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thousands of species are threatened by human activity, including some we've taken for granted for long and now need our help to survive. hello and welcome to eco india. i'm sons that we start in southern india with a tiny mammal called the madras hedgehog, lord, locally as a pony rat, the animal survives primarily on insects. and as such is a natural ally of farmers. but in recent decades, it's populations have suffered a dramatic decline. we met a conservationist who's working to bring them back from the brink. ah, my que does very cute knows just keeps dancing. robin come out is talking about this dining moment. the my doesn't tug and he's like, isn't it? it is pretty cute. it plays an important role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem like being, in fact, population under control. unfortunately,

though, with every passing decade, its numbers are rapidly declining. i mean, i don't know, but that under species has faced local extinction across 32 places in some in larger, recently people last saw he talks 5 years ago and revenue come out of my life who has been gathering information on them and does a job of 18 districts and his contribution journey began in 2012 during his 1st encounter with them. and as a child for you, how could i go to look at it and see that it looks like a small cushion while i talk about is this what it is. and then i want to really approach me at the main and i sit down next to it and i made my decision. i made this my purpose because i felt an urge to protect this patient in the family. the mother had told them to make the southern india and is one of the 17 species of jokes in the entire world to do my next question to me region, but i wouldn't associate of the nation fee in service during the day and 42 years at night i would go a little but doesn't to for

a made of shrubs or dense trees on open dust plans like this. it's natural habits. lastly, and some of the natural hybridity for in the market is like, you have change over the past 3040 years, not going to buy to subject to people's changing need for roads and plantation events to monitor. but when they're gone, change this animal has nowhere to go and has faced local expansion out in those places. and the very roots that got through these glass lamps also end up being a direct talks. they walk on to the road and lead to absorb as much heat as possible. this advent of us can heat ends up, but new little hedgehogs being run by, they called the monolith hendricks are highly sensitive, even if he has the slightest sound, even at the drop of a pin. what did it do? it quickly to stand the cells and goes up into a ball. this is abundant. what the dog sees as a defense mechanism. humans, he has a weakness. and the best way to understand how a way to wanted to reach out to people directly. i am not going to reverend again,

only conduct service as a part of businesses to help and gather evidence from people who just put medicine . yes, the ourselves have used it for children and me and my father had issues with his bias. we burned it's spying on goal and he inhaled the smoke 9. many will is people have 100 full and he talks and do the do this in your town. and yes, they catch and eat them all, but they usually come together in doors or 3 as a group. yes, the little ones ran away, but we got the big one watched on the la her career to the boy learn. so need to see how it looks beautiful. let's take one and go the much. but if to do that, the others and little ones that are dependent on that family are done with their lives over the list of threats mentioned so far. from humans alone, for the species with an average lifespan of 3 to 5 years, ensuring itself, i will, under such circumstances is an impossible task. but robin believe the best place to

started with the younger generation. what a lot of in a school games in 100 schools so far, the market places where he talks are really belongs with maps and shoes. schools near those locations, look out what's going on. why do people have superstitions one back in the days? people hate on to believes like if i eat this animal, my disease will be cured. wrap up. even though hunting is a concept no longer exists in the world. there superstitions, what has not left them when it comes to invoking a sense of urgency in relative conservation. making an impact at a community level is a much harder task than conducting programs in schools. but i've been collaborates with don't been tired and organized as buffy. charles, doing well look of in the conservation process. and what other than a powerful storytelling technique to glass people's attention. for

the ah, this is what they call a more lily. do you know what people do? they hunt for it and are destroying it yet they already do it fine. instead of conveying it as a boarding, scientific subject, if we presented in a fun v did the, the real federal law, they are able to understand it easy. the while working with the locals bravo emphasizes on how intake the sites are detrimental to the survival of hedgehogs, as they are predominantly infect to us, and bryan's efforts are being off. what's a pledge holds out a family friend, the eat insects that protect our crops. it's beneficial for farming money, or they live, and then for the dental don't catch our kids hedgehogs just leave them b and let them do produce the into man. oh, bottom that on the woody to one that i saw a hedgehog walking on top of her up. any wonder why i carefully placed it in

a cavity under there. oh, i program this on linda boating also. so i like we do and also the number that i've been wanting to inquire about from the local to pipe is patients and protecting small mammals. suggesting mendoza chug is nothing short of a necessity but to make an impact on the ground. and so, just like bremen, the quite a cognition from stakeholders who are in a position of power, even almost an hour. if i say i wish to do research and he talks and have a proposal ready? can you give me some funds to think he chokes? it becomes a block for them on them. so only if i try some 15 or 20 times 11 or 2 grants get expected to refer to grounds and look up target balance that says combined with input from volunteers is our social media. i show the presence of a job in 400 places across 23 districts and tom and he believes there's more to be done as a my does. hatcher isn't listed under any show you in the violent addiction of india. in fact, the world's largest environments networks, the international union for conservation of nature, has still listed the medicine drug as a species of these cancer. and one of the main reasons is because there isn't

enough data. if you fill out the opinion that large animals are more important than smaller ones, both important point good on the are all dependent on each other. so he talks are important as the play an important role in the food chain, which and the level one of fungus blevins goal is to create the contribution action plan for small. mom was just my doctor talk the show the local and national government institutions to gather more data and continue communicating with the public to make them in a safe space for well, that was a the in this river dolphin proved to be a master of survival. 50000000 years ago, when the c inhabited, dried up, adapted to the river, that was only the meaning habitat. only more recently to become one of the world's most threatened mammals. as reporter took a look at the challenges facing the very animal in focused on ah,

the, in this is one of the longest on the ation subcontinent. it's been home to red industry of a dolphin. for centuries. oil here in pakistan, nevada. we'd love to watch them die. me, but i did about dolphins in this bad idea. when they were water level is low, it become easier to support them in the slow moving water was as hello bonnie man. he was on the, on the colonial. a corvette raj has 7 that indicate millions of acres of food and cash crops in sin, province. nazareth milanni grew up here. as a boy, he and his father joined dolphin rescue operations and

in delight, 100 seventies, he assisted italian naturalists, georgia of clarity, and as to search on industry were dolphins. the enemy, he minute micro bought l, i do have a vehicle. i was 8 years old at the time when my father had a lady in his research on the dolphin, he praised my father. knowledge about the animal, came down to the body, may he some mom for peter t and get yana in the local language. cindy industry or dolphins. i know that dad also called blind dolphins because they rely on the sense of hitting, rather than sight de navigate the river sandy water using eco location, the photos of them. they actually have the tiny little pinhole where, where i would normally be it just something that has evolved over time. because if

you see that in the, is very serving and full impediment. so it actually looks like teeth, like china, use the location so they make noise to navigate, to find out about their environment to find fish. and so that they don't actually need over the course of millions of years. they blocked used to, but i because they've developed them, which is even better don't than habit it became pigmented to the construction of bet rogers can finding them to a fraction of their former range. their numbers have dwindled to just to 1000, putting them on the i use, he ends read, list of endangered fishes. made up per cent. and his team vote for the sin by life department. they'd ask you, dolphins that becomes tended and can as while searching for food. after tricky to

ask your patient, data turned the endangered animals to the main channel and therefore you prefer to bring the dalton up to the surface so it can take a bradley cause it can only go without oxygen for a short while. sometimes we must move adults and after the rescue, and during that time it could have a heart attack. same about that. it would that i school me don't and also accurate from the effects of climate change and contamination from urban and industrial v. as the effort of local and international conservationists have begun to make a difference in this actually is one of the positive story will do many, many threats. despite that the numbers are going up. but i think that more needs to be done in terms of controlling and pollution and trying to limit especially

industrial pollution that ends up in the river. this is the combo and also impacts on equity. busy long term measures i needed to consider the industry was ecosystem, and biodiversity. and to ensure that it's dolphins don't disappear since they can be found novia elsewhere. growing up your moon by. i remember the battle floating in and out through the windows of my childhood, who though the one of the most common animals in the world showed him india battles have become harder to sport me to cities, towns or the countryside conservation is said that he has come up with a solution to boost their numbers. and it's not just the book who can benefit. you mean, you know, you say that are my god, the federal because we do, we all know all over the place. sometimes the most common birds are the ones that

are the ones that just as a feel completely. randy law is an author of children's books who lament the lord is a parent of the friendly house battle. but it was nice to my balcony. 2 bed, 2 families of a journey fighting like the football better. some new husband as i think, somebody as his wife. and if i do it, it was it was a white, amusing to watch, but also disappeared. sparrows have severely declined, especially in towns and cities across the world, which is a cause for concern. the port suggest that generally up to 80 percent of birds have vanished from some urban areas of the country and even gone locally extinct in others. ecologist, so he'll madden points out a few reasons for this by those like living close to june beings. in the day,

most recent history, we were living at houses which were accessible. it was already conditioned, air died leaving not so much pollution. so you your, we were not so separated with outside world and those battle axes inside the houses to mignon. there are 2 other big problems as towns and cities don't have green flying around like they used to. and packaging has improved sparrows cannot feed on what might have fallen on the ground. a bigger killer might be best to favor use around the city. these chemicals have killed off, in fact, the main food source 1st battle chicks to the area. the insect v battled the order of battle doesn't have high rubin ditch food to feed to the chicks. but the chicks are going up. they eat massive amounts of food, and this have food has to be provided by the parents. i'd gotten

smith's battle as small as they are out, an incredibly important part of the ecosystems, the feed on insect and act as a natural pest control to, as their numbers have declined. in some areas in sec, numbers have increased and crops can be at risk. it level cascading effect to the ecosystem. do we have an example of in china declared to of min and, and there was rewards for killing sparrows. and then there was massive shortage in 340 years. the massive shortage of greens. so the ecosystem disconnected. so they had food shortages because they started getting sparrows. but a few box and deli are putting in the effort to support the birds. the goody monday . safety for us in eas, daily's, one since 2022. the daily for us department has been working on around one and

a half acres of forest. you're creating a unique quote for the little bird. good idea, graham as it is called translates to a village. what house battles? but the battles we did, a few instinct hotels, these are such as will be walden, me induced, are in 6 to make their home. and this is a ready supply of insects for breeding. a sparrows which are bleeding in the nest that we have made. battles need space to fly over short distances. and the thief bes here gives them the turns to also fly from good. i as ramp to the fringes of the city outside. another is the avenue biodiversity park on the other side of delhi, where around 40 acres of forest land has been turned into us battle guns of eatery . this is the one on the glass species are the data of the hospital

depend upon there, there in the pollen seats and sometimes they feed on the typical glass go on the parts also of disguised species. so they provide a very good motel for the full model of the hospitals. doctors will san is a virus live ecologist at the park who is in charge of providing specials with what they need, including food and shelter hospital with the same edinburg. and they require a quote on a paradox in the album or the why lord defaulted hybrids. so we have given this space for them as a semi urban a hospitals where you have the feeding divided middlebury club and the building a space. how do you have the building or devices? so where did they got on foot board? the things they thought of i did a graph, the level of their life is spent over the last 15 years, dr. hussain says, the house battle population has been growing locally. at the beginning. they were confined in pockets,

but today they can be cited all over the park. the park also has was agnes. so in them category within for they will be fairly so they are improving and it really were many good. listen, i'm wondering about this given. 4 i've seen 200 in a one time bucket. not too heavy dad's in urban forest are vital interventions in cities that, that rapidly modernizing. it will take a continued effort from initiatives like these before the battle truly becomes our friendly neighborhood again. well, no doubt. those battles would enjoy a tasty wool, but in many places it's an underground trees that's not so easy to find. it also in salvation and contamination, are destroying soil, fertility threatening, not just op one population, but also our food security. our next report shows how my groups could help roubles

. the damage won't be ardini, basically either disjoined, the soil date is it now and not renewable at a resort. christina cruz specializes in the interactions between plants, soil, and microbes. what we have been doing so far during the last decade, jawandra is maybe ease to use soils as a substrate to grow plan. we've been under valuing them and expecting them to stay healthy, but tilling over using chemicals and climate change are harming our soils. this is a problem for growing food, as well as resources for clothing in construction. soil is also key to storing carbon and filtering water to make sales healthy again, we need to start seeing them is what they are. entire ecosystems teeming with hidden life. i'll run by my groups. a healthy soil will have a diversity of microbes. the most common ones are bacteria and fungi. one of their

most important jobs is transforming nutrients. every single nutrient cycle on the planet is mostly driven by my. jennifer wood has a background in soil microbial ecology and studies how microbes affect ecosystems. none of these cycles really exist in a vacuum. they all into linked. one of those new chance i goals is with carbon. plants and animals are made mostly of carbon. and when they die, they're broken down by micros. no microbes, no decomposition. another nutrients i glad nitrogen, which makes most of the air around us and is one of the main nutrients plants used to grow. plants can't get it from the air by themselves, so they partner with microbes, microbes specifically fund guy, also exchange other nutrients of plants. they very fine routes called hifi. the intertwined themselves with the roots of the plant. a fondness is really good at

releasing things like phosphorus, phosphate from souls, which is half the plan's together. so it does that and exchanges that we're in return for things like sugars which the crack in my 3 ferguson. there's also some evidence this relationship makes the plant more able to withstand drought and disease in a degraded soil. these new chant cycles aren't working as well as they could be. climate change is one cause of degrading soils with drought and extreme weather, causing them to dry out in a road intensive. agriculture can be another cause as pesticides, and irv asides kill off beneficial microbes and reduce their activity. the more degraded soil is the more chemicals are needed to grow stuff degrading this while even further even though different parts of the world have very different soils. one thing all degraded agricultural souls have been. comment is that they're susceptible to disease. degraded soils also lose their ability to hold in filter water are more susceptible to erosion and have less of those beneficial microbes,

meaning plants don't grow as well. but soil health is about more than just our food security, boil communities, and so health is actually the foundation of all ecosystems, but natural and man, hey, if the foundation of something crumbles, everything else comes tumbling down. no till agriculture. leave soil undisturbed, which allows the microbes living inside the clamps to thrive. specifically those fund guy, high feet, which are important for soil structures. there can be a kilometer of them and a gram of soil and cover crops planted to leave in the ground. provide micros of carbon to chow down on, as well as reduce erosion and nutrient los well and encourages those fungal microbes to grab. it can also be made into a liquid fertilizer. this compost t concentrates microbes into a form that can be sprayed on fields. unfortunately, this kind of farming just isn't possible everywhere. you can do it. that's

fantastic. ease warped, we warms that the blower, amazing did vast the mountain areas where the soil is so degraded that these techniques on halting now. you can recover the soil in your time. here's room microbes come in, our larger scale. the most common use is, is bio fertilizers. they used like chemical base fertilizer, except they contain fungi or bacteria. a problem with commercial microbial products is that the microbes are not specifically adapted to environment. non native microbes could find it hard to survive, rendering the process useless. and because these are living organisms, they could cause an imbalance in the micro biome. disease. something we really have to, to taking concentration, especially li fungi because they spread faster and they are more easily. cindy sank. since soils are different around the world,

we would ideally develop microbial products for specific regions. but that will take time and more research. unfortunately, our soil health is an emergency. we are going to need needs because we actually cover soils in the sees the cheapest way to do recovery because we are covering them while we are maintaining productivity to for large farms. bio fertilizers are a step above chemicals and where possible. agriculture that relies on helping native microbes like on this farm is the way to go. human beings are the top of the food chin. this was a shame, comes with responsibility. it falls upon us to maintain the balance in our ecosystem. if we don't stop over using the resources we've been provided and refused to stepping to protect species, while, while notable nature will have to step in, we're already seeing this happen in many parts of the world. think about what you

can do to course correct before it's too late. i'll see you again next week. good bye. and thanks for watching. ah. with, [000:00:00;00]

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