Rest will disappear but if you go then you can you can see how the palm trees are dying because of drought and the sand keeps on coming in and. Claim. It as it is relentlessly encroaching on the air races which like so many others in morocco is at risk of disappearing. Play it. Out because. We have come to hunted his lung a smaller race a settlement in southeastern iraq has. This the horror of desert starts right behind the village. In the morning we meet her limbs by as the spelling of his pick up. By grew up here in her me and wants to show us what is happening here. We are company her limb and acquaintance to the edge of the settlement with the palm groves and farmers fields are located. Tellem says that theres practically nothing left of the green oasis of his childhood. It could be the i mean the desert is quickly moving in from all sides on the away. From the east of the west and. One sees an eye from monitors that allow you to gauge the pain some Climate Change if you upbeat the visuals malky much. When we arrive in the palm groves the weather somebody to rewrite a sun storm blows up. That has become the new normal here less and less rain and more and more sandstorms and soil erosion. This is what the oasis of honey looks like now. It is sinking in desert sand. The impact of Climate Change has long been clear here. When the weather has settled humaine and his acquaintance after doing get straight to work but. They want to fell one of the dead palm trees its word is well suited to making furniture i feel a little. Bit of like a lot. Of them but the trees stopped producing dates long ago. With. The pounds have fallen victim to the encroaching so. So your 1st song. We are paying our last respect to this palm tree its like burying somebody look around were in a graveyard. Putting this palm tree to a good year is the least we can do for it so. It was it. Up there once to make a table from the wood for farmers in the region its becoming increasingly difficult to make a living from agriculture and theyre being forced to diversify change jobs completely. Spurious life has also changed fundamentally. His father used to plant pantries here and could live well from the abundant data harvest. Now a few decades later his son sees him self as an activist who wants to draw attention to the dramatic changes in this region. Why does this great god exist the answer is quite simple its the lack of water. Shortages are being caused by Climate Change. This is exaggerating the process of disaster declaration that is if you go 30 years ago there would date. Trees. There are a lot of important activities going on here but its up. There. With a few 100 meters further on there is an abandoned pump the remains of a failed project years ago water was pumped up into a tank from deep in the ground the idea was to use the water to irrigate the airway subscribers. In the wake of the. Connection with. The government funded the project through a bomb would be but the extreme heat and increasing numbers of sandstorms made the turn to dry out leaving behind only salty posits. What has happened here is not an exception 2 thirds of all the way scenes in morocco have disappeared over the last 100 years. A few kilometers away the old village casbah. The fortified qusayr would have adobe walls dates back many centuries. In the maze of alleyways how lame me. Know when one of its dear remaining residents. Its just he says that only about 10 families still live here. On the ridge you. Never have have you. In the past 8 used to be home to more than 1000 people but most have now moved away. Sir and has crept into all of the houses i use is one of the few who is prepared to try and stand in the way of the death. Well now. I can only keep on saying it our problems stem from a lack of water from the nearby river dried out quite a long time ago. And as a result many people have left the village even the well of the mosque has run out of water. So the younger people in particular are attracted to the big cities such as marrakech casablanca and rob but only a small number remain booky to feel you stop. Nothing can stop the sun. It is getting into the caspar villages. Drought is the reason why people cant live here anymore cant lead contented everyday life. The problem is forcing them to leave the it is evil in. The desert is on the march thanks to the rising temperatures decreasing rainfall and powerful storms it will ultimately take this class. Very slow. For a boycott of the kind of work for as well as this. We leave her maids and drive some 50 kilometers through arid lands to the east where her name wants to show us a proper license. Thanks. The 1st thing we hear is a sound that we havent heard for a long time. Water flows out into a channel pumped up from great depths by so the power plant. Its used to illustrate the l. S. S. And this is what a healthy oasis looks like a veritable forest of palm trace. The precious water is quickly distributed by the phone is in the case in china its closed thanks. To click question. And the because she did i mean she would tell him says i waste this is like a paradise i provide shade and coolness for the fertile fields close to 2000000 moroccans still live in such oases between the Atlas Mountains and the sahara desert. Yes. This is a true ecosystem it functions on 3 Different Levels likely that. Date palms provide shade for the fruit trees and maintain provide shade for the vegetables but really. It is all based on the knowledge of our ancestors got to be theoreticians instances of water also start the part of the. Dates used to be an ideal crop for the region says shes really sweet foods is not very hard to grow but it does me 2 things heat and force and. Thanks. For this green he says a well had to be drilled 100. 00 metres down into the ground causing its own problems groundwater levels are increasingly dropping and the water thats drawn to the surface is salty as can be seen from the white deposits on the drainage ditches in the long term thats put. Things. Back in how many. Perhaps 7000 people still live here the one time away settlement keeps on shrinking. At the edge of the village theres a dried up river bed the river drug used to run here one of the longest rivers in morocco. But since a dam was built in the high Atlas Mountains hardly any water flows south. The markings on the bridge are a reminder of better times now that there is little rainfall to this region is becoming less and less hospitable to humans. Its mainly the old people who have stayed behind like the farmer but hardy. The 61 year old has 11 children from his 3 wives. Most of his children have left the region. Almost 40 percent of all moroccans according to research are considering leaving the country Climate Change is a driver for migration. Ready for the. Move there isnt any work here anymore at least nothing that provides a living. Will of the young people go to the cities to look for work our children have also gone. They visit us maybe once a year because here you really cant earn anything. It is a simple hard life. Money transfers from their grown up children help to keep them afloat. Things were better in the past when they were able to sell their dates as far afield as marrakesh as you can. Be you know when our oasis was still green we had everything we needed and we lived very well we could grow all kinds of vegetables and we kept sheep but thats impossible now lets. Face it. We lose sight of the sand dunes the hardy tends to small vegetable garden its all he has left for. Hes a subsistence farmer living from hand to mouth when he grows here is purely for his familys consumption. But the family doesnt know how long his garden will still bear fruit it all hinges on one thing water. Has as well but drawing water is becoming more and more difficult and hes having to dig deeper and deeper. Theres less and less water by the day a little while ago we had to go 9 metres down to reach it now its 16 metres and even there theres not enough water. Sure there are a lot of them but look at how the sand is threatening us it wants to encroach everywhere thats why im planting bushes like this to stop the sand from finding its way into our garden home i have a problem. With the law. But heidi is pricing in a losing battle. Sand dunes now stand right outside his house and a handful of palm trees are all thats left to remind him of the oasis growth. In bygone times desert caravans used to stop off here on their way to timbuktu more recently it has attracted droves of tourists from all around the world. By runs a small cafe in the center of the village which has become a Meeting Place for visitors and locals to a certain extent it has become a little oasis in its own right with a space so and internet access. Halim also acts as a tourist guide Offering Group tours in the sahara. The region is a favorite destination among more adventurous travelers with the races drying up some people have turned to desert tourism as an alternative source of income. Next to the map are a few photos limbs father highly regarded tribal chief and the Young King Mohammed the 6th the old photos evoke a time when water was not a problem in the oases. Limas came to discuss the problem with scientist mary m. 10 after. The trained chemist works as a Climate Research at the Max Planck Institute in mines and at the university of casablanca. One study that shes worked on predicts that summer temperatures in north africa will rise twice as much as the global average. Hot desert climate is worse in the future and especially in the summer increase. Also about 2 to 3 degrees. In the mine scenario. By 2050 to 7 degrees in the worst scenario by the end of the century. Satellite images captured by the european earth Monitoring Program copernicus show the oasis of honey surrounded by desert. And animation shows how the vegetation has been changing over the last few years and fluctuations in rainfall and humidity. The higher temperature means that there will be more of operation from the sun of less specific ation also less water in the sky and the combination of both will increase the start study of the sun actually which has a huge impact on the crop for the activity and theres additional dynamics in the song because from product of that you can fall over. 35 percent since this. Is aware of this vicious circle he has experienced the encroaching desert sands 1st hand. And the afternoon musicians gathered outside his cafe. The name has organized a small Youth Orchestra in the village. Suffrage of russian older than what i gather were for young people he wants to help preserve the local culture that includes the hypnotically rhythmic no one music. And i know youre lucky to. Be back. To. Keep people. Down but this is our control heritage that we want to preserve. We would like to train young people to play modern music through also to preserve our traditions. Because they are threatened by todays consumerism but also by Climate Change as it leads to migration really get us your. God. In our music is believed to have its roots in Subsaharan Africa a legacy of the black slaves transported along the transfer her and trade routes. With hellene we head south still home to morocco as remaining traditional nomad communities but their future too is at risk from Climate Change. After just a few kilometers a limb stops by a tree. He shows us the skeleton of a young candle which probably starve to death. And its far from being the only one camels and dromedaries are extremely frugal creatures but even for them its more and more difficult to find sufficient feed. To move really this is part of our new reality camel hearts represent riches when 23 or 10 camels die and the nomads lose a large part of their wealth so their traditional way of life is disappearing before their eyes. We carry on through a barren stony landscape until we reach a chain of mountains and a large herd of camels. You know. Yes yes yes. There is a dried up riverbed and a little better taishan with the animals can graze. The camels are being looked after by young men like me. Their own is used to be known but they settled nearby long ago. So the market will buy them. How many tales that finding places where the camels can graze remains difficult often they have no choice but to buy fodder for the animals. The lives of the camel drivers and herders are being transformed. Maidana t. Has left its mark here to. More than 60 percent of moroccos nomads have already given up in america lifestyles. This is partly down to the draw of modern comforts but its also a result of Climate Change. Thanks to. The camel drivers spend the night in the open they dont have a tent. They are perhaps only 20000. 00 traditional nomads left in morocco and with every passing year the numbers continue to 20. 00. 0. Its sad obviously one of so well actually we grew up here in the south. But what we were used to no longer exists. I only feel good when my animals feel good i look. A little bit well. And so Climate Change is threatening an entire culture. Of. One last look at the oasis settlement of her meat. On the outskirts the village elders hold regular meetings in the shade of the poems they meet or yield of dates is a symbol for the problems of this endangered oasis. Who are. Listening to these men it becomes clear how creeping environmental changes linked to Global Warming have slowly undermined the foundations on which these peoples lives have been built. The Climate Crisis has become an everyday reality. Thanks. As the drought increases in severity it will make things more and more difficult you can see how the palm trees are dying off how the desert is encroaching more and more and making the situation worse and worse and thats why most people have moved away and only a few People Like Us have stayed on. The. Yes people have left because they couldnt bury. They couldnt bear not having any water and you know. I have a wound with a motorized pump. But to keep it running i have to do it i can cover those costs with farming thats why we definitely need. It. Many of the wells are 20 meters deep but some people are drilling down a 100 meters to get water but what comes out of those wells salty water but theres no point irrigating the fields with salt water its useless how do you know much. Of it is. The way of the way for the mom or the mother. Palin demonstrates the water parks and innovation from the netherlands. The seedling is placed inside the biodegradable container and then planted into the soil. Then the water bugs is filled up with water. With its own little individual water tank each plant has a better chance of surviving. The people here desperately hope that these trees will act as a barrier to hold back the desert i dont have to. Have any there but. Its their last ditch attempt to defend their fields and gardens against the sahara. Just a few kilometers away other dealings of garda they are the highest in morocco and attract many tourists. Beautiful though they may be these growing indians are also a force of nature to be reckoned with. Playing. The song if you build being done with duke i mean song grown up like we have the most beautiful sand dunes here i have you know they have become a big tourist attraction. That helped us when things started going downhill with the land. You see foster the desert is both a friend and an enemy its rich but from john its the same to be frank you with. Finding the right balance is crucial pulling still holds out hope that humans and the deficit can continue to coexist. In a globalized world. Where everything is connected. All it takes discourse to set things in motion. Local hero show called their ideas can change the world. Global 3000. And 30 minutes on d w. Y subscribe to dig over your books delete your favorite writer sometimes do the story calls me and if you have to respond do you know the books on you tube. My smile is. Likely. To thank you. Paint me. On. I dance in a school daze who look at me. My and say. I am im sober going bridges. The secret and only son starts july 3rd d. W. This is news and these are top stories the u. S. 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