because we tried to to shell dirty, a face mafia all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporations, corrupt government agencies, and criminal cartels. the one i think with the ball was placed on the demo design and evidence 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 for marine biologists the priority these days is conservation, cynically them, 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 with god the largest marine laboratory in the world. the galapagos islands ah, scientists saw early rises news. 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 those like once the sun comes out and the water gets warmer, they retreat to the decks and it's hard to find them night. emma's but when they is movie, feeling fun facts, deanna was born in the galapagos islands. studying it's wild life 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 they were shocks. of your. i'm either dead still, 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. wilkerson knew of them. why do we fear them? what do you see there? why other numbers declining the red about the rooms? and that is all they just migrating or are they dying out? what given what's happening to them been dug another system. 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 them in moscow. we have to be careful because we're a motor boat. he's been in. well, we don't want to frighten off any c creatures, so they leave the bay misty wood on this ernesto spotty. we only have one shot, and so we have to get it right. yes,

that'll be in order for both. with suddenly i spotted baby shark. i don't begin this night 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 a lot of them here for liquidity working in the either. yeah. okay, so then what am which of them it takes a long time for shocks to reach sexual maturity and then they usually have few babies. and poses is therefore vital to protect juvenile shocks, so they can reproduce them out of the thing. let me take a sample and a little research has been done on the reproduction. patton was the local shocks, and res, taking genetic samples is a 1st step along with 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 cheese, you mean for this 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 we're diving,

we see so many extraordinary creatures that we still know little about it such an interesting field is more that is on things are, those are not gonna go even bother, but it won't hurt you. this dinner is at the tip of the table, or you're not going to do one thing with besides, nets, fishing and tourist boat, suppose a danger to marine life. so many sea creatures are killed by boat strikes. are injured by propellers lane. they are the researches register and chip each creature they collect. i so we ship over, raise is the most. this one doesn't have one. there were one. ah,

the ah, it should be there now. yeah, i get the mueller wilson lebanon was back, but a game we ship them because over time they patton 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, glenwood, burning, olive berry, i'm calling to get a think, you know the name for ya, 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, you know,

i mean can pick up whether we need help comfort. i love being out here in a place like this and being able to study these wonderful creatures soon grip won't be what they don't look real quick. 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 on the muzzle dealers it get. but a me thing m i said was with people that are close to day man auto. yep. hes protects the shocks. but in the past, he explains he to them for their fins to supply the asian market. soon. one night, the favorite though 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, we 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. there's to him that under the 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 shocks and res humans, however, need to tread carefully. well for this there are 3. 0, i'm being as good movies on 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 well, they're being destroyed. to make way for hotels, for example, or that on my leg said he own cutting down mangroves is a terrible crime and it destroys the plant species itself, of course, but also the entire ecosystem that depends on these forest law, mozilla's, or has grant, without the shelter they provide for young fish, they wouldn't even be any fish to catch here thing. 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 root of adults hammerhead sharks using g p. s data from the law. it stretches from the galapagos islands to costa rica in central america. the route is now protected marine corridor. you're my synthroid that a my them in there for leave. so i'm very happy to run marina with the near

protected zone. we guarantee that the sharks can travel safely along their natural rules, because the word on this is maria from, for a lot of sharks are at the top of the food chain at 0 mecca when they regulate other species populations such as fish bases in canada. big if remember when look, remember when a shark theses goes extended, it's bad enough, but it's when is but a whole ecosystem can collapse to our liquid groceries. them up, willing to circle up with their data, helped bring about a major political milestone in january 2022 in a symbolic ceremony at c, former us 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 yet as fishermen failed to

appreciate the fragility of the marine ecosystem, they illegally supplied chinese trawlers with tons of sharp fence. if a little bit was like drug trafficking, there were traffic is a middle man. the 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 a sympathy my many fishermen still think that they just get out there and sell as much as possible. hope in a delicate money back because 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 her caught

by the coast guards. manolo. 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, must studying the impact of plastic waste on wild life. the galapagos islands of the perfect place for the project in political dr. dillinger's 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 working 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 over year low . you saw the no, no one knows for sure how much a 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 affected or even if they are affected. i use how we start off at 1000. no. no tourist ever set foot in this bay. no one lives here. and yet best plastic, garbage everywhere. and your 2nd with them

was jojo iraqi. yeah. little new year or is this from yester style order? lima, peru, lima. better than that because it's a 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 housing level is one house. can a bottle travel half way around the world against the current and end up in the galapagos england like 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 n. if that doesn't break your heart or make your change your behavior. yeah. then i despair to lobby does. the idea is not like a mosque way. i said we'll

go from where mapping out 50 meters to work in a minute. i'm going to say we're going to collect all the trash in the designated area. doesn't look as i was 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. the melody mat nolan, you can't get is mardrey and in ecuador, and the galapagos build, i mean, where did it come from me that yeah, it's old. it's already decomposing, lower that other. this is good. so where did or come from the who knows? it doesn't, but i said there are several possibility of know how may be a fisherman throw into the sea?

for example, madam, you do go with blue book. this bottle here is from lithuania. to blush. how on earth did it get here? 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 still good. as a korean 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 now forget the idea, the 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. they're not, 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 brooke,

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. the 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, loyola toyota law, most of it. first we separate off the organic material by the code, and then we can see how much micro plastic there is. social is a blast. after 10 minutes the sample is ready to go. oh yeah, yeah. oh, looks like a movie with wasps 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 than 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. fill it. yeah. oh yeah.

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 under them look at. we work for a living with us. but then we are aware of our resources. some of a lot of people think we're rubbing the same sort of course. but we know that when a species dies it okay. okay, there'll be nothing left. if you'll come, it's over. good yet. 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 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, 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 stole is those not? it's not just about making money, it's also a bad species conservation. and you approach the fisherman. 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 of where he saves this information,

as in prison. like his doesn't, his toilet seo and the massage fiesta. single may hook. i have 32 kilos 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 of the cobra. so you can see the name of my boat number and that i fished at garden, obeyed wing is a lot the gardener. you can see exactly where i was. nobody lucky to sierra with it . they used to work as candle, but a study does his go let 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 in the percent of my head and florida manella. yep. hes one, an international innovation award with his idea. he hopes that concept can serve as a blueprint for others. and thought me then this

tournament that i want to be a role model for a new generation of fishermen. it is said and mother law nelnet the kid, he had to change the mentality and promote responsible. sustainable fishing. you go said marsden, rebecca marcella must any lay she'll go to the boys. ha, ha ha stuff, eliezer cut along the bones so you don't lose any of the mates 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 all places that live local. are you india dollar dollars a blast 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 esmond. zachary, that's my message. we should at least try managing dental students help sort through the garbage collected on the beach. a jo are lance with, as the scale of the problem becomes clear, the mood gets gloomy. i want to at least the 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 and 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 tool they say, oh, it feels we're eulissa is 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 or no research is powering ahead in the galapagos islands because time is running out for wildlife for the whole world. ah,

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