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00:28 While Storoskøy runs the place, we are at the most with barracks for 300 people,
00:36 with canteen, we had airfield with yearly 35 000 passengers, power plant, workshop, storage.
00:44 The concept is to try to make, let the nature take it back or unmake the nature itself.
00:52 That means let creeks run freely, let make sure that avalanches do happen, because that will
01:01 transport more of the sediments down, it will make new creeks. We're standing in the middle of a
01:08 river fan now from the valley back behind us. We want that flood of water, snow and rock
01:19 come down and make the new landscape.
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01:47 This is actually the largest nature restoration project to date. We are committed to preserving
01:55 as much as we can of the wilderness nature of Svalbard. And when we have used an area for
02:03 industrial activities and do not use it any longer, we think that these days we need to
02:09 try to restore back to nature the area as it originally was.
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02:37 Just what you see here is a result of a very heavy rainfall that was last summer, when you got
02:45 maybe 50-60 millimeters of rain in just 24 hours, which was very unusual before climate change
02:54 started changing the climate up here. Down the hillsides you get much more sediment start moving
03:02 and the small creeks getting more like rivers during the heavy rains. And you can see the
03:08 result here behind me with this crevice-like ravine created in the hillsides. So this is a
03:18 process that transformed the landscape here in Svalbard.
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