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late tonight. you probably human kind is not very resilient. we're easy to kill the cutter throats and it's all over again with a tree. you can cut an huh. and it will still survive. so a body tree will take full belonging. i explained this smell good enough. my goal is to preserve nature. and that's not the great thing about the professionals that we can do that with our research. ok. that's what we're going to show if i click on to to move it to the 30th. because time, once we get into this whole area is transforming into a natural ecosystem. i could always must not to data own inhabited areas and via diversity, not mutually exclusive, but this cannot and she will not be left to chance for the velocity. it's an iconic spaces. and if we can really save spaces like this, and we can then we can do anything

the from the arctic north to the mediterranean south. europe's landscapes are incredibly diverse. but in recent decades, industrialization has done enormous damage to this diversity. what is needed to revitalize that for most of our existence, human kind managed to harness nature without destroying it. many classic european landscapes are in fact a result of human activities. the what can be done to establish a new harmony between human kind and nature. the

church forrest, the places people go to relax, to hype, to explore. but they also have a more practical function. here in the hots mountains, mining has been underway for centuries. the forests have also long been exploited for profit, but it's only in the last few years that they're starting to look the worse for wear. now it's been so it's 5000 smooth and not so now i park with nice to see how good quote i've been working in the national park since 2012. when i 1st arrived, it was completely green. when does this one? let us get you on the line, the snow, the skate. it's incredible how foster can change and how wonder compromising nature can be shown. yeah, it's hard to deal with lunch. we. i mean we can gain a veteran forester. sabina, balding has witnessed the catastrophic impact of development in the hearts

mountains firsthand that combs life up to on some some. i might be honest about it because she still has always supposed to deal with. i understand what you scientists have come together. on the one hand, there was a spruce trees that have been planted here over time, and then on the other just as time it change shape. how it, bruce is this p c's, but it needs to balance cool and human decline my job, and that's exactly what we haven't had over the last few years. it's at the high temperatures. the stock of water has strong sunlight and also high wind here. so use with best and lots of an operation within the spruce they strongly out or push the that to make them frank giles fix on easy talk about the bunk. leto listed in both and careful people. if the trees don't get enough water, they can become vulnerable to insects. he often times, beetles come along and identify and think reading, stacy seville, bruce doesn't find back to the beatles and mit federal made them send a truck to live friends with all the females. drill terminals in the bulk where they lay the x and then the trees down the channel and then kind of strong smell.

but the state of the forest can't be blamed solely on climate change. mismanagement is another contributing factor for forests all across europe. a how do you fish the is now? spruce is patrice. b. c. promises the best economic return, the hub. it must be like the stock market. it's ok for tonight. if you invest in spruce, if you don't have a high yield and good profit loss, of course not been only so long as nothing goes wrong. if i'm, if i can not see him leaving thousands of square kilometers a forest across the earth are dying for the same reasons as they are at hearts. and the continents landscapes are changing radically as a result that might not sound too alarming. after all, central europe has more force today than in the 17th century. but that's because

the 18th century saw a mass of reforestation efforts, fast growing and lucrative spruce was the favorite species and was often planted in mano cultures. as well as in places where it would never grow naturally. this map shows how popular spruce still is. it's one of the most important commercial trees in europe, despite its vulnerability, the climate change in pests might be causing havoc to spruce forests. but new forests are now emerging that are more diverse and more resilient. to me all my, such a not apply. constitutionalist is on the all to you here in the national tongue. we are in a position to say, okay, we'll just leave it there. of course that's impossible in the commercial sector with a goal, so have different ultimate, truly areas like these initially look

a nomic, it's nick. it looks like this and nothing here for boys. but in fact, there's a whole new for l y p growing up around us, and we'll start to see it in 2 or 3 years, which you're interested. i was a completely different forest as emerging than the one we knew before. we still have to stay off this old. yes, that's the structure. really rich and the type of forest which will be more resilient to climate improvements as well. and for this is the national park. it shows how it can be done to the sick forest is simply left to its own devices. while a new generation of trees grow. the assumption is that nature will find its own ways of adapting. young men in good? no, that's what these days are. we thinking tens of generations less, there are no quick fixes with nature. nature will go its own ways and find its own solutions of thoughts. it's safe to say nothing will f as be the same, again, also signed before the funding. so what does that mean for the future?

what effects will be altered? landscapes have climate change is dramatically transforming our environment. it's not just in europe. we are the 1st generation able to identify such changes in nature in time to react. the necessary tools are available. like the satellites that monitor europe, day and night and transmit the data to the copernicus, an emergency management service, and italy. this was found it to detect hazards as early as possible, and prevent worst case scenarios. yet, we're still often unprepared when disaster strikes. as it did in the summer of 2021, [000:00:00;00]

the here in the alps, the consequences of global warming are impossible to overlook. temperatures are rising here especially fast. and the glaciers are melting as a result the the reason we're up here at 4 and a half 1000 meters on the calling. you said t j. c a in the month to those m a c for the boat at between yesterday and switch slice dr. and mortgage we called ski is working to collect ice memory. the information stored in glaciers that's lost when they melt the most of the eyes kind of one. so just ice normally play act. we want to drill to ice. cool is here,

the ice memory project just done, please. hi, alpine lacey is there all kinds that can teach us about climate development in the past and also about mind, major pollution, these are the idea is to collect these valuable archive student outline. gracie is from the ice cores and takes them to a safe place where they cannot be damaged by mouth saying, see, it is not safe place to is on top to kind of stand often on time. it nice and good. then we want to make that material available to future generations if we're such as just a few long stay by incense as yano does all come to month is just 20 years or so. you wouldn't be able to drill an ice caps that still contains the information that he does today. i hope to hear some studies indicate that by 2100, the glaciers in the alps will be gone. if this is true,

it puts the earth water balance at risk. so far, the outs have been a kind of water reservoir. they make up only 1.9 percent of europe, surface area, but supply water to more than 160000000 people. if the alps lose their glaciers, europe loses a vital source of drinking water. it would also be a disaster for agriculture. the climate change is altering the continent dramatically in the process revealing how human kind and nature are inextricably linked. there needs to be fast, far reaching decisions made in the political space and with technology. otherwise, human kinds destructive way of life will not change and time. the

number of small scale projects in europe are already on the case. groups institutions, individuals, all united in the struggle to preserve the natural environment, such as the typhoon project in lem nursing, greece. so you almost don't have, you know, there's been different areas in the history of mankind, delete the stone and the iron age which the bronze age today we can say we're living in the plastic age for him to plastic. cool. every summer, a boat is charged for volunteers to help clean up the greek coastline. the project funded by a greek philanthropist, is one of the largest of its kind in europe. the pharmacy man approaches the she's the success of the time soon as a project that runs $365.00 days a year. oh my god, that was still fine tuning it. so you must 18 on the same. we still in the, in the pilot stage, we still learning and adjusting time was on the original english to clean up 50

meters of show line. then we decided to extend it to a 115 minutes. uh, because coming up on this uh, i got the link that i did the guy days ago, the situation has gotten worse and the last 10 years and i get this is this every minute we were dumping the contents of a garbage truck into the sea, the scale is massive. it came back into the us. yeah. around $33.00 q loaves of plastic packaging, waste per citizen, per year are generated in the u. that's in comparison to 28 kilos, 10 years ago. and unfortunately, it doesn't always end up in the trash. it's actually already punched up with, is it the quote a marine pollution effects our country and others in many different ways? if it as a couple of 100 people with music and the 1st of all, it ruins the landscape. you see that every time you go to the beach to take a walk or have

a swim it as it affects the health of local residents in in it because it doesn't stay on the b. s the from a copy of that. of course we get to the bottom, you can't beat it as it also contaminates water, the food on our plates. so neutral, even fish now contain caustic particle and you have a property on plastic wall which forms the typhoon project works together with scientists and helps them advance their research into marine pollution be at coastal or deep sea pollution or gift. this will be focused file, so we found pieces of junk with bar codes from russia, russia, and from turkey. the bod, quotes muslim people, not both democrats, bodies of bar codes allow us to determine the origin, country, date and factory with a rubbish comes from them. we can compile a database and analyze our findings for that level but of mountain bike when we're

working in collaboration with the volunteers. scientists have managed to simulate the circulation of plastic in the mediterranean. this animation shows why the problem requires an international solution. the, the problem almost being the problem is it's not enough to pick up the rubbish show and nobody's done. we need to ensure that no more garbage ends up in the environment by taking action to avert and stop the constant flow of waste into our seasons. maybe not to follow san francisco, please. yes. a under pressure from the general public researchers and activists. the european union band, many single use plastic products in 2021. the hope is that eventually plastic plates,

cups and straws will be banished from everyday life. with the cotton that suffers from many other ecological abuses as well. many landscapes these days are increasingly devoid efforts on the buzzing of insects. nature has become troubling. lay silent. what's happened for thousands of years, human kind has co existed comfortably with nature. farming activity even contributed to local bio diversity. but once intensive agriculture which relies heavily on pesticides took over plants and animals began to die out and their disappearance as no accelerating and a dramatic rate. the

today, 40 percent of insect species, world wind are at risk. and around 15 percent of bird species, native to europe are in danger of extinction. the the decline and insect populations is the cause of great concern. in 2019 the popular save the bees initiative and bavaria for the local government to take radical steps to promote the biodiversity. this demonstrates that citizens can act to protect nature in our doing so across here. the been unusual experiment is underway in the south of england rather than protect what already exists to scientists are attempting to reverse the process. it seems utopian,

but the results speak for themselves. the large blue butterfly became extinct. people were obviously horrified that you could no longer say it in this country. i knew it, and nobody could really understand why i lived with the last colony for 6 years measuring almost everything. and alas, it was just too late to save it. jeremy thomas and david sim cox are to enter maladjusted, who became famous for having successfully reintroduced a rare species of butterfly. the large blue as it was no easy task. after years of tireless detective work, jeremy thomas discovered that the butterfly depends on a very specific species of and without it it cannot reproduce. and the species of ant itself needs a very specific natural environment. this obviously is a very much a heat loving hands on ground. temperature is actually determined by the height of

this comes across. so the total of the grass grows, the cooler the grams guides. and once that happens, then because of the late fee is replaced by other spaces of red atoms, i'm, this is why the bus light became extinct as a result of modern farming practices. cows disappeared from the meadows, upsetting the prevailing natural balance. the grass grew, the ants were driven out and the large, blue disappeared went extinct in 1979. but almost immediately, we took the decision that we would try to reintroduce it. because we thought we understood what it needed in this country at last. the 1st step was to restore the grassland to its former state, a jeremy and david convinced livestock farmers to allow their cows to graze there. again,

the only this specific interaction between humans, ruminants and grass lands, could restore the butterflies habitat once that have been done, and once sight said recovered, we set about finding a suitable source of large plays to see if we really had recreated the habitat and to release them in person was really fortunate to in the phone and i like the end of the east coast to sweden for overland. where i actually find lodge, please. i had one of those moments that you any have once or twice a new life, arriving the lights in the evening. and the 1st thing that happened was a lot longer to my face. i'm. it still gives, she was at my spot, thinking the backs it next to dismissal them. here i was able to find eggs and we were able to bring

a box to do our 1st trial introduction. that was really very, very groundbreaking. this meticulous and pioneering work took decades and in the end, they achieve their goal, the return of the large blue, the, historically, the launch they used to occur in the back 6 different regions in the u. k. and we've now got it established in 2 websites. we could also show that to maintaining the sites in a suitable condition for the large blue benefited many of the spaces we didn't have to 6. an objectively watch these things decline and we could actually do something of bachelor's. it's electronic spaces. and if we can really save spaces like this, then we can,

we can do anything this. their achievement demonstrates that human intervention can be constructive. but the work also lays bare with the complexity of the process. and the need to act before a species disappears. this is why over the last few decades, europe has been giving sanctuary status to certain areas in order to preserve if they're buying diversity. the europe is home to numerous nature reserve not 2 or 2000. and the emerald network form the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world. their main objective is to protect on across national basis, the most endangered plant and animal species in europe. today this network

represents 18 percent of the continents land territory at 8 percent of its maritime territory. one of the most valuable nature reserves using the vitamin c in this coastal landscape, located in the netherlands, germany and denmark. human activity is reduced to a strict minimum. this own has always been a haven and an important resting area for migratory birds. so it's, i'm just like this guy called the developer saying what they need available to me in the length of that and see the entire world, which is something that's developed over thousands of years. it's an incredibly important thing in the world wide eco systems that these birds are possible even every year in the spring. after wintering and africa, the birds fly off to a nest in the north, or a 10000 kilometer flight with a varden c marking the halfway point tier. up to 15000000,

migrating birds can rest before continuing on their way to siberia. it's also a stop over a point on their return journey. in the fall the area is closely studied by scientists among them on a solid, just a confidence both for belonging, like friends is what is most important to me, is conserving nature and stuff. and that's really what drives me why i chose this job. even small changes can have a big effect on things. when a lower risk pos and protecting assessing area, you immediately see a lot more species that work design and all that. so it's really great about how professionals fucked up by the research can make that happen. that's what we're going to show. if i click it will be the same. the reason angel industry is this, is it today we're trying to find some birds that we've already tacked and we know

goal the day to so that we know where they are. we can then use the data to track where they are and do all sorts of other analysis and research. for example, we want to find out what they need to kind of in the box and i was interested in from airborne just accessing the field. and by default to say here is an input today, this would be this both experts, the vitamin c is an into title area. there are various different much slots which are underwood to at high tide and dry at low tide. and this is happening constantly who called the school the bugs follow the water line as i speak. so as soon as the mud flaps become accessible, the birds go to them in search of food. i ain because that's where they can find the best on freshest things to eat. just actually, these are kind of in the fun see is almost completely protected. yet it's not immune to the effects of global warming on sea levels. since the beginning of the 20th century,

sea levels have increased more and for each year. what exactly does this mean for life year? the developers are using the nomics, the vitamin c is the dynamic and tremendously resilience system. and it's quite good. it's adjusting the site because the amount of time is under water can change daily. the temperature swings in the small systems can be massive and all the animals and not the system can adjust well to that as well. so in that sense, the vitamin c is very robust with protecting nature means preserving its resilience . this applies to coast lights and other bio tubs, to a deep box like those of the old funding region in belgium are a very special habitat. the affinity in the soil gives rise to a fascinating flora. including carnivorous plants,

the, the old finding had been protected since 1957. and with good reason, the p boggs' decompose plant remains, trapping their carbon in the soil. they are the us able to store 10 times more c o 2 than any other eco system. people is cover only 3 percent of the earth, the surface, but they store at least twice as much c o. 2, as all the forests on the planet combined. for far too long marshes have been drained and turned into farm land. but today, many regions of europe are seeking to restore them, including in germany, the many bogs still remain unprotected. in lithuania, pete is still used for heating and generating electricity,

which triggers the release of the massive amounts of carbon dioxide stored inside the units. primary forests are unique heritage and yet measures to protect them have failed miserably. these a virgin forest, the oldest on the continent, most a wealth of native species and unparalleled biodiversity. their value is immeasurable, and yet they are in danger of disappearing. according to recent studies, only a few isolated primary forests are left in europe. and even these are under threat . the one of them is in romania spa gosh, mountains regent. under the child, she has to go dictatorship. it was largely out of balance for the public.

the obama with talk of this report and he thought that i had the opportunity to see the hunting reservations created, especially for child. she has to be coverage. all she has with some people were afraid to hunt there with the rest of them. there was little deforestation yet. oh and there was actually a way of protecting natural areas not to happen and that's why some of them still exist to them. i shelven how cool today the forest is protected by rangers like me hi, chic induced assistant us because you know, send me some very special place. the trees are so impressive. you almost want to help them. i'll protect you as much as i can. but once i saw what the tape was, maybe i'm wrong to see more about the admin. see this now?

and the humidity's seem to have changed in an old growth forest. most of the areas difference there is more humidity. these trees retain a lot of water next time the most often the data and there was abuse is the most important thing to put the sticker. this the tree is a symbol for the natural far and it is had a rough time. got it. but i think it is 300 years old for all other while it might stand for another 20 to 30 years. but in time, can we move rush from the inside to just the ways of it's huge? crowd will get too heavy and it will collapse around so the forest is a complete acre system fully in attacks to accomplish. it has great scientific value and it serves as a useful model, automatic one on a student. she come on the in siri, romania as primary forests are protected. but in reality,

illegal logging is taking its toll. in 2002 romania still had 200000 hector's of primary forest. today, there are only 70000 left the company available loss cuz it was given the rates of which primary forest areas have been decreasing between 2002. and today, kind of the threats over you got a little little bit 10000 exit is as far as to where and legally logged in the fall, gosh, mountains. so this should never have happened. if we say it's not like this and not in your she nor no, oh me hi chic and his colleagues are armed for good reason. in recent years, several rangers had been killed by poachers. and increased awareness of the invaluable importance of primary forests means their defense is no longer left to

researchers and activists. the entire local population is now mobilized the what protecting nature by keeping people away from it isn't a long term solution. a targeted protection can restore the natural balance sometimes within just a few years. mediterranean fish, dogs have dwindled alarmingly since the advent of mass tourism and industrial fishing. here in the bay of los candle of corsica, marine life at all but disappeared 30 years ago. but since then, it is become a protected nature reserve at home to an array of biodiversity. joel money domenici is in charge of the scandal of nature reserve as much as you can. most of i started diving into protected maritime area of scans

a lot. then i started diving outside the reserves, and i saw that it was basically it does, it does. yeah. he and his team are doing their annual inventory of aquatic font, the piece of mind to see if they'll be shifts. and there is incredible by diversity in the protected areas. don't use an incredible treasure and the indispensable, downstairs and abundance of practically post these easy, but especially bigger fish with a reproduction right? many times higher than smaller fish. and the question is that that's the discount to see it. as of the strength of scandalized is that the regulation is adapted to the management of habitat spaces and that the regulation is followed. it needs to be more than just the law fitness when regulation is respected and specific goals for its management of followed. nature responds,

we will create environmental assets that the development i see that was the national parks. a very strong economic drive is that can have a positive effect on the local or even national level. see what you've shown, then any other question you today, fish them and understand that and not sure what was the benefit of doing it results in great efficient dogs, which got to be on the borders of the reserve 6 once fission and understand that they've understood everything so get to complete mankinds relationship to its natural surroundings is complex. in europe, in particular, many economies and activities are so closely linked to the environment that the line between human and nature often blurs the . but what happens to these bio tops when left to their own devices? this can be seen not studious in northern spain, the this time

a single moment until you get lost the beautiful. my not that we're seeing is that the human activity underway in the last 23 or 4000 years on this land is disappearing for dental. so this entire territory will continue to evolve into a more natural ecosystem until she stand by. categories must not throughout the vast regions of europe have been deserted by their inhabitants. by 2100, spain could lose half its population. when humans move away flora in front of re take the land, this development has been observed by natural scientist, roberto after sunshine, need to have a hole in your stuff. the one thing, yes, my work in these mountains is to find out how nature works. system us and we

said it because it has come on us. we're very close now to cameras. positions here that's allow is to monitor things weekly. some we possibly it's quite likely that some bears a wondering around somewhere right now. and them to come with some sort of a have gone assessing when we began there were only 13 barriers here, only both of them out or possibly over $300.00 in the area we work and it's the fastest growing population in europe is just talk with you and doing so, i'll get the most we finish documented most of what we have filters. there's also a few wolves sized. there's so much fire diversity throughout the entire region of a serious you leave it to come in 10 to 3030.

the most of most are holding this stuff. i'm being a part of a true. we can see a young bear digging into blueberry bushes at this time. most viewed here is a female bear with our clubs digging open until looking for an larvae to eat most candle. a lot of us are lots of mucous, but uh, we meant that today. yes, the, the populated areas revert to a form of wilderness elsewhere. however, the opposite is underway with wild animals venturing into the big cities driven out of the country side by the intensification of agriculture. they take refuge in urban areas in search of food and shelter. in some neighborhoods, there is more bio diversity than even in rural areas.

the scientists are able to reconstruct the animal migrations using gps trackers. the data shows that hedgehogs, raccoons and bats tend to stick to one area. while while bores and foxes travel long distances within the urban biotech, the more varied the cities fonda, the more predators that attracts in 2020 a wolf was even spotted roaming the german capital.

the. this calls into question the division between the natural world and the civilized world. but wasn't that decided a long time ago? season going home with beauty, visits, keeping habits, it areas and by diversity are not mutually exclusive and so at these candidates and should not be left to chance and it needs to be plan line. and this requires close cooperation between biologist and ecologists landscape plan as well, and architect simon and i take their own by taking load with the thomas house is a landscape architect. he and his team have developed a new approach to urban planning in an attempt to boost bio diversity in urban spaces. the hum give me to the animal aided the so we've developed the animal aided design method. this is a planning method with the aim of integrating wild life into other planning inter landscape architecture and open space planning,

but i don't plan on to any degree and this animal assisted design is used in planning in berlin, munich, and london. the concept is evidence of a wider rethink that's now underway. european civilization has developed by pitting human kind against nature. but humans and nature are a part of the same indivisible entity in france, biologist, a policy sally, has launched another bold project. hold on, we came back to europe after working in the tropics and realize there are no longer any primary forests in europe. and i thought that this was scandalous. my plan is to revise them here in western europe. on the west. are these objective is usually ambitious to create

a $70000.00 hector sanctuary of forest struggling several countries. right in the center of europe, leaving the area abandoned for several centuries until a new primary forest develops mostly bulky to city. both clearly shows came on that i believe that the really beautiful, important, and lasting things in life take time to the pony and make that a person to lay the 1st stones of a cathedral knew that they would never see the end result. so you can see that this tree is shape like a spiral. it's only a matter of time, think it's you don't. but you controversial project. that's the last several centuries k. c, p. not long ago, at least project would have been met with skepticism. but today, the response is overwhelmingly positive. even in brussels. the european union has launched a program to plant 3000000000 trees by 2030. so it could soon be implemented. the

fix definitely won't be out of balance to the public on the but for people sometimes say such will be a century. so they don't like these terms. the visits was not the only be allowed to encourage luxury. the one condition, however, to the names of other stuff, people respect what's around stomach, it is on to the in europe. nature has always been used and then shaped in the process, or which in turn, shapes those that live there. if harmony is ever to be found, a new approach is needed. one based on respect, knowledge and a fair approach. finding that path forward will not be easy.

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a tom lee is considered the most dangerous time we fund way was sort of the as we say, the poster child for the, the proliferation problem. and then it is said, no one has ever seen a stone in the side of the superpowers. the world's most dangerous frontage, dogs, june 29 on dw, the . this is dw news, and these are the top stories. nato is holding the largest apple spills in its history, involving 10000 troops and 250 across from 25 countries. known as operation ad defend the most of the exercises are being staged in this guy's over germany. the drill was, will simulate the response to an attack on the need to remember the or test of the