just change your mind. just click away, find out best document trees on you to see the world, the subscribe. now to dw talking entry, 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 adults to hello and welcome. i'm father got the body and you'll watching a going down on why these creatures have had a bus the largest to live, but also try the non natural environment. we have made their lives living here. and

this episode is all about those people who are trying to change this and help save our biodiversity. okay, imagine this. it's late, june and july. it's a warm evening and light as dusk steps and you'll see tiny specks of light in the as close to the trees. but nothing to eddie. this just means that fireflies have entered project. but did you know that fireflies are close to extinction because of habitats? los vestos, eyes and artificial light. well, as a community, i tried the community in the western state of my head astra, which is trying to do something to help save these fireflies and work on their phones of these or the say yeah, there is an imposing mountain region west and india as doc this falls over them. a very special light comes on. the bio luminous into lights of the fireflies. while a female is flights as and waits on the ground,

male fly around lighting up the sky and looking for the pulse like meet the one man who was very invested in this phenomenon is i'm always but what i've done and then to monitor just the fire flavor, basically the beatles. ok, a little bit of color flavors that actually beat those. that a few please just on this planet, communicate with the light signal. so firefly that one of the, this naturalist phenomenon has done it to a popular tourist attraction. organize must be a campsite. 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 need to cut some of that at the full, not me, i know, but it, i've done this on the eva. well, this tribal community firefly tourism has done into a unique livelihood opportunity right in the backyard. more than a 100 families big bought 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 lucas benefiting as well as a gentle form of tourism. normally 5 life festival in my head extra our cause for concern among why life of the firefly 50 will of a lot of going to have of that correct. the police in the view of taking good

photos. they need to be made aware of that. what do you see on the plan? you're gonna need to mean when you walk in the, of the plan for the beginning of female, which is walking down below, you know, below your feet. people should not be allowed to go near 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 band currently 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 . sound and 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. we've 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 2 of them up later groups who are taking people firefly for students have 0 understanding of fireflies. they don't know the species, they gives the heater information, they just go to see that. and then they have between lights, which i put out, and this is $550.00. that is, you know, that's not going to be 5. 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 the very important hunters in the forest. so they control is the population of the guy, the controller population of many other, you know me,

flies and get his flies and several other insects which can become bessler's. so then 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 beads and species. the british why the community tells us they are overcautious about the federals of commercialization doors here. i mean to, to the line, including with fools like no, use a flashlight, a no overcrowding much. they put it there, get that done. if they've been some, doris even tried to catch the fireflies some but we don't allow them to do that. um, folk are nice fireflies, the dining and fragile and we needed lead di, if you catch them. you know, we educate the daughters that the seas will be deals with the shop legs when i and the beauty of nature is best enjoyed by watching event of 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 the stores of the fireflies light can know for a long time to come. busy or how would you seen if someone gap charge you for 2 inside a cage and sold you off against filled with sounds pretty hardly. right? well, this is something that is frequently done to exotic unprotected animals cross the border illegally. animal smuggling is the g o t w w f estimates that'd be in the good, vital life trade business is a 10000000000 dollar business and it is on the rise. her heart is still in the wild. but now can you live in an enclosure in a spanish animal shelter near on a country? the female clouded leopard is only 11 months old, but she has suffered greatly caregiver belly die is nursing her back to health.

queen goes all the way on the she was confiscated from a private owner who had neglected her. so that means she must have been poorly fed from the start and she's even gone blind. 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 or from the nearby continent of africa. maria pay us their works for a special environmental crime units. passenger luggage here that the airports, she's found birds, snakes, and torches. for another like

it's so sad. the left side topic will be so ruthless people have no problems about tearing these animals from their habitat. no, not in treating them like toys. say that i'm being offered to this police video from september 2021 shows the liberation of a female chimpanzee 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. tough to notify ability. think of something that you need contacts and 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 as 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 a billions. sophia says the illegal animal trade comes 3rd after drugs and weapons, but its impact is underestimated. a she didn't even think of that. and also i'm going to go to as arms trafficking and drug smuggling are taking more seriously. more effort is put into enforcement, wiley, and what about the legal 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 we use for the 30s are often overwhelmed and the fight against the exotic animal trade. this with cock, for instance, was probably trafficked from morocco to spain,

but the smugglers were able to cover the trucks will deliver a lot. and i like to know, yeah, the dealers are using new technologies, selling the animals on the internet on a single that service and they avoid detection because they can hide behind anonymous network. so that the new model get put in a feller, they even use the dark web dart. what the thirty's don't have enough specialists to investigate properly. an animals are often rescued when it's too late. as we can you the cloud of leverage the business that they lost the yellow so rather choose to use to people and she's blind in the wild. she would never be able to deal with her own species, but saying she was raised in captivity. so she's condemned to a life in captivity and go to the other so. so with this illegal trade makes, 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 steining into the rooms and beyond? they should be visa williams can do magic's to the flood entity and the productivity of the soil. and then also key to maintaining the biodiversity under the ground. don't be scared of a lot for all 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 line,

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 forced for his crops and it produced good he's. i learned this, taken it 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 bed and put got done on it. man, a for a low on the behalf of vetted on over. i'm bentwood banana leaves on don't want to keep the temperature down. we've been won't do it 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 of the optic, an odd funds because the native month, not only the sort of the most oper oper to know what to do, but the after 218 more things and give us a better use of the also multiply, very thought, you know, i'm, i guess not, they can model from the, i'll think of the either one the longer just wanted to go to boost the codes from reproduction. the also a geography to the go down and put it in the bank. these are all natural methods to produce the fertilizer saw buttons and all of them the, the academy. we typically stop getting to use in 45 to 90 days. so that's what we think it's on the topic and see where to remove any small rocks or 2 weeks on the well then we packages 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 the,

the positive is going to put this on, give them the passcode, i'm gonna put a good deed and has to become a successful entrepreneur in audio little small city and dump a lot lately. she has also started teaching them and the fund moves in the area about how to raise alarms and produce, let me come, falls to using the fields so far in human farm is from the surrounding villages have benefited from that initiative. and the years ago when i meant that will be done at home by a she told me to do, will make on posting 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 me from post because of that, the ground next. that because the way that these be and the shoots, i don't want to big and then use a met the is anika letter or the thing. and i'm

also the one that most of my orders come from people who have dentist gardens and people who own body fees. they mostly live in buffalo and tonight. but i also shift on places in time and not the full of a low kind of predict that since you started a business and the 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 pain and brought it to so many be a lot of them going to be said that a guy being of the quote from the shaw. reviving the simple traditional method for fertilizing metric a saga dealer and has adult only been coming onto the printer with a look. she's also protecting the in month the 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 home for pushing methods and the biggest to for in the going to trade off of that, gordon's back 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 update. red coral jewelry is once again in demand. international fashion and jewelry, brands are flocking to taught a delicate echo local onto putting your money at ac monet 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 for 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 i'm manufacturer is, i mean also has more which have 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. me cool. catallo 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 let the boss of the woods boots the car from spain as the needs of the south to country. and so they spin the phones and

then come in any tiny they find another way. as we had to the other side of the mediterranean sea, where into barca onto each is northern mediterranean coast. for centuries, everything here revolved around precious coral. but unlike in italy, business is slow. local residents tell us 90 percent of the shops of closed because there's no more coral available for say, what am i stuck on? what at some point that would probably be no more or less at all. how do you and people die out more? that shortage already makes it unaffordable for people here. many have no money who can afford top polity, co jewelry that maybe artists or business people don't. that's it for years selling boot. 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. latisha was a lot of legal fishing going on and that creates huge problems for us because of

the destroys, or carlos stocks and the entire seabed. me to default my house if 10 kilos of carl or growing on a rock illegal fishing methods will destroy all the habitats around it is kept press good, you know, the high is on drop, as you know, he lows up the carl is lost. the only one kilo ends up being costs, so it's almost the bus. he says the coral is smuggled by a tanisha incense all over the world demand and 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 of 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. a hi split,

an honest one is the facility they often store the goods in the city. it'd be that with a capital tennis hospital. then they tried to explore it, not for the classic route as to italy, property, but municipal could be that from there, the car was often transported to destinations as far away as india some moments, but then as he thought he led 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 are folly, is convinced that all the problems, placing 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 are carlos are dying because we no longer give them time about time to grow and develop, the simply don't appreciate the treasures of our oceans anymore. so mickey, i think it was, she was you in the door back and told her delicate echo the problems of the north

african traders seem far away. ethan 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 clean. 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 in the 1st place because it wasn't extinct. that's right. feet that those are on the wedge of extinction and us humans are responsible for it. but lucky for us and for that environment, some fishermen are trying to things of the see touch of unfortunate them back into the sea 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, any nearly full 100 fishermen. that's what on

a task force along 700 kilometers of the east coast. all my government, 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 those guns, evasion work, and we told people about it, they said, why should we save them? because there is a superstition that sees those bring bad luck. of 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 page. it has to go under though i did kind of got to 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. so i mentioned the porch ending accomplished 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 does of late. they protect the egg, skin fins, areas, and when they had the ensure the baby daughters make it through the ocean. avoiding stray dogs and other predators in the, when they came and asked me if i could join the see 30 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. first of all, 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 what amino on. now under that, i mean, what did you notice on the fisherman? catching lots of fish has always been my going is the one that does happen,

this can never compare to the happened. just protecting and releasing b. c turtles into the ocean. because here we are saving lights on the rab at a you didn't a good at the antenna. my one daughter, we've got a bunch of them together. they have collected almost 60000 kilograms of goes notes and don't done to stop any time soon. i is the best to matthew who would imagine what still i do as much as these animals do for us and our senate. 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. most gosh. the,

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