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video on demand oxys minefield costs and the recess feeds now in the palm of your. call. from up. more news today violence is once again flared up the phonies are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for asians are the day. the lucky. colima reach seven thousand kilometers from moscow a group of research is has become an expedition through the nature of. there's one of the sea eagles enough close to a small river on the shore of the sea of
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a fourth here not very far from here low tide compels them to go to the sea look for food. there's still a siegel is listed in russia's red book of endangered animals eagles of this type only found in russia's four east each year just a company car reserve ranges in space and this enormous do so the expedition will have to come hundreds of kilometers over the course of ten days. ornithologist if you know we take. a volunteer from scotland they're accompanied by range of let me a big push on the journey. this is where the two rivers meet their totally different the children journey is a deep cold river with a strong current the water in the cabin is warm they even different color the challenger is greenish because of floodwaters but the kava always stays brown and.
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still the sea eagles can afford to be free in the reserve they don't have to worry about food there isn't a pun some fish in the sea of all halts a nearby rivers is still a sea eagle is the largest in the area. their wings is almost seventy centimeters adults can weigh up to knowing kilograms i can feel a branch an eagle is behind it. the boat is going to a far corner of the result of the owner fellow just expect to see chicks that they believe hatched in an eagle's nest a few days ago. the engine noise scares. upon seeing the new arrivals he backs away and swiftly disappears into the forest the group has no worries has really attacked people during the summer. a telescope at year old is
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the most important always home in the expeditions inventory by attaching a video camera the only phone which is were used to see what's going on in the eagle's nest even though it only takes a few minutes to get to the nest but it actually comes to climbing the tree preparations take a lot longer stella's siegel's missed the ground technique of are you sure giving a delicate girl that much to carry is a good idea. elsie ashford is the first woman to ever climb a tree in the back of that ski resort in the past. always employed to help the men in the group. yes. l c is a researcher at the royal society for the protection of it's in scotland but it's nests have been her line of work to several years she has brought all the necessary equipment from scotland because she thinks using familiar equipment in an unfamiliar place is much safer. for the mining industry is no easy job
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and it will take elsie at least forty minutes to get to the nest especially if she observes all of the safety rules are going to. 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 a key element of the monitoring procedure is inspecting last at the start of the season with us because we need to know how many chicks have hatched and how many have survived the end of the season and then if they're mature enough to leave their nests he gets the film is shot from different tables special care is taken not to scare away out of the bugs otherwise they might never return to the nest and the chicks would thought of starvation elsie takes a look at the footage before she's even got barrels from the train. to small white
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chicks for in life and i. think around in the sunshine finding the middle of each on a chain beaks like this just like you next said to small but very 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 sorry to hear that any of a gauche patrolled 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. branches lowing close to the pole speak of a camp fire started by welcome guests or this is what is left of a branch causing
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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 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 for weeks on end sometimes far as compass such a large area of the farm in from all over the region come to help. controlling fire is especially difficult in can do for us forests it takes many years to recover from such a place floods are just as dangerous as fire into early spring transporting fuel and basic necessities to reserve stuff is an extreme and often life threatening toss which is more than. on one occasion snowmobiles broke down and we had to
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walk scores of kilometers such incidents would have made many others quit this job but something keeps us going i think it gives us adrenaline i'm happy it's part of my life. it's a challenge that usually. the following morning the weather changes abruptly it is clear from the full cost that the rain will keep coming down for almost a week all of foliage just decided against inspecting other siegal nests. they want to waste a toy so they begin looking through the video they filmed the day before. and 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 behaved in a very different way. now this this is the first time i've seen chicks fighting
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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. for began learning russian a few months before arriving in the market i'm reachin while in the reserve each day she notes the new words she his from her russian colleagues at work it's important if you're working too many everything because you can't remember them you need to have a few words in practice so you can use them when you need quickly. the day later and time is running out the expedition now has to move to another sector of the reserve. didn't go through the second phase of the expedition is about to begin when we'll visit the coney peninsula on the on ski i learned where the maritime sector is we will see eagle nests check the bears and tagged sea lions are 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 seal. through several killer whales near the ship they seem to be able to push the ship's captain many happy returns on his sixty fifth birthday get the boat ready for the plot point is on the horizon. the station on the coney peninsula is home to ranges of the maritime sector of the market and ski state nature reserve the environment is very harsh. accompanies the group of researches at this stage of the expedition with a service record of more than twenty years is one of the reserves veterans sergei began his career as
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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 at a time the rangers are a self-sufficient community. apart from guarding the territory they keep records of the natural environment was the situation no money nothing to speak of little said you know intruders apart from some little animals. and what about the stellar siegel's a couple who come from their cheering low tide you'll see them. no toy doesn't come until several hours later at that time a mountain stream flowing into the sea of all hearts can be crossed normally the title current is so strong that it is impossible to keep one's balance the water is always here all year round and falling in would be dangerous there are no signs of life in the eagle's nest its owner is away hunting for food but soon it appears on the horizon. look evil.
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the climate here is almost completely different to the previous location even in the height of summer the weather poses a challenge it's a little bit cold. but it's not going to it's this summer so it's sunny it's like. winter in scotland maybe. you can feel. the rain just take two dogs on a daily twelve kilometer patrol the talks begin barking is 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. the poachers carry weapons their boats have powerful engines in the storm and on top of that lawyers provide legal protection which your unlikely to find any
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eyewitnesses here a ranger would have to work very hard before the offender could be brought to trial if it were performance. as soon as the expedition ship leaves plus the station a family of humpback whales appears the captain still has the best soul along the shore as the researches take stock of the best inhabiting the county and then see what i can see a female mayor down there and a little compass nearby. when the bears a spotted their exact location will be on the map while the researches conduct their work the ship moves the slow speed. but it was evening the captain steps on the gas as they head for the ski arlen's it's crucial that the ship reached its destination while the weather is still good.
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four days a call since the start of the expedition the m.p.i. lands a still a long way away but the expedition has already run out of freshwater rain just say a gay schmidt's off looks for a spot to land the boat and see that there's the eagle the sea is quite shallow off shore so again raises the outboard engine and covers the last few meters using or was once he's on shore he realizes that trespass is a visit to the protected area only recently for the fourth well this water canister tells me they left the place only a short time ago. and there came later with it it's clear it's been a good deal of time here sharpening its claws i'm quite sure the guys wasted no
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time either you know in the ocean most likely. there are no people around but there are fresh tracks on the ground left by a bad soon the animal is spotted through binoculars but it pays no attention to the expedition a bit later the only full of just 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 where the dander in our springtime flower which is listed in russia's red book common danger plants and animals this one the gansa 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
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the only chance to replenish the water supply for as long as the ship remains at sea. this water is an 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 it's smooth till. the water is now on board and the ship's anchor is raised the weather is ideal for making observations half an hour later taking the 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 gets into
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a motor boat to have. a mole cough 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. the last thing you want to know. are. not hello there hello i haven't seen you in ages how are you how are you ok this is a rare sight here the nearest settlement is sixty kilometers from cape to you know i made some pies fresh from the open a make some tea if you wait a minute oh thank you my dear nadezhda may she 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 this instance you know we are proud to live here even if it means living so far away.
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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 sea on the other there are no people around here you see nobody but beasts and even they are very tame. before dusk surrogate 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 they remain silence 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
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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 when i grew up i brought my kids here they too have grown up here as such i might call my family again a city of sorts. towards evening the ship the parts for the orleans. the only fellow just will meet with fellow scientists studying sealants. we're now approaching not a real island the name destination of our trip that place is very beautiful and interesting here to see is that a hundred meters deep shapes our best to see a clear of this place during a storm or change inside there is no telling what tricks it may have in store for you. but. the pacific's northernmost habitats of sea lions is all much kill island in the late night and eighty's scientists raise the
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alarm after discovering a dramatic form 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 lions a shoot away from the beach then they were called the pups so as to estimate the size of a population more accurately the newborns of intact and given a number. the procedure makes it possible to track the animals movements in the sea of a halt. over roughly twenty years which is the average large span of a c lot. of what we see with just the obvious leave the animals don't like being disturbed but then it's only one day during their mating season will 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 to
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start that's administer an anaesthetic to the seal and pups to ensure a painless operation. because the sea lions breathe in a special gas for about three minutes he falls asleep and wake sets in ten minutes later it doesn't take long to recover from the anaesthetic. few. jeff i am going to take some blood samples if the blood test will tell us something about the state of the new borns health 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 the ashford for help as the toast is not easy a one week old sea lawyer weighs the average of twenty seven kilograms say special fifty two i think. that it's quite nice to me because. i can just
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help carrying. so i can be useful and it helps get what likely. as biologists label the seal and pups the adults are in the water the scientists need to make haste to finish the job as soon as they can this year the 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 in russian colleagues because store c. lines don't look at the border and say oh stuff merrick over there and russia over here they swim across the border pike frequently so we have to work in proper ration 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 lines come to the beach much kill island over the ice males of the first two or roy they have to fight for a place on the beach. this ring silence means the sea lion has laid claim to the
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area caught up with what it would be 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. i've given you should give up with me when they're on the beach there agile like birds but at sea they get very inquisitive they approach tigers in stick with them for some sign of a french it's action especially if they're wearing shiny objects by sea lions it's a human's no that has never happened with. the sciences of label two hundred c. laws. and pop's each of the animals now has a stiff a good 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
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they're seeing their pups. after the departure of their colleagues the following morning the only foliage is of a maggot state nature reserve was you watching in the daytime these colonies of to kill island so loud that even people shouting at the top of their voices can hardly be fewer than four and a half million i think 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 with cliffs it's the central part of the truck's most interest. there's a difference between nesting how it will look for example occupy narrow cliff cornices while buzzards make their nests among rocks this means that there are no free thoughts of land and the birds occupy the entire island that. you
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would like to spend more toys and research but. it is a very cold place to get to a previous expedition run into haiti. and. with no results this time luck was on the soil of the scientists everybody wants to get. and it's not it's not difficult it's not like. historic sea voyage where you have no water no fruits 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 leaves methink you island. during low tide just the fourth us in the mess room ashford learns how to cook traditional russian borscht. puts potatoes on the boil for ten minutes then add tensas to. the expedition members unknown the last night for the ship
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it is obvious that everyone is tired 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 the cook meanwhile a captain's mate sets a course back to make it a compact whale again appears on the horizon just like during the voyage to the mc islands the expedition to the maggot and ski nature reserve is nearing its end it has covered more than a five thousand kilometers in ten days and collected a wealth of material for the study. the team's mission is complete. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you
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