and animals have always been one with elements of conflict. but as the number of people on the planet continues to grow. it's becoming increasingly strains and imbalance. with wells human population approaching an extraordinary eight billion scrolling settlements and activities are encroaching on animal habitats

more than ever. scientists estimate humans a driving species extinction around one thousand times the natural rate largely due to habitat loss and climate change. we urgently need to find better ways to live together on a shed planets. i'm julie at pace and i'm here in brisbane australia to see how tame a scientist and volunteers. helping close by many of the jungle. and i'm russell bit of bangladesh for the locals are learning to coexist with the tiger neighbors. queensland was one time to i have a one make one as well with the relentless pace of human expansion that number dropped by almost 80% since. nineteen ninety one the human population is still growing and growing and that number is ninety said to growing pretty for the precious on surrounding lan line. without immediate intervention.

by. sixteen but a group of local residents and experts are trying to reverse this trend. the last land that hugs the stratus east coast is one of the most desirable places for human settlement. but it's also a prime koala habitat. as a result increasing numbers of these must repeal of being forced to leave with the in the city. john hannah is a wildlife fed and founding member of the quileute research network. he brought me to this an area that i would have thought you could possibly have koalas because it's so. busy. why why this area? this hot really illustrates i guess. in a really good why hell the the the threats that having flawless if i think they get killed on the rides -- because often like cross and nine when the difficult to say and draw the system and see them so they'll often get killed on this ride in fact this ride is are. not really a hot spot for confidence in the area certainly when they get on the ride alongs

with the easy route one that you got tryon's running every couple minutes six boys. to significant injury and death obviously. and so there's really a whole range of threats they're always doing the sort of environment. local experts like john i committed to protecting the koala before it's too late. but with a population scattered throughout the city the first step to saving them is monitoring them. john and his team have been intensely studying a population in the motion bay region. today the tracking by radio signal a pretext koala named sonny . the guys are heading up the tree now but if the client. to catch- capture koalas they can then

check it out for the health check later on whereas the be a gay. and i felt. my heart [inaudible] okay. face the clutch is. but on top of your head. the three of you. when i'm quite well son is a really awesome last sign?

this pretty calm. now sonny will head off to the vet where he will be screened for disease. one is a currently listed as under threat. if nothing is done they could be extinct in less than fifty is. the seriousness of the situation isn't lost on some local residents who were trying to tackle habitat the rations. five and a nice to meet. you too what do you guys doing here today i was just making sure this little last i kind of mockery so when i went to wal shot i mean i can't think while a few trees here okay being -- eucalyptus guess. there two hundred spaces of course of a few clicks in queens and wallace a twenty twenty two so we have to be very specific about what we found and why how important is this went to the closet model incredibly important because this area will never be cleared. yet for any sort of development. so with surrounded.

even though you can't see it with high density urban development so if we can increase the carrying capacity of the site for awhile as it will encourage them to need to hear. which is much safer for them. just one call while i can eight upwards of five hundred leads per day moving from tree to tre. said i brelo's basically old died because you clicks a fairly new teen poll energy wise. hi tammy more trees would like to do a few thing of three or four over the planting trees provides one solution for protecting the koala. but as urbanization continues roads and railway lines will inevitably expands putting these animals in harm's way. currently up to three hundred koalas a killed by vehicles he h. e. l.. but i'm meeting up with vet john again he wants me to see an intervention which is making a difference at a rally line. essentially.

a water drainage culvert but there are a few additions there's a post and rile. to help the wildlife get off the ground how do they nine to use is called with well i guess initially they dined nine juliet by. the the familiar with the habitat as a wall someone we put these impacts in and trying to the landscape they have to learn to use it -- but the essential package is really all that we we put a koala pre fence along the route cardinal and then she was that they dined guy. on to the row car and get killed and if they do work there why along the fans ultimately they'll end up. finding one more these call what's inside with a bit of exploration the alarm hello from guys right. to get an idea of how effective they are john in the tame and push out motion sensitive camera. in these the shah range of of wildlife using the call was putting the kettle on so he's a koala going into a group of twelve months.

explore the calvert but didn't go through it. and then we've got a a group of calgary's using an opossum. another co all around a different calvin. and then coming out the other side that's one of echo wallace- helping columbus navigate the urban jungle is essential to boosting the numbers but the most significant factor in section. all sense of security yeah taking. something's about to happen he died knowing yet -- out what boy what a brave little boy.

and the color of his [inaudible] he's got -- refilled which is a sense of how good blood pressure is. i had a look at the black. the service a big important thing for me. to say it because this is start tests and that causes inflammation of the the blood war i guess the media has reached epidemic proportions amongst koalas in australia. with over half the population infected if left untreated it can cause infertility blindness and death. an average. of ten when his blood is looking pretty healthy you know. sonny is in the clear. tell me about the significance of you know any testing. via and animals make projects diseases being charlotte if you can control that one factor that you can actually around to

clone populations [inaudible] before letting maybe fix another truck a cola. she it's now time to study to be released a john study side that had some amazing results. the fact i guess that can not only might be individuals healthy but the population's only grice trajectory now so wa. on qantas the down would decline towards extinction i'm so now we have we getting around 20% right

there and i'm which is just. standing ten rounds and they got a falling. does not apply -- as a global hd fragments. of a high fifties and less than

one square kilometer. too small to support significant wildlife populations. with twenty five million .

twenty just a century ago there was thought to be over a hundred thousand tigers prowling asia swamps and jungles. now numbers have declined by a staggering 98%. i'm heading for the son of an mongol forest in west in bangladesh. is one of the last remaining havens for the bengal tiger. is often conflict with local villages who also depend on the forest for survival. i've come to me and network of volunteers and conservationists coming together to try to stop the violence. and save the tiger in the process. all right bangladesh's population has doubled from eighty to a hundred and sixty million in just forty years. forcing humans into what was once exclusively the tigers to rain. about a man i mean you can see the this was just there over the world.

right up against these villages- here in manga just on the edge of the national park they really do seem to be people everywhere. it's hard to imagine that this area is home to tug is. too but it is. and that's where the conflict comes. conservationists my boob alone runs tiga team a network of volunteers dedicated to changing attitudes. reducing human tide of violence. how many tigers do you have hit the sunderbans? we have one hundred six with the historical doctor about two to three tires king by the local managers every year. but if the the total populations estimated just around a hundred two to three starts to sound like a very big number but thirty to fifty two men killed every year -- err on fear is two

fifty eight yeah yeah yeah. on yeah just a little number sir this in all fifty years. this is not a little number i mean it's like one a week. can you talk to us about the interface like hello the coming into contact with people. and what's the result. in some areas -- which door and have the monticello fees -- geographical area in between forest and villages in that part of from the room -- yeah tiger - that comes out on the floor -- into the billing. human target direction here is fraught with violence and fear. i'm on my way to a village right on the frontier of a conflict s.

so that. age the you can see there that substance in the band forest right there and there's nothing between the tie to habitat. and the human habitat. you can understand how scary it must be because everywhere you look. there's like. they build these fences. just. eight of those six days late goal is. here many of not just seen tigers from afar. defied directing count is withi. local fishermen has a story to tell. can you tell us a bit about your experience here -- with the tigers. we must not think. if you look kinda design visual on the phone. that was an early night. i feel good on the see -- well

on you can see the little puncture marks. what was he thinking when you're on the ground did you think? do you think you were going to die at that point. but some of the quote that particular so good fun yes it got a little. but the music. so behind escaped with his life for those who don't. the buying families to fend for themselves. i've been told around a thousand women known as tiger woods in this region. i'm here to meet a lady called rita. who lost a husband through a tiger attack twenty years ago? we know that this is from the band for us this is maybe just in a hundred yards away. and did you think of leaving. but it says a look in his eye he could have gone up one that i don't.

know what that that that that that that's double for that i've done a bunch. hello my little like double leads a name. what was that i bonded with them out of the day? they decide later on high. what is that? so from the dishes of this in this country this. region and that in the reason being on theistic religion many codes. thank you the god is here to protect the people against. attacks from the target. but it seems to me the poem babies help might not be enough. the fact is that the tigers habitat is shrinking. well the humans is expanding. in one against the other disastrous results.

as a predator the top of the food chain the tigers role in the sundarbans ecosystem is pivotal. if it becomes extinct the whole system will collapse. to prevent unnecessary killings my poop in his team of pioneered in education program for local villages. the same is to change attitudes towards targets. i'm here in a community center in joint mony where the tigers codes are having a lesson. in what to do when a tiger into- within this officer. however is the the mother. there's a lot of people i know. that can can you see how many people here. have seen a tiger [inaudible] okay. and so what can you tell me. why is it important to come here

and learn about saving the tige? yeah it is it. is it is it was she going though it's about. the when i practice in the dinning does. save you should have a system what i wanted. the school may be should be mean though he wasn't the one if i don't know what a bargain. yeah with that a little. alright guys come on in so what this is the idea is that this is a place. to save the tiger i guess so. we're not signing. number one motivating factor for them to saving the tigers because if they can save data from the really be saved and they're lively hood we banned

sure. what should we do to get up and? out of the did you ever make the pledge. the p. c. and the next in line [inaudible] right [inaudible] right. this may look a little unorthodox but tiger is a naturally so hunted is only attacking isolated pre. being surrounded by a group of chaotic orange colors making strange noises be enough to scare them away. and as long as there's an escape route tiger will use it. raising and did you see those forty tigers that had been managed he said yeah also is that basically forty targets so you should back into the into the forest and so if it wasn't

if it wasn't for you guys and doing what you're doing here and changing the kind. of attitudes. do you think it's fair to say that those forty tiger is. might be killed might be killed that book might be killed by the owner manager. right. right so it looks like we get ready to move out of them i think the guys are gonna go into a troll. read more of a training mission. doesn't have to take a stake in case [inaudible] okay [inaudible] hey that. the difference is looking in normally with admiration. so if ten years ago a tank i

came in here. and he met you love. would you have killed it. i attend the us. about us the government okay lasted a dumb question go to a doctor hospital to keep growing. i'm not one to come out this the moms picked up monitor monitor how what's up john my she denied that how much of an impact on what then -- bus here. can you tell us about the first time that you did you taste of a tiger with the team. they're gonna look all i think it's from the what if they did that. one is how come with you bless the photography. why do much harder to do it? but i'm not. needed that guy i'm not -- because public i'm gonna put you down not bundle mama busy. aka simply push number. it would be like. is it the same for all of you

feel the same. yeah you don't know what. did you know just saying that because the cameras here. thanks for taking me i'll give you your stick back i just feel very safe around you guys. thanks so much thank you thank you thank you -- maybe there's hope for the tigers [inaudible] thank you. i see a as guys is is is. to even with a growing human population and shrinking wilderness. all ways that people and wildlife can co exist. an intact mobile phone technology is being used to warn workers of elephants passing through tea plantations. when they spotted an sms alert is sent to everyone in the area preventing surprising counts as?

and to cut just on local cease to poach snow leopards now protects them in return for a lucrative business in snow leopard friendly products. further encouragement is inevitable. but if communities can learn to live alongside that animal neighbors. then it is possible to minimize the impact

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