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takes, policeman following you fire made for the tiger, a massive ecosystem home to many species of animals and plants. it's the knowledge is cannot forest forest on earth. does as i know, as i say, this is a huge region, a huge forest. the 1st time you take a look at it, everything looks the same. then you walk a few meters and you think you're seeing something new all over again by the taiga is vital to the survival of the planets climate. to see their vault this siberian forest acts as a lung for the earth that ever but the russian tiger is in danger. oil spills clear, cutting strip mining and fires

a taking their toll on this unique habitat. one of the most important ecosystems on earth is in peril. it after the destruction is real and there are already some sections of the tiger that have basically collapses. hm. awesome. oh, good. could put a dense impenetrable forest. an almost mythical concept in russian culture. cruz face, the vast expanses of forest gifts, the us it's green color. but how long will this last i on the tiger rushes green loan in distress. ah, the angora, a river of great beauty around 1800 kilometer long, it cuts across the russian tiger. it's banks aligned with pine and launch trees.

ah, this is the home of demetrius lubbock, cough hunter. and so may, can those almost every bend in the river that begins its life in lake by kyle? for dimitry the lake has something of a mystical quality to it. it was the music while below annual bill villages. i'm originally a biologist and in biology there's a good term habitat. it's everything the place where something lives at the place that provides sustenance and a place from which you draw energy on to my people a place without which you have no home or mr. basket. dorothy was the best, does loma can lose rosena. i'm a biker. let's just watch emma suitable for the most to show that by cow. this human habitat has its own character that you can really feel. i'm the worst goddess every one who lives here can confirm it. to what effect on if,

if you don't take in its personality, it's character and submit to it. you're long, you talk, cutty circle. i missed one. when you chose to involve dmitri believes in the power of nature. he still drinks the water here. but his paradise is in danger, especially because of the many tourists who come to lake by carland leave their garbage behind. dmitri fears for the future. yeah, good dickerson hortner. i'm like a wild animal. his idiot. when the city spreads out, which animals move further away from the streets from the noise, the music, the racket, new. so i'm the same way yellow. that means the more tourism there is a round lake by called the farther north. i go to feel my own project listening much. we break the se in the tiger. dmitri lives both with and from

nature. as a blogger, he documented the changes in his habitat. he wants to help protect this unique ecosystem. ah lake by carl is the blue heart of the tiger. it is so large that it can be easily seen from space at 636 kilometers long, 80 kilometers white and 1640 meters deep by volume. it is the largest fresh water lake on earth. ah we're enlist, fee, unkind, 70 kilometers. se if you could ask and directly on the by kyle, the holy lake of the russians filmed millions of years ago. the lake has long been isolated in far away. siberia. it was not until rail roads and aviation were

developed that it became accessible to many from tourists to scientists. environmental problems feel like they're far away here, almost undisturbed. the biodiversity here is unmatched at this latitude. ah, that a fussy knows, all the fascination of lake by call is of course it's beauty is on it, but also how it's always changing. fee id depending on the light or the season said it changes yala. it's a spectacle of incredible beautiful. on days when i know globally for shewn hide old horn island on lake by kyle, the rock formations are considered one of the top sites in the region. but this beauty comes at a price. tourists constantly leave their

garbage behind. activists from the foundation gives the planet life help clean up the worst effected spots that the ned city thought aim was bits at the, the trampled soil, the trash on the shores, getting into the water and was busy and keep his thoughts. nav, ward, the cuts, even the sewage at ending up in the lation of war there. ah, these are the main factors, hemoglobin and by sincere, these things are changing to lance. okay, there, and touch now, would then i'll get them all set for decades. this factory was the most serious polosa of lake by kyle, the by koski pulp and paper m. l 1st opened in 1966 because the cellulose was the cent show for russian missile construction. the plant was

allowed to ignore environmental regulations. for decades, hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of toxic waste water flowed into the lake. on top of that, tons of toxic lignin smudge accumulated over the decades. the plants closed in 2013, but the toxic sludge has remained the abs if he low. but order with several regions on earth are in danger. and lake by call is one of the id. it's actually incomprehensible that these valuable natural assets, these lands that are worth protecting, on really being protected niche to be efficient leg by carl is a paradise on the threats. russia promise is to act. wild putin's government continues to rely on coal, oil,

and gas extraction. it also wants to score ecological points and to strewn up a national program by the end of $224190.00 illegal landfills. the to be closed down and clean dunc hazardous waste is to be removed from $75.00 sites and 7 new waste processing and disposal centers ought to be belts. ah, putin knows environmental policy is popular, especially with russia's use on state television. he professes his support for international climate agreements and recommend me were paul name here, visit us to put in. we are honoring all the commitments we made under international agreements, including the paris agreement as to what was fearful that there was the kyoto

protocol which we took part in the such from the city of may. we have made serious commitments that do not only match but even surpassed the european union in terms of emission reductions of your home sneezing. evidence of doesn't know yona, so use expect so skeptical that such words will be acted upon. putin makes no mention of the endangered tiger. the wealth, 3rd largest coal exporter, russia, so says over half of its coal from the co spots regional nature has had to make way for coal mines here for decades. and, and alimony em are also produced in the cos bass. for decades, the emission of pollutants wasn't even measured. ah, we meet alexei chiefs p a cough who belongs to the shows. these indigenous people

have traditionally had a special relationship with nature. together with anton lemon, 2 years from the environmental protection group, eco defense. alexei will show us just how far the destruction of the environment has already progressed. ah, alex a leads us to a river. the shows have been hunting here for centuries, he explains. but since coal mining began in the area, there has been less and less to hunt. mm. the water quality has also changed dramatically. alexei shows us a canal that directly dumps waste water into the river for his people, this is a sin against creation ah. the

crescent. yes miss. thank this is just my whole life. i've haunted and fish in the very places where the mining is now taking place. since the mining started, this is impossible. any more you or the animals have disappeared near the fish in the river. a dead before the forests are being cleared on it for him are all in all strip mining means the destruction of absolutely everything alive in the area of the us. burnish that rainy absolute left. she was wrong. so you, alexei shows us how the coal mining has affected things after just a few centimeters. his hand is no longer visible, but he, i knew the woozy here used to be crystal clear. i fail cheryl various america to go out there or when the mining started, the water turned black from the call. yes, live near i insure magneer bill. in the old days you could see every stone,

every grain of sand procedure. now when you dip your head into the river, 10 to 15 centimeters in, you can't see it anymore. keep your last different jamie up for on that in your your, this is what strip mining does the core of leona or 3 of my, but you're more at the place where you live with them. why is that like this? because in my opinion, absolutely no environmental protection measures are being observed as any of them. yes, the blue lights the tiger, the world's largest canaveral forest. this area about 40 times larger than germany, supplies the planet with oxygen ah, stretching from scandinavia all the way across canada, a launch part of it lies in russia. ah.

indigenous peoples, like the shows have lived for centuries in the russian tiger, as hunters together with nature to day, their homeland is in danger. alexei shows us how close the coal mining has come to the shores forest. seemingly out of no where the tiger turns into a lunar landscape. the forest has turned into a messy patchwork. the machines tearing into the landscape more and more is being mined in russia, from around 260000000 tons in 2000 to 400000000 tons in 2021. the figure is expected to continue climbing higher and higher. this is in direct conflict with pu tins ecological promises. oh,

ah, said the corporations and only got involved. this is huge business. but for the indigenous population it spells disaster. oh, they're in chest so hardly hide in far away. moscow. left shorts of a boat but my as im alara my brochure at the look for the shows. this is our home lead. it is a pot about being overture when people are torn away from their ancestral land and him and thrown somewhere else. it's like their words being torn away, but incipient, a boy corn you how long alexei and his people will be able to live in the region is uncertain. entire villages have already fallen victim to coal extraction. a shoe village once stood right here on this, my cape. ah,

we continue to key, said he, of a small town in the cris bass region. he is, the pollution cannot be ignored. a truck is spreading coal dust all over the landscape. he said he of is a cold town with mines and factories. a new large co facility is in the works. more than 90000 people live here. ah, environmentalists say the cold industry has taken the city hostage. even the elementary school spreads the message, happiness and the future lie in coal, mining the dangers of course and disgust. ah, ah, anton, on the other hand, talks about the consequences. something that's quite risky and a place where environmental activists sometimes end up in prison.

and the so something is our coma uniform store board. i see excuse number, this is absolutely illegal. normative, according to russian regulations, the distance between strict mines and residential buildings should be at least 1000 meters and oscar. however, this regulation is not followed anywhere in the course bosses and especially not here in kisa, yoga, and there are $90000.00 people living here. fly that they all have to be relocated more. the coal mining has to stall that are both strip mining in the cris bass, a $1000000000.00 business for the state and the operating company. it's the areas largest employer, but it comes to great cost to the house of those living there. city at noon, on average, no less than $3000000000.00 tons of waste material accumulate on such dumps in the commute over region, year after year. which is a big problem,

because these dumps create toxic dust that damages the body of any one who inhales this dust can become seriously ill. damage to the lungs is typically as well as a reduction in immunity which leads to tuberculosis and even cancers. because when one together with other environmental organizations and tones, group, eco defense published to study in 2021 on the health impact of coal mining on the region cold raced to the bottom. life expectancy and the cool bass marked here in blue has been well below the russian average for years. respiratory illnesses are becoming more and more common. the study shows that people in the cos bass gets sick more often and die younger than in the rest of russia. no official figures on this were made available to us. nina gregory f. 9 lives with her husband on the edge of a coal mine. the family has spent almost their entire lives on the farm here. the

coldest in particular has made things difficult. on the roof dock gray deposit saw evidence of the nearby strip mine was losing. the air has changed your leash were constantly breathing in the dust. in the past, when there wasn't enough water for our livestock in winter, we thought the snow and gave it to them to drink it. it went to day, that's no longer possible. that water is just cole and dirt. now the snow is dirty and black, which they are. these are photos showing the toxic black snow. if the cas best region, even in summer, everything is covered in soot, it clings to the locals, her clothes, and hands needed. you see here they are. i've been picking grass for the rabbits look if the grass were clean, what my hands look like this. she is fit. good and this is relatively

clean corner. so. oh, it's not the only change the mining has brought about nina explains. she used to be able to catch fish with her apron in the small stream next to the house. that was a long time ago. to day, the water is black ah. that ball from what own call it's if brown, coal mining actually destroys delays of the surface on denzil fan, the reversible damage has been done on in, of, as it cannot be repaired. and the men of weekly, not even over many centuries an issue. but because the vegetation takes thousands of years to develop with your new buy yet towers in the yahoo, that 1000 and because the extractable resources underneath the soil of the tiger, a rush is most important source of income besides coal. there are also oil deposits

in the tiger. in 2020 russia was the world's 2nd largest oil exporter with just over 11 percent market share. oil production is a to kill his threat to the tiger. many factories are old and outdated. according to environmentalists, there are around 20000 oil spills the year, like this one in may 2021. an accident in the comi republic in north western russia coast around a 100 tons of oil to be spelled. though? no, this was the greenpeace. thanks. addition, when we came to the site of the latest lake in comb equal these, here is the cold of a river. you wouldn't. and this is the location of the oil spill. it happened right here in the work as a just standing then what are they doing? got the way oil is flowing out of the pipeline. but they just wash it into the river with the pressure washin equal ah,

minus coca rocephin. we've accompanied journalist from norway in germany several times to while fields in siberia, in the taiga, and it was a horrifying experience. then it was very shocking for them. but when we tell them that russia spills $1000000.00 tons of oil every year, they can't believe it. i knew what they needed it. green pace regularly publishes alarming pitches of pollution in the taiga. russia has semester largest oil reserves in the world near the siberian city of norris. another serious disaster occurred in june 202020000 tons of diesel fuel spilled into the am by my i river

the pallet chance operator failed to report the incidence months. the government land debate on line russia's president was furious with the sheet is running mature, which only after 2 days did we hear about the emergency through social media. are you out of your mind still quite yet. this is natalie. these incidents endanger a unique bio tope home to special animals like bass and some parts the refuge to the endangered siberian tiger. ah, it is also the habitat of eurasian links and mace ah, the tiger is doomed by it's whilst of mineral resources in the ranking of the most natural results rich countries. russia comes 1st for diamonds, natural gas,

and brown coal with 59 percent, 24 percent, and 30 percent respectively of the world's deposits. rushes timber industry is also booming. ah, here in yes. so see bisk large quantities of timber, a headed for the wild market surrounded by dense tiger forests. yes. so c bisque is considered the capital of russia's timber industry. dozens of sol, mel's produce up to 3000000 cubic meters of timber here every year. that's around 75000000 pallets. the demand for wood in particular, has grown enormously in recent years. it's a $1000000000.00 business ah.

many previously untouched forest areas and now being targeted by big timber companies. for example, those in the north west of russia, in the ohio risk or blessed loan, protected by its distance from large cities and ports. ah greenpeace video footage shows disastrous developments in many places in the tiger. lodge and t swayed some land eaten away from the landscape being irretrievably destroyed ratios. additionally, in russia clear cutting is allowed, or if that is, that's dozens of heck to is here to severe. imagine this was berlin and areas. the size of whole neighborhoods were being deforested, wired so he was at the board. if you see this area from space, it's just one be clear cut yet. in fact, there are many of them in a som dealer iq mammogram. some locals, however,

a fighting back the village of upon us we see signs of protest, the cos bus o homeland, not a feeding trough for oligarchs. putin stops the coal chaos in the cas bass, environmental activist until it puts up a post a warning against further deforestation. in upon us, locals activity fight against nearby mining operations. through anton, we meet nikolai montane cough he is an environmental inspector for the municipality of upon us. why nikolai takes us to a sly cape one. it looks as if the trees are being burnt here from underground.

nikolai measures the pollutants and documents the results. oh dear, i knew that all spire, blah blah blah blah blah. you see the trees, jewelled, and humans, they stop growing. i don't know why then the ground beneath them starts burning when and they start to die, jack, and see what you want. last year, these trees were still alive. in this part, you can see gradually how the fires spreads, undergo round, and the trees burn and fall down. this is not and above ground fire is it's all happening on the ground. it is impossible to register all the emissions caused by fires here on the dom furniture memorial. there are probably very, very large amounts of gas harmful compounds from the cockburn's showed about the measurements show 40 different types of gas each and by up clark. i view among the gases emitted a carbon monoxide, hydrogen, hydrogen, so fight, and so for dioxide that's on top of the search and other particles that spread over

large areas of the tiger. the environmental inspector, moons of the consequences that will get through this is what happens when this lag hate weather's for, for the dust blows off the surface and spreads to the surrounding area. settling on villages allows you to say, dust is so fine that new marconi osis or black long has become the miners, occupational hazard, the pool. all this gets into the bodies of people and animals with harmful consequences on health for watch and on. the environment was the orient ah, was osha, sibyl, underground coal fires are a worldwide phenomenon. they can occur in coal stores or in natural deposits,

often via spontaneous combustion. the ground here in qu, spouse can heat up to more than a 170 degrees celsius. in places extinguishing the fire over these large areas would be time consuming and expensive. companies therefore often decide to do nothing. nikolai does a little experiment to show us how hot the ground can get. he cracks and again to a pan and sit down on the rocky ground of the sky cape. after seconds the egg is sizzling. but what may look helpful to campus is actually a great danger to humans and to nature. why is nobody doing any thing about it? mm jennine. what, when i look what was such rooted probably possible. i cannot answer that question for one simple reason to live up because that's a question for the government. we think i myself am also interested in why the government is protecting residence and the thinking so sure decidedly about the

future and what it could bring. oh, so i can't tell you, you stay with the district, young woman, i treated for the local sy, capes of the worst part of coal mining. it's estimated that in the kim year of our region alone, around $3000000000.00 tons of waste material a produced annually for every ton of coal. 10 tons of waste produced the destruction of whole swathes of land. and of course, the devastating release of seo to contribute to the acceleration of climate change . russia's government and energy companies prefer not to talk about this. and critical inquiries are unwelcome. the local authorities are alarmed by our research. a whole convoy of observers follows us wherever we go, the message we have you in our sites

at dinner. a large contingent of officials approaches that the restaurant they forbid else from filming further commitment to the environmental cause can be dangerous in russia, several environmentalists have had to leave the country hong alexandra carol eva from callian ingram has applied for asylum in germany and now lives in dresden, in 2019 fife, criminal charges were brought against the environmental activist who faces 2 years in prison. the reason can leave us involvement in the environmental organisation, eco defense. ah,

so talk to you soon. unfortunately, it's becoming more and more dangerous for activists in russia of the state, which apparently feels threatened by such people. d is doing everything. it can to prevent it were when the shots new laws are being passed. well, no punishments are being toughened on the go. so that means you risk several years in prison just for taking part in a rally level, which is it a missile? yes, the gallium, pico defense is one of the oldest environmental ngo's in russia. in killeen grad, it was able to prevent the construction of a new nuclear power plant. in the cruise past starts of a new coal mine the results, criminal litigation, members of ico defense are now considered enemy agents. ah, it was a shipper. we didn't have it in the voy,

from time to time. ego defense manages to get state decisions overturned and i think that makes governments pretty angry, sta in by. oh boy, it's clear that the authorities want to punish us. close us down. did you dissolve the organization and sweep us away? heavy though we no longer exist at home of the law in foreign agencies was passed in russia in 2014, comfortable. but it's a repressive law designed to shut the mouths of the most well known and successful organizations. differing his utsa our research continues in the north said the christmas region here lies the homeland of another indigenous people. we meet vasily to dish, if one of the approximately 3000 tilly woods who have lived in the tiger for centuries. the seeley is a farmer and whose brita, following the tradition of his people was,

are we are no matter the scope of cattle. great is it horses are our main helpers in horse made is the national dish for us tele renewal. the glue of granular, the small nomadic people were displaced also by mining till you'd settlements surrounded or separated from each other by the pits of the strip mines. the ceiling wants to show us another part of his posture lands which can only be accessed through the site of the energy company which brought up this land pulled for vasily . this is difficult to back. there's roy one will go up to paula. thou must as inch the other way back there are al lance. there is our land who you're my private property for and you conscious go to these fields, look around or 10 to them. so you have to get a passer get commission before the gods about the barrier. that's

a violation of human rights, is the more luxury, virtually on the horizon, we see the dust cloud from a destination in the strip mine shortly after security godson uniforms from the coal company block our journey onwards. wanting to prevent us from documenting the destruction of the postulates. mm. there are long negotiations. phone calls to higher authorities. ah, we also didn't from filming father showing the ruthless exploitation of facilities grazing land is therefore not possible. ah, you're able to go through this with these conflict situations happen all the time.

oh, i don't blame these gods, stay a just doing their job. the problem is that we didn't violate any things with us. we didn't drive in behind the gods. we drove where everybody drives differently. people need to know where the coal is. mind, how it is mind on what lad and who lives in these areas. this is where the indigenous people of russia lived. oliver and your daughter, brooklyn, or laura bush in. the seely takes us to his farm. at 1st glance, it's it dick bouts just a stone's throw away lies a large sli cape. in many places, the mining leaves nothing behind but a devastated landscape. the prospect song good for the telly youths, the ancient people of southern siberia, risk losing their homeland and culture forever. after the founding of the soviet union in 1922 nomadic peoples light, the tele,

it's was seen by the new rulers as an obstacle to the progress of communism. they were forced to settle down and work in collective farms or factories their ancient shame in a stick. religion was officially band today. the tele, it's no longer threatened by socialist coercion, but instead by the force of capitalists driven environmental destruction. ah, what effect does the tiger by him have on the planet and its inhabitants? since 2006 and international climate research station operated by the max planck institute in gina gemini, has been trying to find out. the main question is to what extent can lodge forest areas slow down? the rise is of c o 2 ah, according to professor martin hyman's team the siberian forests,

a particularly good at this. they function as highly effective carbon sinks. if crumble, households are may shown freshmen dusk at altitude pike from our measurements we determine that the earth's tiger regions, especially in canada and in siberia, of a most important atmospheric carbon sinks in the world. in this sense flies, they play an important role in climate change, hard to if they didn't exist, the rise in temperature would be even more dramatic, launched it the temper or even so global warming is already having serious consequences. forest fires and more and more frequent, such as this one from may 2021 in the, to me, an region of western siberia. $60000.00 tech has a burning nasa satellites document the scale of the fires.

this is an image from the 8th of august 2021 enormous areas of land are in flames. in siberia, the flies thor, the permafrost soil releasing methane gas into the atmosphere. often all it takes is a lightning strike to start a wildfire ah. at the i said vague an institute in potsdam gemini experts, nigelica hat shoe analysis, climate change, and its consequences. hat shoe focuses in particular on the taiga and its annual summer fires. to visualize gotten you typically, especially in these large forest. you would have these ground fires and the trees actually survived. they sprouted again the following year away. but now you see

a lot of areas that have burned so hot at such high temperatures, that the trees of di to bomb up wishful was and ah, in siberia, conniff the trees dominate the landscape. there are 2600000 square kilometers of launch forest alone. experts have found out that for 20000 years, there's been an interaction here between the permafrost soil which traps greenhouse gases and the launch. this is significant for the climate economy as isaac up own country of permafrost. britain boxes, the large is the only tree that can grow on permafrost. soils in permafrost. soil thaws 10, sometimes 20 or 30 centimeters in the summer. metal that is not very much my and such a huge tree. 30 to 40 meters high, has to establish its routes. and the large can do that until like which creates an

interesting interaction. when it grows out it's canopy off. it insulates the soil and so so, so that he doesn't penetrate into at least a won't and playing. when this natural shielding is missing, the consequences can be felt like at the butter geico crater in the northeast in siberian. taiga. it's the largest known depression caused by climate change. the crater is about one kilometer long and a 100 meters deep. after clearing the forest as a result of road construction, the shielding effect is lost and the permafrost thaws. ah, who could cause i? where are the steps at the moment in the moonlight in mongolia his were historically there were large for christy settling on the step was filled with large forests on permafrost. hm. and today they're gone. they're just

a typical step landscapes. looks and that's one that could well be what happens in eastern seberio kind of whole areas of land already irreversibly. last one example is lake cut. a chai in the chill. yeah. been screeching for decades. it was a lethal radioactive dump. fed with waste by a nearby nuclear weapons factory, long to give some form of protection to humans and nature. the lake was filled with concrete and covered. yet another example of the destruction of the tiger ecosystem . 0, one in the tissue as they are, the destruction is real. and there are already some sections of the taiga that have basically collapsed. they have hardly any biodiversity left and, and now generators of 0 to the office. so cranford. see what's why gordon's with the taiga,

fascinating and seemingly infinite. but that said, deception. humans are on the brink of destroying the balance in this vast ecosystem for ever. through greed for resources, toxic waste, and via human caused climate change. for the huge forest in the north, the countdown has started. ah ah ah, in a globalized world, where everything is connected, all it takes is a short time to set things in motion. local hero show how their ideas can change the world

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