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of morning the mediterranean ah, it's waters connect people of many cultures seen of almost rock and jaffar, abdul karim drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean youth. where has history left its traces, reading regal, hearing their dreams, ready to journey this week on d. w. b . ah, the easton 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
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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 bas god the largest marine laboratory in the world. the galapagos islands ah,
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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, they'll probably have to leave this early because the only fleet near the beach at this time of day silence on when the sick. 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 of a few ceiling 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 when the europe rickanicker. when i was a kid or my dad would take me out snorting where they were shocks. of your i'm is
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dead stood. they was so much bigger than me. if you would on. i was afraid they were going to eat me with the break them. always abuse, i wonder know, but other times my aliya turned into curiosity, mucus, and knew of them. why do we fear them? talk? 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 suspend 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 or so they leave the bay. and let's see what on this arena to study. we only have one shot,
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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 shock i saw begin to smack carefully the team. casts a net that spans the bay effectively closing it off. with me, look, there's one. there they are shout pups and raise. 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
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slowly being wiped out the london piazza liquidity pick where i think the either. yeah. okay, so then what a me to think it takes a long time for sharks 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 them out of the can let me take a sample. i'm 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 christmas person is getting the label tend to think there's all this research going on in the galapagos and that we know everything there is to no good
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legal standard. but when we are diving, we see so many extraordinary creatures that we still know little about it, such an interesting field when there isn't a dozen other, don't go anywhere, but it won't hurt you. the stinger 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. so many sea creatures are killed by boat strikes, are injured by propellers, lane. they are the researches register and chin each creature they collect as we ship all the rays is that most this one doesn't have one. there were one. 03
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. since it should be there now? yeah, i do look at the mueller welfare 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
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know that 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, wip 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. so if somebody muzzled dealers it get, but a me thing, am i said was with people that are going 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. what name is 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
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industry. so you and your community can make a living in illinois at the embassy vandal. there's the 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 one being is glen with
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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 while they're being destroyed to make way for hotels, for example. i don't mind glad said young cutting down mangroves is a terrible crime moment. it destroys the plan spaces itself, of course, but also the entire ecosystem that depends on these forrest city la la 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 neither af, 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 . 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 that a mother mentor felice,
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is 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 were on this isn't my year yes, on forever. though sharks are at the top of the food chain out of iraq, mecca when i thought they regulate other species populations such as fish, this isn't gonna take a friend of our quitman. when a shark of theseus goes extended, it's bad enough pretty soon, but a whole ecosystem can collapse to is more of a regular course use them up, willing to so collapse 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,
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has fishermen failed to appreciate the fragility of the marine ecosystem. they illegally supplied chinese trawlers with tons of shark fins this year, and it was like drug trafficking. there were traffickers in middleman. 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 the ball if he's able to timothy my, many fishermen still think that just get out there and sell as much as possible. okay, welcome back to clark. we need a re think we're good. they allow both these resources that our lives depend on their blame on that. of course. okay. la la la medina. these fishing boats in the
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harbor were detained because their owners were fishing illegally and were caught by the coast guards. 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 if the islands are inhabited with the population of just $30000.00 tourism is strictly
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regulated. ah, here um san cristobal island. another team of research is, is getting ready for work done. quan pablo munoz sent his partner, daniela con, must studying the impact of plastic waste on wildlife. the galapagos islands of the perfect place for the project in bullet income thrive deals, annual skills 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 the deals cameras was looking and that's incredible. nowadays that go in can ably were still 0, but it doesn't mean there's no plastic waste here. the research is want to identify
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where the garbage comes from and how it affects the house of local wildlife. then they say measures can be taken away. yeah. oh no, you're sorry. neither. no one knows for sure how much of plastic trash is polluting the world's oceans as a me and, 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 there's plastic garbage everywhere. and you're thinking with
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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 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, guardian. 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, i don't miss thomas, 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 your change your behavior. yeah. then i despair to love those. the idea is not like a mosque way. i said,
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well, the federal 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. doesn't look as and well as go camels. what we do is collect the bigger pieces for everything that's at least 5 millimeters. be with us, but the small plastic fibers, let's pointless. we'd never get anywhere. oh, no, nobody. i'm a new guy from already not know, lebanon, 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 coming from one of the who knows. but i said there are several possibility of know
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how may be a fisherman throw it into the sea? for example, modern you do go with blue book little bottle here is from lithuania to plus. 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 my cray plastic. yes, it is still good, was he given 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 knitter. forget the idea,
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the plastic will disappear in a 1000 years in a 1000000 years and that's one big lie. daniels is a 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. you are speaking, but that doesn't mean it's not there. but in those in, 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 cow hollow it bite. 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 dump their
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waist into the sea. our captain is also a fisherman and all too aware of the problems arthritic. what brianna? we fishermen here try to raise awareness it. 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 to 5 tons of trash here, or to hear more common. what were think, what don't allow, 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
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pablo takes a water sample. oh no, those are yeah. 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 actually is a blast. after 10 minutes the sample is ready to go. oh yeah. yeah. hello. it looks like a movie with wasps feathers and little shrimp lovey, lining them slauson. along with over fishing,
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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 then 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 one that's beautiful. fillet island, does it? yeah. oh yeah. many local families feel bullied by the
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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. nothin to put 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 are rubbing was cecil, 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. 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 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 wants support. so we can profit from our
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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? there is 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.
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he also has an app where he saves this information as in prison. like his doesn't, his toilet seo, anthropomorphic usa, single may hook. i have 32 kilos of c basil and 23 kilo's of scorpion please. yes, i thought of that when i entered the fish. i also enter where i caught it dawned of the color. 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 work as candle, but a study 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 the percent of my head and florida manolo. yep, hes one, an international innovation award with his idea he hopes that concept can serve as a blueprint for others. thought me then this
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tournament, if i want to be a role model for a new generation of fishermen, it is said in mother law, they will not be kitty to change the mentality and promote responsible, sustainable fishing. it mars down a bigger matter for sar. lemme must any lay children. go in a boy. ha, ha ha! stood viagra, cut along the bones so you don't lose any of the meat. like that. good. oh! in the lab, when pablo munoz shows us the might cray plastic he found in the excrement of a turtle, plastic in animals, plastic in water nest spilt with plastic in the galapagos
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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 esmond zakiri. that's my message. we should at least try managing dental students help sort through the garbage collected on the beach. i think you are one of them. as the scan of the problem becomes clear, the mood gets clue. mia. 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 with and i've been animal then eventually back in seafood, which we eat. so back in humans created it
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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. a tool they say, a fears were 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 with that 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. 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. a with
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