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was i'm psychosis isn't illness. my mother's nightmare starts june, 4th on d w. aah! surging up from the ocean stats in the heart of the south atlantic, lies an otherworldly drop of land that offers a window into the past riches of our planet. located 2000 kilometers from the nearest land mass. midway between africa and south america, the volcanic island of st. helena is unique, not only for its extreme isolation, but also for the diversity of its exceptional flora and fauna. this bath, alt joel, is home to a multitude of micro ecosystems,

each with its own endemic species. but the discovery of the island by europeans in the 16th century resulted in a systematic exploitation of resources. and introduction of alien species destabilizing its fragile balance. yet to day the people of st. helena have come together to save their natural heritage and achieve what many would consider impossible, ah, ah . shaped by thousands of years of volcanic eruptions, the central ridge of st. helena dominate the horizon. rising more than 800 meters

above sea level, it's 3 misty peaks are home to a unique ecosystem. the cloud forest of diana's peak park is the beating heart of the island. and the reason why st. helena was so important to european ships, fresh water. within these 81 hector's survived the relics of a tropical rain forest. that once covered the entire island cut off from the rest of the world. the plant life here has evolved over millions of years. and simple friends and daisies have become trees. but isolation came at a price in the absence of natural predators. the endemic plants never evolved. the ability to rapidly regenerate leaving them defenseless,

against the ravenous appetite of the domestic animals introduced by passing ships left to rome. the island in just a few short years, the goats had decimated the islands ancient forests. having exhausted their resources, the herbivores sealed their own fate, and the once 1000 strong heads have now disappeared. although cattle are no longer a danger to the endemic flora. invasive plants now pose a serious threat to their survival. st. helena redwoods, ebony and tree funds are struggling to maintain their foot home and their future now lies entirely in human hands. satar vargo, the terrestrial conservation officer is part of the small team dedicated to the

ambitious restoration of this exceptional forest. diana's peak park is very unique because it holds quite a high proportion of endemic vegetation enter vertebrates. the word endemic means that it's very unique, it's found nowhere else in the world. so there is quite a large number on st. lina because we have the highest endemic biodiversity off the u. k. in all the services territories, the endemic plans, they are really good at intercepting miss. so the island doesn't receive a high proportion of rainfall, but we do get quite a lot of cloud cover coming over the high central ridge. so they actually have their lease adapted to intercept the nurse and then they fall to those water down into the p d soils. and then they trickle out to the catch my ears unless we collect our drinking water. the parks endemic vegetation

provides more than a 3rd of the islands drinking water, making the teams conservation work essential to the local inhabitants. and it all starts here at the foot of diana's peak. ah, propagation in the nursery start from feed. so we go out into the wall and we collect seeds from the last remaining individuals. and then from there we would clean the seed, sought it, then we would plant them. we wait for them to germinate, there's a few stages of putting out until we can actually produce a plant that is very strong and durable and ready for planting back into our fights . after months of care in the nursery,

the precious saplings are now strong enough to join the cloud forest. the recently cleared patch of land that will be their new home is at the highest point of the park. and there is only one way to get there. is always go crazy. troy's off or frozen brown. so what booker poses roses and you're a good so what we do on diana's pickpocket habitat restoration. and there actually involves propagating endemic, supplant, back into sites. but before we can do that, we do quite a lot of in base of clearance. hopefully in the future, i would like to see diana's pick completely vegetated in endemic habitat and

supporting very high populations of endemic invertebrates as well. although there is still a long way to go, the colossal worked carried out by the terrestrial conservation team has been a real success tree fans and black cabbage trees now dominate the parks ridge there. canopy shading the forest floor limiting the growth of the invasive plants. many endemic invertebrates, like the blushing snail, find refuge in the newly rehabilitated flora. much to the delight of the entomologists. natasha stevens and liza fowler. selina was quite loving in research on i laboratory because he has been expeditions going back regular. i'm like the 1800s. even charles darwin himself came he, at one point to documenting a lot of i read are birds from spiders to beatles to true bugs. so

a wide range of it. so the cloud, far as of diana's peak, national park is the highest habitat for invertebrates. so they have like $100.00 in 20, endemic species on average. so was very unique here on st. helena, we have over 400 endemic species. and although we have all those, we are actually discovering more every time or another spike, e, low fear or another one. there is bristling with bright yellow spines. this tiny ahmed creature hides in the forests, most inaccessible corners. this is the spiky yellow woodhouse.

and it is one of the world's rarest, i suppose, by the yellow wood lays is not like you average with lace because it tend to live in trees underneath the tree fun. we've been quite lucky here to have a dedicated project to the spike yellow with los why are fortunately the spiky, they don't do much. so i think in like a ph. d student or something like that, need to come down and actually like stadium fully for a whole year to know and be out in the field every day. sort of thing to actually see what they really active. but it is nice that we have touched on a little off them the population and a little off the ecology. and it's also helping with the conservation as well. a recent population survey across the spike, he is known habitat, has identified between 10200 individuals within diana's peak park.

due to the research and conservation work for this minuscule creature. the spikey, yellow wood louse, is considered to be an umbrella species. so by protecting it all the flora and fauna with which it says its home are also protect it. like it was a veritable eden for the minute. st. helena is home to $25.00 times more and annex species per square kilometer than the famous galapagos islands. however, as in many places around the world, this unique foreigner faces multiple threats among the most worrying r habitat, los climate change, and invasive species bow in the dry land. south of the park, near high peak, sasha. liza and natasha are setting out to visit

a particularly special part of the ridge. at the edge of a steep cliff cling 6 unobtrusive trees. the value of these false gum woods is immeasurable. despite their modest appearance. they are the last wild survivors of their species. here are quite a few and demick invertebrates that is associated with plans. the false gum would leaf harbor is associated with the false gamblers and hence the name. it is not unique and it is very sad at the same time. there is habitat has declined to about such trees the left in the while and if these trees go, the leaf harbours will go there. like it's broke off. on 2 of the 6 trees, the entomologists have made a disturbing discovery. some of the leave hoppers appear to be covered in a strange whitish film. they have been infected by

a fungus that has devoured them from the inside. out. invertebrates play a vital role in any egos as them throughout the world. they help with decompose and plant maga, or did things really and recycle it back into the earth. as long as the restoration of the heavy task, keep going then, or will be safe, gaiden, i invertebrates. so all that where all the effort there everyone is putting into conservation is it will help in the long term and it still needs to continue way off day go

from the striking, spiky yellow wood lice for dazzling golden sail spiders. the cloud covered heart of st. helena is a treasure trove of biodiversity, precious and fragile thanks to the conservation team's work. the cloud forest is gradually being restored to its former glory and one day its borders may once again reach the coastline. the water captured by the cloud forest trickles down from the central ridge, feeding thousands of mango trees as it meanders through sharks vanny to the sea. but the island is natural. riches are not confined to its lash peaks. testament to this are the raucous colonies of red build tropic birds that populate the colossal wall of great stone. driven to the fringes of the island by the hungry cats and rats that arrived for the 1st settlers. many sea birds now find refuge on these inaccessible cliffs and the surrounding islets.

ah ah ah, he had recently, many of the once threatened populations have begun to show signs of recovery and some species like the tropic birds and white very tons have become particularly fond of the rocky slopes that surround the islands, capital, james town. the elegant turns, have even become somewhat of an avenue fixture, and frequently raise their young here

for the next 2 months, the young tech will need his parents full attention. as they take turns to feed him, he will have to wait for his adult plumage to grow before he can leave the comfort of his balcony and into a freshly caught fish. if he lives until in a short distance from the city, there is a small islet reserved that is home to some curious cannon. ears

aptly named egg island. hundreds of brown and black ne saudi turns. madeira and storm petals and topic birds have taken up residence here to lay their eggs, which will once highly prized by the markers. to day the glamorous islet bleat white by centuries of bird droppings is a true sanctuary. so he turns and brown nodded. nest side by side, and in order to avoid competition for food, the 2 species have separate foraging grounds and hunt different species. but this understanding does nothing to prevent the incessant quarrelling at home. and each parent ferociously defending fair offspring's living face.

limits to the public ag island is the ideal place to monitor population health. a project run by the government through its environmental management division. leon henry, a marine conservation officer, manage his this vital work. the abundance of sea birds on the island is evident to the exceptional richness of its waters. and in 2006, the 200 nautical miles around st. helena were classified as a marine protected area. since then, numerous research programs have been put in place. many of which are run by lee ann and her team in 2012. we started at all. 7 and find a project, it was a habitat and abundance survey, with a view to making

a marine management fan because san nina had never had a marine mansion before. was something that we were working towards. i think our damis is very important because if we lose them, is this no way of getting their connor stuff back? and because suddenly nor is so, oh, we have quite a few and demick so it's just time and distance that made the same special. and if they go then, you know, the well has lost so much to that kind of stuff now to it, be a james and i needed to do some of the things that most people on the sea is just blue. but it's the things that happen under the things that you can see that makes all the different. mm. ah

ah ah ah ah, with such a striking array of species, saint helene as marine life represents a level of ecosystem health,

but few other regions in the world still possess from underwater caves to great spies of ancient lava life flourishes. here as it has done for centuries, ah, ah, this crossroads of the atlantic is a key stock off point for many pelagic species. make the trillion devil re who effortlessly meander through the large coast to shoals for fish before returning to the open ocean. ah, ah, every year new species are discovered and the ongoing scientific research is helping us to understand how to better protect them mm. of the 30 or so known and

demick species that inhabit these crystal clear waters. the st. helena butterfly fish is its undisputed ambassador. present in vast numbers all along the coast. they hover in thick clouds over sunken ships that to let her to see flor mm. scrawled file fish, damsel fish, and st. tilley, no white sea bream. black bar, soldier, fish, and trumpet fish. all take advantage of the haven offered by these steel carcasses . the butterfly fish play a major role in the coastal ecosystem of st. helena. and every year a sudden and spectacular phenomenon takes over the coast. ah,

for just a few days, a magnificent white storm swells through the sea, millions of juveniles gather in the shallow waters, seeming to fill the entire ocean. the coastline explodes with life. and this impressive broom attracts numerous creditors from the open sea to take advantage of the great bounty. ah, [000:00:00;00]

ah, a true oasis of life in the vastness of the atlantic st. helena is far from having revealed all its secrets. the islands isolation which allowed its unique wildlife to evolve has now become a hindrance to its preservation. far from the bar at trees and universities, the conservationists often lack the human and financial resources needed to carry out their research. yet, despite these difficulties, they tirelessly push on sometimes even late into the night.

ah ah. emboldened by the darkness, the islands, more cryptic inhabitants begin to emerge amongst the via did fire worms and fang. tooth, moray eels, large armoured and through parts begin their day brown, spiny and red slipper lobsters. the latter, endemic to st. helena. take advantage of the dark to move around in safety. gregarious and sedentary species, these pre historic looking creatures are the focus of

a new tagging program or by monitoring the population. the research is hoped to shed light on their life cycle and behavior. and determine if they can be sustainably fished with only the narrow beam of their torches. each lobster is caught by hand and given a tag, which will identify it if it is recaptured. after carefully recording the information needed, her docile. crustaceans are released back into the darkness to continue their

enigmatic lives. anticipating a dramatic increase in tourism the island is in a race to obtain baseline information on its natural resources to understand how much can be taken without compromising the population's health. if this is still possible or when you start putting all those pieces together, you look at how many of them when you look at the, the amounts in the quantities and stuff like that. so i mean is when you buy with these quite rational and even if you look at like a phone fishing, you know,

we've always had po 9 for thing f 151 hope or not. so things like that. if you put all that together then, yes, it does make that the marine couple years back. send an enormous small face thing, apartment large picture when it comes to boil for 4 years,

maybe 5 now we've been doing work to mostly gather lens weights of the fish. there's berlin, and we've been doing some tagging where they've been tied in the small of if you release them and off they go and they do the tune thing. they feed, they grow, and then when use fishermen start to catches sooner, then you start to get information back on how they move around the island and fishermen on san lina. they will have more information on what they should or should not catch in order to make the stock more sustainable in order to make sure that they can keep catching fish into the future. st helene as fish stocks are closely monitored and the islanders know how precious they are. but these bound for water somewhat more than a well stocked larder. they are of global importance in the field of marine biology

and perhaps hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the world's largest fish, the well shark up to 18 meters long and weighing 20 tons. colossus leads a discreet and often solitary life. a great nomad, the whale shark, regularly travel solution deaths, rarely venturing into shallow coastal waters. this makes it a particularly difficult animal to study despite its imposing size and much about its life is still unknown. between its long dives, this gentle giant sometimes visits the surface to feed on plankton warm up and perhaps even mate. but no one in the world has ever observed well sharks in the

full throes of love. no one except here at st. helena, the islands waters are the only known place where adult males and females aggregate in equal numbers as the most likely known breeding ground for well sharks. st. helena plays a vital role in understanding and safeguarding this globally endangered animal. but for the st. the whale shark is also an indicator species, meaning that the population directly reflects the health of the islands waters well known by the locals for their acrobatics. the friendly pan tropical spotted

dolphins are not the only species that can be found diving among the waves. after a long fishing trip, this masked booby is making its way home. this charismatic speech is, has settled on the rocky ledges of sandy bay to meet and raise their offspring ah, preferring to forage in deep waters. they journey far from these barren cliffs to find enough resources for this crucial period. perhaps human hulu. every 6 hours, so parents take turns to fish and look after their chick until it is old enough to

be independent. of the parents raise only one infant. the female generally lays 2 eggs in order to strengthen its chances of survival. as soon as the eldest shake is strong enough, it pushes its sibling out of the nest. the parents then fail to recognize the asteroid youngster as their own, and it is left to starve. yet despite all efforts to survive, some appetites seem insatiable. dish ah ah, their parents attention may be constant, but the harsh combination of heat, hunger,

and relentless wind is too much for some. the masked booby is only returned to saint helena's shores a few years ago. once present in large numbers across the island. it 2 suffered with the arrival of the 1st settlers in the 17th century, a disastrous cocktail of hunting habitat, modification, and intensive predation by rats. and cat quickly led to the decline of the islands entire bird population. and almost all of st helene is endemic, bird species are now extinct almost all despite

its apparent fragility or is also survivor has surprisingly benefited from the islands deforestation. the wire bird, a clover are found only on st. helena is particularly fond of the wind swept grasslands. and semi desert plains yet, in spite of its adaptability, this little bird was once on the verge of extinction. dennis leo, a member of the st. helena national trust managers, the conservation project dedicated to this prover. that is the islands emblem. the 1st why bird nurse, and i was the 1st. why bird nurses? well, actually wrath your thoughts chuck and i was so excited that i thought it should regular like this was the biggest discovery ever. you know, what? from the, on i was hope with her birth. it why? but as a little plumber? well, 20 shameless. he's got a gray coat with a black mas and

a white on the body and is quite distinctly gone. why relate what he just loved wrong on the ground? you know, he's like the you same pull, the birds he's bomb is gone, you know as more so if he puts you away from the nurse and then he's run back to it . you know, he's on the moon for the past 15 years during their breeding season, these endearing sprinters have been closely monitored by the trust every january, dennis and his volunteers survey no fewer than 31 sites across the island, binoculars and notebooks at the ready. they sweep each area on foot to record the size of the fragile po for population. why? but because tragedies, the cat is the furl cat. you know, we have rats, we're rattle seasonal, like with good range. we got lot of rats are,

we can beat by cats as a constant battles, not just in the wire burg route to st. james r as in st. paul, to long would the are too many feral cats and we need to tell it as an all in problem, not just as why we're problem or if you can't run from october to march and do an analysis that will give the birds a chance for the trucks his voice and enjoy the rest of the year, we can create new habitats, which is the plan. in the space of 10 years, dennis and his predecessors have succeeded in doubling the wire bird population. and today the species is no longer classed as endangered. but with only 510 adults counted in 2020, the little clover is still vulnerable. as a result of climate change and habitat modification, st. helena is facing increasingly frequent periods of drought, which is having

a devastating impact on the islands flora and fauna. now more than ever, support is needed to faith. this unique bird but the little insect of all has not had its last word. and recently, it has taken up residence in a very special place. on the north east side of the island, the arid land still bears the scars left by colonial axes, previously known as great would. this sandy expanse was once covered in a dense forest of endemic plants and home to many insects and birds that are now extinct. it took only a few decades for the newly settled humans to pillage this green paradise down to the last stump. and the fright, our soil of great ward, exposed to the elements was swept away by the trade winds.

flood in 2000 the people of st. helena launched an ambitious project to re forest the area. every member of the community took part in the planting of 3000 trees, the number of which has now more than tripled. the millennium forest was born. among the gum woods and dwarf ebony is a dozen other endemic species classified as endangered, are growing in the nursery under the green fingers of martina peters and her small team. between them they have the monumental task of carrying for all 250 hector's of this young forest. this new habitat is encouraging the return of many insects and invertebrates, much to the delight of the wire birds. the millennium forest is a titanic project that will span across generations,

but neither the horse wins nor the arid soil seemed to be able to bend the saints determination and seed by seed. their perseverance brings them closer to the green, eden that was great. wood once neglected, plundered and exploited saint helena's natural. heritage is now being passionately defended by its people. this job is not without its difficulties, and both engineers and the government have to make do with a limited means at their disposal. even with the construction of an airport in 2017, the island still remains largely untouched by mass tourism. but this also means that it has not benefited from the economic boost enjoyed by many other

destinations where nature is sometimes treated as an inexhaustible commodity. now open to the rest of the world. the saints have a unique opportunity to protect and preserve their resources. by pre empting, the changes to come and creating the basis for a more responsible form of tourism, respectful of the wildlife with which they share their home they spa, salts, jewel with its hidden riches, is the pride of its people who understand the importance of safeguarding its priceless beauty for generations to come to make st. helena a true bastion of biodiversity for me, foreign supporting the communities. pretty good because like i know a lot of people in the i get a lot of like, you know, hey, i saw a why but the i so why we're here. so which is good news i think is

a gradually increasing awareness of conservation. ah, everything our ass, i mean his have us everything his benefit. even if we don't fully understand that the more people understand or, or feel a connection to the scenes, the moiety e c, a b s from to understand why they should look after him for tackle. now it is up to us as conservationists, to try to protect what we already have here now and expand the heavy tests for this

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