. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. ♪ >> and we're going here to give a blessing for this beau

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. >> this is a city administration initiative, and for this german expert, it's a model for the future. michael schlÖnvoigt is looking for ways to help protect costa rica's biodiversity landscape here is changing, sometimes very quickly. here, for instance, several meters of coastline have disappeared in the past three months, after a large river altered its flow. >> this is in part a result of climate change. there's an increase in rainfall intensity. but it's also a result of human intervention. if you look, you can see there are a lot of tree trunks moving in the river. deforestation in higher areas, in the highlands, has increased the speed of the river's flow, and then the river floods more easily when it rains. >> predicting changes to the landscape and advising politicians is michael schlÖnvoigt's job. today, he's in the capital san josÉ to consult with costa rican authorities. his task is to help draw up guidelines for conservation areas, with a special focus on climate change. >> thanks to a gap analysis, we discovered that certain conservation areas are too small. they're not big enough to be able to adapt to the effects of climate change. >> in order to pr