maine treasure delta fish come here to spoon. fish attract migrating birds more than one and a half million beds of three hundred species come here the spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over luscious south that come here to fish and hunt unfortunately that many species perished as a result. more the at that time women like to dress up they hatch with feathers hair and fat as well very much invoke the heron only has five feather is on its head so its thousands of parents were killed in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was a desolate place a special expedition that came here from moscow in nineteen twelve found no trace of it the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the deltas natural environment to the nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was a civil war at the time the countries coffers were empty and the future was

treasures into extinction. went to russia's southern region to find out how the authorities are fighting back against illegal fishermen. a weekly raid on poaches in the volga delta. that caviar in each one of these jars is worth fifteen thousand dollars fishing wild sturgeon is highly illegal but the ban has simply driven the prices up making poaching ever more lucrative poaches supply forty nine out of every fifty jars of caviar consumed. colonel gets in below shows the equipment he sees in just the last few months was a chest all around there are hundreds of foremen cruising speed boats equipped with remote is satellite navigation and weapons we try to shoot their motors to stop them but they fire back and we can't get them all. the caspian sea produces the vast majority of the world's black caviar but the population of sturgeon n. it has dropped by forty times in just two decades the local university is now simply trying to save the genetic samples before it's too late because when you think without scientists and fish breeders the sturgeon would have become extinct or reading what i would be seen only in aquariums this is a catastrophe. the government subsid