ah, she's got it all say will credit you will be able to 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 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 4 kids. what we are doing here on the island was 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 see 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 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 when i live with me. and i will mention of a small book with officials warbler said that them was close in time. but life and finish to know what the island turn it into a reserve to see if there was one. now you have a wrong $3000.00 or more of the blood in this issue. ok?

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 air force that the parents will come and fitted with fish. but it will stay there until it learns how to fly. but what makes the show is the prolog off the island doors. hard rock hard rock yonder granny but won 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 shells, islands. 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 toys the can live up to plunder years or more love. okay, fair. 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 have 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 30. 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 see the toys, just not the case when you live with them, you learn to appreciate this difference every day. but every to the sun set every day, the sun rise. you see the beauty every single day, every minute, every sega nozzler dial us 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 monitoring. yeah, we ring each bird with different callers. mike, my name is tyler. this is violet luke. i can be shook glide. 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 linda air, which is october for february, march. we get around $800000.00 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 walk 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 the 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 see one,

i don't think there's any place more beautiful when i don't regret it. i do it again and again, wisely. as 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 job typically and today. yes. and i bring your love in in a few minutes. you will walk out from here, husband and wife. ready at the best time to of the married 1. 51395, you leave with oh me. i

follow the yes god, it 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've an incident 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 with the name. 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'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 that noise. uh huh. with 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.

but 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. so as to block off steak house that sunset. monday is monday. i can waive will rum call the one ahead of state, so approachable. he even brings us along into his office. he's passionate about nature conservation and he so ministry of agriculture, climate change and environment. so these are that that's how we've combined them

because of our size, the min attraction 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 or in temperature in general, we feel it directly as a couple of years back k will have 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 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 on the coast of the main island, or far out at sea in a protected area, shared with maurice. yes. 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, or a new project. we realized that c glass, a stores organic carbon se shelves. once too, i use the protection of cigarettes as part of their in dc. and so by agreeing to protect the c graph, uh, within the it is that if they shelf than they are helping to sequestered 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. 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, actually 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. britton 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 preference, hopefully about a meter deep, and then you take the car back in, you chop it up in a new carbon analysis on it. and then based on a combination of what's in the sediment 4th and the area of sea 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,

shells i suppose history, 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. does what she wants 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, you know, in the heat on the bacteria were do they'll 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 shelves in 1981, and it's really been a remarkable to watch how that the 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, 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 that then myrna jill is proud that she and the other women are doing something meaningful for the islands. is spot of us. they shall, while i've the see ways is day. what do i do? we let see with we have to do something with you done what justice for a the way we have make the campus happy empower the woman to get somehow 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 everyone has spun, wants to pick up truck is full. it's off to the compost pile. not only preparing dom, let's see, we is for the campus. we supple, assess you how to put saw must be with family from. then you put that series and you put some grass. then you put that seaweed against 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 go fertilizer from death on the see eve from the rabbit 2 and 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 handle from the cow. i use it because for small plant 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 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 sense to day 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 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 her very calm girl, 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 brisk. 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 for 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. lucifer ray knows the hard work that goes into it. we have a very good job with russell. that's all for law. it's better because you buy for that's why we have being very careful with each 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'm

attempting to talk on for is very crucial if we have to ensure that the product is within, gets up to them through chevy. it has been kept in that sheila overlap well gap on eyes shaina on humans getting a very high temperature taken from each chill now being cleaned. believe about that, you're not going to be exported to the time. so after they finish the tip of what of the same was took back in the recall and the fish can be explored to frank, met jeff and canada, the buddha. chill. although with one should mend company,

said the truck when we load the truck directly back and goes to the airport across from the fishing port is the coast guard pier. captain linden le blush is supervising the departure maneuver of the largest patrol vessel here. the s c g 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 within the hall of the socials region and our 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 add together. we go out and conduct these though we call them the fisheries boarding. just off the main

island of my have a fishing boat has aroused suspicion. lieutenant lou, so tries to make contact best, so the position 01 degrees, 28 minutes south. the 0 by 5 degrees at 21 minutes. this is the see just was gonna watch about coming up on the phone with for 9 hours. no response. ah sure, it's only a small boat, but every one is subject to the regulations. abroad. 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 by my one when the abilene of soda, licking them from the hey, i got about this is and i look at them as a sub that because you're gonna, you're gonna find it on a everything on that document. ahmad. nice hands on everything on board. okay. only with that. no, we don't get much problem with them. yes. i'm sorry. yes. my gosh, yolanda tomorrow. 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. 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. those that might be conducting so loosely, dr. busy, so i guess it due to the gulf view it 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,

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