ernie schank: i am a native nevadan. i was born in fallon. i live on the same ranch--in fact, i live in a house that my grandfather built in about 1930. i amam the youngest who ever ran for the board of directors for the truckekee-carson i irrigatin district. my main occupation, however,r, is a farmrmer. this is what i love. our farm is now in the fifth generation. our family came to the fallon area in 1929, and when i asked my grandfather why, he said he wanted to go to a place where reclamation was in its infancy. the mormon pioneers pioneered reclamation as we know it today. they came to what was considered a wasted area because nobody thought ththat you could grow crops, but when they got here, they deterermined ththat if they would dam thstreams and build reservoirs, that soil could become very fertile. [water sloshing] baca: however, what they did not take into consideration was the effefect of thatat reallocationn the e truckee river r itselflf n pyramid lake and on n so of f te other lakes s that were dependet on thihis water syststem

the welcome here isn't nearly as warm as it usually is in ethiopia it was old customs schank wants to know how people today feel about the sanctuary. city. but we're doing many things for the future kind of case on how to fight us you know what we don't get anything for our future from the park you know we're not going to conservationist wants to know more about the communities needs. we need a better infrastructure like clean water and electricity. even if the dangers of environmental destruction are known there are simply more pressing concerns for people here problems that need solutions today the benefits of keeping forests intact may take decades to be felt there was a lot of convincing to be done to have. people frank for people conservation people. we have to find solutions. for the people and for the forest but it's very clear. the mood remains tense even though such discussions are vital because everyone here depends on a functioning ecosystem a system that provides clean water and keeps the soil in the fields. coastal schank now wants to get a report on the situation in the

coastal schank now wants to get a report on the situation in the lowlands he goes to visit the head of the bonnet mountain conservation project. nettles immediately explains how critical the situation is in the lowlands he has video from the border area between southern ethiopia and somalia this huge region is home to 12000000 people who are dependent on water from the ballad mountains but more and more often the water isn't flowing. livestock can survive long periods of drought and when the animals die people lose their source of food and income the rural population is being hit hardest some river beds are bone dry. several factors are at play environmental degradation climate change and constant population growth the overall. dull it is that people can no longer feed themselves . with a good baby come dependent on help from the outside and when people no longer have enough to live on they're forced to leave. new month for list comes on i'm out although one likes to leave their homeland but what's happening here is the start of a huge migration flow that could reach as far as europe s