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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 m address hedgehog, lord, locally. as a pony rat, the animal survives primarily on insect, 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 as talking about this tiny moment that my doesn't tug and his date isn't it. it is pretty cute. it plays an important role in maintaining a healthy, closer to like keeping into populations under control. unfortunately, though, with every passing decade, its numbers are rapidly declining. i mean, i don't know,

but that species has faced local extinction across 32 places in law. do recently on the last saw, he talks 5 years ago and revenue come out as a wireless who has been gathering information on my does a child of 18 districts and not his contribution journey began in 2012 during his 1st encounter with them. and as a child for 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? i'm the 11 to approach me at the main and i sit down next to it. and then i made my decision. i made this matter of because i felt an urge to protect this patient in the family. the mendez had told them to make the southern india, and there's one of the 17 species of hedgehogs in the entire world to do my next question to me region. but i went in associate of initial fee in service during the day and $42.00 weeks at night. article a little by doesn't differ a yahoo made of shrubs or dense friesland opened das lands like this on its natural

habit. roslyn felt a natural, heavy duty, st. martinez, like these have changed over the past 3040 years. luckily by the subject to people's changing needs for roads and g. plantation event and took a market with constant change. this animal has nowhere to go and has faced local extension in those places. in the very roads that got through these glass lamps also end up being a threat to head talks. they walk on to the road and lay there to observe as much heat as possible. this advent of asking heat ends up with numerous hedgehogs being run over by. they called lamar lily release hedgehogs are highly sensitive, even the tears the slightest sound, even the drop of a pin. what does it do? it quickly disdained itself and goes up into a ball, this in abundance. what items, what the head talks is of the defense mechanism, human t, as a weakness. and the best way to understand how when weight is hunted, is to reach out to people directly. i, on not only are you in the vocal revenue regularly conduct service as a part of visitors to help and gather evidence from people. had oxford medicine san

yes, the ourselves have used it for children. and when my father had issues with his piles, we burned it spines on gold, and he in here the smoke 9 many with his people have hunted fall and eaten. he talks, not only do they do this in your town, yes, they catch and eat them all, but they usually come together in dues or 3 as a group. one. yes, the little ones ran away, but we got the big one was done. they only allow her to go there to play lunch. people say no, he choked, looks beautiful. let's stick one and go the much. but if the do that the others and little ones that are dependent on that family are done with their lives are all working with the list of threats mentioned so far as from humans alone, for the species with an average lifespan of just 3 to 5 years. ensuring of survival under such circumstances isn't an impossible task. but robin believes the best place to start is with the younger generation. what

a lot to we have in this little grams into a 100 schools so far as alady marketplace is where he talks out available on google maps and choose schools in the of those locations wondering look, i wanna go to the wrong thing. good. why do people have superstitions back in the days? people held on to believes like if i eat this animal, my disease will be cured up. i mean, even though hunting as a concept no longer exist on their superstitions, what has not left them when it comes to in looking a sense of urgency in my live contribution 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 i? it's an organizers bob rituals, doing world 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 already do it at united fine. instead of conveying it as a boarding scientific subject, if we presented in our fun v, the, the real favorite, i love the, are able to understand it easily. while working with the locals. bravo emphasizes on how insect the sites are detrimental to the survival of her talks, as they are predominantly infect to us. and, but i'm going to put up being off with a pledge hogs out of farmers, friends, the eat insects that protect our crops. so it's beneficial for farming or the low and then for the little those don't catch our kids hedgehogs just leave them b and let them do produce evidence. and then i'll bottom out on awarded one of those that i saw hedgehog working on top of her up. any wonder why i carefully used it in a cavity under the program. so i'm going to both and also so i like we do the normal

doesn't want to call the local part of patients and protecting small mammals. mendoza chug is nothing short of a necessity but to make an impact on ground. so just like grabbing the clerical mission from stakeholders who are in a position of power when i'm with that now, if i say, i wish to do research and he talks and have a proposal ready, how can you give me some funds getting choked? it becomes a block for them on them, so only if i try some 15 or 20 times one or 2 grants get except 50 grand cinema, got cryptography balance that says combined with input from one into our social media. i show the presence of a job in $400.00 places across $23.00 districts and tom, and he believes there's more to be done as a my does drug 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 mendosa job 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 are important for my solo good. the are all dependent on each other. so he talks are important as the plea kim and important role in the food chain, which and the level one of fungus blevins goal is to create the contribution action plan for small mammals such as from a dr truck, they show the local and national government institutions to gather more data and continue communicating with the public to make them a safe space for wild animals. ah, the in this river dolphin proved to be a master of survival. 50000000 years ago when to see it inhabited, dried up, adapted to the rivers that would only be meaning habitat, only more recently to become one of the world's most threatened mammals. i report i took a look at the challenges facing this very animal in pakistan. ah,

the in this is one of the longest reverse on the ition subcontinent. it's been home to red industrial dolphins for centuries. spoil in pakistan, know the me, i need love to watch them dive me but i did about 30 dolphins in this bad idea. when the water level is low, it becomes easier to support them in the slow moving water. your body may have come to you and the colonial bed. raj has 7 that indicate millions of acres of food and cash crops in sin province. nas mcdonny grew up here as a boy, he and his father joined dolphin rescue operations. and in the 900 seventy's, he assisted italian naturalist,

georgia clarity. and as to search on industry were dolphins. he minute micro board, 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 pleased my father did knowledge about the animal, came down and bought a man. he the mom for peter t and get yana in the local language. cindy industrial contents are known as dead on so called blind don fence because they rely on the sense of hitting rather than sight navigate the river, then the water using eco location. if you see photos of them, they actually have the tiny little pinhole. where, wherein i would normally be it just something that has evolved over time. because if you see that in the is very clothing and it's full. and so it actually looks

like teeth like china, use a location. so they make noise like click to navigate, to find out about their environment to find fish. and so that they don't actually need over the course of maybe it was a lot to use. i because they've developed them, which is even better don't than habit it became pigmented to the construction of better. i just can finding them to a fraction of the former range. their numbers have dwindled to just to 1000. putting them on the i, you see ends read, list of endangered fishes, made up of san taco and his team vote for the sin by life department. they'd ask you, dolphins that becomes tended and cannot. while searching for food. after tricky to ask your patient,

data turned the endangered animals to the main to shannon ballet focus. 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 of tech 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 b. as the efforts of local and international conservationists have begun to make a difference in this actually is one of the red positive dory will do a mini mini threat despite the numbers going on. but i think that needs to be done in terms of controlling and pollution and trying to limit especially the industrial pollution that ends up in the river. this is the time

combo and also impacts on every. 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. growing up here, remember 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 the 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 to say that or my god, the pharaohs because we all know all over the place. sometimes the most common birds are the ones that are the ones that just 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, to bed of 2 families of a journey fighting like little opera. some new husband is i think somebody is his wife. and if i do it, it is it doesn't quite 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 ports 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 here madison points out a few reasons for this. by those like living close to june beings in the vine, most recent history. we were living at houses which were accessible. it was loaded

condition, air died leaving not so much pollution. so you your, we were north 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 insect the main food source 1st battle chicks to the areas. in 63 battled orders battled doesn't have high rubin ditch food to feed to the chicks. but the jacks are growing up. they eat up massive amounts of food. and this have food has to be provided by the parents. i'd gotten

smith's paddles small as they are out, an incredibly important part of the ecosystems they feed on insects 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 level. cascading effect to the ecosystem. do we have an example of angina to get rid of min and, and there was rewards for killing specials. and then there was massive shortage in $340.00 in the massive shortage of greens. so the ecosystem is connected. 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 ease daily's one since 2022. the daily, for us department has been working on around one and a half acres of forest here, creating a unique quote for the little bird. good idea, graham,

as it is called drunk leads to a village. what house battles of the battles being dude. a few instinct as these are structures with b walden. we induce the insects to make their home and this is a ready supply of insects for breeding sparrows which are bleeding in the nest that we have made. battles need speeds to fly over short distances. and the thief bees here gives them the turns to also fly from good. i yog 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 cans of eatery . this is the one of the glass species are the dates of the hospital depend upon there, there in the pollen seats. and sometimes they fried on the typical grass. go on the

parts also of disguised species. so they provide a very good motel for the full model of the hospitals. dr. hussain is a wildlife ecologist at the park who is in charge of providing battles with what they need, including food and shelter, hospital the same edinburgh, and then a clarity caught on a paradox in the album, or the why lord defaulted habitats. so we have given this space for them as the semi urban a hospitals where you have the feeling divided middle, the required and the building a space. here you have the building or devices. so do 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 if they're going to go to within for they will be fairly, so they're improving and it really were many good. listen, i'm wondering about this given. 4 i've seen 201 time in pockets not to have the dad's in urban forest are vital interventions in cities that are 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 sparrows will enjoy a tasty one, but in many places it's an underground treat that's not so easy to find. it also insemination and contamination are destroying soil fertility, threatening not just off one population, but also our food security. our next report show how my crew could help rebels, the damage. what you're doing basically is destroying the soil,

becky, and now i'm not renewable for christina cruise specializes in the interactions between plants, soil, and microbes. what we have been doing so far in the last 2 and the navy east, you soil out at the strike to grow. we've been under valuing them and expecting them to stay healthy, but tilling over using chemicals and climate change are harming or soil. this is a problem for growing food, as well as resources for clothing and construction. soil is also key to storing carbon and filtering water to make so else healthy again, we need to start seeing them as what they are. entire ecosystems, teaming with hidden life all 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 nutrition 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 that really exist in a vacuum. they all into linked. one of those nutrients cycles 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 nutrient cycle. athens of nitrogen, which makes them most of the air around us and is one of the main new transplants used to grow. the plants can't get it from the air by themselves, so they partner with microbes, microbes, specifically fungi, also exchange other nutrients of plants. they very fine routes called hifi. the intertwine themselves with the roots of the plant. a fungus is really good at releasing things like phosphorus was fight from so hot the plastic yet. so it does

that and exchanges that in return with things like sugars which the plaque and make 3 photosynthesis. there's also some evidence. this relationship makes the plant more able to withstand drought and disease in a degraded soil. these new chain 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 and 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 structure. 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, he 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,

but the ball room. mm hm. did vast than mountain areas where the soil is so great that these techniques are multi. now, you can recover the soil in your time. here's room microbes come in on a larger scale. the most common use is, is bio fertilizers. they're 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. lucy's sampling we, we really have to do taking concentration, especially a league found john lucas, this brad foster and they are maurice teaching t e sign. 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 it because we actually cover soils in the seas. the cheapest way to to 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 who are 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

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