They are the generation on the and the choice to make Sustainable Living means to you is it largely upon them how are young people changing the course of life yoga or not thats what we talk about today hello and welcome this is equal we india and. Would often oblivious to how much biodiversity saddam did with each of these species plays an Important Role in maintaining the fine balance in our environment but because we dont know about them we often feel to notice how strict and they might be a young scientist in goa is building a biodiversity just a foothold windage so she and her community can identify and preserve the will they pose this. Its only morning on the quiet ribbon island off the bat. Stark contrast to the rest of go up which is known around the world for its party atmosphere. And. 25 year old biologist hyacinth prepares to head out for the day of. Her job entails exploring every inch of the island she was born on a job that includes striking up conversations with local residents about their lives here. While india is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world 110th of its vile flora and fauna is an danger it. Is gathering local knowledge in the hope of preventing further loss. You know how many households. Shes 1st meeting the form of village leader to learn about indigenous communities. This knowledge has been transferred to generations in the form of folklore its just order tradition or knowledge which has been passed down very few have very few have made attempts to record this in people so that you know that im and this knowledge the way people perceive about our city register is in the 1st place to maintain records ringback of for table is like is likely to be lost in the near future so all the information that is that might just cut off and get lost. Down is being written down in words and you know mundane in the form of just. Learned as home to 5000 people its estuarine ecosystem there fresh water meets salty water evolved on land reclaimed over centuries from mangrove swamps. Also need of to the ecosystem out of vij variety of medicine in the hopes formerly undocumented but passed onto generations of. Human inhabitants like eventually video of her who is meeting today. After photographing each home notes down its local name due to mines its scientific designation and gathers information about its cropping season and its local uses a mix of unlikely. Thanks. I dont want to say that its my honor just or something that i have done or the credits for it but im just a medium ok i just how the exporting is and a bit of knowledge to put this in in place so i am just a medium through whom the people of the lot are putting that i just dont intend. To do it next stop is the farm of none who used to grow the indigenous core good variety of rice known for travelling insulin water recently hybrid species have largely replaced school good due to the larger yield the promise for farmers. Here 3 years here including me is ready. To die you know full well for the last 14 years before 304040 years it will mark the soil. By it i was you know just over it in the man help from the biodiversity board and reviving agriculture that has lost. But then the demands of the people towards the State Government so the buyer was to convey is a message from the local level to the state level so if the locals demand are passed on through the register to the state level there would be some help that will come undone if we explain to them that this is the need of the hour. First present her findings to a representative for all the adults in the community to fill in any gaps in knowledge this also ensures that the requests and recommendations come from the entire community and they can hold the State Government responsible for any action or more importantly in action. Considered result is sitting you know and talking that ok on this ecosystem this is the most important species and on the other event in peoples words you can register the people say because of. Great concern to due process that has happened that yes this is a species we want to go and so in marine ecosystem in a legal system in a forest ecosystem only in all the ecosystems existing in the village and that i think has a major strain because who are going to ultimately protect it is religious. Across the country biodiversity registers have struggled with bureaucracy and poor participation at various levels since being awfully quiet in 2002 less than 7 percent have been completed people like again are hoping to see that number. Its a unique combination because she has a scientific qualification same time she has been going to herself for people. Who do not really she is a chairperson of Biodiversity Management Committee and i i think shes one of the youngest girl who has accepted. I dont say a profession but when she has toward sort of village. To ensure participation across the board spends her evenings meeting with pupils at her old school and talking to them about local plants and animals. I keep telling this to the younger folks in the i mean that i keep repeating the statement thing that the what is around you observe what is around you inquisitive of whats around you in that they give. Back to a traditional knowledge modern science and most importantly peoples participation indias biodiversity has a better chance of being preserved. Climate change isnt a new phenomenon and neither is finding solutions to tackle it in 2016 United Nations involving program started the 1000000000 Tree Campaign with people from around the world planting trees to offset Climate Change at its core the idea is to pass on the office of the campaign from one generation to the next since 2011 the huge plant for the Planet Foundation is now advocating to plant one trillion treat its worldwide. We met with the person who shot you here today because our future is at stake we left to deal with all the problems that adults on resolving today. Felix think binary age 133 years earlier he founded what would become a worldwide Youth Movement and spoke at International Conferences to promote his plan for the planet idea Climate Crisis is planting trees and we will also reach the 500000000000 cheese. It all began with a presentation he gave at school suggesting that children around the planet should plant 1000000. 00 trees when the idea took off finkbeiner took his campaign to the streets and even to the heights of mad kilimanjaro. In january 2020 he appeared at the World Economic forum convincing governments and corporations to make a greater commitment to reforestation. I would have never expected any of this back when we started plan for the plan we were just a couple of 4th graders planting a tree at our school with out of a real plan of what happens next we were just incredibly lucky that to local journalists reported about our 1st tree and thats how some other schools found out about it and started planting some trees as well and thats how plan for the planet kicked off initially as a Competition Among lots of local schools of who plants the most trees the idea picked up pace and took on a global scale. Almost 14000000000 trees have now been planted 588000 children on every continent except antarctica so are the Younger Generation the Better Climate guardians. At that age we have the power to see the world more clearly how of a lot of reasons why it wont work that we dont know about yet and because of that it can work and this is really what plan for the planet has been about for the past 13 years not just because of me but because of tens of thousands of Young People Working together to plant as many trees as possible and the same time calling on governments as well. Not surprisingly plant for the planet is particularly active in the country where it was born last year children and teenagers planted trees in 60 locations across germany from sycamores to copper beeches to get help and advice from local forestry experts. The gathering is also both through the arguments youngsters can use when discussing climate protection with grown ups. I think you know you grow older you become a lot more pessimistic about whats possible and i would have never you know 22 year old me would have never started a Tree Planting come back in because i would have just not believe that it is possible that we can make a difference that way. But 9 year old me didnt have these concerns and thats why thats why it exists. Plan for the planners now foundation receive some of its funding from the proceeds of their own fair trade brand of chocolate customers include nationwide retail chains. As for future aims the skys the limit. In the next 1020 years we need to plant these trillion trees in the process restore our ecosystems all around the world it protects biodiversity it removes those huge amounts of it removes huge amounts of carbon from that and at the same time we need to start seriously reducing our Global Carbon emissions theres only a tiny fraction of the governments around the world that are actually currently implementing their paris agreements if we dont change that immediately we will completely fail in keeping the 2 degree limit and a steering towards catastrophic Climate Change now dont you think we have one major problem facing our beat here i dont know d the future young people are calling on politicians to secure a scene here in zambia as the groups motto goes stop talking start planting. A cd levels rice the rich ecosystem of the warden see in the north sea is that a risk of disappearing several young while into as an environmental scientists are working together to protect the habitat which is home to thousands of birds animals and plans its this combination of the knowledge of the scientists and the enthusiasm of the wall and thats keeping the hope alive to save the endangered ecosystem. Also here to the other mother thats what im doing here is something the sea goes also what its called treading for mussels im not treading on them its not an act of aggression its a way that. They use these movements to loosen the ground of the mother so that gradually and you can see how many hair already knots of cockles come to the surface you can see them here. Theyre fascinated by the wotton see to these abilities and since yes or no volunteering for half a year as conservationists part of their work is to take visitors on low tide tours through this unique eco system which is also a National Park but hands from the w w a f one c office says the eco system is under threat thats in our part of the National Park is profoundly impacted by Climate Change and its nice if we dont succeed in stopping Climate Change not were also busier ducking out of the damage already caused by rising sea levels. 100 years from now and thats not much of this one see National Park will no longer be here and in 200 years it might be gone altogether as the tide ebbs and flows its continually changing the habitat of the plants and animals that live here. In the sea here is the early stage of a field of sea gross you can really see the sea grass. Distance leno says especially interested in the geology of the mudflats as gives him but now that i have i dont want to see it there are 3 kinds of. When you have a horse of sediments the mixed sediments and the finest sediments convenor if you look at the ground you can see the difference in color in the hellish 1st stone in the course of some sediment the oxidation layer is about 3 centimeters in the mix sediments its around 2 and in the line of sediment about one centimeter millimeter to protect the area from the impacts of Climate Change politicians and conservationists have developed whats known as the wild and see strategy 2100. In this modern c. Strategy we eliminated the following 2 scenarios in one we worked on the basis of a 20 centimeters Sea Level Rise 5205050 centimeters by 2100. In the other which we call the increase scenario we factored in a rise of 80 centimeters by 2100 so why now however we have to reckon with the fact that it could be even higher because the consequence of these scenarios is always that we have to help the one see to grow up with a pace with rising sea levels. The idea is to apply a process known as beach replenishment that would see sand added to certain areas of the water and see. Pilot projects will determine whether it will work. Also impacted by Climate Changes the buffer zone between the sea and protective dikes these salt marshes are important for Coastal Protection because they serve to break the force of the waves before they crash against the levees the only plants that grow here have to withstand high concentrations of salt but as i know bush are doing of the what and see conservation station explains the marshes are also home to birds and plenty of insects. This is a stand swelling from a sea planting stem warning weevil are it does nothing else in the world besides laid eggs in the flower stalks of sea plantations and its grubs developed here in this stem. Theres also a seed planted in stem boring we have all parasitic wasps. Salt marshes grow when sediment is deposited on them during high tide but for how much longer than. A moment salt marshes are keeping up but if sea levels rise more quickly there will be a Tipping Point where they disappear because they cant grow at the same rate. And more men when that happens it will be the end of this community of species of plants and insects and nesting birds. Because theyll drown. In the water starts to rise that quickly Coastal Protection authorities will have Serious Problems to contend with as a source now i think. From common seals gray seals common porpoises and fish. To crowds mussels ones and snails. And migratory and mudflap birds estimates just there are some 10000 species in the what and see. The persians about me obviously the water in the sea in terms of its size and biodiversity is pretty unique water is why it became a World Heritage site but there are a landscape such as islands mudflats and salt marshes in many other places around the world the experience we collect here in terms of Sea Level Rise can also be transferred to other regions. Its hard to predict the exact future of the mudflats today its proving difficult to find one prominent if you loose event habitant the loved one. Of them but we didnt have any luck finding a log but hes a has found Something Else a razor clam. I was lucky enough to see one on a different tour of the mud flats extremely rare to see want to tall because they can stand up within seconds its pretty fascinating if they lie flat and then this foot comes out hooks itself onto the ground and then the muscle flips upright and burrows its way into the moat. The warden see is a fascinating place an eco system that might one day disappear beneath the waves forever. Abandoned fishing nets was a Severe Threat to marine ecosystems these units attached to large strollers i dragged along. To catch everything in their part if they get stuck just simply cut and 2nd of the bottom of the vif where they destroy the entire marine life and dive out in the media was shocked when he foresaw the impact of these abandon and decided to do something about it hes now want to mission to clear the waters of these ghost myths. Wins life changed when he discovered a dive site 40 kilometers off the coast of haiti. It was 20 when his team had stumbled upon an undersea wall with exquisite marine life. But admins wall as it came to be known had a huge problem. When before that was the 1st i thought of the big middling dont. Like millions in fact but. You. Know about today. On the wall. Really big. You could big to clean the big horsemen. Since then ivan and his team of divers have spent countless days removing large quantities of plastic nets discarded by Fishing Vessels and traditional fisherman. Nets end up in the ocean when their damaged are no longer useful. As they drift along with ocean currents are settled on the sea floor. And kill everything that comes in their way. These ghost nets have a devastating impact on medina animals today. Fishermen in the area are hit hard as discarded nets account for 10 percent reduction in catch but the local community has needed a lot of convincing to change the age old practices when we start diving and that. All of this really does have no doubt. Because of you guys we got to dive in there was presiding over. To explain we waited for like 11 of our peers to interact with the fisherman how the day was helping to grow the fish like. We can build them to. Use this net. We can say that we did to get them food for the kid them then they will understand or we can use dismayed because to be used is now doing damage is weve built a dam is because i did want guinea fish in future all the war we cant get any money through the fish so that the trade we do protect them. One fisherman in particular works closely with god and. This comes from a long line of traditional fisherman and fishing has always been the way his family survives. But watching the sea change before his eyes this has given up fishing and now works as a boat captain with ivans organization temple adventures. He has also learned to scuba dive seeing fish in the natural habitat give these are the final push to change his lifestyle for them. Since i started scuba i dont feel like fishing because i get to see them underwater and feel i shouldnt be killing them i also go into the water and see them look so beautiful now there are almost no fish left. And i just work as a captain so its good i can educate my children from the decent salary that i wouldnt get from fishing. Able to sustain ourselves now. They saw and other fishermen are not just clearing nets but aiming to improve the overall. Well marine ecosystem along the south end in cost. One of the projects is to build artificial reefs to support life underwater. We try to 100 kids 200 kids a dog before we have many more reef be through the 20 pounds rocks so. 1234 reefs. To reach the creative. Unbelievable free flow before the northeast in that area all the personnel going for their rocky places to rock music like 15000 going to read to do a line or merely to travel like a mark on a monitor to have a little for that every night important city to know everybody you can rely on pushing. Seen how the area has tired with these organizations intervention ive been encourages everyone to do something about destructive practices that exist in their own backyards. But the main concern is individual responsibility its not ok i want to wait for when im going to fish and litter and. Clean a bit why you need to wait for that you can augment be or. Take up like 5 people in the same village if youre standing you know playing for you or going for a beer they leave same time spent like 20 minutes between some youre d right if you take it over your own area if you were to do that that you feared the worst and because of that you know why there were certain pollution thats my dog. A conscious Younger Generation speaking out loudly and taking positive action is a wonderful sign of thousands millions as a species but it does come down to each one of us to preserve protect and do whatever little we can for our planet ill leave you with that thought and see you next week until then good bye. In the next edition we look at the thousands of people who migrate towards open sandoz many are follows who are feeling the effects of Climate Change and cities are crumbling under the pressure. But not Everyone Wants to give up their livelihood we need far most good bedding for Climate Change by trying out smarter agricultural practices. As the ice melts. Me a merge. Fear. Hope. Greed. What kind of will prevail what will happen to the arctic after the ice melts. In 15 minutes on d w. Im secure in the by a war thats hard and in the end its a me youre not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. Are you familiar with this. With the smugglers were alliance of. 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