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the treaties with the building your business in russia will come to the smaller regions to more information flow going to double the distance from oracle you. can solve the our this is developing story now as shoot to kill policies and fulfill all of those in the of the border with as anger reaches new heights and bridges a future checkpoint in correspondence trying to break through in information on. the crossing fully controlled by serbs was seized by casa de pending spots by the alliance two weeks ago. in advance of his said both he and buddy went through she would have stood for the same goals in running for the presidency and for things popularity among the russians makes him the best account it seems explain why he was due from the race in an instance of russian. and greeks are praising themselves
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they get more calls than higher taxes in the latest round of austerity measures pushed through by the government is part of a bid to prove the nation's fit for another sponsor the pain i'll take the decision the suspended the downs the countries doing enough to reduce its enormous debt so. now takes you on an exhilarating trip to russia's far east to meet some of the rarest species of animals the maya which you see of the region. cullimore reach seven thousand kilometers from moscow a group of research as has become an expedition true the speed nature is. there's one of the sea eagles a nest close to a small river on the shore of the sea of a whole heap not very far from here both tide compels them to go to the sea to look for food. to stella's siegel is listed in russia's red book
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of red and endangered animals eagles of this toy only found in russians for east each year just to come people reserve ranges in space than this in order to do so the expedition would have to come hundreds of closest over the course of ten days. on othella just give you know we've taken is joined by elsie ashford a volunteer from scotland they're accompanied by range of let me update on the journey of the group this is where the two rivers meet they're totally different the children journey is a deep culture with a strong current of water in the cabin it's warm they even different color the challenger is greenish because a flood waters of the kava always stays brown and. still the sea eagles can afford to be free in the megatons he was. they don't have to worry about food
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there is no fish in the sea it will halt a nearby river as this is still a sea eagle is the largest bird in the area. their wings is almost seventy centimeters as an adult can weigh up to knowing kilograms i can feel your grants and eagle is behind it. the boat is going to a full corner of the risk of the only thing i just expect to see chicks that they be hatched in an eagle's nest a few days. the engine noise. upon seeing the new arrivals he backs away and swiftly disappears into the forest the group has no worries has really attacked people cheering this summer a telescopic ruled is the most important always for me in the expeditions inventory by attaching a video camera only from a chance we're used to see what's going on in the eagle's nest even though it only
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takes a few minutes to get to the nest but it actually comes to climbing the tree preparations take a lot longer stella's sea eagles above the ground temperature are you sure giving a delicate girl that much to carry is a good idea. l.c.s. foot is the first woman to ever climb a tree in the market i was the result of in the past taken and was employed to help the men in the group. yes. elsie is a researcher at the royal society for the protection of bugs in scotland but its nests have been her line of work the several years she has brought all the necessary equipment from school because she thinks using familiar equipment in an unfamiliar place is much safer. from the mining this tree is no easy job and it will take elsie at least forty minutes to get to the nest especially if she
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observes all of the safety rules. elsie's progress is blocked she can't go any further this is where a video camera attached to a rolled comes in handy and i shared up a key element of the monitoring procedure is inspecting us at the start of the season with us because we need to know how many chips that hatched and how many have survived to the end of the season and then if they're mature enough to leave their nest that's the film is shot from different angles special care is taken not to scare away at all. otherwise they might never return to the nest and the chicks were thought of starvation. elsie takes a look at the footage before she's even got darrell from the tree a sort of chip a small white chicks are in my family. i think around in the sunshine fighting a battle with each other to beaks like this just like you have said too small for
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a healthy chick. decades ago they were good like prison camps and. inmates used to be sent to what is now nature is to procure a fish and game today people are a rare sight here let me out of a gauche patrol the territory making his way along narrow trails left by as he always carries a gun with him a trespasser can be easily spotted from this elevation intruders crossing the reserves by injuries as a threat. is lying close to the pole speak of a campfire. welcome guests or this is what is left of a branch that got caught in a fire even though more than thirty years of cost i still shudder when i think back to that inferno. this with this way of getting to any part of the reserve in an
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emergency is by helicopter. when a fire flares up the helicopters will have to make dozens of trips a day but even that does little to help. the tiger may remain a blaze two weeks on end. sometimes far as come to such a large area the foreman from all over the region come to help. controlling fire is especially difficult intended for us forests it takes many years to recover from such a play's floods just as dangerous as fire into early spring transporting fuel and basic necessities to preserve stuff is an extreme and often life threatening toss. which is more than. on one occasion snowmobiles broke down and we had to walk scores of kilometers such incidents would have made many others quit his job something keeps us going i think it gives us adrenaline i'm happy it's part of my
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life. it's a challenge the key she was. doing for. the following morning the weather changes abruptly it is clear from the full cost of the rain will keep coming down for almost a week we all are followed just decide against inspecting other siegal nests but they don't want to waste that toy so they begin looking through the video they filmed the day before this. i would like to take a closer look at what you filmed. i couldn't see it clearly in the sunlight. well i didn't expect to see that the chicks i saw were older and they behave in a very different way. now this this is the first time i've seen chicks fighting all the time they're behaving naturally as they should it's not like they saw you with your camera it was hidden after all. l.c.s.
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food began learning russian a few months before arriving in the mega time region well in the reserve each station notes than you would she hears from her russian colleagues at work it's important if you're working that you don't learn q many everything because you can't remember them you need to have a few old ones you practice so you can use them when you need quickly. a day later and time is running out the expedition now has to move to another sector of the result. it was the second phase of the expedition is about to begin we will visit the korean peninsula on the on ski ireland where the maritime sector is full sea eagle nests check the bears and tag sea lions for now this part of the trip is done .
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three hundred kilometers from the previous campsite and tugboat fashion into an expedition vessel has entered the sea of cortes. through several killer whales appeared near the ship they seem to be out to push the ship's captain and many happy returns for his sixty fifth birthday get the ball ready for a large applause the checkpoint is on the horizon. the station on the coney peninsula is home to ranges of the merits of the market and ski state nature reserve the environment is very harsh so gay shit soft accompanies the group of researches at this stage of the expedition with the service record of more than twenty years is one of the reserves veterans so gay began his career as a rank and file employee now he is in charge of the ranges guarding the reserves maritime sector they are on duty for about a month for the time the rangers are a self-sufficient community. a call from guarding the territory they keep records
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of the natural environment was the situation no money nothing to speak of. no intruders apart from some little animals. and what about the stellar siegel's a couple who come from their touring low tide you'll see the. low tide doesn't come until several hours later at that time a mountain stream flowing into the sea of a halt can be crossed surely the tidal currents is so strong that it is impossible to keep one's balance the water is all year round and falling in would be dangerous there are no signs of life in the eagles and this its owner is away hunting for food but soon it appears on the horizon. look evil. the climate here is almost completely different to the previous location even in the height of summer the weather poses a challenge it's
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a little bit cold. but it's not going to it's this summer so it's a me it's like. winter in scotland maybe. you feel. the rain just take two dogs on the daily twelve kilometers patrol the dogs begin talking as soon as they smell a bag they are just as indispensable when rangers look for peaches something bad is often the poachers have better equipment than the reserve personnel. all rules are for the posers carry weapons their coats have powerful engines in the storm and on top of that lawyers provide legal protection or you're unlikely to find any eyewitnesses here a ranger would have to work very hard before the offender could be brought to trial which it was and. as soon as the expedition ship leaves plus the station
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a family of compact whales appears the captains the is the vessel along the shore of the researchers take stock of the best inhabiting the kuoni and until i can see a female they are down there and a little cub is nearby. when the bears a sported their exact location will be mocked on the map while the research is conducted their work ship moves the slow speed. but was evening the captain steps on the gas as they head for the ski islands it's crucial that the ship reached its destination while the weather is still good. twenty years ago this country. certificates of.
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if four days of call since the start of the expedition. a still a long way away but the expedition has already run out of fresh water rain just surrogates fets off looks for a spot to land the boat and see that there's the eagle. the sea is quite shallow off shore sergey raises the outward engine and covers the last few meters using walls once he is on shore he realizes that trespass is a visit to the protected area only recently with well this water canister tells me they left the place only a short time ago. there came later it's clear it's been a good deal of time here sharpening its claws i'm quite sure the guys wasted no time either. potion most likely. there are no people around but there are fresh tracks on the ground left by a. sunni animal is spotted true binoculars but it pays no attention to the
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expedition a bit later the only colleges see another stella segal a short distance away meanwhile the ranger returns from his rounds of the territory he says he has found no poachers. some say the series here in the north is very monotonous but in fact it is very beautiful this is really the dander in our springtime flower which is listed in russia's red book common danger plants and animals this one began to bloom just a few days ago. when the rising tide comes they will need to collect some two hundred liters of fresh water this supply should last until the end of the trip many of the expedition participants have been suffering from dehydration this is the only chance to replenish the water supply for as long as the ship remains at sea. this water is absolutely fresh because it comes here from the snow fields the water is cold but it's pure completely clean and very good for drinking and
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it's smooth to. the water is now on board and the ships tanker is raised the weather is ideal for making observations half an hour later taken to an eagle's nest which is not on the map he will market his new eagle seems to be alone the nest is very tiny. the weather rapidly deteriorates and the birds head to the rocks watching them becomes impossible moreover the fog makes sailing in these conditions dangerous so the ship comes to a halt. ranges of hits into a motor boat have. a markov an old friend of his is in charge of a lighthouse. so gay lives there with his wife the cape covers an area of just over one square kilometer. and you want to know. where
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is asking for. nadia hello there hello i haven't seen you in ages how are you. visitors are a rare sight here the nearest settlement is sixty kilometers from cape town yeah i made some pies fresh from the oven make some tea if you wait a minute oh thank you my idea and the dish to make he takes care of the household chores. is responsible for maintaining the lighthouse he has to be a jack of all trades there is nobody to help if something goes wrong but since until we're proud to live here even if it means living so far away. we are like border guards. it's like living at the end of the world that's true there are rocks on one side and see on the other there are no people around here
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you see nobody but beasts and even they are very tame. before dusk goes to the lighthouse there are more than two hundred time one steps in the spiral staircase. in the soviet union the lighthouse was a strategic naval installation and was guarded accordingly a sentry was on round the clock usually at the entrance. much has changed since then but the lighthouse still requires bailey maintenance specially designed lenses enable the light to be seen from twelve nautical miles away even though the power of the lamps is five hundred watts says this i was a child when my parents brought me here in one thousand nine hundred sixty two that's when i took a fancy to this place i grew up i brought my kids here they too have grown up here as such i might call my family to misty of sorts.
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towards evening to ship the parts for the ski arlen's. the only follow this will meet with fellow scientists studying sea lions. we're now approaching not a kill file and the name destination of our trip the place is very beautiful and interesting here the sea is about one hundred meters deep ships are best to steer clear of this place during a storm or change inside there is no telling what tricks it may have in store for you. the pacific's northernmost habitats of sea lions is a matter kill island in the late one thousand eight hundred scientists raise the alarm after discovering a dramatic fall in the number of these mammals. since then an international group of scientists has come to the mc arlen's each year. to begin with all the adult sea
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lions to shoot away from the beach then they were called the pups so as to estimate the size of the population accurately the newborns of intact and given a number. the procedure makes it possible to track the animal's movements in the sea of a hot. over roughly twenty years which is the effort of a sea lawyer. for the sort of this leave the animals don't like being disturbed but then it's only one day during their mating season with set a particular day aside when the harm done to the sea lion population is reduced to a minimum since the procedure has been perfected down to the smallest detail start that's administer an anaesthetic to the sea lion pups to ensure a painless operation. for you because the sea lions breathe in a special gas for about three minutes he falls asleep and wake steps in ten minutes later doesn't take long to recover from the anaesthetic. few.
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chips with him i am going to take some blood samples if they see sick the blood test will tell us something about the state of the new borns out to see if they're healthy enough that's all right dear they have a chance the job involves a good deal of physical labor and unfortunately the team is short handed this year . the expedition is grateful to see ashville for help as the talk is not easy a one week old sea lawyer and weighs an average of twenty seven kilograms space specialists it takes i think analysts that it's quite nice to me because. i can just help scaring people so i can be useful and it helps get what i look like. as biologists label the sea lion pups the adults in the water the scientists need to make haste to finish the job as soon as they can this year the
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expedition has brought together researchers from japan russia and the united states they have to solve the language barrier as they can. really important for us to work us in an american colleagues and russian colleagues still receive lines don't look at the border and say oh stuff it was america over there and russia over here they swim across the border upright frequently so we have to work in proper asian to better understand the nature that goes across the borders is doing whether they're doing well or not what we need to do to manage them. in early spring see loans come to the be traumatic you island over the ice males of the first two or roy they have to fight for a place on the beach. this ruling sound means the sea lion has laid claim to the area. what it was if i have been working with such animals for more than twenty years but i'm still in they said their behavior sea lions on shore behave very differently at sea. but then you should do what we think when they're on the beach
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they're agile like birds but at sea they get very inquisitive they approached divers in sync with them for some sign that they try to touch him especially if they're wearing shiny objects by sea lions attacking humans no that has never happened before of the. the scientists label two hundred c law and pops each of the animals now has difficulty recording their weight and individual characteristics. after a day or two it will be as though humans were never here to sea lions will return to their daily routine lying around on the beach going to sea in search of food and they're seeing their pups. after the departure of their colleagues the following morning the only foliage is of the maggot state nature reserve resumed. in the daytime these colonies of to kill island. but even people shouting at the top of
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the voices can hardly be fewer than four and a half million in the magical island even though it's only six square kilometers they are few and far between in the south because the wind is a stroll along the cliffs it's the central part of the tracks most interest. there's a difference between nothing how it's looks for example occupy narrow cliff cornices . make their nests among rocks this means that there are no free plots of land and the birds occupy the entire island. i just would like to spend more time researching. this is a very place to get a previous expedition into haiti. and to return to my results this time but was on the side of the scientists everybody works together and
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it's not it's not difficult it's not like. historic sea voyage where you have no water no free and many health problems i see even more than i expected because i've been very lucky to be here at a time when there are many different interesting projects. the ship needs met akil island during low tide just before dusk in the mess room the ashford learns how to cook traditional russian borscht. boats potatoes on the boil for ten minutes then add it insisted. the expedition members unknown the last night with the ship it is obvious that everyone is toilet but everyone is reflecting on the vivid impressions of the trip even those that have been here before the captain says jokingly that next time elsie ashford will combine both jobs as researcher and
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a cook meanwhile a captain's mate sets a course back to my get a hump but whale again appears on the horizon just like during the voyage to the mc islands the expedition to the maggot and the nature reserve is nearing its end it has covered more than a thousand kilometers in ten days and collected a wealth of material for the study. the team's mission is complete. the food.
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