this woman hasbeen documentin the fireflies' decline for three years. six of seven of her monitong sites have been cleed of vegetation by lol land owners. irrition ditches atthis site already dug fo a plantation. >> if this keeps going on, you know, the population will disappear one day witht the habitat, the natural habita the firefes won't be able to increase their population because their lifecycle, the early stages ofhe life cycle pend on natul habitat. >> reporter:he work has now stopped. the ate government somewha belatedly has declared the area arotected zone. >> i think it's coming -- i want toay at the right time, but th tail e ofhat could have been inevitab dtruction of the firefly. so what wre trying to do now is to rehabilitate. >> reporter: the race is on to replant the tree,but only the nextew months wi tell whether it'slready too late to stop the lights going out. laura kyle, al jazeer kuala selangor, malaysia. >>> yesterday th seetary-general of the uned nations ban ki-moon held special press briefing here in new york about climate chang