tv Global 3000 Deutsche Welle May 22, 2022 9:30pm-10:01pm CEST
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ah ah ah, yet recently, many of the once threatened populations have begun to show signs of recovery and some species like the topic, birds and white very tans have become particularly fond of the rocky slopes that surround the islands capital james town. the elegant tans have even become somewhat of an avenue fixture and frequently raised their young here ah,
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for the next a 2 months, the young tech will need his parents full attention. as they take time to feed him . he will have to wait for his adult plumage to grow before he can leave the comfort of his balcony and enjoy a freshly caught fish if he survives until then a short distance from the city now is a small islet reserved. that is home to some curious cannon. he is aptly named eg island. hundreds of brown and black naughty. so he turns madeira and
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storm petals and topic birds have taken up residence here to lay their eggs, which will once highly prized by the lockers. to day the cameras 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 charging grounds and hunt different species. but this understanding does nothing to prevent the incessant quarrelling at home, and each parent ferociously defending their offspring's living face.
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off limits to the public. egg 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 managers this vital work the abundance of sea birds on the island is evidence 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 and final project. it was an habitat, an abundance survey, with a view to making a marine managed from them because they had never had
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a marine mansion before. was something that we were working towards i think are damaged is very important because if we list them, yes, there is no way of getting back on us back. and because send me news, so oh, we have quite a few and damage. so it's just time and distance that may be safe, special. and if they go then you know the well his last and watch to that congress passed. now this is james and i needed to use some of the think most people up at the see yes just but it's the same that happened on the things that you can see that makes all the different. mm. ah ah
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spies of ancient lava life flourish is here as it has done for centuries. ah ah, this crossroads of the atlantic is a key stock of point for many pelagic species. make the trillion devil re who effortlessly meander through the large coast to show fish before returning to the open ocean. ah ah. every year, a 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.
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the st. helena butterfly fish is its undisputed ambassador present in vast numbers all along the coast. they hover in thick clouds over the sunken ships that litter the sea floor. scrawled file fish, damsel fish, and st. tilley, no white sea bream. black bar, so to fish and trumpet fish, all take advantage of the haven offered by these steel caucuses. 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,
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for just a few days, a magnificent white storm swirled through the sea, millions of juveniles gathering the shallow waters, seeming to fill the entire ocean. the coastline explodes with life. and this impressive bloom attracts numerous predators from the open sea to take advantage of the great bounty. ah ah, ah . a true
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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 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
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ah, ah. emboldened by the darkness, the island small cryptic inhabitants begin to imagine amongst the via did fire worms and fung tooth. moray eels, large almond anthropology speak in 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
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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 that thus i'll crustaceans are released back into the darkness to continue their enigmatic lives.
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anticipating a dramatic inc. centuries on 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. so when you start from all those pieces together, you look at how many and then when you look at the, the amount and the quantities and stuff like that. so i mean is when environment these quotes rational and even if you look at like a fishing, you know, we've always had po 9 phishing as one fish. wonderful. and i so things like that,
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if you put all that together then yes, if there's the marine couple years back. senate enters small face thing apartment larger picture when it comes to tina for for 4 years maybe 5 now we've been doing work to mostly gather lens weights of the fish. there's been land and we've been doing some tagging where there's been
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tag in the smaller fish, you release them and this e, they grow and then when you fishermen started catches to them, then you start to get information back on how they move around the island and fishermen say lina, they will have more information on what they should or should not catch in order to make their staff 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 bountiful waters i'm much 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
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up to 18 meters long and weighing 20 tons. this colossus leads a discreet and often solitary life. a great nomad, the whale shark, regularly travels to use and deaths, rarely entering 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 eyes, this gentle giant sometimes visits the surface to feed on plankton, norma, and perhaps even mate. but no one in the world has ever observed well sharks and the fall throes of love. no one except here at st. helena, the islands waters are the only known place where adult males and females aggregate
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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.
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after a long fishing trip, this masked ruby is making its way home. this charismatic species has settled on the rocky ledges of sandy bay to mate 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 long 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 raised only one infant, the female generally lays 2 eggs in order to strengthen its chances of survival
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is 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. ah ah, their parents attention may be constant, but the harsh combination of heat, hunger, and relentless wind is too much for some.
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ready the masked rubies 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, her surprisingly benefited from the islands deforestation. the wire, but
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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 by nurses? well actually if i thought was a 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 a good i was it why? but is a little plumber about 20 centimeters. he is got a grey coke with a black mas and a white on the body. and it's quite to think a pretty gong why really what he just laughed running on the ground. you know, he's like you saying pulls of birds, he's bomb, he's gone, you know,
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as more so if he pitched you away from the nurse and then he run back to it. you know, he's on a move as a boat. he's foster boat 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 that. he one site to cross 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?
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but because tragedies, the cat is the feral cat. you know, we have rats, we're rattle seasonal, like good range. we got a lot of wrapped so we can bake. why cats is a constant battles, not just in the wire burg routes, and james savage and saint paul to long would you're too many feral cats and we need to tell it as an olive problem or not just as why we're problem or if we can draw 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 their species is no longer classed as endangered. but with only 510 adults counted in 2020, the little clover is still vulnerable. as
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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 wood. 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 fat asshole of great ward, exposed to the elements,
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was swept away by the trade winds. but in 2000 the people of saint hilly. now 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.
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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 helene as 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
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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 bio diversity
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for me for and supporting the community is 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 that here so which is good now, i think is a gradually increasing awareness of conservation. ah, everything or as i mean, his have us everything his fanny, even if we don't fully understand that, ma'am. the more people understand or, or feel a connection to the scenes, the moist e. c. these form to understand why they should not off from, for tacker with all it is up to us as conservationists, to try to protect what we already healthy now and expand the heavy tests for this unique life to go on for the future and poor future generations
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