we had from the foreign policy chief, joseph operates. he said that they're waiting to see firm proof of that. but if that is proof, they will use all that took all the tools at their disposal to respond across one a jack park. they're reporting from a luxembourg, that's it from me and the do seem to call clearly we'll have an update for you at the top of the hour and off. next is a crown. the 1st show close up. as a documentary about the crisis facing germany's trim, fissions got office in berlin. i mean the teen and force i have been the 2nd. i have been visa because we tried to to show dory of face mafia all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporations, corrupt government agencies, and criminal cartels. targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on

d. w. ah. the eastern pacific ocean is home to an incredible diversity of wild life. unspoiled nature and one of the richest marine ecosystems in the world. many of these species have yet to be researched in depth, but from the rain biologists the priority these days is conservation. cynically them is a if we then protect all this diversity, what's in store for the future, and we need to learn to protect it. if we know there is such as are in a race against time. so this has been nibbled by turtles and fetching with bas god the largest marine laboratory in the world. the galapagos

islands ah, scientists saw early rises. it's 5 in the morning and i'm barely awake. but diana has nino and her team are on a mission that's best carried out at dawn. they're researching baby ham ahead shocks and res sandy, most of them. but i mean, they'll probably have to leave this early because that only feed near the beach at this time of day. and so when the, once the sun comes out and the water gets warmer,

they retreat to the deck and it's hard to find them the night. air must be one day is more the feeling deanna was born in the galapagos islands. studying it's wild life feels like a vocation to her, or though she didn't grow up thinking she'd one day study shocks when the europe rickanicker, when i was a kid or my dad would take me out snorting where there was shocks. of your. i had stood there was so much bigger than me if you would on. i was afraid they were going to eat me with the work on always abuse, i wonder know, but other times, myopia turned into curiosity, mucus, m, u, of them, why do we fear them? took what do you see the why of a numbers declining their bread of other than that is all they just migrating or are they dying out? what given what's happening to them? and yet, but when i was just on wooden christopher from daybreak of san cristobal island,

as they neared the coastline, the marine biologists explained that they need to approach cautiously or gave the name oscar. we have to be careful because we're a motor boat. he's been in, we don't want to frighten off any sea creatures or so they leave the bay misty wood on mr. vanessa's body. we only have one shot, and so we have to get it right federal your federal v. in order for both with with suddenly i spot a baby shark i saw begin to track carefully the team casts the net that spans the bay effectively closing it off a look, there's one there they are shout pups and res. now threatened with

extinction that were ready, they starting to collect them with hammerhead sharks are often hunted for their fins or end up as by catch they're slowly being wiped out the london piece eloquently pick where i think the either. yeah. okay, so then what a move to them. it takes a long time for shocks to reach sexual maturity, and then they usually have few babies. curious if those is so, therefore vital to protect juvenile shocks, so they can reproduce them out of the can let me take a sample. little research has been done on the reproduction. patton was of low cost

shocks and res, taking genetic samples is a 1st step. bolona rather than in this, but i meet the middle, the sample looks tiny because, but even such a tiny sample can give us lots of information come with more cheesy mean for them a few christmas person is going to label. tend to think there's all this research going on in the galapagos muted and that we know everything there is to know kelly was scandal. but when the diving, we see so many extraordinary creatures that we still know little about it at such an interesting field is more that is on a door than i don't go even more than it won't hurt you. the stinger is at the tip of the tail. you're not going to do one thing with

besides, nets, fishing and tourists boat, suppose a danger to marine life. many sea creatures are killed by boat strikes or are injured by propellers. they are the researches register and chip each creature they collect as we ship all the rays is the most, this one doesn't have one. the world. ah, the it should be there now. it's been, oh, yeah, i do. it isn't it? amelia wilson, lebanon was back for the game. we ship them because over time they pattern and color can change. she is the most abundant than their convoy joseph sonya does, but we want to understand their behavior, and we can't tell if it's the same animal. if it doesn't have a chip, chip, good bonding, olive berry, i'm going to get

a thinking of the name, the yellow, which yellow can you go in collecting the sample? doesn't harm the ray and can help the research is find out where they come from. and where they migrate to information that can be used to establish new protection zones where their populations can thrive. thank you so, you know, maybe we can think of whether we need help comfort. i love being out here in a place like this and being able to study these wonderful creatures soon. we won't be what they don't look really good, but i'm in country, but what i love most is that we can gain valuable information. and most that we can get the authority specific recommendations that will really make a difference to some of the muzzle dealers eat get. but a me thing m i said was with people that are going

to day manada. yep. hes protects the shocks. but in the past, he explains, he hunted them for their fins to supply the asian market one night before the thought. nobody's perfect, but we can change. now. i have a great appreciation for these creatures. let him, a shock is worth so much more alive than dead. if it's dead, you sell. it spins and that's that. hello, it's alive. it's an asset to the tourist industry. so you and your community can make a living. illinois at the embassy vandal. christina, under the men, it's low tide. so diana takes the opportunity to show me an important habitat for local wildlife. these dense mangrove forests provide shade shelter, nesting places, and food for turtles, birds, fish, sharks, and res. humans

however, need to tread carefully where there are 3. 0 i'm being asked. one movie doesn't one the patent of a turtle is as individual as a fingerprint. mangrove forests in the galapagos islands are protected, but almost everywhere else in the world, they're being destroyed. to make way for hotels, for example, or federal mung like city own cutting down mangroves is a terrible crime and it destroys the plant species itself of course, but also the anti ecosystem that depends on these foresters de la la mozilla's or house grant. without the shelter they provide for young fish, they wouldn't even be any fish to catch here. and this is not. on the contrary,

i'm was not off with the work of scientists is yielding significant results. one team spent years researching the migration rate of adults hammerhead sharks using g p. s data from gallop. it stretches from the galapagos islands to costa rica in central america. the route is now a protected marine corridor. you're my synthroid, but m m m fearfully is all. i'm very happy about marina. with the new protected zone, we guarantee that the sharks can travel safely along their natural rules. because the word owners are some are yearly or some provocative shocks are at the top of the food chain. i rewrite mccarthy and i thought they regulate other species populations such as fish. this isn't gonna be your friend of our quitman. when a shark of theseus goes extended, it's bad enough for this. when is but a whole ecosystem can collapse to is more of a regular course. he's been up willing through. so call upset with their

day to help to bring about a major political milestone in january 2022. we are in a symbolic ceremony at c, former u. s. president bill clinton and the presidents of ecuador and columbia, formerly announced the formation of the ammon dad, marine reserve, where fishing is prohibited. in the past says manolo yep, has fishermen failed to appreciate the fragility of the marine ecosystem. they illegally supplied chinese trawlers with tons of shark fins. if it was like drug trafficking, there were traffic is a middle man. that commodity was transported in small boats, 5060 miles out to see where the big fishing fleets were. now there's a conservation zone, but the question is,

can it be controlled as a boy, if he's, if or the sympathy my many fishermen still think that just get out there and sell as much as possible. okay. and then look at where we need a rethink. we're good there. laugh all these resources that our lives depend on, on their blame on that. of course. okay. la la la medina. these fishing boats in the harbor were detained because their owners were fishing illegally and were caught by the coast guard men on oh yep, hes once to pioneer a more sustainable way of fishing. ah, most of the galapagos islands has been a protected zone for decades. the

archipelago is isolated. location in the pacific has allowed many species to flourish. the islands are considered a natural paradise and are a unesco world heritage site. it was here in the 19th century that charles darwin developed. his theory of evolution only for christie islands, are inhabited with the population of just $30000.00 tourism is strictly regulated ah, here um san cristobal island. another team of research is, is getting ready for work. then quan, pablo munoz, sent his partner. daniela con i was studying the impact of plastic waste on wild life. the galapagos islands of the perfect place for the project is bullet incom drive. if you're samuels kelly development,

there were here in the galapagos you can still find untouched places where very few people may be just 10, have ever set foot in the lobby. i see theos chromeboys was okay, and that's incredible. nowadays that go in can ably is to viagra. but it doesn't mean there's no plastic waste here. the research is want to identify where the garbage comes from and how it affects the health of local wildlife. then they say measures can be taken away a little low. you're sorry. no, no one knows for sure how much of plastic trash is polluting the world's oceans as ambien. and we know even less about the problem in the galapagos. we don't know how many species are effective or even if they are affected,

i use how they start off at 1000. no. no tourist ever sets foot in this bay. no one lives here. and yet there's plastic garbage. every laugh. and your 2nd wife, please. i got the right implement that was jojo iraqi. jared own the years this from years to style of order, lima, peru, lima. better than that, cause it to. so lima ecuador contained in dull and bottles from asia. he would say yes i see at the 4 k water bottles from asia doing in the galapagos as in a level is one house can a bottle travel half way around the world against the current and end up in the galapagos in gunther korean they, it's impossible it is impossible even on the way to the bay

where he works. when pablo gets angry, there are dead animals among the garbage. i mean, i mean the stumps don't look around you my head, but i use if you had to imagine paradise. this is what it would look like. there are meta quite a look at the state. it's in. if that doesn't break your heart or make your change your behavior, then i despair to love you those. the idea is not like you must play. i said, i'm a little guin mapping out 50 meters to work in a minute and say we're going to collect all the trash in the designated area. doesn't look as animal as go camels. what we do is collect the bigger pieces for everything that's at least 5 millimeters. david asked about the small plastic fibers. let's pointless. we'd never get anywhere. oh no nobody. i'm

a new guy from already, not norman, you can't get is mardrey in ecuador, and the galapagos build, i mean, where did it come from? how me the yeah, it's old. it's already decomposing. lowered that other is as good. so where did recover from the who knows where said, there are several possibility. i know how may be a fisherman threw it into the scene. for example my, you do go with the blue book. little bottle here is from lithuania. to flush, how on earth did it get here? bill? all the way from lithuania, i got the sea salt,

sand and wind and weather caused the plastic to break down into ever tiny pieces. and that's when it becomes especially pernicious. when it becomes mike cray, plastic is to get his he could be in a see these plastic crumbs is, is helpful. that's how all the plastic you see here and everywhere else in the world ends out in it. forget the idea that plastic will disappear in a 1000 years. so in a 1000000 years that's one big lie. daniels is lemon. did a plastic lasts forever. a plastic was by the assembly. all that happens is that it gets smaller and smaller. so we don't see it any more new aspect, but that doesn't mean it's not there in those, even if you cook interstate, these little creatures don't stand much of a chance. even hermit crabs, which constantly move about have lost their way in plastic lids. but most of the trash is in the ocean. so this has been nibbled by turtles

and fish as gall. lewis, light, maddox. the plastic garbage originally comes from the cities on the mainland. but most of the garbage on the islands says the team comes from fishing boats that dumped their waist into the sea. our captain is also a fisherman. and all too aware of the problem, arthur broke. what brianna? we fishermen here try to raise awareness it. ok. but what are others doing? the peruvians, the chinese fleets fishing out there in international waters. they throw their trash into the sea, and it all washes up on our shores it last year we collected $4.00 to $5.00 tons of trash here or to him of coma. what was he got done a lot they were thought of. the research work here is done. we're taking away more than 10 bags of plastic, garbage. but this still heaps left and more washes up on the shores every day.

even if the whole world pulled out all the stops now to prevent plastic waste, there would still be $20000000.00 tons of garbage clocking operations in 2040. and if we don't change our habits, they'll be 18000000 tons on the way back when pablo takes a water sample another the small mesh netting means even the tiniest particles of micro plastic get caught. loyal. yes, this is for collect once we have a sample on it, we can analyze it in the lab. loyola toyota law, most of it 1st we separate off the organic material by the code and then we can see how much micro plastic there it social is a blush. after 10 minutes,

the sample is ready to leave the key on it. oh yeah. yeah. oh, it looks like a smoothie with wasp feathers and little shrimp larvae lining them. slauson, along with over fishing, plastic waste poses a major threat to wild life in the galapagos islands. and also worldwide one, pablo says stricter rules and tighter controls and needed people in the galapagos islands lived from tourism and also from fishing. many local fishermen are unhappy about the new protected zone and now fear for their livelihoods. i rosa was the 1st woman on

the islands to go out fishing. she says she only gave up when her hands got to crooked. now she sells what her sons catch, but get with bella. i liked fishing when the fish are hungry and take the bait. wonder if that's beautiful, feather allan, does it? yeah. oh you ah, many local families feel bullied by the government and resent the growing restrictions and controls. they argue that what they can catch in their small fishing vessels is only small fry. unlike the big international trawlers that emptying the waters, most of them look at, we work for our living with us. but then we are aware of our resources. some of a lot of people think we are rubbing was a sort of caution. but we know that when a species dies it okay. okay, they'll be nothing left if you'll come,

it's over. good. yeah. did that mean that though her son, when carlos taught us who belongs to the fisherman's union, says the seas here a teeming was fish. and why should the big companies be the only ones to profit old a lot of going to love her love. the international fleets are fishing on the edge of our water. so the other around our islands, the little that we from the galapagos wants support. so we can profit from our resources or job with oracle. they say that they're also in favor of species protection, but who is protecting them? what is their future? manella. yep. as says fish. stocks have declined significantly over the years. but he believes that fishing and species conservation don't have to be mutually exclusive. this is not, it's not just about making money. it's also about species conservation,

a new approach for fishermen. but rather his solution, a system for verifying that fishing practices are sustainable. with the help of funding, he installed a webcam on his fishing boat that shows how he is fishing and how much he catches. he also has an app as and where he saves this information, as in prison. like is, doesn't his toilet seo and the most like usa, single may hook. i have 32 killers of c basil and 23 kilos of scorpion. please. just a thought of that when i enter the fish. i also enter where i caught it dawned of the computer, so you can see the name of my boat number and that i fished at garden, obeyed of wing, is a lot the gardener. you can see exactly where i was. nobody lucky to sierra with it . they used to were based on the buddhist that he does, his girl, it is the aim is to catch less but earn more. if the whole system works,

i can earn 20 to 30 percent more with what i catch and the percent from i had and florida manella. yep. hes one an international innovation award with his idea he hopes that concept can serve as a blueprint for others. me then this tournament about want to be a role model for a new generation of fishermen. it is said in mother law, they'll never get here to change the mentality and promote responsible, sustainable fishing. it mars down a bigger matter for sar lamazzo. stephanie lay is a multi okay, go to places go ah, stood of the at the cut along the bones. you don't lose any of the meat like that. good. oh.

in the lab, when pablo munoz shows us them like gray plastic he found in the excrement of a turtle plastic in animals, plastic in water nest spilt with plastic in the galapagos islands of old places that have left the cult. oh yeah. and the a dollar dollars plus today, everything is plastic. it's impossible to live without plastic, same thing. but if we at least try to reduce it, can make a different element zakiri. that's my message. we should at least try managing dental students help sort through the garbage collected on the beach. i you are one. yeah. and the scale of the problem

becomes clear, the mood gets gloomy. i want to at least the, all those pos taken is really like i open it and like, you know, like we have to do more to conserve the area really depressing and up an animal. then eventually back in sea food which we eat. so back in humans will create a deal with one pablo and daniela don't yet know for sure that micro plastics, a harmful to the health of wild life. but it's alarming enough to find plastic inside animals. a tool they say a fears were eulissa. his one under buddha, it's in the same in the room. we live in a polluted world super bowl that either will get to let all this is symptomatic of our worst qualities as a society almost as yeah. it's shocking. yes. was as a sweat if it breaks my heart to see this, i meant there me middle. good. good. i so that i was he, oh no. ah,

research is powering ahead in the galapagos islands because time is running out for wildlife for the whole world. ah . ah, imagine how many portion of love us her out in the world right now, the climate change. if any, off the story, this is life less the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to go. i'm going all

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