A closer look at andrine cover in our cities and in the countryside the city of mumbai has lost 60 percent of its cream cover over the last 40 years most of the city has now been peeved and concretized by policy makers try to find the middle ground in the environment was his development to be to india a popular japanese stickney of growing forests is providing a stopgap solution lets see how feasible it is for a city like mumbai. The. Union union. It is almost impossible to believe that this 4 acre land called the lungs of thought up world was once an industrial dumping ground. For. Its strong. Formation took just 3 years. Yes. This used to be an extremely unhealthy unique toxic place there was always a stench from all the garbage dump here including plastic of rubber and bags of chemicals we could not be allowed to be here were going to. Yes the 25 feet tall manmade hardest is now home to over 30000 trees of 38 with idees and several species of birds reptiles and subsoil creatures see just 100 kilometers south of this young forest the metropolis of mumbai it is facing an Unprecedented Development its clean spaces are slowly but surely dying. Today mumbais green cover is less than 13 percent an alarming statistic. I fear that you hate show where there are a nation for every Healthy Human being youre required by trees by growing healthy trees fire oxygen for your side for food for everything in mumbai reassures again diverse we have 5 human beings and one sheet. Which is why a growing number of organizations are using an if on station technique that has its roots in japan but could be a buffet fit for space trapped mumbai its called the me akim at her high density plantations are created with different species of need to trees. We need top money to precinct affecting you can increase greens even by planting nonnative trees in mumbai between 50 and 60 percent of trees are not needed in a conventional current asian one acre of land we can only have 2000 trees but its more the dummy argument heard we can plant between 12 to 13000 trees in the world but i say. Summer when mumbai has become the unlikely home for the citys 1st me of aki forest a project by a local and by men. Itll group dream that began in january 2019. A one kilometer green wall that acts as a dust barrier between a seaman where house and it is a bench ill neighborhood a species defend what i think and we have planted 50 to varieties of the trees such as gunjan but these but the indian to livable they just dont. And ficus are who they are. In another part of the city wall and tears are creating a me of aki cluster along the penny ferry off a public park in one of western indias most important business districts. The community was supported by foreigners creators an organization that has worked to create over 40 me aki forests in different parts of the country planting over 600000 trees with a 99 percent survival rate. Me i like to polish up when they were out there but im going to get a neighbor of them and then going to give them a day it was great there but. You need to be very very conscious about what kind of environment that were going to so show you the most important part rather rude boy so 1st to understand the soil. The 2nd step is scientifically surveying the areas biodiversity and selecting suitable need to tree species to be planted. All the saplings and Raw Materials are then brought to the plantation site. Dollar i think im not. Going to say this is it. For the next 2 years the saplings are regularly monitored and watered costing between 1. 5 dollars and 3. 00 poetry to me a marquee technique could be crucial in the quest to revive urban green spaces. And the impact can be seen in a matter of few years as demonstrated in thought up a. Man over 90 percent of mumbai has been paved and contra ties in the past 4 decades done in the city into an urban heat island a large built up area that traps heat and drives up temperatures even at night. Arbonne dance paderewski it did using the meow marquis technique could be enormously useful in combating this but despite their many benefits these young fortis cannot be treated as substitutes for naturally growing old products. Now its very wrong for anybody to say that you cut the trees that have been there for hundreds of years in a particular area and then youre going to blunders meola the forest its like you want to kill the grandfather in the house because a new child is being born to create a spirit its absolutely you dont want the forest i bear to clear the local ecosystem to view the planet in its own little but it is really not a replacement for an existing forest. Oh. In germany forests of long been treasured by its people which is why when these blood lives turned into brown graveyards during the horten dry summer the sense of dismay will spout of a german long profit is extending a helping hand to reverse this ecological diversification so that base fatness a more resilient. This forest in the hearts region of northern germany is a spruce monoculture almost one 5th of the trees here are so damaged that theyll die the reason several years of too little rain. The forest ranger hope to counteract the problem by mixing in deciduous trees with the evergreens. But the seedlings that used to grow here have now dried out. Years and. Only 2018 inch trees were planted on the same area. Or the shrubs were planted at the edges over the oaks. And now up to 90 percent of them have died in the dry some of us want to put up with. Trying to save the forest through replanting many have come too late if the drought continues this will become a wasteland. But woods and other parts of germany could still be saved so conditions are better in the southern german Mountain Forest than they are in the hearts twice as much rain has fallen here volunteer tree planters have come to lend a hand theyre in high demand due to the drought this but this affects partners weve had for many years who are now suffering major losses and are asking if we can do more than the usual 2 or 3 weeks in one place or the arm of the weve also received near requests for next year from all across germany where people are urgently needed to klunk trees growing and most for the forestry workers mixed woods are the future they formed an Organization Called bank fund paul yakked its a nonprofit that relies on donations. We dont see ourselves as merely a forestry business. Involved we use our forestry work to come into contact with the words for being the answer but we also see ourselves as an important Educational Institution its it was the buildings i wish the. Thought he wants people all over the world to get involved with planting trees the temperature rise of the earths atmosphere can only be halted if more trees are planted worldwide thats why u. N. Representatives met in 2011 allocate at the bond challenge conference they agreed to restore 150000000. 00 hectares of the worlds forests even the bone challenge would sequester in addition the trees would take up 20 percent of the Carbon Dioxide that causes Climate Change. Its one way out of the climate dilemma but why has so little happen to tell now. I think that while planning this is a strength that implementing it is a huge challenge its give the idea is there but there is still no plan that is ready to be carried out although ive a plan there for you. Thats why his organization is focusing on reforestation in germany. In order to better protect this woodland from potential drought damage theyve rehydrated in upland more that had been trained. This isnt the reason goes of all such boy this is a gigantic Water Reserve is the pete lie of benitos can hold huge amounts of water its not too little and secondly its also a carbon sink thats why racial in terms of Climate Change is well because the lowers is not decayed organic biomass transmission of your boss is turned into peat and p. Contains all the carbon that the plants have taken out while growing. Boxed and its all stored here beneath us and. This dumb dinner has spent decades turning monocultures into mixed woodlands and local reforestation begins he hopes to share his specialist knowledge and experience. Now not just germany forests around the world are in danger whether their destiny was gonna focus really on dry forests a healthy forest requires the delicate balancing act of given tick but economic interests and population growth are right at the top to mess this up lets zoom in for the on the state of forests globally. The forests Botanical Garden in eagles via the north of berlin is part of the university for Sustainable Development it includes over 1200. 00 tree species. One 3rd of the earth is covered in forests professor b. S. Claim would like to see them contain the same tree diversity as there is here in the Botanical Garden. Several 1000000 hectares of forest were lost several 1000000 hectares per year still this loss is not the same everywhere we do have a slight increase in forest area for example in europe we do a slight need to see slight increases in forest area in north america on the other hand we do see very strong decrease in forest area in africa for example in Southeast Asia basically in all tropical regions. Across the planet forest is being raised and replaced with the arab oil farmland the timber is sold its a Dangerous Development that takes a heavy toll on the environment and the role of the forests cannot be overestimated basically forests to save or to store carbon fire exceeds they prevent or they have to decrease Climate Change but forests fulfill a lot of different other functions as well they are very important source for biodiversity they provide us with clean air with clean water and of course they are. They are a very important income source for especially poor people the study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Found nearly a 1000000 hectares of land world wide could be reforested almost the size of china the new forests could capture 2 thirds of human made Carbon Emissions 1st of all the study gives us a very good overview of what potential can be achieved with a forest station still you have to keep in mind there are 2 main things that might make the whole thing more difficult 1st of all the sites are often not accessible when we think of russia these sites are not at all there are no roads there is no growth that progress secondly often the sites are not as amused as they might seem. The sites best suited for reforestation are in russia the us Canada Australia brazil and china even if not all the sites identified were a farce that there would still be a significant improvement in climate conditions and of course we mustnt make the same mistakes again but most importantly before stripy diverse what should be avoided this large monocultures with only one tree species by doing that the forests are much more resilient against forest fires against pests and of course against Climate Change forests not only still carbon wood is also an Important Energy source and has the added advantage of being a renewable resource. As Energy Source can only be part of futures Renewable Energy mix it will not save us from Climate Change your parts it is true 1st always should be used in a material way only lowest qualities of what we do see here for example can be used for energy directly move our interests me down to diverse species and also only trees are especially efficient at storing carbon all the more reason to leave them standing eat. Food. Trees in the dead of a diff products like wood for example have been a staple for construction for thousands of years because it stalls carbon what is environmentally responsible drastically different from the man made much heaters that require huge amounts of fossil fuels and cause harmful emissions nobody is leaving the pub to possibly go back to building with wood at skid the country has under the worlds tallest wooden high rise standing at the 5 meters. The wooden high rise on the shore of lake near the Norway Valley has 18 stories 85 and a half meters high its the tallest wooden building ever to be built worldwide. The project was the film and the personal dream for developer. Its a symbol of what is possible. To make in word complicated buildings and also the high rise buildings and how to reduce c o 2 this is 60 percent lower c o 2 than in steel and concrete you think clearer. Thank you or so its healthier both for people but also for the nature. Life has an apartment on the 15th floor. Thoroughly enjoys being surrounded by would. Like this i feed the birds you can smell the birds all the good you see makes. Doing something with you so i think its more like this let me see concrete right so you feel that the building is living actually with you. It took years of pioneering work to make the wooden tower impermeable to wind and weather it was designed by former like detector and movement a Company Specialized in tempered construction. Project coordinator and ventured into new architectural territory. We have never done anything like this before so it was always about believing that it is possible a lot of hard work and long nights to try to figure out how can we do this the biggest problem. Lightness of the material so all the force of the external force as they will try to tilt the building or shift it. To load bearing columns had to be something deeper into the ground than usual final proofing was never a major issue the thick wooden beams can withstand a blaze even longer than steel another factor behind the trend in building with timber. 84 meter building under construction in vienna is also not a whole lot more dough france is building an entire development with eco friendly material and architects in london are planning a 300 meter tower meter book. I think its a symbol of the green shift we have. Think about it. Its. A method of building. A future. But every building. Wooden high rises remain the exception. Is a good example of what apartment buildings could look like. It is not only a sustainable Construction Material it also helps in making some create music hundreds of years ago the legendary italian instrument. For his now almost priceless masterpieces from the spruce forest of the in northern italy even to be used to create some world class instruments but. Hes feeling the effects of Climate Change. Fabio on ebay me always enjoys working with wood particularly if it has a nice texture or. The wood is smooth and even thats just the right kind for making Musical Instruments. But a major wind storm last year knocked down almost all of the trees here involved if. Youre not all but one. Next day i felt like a friend had died. For for me. The high winds blew down trees across entire mountainsides. Fabio has been coming to this area for 13 years to find just the right kind of wood for centuries the forest has provided wood for violence guitars and pianos the would give the instruments an excellent sound and resonance but now fabio is trying to save what he can. And this trunk has are good diameter and a good texture. But this crack here shows that the tree split when it was knocked over so i cant use it. But i meant that although being. The wood is processed at fabio small factory down in the valley this is where mountain spruce is converted into tone wood and resonance wood. Fabios customers include a number of Major Companies that produce Musical Instruments. This final a cut tone wood will be used to make violins its been sorted by age and quality. More than 300 years ago Antonio Stradivari crafted his violins from wood similar to this. But right now fabio is trying to recover as much wood as he normally does in 4 years and its going to cost a lot of money to store it. So hes asked customers and private clients to pay 300. 00 euros in advance per tree trunk to cover storage costs. Thats why hes choosing only the best work right now. Only top quality wood will be processed fabio keeps a close watch on all of the tree trunks even in the sawmill. Here the trunks are precut along the grain this wood will be used to make sound boards for pianos. Sawmill owner frank old saber is sorry that so many trees were lost in the windstorm. It took those trees 11020 years to grow to maturity and then the storm ruined everything its sad and know it will take another 120 years for the forest to grow back. Customers who appreciate fabio skill and experience will support him during these tough times. I know you. Restart the air has an extremely important job hes the only one who can find this kind of high quality good Violin Makers like me couldnt do it but were all part of the process of creating a Musical Instrument so we have to trust each other. More. Every step of that process must be spot on as fabios tone what is made into a violin. They do. And im happy when the client is pleased with the instrument. The manufacturers and the musicians deserve a lot of credit too. But people seem to forget that its my word that makes the instrument. Probably your customers certainly havent forgotten and for the time being hell continue to salvage as much what is he can from the valid if you have the site so that he can keep providing top quality material for world class Musical Instruments. Forest provide the insurance for a cleaner and increase in a future be helped keep our climate absorbing Carbon Dioxide and releasing oxygen and they regulate our water supply and improve its quality and you can only imagine what would happen if we dont protect them i think about that and well be back next week with yet another informative episode until then good bye. Luxury behind the mirror humans are exploited and animals cruelly slaughtered big brands have committed to fair working conditions and Sustainable Production but who is monitoring the some contractors and investigative documentary goes to cali and china and looks behind the glamorous facades of fashion house a luxury behind the mirror and 15 minutes on d w. Literature invites us to see people in particular. I like to see myself as the kids find strength grow. My objective is to share work and. He does the books on youtube. To france than to run tony oh dear cecilia this is office and as im sitting on the terrace in twilight its peaceful my 3 grandchildren sleep on trouble lets ask dad when i was 8 transitions in germany was split in 2 and remain divided for decades again to. Give on a months when your mother was born in 1969 the wall was already 8 years ago and you know my grandchildren who were born after the war felt born in a great unified germany among a full time time in a time of great joy. 3 generations of one family on a journey through recent german history. This. Darkness has fallen and its still peaceful and they have remained so for your sakes my grandchildren. Are travelling costs starts to number 60 on t. W. The be. This is the dublin is the live from but lend. 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