with the help of the united nations development program and the local man who only brought together nine women to be part of the first batch of tour guides under the stormy self elko. them. two boats and twenty life jackets the guides can accommodate twenty tourists the want to right costs about two u.s. dollars per person and office a wealth of information about the local biodiversity. in the book those however depend entirely on tourists and feel especially with mangrove fire diversity being such a niche interest that it could be that exactly there are some days when there are no rides for fifteen days at a stretch so to supplement this income our woman's self-help group makes spice mixes because sweets and savory's we deposit the money we receive from all our rights in the bank and we draw it at the end of the year and distribute it equally among ourselves they say already wear couldn't get. this woman even and have fed it over two thousand five hundred tory since they started out in two thousand and seventeen and they don't intend to stop anytime soon. well for more i'm joined now by

with the help of the united nations development program and the local mangrove. brought together nine women to be part of the first batch of two of guides under the swami self-help group. it fell upon a husband sufi surely a deep sea fisherman to teach the women to roll from scratch. with the remember sure they can do it but i give them the confidence and how to grow and how to steer the board. this amazing day. i told them i would drop in. after fifteen days i said to them you know i would not accompany you have to go in the waters by yourself. if there is a problem just give me a call. confidently went with the boat and came back so. that made me very happy or that they deny there. are many with. which two boats and twenty life jackets the guides can accommodate twenty tourists the one hour ride costs less than two euros per person and offers a wealth of information about the local biodiversity. but what the women are most proud of his how much in sync with nature their project is me. still intact engines we're all. that's why birds don't get scared and fly awa

john prescott onil from the united nations development program negotiated a deal with the cost provider. probably gas was to compensate for the environmental damage with funding for new projects aimed at protecting biodiversity and ecosystems elsewhere in the country. compensation is a good instrument even if it turns out to be the very last option if we can no longer avoid reduce or mitigate environmental damage. they can be part of the solution and not developing country like colombia where the infrastructure is growing continuously with new roads new electricity grid new gas pipelines new dams and new ports going up that all impact on biodiversity the country still has fifty percent of its native forests but a high proportion of its population also lives in poverty. expanding infrastructure in colombia has already had a major impact. tropical rainforests harboring unique ecosystems one stretched over forty percent of the country. now they cover just four percent. of the torney loss colorado's wildlife sanctuary is home to two and a half thousand plant species many of them endemic. bu