offer more courage to be ugly. step aside and on d. w. a thought they were great able to work with in the heart of germany. somewhere in the hearts mountains, a creature that moves star unaware of summer, call it the human fish. it's

a pear hats take some getting used to ignored, almost forgotten. but that is about to change with landon saxony, unhealthy home to the only alms in germany, this blind seller monday's facing extinction. but conservationists haven't really no test because alms aren't just hard to find. they can also be hard to look at. but marcus menda is a fan anyway. he's the marketing director of the hebrew land caves and he wants to help the local alms improve that image. as he live luca, they live in the dog. oh, good blood borne with eyes the talk news turned and saw a layer of skin grows over them. and it's a really unusual animal and spits here the 3 toes of the front to the back. crazy volts. i thought there were so many things that are unique that says this creature

part no from i'm the with young on the side of the bazaar alms are about to become famous. but there's a problem. they having trouble pro, creating that's why mark was menda is funding a conservation project. this research team hopes to help the unusual creatures reproduce the sciences odyssey it's amazing. young animals have survived so many decades when, if they would be happy and that leads to reproduction, manifold flow, that would be great and voted as physical. then we'd have to protect the baby and, and also b o. b for biggest challenge daniels was raised on a muffled these in the household with few fans and no offspring to date. is this the end for the week? the land arms? the st. can bag research institute in frankfort? am mine. it's primary focus. animals that send a schiffer down most people spine

spite us to many, just an 8 legged night man, better squashed than protected. but biologist, pe to gaga is one of that biggest fans. mm. it should be spiders, earthworms bugs, even aphids. luck. they're part of our planet of our diversity of the life that lives around us, and we need them to the one born on people. often d o. t t acres collection includes more than half a 1000000 specimens. spiders play a key role in the ecosystem. they keep some insect populations in jack, but because they look so creepy, it's hard to convince people that they need to have protection. but pay to giga has come up with a novel solution. he gives the spiders celebrity names minus when one species of spider i've grown particularly fond of is the head to robert david bowie. david

paul, we had an attorney, somebody named david bowie, of course, helped get the word out that it's habitat is under threat coin. the confederates in fun and chagrin. docile english does the he could. that was how i got the message. alice said maybe even reaching people who wouldn't usually hear about oil to these on for like new young ve bonzai sure. now it is not uncommon. the giant crap spider may not be anywhere near as famous as the real david bowie. but thanks to pay to jak as idea, it's had plenty of media exposure. funding and public support are crucial for research and species protection. and because that's been lacking to date, many species of spider on a dying out unnoticed with potentially grave consequences. ecosystems grow, we can with every extinction on her english. there's actually a lack of knowledge here. one that's preventing us from getting species like these under any read list or using good hard facts to properly reinforce the message that they need protection, commitment. but that's why we're trying to promote research into these animals. we

are, so we'll actually no more and will be in a position to say with certainty, yes, this species name protection now on chron, yet crucial for a particular ecosystem. these guns 50 for jesus order unit closest in the 1st step towards the better image information. after all, many people are scared of spiders. a mostly unfounded fear, says the biologist. the tarantula, for example, may be huge, but it doesn't pose a threat to humans. research is the foundation of any successful species protection program. but to date, there's very little scientific data on the home. it's natural. habitat in subterranean rivers makes it hard to observe. that's why cooper land is a unique opportunity for research as well. the hoover land alms are already over 80 years old. life expectancy around

a 100. at least. that's what scientists think. they also think the alms can still reproduce. but if they don't procreate soon, the populations fate is sealed. then no p r campaign can help the team from the likeness institute, wazoo and wildlife research uses ultrasound to examine a female we had been we've gotten our hopes up a bit was for because we found this female together with a male under a rock. but what we're finding here doesn't look very promising, after all, we have it healthy. yes, sure. it's healthy, but there's no sign of any exit. the reproduction

specialists only come to obey land twice a year. they usually focus on preserving large species, such as the northern white rhino. dorothy sure, it's much more difficult to get funding for research into small unknown species. i found that live in caves and are inaccessible. federal scholar hold on one will come over there because much easier for large iris magic species like ry known. so her soon i'm fabian's like the alm are among the most threatened vertebrates, but they usually overlooked by species protection campaigns. it's easier to get close to people with mammals and birds. they're somehow closer to us than if i'm working with fish and phoebe and reptiles. that's much more difficult to go. although there are a few icons such as the fire salamander and the fire belly towed. there brightly colored and impressive, an invite. it's easier to pull on people's heart strings if you stick with mammals

and birds them on by so we get to the throne, lived the alm has already captured the researchers, hearts and baron lake. take about 10 latest discovery. yeah, i'm glad we just found relatively well developed egg deposits are follicles in receiving them from messenger. we're going to measure them again to see how big they are. he was, but this is an active female animal. reproductively active. these round structures here but to reproductively active female doesn't necessarily mean babies. the researchers can't get their hopes up just yet. your near most incidence fully looking at it cautiously on. yes. it's a lot different than breeding copies copies that would happen much more quickly. or

were broadens or if owns, take forever and for it. and that's why the moment it's still speculation to say whether or not they can reproduce is offered function code roneesh arbor. but we'll keep adding, i'm glad very soon. populations are fresh, water species have declined by 84 percent over the last 4 decades. at least partly because of water pollution and with a dams. researchers think more people need to know the truth. could the on be the perfect character to help raise awareness. but 1st, they'll have to survive. no bacteria can enter the water. the creatures also hate bright light. the researchers look for eggs with head lamps and an endoscopic camera. mm hm. we're using a low light camera. hang on,

there was something her light there could be sperm. amazon no spill were unbundled. well, not for a metaphor. so let's have a look of simon before we had with her i up to now we've seen one spoon metaphor and it was a bit more ragged and more reflective simila, wisconsin to was actually transparent. friend level that i think that's graveled to bed. could have been something we often both of the things that we're hoping that maybe in 2 months when the female we looked at with the ultra sound is ready for us, that will actually find started on flight with him. so it's dinner time is less than a chance of own babys. protecting

aesthetically challenged animals requires some creativity. simon, what approaches, totally unique stand up comedy. the englishman founded the ugly animal preservation society. 9 years ago. i've always heard a proper, deep love of the weird and the wonderful creatures, and i've been amazed that people aren't into them. if you only care about the cute things and you're missing the point of conservation, and i'm trying to get people to love these things, which at 1st glance, they might not simon what 1st life of parents since the career locked down where it's going to be class get back in front of real people and a because i was we don't gigs on line bushes, not the same open still funny because what's her terrifying prospect? the biologist is touring the u. k. with his show today, he's appearing at a science festival in the western english city of chelton him here. much to find

you and what we really should do. yes, it was all because of these dish i get back to us does. does it mean a why? the pond as a debatable yas mars got? yeah, it's it's cute, fluffy. how are you thinking? black and white. save them so much money and color photocopy. yeah. you know, the red lists that look like the big book of endangered species, like like a kind of yellow pages of death. i was looking through a start and noticed that it was filled with butterflies. but there was no moths cause moth to that little bit too dull when they go extinct. we don't even seem to notice, never mind care. and i thought i thought this is wrong. you know, because we got all of all the things cause cause like, as anybody's tried internet dating knows, the vast majority of life, right there is a hideous ah, the common decamp. all same has its own mascot. is the pan did not good enough? the push,

did you all know the blood fish never saw them all the world. i mean it's ugly. it's depress physically, a liberal democrat. we are sleep walking our way into a mass extinction like we're as bod for the planet as an asteroid was for the dinosaurs. and that's, that's a tragedy. i'm. but it's tricky. got to deal with it. i've decided i was going to stand up comedy because otherwise you got great fatigue. so by addressing in a kind of light manner and having fun of it, mental, i could get people talking about conservation in a different way. and simon is no lone wolf. the want to what is kind of other comedians also share the stage with simon. the ninja lantern shock. each of them presents a different animal. they share the entry fees with various environmental projects. as the evening draws to a close, the audience votes for its favorite in the extinction slam would want to vote from school to read. who's looking for the ninja language york. and who'd like to

vote who are the mary roberts? oh, ok ladies a gen. so i think that is the answer. this is chuck from science news. will you ugly animal mascot? yankee? oh, really fun, i think is more to be of the animals than we realized before. we, we learned a lot from just is not what you just see. it, sir, is a lot more to them. i love animals who stop. i actually get an exposure to the ones that you don't see as much as is riggs. i am. in 2013. what organized and online paul, to crown the world's ugliest animal. the blocked fish won and found fain. that's the thing of it with biology, the more you look, the more beauty you see, even if you're talking about an ugly thing. so look, ugly animals matter too. don't be boring.

marcus menda also wants to protect ugly animals. he wants to turn alms into celebrities, to attract tourists to ruben, and, and raise some cash. maslick lincoln lads from fought for life on his own, is sometimes used as an unsold design. so people often aren't aware that it's an actual animal that you can see or even talk to results from august. when can that leads to ignorant? and we need to remedy that and say, hey, this animal lives in germany. it's francisco, tony here in the hammonds, her came to rouble, and as far as that makes it special bits yellows. and that's where we can start telling story. leave off that and i, she, she threw up sienna and mark was menda, has hired an advertising specialist to help out will be at home lake in a sec, so please turn off your flashlight. so now we are here and all buses. yes,

that's all lake with animals live here within poland. spend their entire lives in the novel stage. in balcony countries, the amphibians called human fish because of their skin color sounds more like something out of a horror movie than a p r campaign. i am in a still, it's a seeing animal totally naked like this was not especially attractive with the out when the tissue to look at how it moves. it's watch it at the still take the time to think about another thing it's can, there are plenty of things you can use to explain a creature to children and make it interesting. can demand as if that's illustrated and animated. kids will love it. i got to make something cute out. yes, we can when that even because of alicia education, something small and a full time. that was the the thing that might make it seem dull which back to that's what will touch people's hearts. a shy and it is appeal lies in the us prime audio nature to learn. it's unique. now that's actually to say knows i wish

colonoscopy sandy was on the hide. and i think that needs to be conveyed as honest loved the cuteness. but perhaps something she conflict of us precious. it will be a challenge, but a nice one issue now was fertile. a few weeks later, mark was meant is going to sabina n, and bax agent see initial designs for the own as levy star are ready. the w. w. f spends up to 2700000 euros a year on advertising. mark was mendez, budget is a fraction of that, but will a campaign still be a success and help st. the on the side of the idea is that the owing was having a really relaxing morning, laid back, leasing had nothing can bother him this early in the day and thus later than he walks into the light and it surprises him. he's just over the phone with the it's not what he was expected to done a good as long as i'm all just let it speak for itself. my physician

i can't thus. oh yes, that's really cool. who if i like choke? if i newspaper in the coffee mug, make it funny. i only got the official just the way i wanted it to be a little while the kids were like the style vi's and the local details will appeal throughout all which you can the i'm a complete package, a ties written and the vaccine. and you know which one is, is or one, wouldn't this easter good? good. well i guess, especially with them want to go normally. the humorous animation will help us increase awareness of this very special animal. and from among a lot of people already the yahoo! more for learning much on all children was it if of these adults finish or school age students here in survivor, their own, they are the all fan club can start growing because we've got an actual character goods and we could marcus menda is happy with the character named all

mesh, but will all mesh become a star? ah, a meto in the noah frank pinion town of a ban. a good place to find an exceedingly rare animal. but you need a good eye to spot one. it likes to hang out on a rose bush, leafs thick antenna plant, back the bark, which measures just a few millimeters, was thought to have been extinct in central europe. bending 2011 and tamala, just klaus monterey suddenly found it again in a been. he launched a conservation project. it slogan, save rossi. very exciting. bugs have an image problem. image bugs is something you might find in your bed, but something you have to protect yourself from or look out for it all,

some even snow bad stink bugs in can. so in principle, people's experience of bugs tends to be really bad english stuff. and then one comes along that has to suddenly win hearts and minds and turn everything around on . and we did this one to reach the all disclosure. rosie's neighbourhood was a military training ground until 2004. when the army left, the site was in marked ford motor racing until klaus mondrey came along. he campaigned against turning the forest and meadows of the $270.00, to site into a racetrack. in doing so, the biologists saved the habitat of the thick antenna plant bug and numerous other species. some may not even have been discovered yet. screens near the audience the unsaid attacking the species that are disappearing for the ones we're not focused on and get us. i don't see it as

a ranking because the species are unknown. i can't decide against as easy as if i don't know it exists as, as china on to him. so they're not just a multi unit him. and so the more appealing ones tend to be prioritized fornes understand. we just have to accept it. what's going on about we can't give up and allow ourselves to resist efforts to save other species. largely we lesson out the under an auto group to look safety just like the bug itself, it's happy tant, has suffered long term neglect. the ran insect thrives only in the transitional fringes between forest and field intensive farming and forestry on destroying those fringes. but thanks to rosie, science is now taking a fresh look at the unique species. diversity of the forest edge are distinct distributing project. i think that with

this project we've stumbled on a need that now needs to be addressed. we're collecting the necessary information and we're seeing our work validated by all the species we're able to find on the forest edge debit and also in the threat to these reasons. demco federal sky. it's no coincidence that creatures living in these areas, often among the most endangered in those so sick phillotson klaus mondrey and his team have appointed rosie the patron species of this ecosystem. they hope that bucks protection will benefit as many other species as possible. a common but controversial practice in nature conservation. after all, each species has different needs within a single habitat, a possible solution to preserve entire ecosystems instead of individual species and approach that's being tested in aden. the site is now an official special area of conservation. so far more than 7600 types of plant and fungus have been identified

here. it's one of the most species rich areas in germany. i grew up not far from here. well, and in the past you couldn't access this area on his way or it was restricted only luckily i'm, i'm your, he'd made me walk past it once a year was and now partly comes to rosemont, as ari i saw it's been transformed this. now i come here every other day. it's my bring my dog as well. my own. this is a lovely place for a war. klaus mentary has campaigned for the preservation of this region for more than 15 years. or this is as you can see, the lovely fig antenna with the thick red antenna system. we've been lucky to find wonderful mom and his efforts to put rosie in the spotlight will continue the w. w. f specialist agrees such a commitment can definitely pay off heater every species is worth protecting, including those we assume to be unnecessary for those we don't find especially appealing ice,

which also research shows that working with lesser known species as possible. it just means putting in more time to increase awareness of those lesser noise leasing has not been for like the contracts we're back in the hearts region efforts to get the home to reproduce failed again this year. but well, the public relations campaign be more successful. it would help the research mackwood mentor has gathered a few testers to find out jam. yeah, you would. these together frosted bugs, agency from boston. we've produced an animation about this very special element that's from like the old truck live to families and children guys, i'm of, i mean for, let's take a look and think it's only a few seconds longer, as we hope with us. it's mine getting palsy couldn't. and then, ah ah ah

ah, as each blemish on opi, that's what it's exactly what we want to impose, make something positive and micro lawful from lack of a vague when do i have all my time just to have fun while learning about the animal? it's quote or skin wednesday politeness t a responding, i know the old minutes new guys as a promotional star in a cartoon. and now was a stuffed animal. the biologist, an epson, a great opportunity for species conservation. i think he's now yours. yeah. he lives right here, instead of finger wagging and saying you have to save the world to grow up, you can't destroy everything you have to protect species, gosh, darn says, hey, this is something i would like to conserve it. and if we're realizing that now, and maybe we'll realize it later to about some tiny little insects that we can't even see if we're not specialize in this movement. perhaps what we perceive as

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