i has been busy, i have been sick, a straight it because we tried to to show dory of face of mafia all over the world . environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporations, corrupt government agencies, and criminal cartels. we want to speak with those as well as other than the design and targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. w b . ah, the east in 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 as a, 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 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 sally most dump them. but i mean though, politically have to leave this early because the only fleet near the beach at this time of day. and so when does it, once the sun comes out and the water gets warm, it they retreat to the deck and it's hard to find them the night. air must be one day, is moyvey c ceilings and 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 they were shocks with your eyes

kids still. they was so much bigger than me. what i was afraid they were going to eat me pretty quickly. i always abuse, i wonder, know, but other times my aliya turned into curiosity, mucus, and knew of them. why do we fear them? took? what do you see? the why, of a 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 then that will not exist 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 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. the wood on his no study where we only have one shot and so

we have to get it right. i said, well, you said it'll be in order for both me with suddenly i spot a baby shark. i thought we're going to smack 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 another them pierced eloquently pick murphy in the either. yeah, you said in what a move them. it takes a long time for shocks to reach sexual maturity, and then they usually have few babies. good. yes. imposes is so therefore vital to protect juvenile shocks, so they can reproduce them 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. come with more cheesy mean for them . a few reasons this 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 ok, luciana. but when we're diving, we see so many extraordinary creatures that we still know little about if it's such an interesting field is moving. there is an hey, those are not gonna go anywhere, but it won't hurt you. this dinner is at the tip of the tail, or you're not 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 injured by propellers. think they are. the researches register and chip each creature they collect. oh so we ship all the raise is the most this one doesn't have one. the word one. ah,

the it should be there now. it's been, oh yeah, i feel it isn't it? amelia wilson, lebanon. miss beck perky m, we chip 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 jeep go more legally binding, less 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 my great to information that can be used to establish new protection zones where their populations can thrive. thank you,

sir. you know that i mean, can think of whether renewal comfort. i love being out here in a place like this and being able to study these wonderful creatures soon, wip will 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. and most that we can get the authority specific recommendations that will really make a difference. so get, get sooner than muscle dealers eat get. but a me thing, am i said almost with people that are going 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 one night. 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 fellow. if it's alive,

it's an asset to the tourist industry. so you and your community can make a living really door. the impulse zavion the in the end of the men 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 for this, there are 3. 0 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 and it destroys the plan space is 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,

m m m fearfully. so i'm very happy about marina. with the near protected zone, we guarantee that the sharks can travel safely along their natural rules. because the word on this is from where you're from, from a voted sharks or at the top of the food chain. i rewrite micra and i thought they regulate other species populations such as fish base isn't gonna big assembly of our quitman. when a shark species goes extended, it's bad enough for this, but a whole ecosystem can collapse to our regular groceries. them up boiling 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 yet as fishermen

failed to appreciate the fragility of the marine ecosystem, they illegally supplied chinese trawlers with tons of sharp fence. if it was like drug trafficking, there were traffic is the 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 thought it sympathy my many fishermen still think that they just get out there and sell as much as possible. delicate enough money to come out. we need to rethink doing the lap all of these resources that our lives depend on, on their plan, 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 guards. manada. 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 touristy

islands are inhabited with the population of just 30000 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 the bullet income that i was using was 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 again, 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. yeah. la la la no one knows for sure how much of plastic trash has 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 we start off at 1000. no. no tourist ever sets foot in this bay. no one lives here. and yet best plastic, garbage everywhere. and your 2nd with

was jojo iraqi. jared own 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. 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, 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 n. if that doesn't break your heart or make you change your behavior, then i despair to love you does. the idea is not like a mosque way. i said,

i will go ahead and quit 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 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 a no good. the money mat nolan, you can't get the 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 are coming from one of the who knows. but i said there are several possibility of know

how may be a fisherman threw it into the sea? for example, ma'am, if you do go with blue book little bottle here is from lithuania. to flush, 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 he can 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 near the 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 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 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 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 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 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'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 collect, but once we have a sample on it, we can analyze it in the lab. loyola, toyota. well, most of it 1st we separate off the organic material by dakota 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, it looks like a smoothie with wasps feathers and little shrimp, lovey, lining shem 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 live 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 baby laquanda. that's beautiful fillet island. yeah. oh yeah,

that's how 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 the, to emptying the waters. not up to 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 cecil coastal. but we know that when a species diet coke, okay, there'll be nothing left. if you'll come, it's over. good. yeah. that, 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? although a lot of going to love your love, the international fleets are fishing on the edge of our water. so the other around our islands, little that we from the galapagos want 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. is dollars those not? it's not just about making money. it's also about 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 where he saves this information as in prison, and he doesn't his toilet. theo and the mom was like, usda, single, may hook, i have 32 killers of c basil and 23 killers of scorpion, please. yes, i thought of that when i enter 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 when he's not a gardener. you can see exactly where i was. nobody lackey does a cellar with it. they used to wear bisk on the 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 and the percent from i had until either manolo. yep. hes one, 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'll never get here to change the mentality and promote responsible. sustainable fishing. you got it. marsden rebecca metaphors are la masters. danny lay is a multi of a boiler so ah, to lafayette the cut along the bone, so 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 the cult. oh you 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 gloomier. you see all the plastic and it's really like i opened 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 seafood, which we eat. so back in humans, we created it with juan pablo and daniela

don't yet know for sure that micro plastics, a harmful to the house of wild life. but it's alarming enough to find plastic inside animals. the tool they say, oh, that could be used for jojo. so 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 that me middle. 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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