On our planet and show that over the years Human Progress has actually made plenty of things a lot better. Not everyones convinced of that however a 2016 study asked people from 17 Different Countries whether they thought the world was Getting Better or worse. Just 11 percent believed things were improving. 30 percent thought things said more or less state the same. But the overwhelming majority 58 percent were of the opinion things were getting worse. This dramatic scene is one of a selection of photos taken by photographers in 2018 for the World Press Photo exhibition at the village of lantos in berlin but which impression is it that we take home with us one with positive foundations providing us with inspiration joy and amusement body. Negative stories overshadow a view of the world one that can be so cruel unjust so traumatizing and terrifying. The world in oxford is a more rarefied one the English University town has a special appeal for those with open minds its venerable halls of learning have seen no shortage of unconventional thinkers and people who like to see things along alternative lines. And ritchie from scotland is no exception she has a take on life that is fairly uncustomary. The world does not always a good points but its much much better than it was in the past and i think its really important that we acknowledge this and understand this to make sure progress continues. Postdoctoral research on Global Development as a champion of presenting the world as it is including the good sides she and her colleagues at the universities Martin School Research Unit compiled figures and graphics for a database that emphasizes positive trends its featured on their website old world in data. The Life Expectancy for example has risen significantly across the world. From a global average of 46 in 1950 to over 70 now. And the proportion of children dying before the age of 5 has steadily declined in many countries Child Mortality is now close to 0. The researchers also have encouraging news on the global poverty front over the last 30 years the number of people below the absolute Poverty Level those with an income of less than 1. 90 per day has fallen by 2 thirds the reason we need to stand these Political Developments is because if you come out of the belief that the world is continuing. Then none of the interventions. Hard to actually work. Then you become really cynical though then you. Feel like you can change and our friends will give up. For. Solutions scientists have literally been taking to the stage to publicize their encouraging findings and a swedish doctor who died 2 years ago was a star on the International Conference circuit as enlightening and entertaining ted talks of being viewed by millions online and many in the rich countries they think that oh we can never end the extreme poverty and of course they think so. What thats how we have to be more systematic when we fight. And then i discovered the work. And i really realized that all of the conceptions ive had of it the way the world is changing were really will spend all these years in education i kept up. And i just had no idea so why does news tend to be dominated by misery and suffering while positive stories barely have an impact media critic peter litter says the imbalance in coverage is no accident. Negative stories are just part of the Media Product menu that we have. And that menu look good says is determined by intense competition in the media world where the print online or t. V. And radio the desire to court consumers and enhance your brand positioning leads to exaggeration and sensationalism in the process of turning human hardship into a spectator sport that is precisely what readers and viewers want says let go. Because people are limited in their process of selection limited to things that deviate from what they themselves see as normal. It might be unpleasant to accept but we tend to define our own happiness via the misfortune of others meaning. Im not affected we thats why we need negative news stories glasses for nigger people. Very transformative change is. A single event and you cannot pour on a daily basis theyre going to happen every single day the same thing every single day which you may think are very incremental but over there is really a transformative changes and no one supporting that. So how does the prevalent present is im afraid those who are promoting a more balanced view. Far from being disappointed or bitter and a richly into a team are happy to see even modest progress including at grade school level. You see kind of students i know its. Based on. Poverty or so theyre really learning about the world and learning about a large scale which for us is just the best and. Better place for Homeless Team to celebrate the human story than the last degree market. Global colin region lights just around the corner from our office a microcosm of the modern world and here it is without doubt the positive world. Our global ideas series regularly features people striving to change things for the better for instance by helping to protect nature and our climate. This week we go to southern kenya a vast area home to a wide variety of flora and fauna particularly in the National Park the regions main tourist attraction. Its also home to mass i a people that traditionally practice strict gender roles but as our reporter betina told me i discovered here 2 things are changing. Who i am. Early morning in southern kenya near the tanzanian border. Oh. 00000000 yeah. We should go to the money in the morning to full for 15 excess places to play a ballad. To make sure that our bodies that are ready to act and to not allow 30. She works in a large area of my psych Community Learned that although the rushy group branch it almost surrounds the say the National Park at the foot of mount kilimanjaro. But purity like cora is one of 8 young women who have recently completed their training as rangers. Head ranger is part trick. Together they plan their Daily Missions their work can be very dangerous so any we walk in a very very high street is that the so buffaloes made your bed last sometimes when you go to the secrets of the bushes a little so this next hour this. Adds to the trimmings precautions and how would you react how would you be aware of your involvement if you go out and what. Team lioness says the 8 are known as one of the 1st all female ranger units in kenya and the very 1st made up of my side women are traditionally women are considered weak and do not pursue an occupation outside of the family. Strict rules and hierarchies observed for centuries in must psych munity sers slowly being questioned and loosened. Other group is planning a patrol in the area surrounding the 4 ranger camps on the Messiah Community land in all there are 70 rangers here. And we have the lake idea of this event at yad because though we want to protect. Them once and also their community that we can see that environment who bought and. We can move them to a community several 1000 elephants live here too they move back and forth between National Parks in the west and the east of the country and traverse my side lands along the way there are no fences barring their path purity car and the rest of her team travel long distances on foot. Between 20 and 40 kilometers a day the same as the male rangers. Among their most important duties is talking to people who live here the messiah or seminomadic pastoralist who cover a lot of ground with their flocks and encounter wild animals along the way. Sometimes lions kill cattle elephants rampage in villages the rangers need to hear about problems and be informed if poachers are in the area then they chart animals Movement Patterns and register their g. P. S. Coordinates rangers are on patrol 7 days a week its a way for these women to break out of strict traditional gender roles but the job is far from easy. Because the little i know mostly and. They can kill you so scared because a little. Long so that then so looking in their wishes you can because you know. You might be not. With that. Once a month purity like car of visits her family in their village for a weeks break. Her daughter lives here and is looked after by the extended family. That i met and i met her female relatives make jewelry and sell it to tourists visiting the National Parks nearby for messiah women but this kind of business is not considered controversial. It is also an important source of income. It allowed purity like chorus mother to pay her Childrens School cease. I told my father and my mother that you had to get it to me yes now ill be done with my family you want me to come in death in how we live without it no outflow when you get there if you dont want me to go into work then i told them no because you have educated me id like you implicitly with me to win. Me that. And with her regular income she can support her family. That has earned her respect in the community. Would have. Having seen purity and the other girls join the ranger unit. And seeing them working with confidence we made the right decision you know might have been if you. Know what im going to. Any other girl who will be accepted into a ranger unit also have our acceptance. By. Purity like car is a pioneer a woman of courage and that will one day benefit her daughter so well. The job created a strong bond between the female rangers. It took a while to convince the village elders to give them permission to do the work the project was initiated by the ngo International Fund for animal welfare. This is a community that is really male dominated a lot saw the godchild that women get and dont have a c. You know looking for issues so weve been importing them not just to doing the job force but also in terms of educational scholarships to one to see in general weve been playing a bigger role in controversial matters here. That. The women rangers live in tents for now but proper housing is being planned. They spent 3 weeks together at a stretch that creates a sense of community. We discuss how youve been in chad of your beef cattle are you ready to continue with these walk then when remits together we encouraged us then lets just say the all about of a job so when we come together i would talk about food things like both and even then that action between us and the men who talk about it we had with. This kind of female empowerment in selfdetermination is something new in their society but it appears to be catching on. Repression and discrimination are part of life for many women around the world on our new Facebook Channel d. W. Women youll find stories about those taking a stand and inspiring others to do the same d. W. Women gives a voice to the women of all worlds. Have you ever seen a whale in the wild. Whale watching expressions provides an opportunity to get up close to these gentle giants. Whales can be spotted in deep waters around the globe from the west coast of north america across the seas to south Africa Europe japan through to australia and new zealand. And something sensational is happening to humpback whales and once again being sighted in several places in the 1970 s. Widespread commercial whaling nearly caused their extinction then in the 1980 s. Whaling was largely banned and now humpback whales are returning to areas where they hadnt been seen for decades. And will watchers off shore near new york welcome on board the american princess this is their best the out there that has that fabulous. Photographing and recording the humpback whale that was eating grouse in new york. Every summer the humpback whales migrate here in search of food and are now believed to have strayed as far as the busy shipping lanes of new york harbor. Sylvia ackerman works for the gotham whales Conservation Group and is out here almost every day on the lookout for humpbacks. That whales. Have recovered significantly since the day of whaling because of that protection and our waters now also believed her. Then theyve been in decades. Of ox cart and then we see the 1st 2 whales spouting. A sign that theyre on the hunt. The whale watchers are then also treated to a pod of young dolphins a key prey for both dolphins and humpback whales is menhaden. Come its an oily forage fish that isnt rich supply in these waters. What looks like rain hitting the water is actually a dense school of fish the menhaden often cluster in such concentrations that they can be easily spotted from the air off the coast of long island. The fish feed off algae and plankton that have absorbed Carbon Dioxide as such men have been are both invaluable filter fish for the ocean and a vital part of the marine food chain. They not only supply the whales and dolphins but other species the fish like stright. Fish shark see the birds there whats known as a keystone species. Menhaden are an easy catch for whales but also for commercial fishing fleets their catches reached a level where there were not enough fish left for the whales and dolphins the introduction of fishing quotas in 2013 saw stocks recover and the whales returned. Further south in reveal virginia menhaden provide the main source of income the amiga protein corp is the last company on the east coast of the u. S. To catch men haven on an industrial scale but not for the dinner table there are a meager 3 rich flushes turned into fish oil or fish meal these fish here appear to be probably 3 to 4 years old based on the size but representatives from the fisheries agency. Taxing will come here take a sampling theyll actually determine exactly who they have based on where we catch them which are in our captains logs selfhelp track that species the bar massive men hate. The menhaden are a big deal in reidsville until recently there were no official limits on catches of the fish their stock seemed inexhaustible except they werent overfishing brotman haydon close to extinction in the 1960 s. By which point the whales had already left a make up protein believes there is no danger of that happening again thanks to the quota theres no overfishing going on and the fact is that the fishery only takes you know about 6 to 8 percent of the biomass every year a 68 percent of the other 94. 00 to 96. 00 or so percent of that biomass is left out there to to Service Ecological purpose. No menhaden no humpback whales a simple enough equation. But the figures cited by the fishing industry are disputed by scientists who are opposed to any increase in the permitted fishing quotas other animals such as the sea hawk also feed on the menhaden its a pivotal element of the entire ecosystem. We join researcher alan pickett from Long Island Stony Brook University for a trip on her Research Ship theyre studying the biodiversity here in chicago bay which serves as a kind of nursery for a range of atlantic fish including men hayden using bait made of muscle flesh they set up an underwater camera and trap on the bottom of the bay always at the same spot. A few hours later the scientists will retrieve the latest findings for their long term study. The concept that we need to take into account not only the amount of fish of a. All boats have fish but the amount of fish available to eat by whales by stride past 5 to nose version arcs that concept has been heard loud and clear the team records and measures everything picked up in the trap from baby blowfish to shrimp all links in the chain of the ecosystem which the whales depend on for food. We see Large Schools right off of the closest of new york city you know its incredible this is something that during my lifetime i have not been able to see before so it is just incredible to be able to see. Her excitement is shared by tourists who go on the 4 hour long whale watching tours. If you go you know full well the free to air routes but slice of all that there was wildlife model there here we love it here dirty work native new yorker so were skeptical about everything under so many set their wills out here we have to see it to believe it because we go back to the days where you know there was no light down here at. The gotham wales activists advocate for the whales and against higher fishing quotas will there be enough men haven for all parties in the long term. If it stands properly. And thats something the conservationists want to ensure in the hope that migrating humpback whales will keep on returning to feed on fish in the waters off new york city. And now were often told in europe where weve been invited into a home in iceland. Hi my name is sufi are and im from frederick every predicate is a small village sin the south and part of iceland so i want to welcome you into my home. So this is our living room. And here we stay most of the time. Our house is built on a hot area we never have to warm it up not in the wintertime we because its always hot. Comfortable. This is also my favorite thing here its from my mother i grew up with this the flowers. For this for example is a gift from a very good friend. And i really love this thing also these tears there since i was just since a remember since i was a little girl also this tear here its its very old i think it is for around 250 years old and it comes or it similarly from work. With sometimes people in the old days but this is my favorite thing here. Might be the next its an old grand piano since 1884. 00 i sometimes play it i could maybe try. Yes this is our kitchen here. And we have very fresh water in a knot of warm water and. The over. Here you just drink it its very clear very cold the water. In them so i have a lot of africa things for example here in the window while this is my husband this is my husband watching the very news. My husbands name is stephanie ok that me. But. Its me and my house spend. Our mothers our the children he has 4 and i have 4 and grandchildren and. I hope you enjoyed visiting me and my husband here in connecticut and i hope you will come here to visit iceland our beautiful country see you here. But. Thats all this time did you enjoy our look at the brighter side of life. And drop us a line to global 3000 d w dot com and if you get where on facebook d w women see you next week. To. Get into the top 10 opera is not for the faint hearted. A fantastic voice alone just isnt enough any more. Wages and hard work this morning dr singers could sing an aria about. The a and. Now our. Clothes. So. Markets. Your business magazine. Germany on d w. 50 years of religion is for. People from many different faiths for working together toward a common goal the peaceful resolution of religious conflicts. Now female members or for religions for peace from the middle east or demanding a larger role. In the female peacemakers stores where a 5th teen double. 2 2 has become one of the most controversial issues. Ive never seen anything like this. We have pretty near east to new heights i keep. The prices remain. Cool. They are nice my friends will end up. The last time a list of world has ever seen people of all ages are demonstrating here and explained. Because times change well keep watching. D. W. Made for mine. You know. This is d. W. Newsline from birth there in the u. S. Asked him in provoked angry reactions in. 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