series. 45 minutes on d, w. these places in europe are the record step into a little bit venture pizza, the treasure map for modern globetrotters, discover some of us record breaking site on google maps to and now also in book form the outsource places of peace and century. unimportant regulations of our climates, but this key habitat faces a growing threat from increasingly frequent devastating forest fires. in america, we've been seeing the effects of climate change for years now in germany to this year's fires were catastrophic. you know, and we can expect to repeat. the problem is excessive base it by rising

temperatures. aridity, droughts, 5 sizes, squaring up to new challenges. this team, the issue of fighting forest buys and wild flies has been neglected for a long time. it's been a minor part of 55 is training programs, but now many fund advises are having a rethink, throwing their weight behind new strategies. and oh no how? it's only been and we need to be changing the landscape, investing much more in prevention expense. our goal is to completely re covers a forest. at the worst case we've got must be complete. the protecting of forests has never been more urgent. can we save them the showing the fire, whose boss asks the job of these fully as sizes in the cabinet,

for as far as on the canary islands. one of them is to be as thomas a manager with at fire a tim and dissolves to management, n t o. forrest biased i one of the organizations specializations. it wasn't just, we're here on grand canal area getting ready for the control burn. that's going to happen here on the mountain, you'll come back and we're putting on our protective gear with us. after another briefing, we'll be off when i get those symbols. how this is joined by 18 of the participants from full countries. the technique that dunning today may sound crazy at 1st, the settings fire to the forest as a protective measure. cheat um, drought mean grand canal areas, pine forest, or dry as a bone. they can go up in flames at any time. the prescribed bones are tried and tested prevention method here, $55.00 to add to toes. i'm an e mail has been running close is for years municipal. since for a long time,

we just focused on putting out the fire fighting the fire will you have to not. and at some point is we realize that you can't and cycle to fire washing that you've got to work with it. and coordinates will or not means tough physical look removing brush, creating 5 brakes. the 55 is a from the u. k, thailand. gemini, and spain to be as follows. is the button t as far as 556 in regular life. he's a paramedic, like many of the others, he's paid the cost be out of his own pocket. 1500 euros. in your mind as i was like, we're doing it alongside our main jobs, giving it our heart and soul. now we're also carrying out prescribed burns of increasingly large areas in germany, and we're applying exactly what we've learned here down to here. so i reckon it's money well spent and most of all the time, well invested funding prescribed funding is already common practice in many places,

including the us, australia and southern europe and know it's playing and increasingly crucial role. so the north america has, like we've been seeing the effects of climate change for years now in germany to this year's fires were catastrophic. and we can expect to repeat with these exercises of being organized by the spanish poll cost of foundations. the international organizations specializes in far as defined management and prevention . i'll be in position 3. tie in one of us to us we do 100 to of to the all do is preparation. the file is on. now let participants start small for us with special kind of status. the flames quickly with 3 drawing needles. brush and bronx is the area we're burning now won't burn during the next vegetation phases, it will all be nice and green for the next few years. each fire images,

climate can is c o 2 into the atlas van. but the control then encourages the growth of new cross is bushes and trees. they bind the previously mentioned volume of c o 2, making for a close cycle through there if it's held us and the other volunteers are clearing far as debris and preventing the spread of a blaze that could jump to the trees. this approach to forest fi prevention is windy, practiced in southern europe, but 55 has in northern europe. need more experience paul coast foundation, co founder one come on. you is working to bridge that gap or south or mediterranean countries where we have been suffering fires for many years. but now it's something new to many northern european countries. so the network is everything because the way that we can exchange that experience,

i'm not the, the grand canaria exercise was tough but instructive as much positive. it was a positive experience and we want to get people in germany more familiar with the idea of tactical fires, as well as showing that fire doesn't always have to be a bad thing, but between it's a state. this is the ad fire association has demonstrates that the importance of methods like these several times. like in 2022 in the eastern german state of saxony. as a valid fire raged, specialists were called in to help the is it so much as you can see how the humans underneath has completely burned out, leaving the entire area open. it will continue to slowly small the and gradually disintegrate. to go for a long time ago, the team of volunteers baffles the ground,

fired with hose and shovels. alexander maia is in charge of the other. anything brown has to go. it's all humans and it's burning and smouldering them just like on grand canal area, they use breaks to keep the flames in check and carry out prescribed bones in the woods. this prevents the fire from devouring any more if the ground is obviously it's exhausting. but it's working the entire area up to day. it was completely secured by an exposure, but so that'll slow things down source. and we'll see you at funding now has about 500 members. the association was founded 20 years ago to help southern european font crews during peak vault pharmacies and the know how i gained on these missions as turning out to be useful back home. germany as well and 5 risk has been steadily rising since the 19 seventy's. and recent, he is more hot and dry periods have further increase the term so far as bias. but

until recently, local fire services have been focusing on other kinds of emergencies. difficult and traffic accident. an apartment fire requires different protective equipment. then if i'm out in the woods and it's obvious from my clothing, and it's all stand and a single layer, but still 5 per se, so that you can work 8 hours or a whole day in the blazing sunshine. the issue of finding forest buys and wild flies has been neglected for a long time. it's been a minor part of 5 fighters training. one of the goals of ad fine is to plug these knowledge got. that's why they pulsing all know how gathered abroad to find fighting colleagues in germany on the outskirts of eva, spider and brandenburg to men of devising ways to save all forests, engineer cost and think shorter and forestry scientist young and middle are going

to high tech rate go ahead, so we've got our hot plate here. now we're going to load with the material to some of the are they prepared, especially experiment in their own lab or and that's home of my visibility, and i can vote waste simulating as far as fi which emits the same gases that would be released in a real blaze and it's still just a very small fire, like a cigarette on the 1st floor, often by the board. at the other end is a device that could turn out to be something of a revolution sensor that learn how to sniff out a forest fire. and it's very early stages and uses ends with the sensors. sniff, smell the smoke and register that smell, outcome, and the next time they're able to detect an incipient fire mckenzie and steals problems. they call the device and electronic notice software and reveals whether the smouldering fire has been detected. who has a moment please to it's

a of health reaction. yes. there's a quarter of okay. increase the cost by the test in the lab is a success plane showed his team updates every improvement, straight away in early forest fi detection. every 2nd counts because i would hope best of luck and i think it's been the piedmont flips them yet . so here we've got the finished product with the solar cell and here the guest sensor with the membrane on the gas. and so it is the key element of the electronic knows what's the help of artificial intelligence. it can detect individual gases in the air. at the tiniest wisp of smoke, it sounds the alarm, the technology is powered by climate friendly. so the energy that 30 member international team is now working on enhancing the technology at 2 locations because every forest smells different

things. so it's not a training. the nose is to recognize a variety of plants. so the senses can also be used in forest around the world. they don't keep mistakes. i'm optimistic that what we've established in the lab can be implemented in the forest. invite them that the shift change at the finest ation. indignation town of pico in spain. $55.00 for the money where lopez rodriguez is doing the hand of the $45.00 hose. the 45 of the great. so it's all in order. right? yes. lopez rodriguez has been working for the bump barrows for almost 30 years. he's deeply concerned about the shop

increase in forest fires, many of which now reach the edges of the town. if with these i can, for example, from here we can see a scorched eucalyptus forest. on the other side of the day, there was a fire there about 3 or 4 weeks ago. it got hung up once a month if i finish real capital, say minus of all the countries in europe, spain is one of the worst effected by forest bias. on 2022 was a re quote, breaking yeah. more than 300000 tech tests went up in flames in the model. is it really normal that every summer, thousands of heck, there's of land to burn? no, no, it's not natural at all. what for sure. natural forest fires do break out and only, but not like this. if you don't see anything difficult self, we want to stop the forest from burning every summer. but then once we need to start thinking about what kind of forest we want, okay, most cadillac, i never vigo is surrounded by highly flammable mono cultures. that's why the 55 to

is attacking the wish. if the problem engine is free, time exchanging has 55 thank you for calling me to welcome i a bit more, i don't know. 5, is it moving? okay, let's go for his targeting sauce, dining space, ease of tree, which is how much we're using these clamps to pull these australian blackwood side of the ground with the whole route if possible, right. even if some of it stays in the ground, the tree won't grow back to the left that nobody ever been. i could assist huge motor cultures if you can look just under strictly in blackwood, were planted in spain for the wood and paper industry. the fostering trees are now out of control in many places, making them a serious folio risk, the, the plantations of things on the ground as strongly as a bonus. ideal conditions for forest fire.

so you can see here very clearly how close together the trees can be, and then the case of forest it might as well be gun powder t to know what that is. especially if you consider that these trees are pyre of fights. doesn't need a species that advances the spread of fire. the full power of 5 plants need fire to reproduce these seats on each of the nights when exposed to high temperatures. so trees, lots of blackwood acacia thrive when it burns. but what's useful for the tree is a threat to us humans. that's why i'm unaware. lopez rodriguez is slowly changing the fabric of the forest with the help of local school children. he found that his own association to carry out the world now a community of volunteers looks off to the forest around vehicle.

this one is easy to pull out fatal, but this one is much more difficult. sometimes it's not a, that's a long branch, and it's much more complicated, must complete all the bones, these natural fire, etc, runs, have been removed the replaced by variety of ceilings, elda, hazelnut, the volunteers, plus many different species of tree. this creates a climate friendly mixed forest that stays cooler and more human, which did test by a few kilometer is further on the fruits of the already visible. this is where the fi so initiation his project off to 25 years. the area has grown into a healthy mixed forest. killed us 50 is, was for the let's see what species i can show you here. most of them, it was for the, for example, meet almost hopefully you can see how the laurels are really thriving. oh, sky, yours just like the oaks here seem to be and lucky there is

a crab apple tree over there. the must say, you know by that is such as trees now form attends kind of p of leaves fairly pennant. tribble by the rays of the sun. despite the high temperatures, it stays humid here, making for a fire resistant forest, a full moon. i'm very proud to have stuck with this project project run by an entire community. i mean, it's something that gives my life a purpose, and that is indeed because i believe we're at a decisive point in the history of civilization and humanity that, and i study of the if we don't take real action for the month, i mean, then it's not looking good instead of by book, i mean that's also why the firefighter and the environmental list has some other interesting ideas of his sleeve involving animals and brandenburg. the bandits, fire brigade is beginning a training exercise to be

a thomas and his colleagues from at fire, a sharing new 1st fine, know how with the volunteer firefighters. me shall do a pump and roll here. and robin will take you through the tools and you see the goal for today is that each station can practice on the fire or and keep it under control. the have fun and good luck to me. i think we're just getting the group one this group to i think he placed the funds on them. the fire brigades should learn to safely master the basics of fighting wildfire. so that means conserving water, not least due to climate change. they also need to get out of the vehicle and use tools to put out the fire and some of the most important selection of the devastation fires. and then it's the local fire brigade source help from the specialist club. and sheila demonstrates the tools needed for the job position. this is a good clue. that's not a german name. it comes from portugal in spain come gets it multi to them. it has its disadvantages. it's the heaviest tools,

as you'll see when we start chopping nothing, but although it's exhausting, look, it will help to send the fi later. the exercise is assessed for until he paused them on his been volunteering with the brigade for 5 years and nothing his office is. yeah, it's the 1st time i've used anything like this. we don't usually do basic stuff like this, but i'm really going for it. no, it's hard work. awesome, and as an engineer working in renewables, he's acutely aware of the danger that lies ahead. brandenburg is one of the most ard states in germany. that's policy due to the region sunday terrain, which dries out quickly. as temperatures rise, move over to evaporates plants and soil with a exacerbating drought conditions. the tiniest spot could trigger a catastrophe. so you go and your 1st lights desertification protected for this region in the coming decades. what we're doing here is increasingly important.

we're already feeling the effects of climate change. it's a similar picture even further to the north recent burial forest fires in siberia, alaska and canada reeked have ox, c o. 2 emissions from world fires have spike drastically in recent years. in 2021, they released twice as much c o 2. as global aviation presenting bald fires on putting the brakes on climate change at fine. it is preparing fire brigades for the future limited. whenever we're out in the vehicle, we try to stay power low. it's fine if the vehicle is a slight distance from the fire oil, the shining demonstrates an efficient water saving technique for putting out fire safety. vicki ready? yes, it's good. with the pump and roll method, the firefighter is used in houses and work directly on the fire.

they training for the real thing for is fine, expect to be as follows, sets the field on fire is the flames. don't jump the brakes. the bell, it's 55 has have done everything right. i paid it off of your now you can see what we learned this morning. i've got a phi that's totally wind driven. if there wasn't a break, that you could almost track the fly from behind. maybe it's kind of hard to the new the kid strips to find the fire. only the wind could dangerously found the flames. now, the professionals demonstrate what happens then. a reset spot, fire westerly direction spot fire to the west. there's a feature, roger that will move in the firefighters, get the flames quickly under control with just a few lease. is the voice at any embassy a put out with tools for the business brigade. this was an illuminating day. yeah,

yeah, it was great. really interesting. also to see what's possible without what else we have is definitely there are plenty of take away that i learned a lot that things i've never done before. to be honest and his crew also please verify the game and we provide the impetus and then it's up to the volunteer brigades to run with the ideas because god body could fit that the training ahead of the next well 5 season, which is starting earlier. and earlier, here in germany to the in stain prevention with accounts of the suppose a 4 legged 5 fight is almost 300 coats live here on the farm and delicious northern spain, 55 so many way lopez rodriguez, hopes they will help him faster, protect his forest from any future places. and high one was this because i've heard

so much about you. i really want it to meet you. yeah. good or bad stuff? no, the only good, only. good. well, i'm good. when, which is precisely how these gods can help to prevent wildfires is demonstrated by the animals and how some federal jiminez. the farm is in central kenesha surrounded by expense of woodland to stop these forests. from catching fire came off some federals jimenez. the took goats deposits are in the wood every day. each animal munches its way through, up to 3 chinos across and hey, every day the animal spend all the time grazing on the undergrowth, along with cross small branches, dry wood, and leaves also on the menu, all of it, honey flammable steel. this is a gorse bush but one of the biggest,

the contributors to the spread of fire and we do when they dry out in the summer. it's like they form highways for the flames. they provide to me. but here's that they'll show the goats keep the gorse and check with them. and cisco tells me you're not going to ask you normally study of what are they going through. it's a natural and effective way to prevent find the phone and lives from the sale of the goats means far as maintenance is a simple but practical out on in the past. accurate forestry with animals was also common place in countries like germany. the forest was used as a positive for goats, cheap accounts. but as livestock removed into stools, the practice was precaution, occurring to europe and study office proves that these animals, the seas reduce, deadwood and forest. bringing goes back into the woods, can considerably less than the risk of buying opens. i've got an adverb forestry practices are declining because real populations are also in decline, like hardly anyone lives in the country anymore. there aren't any shepherds like

that's because it's getting harder and harder to make a living from farming. if your business is an intensive agriculture, i put them in things in c panel. i'd like to see if my experience could serve as an example of a sampler. midway, lopez rodriguez is sold on the idea of animals carrying out fire prevention work. he wants to bring ghost into his woods very soon. pen, my suspicion our society needs many more people like him, a thing. why this young people with a vision with conviction, courage and engagement companies, you know, they strongly otherwise, but she wants to make the world a better place to get into that listed window, which will allow them to your rekindling old traditions, to protect the forest strategy that could be exposed to other nations and brandon book, things like getting serious. it's crunch time for the electronic forest bias. sniff is costing playing shortly to and his team of testing the early warning system.

will it look okay. so big green the green material here, please. close to the fireball forestry scientist jo camilla has been fascinated by wild fire since he was a boy. that is big enough. i grew up here and shaw ida, i saw wildfire. at the age of 10, i saw the destruction and the animals running away. he ended his date with me. the 50, as the forestry scientist knows that the local connoisseurs pose a particular risk. 70 percent of old forest and brandenburg. a pine forest, a veritable powder keg. they catch fire quickly and take the flames to residential areas. punctual to hoops. his electronic noses will put a stop to that. i can, this is the time really is running out is we need to act rapidly on a huge scale to counter this, threaten

a threat that's already the and that we're all sensing and saying good ones in a and king. so the 1st, the team sets up a network of sense and detecting final gases and sounding the non one sense is enough for one heck to a sensor like this costs around 50 years to ensure health arrives as fast as possible. the signal has to get through a kid happens a lot, you're walking in the woods and at some point there's no mobile signal to solve that problem with setting up our own network and the forest using what's known as mesh gateways. the types of homes over not mesh gate base. these mesh gateways function like internet route is powered by so the energy, the sensors carry the alarm signal to the gateway on the edge of the forest. from here, the data is sent to an advice, satellites, and radium offs. today's test fi is secured by the volunteer fire brigade. white font, we've got a larger group today. they want to observe as well. usually the fire brigade is

only aware of the fi once smoke has already started rising over the forest. but the senses we pulled the font as soon as it stops on the ground. each green spots on the computer monks has sense it has to have the 1st one's already gone off right here. that one despite the 2nd this month's really sick now called the last long list, i just said, please tell me. oh, that's amazing. that's brilliant. when you look how fast you've seen fires, you have to have the pores, it's burned, and we're able to locate a potential fire before it gets underway. came bronchitis that so i can a little many fire the sense is really do and show a 5 sizes are ahead of the game cubic money off the smoke hasn't even reach the tree top and they've already sensed it not through this early detection would give us a time advantage of 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour, at least one minutes. now,

the system could potentially nip destructive places in the bought customers and terminate the us thing. and grease already ordered sensors ahead of the 2023 wild fire season. an incentive for playing so to and mila to further home to technology . and then we'll develop other senses to measure ground humidity and growth density to mess. so how vision is to provide the forest with comprehensive protection and not just against the acute stress of wild fires. auto swipe under this you to europe and other regions around the world of facing the prospect of new perhaps even more devastating wild fires to protect our far as we need to act. there is no time to waste the

opportunity to what we're doing. we need to become a sustainable as possible, and that's why a green revolution was absolutely necessary. european agriculture is facing major challenges. the future is being determined. now. you have revealed the last talk in all series. 15 minutes on d, w. ico, india. how can a country's economy grow in harmony, visits, people, and the environment. when there are doors, look at the bigger picture, india, a country that faces many challenges. engines, people are striving to create a sustainable future. deliver projects from europe and india, india. 90 minutes on the dw,

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