>> welcome to global 3 3000. this week wewe visit the mountains of c colombia, home o the speckled bear. but for how much lononger? their numbers are dwindling. we report on the permafrost in siberia, or what's left of it. climate change is all too visible here.. but we begin in n thailandnd, e the pandemic has left many sex workers without income. the entire industry is struggling to survive. the coronavirus is like one

long nightmare for the global economy. tens of thousands of companies will not survive the pandemic. what's often referred to as the world's oldest profession is especially hard hit. there are around 13.8 million sex workers worldwide, and that's just the official number. female, male, and non-binary the largest workforces are in china, india and the united states. lockdowns, social distancing and hygiene rules mean the large majority can't do their job. before the pandemic, the sex-work indndustry was worth around 186 billion u us dollas worldwide. this entire sector has collapsed more or less overnight, leaving those who work in the industry wondering if things will ever be the same again. >> pattaya is often call ailaland'sin citity. it's a resort normally frequentnted by tourisists from

arouound the worldld -- predomantltly me for sesex tourists, , in particular, a hedodonistic pararadise where m money can y you u anything. but the coronavirus has le e sesex instry h herin limbo. papattaya's mainin party stris now quietet tt the clclk of anna's high-heels is practically the only sound to be heard. the 33-year-olold is transgendr and a sex worker with a clientele that has all but disappeared.d. atat night, pattaya has becomea ghost-town. withth sex workers comprisingg over a quauarter of the town's 12120,000 inhabitants, pattaya has lostst its biggest source f incomeme. weeks under lockwn havee brought totourism here to a

stanandstill. ananna has been living and working here for eveven year r servrves as a sex-work usedo bebe ihigh demand. in aood momoh she would earn 850 euros,s, very decent ince here. nonow an has t tget by on just 10euros. >> bore e i d a night-life, and now it's d-lifife. so i have tohahange. i usus to sleep p all da th i woke , shower and go rk, , th come back, show and eep. and w i spenlilife ithe dayte.e. and d night-te e comeback again, i'll l have to change again. >> and change is something anna has gotttten used to, , which o includes changing her wo outfitit. she now helps out at a soup kitchen that prodes 500 meals a day for sex workers in nd. demamand is actuallyly far hig, but the charity has limidd nding.g.

the governmement has set u p papandemic aid p programs, buty do not coverer workers in n thx industry. >> i think the goverenent want take e thopportununy to make pattaya a a regular holiday reso witithoutex tououri. but that won't work. sesex tourm isis imptant f for papattaya. it providedes an ince e for a t of peoe. ani hopepe tt when t t papaemic is over, it will cocome a nmal l busiss agagain >> a and in the meantimeme, sex workerarare justryining to surviv thehe hoteals d delered byy anna and her colleagues arare highghly appreciatated. momost of the woworkers are fm vivillages, wherere their famis depend on the money they ear patattaya >> there's's no money cocominn fr anynywher i work as s a masseuse, , anim nonot earng ananythi.

if thihings continueue like t, i'll h have to find d a b as a shop assistant. bubut of crse e th would m mea earnining a lot lessss. >> the underground nature of the sex industry means workers are often stigmatized. wiwithout state support they'e desperate to get back into business. but therere are limits as to wt is feasiblunder thee conditions. >>ven if we e can reopen, , te authories s will impose e a lt of restrtrictions, likike girls keeping g their distanance andt doing this or that. but the men n come here fofr intimacy. a massssage without t touching their r body? who came up p with that t idea? ♪ >> in theapitalal, bangkok, bars a areow open.n. the workers dae e on stage j jt lilike they usededo, except tw they wear r masks. while guesests have to p prove their name a and phone numumbed have theheir temperatuture che.

>> i hapappy that 'v've been ab to rereopen, but i don't know if the e customers willll accecept the conditions or whether r we'll ev be abable get bacack to whee wewe used to be.e. >> confidee isis bac where you u n go out a and youe not rereally worrieded about catching a anything, bececauses pretty much non-existent here. > statisticalally speaking, thailaland has had a a compararatively low w incidencf the cororonavirus. the governme says that's a reresult othe e lockwn. but the pastst weeks and m mos have been desperaty y hard f a a lot ofeoplple, iludingng aa in pattaya. >> this is the most fffficult titime omy lifife. i ink the maximum r r me i twtwmore months. if it doesn't get betterthen i i have tgo b bacto my family. but in the v village they y lot u likeke aonster, , ho are you, where a are you from?m' sosomething likeke that. so it's abouout freedom.

>> the pandedemic has turnrnede hehere upside dodown. fofor anna, who o knows a lot t change andnd upheaval, i it's a morere uncertain f future than . >> what's bebeen bad for p peos lililihoods has given the vivironmena brbreak. companies closed. planes grounded. the streets more empty than usual. some climate goals now seem more achievable than before the pandemic. but compared to the trend of years and decades, this is just a brief hiatus. climate change is cocontinuin, the cocoronavirus hahasn't cngd that. deep inside the arctic circle, especialally the areasas in nortrthern canada a and russia,e contininuous permafrfrost shown here in light blue where at least 90 percent of the ground is permanently frozen. we travelled a long way to the town of batagay in siberia, where increasingly, the permafrost is melting.

>> a growingng abyss. the batagai cratater is abouta kilometer wide and a hundred meters deep. it's the biggest permafrost crater i in the world.d. day by day, new layersf icice meltway, e exposing everer moe ancient pepermafrost to o harsh wiwind and weathther. but despite e the continuingng meltlt, the regiononal environmental inspector isn't too concerned d about the risig tetemperatures.. >> f from what i h have obser, ththe crater grorows by aboutn meters every year. i don't ththink that's v vey worrying. the melting g of the permafrft

can have an effect on us, but the process is very slow. nature and the locals here will adapt to the changes. >> the crater stararted off as st a sma g gully. a section of forest was cleared here in the 1960s. that meant the icy ground below was no longer protected by trees. the layers of permafrost contain animal and plant remains from hundreds of thousands of years ago. when that organic matter t tha, it rots, r releasing greenenhe gases s into the atmtmosphere, h scscientists wararn is furtherer speeeeding up glglobal warmingn. >> on a smalall scale the procesesses that w we are seeg with t the batagai crateter are happenining everywherere, thee melts unr r the grndnd, the ground sininksown. that's happening all over. so when people look at the

batagai crcrater, they c can e the perfect t example of w whyu shouldldn't joke witith the permrostst. life inin batagai, just a short drive away from the crater, is still determined by the ice underfo.. tempmpatures drop to mus fiy degrees centigrade here in the winter. there are village streets but getting to batagai on land is only possible for four months a year when this river freezes and can be used as a road. and people here use the permafrost as a resource year-round. these so-called ice cellars are built directly into a slope. kazim kazanlnliev runs sevevel shop en in n thsummer, , 's minus 15 degrees celusus in hiicee cecellar. because ththe town is soso rem, food supplies can be a problem here. that makes permafrost refrigerators like this one practical. >> here we've got sunfwewerseed oi potatato ips, andndanned

meat. >> kazim s says he couldld ste some produducts here foror upo two years without th g going bad. but he's s had to take e e precautionons this summemer duo the record h heat. >> h having a refrfrigerator iss expepensive for anan entrepren. upkeep a andll that.t. and here, nature keeps things cold in n the permafrost. we closed thehe clar off f with these sheets s so the woululdnt be any heat loss. the temperature in here went up by one or two degrees this year. but the change isn't critical. it's bearable. > but the chahange coulbebee critical soooon ough. buildings in yakutia usually stand on stilts designed to drive down into the permafrost and give houses a solid base. that means rising temperatures could soon threaten the very

foundations of m many villages and citities here. increasingly hot and dry summs arare al a danangeto the surrounding ods.s. fore fires are commoherere but thin h have en disistrous inhe p pastwo years. this year the ble inin seria destyeyed anrea lalaer than e size ogreece. anthe flam have a ng-term consequence for the permafrost, too. >> the destruction of plant life means that the permrmafrot is not p protected from m the s heat.. wewe need the pepermafrost o remamain intact. so we e shouldn't cut t down forests, we e should put o out fires and not leave them to bu..

wewe shodn't i inhit much h the area covered by rmafafro, soso that it doeoe't get dleted. >> t region kutia isuge and laely uninbited. the rest fir often sulder inhehe disnce, far away from any y ros. tting th out wou be hugelyxpensivend allowg th to burns actual permted by l in many gions in russia. farmers fromom the region n say woworking on a c clear day is sa luluxury. the wind o often blows smoke directly onto their fifields. >> the fires burn every year. there is smoke everywhere. there's smoke over there too. > we can't lilie around jusut bebecae there'e's smoke. we have to work in the fields and cut the hay. there is smoke everywhere, you can't hide from it. [laughter] >> pple here h have accepteded forerest fires as s a fact of . but ignoring those fires threatens to change the landscape and ecosystem in

russia's arctic beyond recognition. >> in our global i ideas serie, we r report on ecocosystems andd endangered pnt & & amal spies s all over thehe world. and wewe meet peoplele dedicato protececting those s specie. todaday we look atat the spectd bear, andndean ar, whwhos numbers are dwindling due e to habitat loss. our team went to the colombian highlands, where the bears can still be found. t the edge of t the chingaza national natural park,k, they t up with two men who have devoted their careers to saving the bears. ♪ >> located high up in the andes, the páramos grasslands are a vital source of freshwater for people and animals. the spectacled bear is one of the most emblematic animals

native to the andes, and the second-largest mammal in south america after the mountain tapir. daniel rodriguez is a biologist. f for the past 35 years he has been dedicating his work to preserving the species. >> one of the e reasons why we protect the spectacled bear is its important role in nature. it's a a kind of gardener. its eating h habits help to spread seeds that it consumes in other places in the form of fruits and leaves. so the spectacled bear contributes to the conservation of the forest. >> it's also the only species of bear native to south america. to finind out more about h howe animals are doing, rodriguez follows s their tracks in the forest. most bears are

carnivores. but the spectacled bear is considered an omnivore. we can see signs of them eating on these bromeliads. there was a bear here a week ago at most. >> b but the bears' numbers ae lolow here in the national pak and conservation area. pohingng, getherer with rapidd urban growowth and increreing deforestation, have be forcing e e spectacled b bear o look for new hababitats, oftenn the grassy highlands. a growing issue now is bear attacks on cattle up here. the livestock provide a major source of income for the local human population. riricardo gonzález is a a cate herder responsible for around 50 cows. any large-scale bear attack could costst him his livelihoo.

>> they've already killed a number of my animals. i lose 2 or r 3 every year. so we tried to hunt the bears before daniel talklked to us. he kept on telling us how gl important the bears are. and he convinced me that instead of killing them we should be protecting them. so now i i help dadaniel. we work together to protect the bears. >ducation is a key element of ththe conservation campapaign. before the c coronavirus a arrd in colombibia, daniel rodríguz ran workshops like thionone. hehe taut farmrmerabout ththe importanance of the spspectacd bear for t the local envnviront and the regigion as a whole. >> the aim of the workshops is to make people aware of the

bears' relance to our ecosystem. but we're also k keen for the farmers to appreciate the growowing importance of sustainable farming. our camera traps are a big help there, because they provide a record of what's happening in the immediate surroundings. >> today, rodríguez is out retrieving c camera traps and installing new ones. he'll use the footage for future workshops, but also as research data, to further our understanding of the bears' behavior and that of other animals. >> for us, it's anan instrumet that provides a completely different picture of the bears, as opposed to when they're dead. we s see them moving abobou. whenenever we look at ththee images together, the farmemers always take a great interest and d want to find out more. they see for themselves how the bears momove around and play wh each other. that makes them living creatures that they want t to

ow more about. >> protecting the specectacled bear is a worthy causese and oe for which rodríguez has found mamany like-minded helpers and partners. orlando feliciano runs a sanctuary for r spectacled beas aroundnd 80 kilometers from te capipital, bogotá. >> when i found out that the bears were endangered, my first thought was to set up a rescue center. their natural habitat is shrinknking and is at riskff disappppeang c completely. we wanted to provide a safe refuge where the bears are prototected and where we can treat any injuries they might have. >> one of the biggest challenges facing the sanctuary is funding. monthly costs for transportation, staff and food

amount to 25 million pesos or around 6,000 euros. until now, the center has got by thanks to private donations. once a week feliciano drives to this market, where he buys two tons of food for the bears. the menu featureres pineapple, papayas, bananas, but also carrots and cassavas. >> the most important aspect is the people who work with us and take care of the bears around the clock, so that we can release them into the wild as soon as possible. in some cases that's not possible, like with bambi. she's blind and needs extra-special care. she has peace and quiet here. >> a lot of the animals living in the sanctuary have been injured by poachers or were captured by illegal animalal

traders. pensilvania is being prepared for the big day when she'll be released. until then, she's to have as little contact witith humans s possible. >> our hope is that pensilvania will settle down quickly in the wild and get used to her natul habitatat again. she needs to learn to behave like an animimal in the wiwild agagain. but most i importantly, wewe e she'll soon have offspring. >> and new generations are the ultimate key to the survival of the spectacled bears of the colombian andes. ♪ > >> how is thehe pandemic affectining our mental state ad emotions? more than 850,000 dead, and so much suffering around the globe. for more than six months,

images like these have dominated the news, and become part of our lives. information and impressions that each of us processes differently. even many adults find it hard to comprehend what's happening. and what about children how are -- children? how are they coping with the crisis? >> patients lying in a coma, the statue of liberty wearing a mask, and nurses as knights in shining armor. 10-year-old chung-anh has put her hopes and fears about the coronavirurus pandemic o onto p. her fifirst picture e depictede outbreak on the diamond princess cruise-ship, which had dockeded in vietnam's famous halong bay shortly borehand. >> i drew this picture because i was scared.

i coululdn't stop ththinking at the pepeople stuck o on the s. next, the leaning tower of pis unr attack bthe virus, together wh london's big ben and the eiffel tower in paris. this shows the different countries affecteded by the vir. i i gave the virirus bright co, but the countrtries in the babackound are pale because they've already y been taken or byby the vir.. lilike and then n they collap, jujust like the e economy. even this mighty spanish bull looks worryiyily weak. and here, death looms ov s sick peop in inintensive-carere uni, eager to s snatch new victims.> > this picture says, that i'mm safe destete the pdedemic. it also a a thank-you to the doctoranand other r people fighting o on thfrontline.

i was hoping thewouldn't bee discscouraged. thgigirl ithe middddle is me and everything around me is what's happenining in my imaginatation. >> chung-a-anh began drarawingr pictureses while she w was stut hohome with school suspeeded. exexpresng herer tughts anan feelinings with colored pencis a a talenshe'e's inritedd fromom her father,r, himself ann illulustrator. >> i s suggested shehe also diy opoptimism in heheart and totoe the beautiful aspects of life that are revealed duduring challenging times. despite alall the deathshs cad by the pandemic, she's portrayed it with a forward-looking view towards a brighter future. >> vietnam has so far manage keeeep thcoronanavis largelel der r contl. the country spent weeks under lockdodown, but chunungh-anh wt boththered by ththe ck of activity o on the streetets. >> cov-19 has helped nate recocover, becausese there wao

trafaffic. susuddenly thehe trees were e g grgreener. and my family were verery happ, because evereryone wasas at he and we h had a lot more time fr each other. >> chungh-anh and her sister went back to school in mid-may, which means she now has ssss ti foror drang. but she is s sure of one t th, that she w wants to be a a professional artiswhwhen she grows up andnd the pandemimic y then hopefulully a distant memo. repression and discrimination are part of li for manany women around the world. on our new facebook chanl,l, dw women, you'll fifind stories about those taking a stand, and inspiring others to do the same. dw womenen gives a v voice toe womemen of our world. >> andhat's alfrom us is time. thanks for watching. we'd love to hear from you you as you. -- you.

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