is roaming freely in the forest and can find food and nature can this dump be safely shut off to bears. 20 years later i hope everywhere is trees not open area like this. the bears do not eat the trash, just the healthy food. and can you imagine these large carnivores we are working with hanging around here and having fun being in the real wildlife. we hope so. during my time here i have met incredible individuals fighting to protect the creatures living alongside them. desperately trying to manage the delicate balance between people and nature.
rewilding the forest takes time but it also takes care and consideration of all its inhabitants. big or small. we have pushed so much of our wildlife into unsustainable pockets and we ve lost whole ecosystems already. climate change and our insatiable appetite for development has destroyed so many habitats and it is up to us to try and find ways to recreate them. what they are doing here in turkey is ambitious but if it works, hopefully it will be an inspiration for other projects around the world.
finding out a bee producesjust 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey has made me think about how much we use. for yonca, she is determined to save the bees by inspiring the next generation. the youth is amazing, much more aware than we are and they are working on trying to help nature more than our generation. when we think of forests, we hink of their importance to fight climate change but they are equally important for biodiversity, so much of our wildlife lives and thrives in a forest. as we have seen with the honeybee and that tiny bug it would not survive if it was not for all these trees, a precious ecosystem that
i am looking forward to this. apparently it tastes very different. that is so good. it tastes woody and almost spicy. pine honey is not made by a bee alone, a small grub has a big role to play. i am meeting yonca tokbas, a bee expert, to find out more about these intriguing insects and how they contribute to making pine honey. she has dedicated herself to preserving the bees way of life even running marathons. what a beautiful forest. you get the smell and the sound of the forest.
some bears are very fat and lazy because they are not moving too much. this is a really sad sight and it is all too familiar across the world as habitats are being destroyed wild animals for two come into build up areas to find food. a massive problem that needs a massive solution. the team has come up with an ambitious plan to your bears away from the dump. they want to create a new travel route for the bears taking existing patches of forest they are planting 11 million trees to fill in the gaps. this forested route will stretch over 160