will that take it? that's all for this episode. we thank you for watching. we'll see you said the are for us really do support our existence in closer we like what do we do for them? hello, and welcome. i'm sorry, because the body annual watches the queen do we all know how important these photos, software us, and how much they do for us from providing sustenance to food, to livelihood, and even the oxygen is actually being. but in today's episode, let's find some inspiration on what we can do for them from small efforts to community action. 2023 was the your why fi us across the world?

human made climate change increases the risk of extreme that events like heat, fees and droughts. and these in done become a key driving factor for forest fires. let's have to it's i'm a lot of sacred mountain forest to learn more about the communities efforts to prevent forest fires. ready sacred o, as green as it was a long time ago. it still seems like a my number goes to massena money. oh, grew up in the area when you would model. uh, and when i was growing up, my mother used to go to the forest to cut down trees for firewood, where i'm going to board way i would join home. so i go on some money on the hill, was all about that, and what's your degree meant that they would only be somebody scheduled here? and there did, they did the one the but that was long ago. in fact,

for the past 2 decades, must see that money has been working for the organization for his sweet husband, restoring the forest on the holy hills in the indian state of the time. and now it's a matter of close to the hearts of the founders a forest we in particular, don't think that i'm going on. he to grow up here and remembers. well, what the hell looked like with all the tree cover and just how hot it was. so 1989 a this whole idea that this could be close enough for us to was put into action. there was no top side, it just costs to hood people and nothing would suffice because there was so much good. anything going on in the hills. the annual forest fires added to the problem, the finished of any siblings. the only thing that really thrive here was lemon grass planted by local residents once used it to catch their rules. for the past 40 years, people have lived in stone houses. and so the grass has grown unchecked,

lemon grass contents, a lot of oil and bones like a torch. experts see climate change is also making them know hot and dry up and why not? because of the fires. it creates perfect conditions for them to spread. the tinkling fios uh so that the, according to the cadillac to be human indeed was that i could add frequencies instead of 5 higher than the actual levels of fire. i'm because of the tab border test is this is brittany explanation of so fire thought living speed sees such as the let me get out to the forest. we are fire fighters have tried out various ways of tackling the problem. they have finally found a simple method to keep the fires in the control us. and the way we have planted on 10 to 15000 trees, where they would stop growing little and after a file, everything would vanish. and we wondered how we could avoid losing everything to

file with united. and that's when we started creating a fire line to save the trees and i bought the trees we planted, and the naturally growing trees started to flourish together underneath it, no matter what you had gathered and what, or what i can do seem to put somebody. it's all send a bit of from balancing act. oh not you know his is a popular place of pilgrimage as it is regarded as the physical manifestation of the him to guard shiver. every year, thousands of pilgrims flocked to the festival of got to go deeper in the town of the light. at the foot of the hill. it's a real challenge for the firefighters. i love of people we're getting the people festival. people like plans across the like anywhere in the hills. we have a team members monitoring the entire place and to be put out fires. as soon as this start, the organization has been working with the local forestry office. since the outset, the office has not just provided fire engines,

but also made sure that for us to walk us had the right equipment to double up as firefighters to fortified golf eye clinic and the outcomes to fight fires. nowadays, we use advanced technologies like early warning systems for the soviet in the us fire load website to which we get to real time information. i mean, for me. so those can be how would far as seen then goes through the spot to the thousands. the fire with the local people, but few fortified to go those good nickel john nick, i kind of got this only to disclose cooperation with the residents and the forestry office has the organization forest. we be able to bring new life to the who of the, the data came back in here like, and the quantity binds in the white board. and foot space is it's dramatic and for the district be able to go to duplicate species or the following. let's go to the but also the, the please have created that splendid like thing like, you know, so,

so, so much on is the name of gets absolved. the co founder is also going to share his interest e as in for the transformation. once a week, he takes students from a nearby schools to the him, to demonstrate that walking to prison of nature really can fail from the let's now have to spin in europe where why fi is destroyed. housings will vehicles of land in 2020 t as it is out as the spanish state forest 5 campaign was put in place. we met a firefighter and his team for now becoming ever more skilled in dealing with light fires. the roads are dry and dusty and it's hot. $35.00 degrees celsius enriques up his is scouting the cadillac for us, but his special unit on a mission to prevent forest fires last so long as they come to heat waves are

becoming stronger and more frequent. the low and we can only try to stop fires from spreading by observing and responding fat vista in the 1st half of 2023, almost 70000. hector is the forest burnt down. that's an area greater than all of the madrid of all the land burnt by wild fires in the u over half is in spain and rick is very concerned. he checks the soil from moisture and keeps finding the same result or something. yeah, so yeah, it's dry down deep into the earth, meaning fires can break out at any moment to go to. so they have to take action with local massage, simply add to the sum of the uh they put 60 on instead i think we've created a strategic protective strip here and was it include all the brush from the 4th floor the month. oh yeah, they will get hit the days they get the how do i mean if

a fire just break out it can't spread and can't reach the tree tops you get caught at that as a comparison. we left everything over the day or the way it was going to start, i guess we're going to sell it. and the other the firefighters back at the station are also on high alert that even the slightest sign of a forest fire they head out in nearly done mile is specialized in these kinds of disasters. and he says, extreme climatic conditions are straining the 4th best blood vessel fan would show up on the plants are really suffering and desktop. some are dead, others are losing bio mass. the low gap has guided when that which creates you better fuel for a forest fire of the one them via phone names and it's a fire starts under those conditions at all the more violent from the outset within those. yeah, there's that any c o in late june,

a fire broke out in the back country around time are going to fire fighters possibly from the air and ground bottles immediately monitor the operation from the station. when i keep getting the harvesting machine caught fire and set lights sealed to and from there, the flames quickly spread to the jason for as well as the special unit, conduct the regular aerial surveillance, also to observe harvesting activities. and enrique cents fire trucks to the fields, just in case there's an activity that they will be eligible for because of the harvest thing is dangerous instead of to death because it takes place from the hawkins on the go, the and send you in a fire can start at any moment, it's done with the support of it,

and that's why we stay close so we can respond quickly and we'll get it out. and if i would almost have that be, that means that it was actually give them the farmers are thankful to have the firefighters around to mass, sorry, has been in too dangerous situations, but manage to extinguish the or on his own, in the nick of time with this copy of the owner, there was a sudden bang in the exhaust, and a sparks flew out onto the hay hanging from the machine. yeah, it's because you've been a fire broke down and your the firefighters anticipate things getting tougher in the future. emily sees climate change as the primary culprit last and most of it ask you the name of what's going on. dental. got a lot of the intense heat is making the atmosphere increasingly unstable. basic as you know, when that causes higher wind speeds and those wins make fire is way more destructive than normal. remodel. enrique and his prevention team are also concerned about

their humanities, climate footprint. they say prevention alone isn't enough. and better policy measures are urgently needed. but oh yeah, most got to be not all the subordinate stuff for them to all go. and then when the world is transforming into a force are burning everywhere and get them out of going to you and the other countries need to realize we can't leave this kind of heritage for our children scorched or the stress for us has made it through yet another hot and dry day, tomorrow and week and his crew will head out once again to try and prevent the worst from happening. when we left our florida spanish, one of the major impacts is desertification. 32 percent of in dallas land is being created. why is 25 percent is undergoing desertification here in and out. this also contributes heavily to dust storms, which i'm

a lot of things contribute to major health concerns for thousands of people up in the northern at albany mountain. jane citizens have borrowed an idea of building the green water to protect these mountain photos. but will these creat green was actually walk videos like these are popping up for the social media. they show colossal dust storms raging through delhi and the surrounding states. but this isn't a freak weather event. the storms are becoming seasonal. the task comes from the thought doesn't like the sahara and the go, the, it's expanding and destroying vital living space. i forgot and china i've responded with, i'm fishes prompting projects. great green pools of trees to try and stopped as though to vacation and india. india is lucky. the north has a natural green bar at the arrival of mountain range, which is held back to thought as it for centuries. that is, until now, the mecca dust storms and hot winds blowing in from the desert,

reckoning the lives of millions in the national capital region. in 2019 india made a promising announcement. it would be planting its own quite greenville in the rockies to help fight design to vacation. but as we're about to see, was of trees have shown mixed results in other parts of 12. and the roughly mountain range is facing some serious threat to that side. so what can india do better, and will it be able to slow the advancing? does that the powerful does students have led to a spike and bronchitis, breeding difficulties and lung disease. they also destroy the soil and damage crumbs. but this is not just the fault of climate change, direct human actions such as the legal mining, deforestation, and of and screw eating with the mountain barrier. and turbo, charging does education in the why to region. the mining is happening to us such a big extent that he loved in units being raised to the ground. there are millions

and millions of people living in york without the in albany in the desert is going to completely engulf entire or northwest in, you know, 2018 government study estimates that at least 20 percent of the arrival of hills and broad just on couple ready been lost to mining important ground water systems have been disrupted, and many rivers have disappeared altogether. the robberies h and for us to also in trouble. scientists calculated that since 1975, april, 1000 square kilometers of trees, have been cut down and replaced with housing and farm land and taking into account illegal deforestation. my 6000 square kilometers of tree covet has been lost. that's the equivalent of more than 3 180000. cricket bitches. in 2019 after season of especially punishing dust storms. the government proposed a solution in his ministry of environment. forest and climate change would create a great green gold. 1400 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide to restore

1500000 hectares of degraded land and the revenue region and stopped the expansion of the thought as it would run through the states of good rot. raw just on arianna and delhi was just building a great green will actually mean the concept was made famous by the african union in 2007 as a way to collect to the re green the saw. how does it region and create livelihoods for the people living that the original tree will project started off stretching from senegal in the west to booty in the east pausing through starting different countries. but of course, the progress across the continental is being sparsely distributed. you know, some countries have done much, much more than other countries, and it's not just the idea of planting trees because, you know, go out and boundaries. but what's really important is justin and believe you, how do you ensure that these things route to maturity? so we have to be creative about the type of trees that are planted, you know,

and make sure that there's some sort of irrigation altering the trees, proved a tough challenge. but impulsive lessons will on to results suggest that the most successful recreating on the continent has actually been achieved, like thomas planting trees alongside the crops and countries like me, sharon malawi, one of the things that i would advise any country embarking on on these the project to ensure that the people, the communities are part of based, right from the, from the get go. and the parts they paid and have a clear understanding of what is the benefit of these project will be to them. so this is going to be the incentive event of any work towards the success of the project as well. ok, because great greenville is aiming to restore 100000000 hectares of degraded land by 2030 but saw fault. well, i'm to hosted the restoration target, has been achieved. the un estimates that the project still needs about $33000000.00 of investment to complete it. the question is though, would that be money?

well spent a great green walls around the world and particularly the ones in how in west africa, algeria. ready ready and china that have recently been reviewed in depth, do not have a good track record at all. but here for dessert, application desiccation, drying things like this are happening. they're happening primarily because of global climate change patterns. and the idea that you know, trees are going to stop a desert and advancing simply doesn't, doesn't hold water. trying to start it's prompting. it's great greenville known as the 3 north shelter belt project over 44 years ago. since then, the government has spent billions on tree planting. the plan is to plant an area or forest, colorado as big as bronson italy combined by 2050. so there's still a lot to do. but can china is large scale, planting power, set it apart?

china is, is quite different from these other cases. and the primary difference is just the way china is governed and the way the chinese government gets things done. so can india as government, get the great greenville done? the initiative was officially launched in march 2023, but since then, no planting is yet being done. the ministry of environment forest and climate change says it's still preparing the state by state plan and identifying vulnerable hotspots. no one from the ministry agreed to be interviewed. local communities have responded to this government in action by experimenting with the own replanting strategies. we decided that we're going to plant or be newkirk species because an export on high re, uh, we reached out to exports to you about what it needs to take on. and that obviously flores, i'm the guys 1st project transformed an old mining site into what is now the roughly

biodiversity pock. ready the team collected seeds from the revenue, or as to recreate hundreds of native plants and trees species. the planting projects also made use of indigenous war to capture techniques to support the plants. they were generated in old good. that's an environment and ditch structure i used to channel to during the monsoon range. and they also cleaned out several jo had small palms that helped to recharge ground water. very, very clear that no water from our projects, big long and be those fine risk of taking water from the road or bid it would be good to get except water into the fall into our projects. so kind a great greenville helped to restore. india is a roughly mountains. well, probably not the way things are going. the government doesn't actually take steps to protect that naturally one from minding strong real estate development from

commercial activities. then are these kind of teams on knoxville ye uh, you know, they're just going to be cosmetic, with communities, taking the lead on localized, replanting the responsibilities now and the indian government to make good on it's great. greenville promise enforcing legal protections in the rallies would be a good start. let's now head to the christine forest. makalya. in the northeast, the states have a sizable child population. indigenous people here shed a very close relationship with the environment and the full systems. they are now losing the diversity of these plants and trees. but technically, you know, how and ancient knowledge are helping them build better or sustainable ad receive. so, uh, even hard. yeah, mm hm. bye bye me let me your you asking the key some

by that ancient cause these folk song describes the close born between humanity and meet them. your richard zondaway belongs to the 50 or so families who live here in the mountains of teed up wednesday in northeast in the us make on yesterday for my the song asks me to forgive like the wind lands growing among the flower bed so so so to me by making them can hold him. can you come all these are garlic, china along which we eat about in ship land. this is what it is. and then we have bonded pals which we cultivate providing for them. come not the name for the month of september and october. they're ready to have it. so when i and because of it by not provide on the edge of apply button when you're cutting them so that we can hack and we have johnny's home. village of nobody else is remote,

and anyone who wants to visit has to escape 2 and a half 1000 steps. the inhabitants here are an indigenous people to the traditional way of life. they make an important contribution to biodiversity. 3 quarters of migalia is $46.00. so people here go the across among the wide g as in shops. agro ecologist got the good works for the ne, slow food, an agro biodiversity society, or the next task for shocked. the n g o wants to preserve that, he just traditional got to duration nutritional practices. so if we look at the, with the indigenous communities have manage the food system, you will see a component of diversity where you will see there is in the system in any of the

system. this must be cropping where a variety of 12 see if we do uh, to a mapping exercises, we have found that a community has about more than $202.00 foot loans. just a few years ago. there was more diversity according to surveys by and that's fine. but slash and burn. ford is cleared and i'm increasingly heavy. the info have both taken their tools on the soil. in the 1990s, the lucas on most of non co, started calculating dress to own a living. it's useful lives to feed, to make room and fuels. but this mono culture has severely degraded the soil, the body. so football, i need to have you got up when able to walk me a little bit, but it is a highly competitive blonde and you have gone luckily with the other crop just because the damage has to crop on. finally got home. but when do i leave, i'm getting to the blotted because it's hard to move and lot one graphic. if i let

me know model by as market price is for bluegrass rules, thomas calculated more and more of it to the detriment of biodiversity in the region. miss fox has launched programs to revise what's being lost. like at the moment, the logo primary school with these new dishes are now back on the menu. ottomans have been replaced by the traditional jink up in venus by fairly low seats and let us buy the comedian plot a bunk bed. jack, today i'm eating new jersey. i love it bumps data garbage with better la seeds, no rice and wide edibles. i find the whole world really days the my absolute favorite is the palm game. this is what the ingredients are supplied by local farmers. most thoughts as also help to build a garden at the school. we do

a competitive study of the local food with the government of common to be available for an open time. we. we try to promote that. uh, the nutrition to uh, content off after additional food is very much more higher than the uh, the food that we buy from the market. this month now supports more than $100.00 and put the villages in northeastern india. with the help of the engine knowledge from the region, agriculture in the mountain for it is becoming more sustainable for future generations. so long instead of clues slopes. we saw the flats that for us in india and in you are, are facing. and it is what is, what is the state of the forest where you live to let us know you can email us or reach out to me directly on my social media handles. i will see you next week until then take a good bye. almost gosh, the

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