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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. to know if we don't know if we didn't protect all this diversity, what's in store for the future, and we need to learn to protect it if we're the research is are in a race against time. so this has been nibbled by turtles and fetching was, as god ah,

the largest marine laboratory in the world. the galapagos islands 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 raise send the most bent them. but i need go forward. we have to leave this early because the only fleet near the beach at this time of day. and so when those like once the sun comes out and the water gets warmer,

they retreat to the deck and it's hard to find them. now there must be the one they use more of a few ceiling photographs. deanna was born in the galapagos islands. studying its wildlife feels like a vocation to her. oh though she didn't grow up thinking she'd one day study shocks on the europe rickanicker. when i was a kid or my dad would take me out, snorting where there was shocks with your eyes, ged stood. they was so much bigger than me. what i was afraid they were going to eat me, but the boy always appears. i wonder know that other times my althea turned into curiosity, walker from europe and why do we fear them? what do you see there? why are they numbers declining their bread about the rooms? and that is all they just migrating or are they dying out? what given what's happening to them have been going back another system. audion christopher from daybreak of san cristobal, i 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 c creatures or so they leave the bay the wood on this, or i'm so sorry, we only have one shot. and so we have to get it right federal your federal v in order for both with suddenly i spot a baby shock. i saw begin to track carefully the team casts a net that spans the bay effectively closing it off with

look, there's one there. they'll shout pups and res, now threatened with extinction. that will be ready. they starting to collect them with hammerhead sharks are often hunted for their fins or end up as by catch their slowly being wiped out. none of them are like really big murphy. i mean, i. e, those, yeah. okay. so then what, i'm, which of them it takes a long time for shocks to reach sexual maturity and then they usually have few babies. and those is, is therefore vital to protect juvenile shocks, so they can reproduce. yeah. out of the thing, let me take a sample and a little research has been done on the reproduction. patton was of local sharks and

rays. taking genetic samples is a 1st step, bolona, and i will do that, but i meet the middle, the sample looks tiny, but even such a tiny sample can give us lots of information per 2nd. 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 me that 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. it's such an interesting field moon that is on those are not gonna go anywhere, but it won't hurt you this dinner is at the tip of the table. are you gonna 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 an injured by propellers claimed the researches register and chem, each creature they collect. i so we ship all the raise is the most. this one doesn't have one. the word one. ah, the yeah. it should be there now. yeah, i do look at the meal and the welfare lebanon was back for the game. we ship them because over time they patton and color can change. she is the most abundant than their conroy 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 gamble. when you get this burning olive berry,

i'm going to get a signal to 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 migrate to information that can be used to establish new protection zones where their populations can thrive. thank you so brain, you know, like when can think of whether we needed 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 i 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 if it gets hung out in missouri dealers it give it a meeting, am i said almost perfect people that are going to day

manada. yep. hes protects the sharks. but in the past he explains, he hunted them for their fins to supply the asian market. what name is the favorite though? 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. hello. if it's alive, it's an asset to the tourist industry. so you and your community can make a living kiddo at the input, the vendor. stan allan with a man, it's low tide. so deanna 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 where there are 30 i'm being on. 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. i mean, it destroys the plant species itself, of course, but also the anti ecosystem that depends on these forests is the law mozilla's or has 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. and i love 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 a moment before leave. so i'm very happy. i'm ready now with the near protected zone, we guarantee that the sharks can travel safely along their natural rules. because the word on the social media from for a lot of sharks are at the top of the food chain. i rewrite micro been, i thought they regulate other species populations such as fish bases internet i, big if them river, when liquor, when a shelter theseus goes extended, it's bad enough, but it's when is, but a whole ecosystem can collapse to our regular groceries, them up, willing through so call upset with their day to help to bring

about a major political milestone in january 2022 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, 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 thought it sympathy my many fishermen still think just get out there and sell as much as possible. okay. and they look at my money back because we need a rethink. it, they, a lot of 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 men on oh yep, hes once 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 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 my studying the impact of plastic waste on wildlife. the galapagos islands of the perfect place for the project in bullet income drives. if you're

samuels kelly development, there were here in the galapagos you can still find on the hutch to 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 solid. no, 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 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 best plastic, garbage every last your 2nd with was yoyo iraqi. in the years this, from years to style of order. lima, peru, lima. better than that because it's a so lima ecuador contained in dull and bottles from asia. e. what they, yes. i see at the for get 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 contract korean they, it's impossible is impossible. even on the way to the bay

where he works, when pablo gets angry, they're a 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'm a little fatal. can quit mapping out 50 meters to work in a minute and say, we're going to collect all the trash in the designated area. but look, as emma escal 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. and you can't get his margery in ecuador, and the galapagos build. i mean, where did it come from? how me the yeah, it's old. it's already decomposing. lower that other is as good. so where did recover from the who knows where said, there are several possibility of know how may be a fisherman threw it into the sea? for example, modern you do go with 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, is talk is he could be any, 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. so in a 1000000 years and that's one big lie. daniels is lemon. did a plastic last 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, they're not even if you cook and rusty, 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 by 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 the fishing boats that dump their waist into the sea. our captain is also a fisherman and all too aware of the problem. i think what brianna, we fishermen here try to raise awareness and okay, 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 hear more come of 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, this is for collector. once we have a sample on it, we can analyze it in the lab. loyola, toyota, well, most of it. first we separate off the organic material and then we can see how much micro plastic there is. social is a blast. after 10 minutes the sample is ready

to go live. oh yeah, yeah. yeah. although long looks like a smoothie with wasp feathers and little shrimp larvae lining kim slauson. along with over fishing, plastic waste poses a major threat to wild life in the galapagos islands and also world wide 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 did miss. 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 base laquanda. that's beautiful. feather island. yeah. oh yeah, that 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. no thumbs up and then 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, there'll be nothing left. if you'll come,

it's over. good. yeah. that that mean i thought her son, when carlos taught us who belongs to the fisherman's union, says the seas here a teeming with fish. and why should the big companies be the only ones to profit old a 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. stories is not, it's not just about making money. it's also

a bad species conservation, and you 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 where he saves this information as in prison. like his doesn't, his toilet seo. and the mom was like, usda single me look, i have 32 killers of c basil and 23 killers of scorpion please. yes, i thought of that when i entered the fish, i also enter where i caught it dawned up like up to them. so you can see the name of my boat number and that i fished at gardener bade of wing. he's not the gardener . you can see exactly where i was. nobody lucky to sierra, but it was a used to whip a scandal, but his daddy was 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 at the present time. i hadn't already done manolo. yep. has won an international innovation award with his idea. he hopes that concept can serve as a blueprint for others and thought me then this tournament, if i want to be a role model for a new generation of fishermen, it is said and mother law dilner pity to change the mentality and promote responsible, sustainable fishing. it mars down rebecca marcella. master stephanie lee is michael taylor. i go to the boys. ha, ha ha! still a valiantly 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 mike cray 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 a cult. oh you india dollar dollars a blast today, everything is plastic. it's impossible to live without plastic st. 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 lance with them. as the scale of the problem becomes clear, the mood gets gloomy. i will at least the all the pos taken is really like i opened it and like, you know, like we have to do more to conserve the area really depressing and of an animal. then eventually back in seafood which we eat. so back in humans and created it with juan. 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. abuse or yoga is or isn't under buddha, it's in the same in the room. we live in a polluted world super bowl that either with guest or 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 and i meant that me middle. good. i so

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