growing population we have tripled exploitation of natural resources and just forty is. as a result of the bostick mining industrial scale farm. human activities not so ecosystems have lost nearly hoff that area

and one male once an animal species facing extinction. without the ecological networks which regulate all planets from cleaning and water to providing food we simply cannot survive. but there is still time. we meet the pine is striving to protect two of our most valuable remaining ecosystems. i'm russ operated in sweden where an inventive clothing companies using ground breaking technology to fight deforestation. and i'm amount of oral into. what one mine is fighting to protect the wetlands haven for migrating but. the fashion industry is worth one point seven trillion dollars. every year textile manufacturers make billions of garments my only be warm once

or twice before ending up in landfills. the so called fast fashion is incredibly resource intensive and perhaps surprisingly one of the key. first the los four station. i'm in such company is working on a green solution this global problem the first one understand the impact fast fashion. so just twenty two this is the primary. the forests and we're on our way that to me the cool right. she's conservationist our system. to protect ancient forests around the world. hello yeah great to see to see a thanks so much we come to still come to do a story about faction. so this is a hundred and fifty million trees that disappear every year. into the clothing that we know what it's like to double with the next decade. never heard of connection between. three and

fourth street hello it's not an intuitive feeling that something that soft and silky next can actually it starts off as a treat. many of these trees come from in the poorest thousands of years old known as primary for. around the world the same old ready being lost due to human impact login. nicole runs. an organization dedicated to protecting those remains. complete breakdown of the political function as an area this massive release of carbon into the atmosphere disrupt species habitat even the trees can grow back. engine in danger far sir. after the forest to clear the wood is pulped and processed into fabrics called ray on and viscose. but shockingly wasteful. as much as 70% the hardest. were exonerated just

30% and so in the. canopy works with businesses that source from primary forced to find green alternatives one of the main focal points is the global fashion industry. what's your strategy and how you can make it in this my experience is that it's some of these big global brands you have the ability to fully engage there so as to stop them from logging hnn endangered firstly because systems and if we can re directed the most this fall now. using recycled fabrics from them. s. leave it in print. sure it's not coming from really. important hm par street. i'd like that so you're talking about a kind of a two pronged approach one is the kind of conservation and stopping that deforestation the first place. and the second one is this cycling element so re

using voiceover. so that's a big. for canopy his to really help kickstart commercial scale production of these next generation solutions mike recycle clothing being used i've got a confession to make i have to get up thermal. those terrify we're gonna freeze lifted the lid on the way here is that there is three in this school. there we go i wouldn't feel bad do i was surprised when i first discovered the link between an engine and get far some disk. can appear helping to transform the fashion industry. one of the point is a recycling company in the town of kristen him cold when you sell. they've invented a plane. the promises to transform textile manufacturing. it came of age in two thousand and fourteen when a catwalk modeled on the yellow dress made from 1100% chemically circle fabrics the first time. see your maps is johnson is offered to show me how it all works. right at the beginning

yeah this is a post consumer this is this is jeans blue jeans but people have a wear and tear on them disposal. so what's next for this it goes into our friend. i'm glad. well the process in driest state. the metal and then it goes into what states which is someone to get this laurie then we would take out some of the court we played to the bed and then we dry it. what would be happening but it still did you guys when using your your process. most of it would be a lot. more of our- we will have some guys either. re still within the machine other goals at the break. every stage of the process is being carefully considered. the dyson chemical several recyclable. and the water is we used to. after the drying process the fabric is

pressed into paper like she- surprising expected media products this is. this is one day. i don't know if it's really good start for making yeah. five or- this is the raw material from which the viscose fabric is finally made. the restaurant. you can find it like in all the fiber. so this could be woven into eddie i loaded. what we got here this is the famous yellow dress this is the world's first chemically recycled piece of garment well this made from blue jeans. now all eyes rising stock it doesn't look like a where the environment the friendly garment this looks like any other common you would see in the high street absolutely. and that's why we- nicole this recycling recorded right. i'm

inspired by what i've seen here. when you sell a hoping to open another three plants within the next five years. manufacturer taking steps towards reducing that pressure on prime the forests for all this to make a real difference there needs to be the man i'm not the man starts here. i speak. were you aware that there is a connection between the fashion industry and deforestation. actually do not think about that do you know what viscosa these yeah it's synthetic. organic material you know where it comes from no idea are you aware of this connection between the fashion industry and deforestation no i had no idea. judging by the office this some way to go before awareness will drive demand. kohl's organization cannot be a working to bring supplies like renew so together with brands you can stop their products.

bake fashion brands they are driving a lot the problems that we see how do you address that sure seems to be a bit of a disconnect the clothing. touches all of our lives on a daily basis. hundred billion got plans every year it has a big. **** not have it. when you're that day and it's exactly because of that reason that we need them to be part of the solution. so it's fun to be here i think khan on high street in between tour of canopies brand pot list all in. amateur and a hundred and seventy plus brand that we're talking with in the fashion. sector tate transform that surrounds might. so you said working with it today yeah we see some of the stuff you've been working on. yeah absolutely let's see what's going on how what. can it be success is growing all the time. nichols hope to suit every store will stop recycle. so this is a rack of clothing that has a variety of different environmental quality swiss

product here is really interesting as far as you can tell just a pair of denim jeans this got 20% recycled content. renew so we saw them at producing a kind of feed store which is a 100% recycle court and you think we're going to get to that point i do. and i think in the short term is what's available today. and when you sell. play next season. clothing so that this moves for. 20% recycled cotton to a 100% recycled. hmm recently partnered with when you sell to support continuing research. this is part of the closing lines plates to use 1100% sustainably sourced clothing by twenty thirteen which should be priced the same cost is not sustainable. and in store customers are encouraged to drop off on wanted garments to be recycled by companies like when you sell. so i'm quite curious to see. if there's anything in here that's the day in yeah look at that

they can be any quotes taken any brands clothing we have been working with big global retailers and designers. on insuring that. this recycling program actually continues to increase so that he gets fed back into the glowing supply chain and ultimately becomes. next season's fashion so literally kind of closing the loop on it as we want to get that's that's what we want to get to. discover the link between the fashion industry and deforestation was. shocking i think with organizations like kind of p. and when you sell raising awareness there is hope for the future. some challenge but i think when the public are armed with the right information they'll be able to demand more from retailers. and then we might see a person's voice stop being the victims. ecosystems. are just like the

system to be but as long as there are looked after in managed well then the body is in good shape and if they miss manners and not care for. the body could potentially die. ecosystem collapse is a can to. organ failure in our own bodies. if enough of the organs that make up the terrestrial body. are removed or are made sick the body dies. the again the earth is no different. each of us has a real. in fixing this problem. we could have a world that is beautiful and vital. and alive. for one that is quite bleak and quite brutal. it's directly related to what we choose to do whether or not we actually choose to do the work necessary to mend and

repair and rehabilitate our ecosystems or to participate. in in their death. what some of the richest habitat on the planet. in this remote corner of northeast in tacky this one which is proving to be an ecological gem. conservationist of any recently realized it's vitally important not only for local but but also for those migrating from all over the world. and yet the address with the wetlands is under threat. i've come here to meet the man who's hoping to save this remarkable parts of the world. sean check if your item is a world renowned onus on the chest. in the united states every year chandra times to his homeland tacky and comes to the irish part of the country. what's truth in here is a five

column to sweat glands the iris river. john came across it in two thousand five. and was looking just playing with google earth and i thought. this looks like a globally important oasis in critical spot for migration breeding and wintering birds and it's called the different coming here in person and i thought this is it this is a place. where i wanna do long term research to really understand what birds use this area this rat wetland situated in a dry sump does it reaches. its created what is written a flood. ideally located i grating but out of five global hot spots we're at the intersection of not one but two. three off the aids world's global bird migration flight. intersect right where we are in north in turkey it is one of the most special well. on the planet. the press to discover a treasure chart. so i think it

was a beautiful i mean i didn't really did not expect after fifteen years we would have recorded almost three hundred bird species. this two thirds the end tar eva falling off the whole country recorded over centuries i mean in this one spot. the two hundred and ninety bird species eva for not documented here twenty one a globally threatened or near threatened including the gyptian vulture and because you. but the danger is. the government wants to them this entire valley as far as that village over there flood this whole place all this would be under forty five meters of water and every season i come here just seeing it still there is like a relief because i'm always afraid it. will be gone i have to come here. see it for myself. early the next morning

john takes me to the burgeoning station down in the wetlands. is currently fighting the cools request the government's decision to build the dam. he hopes the day together. leave the wetlands rich biodiversity that by in show its protection we see everything here from minus ten to plus forty centigrade in the shade can get very cold here or very well that one is ten degrees today exactly. sizes yeah the ceiling or something yeah we do we'll put in this turkey. inside the team already hard at work today. raising the tuna fish. anyway can i touch my double disc norm for those. i'll with cruise months to six hundred meters of but not that surrounds station. every hour from sunrise to sunset during spring and autumn migration seasons the next check to see if any but the phone into them. gonna check the raptors. there's nothing

there we go back thanks mike rights to find conditions favorable for a living and breathing it's early in the season here so but numbers alone with the awesome beautiful specimens so we got a birds okay in the next. what's this there's a move. go to the collector. yeah hit the net slide into a pocket and then get entangled. some of the but- nine days nonstop and my great for hundreds or even thousands of calamitous initially ought to be able to survive the journey is one thing they hold the fact that's their field right before migration numbers will will their body mass and that's why please like this are so critical because they'd- stop over location. to keep eating. edition their fuel reserves now i'm down in the valley i can get a sense of what it is okay because it's warmer that just a bit higher

up there's water everywhere bits of footage coming out. and the thing that you consigliere is that that's what she loves it sets it says the huge amounts of food to be got hit by migrating but- one in eight bird species are facing global extinction. due to powell's including habitat and pollution. he says the bottom of an oasis like that. these days if you're studying by diversity it's almost impossible. not to. become an activist. the station in two thousand and five. now we've got the birds from the minutes it would go to the station would bring them think so miss simmons it down the back. to the white. his bed was born. if you need late last year. and this is the first this being

the nation for these birds. that's amazing so even when it's just a one year old it knows instinctively whereas the guys that. has incredible. not sure signs including changing phalanx trick but holman switch switch on the urge to travel. all the information gathered here is sent to a central database at johns university in utah let them rule ready all put on in life demonstrated that make them took. not a product in incomes. older son and someone will be upset of your six. the long run for most of the hotel is modern on this mission very. little can undo the truckee she can the someone's good. sports car free almost four these were some better condition than the other one by blowing on the beds chest one can tell it's not levels if it is pink fellow. and if you hello the budget.

plump enough to travel on. sixteen point nine. i just saw a slight. into things but his cup i'm ready thousands of. from the start of its journey in africa he said. it's just extraordinary because its so tiny on the- only. every individual with a couple for this i'll go to the left. or you can feel it's hot facing this tiny little huts. so the data has been gathered the bags can be released. is the team have rings around a hundred and eight thousand. when they're cool tells what researchers can contact state. the migration can be tracked. i feel like i've learned so much about why this place is so important as a refueling station for those beds which is traveling across the web hold on the japanese and being here with the team

witnessing. and that commitment to the cool was is really cool hi. yes tom pool service places. but sixteen kilometers up as a reminder that despite its importance the fate of the hours for the wetlands it's far from secure this is why i want to bring you here. just to see. what happens. they build a dam one of the are a server could not. five scan ready. and there is basic nothing amiss couple things on the- arabs clefs but where are the wetland birds. nothing on the shoreline. no waiters on the mud flats. about a decade after this is built there's nor revegetation hardly anything is come back in number at our us is the flood plain of the river that's creating all those wetlands because here. by design there will be any i

think you're not going to happen at which sought help and all the vegetation that grows on the whole iris valley will look like this. because logically dead. everywhere you go. around the world this fine balance between development. what's needed to solutions that benefit both populations and- china has some reason to feel hopeful in his efforts to win protected status for the hours the wetlands. in two thousand nine with data provided by him and his team mate creature seventy is north of paris. was designated a ramsar wetlands giving it international recognition as being of global importance. i can see hundreds. hundreds reading yeah can i can search by the kids. who see the cranes yet got them in there some ducks in there these to predict lakes. are dealing in going out one by one so you

because one of the last and most important. lakes in the entire north eastern turkey. from south status doesn't mean the lake is thriving. it impacts such as draining if irrigation and hunting have stopped in direct threats remain groundwater extraction three nearby wells using the lakes most level and animals still graced the meat beds. in september twenty eighteen the lake dried up completely. black dry mud during. when it is the most important for birds there was no water and no birds the chance say it's a rap star site and declare victory and walk away i mean conservation is a never ending battle like as long as that place is there. you have to make sure it stays china working on a number of fronts the lady. just signed an agreement. with the provincial governor. and while his

struggle to prevent the dom from being built on the iris. plants continues just coming here. regularly year after year the mines me the importance of the work we're doing and even if i lose all have it on my conscience although. i have done my best and. i did it just. back in one. it is estimated that around. the world what plans have disappeared in the past century. can you check lake and the hours river what times have charms champions and- global development continues to. more what kinds of the parts of the world going to need a lot. hi that corner. across the globe ecosystems. the human exploitation. one possible way of ensuring that protection is twin shrine that right to defend themselves in no. in the us in the nineteen seventies and legal scholar could christopher start. propose that

nature should be seen as a living and- with the same legal rights as people. it works three human represent. be able to stand up. and defend itself against threats to its well being. since then the up gaining traction. in two thousand eight ecuador voted into its constitution becoming the first country to give nature the legal right to exist and flourish and in twenty seventeen needed instead largest river the finding new he was given legal status after marriage tried food for its right to be present. the way food isn't simple. each of may lie in ensuring nature has records to justice

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