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The past decade has seen a rise in the number of catastrophic weather events around the world. Be it freak storms or drives or unprecedented rainfall extreme weather is becoming the new normal a no where are the effects felt more keenly than in developing nations. From bangladesh to peru and sierra leone to the dior sea record breaking rains have triggered devastating floods and lethal landslides. Among them the landslide that struck sierra leone in august two thousand and seventeen it was one of the deadliest with over a thousand People Killed or missing. But was this disaster all it seems one more portent of the havoc that Climate Change will be sending our way. Or was it compounded by other more prosaic human failings. Weve been to investigate the root causes of the serio landslide. To ask what can be learned and what the future holds for this and other countries if those in power fail to act. In a. Good girl civil actions good story sky. Sports icon puts all those who are not. On the morning. Of aug fourteenth two thousand and seventeen after days of heavy rain the side of the Sugarloaf Mountain in region to sierra leone collapsed the avalanche of mud water and rock that followed destroyed three hundred homes and killed over a thousand. More delhi divestiture. Is the maids. I dont remember even the wall when for a single day one thousand wound up people died in two minutes there was a big sound. Like a plane coming down you know that goes on with us and it was easy to get where i live in the the ground by fritz. Then if i made it live again if someone made me feel bad if no one was. Six weeks later the rains have come to an end and people are resuming their lives. But not everyone thinks heavy rainfall alone calls the disaster. Not far from the site of the landslide in the hills around regent stunts the taku gamma chimpanzee sanctuary. For over twenty years tucker gamma has been a haven for chimps orphaned by habitat destruction and the illegal to trade. But for the past decade the centuries finder. Has been fighting a different one that has implications for people as well as wildlife. Looking good. For them they come here and we have to. Be having them back mentally and physically and will form them into a felony and. So they have given a Second Chance at life and their slaves. Yes. The laws on the border of the western Area National park its a seventy square mile stretch of mountainous rainforest adjoining the capital founded more than a century ago the park is home to ninety percent of sierra leones biodiversity including while chimpanzees and numerous endangered species. It is this forest and its wildlife that bow and his team of forest rangers have been fighting to protect fetus line here there was a caterpillar that was trying to come in all the way and we stopped it at that point of view but then its like going to miss fire fighting. We move then after one two month the attempt again this is how they his looked historically and that is how they should be preserved for many reasons and we. Help protect this forest is going to come down one day and thats what happened that we have been warning about this landslide all potential for Something Like big discussed like that for the last say ten fifteen years. For the collapse of the sugarloaf was triggered by rampant deforestation and illegal building. For over a decade he warned the government of the damage being done to the hills around free time he took his message to local radio and television and even planted trees in the area. In the last three times a documentary produced a decade ago appeared alongside local architects and urban planners calling on the government to control unplanned building and environmental damage around the city. With the war situation we had everything stopped for many many years so i think this suddenly there is this does Everyone Wants to bill deeply want to come back to say that you and those who left. That is a huge. Demand for land in the building called as little to me ignore the good job or do as regards of the some of the wrongs. We obviously slide down the mountain got my beloved sleeves its an environmental disaster. Well in a few years we will see over the course of. The warnings were dire. But no one listened. Patrolling the bindery of the National Park today takes power on his team to the site of the landslide where one of their guard posts one stood. A year before the disaster it was burnt down by angry locals determined to build houses in the area. This thick and over the years but make you feel say that one in a period you come where look you look at it what i see is not the top im imagining what is underland so many people perished here were actually standing on top of it was a basically because it was literally is only beauty its like a lot of the of the people the problem was not cost here the problem was caused by the ground that you can see this landscape a lot of rock when you have this rock you have a little soil in there and its the trees thats where the roots are spreading into these areas around the rocks and that is Holding Everything together and once you cut the tree basically little system dice that mean there is Nothing Holding these rocks again soil is already lose its becoming like dust and once you have the heavy downpours and its all based basically taking it away then the rocks are being exposed. Were playing games with people slice if you ask me really its going to hurt again it will hurt the. Architects millions scarboro and quinn journey alan return to free time at the end of Syrian Civil War and find a city where the rule book could be in front at the window. Like they warned of the dangers the city faced. Truly remarkable what is happening. Just post a whole postwar. Small area that opened up totally unplanned. Three hundred home. Were destroyed in the region planned slight. But the collapse of the hillside didnt just destroy the houses beneath us. He created a mudslide an avalanche of water earth and stone that swept downhill towards the sea. The houses that stood in its way were built in floodplains were close to water courses areas normally classed as high risk when i got to know it would i want to be with. You. Now maybe you did if you walk around it or while being get away. With the family or die a. Little tin shack there has been built into the side of the hill and the earth is left exposed will rain come in will cause that slope to fail if you have houses like this it would all of them would just be going collaterally despite the disaster when in manila find the area around the landslide a hive of building activity. With laborers rushing to meet the demand for new houses this is the trade notice selling these broken aggregates to whosoever will. Only police dog. So that to give the story from the riverbed here you can see that bridge is been eroded and this obviously have taken stones from out there that is going to collapse eventually through ignorance we were wrecking the landscape. Look the height. None of these houses should have been built in this vicinity occult. Is a mishmash of how this place on the hill it will be interesting to find out if any of this. Houses here sharks have. A Building Permits but those we spoke to around the landslide site did have paperwork including conveyances site surveys and Building Permits all stumped and signed by the ministry of lands. Its very painful in bring heaviness in my heart to see that we do have people in so long who know what to do who would advise governments on how to proceed but if if if that is ignored then then whats. The risk no silver bullets that would have prevented the reagent landslide. Not everyone thinks loss of forest cover or damage to the landscape played such a Critical Role the landslide might have happened anyway but if the law had been upheld it would have been far less deadly the area around pretty town sixty percent of the forest covered has been lost in the last four decades all borderlines the exact spot where it happened was actually densely forested which points to a differing different issue there the that the hills around pretty down odd relatively unstable and landslides a frequent arguments because what weve only seen of the people of the iceberg because if this unplanned development keeps happening the garneau see them are allied landslides becoming much more frequent theres going to be a lot more level loss of life. Sierra leone is ill equipped to deal with natural disasters on such a scale. Even with the help of the International Community the government has struggled to bring aid to those affected. Due to stern. You. Know we. Believe. Well. As a viewer that. Bruce. Bruce is with all the good we did. Even with this difficulty. Cyril you raise a. Plans to rehire those displaced people in new communities outside the city are costly and still in the early stages but what about prevention and enforcing the existing law. Six months after the disaster its business as usual a stones throw from the landslides multistory houses are still going up wealthy and influential people live in the area and property prices are high id side tuku gama a two story house a sprung up its inside the by entry of the National Park and the forest rangers had a to investigate the. Nuclear. Code working with by the company. Says it is a document sure. Didnt hear their ideas go from didnt ministry of lettuce and in this deduct gives or three to two people. Who didnt work. We dont have to push them off says the documents the sign Building Permit means the guards are powerless to act even though the property has been built in the National Park but not everyone agrees that the land is the governments to begin with those who have the money if the people here is still on hold and finally would have me. Economy to people for you to get those people on that you have to spank you some of the money. Again and again if you can you can apply a line is going to is very very far off my brother very very corrupt this it wont be a deal for those that dont even know its never you know. Its africa. Government is. The very people in the office is the minister of law and the only document they want if its in the water they dont want to move documents Building Permits in syria are issued by the ministry of law and the location of each property is meant to be verified before the paperwork is issued the ministry is also supposed to monitor and demolish legal structures supported by a number of other Government Agencies this is a very complex issue. There are times you need to fully produce documents claiming to be given to them by a Government Authority and this is where the challenge comes in the institution responsible for that we believe should change if they think they have not issued out those document issued challenge individuals and there we enforce the law in this case it is a to the ministry of land itself to enforce the law the minister of law diana kona manny was unavailable to speak to us but a spokesman explained the problems they face when in fact that you can easily get in a Building Permit for example to peer in a polluted area because of corruption but it is possible for someone to buy land in a National Park with a silver plan and a Building Permit because there is a. Who grabs those lands and serves as a buyer who is willing to buy regardless of the location of the property and there is a Government Official who is really ready to issue a bill to permit without Due Diligence in most of these ministries. Employees and there are no incentives. No equipment to do or figure to do there for people even when they have the skills and so its difficult for them to perform. The whole question is about making sure the governance system functions effectively and then youll be in a position to address most of this problems the problems are compounded by resistance from local communities eager to make use of labs they consider and heritage from their Community Elders as far back as in one nine hundred sixteen the western peninsula was declared as a reserve so if as far back as one thousand sixteen it was declared. Its very difficult for me to understand how communities can they claim certain areas. If government does bear any responsibility for it would be very minimal we have consulted with the communities we have advised the communities to relocate in order to protect their own welfare and we have been confronted with earache and Violent Group members. No one in the government of sierra leone or in the ministry of lands has resigned their position. No one has lost their job for issuing a Building Permit in a dangerous or illegal area. There have been pledges to begin demolition and some homes around the landslide size have been cleared but there is been no Public Inquiry into the issue of Building Permits in the freetown area. The government of syria does franks enormous challenges the population of free turn has increased by ten times since the one nine hundred sixty s. Pretty down has expanded horizontal e it has not expanded war dick really all been planning the extremely poor and that a lot of slum areas which have been buried in the brains of many of the world and streams around in the city dont balance it out like other cities across africa free turns low lying sloans are plagued by flooding each rainy season. Plus the war see what some of. Yeah. Any athlete with. Any small there will. Unfortunately when. It will find a river way and that is where you will find most of the settlements and so on the ones who are affected in such a way lose their lives. Amount of water flowing down the hills that is no way you know its not really being held back by the tree cover or the vegetation the intensity of flooding is really increasing and because the intensity of the flooding has increased that is making the hills more and more unstable sierra leone is already experiencing the effects of Climate Change the rainy season is growing shorter and more intense and with steep hill stripped of forest cover the effects are deadly. If you see just during the period between the first of july seventeen and the fourteenth of august the bones that were being which is when the landslide happened pretty down received more than one thousand millimeters of rainfall which is more than thirty times the average in a period of a month and a half and they need to take steps toward arrest these issues because the situation in the future is going to get worse. Freetown has to much more in the rainy season but in the dry season it faces a very different problem. Much more this talked of the disease so people who have got on tonight tell us. More russian what you have. Is not easy for them to stop blood or die every day. Trees retain water they absorb it through their roots and release it slowly through their leaves into the atmosphere. To fall again as rain. It is this ability of the forest to hold and release water that feeds the many streams in the hills around free time. Streams feed rivers and rivers feed reservoirs. Free turns population depends on these reza forests for its drinking water. But without forest cover the water cycle breaks down as rainfall runs quickly off the slopes and into the sea. Without the National Park in its forests the city of one point three Million People will find its water supply in jeopardy. The problems facing freetime are immense but the forests are resilient bachata could gama has seen first time time nature can recover from human interference five years ago a hillside outside the chimpanzee sanctuary was cleared for construction by governments and the land grabbers were evicted today a forest has already begun to grow its not the first success theyve had when we first moved in here this is like this kind of trees everywhere they go this was all kind of weird innovative in the last one to twenty four years these other ones you see you know theres not a big trees there. This flotilla to unfold part of it i planted twenty three years ago yes im against some big mess and. Its something that im living up to its. Part of me part of the a story. Sierra leone is a poor nation. That has done little to contribute to Climate Change. And i would find itself facing an uncertain future. But there is still cause for hope. To have six months of rains and good foot does soil and everything goes but you dont really need to plant even if you are allowed to rest engrossed by the start of last scan really guess. The scene for us where theyre on line once is a very sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on sat there people that there are choosing between buying medication or eating this is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos been out to this has posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. 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