needed to leave my same sex marriage as being legalized in more and more countries . discrimination and inequality are part of everyday life. for many we ask why? because life is diversity. to make up your own mind. d. w. lead for mines. rarely have the paradise beaches of say, shells been so empty, but tourists are now trickling back to these islands in the indian ocean, including from germany. tourism is a major source of income for the islanders, but that revenue is also needed to save this unique nature.

time to set off on today's excursion, the 1st group of tourists are waiting out on the catamaran. it's the tourists that comes here. there's the li, meet the ordinary calm in the morning, so it helps fund the project. it gets the conservation a while going. when we did tours, we tried to add for kids what we are doing here on the island. what's the force of the war? they are on their way to cousin island, where a rare species of bird was saved from extinction. this island is a holiday highlight for many tourists. they were composition

mostly because of the beach and also for snorkeling and diving. but this causes a lot of threats to the marion area. call rose, because a lot of pressure. so i think it to be best if we can stabilize a bit, the poorest, but also we need them to continue with the economic need them as well. each visitor has to pay the equivalent of $37.00 euros. this feed mainly pays for the rangers. like die las lawrence. he won the app can ranger award in 2020 the morning. i live with me and i will mention of a small booklet officials warbler said that them was supposed to have done at the same time but life and finish to know what the island turn it into

a reserve to see if there was one. now you have around 3000 or more of the or below in the front bottom of the fair return is that they don't build in. if they just fall a small dent on a branch and daily the egg on the most of the female clovis, the egg. she was sit there for around $20.00 to $30.00 days. yes. and then be able to come and feed her with fish. otherwise, if she moves the eggs for that, the parents will come and fitted with fish, but it will stay there until it learns how to fly. but what makes who's this special is the for lack of the island doors. hard so hot off yonder, ronnie, but blah new yes. which is a mixture of goods for sand, water. and although debris and when it's solid sides becomes hard as

a rock with an area of $27.00 hector's cousin highland is among the smaller of the se shells islands. but it's home to more than $300000.00 birds, and much more. that's as big as they get and all that the is the, the identified, the female. if you look at the back leg, you can see the toes. yeah, there have been long tools and that helps to dig in the soil. the eggs. the john thought though is the can is up to 600 years or more love. okay. fear it was lovely to see so many birds app class. they're not shy either. even the tiny baby baby is not client that are in bookish. them, and humans have hardly encroached here. i'm probably have cleared a few passes. i thought the would to the side and that's all kind and there's no concrete just a few cottages, fine for 30. the tourists get back on the boat,

but dallas stays behind, soaking in his surroundings. i know maybe some people will thing, but the birds, they're doing the same thing every day. you sit at or toys just not that guess when you live with them. you learn to appreciate this difference every day, every day, the sun set every day, the sun rise. you see the beauty every single day, every minute, every sega nazareth. yes. dallas shows us around as a passionate ranger. he knows everything about this island, including the bird call to attract the se. shells magpie robin. for easy a monitoring? yeah, we ring each bird with different color. like my name is dailee. this is violet luke . i can be shocked, inquired the can be blue orange as well. but this paradise is threatened by more

and more extreme weather events. during the season of the ceo company, the average is october. for february, march, we get around $800030.00 coming to the egg. there will come just here in the sand, dig it and lead the eggs. but with the erosion is sonton used to come further up in land. and most of the time the nest will get to watch away climate change and the resulting weather are also a threat to the ranger's homes. yeah. under the house, under the house of close of erosion which happened last year. and now we're just trying to stuck up some rocks. dallas would like his african ranger award to be shared by the whole team. for him, it's about more than a prize to be able to win. bout ranger i would. that has become huge.

as it has put to show on the map in terms of conservation of why life nature conservation is valuable in itself. but it's also become a selling point for tourists and something that justifies the high costs of staying on the archipelago of vacation and paradise is expensive. but tourists are willing to pay for it alongside them, the people of se shells celebrate their creole culture and language. a few kilometers away to people are getting ready for their big day. just some final preparations and they'll be ready to take their 1st steps into married life far away from their home in austria. yes, to hope that we wanted our wedding to be something special make we wanted to get

away somewhere where we could be alone and by the see one, i don't think there's any place more beautiful when i don't regret it. i do it again and again, why is school those movies as well? it couldn't be any easier. the registrar joined them right there on the beach. today is the beginning of a new top typically and today. yes, and i read it aloud. in a few minutes. you will walk out from pierre as husband and wife ready to place their time to of the married 151395, you leave with

oh me. i follow the yes. got it comes it. a lot of bookings are coming in right now. we've caught up a lot, of course there's still a void that's not be filled. but i am optimistic that things will keep progressing by people will keep poking and will do fine for a wedding package. costs around a $1000.00 euros and covers everything from the photographer to the coconut drinks . yep. i've, i'm internet. i searched online for places to get married just the 2 of us and say, shells came up 1st to say we also looked into malicious and some other options with the navy. let's take another photo through the tree and then we'll head over to the

rocks. either the mice, most couples who get married with us, come simply to enjoy the moment and because it's beautiful and a shirt of st. charles is paradoxes, you can't deny it, no matter how many times you visit like people come once and then keep coming back to because it's so pretty much there's always something new to discover the noise of a wedding shootin say, shells wouldn't be complete without a photo at sunset a site that tourists on the next beach over are enjoying to tourism provides the main source of income for the archipelago. se shells is also a haven for the super rich,

as well as tax of aiders. but that's another story. the capital city of victoria is small and modest. after all, the total population of se shells is less than $100000.00. 1 of the islands residence is both a priest and the president. the reason why this sport was chosen as the sake of, from here you could see all the, all the, you know, islands, mr. any, the one who did the cool, he was of it as scared of himself. so he got to all those trees blunted so, so as to block off steak house that sunset. monday. it's monday i can waive will rum color won a head of state so approachable. he even brings us along into his office. he's passionate about nature conservation. he so ministry of agriculture, lima,

change and environment. so these are that, that's how we've combine them because of our size, the main attraction is tourism to is wanting the see sun and send these other 3 men items that they come for. and this also makes us, sir, quite vulnerable, because we cannot go into industrialization because we simply too small and covey daughters that we had put to maybe too much emphasis on, on tourism. so when calvin hit to, we were basically on our literally, on our knees, the country is income was next to 0. the australian high commissioner to say shells is on her 1st official visit to the archipelago. she's also responsible for more issues, madagascar,

and cameras. all places that are threatened by climate change when there's a rise in c temperature or in temperature in general, we feel you directly as a couple of years back, a revenue and stuff cycles and where we lost over 90 percent of our corals through bleaching. it is time for, for those who are more responsible for the destruction of the planet to, to play their role and not to sue because they are powerful nations. just to continue treating others as a, as the poor neighbor, basically. but for them to put their money where the mouth is, don't just come and give us lectures on climate change. we are fighting for all a survival c grass could help in that fight. the plant works small miracles against climate damaging c o 2. whether that's here off the coast to the main

island or far out at sea in a protected area, shared with more issues. it's an area larger than switzerland. and international scientists would say it can store more carbon than a terrestrial forest of the same size. yeah, but it, this group of researchers is meeting to survey the sea grass meadows of say, shells for a new project. we realized that sea glass a stores organic carbon facials ones too. i use protection of sea grass is part of their, r and d. c. and so by agreeing to protect the c graph, i, within the it is that if they shelf than they are helping to sequester carbon out of the atmosphere, most people are aware of climate change. but it's less widely known that c o 2 can be pulled out of the air and stored. and what's more, that sea grass can sequester carbon 30 times faster than

a rain forest. and it's believed these underwater meadows can last thousands of years. it left alone. the sea grass is related to terrestrial plants and their flowering plants. so they actually have flowers and pollen under water. so they're quite advanced plants. whereas, and there's only about maybe, oh gosh, i 70 species in the whole world. probably about it doesn't. she is here. say shells is protecting a natural heritage that's already been lost elsewhere. britain has lost more than 90 percent of its c grass meadows. that's another reason why say, shells once conservation to be measured. because science can argue its case in numbers. we could collect these cores peripheral, hopefully about a meter deep, and then you take the car back and you chop it up and do carbon analysis on it. and then based on a combination of what's in the sediment course and the area of see grass that we determine based on our mapping,

then we can come up with an estimate of how much carbon are c grasses and say, shelf i sequestering, which would then helps climate change into water. these tests are always a race against time. because of the islands, high temperatures needs to be put into a fridge because what we want to see, we move organ galban, which is gone thing in the organic meta. and if we leave it too long, in the most environments are in the heat on the bacteria were do they all job and digest, old uses aren't the only thing you do. facials is very interested in the environment. i mean, i've been looking at facials as 1981, and it's really been, you know, remarkable to watch how that b attitude towards environment has,

has shifted over the years to the point that, i think was one of the leaders of the world really in terms of being interested in bio diversity in preservation of the environment, the facial can be a model for other countries. it's not only scientists who are conscientious of the environment here. a group of women meets regularly to collect see wheat that's washed up on shore. so can be put to good use myrna jill is proud that she and the other women are doing something meaningful for the islands. a spot of us, they so alive. the see ways is day. what we do, we, let's see with we have to do something, we'd be done. what justice for the way we have make the comfort happy, empower the woman to get some more financial, an income for the home. then we also happening to colinda young

vironment to maintain the environment. it's. 1 all everything sweeping, collecting bagging the women around here nearly every saturday. sometimes the whole family comes along. the important thing is that everyone has fun. once the pickup truck is full, it's off to the compost pile. not only preparing dom, let's see we, it's a photo compos. we supple, assess you how to put saw must be with family phone. then you put that series and you put some grass. and then you put does seaweed against and how many layer that you, alicia? after one month, you have to done it. then let the process guaranteeing you, myrna jill is a teacher earning the equivalent of less than $900.00 euros a month. not much in a country where so much is imported and costly. the whole major fertilizer comes in handy. i don't fret eliza from death from the sieve from robbie to

in also from the cal anomaly. i start with the fertilizer from the c a c with. then for small plants, then i use some money from the, from de robbie to or from the, hey, know, from the cow. i use it because for small blunt, you have to use the sci fi till i said he's very good. it's sunday and the president and 1st lady of se shells are heading to church waiver rum color one is deeply concerned about climate change. my house is not next to the see right now. i oversee the capitol, but i always say to myself, but with, with the, with things are going. the rise in sea level, the men adrenergic island south already being severely affected by cause. so erosion, there are some, some places where over the last 50 years or so,

we've lost up to 20 meters of, of land and dec. furthermore, the, the outlier outer islands are, are even more affected because they are just, they don't have rocks to, to act as a barrier. it's only send and in the same way that they were created. it's easy for the see. just to take back the send to did we talk officials, a 115 island archipelago, so i can tell you there are certain certain islands that are starting to to disappear. so who knows in the next 250 years, what might happen? they arrive at st. luke's church, rom caller one, pushed for it to be renovated 10 years ago after his mother passed away. even today, he would still rather be here, then in the big cathedral in the city. if somebody was very down to the very

come girl, i would say, and he's got a very good sense of humor. one good now and for it isn't even as president, he continues to preside over funerals and blessed children in the congregation. first and foremost a bris, so when did they? oh, call me father or andrea. they don't called me president servants was gone. and so what, what are the expectations? the expectations on me is to ensure that my brother,

my sister, gets the best in that i fight poverty. i fight in just this that there is famous. and if this is what serving god is all about. now, what are the expectations, all full of politics? politics should also be doing the same thing back down by the c r 2 fishing ports. this one is the industrial port. tuna is brought ashore here, most of it to end up in cans. it's mainly caught by large ships from e. u. countries, spain and france. tuna is a valuable fish. but here it's treated like a cheap mass produced item. next

door is the port of the local fishers with their small boats. they mainly catch yellowfin tuna. it can bring in 5 times as much as the use mass produced canned goods. partly because it's been more sustainably. lucifer re knows the hard work that goes into it. we have to print up the shade of very politically because let me just with russell that's offered on that because you fighter for her. that's why we have been very carefully did each it many and say shells would prefer to see less fish go to industries and far away europe. but local young people often don't want to take on this demanding job, even if it pays well. the

fish is processed very carefully with regular temperature checks and sometimes check on for is very crucial. we have to ensure that the product is within yes of develop center, which i mean, it has been kept in that sheila, well, when i went back on i sheena, on humans getting a very good temporary i think, and from each china being cleaned for this, i'm not sure that you're not good to be exported to the common so after they finish the tip of what the said was still in the recall and the packing of fish, exploited to france med jeff and canada the blue shield.

although with one shipment company, said the truck with a regular that includes the vehicle across from the fishing port, is the coast guard pier captain. lyndon le blush is supervising the departure maneuver of the largest patrol vessel here. the s c t s 0 aster. it deals with a legal fishing which is also part of nature conservation. lieutenant luigi lozzo instructs the task force. so what we usually see during this time is that there's an increase activity of fishing activities, the whole of the sales region. and it's all role and responsibility to get out there and make sure that we don't have any on license on registered already go fishing happening and we don't do this vall, selma, we walk in partnership with the sales fishing authority. and together we go out and

conduct these though we call them the fisheries boarding, just off the main island of my hey, a fishing boat has around suspicion. lieutenant lou, so tries to make contact with position 0. 1 degrees, 28 minutes south 055 degrees at 21 minutes. this is the seizure school's gonna watch about coming on the bus in for 9 hours. no response. ah sure. it's only a small boat, but every one is subject to the regulations. are filled with, oh, i hm. they called

the boat but got no response. so an inflatable raft, with armed special forces and fishery officials, heads over fighting the illegal fishing trade is no easy task. i'm prime or when, when w a and then we will see the from that because you're gonna, you're gonna find a everything document. ahmad, license on lot, everything on board? yes. okay, only with that. no, we don't get much problem with them. yes. in florida. yes, not a gosh, yolanda guy, cool morris yam. it's just

a local fishing boat. they get into trouble if they over fish, but the huge e vessels further out are completely legal. the waters quieted down for a while due to the fan demick, but things are ramping up again. has been bless you don't, i was i again because there's been less activity on the water and it's easier to be void goes. i might be conducting some to lucy doc cbt. so i guess it due to the gulf viewed as being a blessing and a girl. yeah. the location of sea shells is also a blessing that could one day become a curse if climate change brings more extreme weather events. if islands sink due to rising sea levels or if protective, coral reefs die off this tropical paradise is at risk and without help, it may not survive. mm

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