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the but not all member states supported and some persuasion is required. some time will when the diplomatic poker interested power please, and alliances behind the scenes of the climate summit starts august, 5th on d. w. ah. the animal conservationists out and about and brazil's north eastern coast. there are creatures that live here that can only be found in a few other places on the landscape is breathtaking, but the conservation is to have no time to favor it just now. they have the job to do to stop the environment here from changing even more due to human intervention.
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brazil coast is sensitive and, and just right. the me think what that was anyway, we are here to look for injured or dead creatures on the beach. it was when we find something, we try to understand what has happened to the animal. that way we can find out what we should do to protect the patient. oh, good to be as him as a bad. he and his team aim to save every animal that gets into trouble on their stretch of the coast. like this bird. they found the gamut on the beach several months ago. it was completely exhausted. the team of biologists and animal care workers, gave it veterans and fish to restore it. strength today is the birth big day. it's
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going to be set free again. it's a special occasion for the conservationists to the moment they've all been working towards ah, time to take off and fly to freedom. or maybe not. ah ah ah, ah ah, it looks as if this particular bird is unsure about leaving its human carriers. even a gentle prod doesn't change that we still want to foss always on birds. get accustomed to captivity,
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but i'm not worried. we just have to be patient and wait until it feels safe and flies away. we will find the right moment to release it into the while. the bird is fine now it could lead, but it doesn't want to sample me. it seems the scanner is not ready to turn down the hospitality of its care is just the bed isn't the only foundling being looked after by the touch of the co step around project based in the brazilian state of rio grande g to nazi the project is mainly focused on preserving these creatures, see cows, or manatees, as they're also cool. they love the atlantic close to the equator where it's nice and warm. but these ones meet some t l. c. the
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project searches the beaches. formalities that have been stranded, caught in nets. if i boats or injured by illegal hunters, it brings the marine animals back here and looks after them. often it takes several years before they're strong enough to be released back into the wine. so what do you mean? i can say the less contact we have with them, the more likely it is that the creatures will recover and heal quickly. all the stuff that way we avoid them getting to use to people they sit in my for which wouldn't be good once they are free. again, it's all for a fee for the fee, with the feeding model we have developed, we can feed them without touching them. so there may be soccer is any life in a few years, baby amenities,
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only drink milk. and the vase d i y construction works a treat this young animal skins. it probably low stranded in the sun, 4 hours before residents found it and contacted the citizens project. son like seals seek out. we don't go on land so they don't have a protective ferry. pelt if they do stray onto a beach, they're mercilessly exposed to the sun. though you anymore with the fordable, he's the, his condition was critical for 60 days. but now he's out of the dangerous stable, and there's a very good chance of him returning to his natural habitat. at some point in the show that you have to go by then the severe burn will have long. he's because this manatee is still young and without a mother,
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it will be another 2 to 3 years before it can survive out in the open sea. and then on the following morning, we accompany the teams on a daily beach to one had. so we are the new together they take some 100 kilometers, a coastline every day. oh, good to go. the option says there is a 100 percent chance of finding injured or dead animals every single day. at 1st loans, the environment here may still appear lines and food, but much has changed. ah. especially in the last 30 years there's been a lot of development of hotels, industry, and above so ah, a city that won't be sad you can. these artificial saucepans have destroyed the
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mangrove that used to line the river bush. why am i still on the manatees used to give birth to their young and the mangrove. it was a place with enough food and fresh water where the manatees could feed their babies undisturbed in the cold water, and also find enough food for themselves equal to keep buffeting. ah, it doesn't take long before the conservation is do come across the dead creature. a sea turtle, if there's no external signs of home from the way it's flying with sun from the tide under its head, it must have been washed in on the high tide as sign it died in the sea and not on the beach, says biologist. jean paul. no. do you know how the creature dive
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often made a visa. it's always hard to say at 1st sight, no more. but with the examination possibilities that we have here on the beach, we will soon be able to find out more that we'll have to put it up and take a look at it, or go with it with the auto fee attracts only because now i think that's the fan of very, very fussy. i was out walking here. the visual, it's the 1st time i see a dead turtle. yeah. it's a loss for nature. go out here i came over because i saw people here. i wanted to find out what was happening. i saw a dead turtle the last time i was here to them. i think that it's due to environmental pollution back when i said the poly so this will actually didn't die as a result of pollution. its stomach contents are normal and it has no visible injuries
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. or illnesses. the scientists are going to take the organs and tissue samples to the lab. but they're fairly confident that this turtle drowned inefficient. and just a few meters away. they find these fishing contraptions to capture fish or shellfish in which aquatic creatures that need to surface to breathe. also regularly get caught and throughout debate, augustine, who of yaz him is going to visit one of his former patients, amenities that he looked after for years, which is almost ready to be released into the one. got. that's where amanda olivera and ought to barbosa from the quasi project come in capital. she's getting on very well here. she's eating the vegetables that we give her and she also likes the
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sea grass that she'll find later in the fee. not but i the amenities have been kept in small pools to prepare for the wild. they need to get a taste for the sea again, but the reintroduction must be gradual. to this end, the biologists have created a floating pooled 100 meters. actual free manatees are currently waiting here to be set free. ah, the scientists might have trouble guessing they see legs. the floating construction allows the animals to get used to the waves and the water. and they have to learn to feed themselves. to simulate sea grass, some of the letters is pushed into heavy pikes so that it sinks to the sea floor
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with a man, if he can practice grazing the $500.00 kilos seek out, devoured about 50 kilos of plant matter a day. off the phone, you said before we released the animals into the wilderness, we have to see whether they can feed themselves properly and drink water on their own and see if they're seeking less interaction with humans. we had to be the only one that tells us whether they've gotten to the stage where they can survive and see the process. florida they don't know how many weeks the process will take. this is the 1st time they've used the floating pool to reintroduce the creatures to the wild. once they're ready, the amenities will swim off into the atlantic in the service. the result is then you might for just tell me when we released the animals, they're given
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a gps bill that allows us to track them. one of them is already fitted with a belt to try it out. god is based on the data transmitted to us. we'll be able to see where the animal is, how far it swims out into the see if it finds in a food, and whether it's joined up with other manatees a lot of my century. this allows the team to see whether the many years of care pays off. if one more of this endangered species survives in the seas of brazil, me. beautiful coast naturally also attract tourists. small example, show that tourism and animal conservation can go together the geneva, the sil that takes visit his alton, his boats to seek health a year ago. the fisherman didn't know
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a lot about the animals, apart from the fact that his parents once hunted and 8th them the day mia? i just fuzzy. when the coven pandemic started, i was still a fisherman, but i was selling less and less fish. more then i noticed that the manatees came to the same places. at the same time. i used this knowledge and started taking tourists. they're very low, especially now. this is my work, i don't, i don't fact. today he's able to tell his passengers a lot about the animals, for instance, that they are related to elephants, even though they are known as seek house. that they can survive for 6 months without food and love warm water, which is why they are only to be found in the topic. and that they can remain under water for up to 15 minutes. i can see them already where almost there.
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he also tells his visit his that manage. he's all at risk even though humans are the only predators done in the server now sees himself as a conservationist, as he is raising awareness. it makes me want to learn more about manatees and locals can stand their villages because they have work. thanks to the animals stuff a lot. it's an amazing trip. the animals are in danger of dying out, and this is a real conservation area where they can give birth to their young and say, i had never seen them entity before. and i'm impressed by how huge they are. i've learned something the seasonal fishes of prize runker on the other hand, up to tourists. they're here to catch green patch or macro, the. they kill fish that miguel the silver,
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the deputy chairman of the fish says union in prior. but since that the environment is very important to them, after all, their business depends on the health of the see. have you caught anything yet? not says his colleagues, replying, fishing has gotten harder. he tells us that a jung gotta, the name for the little boats used to catch 200 kilograms officially amount of nowadays 2230 today the sea is calm, light winds and waves that are a meter high at most. nevertheless, we haven't had any luck with us. we're not going to find any fish today. it's a poor day for our 3 votes of that book of prescott. the luckily being in the union means that they say they profits and the seconds on gotta have more knock
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. miguel says a lot has changed here. they used to be less noise, no cars, and no big houses. he thinks that's why they're catching few fish. these days. fishes are often the 1st to notice changes the longer the best. we can hardly live from what we catch anymore. factory farming is also responsible for that. many colleagues now work in that sector. you can earn more than with our traditional way of fishing me. but in brazil, people try to stay optimistic and at least they can still catch enough fish to feed their families. true fishing won't make them rich, but they cherish their freedom. in the past,
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everyone here used to make their living from fishing or foaming. today, the fishes feel they are no longer respected and environmental catastrophe in 2019 hammett that home and also sallied 2000 kilometers of coastal, including here where their hunt is me. they say the story is responded far too slow . got a lot for our beach here in rio grande. you do not. she was the worst hit. the reefs were completely covered in oil that made our life very difficult because everyone thought our fish had been contaminated. does not notice, okay, when they are the prices still having recovered. i like bought a month the 1st clumps of oil were washed on to the beach in september 2019. no one knew what it was coming from. and it just got worse and
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worse. hundreds of features were effected for months, residents try to remove the oil and they related joined by state employees. but it kept on washing in, got many marine creatures lost their life in order to keep this all what i thought god was in that game followed by the way that we still don't know who was responsible for the catastrophe. some say it was a venezuelan oil tank, the better all you got that was in the others, say brazilian, off shore oil rigs are to blame. the way, putting it up. the beach looks clean now, but only at 1st glance. the ugly oil from 2019 just won't go away. it's still sticking to the stone. it'll take
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a long time before that disappear. and this will remain here. every high tide loosened the oil a bit, and it ends up on the beach or on the see bit more about that and in the feel, scientists are still trying to find out who caused the pollution. hello. are you taking samples? my son? yes, we're analyzing the sand. it's still very oily. yes. in the small mangrove swamp, over there, and on the see bed, when we did. we have so much technology, but we still don't know who is responsible for them. in leoni mendez is a c biologist from the federal university of rio grande. they do not see she's researching the impact of the oil catastrophe on the curve.
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up just so i key on the oil is still here. exerting is influencing even in the places where it's no longer visible on the device. over time, the particles get smaller and smaller and can be absorbed by the ecosystem. i sat by plants and animals to stamp the leon e mendez and her assistant regularly collect coral samples to these sensitive creatures have also been contaminated and they see a long term damage. see bank plenty, a job. we profit in so many areas from natural resources, spots. what we lack is a good plan about how to use them without irrevocably exploiting them. to do we have to protect resources at the same time, find a balance between youth and conservation bank. they did, the plan is the
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me, ah, the 1000 kilometer service. the beach also looks clean again, despite the recent order. the, this is the tomorrow project in by here, which is dedicated to the protection of sea turtle. the inquisitive paddlers spend their life and the big pools so that visitors can learn about them. denise, the mora is preparing to act as midwife. about 100 turtle eggs have been incubated here in the sun for about 50 days. and the eggs always all hatch at the same time. i love the little ones they're so cute faces we should realize how important it is to protect them. now it really pains me
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to know that they often end up moving plastic because of the last school, the little reptiles way in just 20 grams. each one of them is logged and then of course it to the c. normally the 1st al isn't the life of the turtle? are the most dangerous ones. there's some tiny is hatching. is the survival tactic? a lot of baby turtles run across the sand together. at least a few will managed to dodge predatory birds will fish. once they've got to the,
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to the head out into the open sea for 2 days, biologist, piano data tells us that, that we estimate that out of a 1000. only one or 2 animals will actually grow to maturity. they stand a big danger being eaten in their 1st stages of life and its nature. that's why so many hats out there. part of the oceans, food chain, the main. the turtles arrive at the beach to lay their eggs in december, january and february, brazil, summer months. luciana mo data was and denise the motor check the section every other night. it doesn't take long for them to find the turtle. she has already dug her nest and begun to lay 102120 eggs divided to seize the opportunity to measure and mark the turtle. thanks to this method,
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scientists were able to prove that turtles keep returning to the beach where they were born. the over doesn't matter so vile or when a turtle lazy eggs, it's as if they are oblivious to everything around them. but also to the fact that we're here by the muscle at those you might, that's why we can do our work without disturbing them. telephone messages of them is but only until she covers over the nest taps down the sand and cruise back towards the water. the turtle is guided by the night cray of the breaking weighed bright life from street life. cars or houses would just orientate her and she would no longer find her way back to the sea. recount some
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$12000.00 nasty song section of the coastline every year. that's proof that this species is making a fantastic recovery here. and it's great confirmation of what we're doing to save this endangered species. ah, people can now live side by side with nature. the presence of the conservationist has stopped the plundering of the petal smith and restaurants no longer serve turtle eggs. residents are increasingly learning to respect the animals. and she got me, jackie fisher's used to make their living hunting turtles. since the people from tomorrow project got here, we have learned that we have to protect the turtles. you thank you. like many other animals in brazil, the turtles are in danger of extinction. but here and by here somewhere,
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mainly because of the project conservation is working well about the project to film on your washington duties. and all countries have to do their bit. it is not just brazil's responsibility on your nature belongs to everyone. and that's why we all have to help with environmental protection is to preserve nature as riches. and above all, the brazilian, move it as a leader. the conservation is can know how much they need the help of people from the surrounding villages. and they've turned many into a committed environmentalist. antonio mendez is the best turtle tracker full and wide. it's his job to find the hidden this. and he's been doing that for 35 years. he has seen many turtle moms to be returning to his beach time and time again after their journey across the atlantic. some of them travel all the way to the west coast of africa. mm.
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oh, he just said he would recognize his old friends, even without me every one of these people who has dedicated their lives to the brazilian coast and the creatures have a unique perspective on what they're doing. i'm not valuable and i used to eat turtle. and today they give me work and a salary to live with me. so i would like see turtles to feel at home in their habitat again. and at some stage that they'll no longer be one of the endangered species. that is my mission, live the
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