another 40 years before that kind of biodiversity can be restored here. but that's the long term goal that the hunters have set their sights on until one day hunting will no longer be needed. without trees, we don't truly have a chance at some bible. let's begin to accept this fact. now, let collectively urge policy makers to take better care of fall trees. if you're already doing your best to protect trees in your neighborhood, let us know at equal india a d, w dot com. i'll see you again next week with many more inspiring stories until then

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