and that's it from me add that the new steam for now don't go away though. up next our program close up. we take a look at this se shells, archipelago of paradise at risk, and he called foolish. we'll have a world news update for you at the top of the hour. got office in berlin from me in the new steam here. thanks for watching. ah, imagine how many portion of lunch are thrown out in the world? climate change can be very hot. the story, this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much work can really get we still have time to go. i'm going with 5th

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, the tourists that come caea. there's the li, meet the ordinary, come in the morning. so you see it helps fund the project. it gets the conservation . well 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 will come to fish as 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 with the poorest. but also we need them to continue 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 dallas, lawrence. he won the african range award in 2020. the morning.

i live with me and i will mention of a small book with officials warbler said that them was closed in time. but life and finish to know what the islands don't even throw reserve to see of the war. for now, you have around $3000.00 or more of the world in this issue. okay. the fun part about the fair return is that they don't build in if they just fall a small dent on a branch and delete the egg on. most of the female covers the egg. she will sit there for around $20.00 to $30.00 days. yes. and then be able to come and feed her with fish or the wife if she moves the eds for that the parents will come and fitted with fish,

but it will stay there until it learns how to fly. but what makes a show is the for lack of the island goes hard so hard to off. yeah. not grand need, but one yes, which is a mixture of birds for sand water in order to breathe. and when a solid sides becomes hard as a rock with an area of $27.00 hector's cousin island is among the smaller of the se shell's island. but it's home to more than 300000 birds and much more that's as big as they get. and also to easily identify the female. if you look back a leg, you can see that those. yeah, they have long tools and that helps to dig in the soil lid the eggs. the john thought though is the can live up to 500 years or more love. okay,

fair. and 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 locust. i meant humans have hardly encroached here on public applies. i've cleared a few passes, i put the wood to the side and that's all fine. and there is no concrete, just a few cottages. fine for dirty. the tourists get back on the boat. but dallas stays behind soaking in his surroundings and may be some people with thing, but the birds adding the same thing every day. you see that oil just not the case 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 nozzler dialers shows us around as a passionate ranger. he knows everything about this island,

including the bird call to attract, let's say, shells, magpie robin. or easy a monitoring when we ring, each bird with different color like my name is dailee. this is violet blue. i can be shook. think lies the can be blue, orange as well. but this paradise is threatened by more and more extreme weather events during the season of the super some to little f, which is october for february, march. we get around 800003rd to us coming to the egg. there will come just here in the sand, dig it, and lead the eggs. but with the erosion it's daunting used to come further up in land. and most of the time than this, we've got 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 shows 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 help said, we wanted our wedding to be something special and we wanted to get away somewhere where we could be alone and by the c one, i don't think there's any place more beautiful. i don't regret it. i do it again. and again, why is that those with him of he does it couldn't be any easier. the registrar joined them right there on the beach. today is the beginning of a new chapter and today. yes, i'm addressing you. in a few minutes, you will walk out from pierre, husband and wife, ready to press their time to of the married 151395,

you leave with oh me. i follow the yes god comes. if a lot of bookings are coming in right now, we've caught up a lot of tradition. of course there's still a void. that's not a field. but i am optimistic that things will keep progressing by people will keep poking them 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'm from internet. i searched online for places to get mary just the 2 of us and say, shells came up 1st to say we also looked into malicious and some other options that i left 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, 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 our 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 these saved from here, you could see all the, all the, you know, islands, mr. renew the one who did the cool. he was of it is scared of himself. so he got all those trees blunted. so as to block off steak house that

sunset. monday is monday. i can waive will rum color one ahead of state. so approachable. he even brings us along into his office. he's passionate about nature conservation. he so ministry of agriculture, climate change and environment. so these are, that's how we've combine them because of our size, the min attraction is tourism to res, wanting the see sun and send. these are the 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 covey did 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 really nino and 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 the role and not just to because they are powerful nations, just to continue treating others as, as the poor neighbor,

basically. but for them to put the money, whether mouses 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, share it with more issues. it's an area larger than switzerland. and international scientists 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 seamless us doors, organic carbon, very shells, ones too. i use protection of cigarettes as part of their i, n, d, c. and so by agreeing to protect the c graph uh, within the it is at

a fe 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 see grass can sequester carbon 30 times faster than a rain forest. and it's believed these underwater meadows can last thousands of years. if left alone, a 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 plant out whereas, and there's only about maybe old actually 70 species in the whole world. probably about a dozen species here. say shells is protecting a natural heritage that's already been lost elsewhere. britain has lost more than 90 percent of its sea grass meadows. that's another reason why say shells once

conservation to be measured. because i, it's can argue it's case in numbers. we could collect these cores, preferably, hopefully about a meter deep. and then you take the car back in, 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've determined based on our mapping. then we can come up with an estimate of how much carbon are c grasses and say, shells i sequestering, which would then helps climate change in 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 is all getting galban which is going thing in the yoga meta. and if we leave it too long, in the most environment for the heat,

bacteria will do. they'll job and digest all the snyder, and the only thing you do facials is very interested in the environment. i mean, i've been working as a shelves in 1981. and it's really been a 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 and preservation of the environment. 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 week that's washed up on shore. so it can be put to good use that then myrna jill is proud that she and the other women are doing something

meaningful for the islands. it's spot of those they. so i live the 3 ways. is that what do we, let's see with we have to do something with what justice fully the way we have make the campus happy empower the woman to get some financial, a income for the home. then we also have being to colinda environment to maintain the environment. it's all, everything sweeping, collecting bagging the women around here nearly every saturday. sometimes the whole family comes along. the important thing is that every one has fine. once the pickup truck is full, it's off to the compost pile. not only preparing dom messy weaves for the campus. we supple, assess you how to put saw must be we saw molina. then you put that series and you

put some of glass. and then you put that seaweed, saginaw, and how many layer that you wish us up the one month? you have to turn it then let the process continue. 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 homemade fertilizer comes in handy. i do know that the lights are from depth on the safe from the rabbit 2 and also from the cal anomaly. i started the fertilizer from the c, a c with then for small plants, then i use some mon, you 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 c facility. 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 capital, but i will say to myself, but with, with the, with things are going, the rise in sea level go the mid atlantic islands, already being severely affected by coastal 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 with, as 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 as a 115 island archipelago as to i can tell you there are certain certain islands. so starting to, to disappear. so who knows?

in the next 50 years, what might happen? they arrive at st. luke's church, rom color, 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 her, very humble, i would say, and he's got a very good sense of humor. one boy now and for it, even as president, he continues to preside over funerals and blessed children in the congregation.

first and foremost, a bris. so and they will call me father or andrea, they don't call me president. are we are servants, was gone. and so 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 justice that there is famous. and if this is what serving god is all about. now, what are the expectations of full of politics? politics should also be doing the same thing. back down by the sea are 2 fishing ports. this one is the industrial

port. tuna is brought ashore here. most of it to end up in cannes. 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. lou to portray knows the hard work that goes into it. we have to print up the shade of very politically because let me just would rather not offer that because you buy that's why we have been very carefully good 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. i meant them to check on for is very crucial. we have to ensure that the product is within yes, of develop cemetery chevy. it has been kept in that sheila? yeah. well, when i went back on i, she know humans getting a very good, temporary again from each chill now being cleaned. believe about that,

you're not going to be exported to the common so after they finish the, to the what the said was still in the recall and the fish to be exported to france. madge out and canada the brought up with $11.00 shipment, pumping. the truck with the 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 esther. 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 bow 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 hay. a fishing boat has aroused suspicion. lieutenant lou, so tries to make contact with the position 01 degrees 28 minutes south 055 degrees at 21 minutes. this is the seizure schools. god i want ship. i'm coming calling with for 9 hours. no response.

ah sure. it's only a small boat, but every one is subject to the regulations, a one of them 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 by my one wind up with that because you're gonna you're gonna find it on you know, a

everything i'd recommend ahmad license on lot. everything on board. yes. okay. any with that? no, we don't get much problem with them. yes. in florida. yes. my gosh, yolanda cool morris yam. it's just a local fishing boat. they get into trouble if they over fish. but the huge you vessels, further out, are completely legal. the waters quieted down for a while due to the pandemic, 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 been void those that might be conducting. so 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 ah. she's got any issues or thoughts they will grey you sometimes a seed is all you need to allow the big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental conservation to life with learning facts like global ideas. we will show you

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