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the reporter, every weekend on d. w. between 90 something human kind is not very resilient. were easy to kill the cutter throats and it's all over in the tree. you can cushion hot on the still survive. so a party tree both a full belong it. i explain this, that's good enough. my goal is to preserve nature. that's. that's the great thing about health professionals that we can do that with rosette, okra. that's what we're going to show if i click on the dental to move it to the 30th this time. once we get into this whole area, is transforming into a natural ecosystem. a kind of a must not to the own inhabited areas and via diversity, not mutually exclusive, but this cannot and should not be left to chance for the velocity. this is an

iconic spaces. and if we can really save spaces like this, then 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. at nature, the

europe's forest are places people go to relax, to hype, to explore. but they also have a more practical function. here in the hearts 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 smoot and not to not have pocket nicely see how good quote i've seen working in the national conk since 2012. when i 1st arrived, it was completely green when there's a showing. yeah, let's get you on the line between the skate. it's incredible how foster can change and how on a compromising nature can be shown. yeah, it's hard to deal with actually. i mean, i'm getting is a veteran forester. sabina,

balding has witnessed the catastrophic impact of development in the hearts mountains firsthand, that combs fly fucked on some some. i might deal this device because she still has always supposed to deal to the future. but i understand what you sent us to have come together. on the one hand, there was a spruce trees that have been planted here over time. and then on the after the 2nd time it changed cheap alley. bruce is a b, c. slick need that balance cool. and humidity climate 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 or something like and also high wind room. so she would pass and looked at an operation within the spruce, is drawing out the that to make them fragile based on easy talent, a positive on the lead, on this with 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 main center trapped to live friends with all the females. drill terminals in the book where they play the x and then the trees down to challenge and 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 deceased is now spruce. this, 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 times, good profit off, of course not been only so long as nothing goes wrong. if i, if i can not see him, leave him thousands of square kilometers a forest across the earth are dying for the same reason, since 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. with new forests are now emerging that are more diverse and more resilient or the all my, such a non applies to shyness, dissolved the all teeth here in the national tongue. we're in a position to say, okay, and 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, that's a whole new for l y p growing up around us. and so 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. of the state of this old us much structure, really rich and the type of force to be more resilient to climate improvements as well. and for this is the national park. it shows how it can be done. 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 in good now that's what these days we think in terms of generations. but there are no quick fixes with nature. nature will go its own ways and find its own solutions,

llc each box. it's safe to say nothing will ever be the same again, also signed before the funding. so what does that mean for the future or what effects will these 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 your day and night and transmit the data to the copernicus, 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 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 reason we're up here at 4 and a half 1000 meters on the calling. you said t k. c a in the month to those m a c f. and on the boat at between into the and switch the rise dr. and mortgage we called ski is working to collect ice memory. the information stored in glaciers that's lost when they melt the much the eyes kind of one. so just i just 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 made pollution. these are the idea is to collect these valuable archive students outline. gracie is from the ice cores at night and take them to a safe place where they cannot be damaged by mouth saying, see, it is not safe place that is on top to kind of stand often on time, it must be good. then now we want to make that material available to future generations if we're such as a few books to buy and scientists, ya know, that's all come to month 20 years or so. you wouldn't be able to drill an ice caps that still contains the information that you've done today. i hope to hear some studies indicate that by 2100, the glaciers and 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, the otherwise human kinds destructive way of life will not change in time. the

a 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 type boom project in lim noticed in greece, seem almost done here. there's been different areas in the history of mankind. he to read the stone and the iron age and the bronze age. today we can say we're living in the plastic age 14 plus the cool every summer, a boat is charged for volunteers to help clean up the greek coast line. the project funded by a great philanthropist, is one of the largest of its kind in europe. they owe the pharmacy man, i processed my products up at the time soon as a project that runs $365.00 days a year. oh my god, we still fine tuning it so you must 18 on the same. we still in the, in the pilot stage,

we still learning and adjusting on was on the original aim was to clean up 50 meters of shore line. then we decided to extend it to a 150 minutes. uh, because coming up on this uh, i got the, the the, the guy days guy, 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. so unless you already punch, repeat it as if the quote, a marine pollution effects our country and others in many different ways. if it hasn't got the highest 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 resident design. and because it doesn't stay on the be negotiable after some a copy of it obviously gets to the bottom. you can't beat it. has it also contaminants, water? the food on our plates. the even fish now contain caustic particle example capital among plastic. cool. what the form is, the type who and 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. pod quotes from i think, given that both democrats, the bar codes allow us to determine the origin, country, date and factory with the rubbish comes from it. but i'll then we can compile a database and analyze our findings for that level,

but if not them back when we can 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 even though given the problem is it's not enough to pick up the rubbish show. and then let me expand. we need to ensure that no more garbage ends up in the environment by taking action to avert and stopped the constant flow of waste into our seasons. maybe not the fall of san francisco, please. yes. under pressure from the general public researchers and activists, european union band, many single used plastic products in 2021. the hope is that eventually plastic plates, cups and straws will be banished from everyday life. with

a cotton that suffers from many other ecological up uses as well. many landscapes these days are increasingly devoid of birds on the buzzing of insects. nature has become troubling. lay silent. what's happened for thousands of years. human kind has coexisted comfortably with nature. a 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 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 saved the bees initiative and bavaria forced the local government to take radical steps to promote biodiversity. this demonstrates that citizens can act to protect in nature and are doing so across here. the 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 mileage just who became famous for having successfully reintroduced a rare species of butterfly. the large blue. 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 honestly is a very much a heat loving,

and i'm gram temperature is actually determined by the height of the steps across. so the tool is across grows the cooling of the grounds guides. and once that happens, let me because of the late fee is replaced by other spaces of bread, and this is why the bus light became extinct. and as a result of modern farming practices, cows disappeared from the meadows, upsetting the prevailing natural balance. the grass grew to answer driven out, and the large blue disappeared. it 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, 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 went site said recovered, we set about finding a suitable source of large blues to see if we really had recreated the habitat and to release them in person. was really fortunate to enjoy the phone and i like the end of the east coast to sweden for overland. where actually funds launch please. i had one of those moments that you any have once or twice in your life, arriving the lights in the evening. and the 1st thing that happened was a lot cleveland of my face i'm. it still gives, she was at my spot, thinking the backs it next dismissal. i'm here.

i was able to find eggs and we were able to bring it back to do i 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, the used to occur in the back 6 different regions in the u. k. and we've now got it established in 2 of those we could also show that maintaining the sites in a suitable condition for the large blue benefited many other spaces. we didn't have to 6 an objectively watch these things declining. we could actually do something of bachelor's. it's an iconic spaces and if we can

really save spaces like this, then we can, we can do anything of the there. achievement demonstrates that human intervention can be constructive. but that 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 their 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 between the button c in this coastal landscape, located in the netherlands, germany and denmark. human activity is reduced to a strict minimum. this so it has always been a haven and an important resting area for migratory birds. so it's, i'm, it's look, describe cool, the developer saying that they need to be able to then they link 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 that are possible even every year in the spring after wintering and africa, the birds fly off to nest in the north or a 10000 kilometer flight with

a vod and c marking the halfway point here, 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 hobbins. both full 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 low risk, pos and protecting assessment 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 hour. such can make that happen, that's what we're going to show if i look as well. data pertaining to the reason as well. industry is this, is it today we're trying to find some birds that we've already tacked and we know

goal the data 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. now we're going to tax off of this i, i that i filled in by the, of all the say your is an interest the day. this would be this both are compared to the vitamin c is an into title area. there are various different mudflaps which are underwood to at high tide and try at low tide. and this is happening constantly who called the school and the bugs follow the water line. i think so as soon as the mud flaps become accessible, the birds go there in search of food, should i? because that's where they can find the best on freshest things to eat, decides 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 more each year. what exactly does this mean for life here? the developers are using, you know, makes the button see is the dynamic and tremendously resilience system. and it's quite good. it's adjusting the site because the amount of time it's 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 acidity in this oil gives rise to a fascinating flora. including carnivorous plants,

the, the old fun had been protected since 1957. and with good reason, the peep bogs decompose plant remains, trapping their carbon in the soil. they are thus able to store 10 times more c o 2 than any other ecosystem. pete lens cover only 3 percent of the earth 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 huge primary forest are unique heritage and yet measures to protect them have failed miserably. these virgin forests, 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 region. under the child,

she has to dictatorship. it was largely out of balance for the public. the alarm of with talk of this report that i thought that i had the opportunity to see the hunting reservation was created, especially for chow. she has to be capital joe physically and people were afraid to hunt that for the rest of them. and there was little deforestation yet. oh, if there was actually a way of protecting natural larry is not to have it and that's why some of them still exist to them. i sure have him uncle. today the forest is protected by rangers like me, hi chic and his assistant there was a call for me, you know, said because of some very special place. the trees are so impressive. you almost want to help them protect you as much as i can. the, it's like a song, a split down the a little bit here for us. maybe i'm wrong. i see most of the ever see this now and

the humidity's seem to have changed in an old grow as far as the air is different. there is more humidity. these trees retain a lot of water, thanks time them was off with the data and there was to be systems in boyfriend throw, put the sticker. these are tree is a symbol for the natural far as kind of a. it is had a rough time, got it. but i think it is 300 years old for all of the might stand for another 20 to 30 years. but in time, we rushed from the inside to adjust the ways of it's huge, crowd will get too heavy and it will collapse around for the forest is a complete acre system fully intact, same company, it has great scientific value and it serves as a useful model automatic on on a students if you go, she come of them. in theory, romania is 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 this fall, gosh, mountains. so this should never have happened. if we say it's not like this and not in your sure. no, no me hi, chick 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 the long term solution . 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 had all but disappeared 30 years ago. what since then, it is become a protected nature reserve at home to an array of biodiversity. your money domenici is in charge of this kind of the nature reserve. what's your

usual most? yep. i started diving into protected maritime area of scan to law. then i started driving 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 phone, the piece of mind to cheat the shift. and there is incredible by diversity in the protected areas is an incredible treasure and indispensable, downstairs and abundance of practically post the easy, but especially bigger fish, with reproduction, right? many times higher than smaller fish and lots of discounts to see it as a distinctive scandalized is that regulation is a definitely to the management of habitat spaces. and that the regulation is followed. it needs to be more than just the law for just when regulation is respected and specific goals for its management of followed. nature responds. we

will create environmental assets that the development was, the national parks, a very strong economic drive is that can have a positive effect on the local or even national level. see not for the shown, the cost of you today. fishermen understand that a natural was a benefit, does it results in great, efficient dogs which go beyond the borders of the reserve 6. once fishermen understand that they've understood everything so that the company 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 nature often blurs the . but what happens to these bio chops when left to their own devices? this can be seen in our studios in northern spain,

the. this time a single moment until you get lost cbs home on that. we're seeing that the human activity underway and 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 scientists are back. don't have to assign, just need to have a hole in this. that's 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 out us. we're very close now to camera is positioned here. that's allow, is to monitor things weakly. some repulsively, it's quite likely that some bears a wandering around somewhere right now. and then it's almost half an hour, have gone a sofa. when we began, there were only 13 barriers here, only. let's see the amounts or possibly over 300 in the area we work and it's the fastest growing population in europe is stuck with you and going to get their name with with it is i think that 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 about the leave it up to come in $10.00 to $3030.00. the

a tv most of most are holding this stuff. i'm being happy with true. we can see a young bear digging into blueberry bushes. august almost be here is a female bear with our clubs digging open until looking for an larvae to eat what's kinda lost. a lot of us are lots of mucous, but uh, the meant that said a 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 fats tend to stick to one area. while wild boars and foxes travel long distances within the urban bio till the some 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? susan wound home with beauty, visits, keeping habits, and areas and by diversity, not mutually exclusive. and so this candidates and should not be left to chance and it needs to be planned, just need to plan. and this requires close cooperation between biologist ecologists landscape plan as well. and architect simon on the i'd take them to take note of indian thomas. how is a landscape architect? he and his team have developed a new approach to urban planning, in an attempt to boost biodiversity in urban spaces. the hum do me to the animal aided the so we have developed the animal a to 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 doing degree in this animal. assisted design is used in planning in berlin, munich, and london. the concept is evidence of a wider rethink that's now under way 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 provide them here in western europe on the west. are these objective is usually

ambitious to create a $70000.00 hector sanctuary of forest straddling 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 pay more than 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, but i think it's you don't. but you controversial project that will last several centuries place you not long ago on these 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. who

takes definitely won't be out of bounds to the public already, but for people sometimes say such will be a century. so they don't like these terms. the visits was not to only be allowed to encourage slushy. the one condition, however, helped with them. but as the people respect what surround stomach, it is on to the in europe. nature has always been used and then shaped in the process, which in turn shaped those that lived 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. the

in good shape. we're being constantly exposed to substances that are toxic to our bodies. how do we protect ourselves? and our bodies from talks in the ones found in nature and created in manufacturing

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