humor, again, sexism, concerns women, rise up in reporter this weekend on dw, stay up to date. don't miss our highlights. the t w program online, d, w dot com highlights the l forest, places of peace and century, unimportant regulations about climate. but this can, you have a ton of faces, a growing threat from increasingly frequent devastating forest fires. you may have heard of that. 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, science sizes,

squaring up to new challenges. this team, the issue of fighting forest by isn't qualifies as being neglected for a long time. it's been a minor part of 5 fight as training programs, but now many fund advises having a rethink, throwing their weight behind new strategies. and oh no how? it's only been to me, we need to be changing the landscape. investing much more in prevention meets our goal to completely recovers the forest. the worst case, the almost to 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 follow sizes in the condemned 1st forest on the canary islands. one of them is to be as homeless

and manager with ad, find it to them and dissolves to management and g. o, far as far as i want to see organizations, specializations isn't yes. we're here on grand canal are we are 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. after another briefing, we'll be off when i get to see how this is joined by 18 other participants from full countries. the technique that ending today may sound crazy at 1st, the assessing funded to the forest as a protective measure. cheat, drought mean grand canal areas. pine forest are dry as a bone. they can go up in flames at any time. the prescribed bones are tried and tested prevention method here, 55 to add to it tells them an e mail has been running closest for years. so munition motion 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. you've got to work with it on quite a swell. a sudden that means tough physical look removing brush, creating 5 brakes. the 55 is from the u. k. poland gemini, and spain to be as follows, is a volunteer as far as 5 pfizer in regular life. he's a paramedic, like many of the others who's paid the cost be out of his own pocket. 1500 euros. and as i was like, we're doing it alongside our main jobs, giving it our heart and soul. your mind is 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

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 foundation. the international organizations specializes in far as defined management and prevention. i'll be in position 3. tie in one is 2. 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

crosses, 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 firefighters in northern europe need more experience. paul coast foundation, co founder one come on you is working to bridge that gap a south related to running country where we have been suffering fires for many years. but now it's something new to many northern european countries. so the network does everything because the way that we can exchange that experience, i'm not the,

the grand canaria exercise was tough, but instructive as much fancy just 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 i'm getting into space. 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 some others 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 itself. for a long time ago, the team of volunteers baffles the ground, fired with hose and shovels. alexander maia is in charge of as all other anything

brown has to go. it's all humans and it's burning and smouldering. and 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 off today was completely secured by an expos tip of so that'll slow things down source and hospice. you at funding now has about 500 members. the association was founded 20 years ago to help southern european font crews during p qualify as the the know how to gain the lease 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 recently is more hot and dry periods have further increased the term so far as the bias. but until recently,

local fire services have been focusing on other kinds of emergencies. to forget the traffic accident an apartment fire requires different protective equipment. then if i'm out in the woods, it's obvious from my clothing. 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 fighting 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 alpha is to plug these non it's got. that's why they pulsing all know how gathered abroad to find fighting colleagues in germany. on the outskirts of eva spotted, and brandenburg to men of devising ways to save all forests, engineer, cost, and think shorter and forestry scientists do yoga. mila are going to high tech rate . right. so we've got our hot plate here. now we're going to load with the material

. doesn't look like they've prepared a special experiment in their own lab. oh, and that's home of my vision, william, i'm but west simulating as far as fi which admits 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. census 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 mackenzie image deals on. they call the device an electronic notice software and reveals whether the smouldering fire has been detected. who has a moment please to. it's a 1st reaction. yes. there's

a quarter of increase cost. find the test in the lab is a success plane showed his team updates every improvement, straight away in early forest by detection. every 2nd counts because it would hope us to look right because the flips them yet. so here we've got the finished product with the solar cell and here the guest sensor with a 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 distance. 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 5 station indignation town of vega in spain. $55.00 said money when lopez rodriguez is doing the hand of the $45.00 pose. the 45 is the great. so it's all in order, right? yes, ma'am lopez rodriguez has been working for the bump barrows for almost 30 years. he's deeply concerned about the sharp increase in forest fires,

many of which now reach the edges of the town. the people say that 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. for some months if i finish woke up at the time on us of all the countries in europe, spain is one of the worst effected by forest bias. on 2022 was a re quote, breaking yeah. move in 300000 texas. went up in flames in the mileage. is it really normal that every summer, thousands of heck, there's of land to burn? no, no, it's not natural at all west for sure. natural forest fires do break out and the not like this. you can see thing 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, ok, most, cadillac veto is surrounded by highly flammable motor causes. that's why the fi to is attacking the reset. the problem engine is free,

time exchanging has 55. thank you for calling me to welcome i to a bit more. i don't know why 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 root 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 a good, a huge amount of cultures. if you can look just and australian blackwood were planted in spain for the woods and paper industry. the fostering trees are now out of control in many places, making them a serious folio risk, the, the plantations of games and the ground as strongly as a bone ideal conditions for forest fire.

so you can see here very clearly how close together the trees can be in an acacia forest. it might as well be gun powder t to know what that is, especially if you consider that these trees are pyro fights. doesn't mean a species that advances the spread of fire. the full power of 5 plants need fire to reproduce the 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 the local school children he found it his own association to carry out the work. now a community of volunteers looks off to the forest around vehicle the this one is easy to pull out fatal,

but this one is much more difficult. something must not, that's a long branch, and it's much more complicated muscle, because once 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, but stays cooler and more human, which did test by a few kilometer is further on the fruits of the day. the already visible this is where the file size, the 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's pcs i can show you here. most of them. it was funny for example. mean almost hopefully you can see how the laurels are really thriving . oh scott, why you're just like the oaks here seem to be lucky. there's a crab apple tree over there, the must say that,

but i did as such as trees now form attends 10 and p of leaves fairly punishable by the rays of the sun. despite the high temperature as it stays humid here, making for a fire resistant forrest a still more, i'm very proud to have stuck with this project project run by an entire community. but i mean, it's something that gives my life a purpose. and that is simply 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 of them and then it's not looking good a shuttle by people coming. that's also why the firefighter and 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 as thomas and his colleagues from f file sharing new far is fine. know how with the volunteer 55 is me

shall do a pump and roll here and rob and i'll take you through the tools. can 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 with me. i think we're just getting group one, this group 2 of the place you fired from them. the fire brigades should learn to safely master the basics of finding wildfire software. 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 done with the most important selection of the devastation. fi isn't in. it's the local fire brigade sold help from the specialist club and show that demonstrates the tools needed for the job. steve o, this is a good glue. that's not a german name. it comes from portugal in spain, from gets it multi to them. it has its disadvantages, it's the heaviest tool, as you'll see when we start shopping knocking. but although it's exhausting, look,

it will help to send the fi later. the exercise is assessed for until they pause them on who's been volunteering with good for 5 years. and this is also, yeah, it's the 1st time i've used anything like this. we don't usually do basic stuff like this. i mean this one, but i'm really going for it. no, it's hard work. awesome, and it is an engineer working and renewables. he's a q t aware of the danger that lies ahead. brandon book is one of the most ard states in germany. that's policy due to the region sunday terrain which tries out quickly . as temperatures rise more walter evaporates plants and soil with the exacerbating drought conditions. the tiniest spot could trigger a catastrophe, is the 1st with desertification to protect it for this region in the coming decades . what we're doing here is increasingly important network. 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, the 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 55 is used in houses and work directly on the fire the training for the real thing. forest fire expert to be us. hello,

sits the field on fire? this is the flames. don't jump the brakes. the bail. it's 55 has have done everything, right. i think that's what we want. now you can see what we learned to this morning. i've got a 5 that's totally wind driven. if there wasn't a break, that you could always trap the fly from behind. many of the kind of hard to the new to the cleared strips defined the fire only the wind could dangerously found the flames. now, the professionals demonstrate what happens then the patient spot fire westerly direction spot fire to the west. there's a feature, roger that will move in the firefights has get the flames quickly on the control with just a few lease is the voice of any embers 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 with that. what i have is definitely there are plenty of take away that i learned a lot that things i've never done before. i want to be honest and his crew also please verify your game and we provide the impetus and then it's up to the volunteer brigade 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 in stain prevention with counts and the suppose a 4 legged 5 fight is almost 300 coats live here on the farm. and alicia, northern spain, 55 so many way lopez rodriguez hopes they will help him password protect as far as from any future places. and high one was this with 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 for us when, which is precisely how these gods can help to prevent wild fires is demonstrated by the animals and how some federal jiminez the farm is in central calisha surrounded by expanse of woodland. to stop these forests from catching fire came off some federal jimenez. the took goats deposits are in the wood every day. each animal munches its way through, up to 3 to those of grosse and hey, every day the animals 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 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 they'll show the go to keep the gorse and check with them, and disco doesn't, you're not going to ask you normally study of what are they going to. 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, aggregate 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 european study office proves that these animal species reduce deadwood and forest. bringing goes back into the woods, can considerably less than the risk of fine. uh, it opens, i've got an advert forestry practices are declining because real populations are also into kind 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 thing things even though i'd like to see if my experience could serve as an example of a sampler lopez rodriguez is sold on the idea of animals carrying out fire prevention work. he wants to bring goats into his woods, very soon, pen, my suspicion our society needs many more people like him, a big issue on people with a vision, with conviction, what courage and engagement companies 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 forests strategy that could be exposed to other nations. in brandon book, things like getting serious. it's crunch time for the electronic forest fire sniff is costing playing, show it to and is team all testing the early warning system. will it look? okay,

so click bring the green material here. please. close to the fireball forestry scientist. you have to mila has been fascinated by wildfire, since he was a boy. speeds you know. i grew up here in shore. ida, i saw wildfire. at the age of 10. i saw the destruction and the animals running away. he ended his date with may. 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 gang. they catch fire quickly and take the flames to residential areas punctual to hopes. 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 threat and a threat that's already there. and that we're all sensing and saying good ones in

a and king. so the 1st of the team sets up a network of sentence and detecting final gases and sounding via 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 in 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 out by satellites and radium offs. today's testify 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, one 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 to monks. a sensor has to have the 1st one's already gone off right here. that one. that's why to the 2nd this month's really sick now comfortable if you only i just said please tell it. oh, that's amazing. that's brilliant. funny. i look how fast you've seen fires. you have to how the pores is burned and we're able to locate a potential fire before it gets underway. came from dias that so i can a little mini fire the sense is really do and show a 5 sizes are ahead of the game. you the money off the smoke hasn't even reach the tree top and they've already sensed enough to 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 in germany, the us, spain and greece already ordered sensors ahead of the 2023 wild fire season. i'm incentive for playing so to and milan 2 for the 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 strengths of wild fires, auto swipe under this you to europe and other regions around the world are facing the prospect of new, perhaps even more devastating wild fires to protect our far as we need to act, there's no time to waste. the

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