thing about here is not only disorganized violence, it's not only terrorism. it's politics. found it over 150 years ago. it's repeatedly died out, but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d. w. ah. 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 comes here, there's the limits, the ordinate come in the morning. so you see it helps fund the project. it keeps 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 the shows 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 at 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 dialing lawrence, he won the african ranger award in 2020 the morning. i live with me and i will mention of a small book with officials warbler said that them was close protection at the same time but life and finish to know what the islands turn it into a reserve to see if there was one. now you have around 3000 or more of the war blow

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 daily 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. otherwise, if she moves the eds for that, the parents will come and fitted with fish, but it will see the until it learns how to fly. but what miss, who's in the show is the for lack of the island doors pods. walk harder off yonder granny. but one yes, which is a mixture of birds for sand, water, and although debris and when a solid sides becomes hard as a rock with an area of $27.00 hector's cousin highland 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 at the back leg, you can see the toes. yeah, they have long tools and that helps to dig in the soil lay the eggs, the john thought toys the can live up to put a 100 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 out in locust. i meant humans have hardly encroached here. i'm probably completely cleared. if you pass, i put the wood to the side and that's all kind and there's 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 maybe some people with thing, but the burst adding the same thing every day. you sit at oil just not because when you live with them, you learn to appreciate this difference. every day, i ever did a sun set every day, the sun rise. you see the beauty every single day, every minutes, every sega nozzler dialers shows us around as a passionate ranger. he knows everything about this island, including the bird call to attract the se, shells magpie robin or easy a monitoring? yeah, we ring each bird with different carlos mike. my name is tyler. this is violet luke . i can be shocked. think wise the can be blue. busy range as well. but this paradise is threatened by more and more extreme weather events during the season of

the super some to let the egg which is october for february, march. we get around $800000.00 to it's coming to the egg. there will come just here in the sand, dig it and lead the eggs. but with the erosion, it's continuous to come farther 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 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 school 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 top typically and today. yes. and i bring your love in, in a few minutes. you will walk out from here as husband and wife. ready at the best time to of the married one the 51395, you leave with oh me. i ride in?

loma the yes. got it, comes it, 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 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 marcia's 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. as a demise,

most couples who get married with us come simply to enjoy the moment, denise, and because it beautiful not sure of st. charles is paradoxes, you can't deny it. no matter how many times you visit to lighten people come once and then keep coming back, because it's so pretty him, i mean 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 ebay doors. 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, mister any. the one who did the cool. he was a bit scared of himself. so he got all those trees blunted. susan to block off steak house that sunset. monday is monday. i can waive will ram, collar one, a head of state, so approachable. he even brings us along into his office. he is passionate about nature conservation and he so ministry of agriculture, lima, change and environment. so these are, that's how we've combine them because of our size,

the minute fraction is tourism to is 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 calvin hit to, we were basically on our literally, on our knees, the country's 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 in temperature in general, we feel you directly as a couple of years back a really nino and and stuff cycles. and 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 just sue because they are powerful nations, just to continue treating others as a, as the poor neighbor, basically. but for them to put the money where the mouth is, don't just come and give us lectures on climate change. we are fighting for all the 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 of 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 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 se shells or a new project. we realize that see glass or stores organic carbon say shells wants to. i use protection of cigarettes as part of their and d. c. and so by agreeing to protect the c grass i within the it is that if they shelf, then 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 plants. whereas, and there's only about maybe, oh gosh, i 70 species in the whole world. probably about it doesn't 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 science can argue its case in numbers. we could collect these cores preference, hopefully about a meter deep. and then you take the car back and you chop it up and, and do carbon analysis on it. and then based on a combination of what's in the sediment 4th and the area of cigarettes that we determine based on our mapping than we can come up with, with an estimate of how much carbon are c glasses 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's the want to see? he's organ galban, which is going thing in the yoga meta. and if we leave it too long, in the most environments are in the heat on the bacteria were do their job and digest, or the snyder. and the only thing you do the shells is very interested in the environment. i mean, i've been working as a shells as 1981, and it's really been, you know, remarkable to watch how that the attitude towards environment has, has shifted over the years to the point that i think one of the leaders of the world really in terms of being interested in bio diversity in reservation 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 week that's washed up on shore. so it can be put to good use myrna jill is proud that she and the other women are doing something meaningful for the islands. it's part of us, they so alive. the see ways is day. what do i do with that? see with we have to do something with you done. what justice fully though we, we have make the compost happy, empower the woman to get some more financial, an income for the home. then we also happening to colinda environment 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 fine. once the pickup truck is full, it's off to the compost pile. not only preparing dom, let's see we, it's a for the compost we supple, assess you how to put saw must be with somebody from. then you put the c with and you put sa, mcgrath. then you put that seaweed against and how many layer that you, alicia after one month, you have done 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 go for it eliza, from death, from deceive, from rabbit. and also from the cal anomaly, i started the fertilizer from the c,

a c with. then for small plants, then i use some money from the, from the rabbit, or from the handle from the cow. i use it because for small plants you have to use the c fertility. so 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 always say to myself, but with the way things are going. the rise in sea level though the men, a graphic island south ready 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 effective 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, to back the sentence to day we took officials as a 115 island archipelago i so i can tell you there are certain certain islands that are starting to, to disappear. so who knows? in the next to 50 years, what might happen? they arrive at saint luke's church. rom, cala want 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 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 call me president. we are sevens 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 just this

that there is famous. and if this is what serving god is all about. now, what are the expectations or 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 foray knows the hard work that goes into it. we have to print up the shade of very poorly. he has limited job with russell. that's all for that because you buy from that's why we have been very careful with each if 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 some

touch up on for is very crucial as we have to ensure that the product is with in jacksonville center, which i mean it has ms. chapman but sheila where on ice shaina on, so still maintaining a very his temperature taken from each chew now being cleaned, to live up for all of that to not good to be exported to the common so after they finish the tip of what the thing was took back in the recall and the packing of fish, exploited to france. madge out and canada, the buddha. she'll. oh though with $11.00 shipment company,

said the truck with a regular that invoice to the airport 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 g 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 within the hall of the socials region. and it's all rural 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 head. a fishing boat has aroused suspicion. lieutenant lou, so tries to make contact with position. do one degrees, 28 minutes south of july. bye degrees at 21 minutes. this is the seizure school's gonna wash about coming on the bus with for 9 hours? no response. ah sure. it's only a small boat, but every one is subject to the regulations. for another, i got off 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 window balloon of thought on the phone with a with everything on board. how commend ahmad nice and somewhat everything on board. so anyway, and i get much problem with him. yes. i'm sorry. yes ma'am. oh gosh, you lanka. camaros. yeah, am. 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, having a bless you don't, i was i again because there's been less activity on the water and it's easier to pinpoint that might be conducting so loosely dr. vincent. so i guess it due to the gulf viewed as being a blessing. hannah girl. yes. the location of se 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. ah,

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