ah, next on d, w i, she's got any issues with all say will gray a ah 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. look, we don't, if we didn't protect all this diversity, what's in store for the future, and we need to learn to protect it. 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 scientists saw early rises. it's 5 in the morning and i'm bet 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 that any fleet near the beach at this time of day. and so when those like once the sun comes out and the water gets warm, it they retreat to the deck and it's hard to find them night. emma's little one day 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 when the europe rickanicker, when i was a kid or my dad would take me out snorting where they were 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 boys always abused. i wonder, know that other times my althea turned into curiosity. wilkerson knew of them,

why do we fear them talk? what do you see that? why, of a 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 done? well now the system would in because to perform daybreak of 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 c creatures or so they leave the bay and us people on this ernesto society. we only have one shot, and so we have to get it right federal your federal v in order for both with suddenly ice to baby shop,

thump in the side, carefully, the team casts a 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're 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. the london piazza liquidity burglar feed

into either. yeah. okay, so then what a much 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 them 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 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 him . 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 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.

thank you. a good, a good. it won't hurt you. the stinger is at the tip of the table. you're not gonna do one thing 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. there were one. ah, the ah, it should be there now. yeah,

i get the mueller wilson lebanon was back, but a game. we chip 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, good bonding, olive berry, i'm calling to get a signal demand 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, lisa rayna with when 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 so soon grip 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 key to so many muslim dealers eat get but a me thing m. i said almost perfect 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. 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 implicit vienna, there's been another 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 as good movies on the patton 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 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 gps data. one thing i love, 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 mother meant there for leave. so i'm very happy when marina, with the near protected zone, we guarantee that the sharks can travel safely along their natural rules because

they would only have one more year from for a lot of sharks or at the top of the food chain. i rewrite mac, i mean i thought they regulate other species populations such as fish, basically little big from the rock. when look, remember when a shark with easiest goes extended, it's bad enough, but it's from this. but a whole ecosystem can collapse to is more of our liquid groceries them up went through so call upset with their day to 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 ammon 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. a vivid either it was like

drug trafficking, there were tropical 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 boy, if he thought it, the other thing, many fishermen still think that they're just get out there and sell as much as possible. ok when they look at my money back because we need a rethink doing their 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 guards.

men on oh yep. hes wants 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 my studying the impact of plastic waste on wildlife. the galapagos islands of the perfect place for the project in bullet income thrive deals, annual skill development. they 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 2 years. 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 wild life.

then they say measures can be taken away. la. neither no one knows for sure how much of 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 everywhere. and your 2nd while i 1st implement that it was yoyo iraqi. you have it 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. he would say yes i see at the 4 k water bottles from asia doing in the galapagos sensing a 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. but guess i will ask him of 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 money not. no. i mean, you can't get is mardrey and 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. this is good. so where did recover from the bullet? who knows? it doesn't say there are several possibility of know how may be a fisherman throw 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 pugnacious when it becomes mike cray. plastic yet 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 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. 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 gull 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 the fishing boats that dump 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 and 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 to 5 tons of trash here, or to hear more common. 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. the lawyer lower 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. yeah. although no, 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 wildlife in the galapagos islands. and also worldwide 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 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 son's catch look at me with bella. i liked fishing when the fish are hungry and take the bait. wonder if that's beautiful, fill it. yeah. oh you ah. 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 huntington and 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 coastal. but we know that when a species dies you okay. okay, there'll be nothing left. if you're covered, it's over. good yet. 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? 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. 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. he also has an app where he saves this information as in prison. like his doesn't, his toilet seo and the most like usa, 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 of the call to them, 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 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 the present them. i hadn't already done manella. yep. has one an international innovation award with his idea he hopes that concept can serve as a blueprint for others. thought me then this tournament, if i want to be a role model for a new generation of fishermen, it is said in mother law nelnet, the kid had to change the mentality and promote responsible,

sustainable fishing it. marsden, rebecca massa, la masters, danny lay is a model. she'll go in to please her to the failure to cut along the bones. you don't lose any of the mate 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. we sort of lexical. oh yeah. and the a 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 difference. i carry, that's my message. we should at least try amazing. dental students help sort through the garbage collected on the beach. a jo are ones. yeah. and then as the scale of the problem becomes clear, the mood gets clue. mia. you see all those 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. would end up an animal. then eventually back in sea food which we eat. so back in humans, we created it 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 feels were eulissa is one under buddha. it's in the same in the womb, we live in a polluted world, superimpose it either with guest to let all this is symptomatic of our worst qualities as a society almost as 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 or no research is powering ahead in the galapagos islands because time is running out for wildlife for the whole world. i ah

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