the mediterranean, ah, it's waters connect people of many cultures seen of almost rock. and so far abdul karim drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean, where has history left its traces. reading people, hearing their dreams ready to journey this week 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 for marine biologists the priority these days is conservation. look, we don't know if we then protect all this diversity, what's in store for the future, and we need to learn to protect. entre if we're 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 selling most of them. but i mean, they'll probably have to leave this early because the only fleet 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 decks and it's hard to find them to night. there must be one day is more the feeling fun. facts. deanna was born in the galapagos islands. studying its wild life feels like a vocation to her. oh 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 they were shocks. of your. i mean

they had stood there was so much bigger than me. if you would on. i was afraid they were going to eat me with the break. i'm always obvious, i wonder, know, but other times my alea turned into curiosity, mucus, m u, of them, why do we fear them? took? what do you see? the why of a numbers declining the read of other him with and that is all they just migrating or are they dying out? what given what's happening to them then dug another system, would in christopher from daybreak off san cristobal island as they near the coastline. the marine biologists explained that they need to approach cautiously or gave them in moscow. 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, so they leave the bay misty wood on his serrano society. we only have one shot,

and so we have to get it right. i said, maria said it'll be in order for both with you. 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. we are 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. london pizza liquidity pick where i think the either. yeah. okay, so then what a move to the it takes a long time for shocks to reach sexual maturity and then they usually have few babies. and those is so therefore vital to protect juvenile shocks, so they can reproduce. yeah. out of the can let me take a sample and a 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 to come with more cheesy mean for them a few reasons this person is getting the 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 if it's such an interesting field moon that is on hey, those are not gonna go anywhere, but it won't hurt you. the stinger is at the tip of the tail, or you're not going to do. one of my big thing with besides, nets, fishing and tourist boats pose a danger to marine life. many sea creatures are killed by boat strikes or are injured by propellers. they, the research is register and chip, each creature they collect. i so we ship all the raise is the most. this one doesn't have one. the word one. 03

. it should be there now. it's better. yeah. i feel it open at the meal that welfare lipper numerous back for the game. we chip them because over time their 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 jeep. good morning, it's burning las very wrong hurry to get to thinking of the name, sienna, which yell if can you go with collecting the sample? doesn't harm the ray and can help the research is find out where they come from. and where they my great to information that can be used to establish new protection zones where their populations can thrive. thank you for being, you know,

like when can think of little renewal comfort. i love being out here in a place like this and being able to study these wonderful creatures soon, wip would be what i don't look really good. but i'm in comfort, but what i love most is that we can gain valuable information in most that we can get the authority specific recommendations that will really make a difference to some other mazel dealers eat get. but a meeting am i said almost perfect people that are close to day, man auto. yep. hes protects the sharks. but in the past he explains, he hunted them for their fins to supply the asian market. well now you provide the thought, nobody's perfect, but we can change. now i have a great appreciation for these creatures like a shock is worth so much more alive than dead. if it's dead, you sell it's fins, and that's that fellow. if it's alive,

it's an asset to the tourist industry. so you and your community can make a living in the door, the input, the vendor to him and that a man 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. well for this, there are 3. 0 one being is glen with

the pattern 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 are being destroyed to make way for hotels, for example, or that among large 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 forrest city 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 gps data. one thing a lot. 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 near protected zone, we guarantee that the sharks can travel safely along their natural route because they would only have one more year from for a lot of sharks or at the top of the food chain around mecca when i thought they regulate other species populations such as fish, this isn't gonna be your friend of our quitman. when a shark species goes extended, it's bad enough for this. one 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 am and 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. it was like drug trafficking. there were tropic goods and middleman that commodity was transported in small boats 5060 miles out to see that where the big fishing fleets were now there's a conservation zone. but the question is, can it be controlled as a policy for the sympathy my many fishermen still think that they're just get out there and sell as much as possible. oh good. and then one is that because we need a re think we're good. they are level, these are resources that our lives depend on, on their prelim, 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 manolo. yep. hes wants to pioneer a more sustainable way of fishing ah, most of the galapagos islands has been 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 must here in the 19th century that charles darwin developed his theory of evolution only for the islands are inhabited with the population of just $30000.00 tourism is strictly

regulated. ah ah, here um san cristobal island, another team of research. his is getting ready for work then quan, pablo munoz sent his partner daniela con my studying the impact of plastic waste on wildlife. the galapagos islands of the perfect place for the project in bullet income thrive deals, annuals, killing that element. 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 you schoolboys was again, that's incredible nowadays that, oh, 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 sorry, neither. no one knows for sure how much plastic trash is polluting the world's oceans of them. yeah, and we know even less about the problem in the galapagos, we don't know how many species are affected or even if they are affected. i use how we start off at 1000. no. no tourist ever sets foot in this bay. no one lives here. and yet best plastic garbage every last and your 2nd wife, i 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 as one house can a bottle travel half way around the world against the current and end up in the galapagos in glendora 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 for me to call to look at the state. it's in. if that doesn't break your heart or make you change your behavior, then i despair to love you those. the idea is not like you must play. i said,

i will. the federal can quit mapping out 50 meters to work him for minute. i don't think 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 of no good. if somebody 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 the other is as good. so where did are colored from one of the who knows where said, there are several possibility i,

you know, maybe a fisherman threw it into the sea 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. yeah, louis is talking with. 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 up never forget the idea that plastic will disappear in a 1000 years in

a 1000000 years. that's one big lie. daniels is lemon. did a plastic lasts forever, a plastic was but 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. but in those in, if you could kind of stay, 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 gull lewis. like 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, arthritic. 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 at the him of coma. what was he got done a lot, there were sort 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's 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 it is. this is for collector. once we have a sample on it, we can analyze it in the lab, loyal arreola, most of it. first, we separate off the organic material by the filter, and then we can see how much micro plastic there is. social is a blast. after 10 minutes the sample is ready. i yeah, yeah. oh, 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 fun. 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 too 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. fillet island? yeah. oh yeah. i 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 are emptying the waters, not up to them. okay. we work for our living with us. but then we are aware of our resources so much a lot of people think we are rubbing, we'll say sort of course, but we know that when a species dies it okay. okay, there'll be nothing left. if you're covered, it's over. good. yeah. that that, i mean i thought her son, when carlos taught us who belongs the fisherman's union, says the seas here a teeming was fish. and why should the big companies be the only ones to profit all the lot of going to love love, the international fleets are fishing on the edge of our water. so the other around our islands, 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 and you approach for fisherman. 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 where he saves this information as in prison. and he doesn't his toilet seo and the most at fiesta. single may hook, i have 32 killers of c basil and 23 kilos of scorpion please. yes, i thought of that as when i entered the fish. i also enter where i caught it dawned of the cobra. so you can see the name of my boat number and that i fished at gardener bade of wing. he's not a gardener. you can see exactly where i was. nobody lucky does a cellar with it. they used to have his guns, but his daddy 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 to my head on thursday. the manolo, yep. has won an international innovation award with his idea he hopes the concept can serve as a blueprint for others. thought me then this

tournament about want to be a role model for a new generation of fishermen. it is said in mother law, they will not get here to change the mentality and promote responsible. sustainable fishing? said marsden. rebecca manifests are la masters. danny lay is a multi of a boys girl. ah still of a l. yet 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 the micro 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 i have left to come. oh yeah, india 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 elements. i carry. 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 of them. as the scale of the problem becomes clear, the mood gets gloomy. i never let you see all those plastic and it's really like i open it and like, you know, like we have to do more to conserve the area. really depressing. and i've been 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 the toll 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 with guest to let all this is symptomatic of our worst qualities as a society commercials. 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

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