is going on with forced range officers, are doing their best to protect eco india on d w, as you go to use is to thought say, well, great options are one of the most important and an elementary part of life on the stabilizer climate system and spoke a few times more greenhouse gases than the atmosphere. in fact,

they're the most important goblins sink on our planet. they're also home for hundreds of thousands of marine species with saliva is crucial to our life or not on eco india today. let's talk about what's being done to take care of puddle ships . hello and welcome. i'm some of that. for our 1st story, we don't go very far, just a few kilometers from here in mom by marine life and especially coral colonies. sure. are threatened by pollution and environmental degradation. a collective of young marine activists is working to create awareness and safeguard the city school . slide number is known for being india's financial copy for its beat fronts and densely populated the street. but when the tides received from its shoreline, every day,

the real part of the city that only a few of its residents have ever seen. clear this. this being things who can seek basically desire 8 capsules of one to nail coin musics ok locally called blocks, nit plenty of them are there and one died in m mailed so you can see it for a deeper dog said, who teaches water sports on the side he started coming out in 2018 book and camera in hand to walk the shoreline. oh wow. where is it? place was, oh, maybe julie julie now because the color is not being ha simple. and a distorted, pretty serendipitously for him. one day when i was scanning fisherman's name, i got to see you and see hawes in fisherman's, nate, entangled, stay

a small animal lay 3 inches long. it was very close to though. sure. i don't find it matters from our shores who are not even going. and i was leg zapped, so much of late everywhere the orders wanted to find one years. it's like i bought it in 2018. put out his daughter documenting the cost today. dozens of volunteers walked with him and 4 other members of his group now called maureen life, mom, by looking for vital life that has still fall, remained largely unseen. one member of the group, son and 9, uses photography to reveal the ecosystem. he had photographed new de bruns gordon's zone to octopus, then the stoppage, among other small to microscopic species here, ah, the dean has set up an organization called garcia conservation foundation. and along with other members like shawna, monty, the goal is to secure legal protection for the species the document. we have

a long way to vote for protecting, right? we don't even know what exists. so we go from sure. sure. during law died. what that does is basically baseline formation of all the money, and i was the deal that we really want other people to make use of the dollar. recollecting in fact, people have right from to students what the dissertation have use. our data has been used in news articles in, in the court. what we want is multiple people to provide data to the database and what every stakeholder to make use of it, including the government and the while this community works above water. another resident of mom buy goes under 23 year old scooper dive, who read the book, has a similar love story with the ocean. and the idea for me was to go and explore what exactly other mysteries of the ocean that i am not able to comprehend. living in bombay and i wanted to see mary in life. i wanted to see sharks, man,

that his daughter, the lead will natural habitat, bubner photographs, a coral reef, and the life around to just chill residence. what's down? she then conduct workshops with locals, including fishing and other local communities. the hope is to mobilize people into standing up against pollution and see that that has been flowing into the ocean, destroying half dots. so i think for any community of any individual to realize the importance of climate change, they really need to see what's happening. and because the options are so polluted in bombay, we cannot seek out of the down. we cannot see the marine life clearly and do, and you get more people about god, a life. what we do is we who is workshops, where we project beautiful images of course, as well as many life and educate people that these things are there in the oceans. and they need to be protected because they are being threatened. so the and ideas the said, well, as to the level, i've been know that this beautiful moody life as a to you, i, nations actually impacting member,

therefore work to with saving it. the big thread that all citizens groups are up against at the moment is a 1600000000 euro highway project that is blown in this area. it was a post and core to, but the city authorities defended its viability and one, the case the court do has asked the city to cross look into coral life elsewhere, but people like google not concerned how that will affect the entire system. if the cause don't survive, so go it is all the basic unit off the moody in ford ecosystem. just a plant are the basic units of the land ecosystem and the land 14 surf. 5 photos di this mile officials are going to die as a result of that. and the larger fishes i'm going to die on the in diety, in reborn together and separately, concern citizens of them, boy are working in their own niches to push the cause of my life. and biodiversity

in the city for my mission is to give the senior to do it's not being done right now. and i wanted to be done when i look at protection, when we look at the holiday from when we look at relocation, it's done for sorting 3 feet. why? because that logically important. oh, why i just lost me to like a lot of mean. what have you studied? are we others? we still feel that they are not important. and wor, we'll decide what is important wanted. we may be low equal to somebody or normal. i will. i will, my, my in is to have a more holistic vision for our shoreline and our to dig the team house documented to were 500 to small and virtually invisible, a species along on bicycles. by drawing attention to the ready existence, the citizen warriors hoped on shore, valuable marine life can continue to fulfil its role. and mom, vice environment. now

safeguarding marine life is very commendable and the need of the hour, but sometimes will freeze with difficult choices. for example, when extracting rare resources from the seat that could enable a more sustainable energy supply. manganese nodules are, one such case may contain valuable metals that can be used in batteries, e, carves, and solar panels. but is the deep sea mining of these nod youth? environmentally friendly? let's find out. cobalt copper and nichols, there was a known as transition metals. they're all around us. and yet a considered rare elements. we need them to make batteries, smartphone, laptops, electric cars, photovoltaic systems, and other types of power storage. the extractable amounts of copper,

cobalt and nickel is very limited. these results is could soon be exhausted. that's especially true of cobalt. it's estimate said that the global demand for it could double by 2026. the largest cobalt reserves are in congo and australia, where it's often mind under a pooling working conditions. poly metallic nodules from the c bed could alleviate the problem. it's been estimated that they contain around 270000000 tons of nickel, 230000000 tons of copper and 50000000 tons of cobalt. oh, the nodules is spread across large areas of the sea bed at a depth of between 3 and a half $1006.00 and a half 1000 meters. oh, in environments that have hardly been explored,

poly metallic. no. jose grow very slowly and require a steady supply of oxygen, as well as a constant stream of arc take deep water. just tell those no jewels grow is a pretty complex process, but put in simple terms. it all starts with minute organic particles like shell splinters or fragment of shocks. tooth over millions of years. metallic compounds dissolved by the sea water accumulate around those particles and grow about to send to me to every 1000000 years until that the size of potatoes or even cauliflower heads. the 1st of findings of pauline metallic modules are actually done by the challenges petition, 1874. that's been a long, long time. and they, they just brought up a few were for the tools where they took sediment samples of the interest of her reco. nomics started really in the,

in the seventy's. people found out that these metals are in there and that that's where it sparked more awful exploration happens. oh, so scientists and not the only ones interested in poly metallic, no jewels. a lot of companies are also came to extract and exploit them. deep sea mining advocates say procuring the nodules from the sea is more sustainable than conventional mining. no forests are destroyed and no mining galleries have to be built. there would be no child, labor or toxic fumes. the no jewels could simply be collected from the sea bed, at least theoretically, but one of the problems engineers are facing is the high pressure present in the deep sea. no machines have been able to harvest the nodules on the sea bed in a commercially viable way. yet, machines that looked like vacuum cleaners currently being tested.

other prototypes are also in development. the biggest concern is the impact this technology could have on marine wild life because it won't just be sucking up not jewels as it moved along the sea bed. so who makes the rules that govern the deep sea and say you an organization called the international c bed, all sorority in 1994, the e u and a 167 countries find a multi lateral agreement that regulates deep sea mining. so far, the sea bed authority has only approved licenses to research the poly metallic nodules, not mine them. a german research project has been studying the effects of deep sea mining for several years. the g o ma research center on the max planck institute for marine micro biology participated in the project. they discovered that the

nodules play an important role for the c bed foreigner by providing a vital habitat for ah, we saw that a lot of these manganese nodules, harris social 4. no, sir, you have glass on just and then you can literally like, for example to live. so you have long stalks and then you have a spawn main main body on top. and they really grow attached to the nodules and they can hold her deep species. the research project simulated the effects of deep sea mining in an area of a few square kilometers of sea bed. the dimensions of large scale commercial, deep sea mining would be vastly different. we're talking about a 1000 so correct. let me just being destroyed to here the main and pakistan in

these areas. they biological active. i was on the top, $5.00 to $10.00 centimeters of the future, completely wiped out and destroyed together with a follow up and the and it kind of off re colonization or recovery of the system for the soft sediment will take hundreds to thousands of years. many deep sea micro organisms and animals could be disturbed or destroyed by the machines. even the relatively modest research project altered the environment. figured out that after more than 25 years, the most of the parameters that were analyzed didn't recover fully. so you can expect that even the pod that might recover, that is independent of the nodules that there was definitely be gone. will needs decatur 2 centuries if it can be covered on the mining could even disrupt the oceans, complex food chains. so is there any way to make deep sea mining sustainable

that is not sustainable because it's not re growing very simple as that. i think we can already make up all online society if we want to accept this impact or not. it's a dynamic. if the deep sea, no jewels are off limits, where will we find enough of the metals we need to produce clean energy? first, we can reuse what we already have by taking precious metals out of batteries and all the devices. several companies are already optimizing the recycling process and we can reduce our consumption and use the devices that contain these precious metals much longer. another treasure is being retrieved from the oceans in

india's stomach. seat yukon bars are banned from being sold in india because they are considered to be critically in danger. but fortune still pre on them while they are so important and what's been done to protect them, let's find out. under these pristine waters lies a strange creature that's creating quite a stir. not only in the local fishing town of monta upon one of the sudden most of india, but all the way into the mainland and beyond to neighboring china. to see cucumber, this one can go up to 30 centimeters long. conservationists have been trying to study the marine animals seek your con. both are called the art ones of the see. just like how are 2 arms are farmers, friends,

the senior grammar plays the role of earth, ones in the sleep, which means and it helps to make the soil more fertile. and uh, this is good for the see grasses and also other associated organisms that live on the same sea floor. i. and even though what a column above, over the last 4 years local forest ridge officer, esthetician has taken on the role of protecting the c cucumber because of its important ecological vote already a cali will the sea cucumbers. excreta is alkaline in nature. and so it neutralizes the increasing acidity on the sea surface. and as it neutralizes the crazy neutralizes the coral reefs underneath. column are saved from the thread of bleaching when the coral reef is healthily. fish cross crabs and other creatures tribe around if any body. so only if the sea cucumber tribes idiocy will there be fish in the sea for our future generations. this is what i'm really the threat to the sea. cucumbers began when demand for them started soaring, mostly in china,

dried t cucumber, known as batch. the mare is a popular delicacy and also considered an aphrodisiac. as a result, poaching in india has increased 13 fold over the last 5 years. for the one i have been to us on a level and every used one the low will. again, we're writing lots of young people were involved in the scribe when in big smugglers where misleading young people. but he's saying that they would like only go to jail for $5.00 to $10.00 days, and then they come out and, and the case of detroit frequently. but 2 events campaigns conducted by the force department. we have reiterated that amount of data. this is a highly dangerous act. the punishment is similar to the crime of the hosting a tiger and landing, or an elephant delora or punishment, get a gamma either equal on or punishment. les the good. the c cucumber is listed under the wildlife protection act as a schedule one species, which means the punishment could go from fines of to lactose peace, about 2000 euros up to jail time. the forrest officials petrol this area checking

for the contraband, and also teaching people in the villages about the consequences of getting caught. some former poachers have learned their lesson. we spoke to one who wishes to remain anonymous, political mother. and i got a case one by the way, i once got caught by the one halting, the told me that the punishment would be between 3 to 7 years imprisonment. kissing by the elders in my community decided that it was wrong to do the sound when it illegally on them. so we decided that we would stick to catching fish, or crab limone. they are, even if you come burst, get caught in on natalie when it would take them out and returned them to the water nala, other than i got bethany load or that you know. but this hasn't been easy for the fishing community who have traditionally fish to proceed. cucumber for their own needs. the bow which came in 2001. it has affected their livelihood, other. i'm even officious. not only fish will see cucumbers at certain bill. yes,

not all you're running out of the good, a still survivor. they'll die roku to cooper in the sun to damage with and they are all the stronger armies with every now and again, they were allowed to cut the whole sequence. they could sell got 200 groups our just over 2 years there, which were by then, or what recent amount of food. lawler, dana yarnell rang. i was operator margin. it's a complex problem with the seat you cumber in the middle of it all, it forest officers, lexitas. i able to protect the animals by keeping an eye out for poachers. the casa marine ecosystem has a better shot at surviving, and the local fishermen could get back their livelihoods or still areas of a sensitive ecosystems. fishing itself can have a negative impact on them. in spin, a group of volunteers diverse is trying to raise awareness about this problem and

organize clean up expansions for the move metal and garbage from the c. shorts now did see horses, soft, corals, neptune grass grow, purse and a wide variety of seaweed inhabit the mediterranean waters off more. seattle in southeastern spain, with 73 kilometers of coast and the biggest salt water lagoon in europe. it's a paradise for recreational fishing, but many fishermen use lead thinkers. they can end up on the sea bed where they pose a threat to marine life fung, i'm afraid castle them based. let's take the case of a fish feeding on algae growing on a piece of lead when that fish approaches and begins eating the algae. it also ingest, so lead meant it, it becomes part of the marine food chain. the small fish me eaten by the bigger

fish and so on, if you like me to let is pass from one to the other more quanto. finally, we as seafood consumers, wind up would that lead on our plate ah unrest reply to some fishers are starting to use alternative thinkers made of ceramic or think but the un estimate some 640000 tons of fishing gear, including hazardous metals still ends up in our oceans, each year to combat the problem, volunteers from hippocampus and organisation focused on the conservation of shorts . now did c, horses have launched the plume boom project grumbling ish or ny there. boom boom is a project born after so many dives. eunice, where we saw so much rubbish made from metal whip as if he got from lead and without use and sport fishing and professional fishing. they bought the way big ha nets loaded with lead sinkers. for example. if that category team are there,

they prefer to remove the metals from the see. the project relies on a vast network of volunteer divers like fail ex arleas haddocks. today he's joining a cleaning expedition. a couple of the puzzles, a seaside village in one of the most bio diverse areas in the mediterranean basin, balsamic. okay, are you in europe? we're going to collect lead from the sea floor, the marine wave sent hooks from fishing here. even even a little small pieces that settle on the bottom of it and get half buried. let's see if we get lucky. with the help of metal detectors, divers can collect between $4.45 kilos of lead at each cleaning. the results are registered on a website that monitors their efforts since 2017, more than 14000 metal sinkers equivalent to one ton of lead have been removed from

the mediterranean. but plume doesn't just remove the metal. it also contributes to the circular economy by giving it a 2nd life. thanks to public funds and private contributions. 200 containers have been distributed at diving sinners and yacht clubs along the coast. here, all divers can deposit pieces they've salvaged. yeah, give a label to that was a global we put the lead here government that them the association collects it and takes it to the companies. we have an agreement with that they can recycle the metal so it can be used again in batteries. for example, hydro romo for i've offered the dea has the death. once the containers are full, the project coordinators bring them back to the heavy metals recovery center. to date, they've delivered more than 900 kilos for recycling. apart from lead other garbage such as plastic cans and glass is harming the marine ecosystem.

normally only divers see the damage 1st hand. so colombo members also organized photo exhibitions to raise awareness and reveal the underwater reality. aiken old, they're not shabby sheet. people who don't dive can imagine what is under water on it, but they don't really know leak. so if we show them photos and explain to them the consequences of, of having garbage in the sea, they become more aware. he dumped it. a shake on cynthia must in addition to encouraging the use of sustainable sinkers. global is working with governments to implement eco friendly marine policies. and it's appealing to all people to stop throwing trash into the see. ah, now it wouldn't be far fetched to save them the health of our planet depends on the

health of its marine, life. life on earth began in our oceans, and it falls upon identity from to make sure we protect it. think about that and i'll see you again next week from what entirety. good bye. and thanks for watching . ah . with

who it's a difficult time for. it's elise rainbow family. for monica. i'm maria george on the low knees election. victory is a nightmare. they feel hostility against the l g b t q class community,

a worst case scenario. would they be ready to leave the home country? focus on europe? 30 minutes on d, w. enter the conflict zone. the war in ukraine has raised political tensions throughout europe, but relatively between cost and serbia in brussels. officials have told both sides to cool rhetoric and warn cost to vote without an agreement to normalize relations with belgrade for time, for joining the e. u is running out my guest this week from christina. this album caught the prime minister a conflict zone. eat 90 minutes on d w. oh. hello guys. this is the 77 percent. the platform for

africa. you beat issues and share ideas. you know, on these channels, we are not afraid to copy. young people clearly have the solution. good future, you know, the 77 percent every weekend and d w. imagine how many portions of love us are now in the world right now. the climate change. if any story this is my flex, the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to go. i'm going all with his subscriber all morning with

a ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russia resumes that the tax on ukrainian cities hitting the region of keys and the southern city of nikolai were at rescue. workers are seen here pulling a boy from the rubble of an apartment building damaged in overnight res.