station in 2012. 2 years later across the border national park railway was set up a joint venture operated by the national rail companies of the czech republic and germany. it runs every 2 hours connecting the respective national parks and shortening the journey to an array of panoramic vantage points and hiking trails. from the railway takes passengers across the border and into the czech part of bohemian switzerland. we change trains in the town of rome book and set off on the next leg of our journey following the picturesque route all the way to do. you when the cross border national park railway project was inaugurated in 2014 it saved the then partially discontinued line here from complete closure. these tracks were originally laid primarily to transport bra materials but most of the small mines and factories lining the route were not able to survive after the communist regimes in east germany and in czechoslovakia ended in 1989. they fell victim to free market forces and competition with big energy corporations. these days it's cross border tourism that the region and the ra

419 national parks. you so much. it is indeed a pleasure to be here. i would like to thank all of those assembled here today to help us to join in this holiday for martin luther king jr. i have the honor of leading the national park service, which preserves and tells the story of dr. martin luther king jr. at places like birmingham, civil rights national monument. summit of montgomery national historic trail. this magnificent memorial. and many more. as america's storytellers, the national park service is committed, in its second century of service, to telling the history of america, in all of its diversity and complexity in creating a national park that preserves the stories of all americans. we seek to inspire people of all backgrounds. to envision themselves and their stories in their national parks. it is my great pleasure to introduce a man who shares this vision. and is responsible with leading us into a second century of service. ofan assistant secretary interior for fish and wildlife and parks, r

it is a collaborative monument between the national park service and the city of birmingham to restore the motel. the birmingham civil rights national monument, its purpose is to preserve and interpret stories, events, and the places associated with the 1963 struggle for civil rights and ultimately propel civil rights to the forefront of the american conscience. now we are going through the restoration of the hotel and these are just some of the pictures we did a mockup in january through june and that was to look at the historic treatment and help us understand what the medes were before we jumped right into a full restoration. we have now started the restoration actually effective in september. we talk about equity a lot. throughout this conference, i am sure you have heard equity here and what does it look like when you are in neighborhoods working on the ground? the picture of the four gentlemen, the guy who has the orange shirt on. he repaired the wall when the bomb blast was set up at the motel. ag gaston construction company is a legacy company of ag gaston. it's a minority-owne

when you know enough you senti sets out on expeditions into go down goes our national park she often heads streets for the fever tree forest chances are good that a young scientist will find what she's looking for there she's research and ends with the help of an aspirator she gathers specimens of every species she finds. a lot of people want. a big thing. and. i really want to show the people not just the big animals have any importance and now the system but also. and so because they provide for your. ecosystem would look very different without the performing important tasks such as spread in seeds eating digest and plants and distribute new trends within the forest by decompose in large quantities of organic matter. one of the world's most successful animal funds their presence in almost every habitat and have developed in an incredible variety of ways you sense the estimates that goes out national park alone over $300.00 different species. why it's so fascinating because you see we have different worlds flawed we do we have different landscape and also have to contribute in terms

community development essential to go in goes on national parks conservation approach it's authorities want to turn local residents into nature conservation allies using education clinics economic development plan c yet it plan a stamp the key element in this is the girls club led by 2 mentors girls meet in the village to learn and discuss problems c melody is the leader of the program for hair education is the basis for everything here and on. the goes clubs was basically to encourage parents to send their girls to school and because women generally do not have a value in this communities and also they are not empowered and nobody gives value to the education of women. for the package to this is the long term strategy it will hopefully guide people out of poverty and generate opportunities for young woman to lead self-determined lives maybe someone even joined the sentry and her colleagues on google goes a scientific team. in recent months not enough sente has already identified $200.00 species she's the 1st female scientist to map this type of a city including goza and said to be one

to take away from that, but if anyone -- there are grant funding opportunities through both the national park service and the national trusts for preservation of this type of resources. i have one page information sheets on these grant opportunities. so, please come see me if you are interested. and also i hope it would be good news for everyone if you're not familiar with this project that the winks pan ramma lodge is moving forward for national historic landmark nomination at this time and there's a national register for a property named coronado lodge in pueblo, which was listed in the green book, for national register nomination. i would prefer if you have questions, please come to the podium here. i don't want to take away from the opportunity to answer questions with folks. no one has questions? okay, perfect. >> so when you look at the green book and you look at the listings that are in there and, you know, of course everyone always thinks of the south as being the spot where it was so difficult to travel. and in the movie that is referenced to this catalog, of course, they have quite

so the water balance in doing on a national park has been altered. we're destroying it. for the new owner. he. has been fighting to protect anjana national park for 16 years the agricultural engineer comes from the region and has made the campaign against illegal wells his life's mission he uses satellite imaging to locate newly drilled for holes and illegal agriculture. as well as marshall fields these are oficial government maps may show legal agricultural areas. it is it's a map that's available to the general public. so what do we do we end our experts look for unauthorized farmers zoom in and identify areas where crops are being cultivated you. know the failure is this and this and this or all know if we pass our findings on to the authorities and report the illegal zones when we identify anything suspicious we go and check it out and one of them i will write a book. but the activist says the authorities off a little help in the fight to protect the region's natural environment reporting illegal wells and farms usually goes nowhere it's deeply frustrating. forgot ab

of the private bus luly game reserve borders kruger national park on one side view . mirror animals can roam freely there are no fences. only the outer border of the brotherly reserve is protected. the reason we're having and it's expose here is because we don't want it in the most inside the reserve to give you a way to go outside this main roads quite busy cars and drive people are driving and driving so fast so if anyone is going always has a way to go out we're going to lose so many of them in the most so i'm not out or is in the fence has entered through city where trying to protect us from you in. time and again poachers dig under the fence to get into the park most of the world's $20000.00 remaining rhinos live in south africa but around $1000.00 of the animals are killed each year vs this park is home to around 80 rhinos all of them have had their horns cut off this controversial procedure is intended to protect the rhinos from poachers but the horns grow back and a large part of them cannot be removed. rhinos have a huge disability their eyesight is so poor t

nature at its most diana national park south of seville is a unesco world heritage site. right and a stopover for millions of markets or birds traveling between europe and africa but it's surrounded by agricultural activity that is sucking up dry demand for water poses a threat to this natural paradise and illegal wells are exacerbating the problem he's. the central for biodiversity for the park's wetlands and fauna but it's also essential for the local economy which revolves around intensive farming. but the problem is in the last 30 years that farming has led to illegal extraction of water and that has a serious impact on the park's marshes and lagoon use up the groundwater levels of 4. so the water balance in don't ya national park has been altered. we're destroying it. seems. has been fighting to protect anjana national park for 16 years the agricultural engineer comes from the region and has made the campaign against illegal wells his life's mission he uses satellite imaging to locate nearly 4 holes and illegal agriculture. there's a lot of it yes you know these are

every death in our national parks is investigated. ranger who came to rescue her now switched roles from rescuer to cop. >> people wear different hats at the park service. the guy who schlepped out there in the middle of the night and tried to both save toni's life and get harold off the mountain the next day became an investigator. >> reporter: the ranger set out to learn everything he could about toni, harold and what happened on that quiet mountain. harold told him the couple had set out around 1:45 on the deer mountain trail as part of their romantic anniversary weekend. you can see in this selfie harold took that the henthorns seemed to be having fun, on a track that many would find challenging. >> hikers call it a moderate hike. but these are hikers who are, you know, scaling the sides of mountains. >> reporter: but toni and harold kept at it, following the trail as it snaked up and around the mountain to a point where it flattened out. it was a beautiful fall day here in the rockies, much like this. harold said he and toni wante

just say kruger national park and the private pilot game reserve she had a border here the animals moved freely between the 2 areas but the game reserve 60 fans. poachers are constantly trying to force their way in there after right harvest stall too often they succeed. i'm doing this for the next generation on my kids to not doing it so if we'd lose all interest in his day next generation with something it will never know a deer a nose do we just see peaches but they will never get to see if they are right. the black mamba consider themselves the eyes and ears of the park for the sake of the rhino as they gather information observant patrol. they've been doing it for 7 years and that's time poaching has gone down significantly they also spread the worlds to local residents everyone benefits from the animals they bring jurists and jobs. i am sure that we meant how to best. because. caring. really. just says even in comes the most dangerous part of their work. for most poachers nightfall is the beginning of the workday the black mamba us make sure their presence is known every night. one

game reserve on the outskirts of kruger national park. can women do this more successfully than men. yes just say. it's 6 am late democrat brothers shift is about to begin. a new movie doing good making when it will not move but sure i'd love to do it thank. goodness because if they didn't what it was to be like the civil. war going to stick and you think that. later the lives of the black members at a small camp in the national park close to 30 women are involved in the project each morning they start their work day by going out in small groups to check the fences. the women covered 12 kilometers of ground on foot following the park's fence line and they're not alone there wasn't any i don't here. that looks like a bozo no one i mean you. know you don't get. the private bus lulay game reserve borders kruger national park on one side yes dear animals can roam freely there are no fences. only the outer border of the blue a reserve is protected. there is in were hitting and it's expense yeah is because we we don't wonder in a muss inside th

several 1000 elephants live here too they move back and forth between national parks in the west and the east of the country and traverse my side lands along the way there are no fences barring their path. purity car and the rest of her team travel long distances on foot. between 20 and 40 kilometers a day the same as the male rangers. among their most important duties is talking to people who live here the messiah or semi-nomadic pastoralist who cover a lot of ground with their flocks and encounter wild animals along the way sometimes lions kill cattle elephants rampage in villages the rangers need to hear about problems and be informed if poachers are in the area. they charge animals movement patterns and register their g.p.s. coordinates rangers are on patrol 7 days a week it's a way for these women to break out of strict traditional gender roles but the job is far from easy sometimes it is the difficulty because the little i know most they will follow and once they hurt and they can kill you so scared because of a little. lull so that then so. you can because you know. you might

they plan to visit the final ten parks to reach their goal of visiting all 61 national parks by the end found grandma joy in virginia's shenandoah valley at her 29th park. >>> on the road again. ♪ >> you better believe it. ♪ >> reporter: in virginia's shenandoah national park, brad ryan and his grandmother joy admire the spectacular view of the valley far below. >> you're a lot more courageous than me. you know? >> a little bit -- >> reporter: it's one of 51 national parks the two have visited over the past four years. from the redwood forests of california to the voyagers national park in minnesota to the gulf stream waters of florida. >> don't get too close. you'll be alligator lunch. >> reporter: their goal is to visit all 61 national parks. the extraordinary journey began after joy, then 85, told brad she regretted that she'd never seen an ocean or a mountain. >> i never climbed one, but he fixed that. >> reporter: you climbed a mountain once? you don't have a burning desire to climb another mountain. >> no. i think that will be sufficient. >> to see your grandmother roll down a nat

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went to rocky mountain national park in colorado yellowstone and grand teton national parks in wyoming. i think if any of you have been to some of these places you will know what i'm talking about, especially the first time you see something like that, it is life-changing. it's paradigm shifting when you see what's available to you. what's out there this big. for anybody that appreciates the outdoors, who appreciates open space, quiet encounters with animals, if you appreciate any of those things, once you start heading out into some of these bigger while their places you see the scale and the depth of that, it hits you right in the fields. that happened to me. we climbed the top of mountains we backpack over 12,000 foot mountain passes. all those things that up until that point had been here now they were there. i knew right then and there and my poor girlfriend at the time, now my wife. she probably could've saw in my eyes as well that we were going to be the same after this. this was going to be something that would have to be a part of our lives from here on out. i set my sights tr

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$150.00 hectors next year if deforestation can be halted or reversed the wetlands of corn goes and national park will be preserved forests protect the park which in turn helps to protect people living in coastal areas as climate change continues well functioning ecosystems will become more important than ever. over and over again we see that's a lot of devastation results from our failure to keep ecosystems into it and that's the case both on land and sea indeed it is overfishing is causing serious problems on the west coast of africa these days and that's why i set up a marine protection program that aims to stop illegal fishing and develop more sustainable fishing practices in order to protect the ocean and the fish in the long run. just off the shore of gambon's capital leap of the she just cannot come out on his eco guards patrol the coastline for illegal fishing . since 27000 nearly a quarter of gaap on the waters have been named marine protection areas making the pun guy or a marine park the biggest protection zone on offer because west coast. says the idea to create a marine park came fro