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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 rach, the animal survives primarily on insect, and as such is a natural ally of farmers. but in recent decades its population have suffered a dramatic decline. we met a conservationist who is working to bring them back from the brink. ah wrong, but you don't really cute it knows. just keeps dancing. revenue come out as talking about this tiny moment that my doesn't tug and he is right, isn't it? it is pretty cute. it plays an important role maintaining a healthy,

closer to like keeping into populations under control. unfortunately, with every passing decade, its numbers are rapidly declaiming. i mean, i don't know, but that species has faced local extinction across 32 places in some larger. recently on the last saw, he talks 5 years ago and revenue come out as a wireless who has been gathering information on the data job of 18 districts and his contribution journey began. if a 1012 during his 1st encounter with them and as a child, boy, how could i go to look at it and see that it looks like a wall cushion while i talk about, is this what it is? i'm the 11 to really approach me at the main and i sat down next to it and i made my decision. i made this my purpose because i felt an urge to protect this patient . and 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 fan service during the day and for 2 weeks at night i would go

a little but doesn't differ made of shrubs or dense trees and open das plans like this. it's natural habit roslin, some of them actually have to do for them. i like you haven't changed over the past 3040 years, not going to be subject to people's changing need for roads and plantation events for tomorrow. but with the constant change, this animal has nowhere to go and has faced local expansion 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 root and lay there to observe as much heat as possible. this attempt of us can heat ends up, but new little hedgehogs being run by they called similarly related. 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 contact to reach out to people directly. i am not going to reverend again,

only conduct surveys as a part of businesses to help and gather evidence from people for medicine. yes, we are. sounds have used it for children and me and my father had issues with his bias. we burned it spines on goal, and he inhaled the smoke 9. many will is people have a 100 fall 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 trees as a group. yes, the little ones ran away, but we got the big one watched on the la her career didn't for lunch. so need to see how it 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 over the list of threats mentioned so far from humans alone, for the species with an average lifespan of 3 to 5 years, ensuring survival under such circumstances as yet impossible task. but robin

believe the best place to started with the younger generation. what a lot of in a school grams in 100 schools so far. the market places where he talks are really belongs with maps and shoes. schools in the those locations look out what's going on. why do people have superstitions one back in the days? people have onto beliefs like if i eat this animal, my disease will be cured. lab, even though hunting is a concept no longer exist on their supervision. what has not left them when it comes to in working a sense of urgency in my life completion, making an impact to the community, living as a much harder task than conducting programs in schools. but i've been collaborative . don't often tell you as an organizer puppet, you're doing well local in the conservation process. and what other way than a powerful storytelling technique to glasby those attention?

the law. this is what they call a more lily. do you know what people do there hunt for it? and are destroying it yet they already already, but it, you know, to be signed instead of conveying it as a boarding, scientific subject, if you presented in a fun v real fact the are able to understand it easy while working with the locals . bravo emphasizes on how insect decides detrimental to the survival of your trucks as they are predominantly infected. and but the foot of being off homes at a farm was friends, the eat insects that predict our crops beneficial for farming or the little and then for the to get all those don't get your kids hedgehog, just leave them be and let them do produce on the bottom, i don't know what it was. i saw hedgehog working on why i carefully placed it in

a cavity and also so like likely to lose who the normal doesn't want to call the local participation in predicting small mammals. adjuster mendoza chug is nothing short of a necessity but to make an impact on ground. so just like the clerical admission from stakeholders who are in a position of power, they've been almost an hour. if i say, i wish to do research and he talks and have a proposal jedi, how can you give me some funds? the things you chose it becomes a block for them on them. so only if i try some 15 or 20 times one or 2 grants, get accepted, 50 grand cinema got cryptography. 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 environment networks, the international union for conservation of nature, has still listed the mendoza drug as

a species of these cancer. and one of the main reasons is because there isn't enough data. 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 plea and important role in the food chain, which and the level of fungus blevins goal is to create the contribution action plan for small man. with a job 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 weld animals. ah, the in the river dolphin proved to be a master of survival. 50000000 years ago, when the sea inhabited, dried up, it adapted to the river that was only the 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 focused on ah,

the end of one of the longest on the ition subcontinent. it's been home to read industry of a dolphin, for centuries. here in pakistan, nevada, we'd need love to watch them die. 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 was as hello bonnie may have come to you and decline in in the car barrage has 7 that indicate millions of acres of food and cash crops and sin province. nas mcdonny grew up here as a boy, he and his father joined the dolphin rescue operations

and in the 900 seventies, he assisted italian naturalists, georgia clarity, and as to search on industry were dolphins. you might need micro vote out over to, here we go. 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 any money it came down. penalty bought a man. he the mom for p for p and get yana in the local language. cindy industry, dolphins are known as dan, also 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, where and i would normally be, it just something that has evolved over time. because if you see that in the,

is very soft serving and it's full of sediment. so it actually looks like teeth like china location, so they make noise to navigate, to find out about their environment to find fish. and it's an addition to that they don't actually need over the course of maybe they've lost the use of been i because they've developed them, which is even dolphins habit. it became pigmented to the construction of better. i just can finding them to a fraction of their former range. their numbers have dwindled to just to 1000. putting them on the i you see ends read, list of endangered fishes. me dr. santano and his team vote for the sin by like department. they had 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 river channel. and for us here, we 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 claim about that. it would that i school me. i don't think also accurate from the impacts of climate change and contamination from urban and industrial v. as the effort of local and international conservation have begun to make a difference in this actually is one of the read dory will do a mini mini threat despite that the numbers are going up. but i think that needs to be done in terms of controlling pollution and trying to limit especially

industrial pollution and stuff in the river. this is the time combo and also impacts on everybody. long term measures i needed to consider the industry was ecosystem and bio s t and to ensure that it's dolphins don't disappear since they can be found novia l. so not growing up here. remember, i remember battle floating in and out through the windows of my childhood. 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 soon, then he has come up with a solution to boost their numbers and it's not just the buzz who can benefit. you mean, you know, you to say that or my god, the pharaoh, because we all know all over the place. sometimes the most common birds are the

ones that are the ones that just disappear 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 for somebody husband is liking somebody as his wife. and if i do who it is, it is 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 poor 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 very

most recent history we were living at houses which were accessible. it was lot, air condition died living not so much pollution. so you, your, we were not so separated with outside world and those battle had access inside the houses to magnify. there are no 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 fades 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 orders battled doesn't have high rubin ditch food to feed to the chicks. but the chicks are going up. they eat up massive amounts of food. and this have food has to be provided by the parents at bacon. gotten

smith's battle as small as they are out, an incredibly important part of the ecosystems, the 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. it level cascading effect to the ecosystem. we have an example of angina, declared to of mean and, and there was rewards for killing sparrows. and then there was massive shortage in $340.00 in 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 these 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 here,

creating a unique quote for these little bird. good idea, gram as it is called trunk leads to a village. what house battles? but the battles we did, a few instinct hotels, these are such as will be walden, me induced the in 6 to make their home. and this is a ready supply of insects for breeding sparrows which are bleeding in the nest that with battles need space to fly over short distances. and the thief bes here gives them the turns to also fly from good. i yet 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 italy. ringback this is the one of the glass species are they died of the hospital

depend upon them. they eat the pollen seats and sometimes they feed on the typical glasgow 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 deforested hybrids. 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. how do you have the building or devices? so did they got on foot board? the things they thought of i did a graph, i thought i will 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 rate miss. and i'm wondering about this, given i've seen hard 201 time in pocket 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 or destroying soil fertility threatening not just of one population, but also our food security. our next report show how my crew can help rebels,

the damage. what you're doing basically is destroying the soil and now i'm not the renewable. 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 e d. u soil out straight 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 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, the entire ecosystems teeming with hidden life all run by my groups. a healthy soil have a diversity of my groups. the most common ones are bacteria and fungi. one of their

most important jobs is transforming nutrients. every single neutral cycle on the planet is mostly driven by morning. jennifer wood has a background in soil microbial ecology and studies how microbes affect ecosystems. none of these cycles that really exist in iraqi, 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 eye glass bins of nitrogen, which makes 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 fund guy, 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, phosphate from souls, which is half the plan's together. so it does that and exchanges that with the plan in return for 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 in a road intensive. agriculture can be another cause. as pesticides and err, besides 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. boyle, community health is actually the foundation of all but natural and men in the nation of something crumbled. 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 that can be a kilometer of them and a grams, soil and cover crops planted to leave in the ground. right? micros of carbon to chow, down on as well as producer rosen and nutrient las well and encourages those fungal microbes to grab. it can also be made into a liquid fertilizer. this compost t concentrates microns into a form that can be sprayed on field. unfortunately, this kind of farming just isn't possible everywhere. you can doing fantastic you

what we want. but the problem is, the bass, the mountain areas where the before and the so great that these techniques on multi now you recover the soil in due time. here's your microbes come in a larger scale. the most common uses, bio fertilizers, they use like chemical base fertilizer if they contain fun guy 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 and the micro biome would be something we really have to to taking concentration, especially. we could be brad faster and they can be side. 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 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 who are well 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 ah, ah, with

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