tends to be within reason what is it really is possible to reverse the researchers and scientists all over the world for a no race against time. they are peers and rivals with one daring goals to help smart nature. the more likes watching it. on youtube, dw documentary, the we often forget that this planet does not belong just to us. it is also shared by magnificent creatures as the planets belongs to them as much as industrial. hello

and welcome. i'm sorry to cut the body and you'll watching it going down. and why are these creatures have had a bus well just to live, but also try the non natural environment we have made their lives living. and this episode is all about those people who are trying to change this and help save our bio diversity a. okay, imagine this, it's late june or the july. it's a warm evening and right as dusk steps and you'll see tiny spect so flight in the is close to the trees, but nothing to worry. this just means that fireflies have entered project. but did you know that fireflies are close to extinction because of habitats loss best to size and artificial light? well as a community our driveway community in the west and state of my head astra. which is trying to do something to help save these fireflies and work on their phones of these the say you are there is that an imposing mountain region west and india,

as douglas falls over them, a very special light comes on the bio luminous and lights of the fireflies, while a female is slight to some weights on the ground, male fly around lighting up the sky and looking for that perfect meet the one man who is very invested in this phenomenon is almost but fun time. and then to monitor just the fire flavor, basically the beatles. okay, a little bit of color flavors that actually beat those that are fuel on this planet . communicate with the light signal. so firefly that one of the to this natural phenomenon has done it to a popular tourist attraction. organize must be a camp sites. firefly festivals have been drawing, taurus and hordes. one festival and the other tribal village of british bodies stands out. it is led entirely by the brutal community that organizes expeditions

for urban travelers. the villages residents work as local guides who shared that experiences with fireflies. so i guess not the kind of guys overlooked that they, i mean that we did the door is the spots, but they can be seen in abundance. it could, if they tell them about what scenes they like to sit on, how often they come out and know why the glue in the night may take got some of that. that was done for not me, i know, but it, i've gotten this on the eva, so this tribal community firefly tourism has done into a unique livelihood opportunity. right in the backyard. more than a 100 families take part in hosting tourist showing them what router life is like, including 2 traditional means. each family owns it on $3000.00 rupees or $33.00 euros a month. but this is a red case of locals benefiting as well as

a gentle form of tourism. normally 5 by festivals in my head. i start our cause for concern among why life was the firefly. 51 of a lot of going to have of that correct. uh, least in the view of picking good portals they need to be made aware of that. what do you see on the plan is only the mean when you walk and you have the plan for the killing of female, which is walking down below the lawyer. the police are not be allowed to go and the out of that 3 because the communication will be disappeared apart from that. the female or a really good kid. so if they have to the, you know, make demolition with them for got into the over 20 different firefly festivals organized by various to operators across my roster. but they differ from this one. doris i lot to offers of loud music bodies every night. barbecue is and camp fires sounded. light pollution from these activities are among the biggest threats to

fireflies which need darkness to survive. my basically call to just on, on spend a good has been fighting against us so far, which had from the forest apartments. he has identified festivals that cause a disturbance and has managed to put a stop to some of the commercial activities. unfortunately, i'd be very harsh to see that the tourism operator groups who are taking people firefly for students have 0 understanding of fireplace. they don't know the species, they gives the heater information, they just go to see that. and then they have glittering lights, which i put out. and this is firefighters to that is, you know, that's not going to be fine. a lack of studies and knowledge about fireflies have already led to a significant decline habitat loss due to oven development. pesticides and vehicles of traffic have also contributed. and this has left a big impact on more species than just fireflies. fireplace are basically predatory

in nature. they are hunters that have this small, but a very important condos in the forest. so they control is the population of the car, dogs that control the population of many other. you know me, flies and get his flies and several other insect which can become bessler's. so they had ruled as best control, is very, very large. so any number of, of drop in the number of fireflies, again, have a direct impact on the forest with their livelihoods closely, intertwined with the beat and species. the butterfly, the community tells us they are overcautious about the barrels of commercialization doors here. i mean to, to the line, including with fools, like no, use a flashlight, a new overcrowding much. they bought a ticket that done it. they've been some doris even tried to catch the fireflies some but we don't allow them to do the poker. nice fireflies, a dining and fragile and will immediately die if you catch them. you know,

we educate the daughter is that the seas will be deals with the short legs when i and the beauty of nature is best enjoyed by watching and then to the light of the firefly. not only symbolizes its own health, but that of the forest. the local community and the entire ecosystem would stick the regulations and move on to stores of the fireflies light can know for a long time to come. busy how, what do you feel if someone gap charge you and put you inside a cage and sold you off against your really sounds pretty hardwood, right? well this is something that is frequently done to exotic, unprotected animals cross border, illegal animal smuggling. is those yielding w w. f estimates that'd be in the good buy life trade business is a 10000000000 dollar business and it is on the rise. her heart is still in the wild with no. can you live in an enclosure in

a spanish animal shelter? there on a country. the female clouded leopard is only 11 months old, but she has suffered greatly caregiver belly died as nursing her back to health clink, outside of the yellow, she was confiscated from a private owner who had neglected her. that meant she must have been poorly fed from the start of my life, and she's even gone blind of the private breeder now has to face the authorities for violating the convention on international trade in endangered species. the east asian founded leopards is also an endangered species. so can you is a rarity spain has become a gateway for a legally traded exotic species. the police often find them when inspect the ships arriving in a country from the nearby continent of africa. maria pay us their works for

a special environmental crime unit. in passenger luggage here that the airports, she's found birds, snakes, and tortoises. for the kids, so sad. the left side topic will be so ruthless, people have no key who would be alone in a cage for 5 years. the illegal imports of protected animals are rising. in 2022 smuggling into spain increased by more than half compared to the previous year. full service and 3 minutes. total organized criminals are often behind it up to notify ability. think of something that can be, need contacts from the country of origin to find the animals in it, and you need a network in europe to import them and they will seal this is a highly profitable business. vincent cable to a monkey. for example, if mike cost $5.00 or 6 years in africa,

and here it can fetch 2000 euros or more high level or include so much according to the world wildlife fund, this global business is worth billions. sophia says the illegal animal trade comes 3rd after drugs and weapons, but its impact is underestimated to dinner. and i think of that. and also i'm going to go to as arms trafficking and drug smuggling or taken more seriously. more effort is put into enforcement, wiley and border bung. illegal animal trafficking is just a serious, but it isn't seen a search. it's not pursued and prosecuted as often that makes these crimes even more lucrative for the 30s are often overwhelmed and the fight against the exotic animal tried. this with cock, for instance, was probably trafficked from morocco to spain, but the smugglers were able to cover the trucks will do this

a lot. and i like to know for you, the dealers are using new technologies, selling the animals on the internet, on a say without service, they avoid detection because they can hide behind anonymous network. so for the new model within a fella, they even use the dark when that started with the authorities don't have enough specialists to investigate properly. and animals are often rescued when it's too late. as we can you the cloud of leverage the music that they lost, the yellow she's to use to people and she's blind in the wild. she would never be able to deal with her own species saying she was raised in captivity. so she's condemned to a life in captivity and go through with it so. so with this illegal trade mix, can you and many other wild animals like current products that lose their freedom

forever? the it is just sad. what can we do to animals, despite every thing that they do for us? well guess who was a farm was best friend signing it to us and beyond? they should be visa williams can do magic's to the such entity and the productivity of the soil. and then also key to maintaining the biodiversity on the ground. don't be scared of work for all of us. so i need to be held. the 3rd ones are really necessary. azako deed, in a farm up from the village and audio lou isn't making natural for the light the using these are the months and what is that the about the you know, what's i oh, not a better comment. there are a lot of families around our village, so i wanted to do some things related to agriculture. i also have some land,

i can source visual materials from that. so i thought i would do is let me con post . i got this idea from my father was also a farmer, and he was to do a lot of vegetate before me. another guy did it, but he only used me from fords for his crops and it produced good he's. i learned this, taken him from the goddess, is it? so i'm up on the more the a lot of the now the only difficult think about the technique is very simple for us to prepare to combust the bed and put got done on it. man, a for a low on the behalf of vetted on over. and ben would manada leaves on don't want to keep it then push it down. we've been wanting to add for 15 days, and it becomes soft like a button, which is how the rooms prefer to eat and let it, not all this oper. the governor also provides a dark space for the dental problems come up and eat. does the organic ways and outcomes the fertilizer? 14 on the market. there are 2 types of both worlds. native lands,

an african one addict of the, going to by the number i'll pick them up today is what we use are the optic, an odd phones, because the native month, not only the soul of the most oper oper to know what to do, but the aptitude one, eat more things and give us a better use, some of them and they also multiply very far. you know, i'm, i guess not, they can model from the optic or the either one, the number you just wanted to boost good memory production. the also a geography to the go down and put it in the bank. these are all natural methods are used to fertilize the stop within the not 11 the the academy. we typically stop getting to use in $45.00 to $90.00 days, or that's what we think it's on the top and save it to remove any small rocks or 2 weeks on the what then we package it into individual bods of 10 by 25 or 50 kilo's, what if i waive them? i'm finally deliver them to our customers on

a positive as to the faucet, i was going to put this on. give them the passcode. i'm gonna put a good deed and has it become a successful entrepreneur in audio. little small to medium dumping onto lately she has also started teaching them and the fund moves in the ad here about how to raise alarms and produce. let me come, falls to using the fields so far in room and farm is from the surrounding villages have benefited from that initiative. and the years ago and i meant that that will be done at home by a she told me to do. let me composting since i have some land and resources. when she gets orders from customers, she says she will buy the ford light bill from us and sell it to them. we used to use chemical for the night of those, but now we have switched to will make on post because of that the ground. that's that because the way that these the, and the shoots, i don't want to big and they use a met the, the is integral. what are those level of thing?

and i'm also the one that most of my orders come from. people who have debt is gardens and people who own body fees. they mostly live in bangalore, engine light. but i also shift on places in time and not the full of a lower kind of predict that since you started a business of 2019 for sales have increased the study. she sense of what a lot of will have the practice of becoming an old entity in the homeless mother. i'm very happy to be doing this business. i have started a small thing and brought it to so many be a lot of corner me said that a call being identical from national, reviving a simple traditional method for fertilizing metric. a saga different as adult when you become a non dependent with a work. she's also protecting the in one in the beautiful city of naples, what once was a prizing business is now in danger. i am talking about red corner. this beautiful

species is on the track because of several impressions among them on a rising sea temperatures, water pollution, several homes for pushing methods, and the biggest to for in the said of that, gordon's book saving these is extremely crucial. naples in southern italy, for centuries, the region has been famous for corals. under the shadow of mount vesuvius lies totally dulled. could i quote, the unofficial capital of the global coral trade? local business leaders are upbeat, read coral jewelry is once again in demand, international fashion and jewelry. brands are flocking to totally delicate echo local onto putting your money at ac. monee believes this success has helped by a serious commitment to conservation. she says her business strictly follows environmental protection rules. she's aware of the legal coral trade,

but says that's a different world. if you have a name, you have a story you have uh uh, something to defend and uh you don't do this. things that are manufacturer is, i mean also has more, which has a name as respectful name, and i'm sure they don't, they have enough things to do with these the but eventually we find a merchant who's willing to discuss the darker side of the coral trade maple contralto says the atmosphere is something akin to a gold rush. he says, although authorities are keeping a closer eye on the problem, smugglers continue finding new routes. i see something of a very cold i'll do for because a day like to. um, let the boss of the woods goods, the car from spain as the needs of as salt to country. and so they spin the files and then come in any tiny they find. another way we had to the other side of the

mediterranean sea, where into barca onto nice as the northern mediterranean coast. for centuries, everything here revolved around precious coral. but unlike in italy, businesses slow local residents tell us 90 percent of the shops of closed because there's no more coral available. let's say what am i stuck on? what at some point that would probably be no more or less at all heavy and people die out more. that shortage already makes it unaffordable for people here and they need to have no money. who can afford top polity, co jewelry that maybe artists or business people them. that's it for years selling boots out. we worked as a carl diver, he insists he always stuck to the rules, but now he's grown too old for the job and allows other divers to use his boat instead. leticia. there's a lot of legal fishing going on,

and that creates huge problems for us because at this roys or carlos stocks and the entire seabed, me to the fault, my house, if 10 kilos of carl or growing on a rock illegal fishing methods will destroy all the habitats around it is kept posted, you know, the height is on drop, as you know, he loads up the carl is lost. the only one kilo ends up being costs as, as almost to answer fast. he says, the coral is smuggled by a tanisha and sent all over the world demand in southern europe and asia is especially high. he says it's hard for a forty's to verify the corals origins. the coast guard regularly conduct searches of boats at the small port. if to barca 3 years ago they uncovered a network of smugglers. from algeria tanisha and spain, whose global trade and coral was worth millions of bureaus, hospitalized and not if, when they often store the goods in the city,

it'd be that with a capital tennis hospital. then they tried to explore it, not the classic route is to italy. deputy been witnessed could be that from there, the car was often transported to destinations as far away as india with some moments, but as he thought he let him in many asian countries, the underwater species are said to have health benefits and even supernatural powers. criminal networks go to great lengths to cash in on the precious corals which often leave hundreds of meters below the surface. jewelry artisan more odd or folly is convinced that all the problems plaguing the coral stem from one thing, humans and their greet you and how to wish and thought of the will just like many other species of carlos or dying because we no longer give them time time to grow and develop, simply don't appreciate the treasures of our oceans anymore. so mickey, i think it was you, was you in the seattle the backend. totally delicate echo. the problems of the

north african traders seem far away. even still, many are realizing if they don't take action to combat the legal trade, the carl stocks could run out forever. from the cost of a key. let's head back to him. do you remember that story of the doctor and the rabbit? the doctor did one that's nice, but it was only able to participate in that race and the 1st place because it wasn't extinct. that's right. see that those are on the edge of extinction. and us humans are responsible for that much lucky for us. and for that environment, some fishermen are trying to things of the see touch, those unfortunate them back into the see where they belong. these feet are too hot, springs have a good chance of surviving etc. pods and lodge bought the 10 a residential present hot of me. i nearly 400 fishermen. that's one of the task force along 700 kilometers of the east coast. i'll make the dinosaur defeated land

. daughters have been living in this war since the dinosaurs. but in the last 50 years, they have come close to extinction. when we 1st started doing to those guns, evasion worked, and we told people about it, they said, why should we save them? because there is a superstition that sees those bring bad luck or the info, the background or be man. but you disregard such notions. oliver ladaja is considered one of the booth because they often get caught in fishing, you discarded near the cost. been, i'll make even this will say the so many using nesting season, every female returns to me eggs on the same beat it has to go under though i did cut on gotta get to every yard 150 to 200 daughters died just between tonight and the 10 gonna beat area so you can calculate how many daughters must have died in the last 20 years. since we started working,

i mentioned the porch ending accomplish funny clothes. ready the nesting season is from december to april. during this time, members of the task force patrol beach is to collect eggs that, that those of late, they protect the egg skin fen videos, and when the hatch to ensure the baby daughters make it to the ocean. avoiding stray dogs and other predators in the, when they came and asked me if i could join to see, to do production unit. i thought yes or to, but i've never done anything to show my gratitude to the ocean as, as i knew the net. fisher folk, i also being sensitized on how to reduce the palm to daughters by modifying the nets, they collect up discarded nets to instead of letting them drift into the ocean. i wonder, what am i doing now in that area? i mean, what are you more this on the fisherman kitchen drops officials. all of this been

my going either one that happened. this can never compare to the happiness for protecting and really using the sea turtles into the ocean. because here we are saving lives on the arrive at a new day in a good idea. now i wonder, what do we accomplish together? they have collected almost 60000 kilograms of gross nets and don't done to stop anytime. so the best to man to who would imagine what still i do as much as you animals do for us and our planet we could do with a little more kindness towards them. be a little nicer and not only to from these lovely people that'd be met to on today's episode. so we can do our route for our biodiversity. but if you will let me know what did you like most about today's episode? and what would you like to see more roles? you can email us or reach out to me directly on my twitter. i will see you next week. do come back until then. dick is good bye. almost gosh.

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