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Its all around us we cant even see it but nothing on this planet would be able to exist without being able its one of the essential characteristics that makes our look unique but the quality of our air is getting worse every hour what can we do to make it better not really for us but for the creatures we cohabit thats what well talk about how long i welcome equal india. Lets start by taking a look at butterflies their presence in our surroundings indicates a hell the environment but in the city like delhi a perennial concretize dust bowl butterflies are struggling to find continuous green cup which is a basic requirement for them to thrive a group of ecologists and citizen volunteers observe this phenomenon and are now striving to help them out. These small grass yellows are working hard the male butterflies are looking for salt and minerals in the damp sun they need to ingest valuable nutrients too ready themselves for the meeting season. So. This is not some remote and pristine rural area but daily more than 100 species of butterfly live in the city one of the very largest and most polluted in the world. So here medan is an ecologist of the Conservation Education Center in delhi hes an expert on butterflies. The reason behind. Us being lucky enough to see the number of species that we see in the ne is. Is that we still have a lot of green area green spaces left in the early ones these. These green spaces become such. There can be no more movement for. You need guys beard any sort of wildlife they need a color door to go in and out of that protective space. In daily is continent to grow in half is a fashion. 8 years of greenery that connect the citys main butterfly sanctuaries by like century in the south and daly ridge in the not are at risk as more and more buildings go up. Down considers that a major risk to dalys butterflies. I dont the world butterflies are under threat more than 40 percent of all insects species are in danger off extinction as bali metres butterflies are important for maintaining biodiversity far from a solo if youre trying to get to. Either but then i find something on the cluster very mirrored pieces of art and then theres a man ducking me. Veronique kapoor sort of has made a garden latest habitat but we have been doing it right here across the river. In order of corporate drug. Down is heading to us got better batch of based land is being turned into a butterfly garden most of the land for the project belongs to the ministry polity some individuals and companies also make lots of valuable. Some of jan is an ecology student he contributes his knowledge and labor to the project while learning more about what butterflies need in order to try. This isnt any plug and all the plans that we understand. Will host plans for the flies apart from the normal rows of the thing or. There they act as d a whole sponsor of the butterflies like this one is for the common man one. The major difference. Of labrador the normal part will be that there will be no formal design with the butterfly hybrid bad that you will be able to make out because we wanted to be overgrown we wanted to be going why you feel. The Conservation Education Center daily has so far created more than 40 butterfly garden across daily with the help of hundreds of volunteers. As its manager so helmet on shares his expertise and knowledge and encourages city to incidents to get involved and help look after the citys why life uncouple is one of the volunteers in just 2 weeks the 74 year old has cleaned out a trash full near johnson a city forest in the south of daly transformed it into a habitat for butterflies people were impressed but baffert award you mean. A bunch of right block in this set around doing you getting this is there doesnt mean sort of a ground where we throw all their money mark but now people have accepted that yes but im dr parikh of monday acne is a. Then or not a 4 hour colony. Some years ago or so hillman launched a campaign to get people across the need to go out and count and identify butterflies near their homes every september. That has really boosted Public Awareness and enthusiasm to do something to help. Once the. Door is in place and not just being in place once we have substantial numbers it did 100 but of labrador thats across the city we will definitely see large increase in the population especially for. 3 or. Butterfly species that are dispersing if there are 100. 00 laid by a butterfly an adult butterfly only to move will become our no but of lies on their own the rest 98. 00 will be eaten. And many more larvae are killed by pesticides some people consider the Little Creatures unwelcome guests in their garden think of all the glorious butterflies they might have because. Now alongside butterflies every living being on the planet is the step to go to polluted in the long term effects. To be devastating if pollution is a massive problem in many cities in india last year with total list of cities with the worst quality in the world and who live there i believe a 21 evolution was once also a huge problem in london in the United Kingdom but things seem to have changed now. Every. Fog up the river where it flows among the green meadow fog down the river where it rose defiled among the cheers your bank and the waterside pollution of a great and. City. Need to work one written about what a cotton beijing. This is how Charles Dickens described it in london back when he read the novel bleak house more than 150 years ago and he was of the anyone struggling to break. Now london still looks pretty great but it used to be even more polluted then cities across india are today. You know. Youre a slave. And so you see it. This matters because evolution is one of the biggest killers in the world every year we. Need only in 7 millions primitive its caused by air pollution i mean i think this gives you an idea of a terrible public health. We are here. Satellite images show particular concentrations of 2019 the greatest across asia and africa. Europe meanwhile has gotten much safer so what can londons past teach asian cities today. The World Health Organization call their mission the silent killer every breath we take contains invisible particles and gases that to get them up to 3 years of our life these harm the lungs and need to diseases like asthma and lung cancer but those partly cause the. Particularly to look at their own small arms so that they go everywhere this morning one state will go into what would implode this street and then from there they can affect any system any. One of the Biggest Barriers is that many governments consider pollution a Necessary Evil however many people get sick. And pollution rises when countries industrialize and cities across asia have developed like london did back during the industrial revolution. When workers burn coal to power engines theyre released particles that stain shuts and shock try to. Smoke lowering down from chimney pots making a soft black drizzle with flakes of sort of motors pretty good full grown snowflakes to consist of scription state ballot for decades to come the amount of raw sewage at the time was so great that victorian london experienced the great stink a century later the pollution called the great smoke which officials at the time estimate killed 4000 people in a week now this made life as horrible as it sounds the folk was certain that it stopped trains short of shops and even helped the problem the dock and thats all before you factor in the cost to help london thats died from lung to be like bronchitis in great numbers of whats at the peak of the pollution and the Health Damage alone is estimated to have cost up to 20 percent of british g. D. P. The bad news was that delhi there today is pretty much a spot of londons what a century ago and like in london but. They still going about it in synchronicity outreach in you know and getting you know i think. And in the minute you know it was that you you know you clearly see it now you know it isnt really awful about that is that i mean what you say that. Anything might assurance will mean that. That is shot. Knowing the scale of the damage to the parents in an impossible body. Gets extra bad in winter because farmers in surrounding states burn crops and the cold air drops might look like. But much of the urban indias pollution has come from burning more coal and driving more cars. When i grew up in both in mumbai in the eightys and ninetys having a car was an incredible incredible luxury. Of waiting for stanleys had a car in the last 20 years let alone their lies ation into what i say should take place in india. And these are not held to the same standards as scarse in the us in europe. Scientists say the air quality 1st gets worse of countries industrialize and use more energy but then after a while the costs become too high to ignore and invest in solving the problem. Thats how britain fixed it over the course of a century the government factories out of cities brought in a Clean Air Act find companies belching out poisons and replace coal cookers with. It built parks and Public Transport Networks that produce for lights on cars and in doing so they showed critics of environmental regulations that saving lives also means saving money piecing argument that if you want to go look at konami you need to destroy the environment by this story in the environment history might. Not correct. But europe still has an. Outdoor air pollution today still called the 400000. 00 deaths in europe each year people in the poorest parts are setting off to live close to factories in ready to quit pollute. And because europe has exported a lot of its manufacturing to factories in asia its exported some of us have pollution too. So what kind of an indian takeaway from this. Both parties are tightening fuel standards and in some cities placing power stations and restricting when you can drive. India is also looking next door to the progress made in china after president xi jinping declared war on pollution beijing reduced its levels of fine particles by 35 percent in just 5 years from 2030 but in cities across india the clearing too slowly to celebrate and until the government tackled the source of the pollution residents are forced to live their lives around it. Thats why director of makes heap of filters to block toxic particles coming in from outside. The their purified start of why. This isnt like in one of the this is something if you look like within a month then if you ask for the this is what you get this is the. Pollution what you put it in in the early this fridge that has been used for more than 3 months without solving because its about pollution filters like these just reduce the effects of the problem i am not enough that i. Know you can manage it. Well. As much as. You and they make you think thats just a mother. But with so many successful examples to learn from indian cities now me to Scale Solutions up to bring that pollution down and if they really start fresh well they could do worse than going out and planting a tree. Congested streets chockablock with scenes victuals trucks and to play a big part in causing air pollution in bengal its not a very experience to spend what it all would in traffic to cover the distance of just. A few decades in the city of qom to get to encourage more people to switch to bicycles when you can this be healthy and safe time and money. Oh the worlds most traffic congested city that was a designation given to bangalore to have the start of 2020 is a dubious honor for india which is home to some of the worlds biggest tech corporations. During rush hour commuters here spend an extra 243. 00 are stuck in traffic into 1900 thats 10 days and 3 hours in traffic each year. So whats the best way to beat the congestion for ingenious kartik on the Mountain Bike but can he really be faster than his colleague whos driving a car. To. Riyadh ive been among them and we need to get to the move which is approximately 2 kilometers in from here so i get you there you. Got to climb the mountain and get not read the book by the same company and get 90 will travel by car while car think on the mountain will take us by. The. Invention of. This heavy traffic. Or a small stretch. As were you. Thinking has been part of carthage on the mountains daily routine since his childhood as a seasoned writer he explored li navigates the citys jampacked road using his tried and tested environmentalists friendly mode of transport. Taken me less than 9 minutes to go a little kilometers from him on the left and i get the full article. Finally 6 minutes later his. Lead at a. Heavy traffic yeah like you know by. Almost 15 minutes. The mountain is the clear winner but cycling in bangalore who comes with Strings Attached the answered of course at 19 may have led to fewer vehicles on the streets but it is estimated that by 2022 the number of vehicles in the city will cross the 10000000 mark so even though it can be a quicker option riding a bicycle in bangalore can be dangerous as the city lacks cycling infrastructure such as bike leaves. The. For me my helmet and. My glove so there are 2 nonnegotiable so the minute i mean. When i get to these 2 come along with me. In 29 team car to climb the mountain became a bicycle ambassador for his company as part of the city right initiative called cycle to work he wants to encourage his colleagues to also make the switch to using the bicycle as a long Term Solution to decongest this city. Cycle to work was born out of a desire to target people who have the option to choose between various modes of transport for their work commute and ensuring that the off on a bicycle for that particular trip. The project was initiated by set them out and some good and a techie turn entrepreneur consulting on urban mobility and better planning for smart cities. Goes their course condition and of course pollution. Causing this together it is not one of the good stuff in our own sun couldnt is also known as by. Lose bicycle near an honor read all commissioned by b. By c. S. Adult social enterprise working world wide to get 50 percent of all city trips made by a bicycle by 2030. I think every time a person makes this choice of buying. A bicycle the entire city benefits its one thing for you to enjoy riding the bike and make it. A recreational option and get fit. But its another thing to make a call for the city. He developed the cycle to Work Platform that cyclists can use plenty of charge to clamp their daily work right through and the danger for each trip comprises workplace location the route taken distance traveled and calculates the Carbon Emissions offset by the commute this creates a public leaderboard that is updated in real time. To do 2000 people in bangalore who are to do it or just heard on the cycle to Work Together they have clocked 600000 kilometers by riding their bicycles to work just within 2 years. Traffic snarl ups are expected to reappear in the city forced lock down but the citizens of bangalore who are fighting hard to prove that bicycling could be a viable and eco friendly mode of transport for indias urban folk in classes. A simple choice whether to cycle to the supermarket or to work can have a huge impact on the air and also on how we connect we need to be living in an age where its important to find that connection thats a big and the british in our next report hes found a unique way to help one of them was important creatures on our planet the beads. Keeping bees and working as a d. J. Are normally activities that most people would see as related in any way not to be 87 his music comes from the buzzing of bees he produces cool beats with it and has a message for his listeners as being a harasser of loss of a set during the time i was trying to make a performer some audio piece a state program get things straight for themselves people connect today through the silence. The only sense of studied art and design and began his experimental music while he was still a student he calls it insect it just. C c uses a special software to isolate the different frequencies the bees a minute. There are 3 types of being a high this is the queen the workers the drawings and the child their own frequency range. So the crave has a high pitch piping sound high workers economy midrange sound drunk by all being asked to produce babies so. He uses a scanner to record the sounds made by the beings the frame he built is fitted with microphone use and a digital recorder which can capture hours of buzzing in the be hived. Being nice always tinkering with new instruments for his music once hes filled the recorders memory in a london park bearly sent takes it home to his studio he analyzes the bee sounds and arranges them through various synthesizers to create a track when you put sounds all of those they become kind of the last trick to income inequality. Interface for this synthesizer is to be flying into the flower to. Be any samples taken his sound installations all over the world. He always takes to the stage in a beekeeper suit he wants to remain anonymous he wants the listeners to concentrate solely on the music. That this year his performances are cancelled. During lockdown ive luckily been able to come up here to my beings in just meditates. You know regardless of the pandemic and lock down everything the bees just carry on as normal and that shes happy that theres not as much pollution. This year. If his bees are happy being any semblance to his sounds or his especially with Young Audiences at the same time they raise awareness of the world wide decline of people pillage. The believe the people a bit so we love the plants in our garden the holiday destination want to escape to next year all of this and Everything Else on our pla