Hello i am a mans apparel and welcome to planet s. O. S. The most comprehensive study into life on earth says the Natural World is in decline in ecosystems that collapsing more province and animals face extinction than at any other time in history. Im lucy and human in the amazonian state of where until not so long ago every centimeter you see behind me was covered by rain forest now its been cleared by fire and by saw in the name of progress. Well look at what were doing to the planet and what we can do about it new ideas and new technology to help revive some of the worlds most endangered species. The momentum is growing around the world to keep our warming planet crawl from the top levels of government to grassroots initiatives on the front lines people are stepping up to address a Global Climate crisis but we face an ecological crisis too from the destruction of Natural Habitats to pollution overfishing to Climate Change earths rich biodiversity is in decline and this is why were devoting this episode of planet teso west to efforts to revive the Natural World. In may the un published the most comprehensive study of life on earth 450 experts analyzed thousands of documents over 3 years they found 1000000 species face extinction thats more than 12 percent of known life on earth were on track to destroy the natural infrastructure on which our world depends unless this radical change the report identifies the 5 main drivers of this ecological crisis in order of importance and humanity looms over them all 1st the way we use and abuse our pilots resources 75 percent of the land and 2 thirds of the Marine Environment have been severely altered by human activity then exploitation of species through over fishing and hunting Climate Change caused by our Greenhouse Gas emissions pollution the water air and land and finally the however creaked on local ecosystems by invasive species. The reports authors say the decline can be slowed even stopped in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with earth and life upon it this report says we have a serious problem if we continue to produce our food and i say the g. In the same way as we do today we will lose biodiversity and change yes climate report also say there are solutions we can produce food more sustainably we can choose to use our energy more sustained so there is hope but we need Political Action from governments and the private sector and the public to die one solution is to create legally protected areas but when the land and sea hold valuable resources we can be torn between protection and prosperity in june issue as governments allowance plans to open up access to its oil reserves within a protected National Park aljazeera traveled to the term it until tomorrow to see whats at stake. The drive from the nearest city in asia to africas largest nature reserve takes 2 days in 40 degree heat. The termit massive and tin touma reserve covers 100000 square kilometers the size of south korea and was once home to unique wildlife much of which has disappeared. Does any most of us dollars even 2 years ago there were thousands of animals in the bush but now there are very few that weve been here now for 24 years we havent seen anything and everything is destroyed in 2012 after years of pressure by scientists and years government granted the reserve Protection Development and hunting. But environmental groups say that hasnt stopped poachers. The only tracks aljazeera saw during a recent visit were from 2 protected species a single newbie in blue started birds and a camera shy damages. As well as the motorcycles of suspected poachers. There was no sign of the reserves most critically endangered animal the addicks antelope 200 roamed this area a decade ago but 6 years later only 3 were found scientists believe 90 percent or more have been killed by poachers another treasure lies below the sand Oil Exploration threatens the reserve itself in june the government said it would redraw the parks borders to allow more Oil Development after striking a deal with one of the Worlds LargestEnergy Companies chinas National Petroleum corporation 3 months later president mohamed inaugurated the construction of an oil pipeline running through it is the function the objectives of the reserve hasnt changed the geographic position hasnt changed this is just a redefinition of the limits to optimize the usage of our Natural Resources because we want to use them for the benefit of the population. Animal conservation groups have called on the government to reverse its decision to remap the reserves in a bid to save the addicks technology is improving all the time and we have ways and means of breeding species well its too late when theyve all gone but so long as theres one or 2 still alive its not too late the new map of the reserve has yet to be released but in the nearest city the trucks lined up for with oil connecting the distant animal reserve to a world thirsty for its energy riches collin baker al jazeera. Another unique environment thats under pressure is the amazon its the Worlds Largest rain forest and one of the most biologically diverse places on earth 2 thirds the size of the u. S. It spans 8 countries and has homes one in every 10 known species is often described as the lungs of the planets but that function along with its exceptional biodiversity is under threat and nowhere is that more clearly seen than in brazil the been over 60000 wildfires in the amazon this year alone many are reported to have been started deliberately to clear land for agriculture and then theres the problem of illegal logging latin america editor Lucien Newman travel to anna pou in northern brazil where people are risking their lives to save the forests. The amazonian state of is in the heart of the brazilian rain forest its 3 times the size of california. And like 19th century california its witnessing a gold rush of sorts. Except instead of gold this is the attraction this tree was more than 500 years old one of the latest victims of the lumber mafia that operates here as i do that is in these the illegal activities that impact the environment such as mining and logging are done in the most remote areas in regions with little infrastructure no police and where the power structure is linked to the criminals. But there are people who are resisting and who are setting an example by showing its possible to live from the forest without destroying it. Has been a pseudo scientists and his family had been living here for more than 10 years on 20 hectares of forest land they share another far larger area with other members of the p. D. S. Or Sustainable Development project. The project is a new model for a settlement in amazonia to see if it can inhibit and diminish the 4 station before 80 percent of the land was allowed to be cleared and 20 percent preserved later changed to 5050. 00 now you must preserve 80 percent and can the forest only 20 percent. The community is allowed to obtain oil from a limited amount of select trees and sell the world. Enough to live on but at the same time leave the forest standing. Wild mccalls and parrots have become the familys voluntary pets its a life that chrystia need loves. For the boys you produce what you consume its a common life its easy to educate your children because you dont have so Much Negative influence from the media and internet. But itll be nice you know another Community Leaders are being targeted by illegal loggers covet their land and see their project as a threat one of its founders an american nun was murdered in broad daylight and the Community Center was recently burnt down these trees were abandoned here by illegal longers when Environmental Institute officers just happened to come by here by chance in fact in the last 3 months alone more than 1000 trees have been cut down here by the illegal loggers and there is nothing the people in the community here can do about it. Threaten invasions by lange grabbers are intensifying. Of course we feel afraid peep. Who are free to leave their family they managed to kill sister dorothy that they thought if they killed the rest would flee but thank god it hasnt happened and i dont think it will hurt. The government offers them no protection but they need and the others insist they will stay put to defend this for a strong play in brazils most ravaged region. You see in human and approved brazil for planet and so as. Now there are some Success Stories in costa rica deforestation is kept at bay through Government Programs and eco tourism initiatives returns constitution requires at least 60 percent of the land there to be covered in forest and the bone has just become the 1st african country to be rewarded with International Funds 150000000. 00 for preserving its forests in brazil some of accuse the countrys leader jaya polson r. O. Not just a failing to act but of denying the science to in order to fulfill his Development Agenda he took power in january but in june when Brazil Space Research agency said deforestation had gone up more than 80 percent in the Previous Year he sacked the agencys head and called the statistic a lie and his remained defiant even after afternoon skies darkened over the city of paolo in august due to smoke from fires burning thousands of kilometers away. They dont say you know. It is a fallacy to say that the amazon is a heritage of mankind and a misconception to earn by scientists that amazonian forests are the lungs of the world it needs to be highlighted that there are burnings done by indians and local populations as part of their respective conscious and means of livelihood often some of these leaders such as tribal chiefs rohani have been used as maneuvering tools manipulated by governments of foreign governments in the information war to promote their interests in the amazon or the tribal leader both sonar was or fairings who in that speech said this in response government pulled no bullshit all right said that im not a leader it is he who is not a leader and he has to leave before something serious happens but also know i must leave for the good of everyone well to speak more about the fight to defend the amazonian rain forest im joined by curry candy from the nina and community in the ecuadorian amazon his 6 was from london where hes now living curry candy i understand you are able to return home because of your campaigning against the Old Companies who are trying to encroach on your tribes territory i was suggesting a strongly neck although we saying Indigenous People were not really with the oil company so when i was in the u. K. Up there one muscle month take up to go. And they receive a message saying i can go there because. The government puts on one waiting for me to order to take me and send the place and that was how i missed that in the u. K. And what were you campaigning against what are the Old Companies wanting to do in your territory so Indigenous People we said the rain forest is our home or garden and our pharmacy people want to go to the rain forest 234. Theyre all you so its affecting everything a life in the rainforest when they were a Company People arrive there arrive with ill Call Technology on this explode team on the team money relating the genus people cutting the harm on the cow will leave their contaminate in the what the law with the toxic things they are killing insects on the months sometimes people say there is nothing cup in. My experience and they know what its cupping in the rain forest with the oceanic few of the worlds what do you how do you see Climate Change what is going on from mother Natures Point of view among who who walk with the dreams of walk with a vision what with a message so when i was very young i knew what is cupping in the planet we have the the fire in brazil and people ask me what do you think about that and they said its all we its only a start and its many many many fight is going to go up in the planet so its very important to said we did over the on this to leaders government have to go with the hard up to understand what this too low you know if we if we lope my doctor youve all or my contre you follow my brain for this im going to love everything in the in the planet in the same way im not going to the bite my love is there a message that you want to convey to us and you as if the program if you could say it in your language we. Wouldnt be a new country were so a new country you you were in my. New country to much got them on the way young to communal nanti were to me the war when i was new countries to marcos at the turn in go at me that was very much of what e. G. Its not just the amazon thats burning as our planet warms forests around the world are being lost to fires you can get more information on where they are on nasas observation sites the maps show the locations of active fires detected by satellites on a monthly basis and those fires are releasing ever more carbon and other Greenhouse Gases like me saying heres how our data tracker looks this week youve got the global temperature rise their levels of c o 2 in the atmosphere and Sea Level Rise so some of the big numbers to help us understand whats going on with our planet now we Promise Solutions on planet earth the west and people are already doing a lot to try to turn natures decline around and well have some of their stories in upcoming episodes including the scientists and activists out in the open seas who are working to understand our oceans and protect life within them will be in guatemala where indigenous practices are enabling communities to build an economic base and preserve the rain forests and will meet the people trying to steer us away from meat produced on an industrial scale and towards food items they insist are a hit with Burger Lovers but now to Central Africa where mountain gorillas are among the most threatened creatures on earth aljazeera Stephanie Decker travel to the very rugged mountains in rwanda where carefully controlled tourism is slowly reversing the fortunes of these great apes. What you. Were at the foot of the very amount ins and getting a briefing on how to behave around the mountain gorilla thats what everyone here has come to see and theyve paid 1500. 00 each to spend one hour with the great apes in their habitat you excited i am excited this is International Treasure that is being protected in rwanda and im so lucky to be able to experience it. We trekked uphill for over an hour and then. Right in front of us a family babies mothers and the impressive great big family man the silverback the young ones are curious we have to move back not to get too close. Others seem almost bored by our presence. Then a display of power. We walk around to get another view its incredible. To his credit there. Watching us watch these great apes face extinction just a couple of decades ago their surprise could pick up. Chris. Before we know it the hour is up and its time to track back down critics say. Rwandas tourism policy were told is one of low volume high value visitor numbers are restricted and the prices high translates to 25. 00 per minute for the hours spent with the gorillas tourists actually who come to see the girl as i understand why weve done that i was trying to do has actually proven to be doing the right way to do this weve seen a 26 percent increase in the number of individual poorness so its working its a fragile Success Story critically endangered for years and now their status has been adjusted to endangered the latest census shows or just over a 1000 gorillas up from just around 200 a few decades ago but that still doesnt seem a large number when you think that its the whole worlds entire population of these incredible animals Stephanie Decker aljazeera in the video of rwanda while to another more high Tech Solution now a robot that could help save the critically endangered northern white rhino rob reynolds is in san diego wes scientists away on a new technology thats already given them cause for celebration. Meet edward the littlest southern white rhino in the San Diego Zoo safari park. Fantastic we are so rotten to be able to have him adorable little eddie is the 1st southern white rhino born through Artificial Insemination in the north america thats an important step toward bringing back another rhino subspecies from the brink of extinction the animals have been hunted to obliteration in the wild and today there are only 2 northern white rhinos left in the entire world both elderly females living in captivity so the subspecies seems due or maybe not part of biologist barbara durants job involves giving ultrasound exams to pregnant rhinos so. Duran is leading an effort to bring back the northern white rhino with a precious clutch of the animal stem cells and land. A stem cell is a cell that has a potential to be any other cell in the body eventually they want we want to differentiate him all the way to sperm eggs but theres a big catch female rhino anatomy it turns out is complicated the cervix which you have to go through to deposit the semen is very convoluted it looks like a series of rings like this so were going to have to have something that is very flexible that can go around all those curves and thats where engineering Professor Mike comes in he wasnt thinking about impregnating rhinos when he developed this flexible robotic catheter for microsurgery but it turns out its perfect for the job weve developed the robotic tool that is very thin long flexible device that we can very accurately steer through these narrow channels the ultimate goal of this project is to produce a selfsustaining herd of northern white rhinos 1st in captivity and then return to the wild in africa that goal is decades away and direct says she may not live to see it happen but thats ok what were doing now is extremely important for the long game for the long haul dedicated scientists and a bold plan to save one of the worlds rarest creatures rob reynolds aljazeera escondido california. Im joined now by mariana hauns our science and Technology Editor rianne of the northern white rhino was doomed to extinction only 5 or so years ago this is an incredible advance and the technology is in the speed of these advances gives us hope but the end game is about survival in the wild and this is still going to be challenging scientists in conservation biology will talk about a minimum viable population now this is the estimate of the smallest number of individuals of a species for there to be a healthy and viable population in the wild now one species may bounce back from a single breeding peer but another may require hundreds of individuals for it to survive there are a number of factors at play like the habitat whether it still exists how easily they can reproduce and we know that thats difficult for the northern white rhino and whether those 3 still exist with these poaching other environmental hazards so a long road ahead. But these are promising and very exciting developments in the science and the technology and there are a 1000000 species that are facing extinction of absolutely massive number what can we do to turn around the the why did the climb so many species facing extinction well it can start in our own backyard avoiding the use of herbicides and pesticides which pollute and stay in the soil developing local ecosystems around us regenerating local landscapes making planet friendly choices such as avoiding products that might have been cultivated on d. Forested land cutting down what we consume is getting serious about pollution saying no to plastic for many of us this requires a real shift in now thinking from years of old behavior and making the planet and prioritizing life upon it for me the shift came when i took personal responsibility for what i was doing not anyone else and recognizing that combined millions of us billions of us even can make. Change its not easy its challenging we wont always get it right but littering people about what they should or shouldnt do thats not helpful and what is helpful whats useful is leading by example thank you mariana well there are some striking images online which illustrate the extent of the biodiversity and Climate Crisis like some of the winning entries from the say women environmental photographer of the year this picture which is of homes being engulfed by flooding in mumbai took the top prize i would really like to hear your stories to under see any photos youd like to share how is your world changing wed love to hear what youre doing to look after our planets and you can get in touch with us on twitter using the hash tag a. J. Planet s. O. S. Next week well bring you a printed s. O. S. 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