this i take you out to berlin, you folk and rain instead of snow, while by no means comparable to the humanitarian disasters caused by global warming around the world. the current state of european ski slopes is yet another sign that the climate emergency affects all of us. and that's all the nice, the now coming up next on the channel, a doc film episode looks at russia's largest forest, the tiger in distress. the co frolic will be back after that. with more news, i'm anthony held in berlin. fidel stay with us. departure into the unknown. to day. this means flying to a foreign planet. in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route. but jillions journey around the world starts january

19th on dw blue for the tiger, a massive ecosystem home to many species of animals and plants. it's philologist cannot forest forest on those, as i know, i seen 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 sit there alt this siberian forest acts as a lung for the earth at it. 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's after the destruction is real and there are already some sections of the tiger that have basically collapsed. um awesome. oh, good, could put a dense impenetrable forest. an almost mythical concept in russian culture crew space. 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 angola, 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. yeah, because the music will go anywhere 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. wisko dorothy was the best de la mancha rosena when baker la just let him know 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, its character and submit to it your long it'll, cutty circle. i missed him. when you chose to intervals. 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 aetna, 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 leg. 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 bianca 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 faraway 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 bio diversity here is unmatched at this latitude. ah. yet 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 life of the season. say you changes yahoo! it's a spectacle of incredible beauty. all our debt is when i know globally for shewn hide all hone island on lake by kyle, the rock formations. the 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 plan that had thought aim was bits at the, the trampled soil, the trash on the shores getting into the water and what we see it hit the switch, nav ward, the cuts even the sewage and ending up in the lation of war there. ah, these are the main factors, hemoglobin in bi sincere, these things are changing to landscape. that owns touched now would then give them all set for decades. this factory was the most serious polosa of lake by kyle, the by koski pulp and paper. mel 1st opened in 1966 because the cellulose was this cent chauffeur 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 knows. 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 promises 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 dump. 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 pol 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 before that there was the kyoto

protocol which we took part in the such me studios may we have made serious commitments that do not only match but even surpassed the european union in terms of emission reductions. oh, be almost new renewables doesn't know yona. so huge expenses, skeptical that such words will be acted upon. putin makes no mention of the endangered tiger. the wealth, 3rd largest coal exporter, russia. sauce is over half of its coal from the cook spots regional nature has had to make way for coal mines here for decades and, and elementary am, 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, alexei 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 wastewater 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 them. 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 matter, but he, i knew the water here used to be crystal clear. i love facial surgery, us america, chicklow or or when the mining started, the water turned black from the call. yes, live near i insure,

magneer will in the old days, you could see every stone, every grain of sand for future. now when you dip your hand into the river, 10 to 15 centimeters in, you can't see it anymore. keep your last different jamie up or, or not in your your, this is what strip mining does. we have leona or 3 of my but she more at the place horrid level down. why is that like this up? because in my opinion, absolutely no environmental protection measures are being observed or 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 large 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 shows forest. seemingly out of nowhere, the tiger turns into a lunar landscape. with 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 200-2400 1000000 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 bumps for the indigenous population. it spells disaster. oh, they're in chest. so hardly hud in far away. moscow left shorts of a boat that admired the mulatto marcial, or at the look for the shows. this is our home lead. it is a pot of our being overcharged when people are torn away from the ancestral land and him and thrown somewhere else. it's like, their words are 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. assure village once stood right here on this my cape. ah,

we continue to key, said he of sc a small town in the cris bass region. he had the pollution cannot be ignored. a truck is spreading coal dust all over the landscape. he said he of sc 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 for i see, excuse me, this is absolutely illegal. normative, according to russian regulations, the distance between strip mines and residential buildings should be at least 1000 meters and oscar. however, this regulation is not followed anywhere in the course boscus and especially not here. and kisa yields gifts here, and there are 90000 people living here. either they all have to be relocated, or the coal mining has to stall that are both strip mining in the cris bass, a $1000000000.00 business for the states and the operating company. it's the areas, largest employer, but it comes at a great cost to the house of those living that oh, city at noon. on average, no less than $3000000000.00 tons of waste material accumulate on such dumps in the cameo of a 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 a study in 2021 on the health impact of coal mining on the region cold raced to the bottom. life expectancy and the crews bass smacked 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 get sick more often and die younger than in the rest of russia. no official figures on this were made available to us. nina grigory 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, dark grey deposit saw evidence of the nearby strip mine was facing the air has changed. your bush were constantly breathing in the dust. in the past, ernest, 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. they are these photos showing the toxic black snow of the coast best region. even in summer, everything is covered in suits. it clings to the locals, her clothes and hands needed to you see if i've been picking grass for the rabbits. look, if the grass were clean, what my hands look like this cheese fit. cough this is 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 on call. it's if brown, coal mining actually destroys delays of the surface on denzil fan, the reversible damage has been done. i'd in as if it cannot be repaired and the men of, with the not even over many centuries an issue. but because the vegetation takes thousands of years to develop with your new by yet towers and the yahoo, that 1000 and because the extractable results is underneath the soil of the tiger. a rush is most important source of income besides coal. there 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 particular 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 and comb equal these, here is the cova river, you wouldn't. and this is the location of the oil spill. it happened right here in the work as a just a standing then what are they doing? got the oil is flowing out of the pipeline or they just wash it into the river with

the pressure washin. you're cool. ah, monica ross was. 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 pictures of pollution in the taiga. russia has some of the largest oil reserves in the world near the siberian city of norris. another serious disaster occurred in june 2020, 20000 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 when you mature would only after 2 days, did we hear about the emergency through social media? are you out of your mind? so why? yes, 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 habitats of eurasian links and mace. ah, the taiga is doomed by its 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 are 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 suede of land eaten away from the landscape. being irretrievably destroyed for i see it was additional in russia clear cutting is allowed or if that is that's dozens of heck to is here after severe imagine this was berlin and areas the size of whole neighborhoods were being deforested, wired so you would have a 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 delia equal moga. 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 cold. chaos in the cool 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'm your vol speier, papa waldrop. while you see the trees don't you much, they stop growing like a y than the ground beneath them stotts 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 fire spreads under round and the trees burn and fall down. this is not and above ground fire is it's all happening underground. 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 just senior 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 taiga. the environmental inspector, mourns of the consequences that we'll 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 fix my 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 held 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 cy 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 we'll need a quote for such a bug middle support. i cannot answer that question for one simple reason not 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 are so short decidedly about the future and what it could bring. oh, so i can't tell you. you strengthen your strict young woman. i treated for the local psy 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 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 approach us at 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 calin 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 to g 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 a missile. yes, the field eco defense is one of the oldest environmental ngo's in russia. in clinton grad. it was able to prevent the construction of a new nuclear power plant in the ku spa, stotts of a new coal mine. the results, criminal litigation, new members of ico defense are now considered enemy agents. ah,

because i hipaa wouldn't have given you the voice from time to time. ego defense manages to get state decisions overturned and i think that makes governments pretty angry. sta ear by. oh, boy is clear that the authorities wants to punish us. close us down to dissolve the organization and sweep us away. heaviest though we no longer exist at one 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. following his osa our research continues in the north said the christmas region here lies the homeland of another indigenous people. we meet the ceiling tow dish, if one of the approximately 3000 tilly woods who have lived in the tiger for centuries. the seni is a farmer and whose brita, following the tradition of his people. was,

are we a nomad scope of cattle? great is it losses our main helpers and horse made is the national dish for us tele renewal. the duluth 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. for vasily, this is difficult to bat dansville oil one will go up to paula the luscious industry of the way. in fact there are al lance. there is our land who you're my private property and you conscious go to these fields, look around or tend to them, so you have to get a passer get commission before the gods open up the barrier. that's

a violation of human rights is the more luxury, but actually on the horizon we see the dust cloud from a to nation in the strip mine ah, shortly after security godson uniforms from the coal company block or journey onwards. wanting to prevent us from documenting the destruction of the posture lands. mm. there are long negotiations. phone calls to higher authorities. ah, we also didn't from filming father with showing the ruthless exploitation of facility grazing land is therefore not possible. ah. your little girl figures are these conflict situations happen all the time?

a lot, i don't blame these gog 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 dear daughter, brooklyn, or laurel bushy. the sealy takes us to his farm. at 1st glance. it's it, dick. that's just a stone's throw away lies a large slag 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 collect farm, so factories ah, their ancient shaminy stick. religion was officially band today. the toilets and 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 yona, gemini, has been trying to find out. the main question is to what extent can lodge forest areas slow down the rise of c o 2. according to professor martin hyman's

team the siberian forests, a particularly good at this. they function as highly effective carbon sinks. if current buffalo households are may shown fresh trim, just get out if you target from our measurements, we determined 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, life, they play an important role in climate change, hard to if they didn't exist, the rise in temperature would be even more dramatic onto 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 in region of western siberia. $60000.00 tech has a burning nasa satellite stock came at the scale of the fires.

this is an image from the 8th of august 2021 enormous areas of land are in ah, in siberia, the flyers thought the permafrost soil releasing methane gas into the atmosphere. often all it takes is a lightning strike to start a wildfire ah, at the unshared ve gonna institute in potsdam gemini experts, nigelica hat shoe analysis, climate change, and its consequences. hat shoe focuses in particular on the taiga and it's annual, some of fires. supervisor cotton, the 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 dye to boil marquisha was and, ah, in siberia, conus, the trees dominate the landscape. there are 2600000 square kilometers of larch, 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 a home 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, middle. 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 lisa golden 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 forests session. that of the step was filled with large forests on permafrost. hm. and today they're gone. they're just typical step landscape. looks

and that's one that could well be what happens in eastern siberia 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 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 tiger that have basically collapsed. they have hardly any biodiversity left and, and now generators don't 0 to the office for credit. 50 with why gordon's in the taiga, fascinating, and seemingly infinite,

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