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00:11Life.
00:14The closer you look, the more mysterious it seems.
00:23We can't see the invisible forces at work.
00:30But what if we could?
00:34It's time to look at our home.
00:39In a whole new way.
00:47Imagine carbon cycling through nature.
00:53It's one of the building blocks of life.
00:58And it's stored in our forests, oceans, and grasslands on an incredible scale.
01:13But we've released too much of it into the atmosphere, risking our future.
01:20We can halt emissions and draw that carbon back down.
01:27And our best ally for that is nature.
01:35Restoring it to abundance is the biggest challenge of our time.
01:40But we can do it.
01:43If the future of nature looked brighter, so could the future for us all.
02:09Imagine a world where nature thrives.
02:30If we want to live here too, we must find ways to be a force for good throughout the natural
02:38world.
02:49Maple and Willow were found five days after their mom was found dead on a highway here on the peninsula
02:57in California.
02:59Dr. Alex Herman works at Oakland Zoo Veterinary Hospital.
03:04She's overseeing the arrival of a pair of orphaned mountain lions.
03:09When they came in, they were tiny, about four to six weeks old.
03:13They were very hungry, very dehydrated.
03:17Willow very soon after that developed pneumonia, just from the trauma of the whole situation.
03:22She was really, really sick.
03:24We were very concerned that we could lose her.
03:30Thanks to the team's expertise, Maple and Willow have both survived.
03:37It's really nice to see them moving around, climbing, playing.
03:46These kittens may be safe, but they're not the first the team has rescued.
03:51Here at the Oakland Zoo, we've treated 26 orphaned mountain lions since our program began in 2018.
03:58Mountain lions being hit by cars is a common big problem.
04:04The future for these youngsters is limited.
04:09None of the orphaned mountain lions that we've seen so far here at the Oakland Zoo have been able to
04:14be rewilded.
04:15They need to stay in captivity because they're just too young when they lose their mother.
04:20So normally, they'll hunt with their mom, be mentored, taught, protected by their mom until they're two years old.
04:27Because their mom was killed, they've lost that opportunity.
04:33In the wild, mountain lions are found from Canada to southern Chile.
04:41They're so widespread.
04:43They have different names.
04:46Pumas, cougars, even Florida panthers.
04:53But the more their range is overlapped with ours, the more they hit a dead end.
05:07So the freeways in our study area are extremely busy.
05:10Some of the busiest in the world.
05:13The 101 freeway sees over 350,000 vehicles a day.
05:20Roads in our area are definitely a death trap for our local mountain lions.
05:27Jeff Sikich and the National Park Service team have been studying mountain lions here in L.A. for over 20
05:34years.
05:37It's been a tough ride.
05:41Last year, we had 15 get struck and killed by vehicles.
05:46Some of our animals that we've been following, we mark as kittens.
05:50At three weeks of age, I have followed them their whole life.
05:54And to see these animals, you know, struck by a vehicle is just awful.
06:01L.A. may seem an unusual place to find North America's biggest cats.
06:06But they're smart and stealthy.
06:11We rarely get sightings of these animals.
06:15It really speaks to their elusive nature.
06:17In this environment we have here, they can be 20 meters in front of me and we won't see them.
06:24So we do a lot of looking for signs.
06:26So looking for tracks, scat.
06:30And then also our greatest tool, we use our remote cameras.
06:34And there is where we think we might get a mountain lion to walk by.
06:42And we have been studying them by capturing them, placing GPS radio collars on individuals.
06:52By charting the mountain lion's movements, Jeff can see the limits of their territory.
07:00So we're just north of the 101 freeway, right at Liberty Canyon.
07:04This is a natural pinch point for them, this natural habitat on either side, leading up to the freeway, right
07:10at Liberty Canyon.
07:12This human barrier is having a devastating impact on the population.
07:19These mount lions aren't crossing the freeways often.
07:21And this has led to very low genetic diversity in our population and also close inbreeding.
07:29And recently we started to see the physical effects of that low genetic diversity in our population.
07:34We have documented mount lions with these physical abnormalities, a distal tail kink.
07:42And we've also seen some reproductive abnormalities as well.
07:49The longer they stay trapped, the bleaker their future.
07:55If inbreeding depression sets into our Santa Monica mountain lion population,
07:59there's pretty much a 99% chance of extinction within 50 years.
08:12We get asked often, well, what if we lose mount lions from this area?
08:16What will happen?
08:17And we like to say that's an experiment we don't want to conduct.
08:21You know, the mount lion being an umbrella species that if mount lions are doing good in an area,
08:28if that population is healthy, that equals healthy prey populations and a healthy ecosystem overall.
08:39The more nature there is, the more effective the ecosystem is at drawing down carbon.
08:49But remove the apex predator, and it can fail.
08:57Mountain lions are facing a disastrous future.
09:01They need a hero.
09:14Ten years ago, conservationist Beth Pratt was inspired by the tale of a mountain lion living in L.A.
09:25I read about P-22.
09:27A mountain lion shows up in Griffith Park, and I was like, is that true?
09:31You know, how, is there really a mountain lion in L.A.?
09:34He had to cross two of the busiest freeways in the nation.
09:37And then he ends up on a dead-end area of eight square miles, the smallest known home range ever
09:43recorded for a male mountain lion.
09:47And he makes it.
09:49In fact, he became a celebrity in a land of celebrities.
09:53We had the P-22 Day Festival, a festival for a mountain lion.
09:5715,000 people showed up to honor this cat.
10:00So I think P-22 really evoked something magical in us, that even in the second-largest city in the
10:07country, nature had not been fully banished.
10:11If a mountain lion could live under the Hollywood sign in the middle of L.A., what else was possible?
10:19Beth is part of a campaign that's aiming to change the fate of all mountain lions.
10:26It's launched a movement.
10:28The science has always been there.
10:30The public support is now there.
10:31It really got people to reconsider, like, okay, we can coexist with large predators.
10:38And indeed, it's not just that we can, we have to.
10:41We have to save these cats.
10:44It involves people having the will to do something visionary.
10:57All my work is about coexisting with wildlife.
11:00And there's lots of angles to that, but the biggest is infrastructure, right?
11:05The biggest is animals need to get across roads.
11:10Determined to help them, Beth has spent a decade raising nearly $90 million for a seriously ambitious project.
11:20This is where we're putting a wildlife crossing.
11:25Stretching 64 metres long and 50 metres wide, the Wallace-Anneberg Wildlife Crossing will be the world's biggest bridge for
11:35animals.
11:38This is science come to life.
11:40This is hope.
11:41I've stood here at 2 a.m. and I wouldn't even try to cross.
11:45So you can imagine an animal just isn't going to make it.
11:50You know, the Wallace-Anneberg Wildlife Crossing is truly one of the most significant conservation projects of our time.
11:57Not just because it's going to be the world's largest crossing, but because what it represents, that we are doing
12:03this.
12:03We are making way for wildlife in one of the most populated areas in the country.
12:13The wildlife crossing right at Liberty Canyon couldn't have come at a better time for our population.
12:20Once the wildlife crossing is built, we really only need one mountain lion every two years or so to come
12:27down and successfully breed to make a difference in our small population here.
12:35These are beautiful, iconic, important animals that are a part of California.
12:40The wildlife corridor is being recognized as a key to coexistence, I think, is the future that we should all
12:45work towards.
12:52Maintaining our ecosystems and fully functioning ecosystems are key to the climate crisis.
12:58That is what's going to save us.
13:02How can we stop with one?
13:08The more we build nature into our lives, the more carbon is drawn down.
13:24If we become ecosystem engineers, we can help nature thrive everywhere.
13:33Mangrove forests live along coastlines and can draw down 10 times more carbon than plants on land.
13:46But they're fragile and vulnerable to pollution.
13:54On Hainan Island, China, Donjai mangrove forest is an important nature reserve.
14:06Life's been flourishing here for millions of years, undisturbed.
14:14Until recently.
14:17It's on the doorstep of Haikou City.
14:24In just four decades, it's grown from less than half a million to over two million people.
14:43For 20 years, the river got polluted and flooded and people complaining.
14:49And suddenly, the central television news exposes the bad situation of this polluted river with dead fish.
15:02Konjian Yu is an architect with a radical vision.
15:06In 2015, I was called by the municipal government to fix it.
15:18Overuse of chemicals, overuse of pesticides and fertilizers, you immediately pollute the river.
15:26Konjian believes modern engineering practices make the problem worse.
15:31The engineer came in and said, we can fix it by building concrete wall and by paving the river bed.
15:41Totally wrong.
15:44I keep fighting against the channelization of water waste.
15:52Konjian was inspired by his childhood on the rice terraces of central China.
16:00Konjian Yu is a human nature of a temporary natural basin system, and this is a natural basin system.
16:02It is a natural natural basin of a natural basin system.
16:07You have to recycle water.
16:09You have to take care of the land.
16:11You have to care of the land.
16:12You don't waste anything.
16:14Because it's a limited territory.
16:16And you must make sure that the whole village can sustain over thousands of years.
16:23And because of the monsoon climate, you know how to slow down the water flow.
16:27floor so it is sustainable relationship between man and nature
16:34the rice paddy landscape is like a giant sponge not just slowing the water but
16:41filtering and cleaning it too and as that's become my inspirations for
16:48today's landscape practice
16:59congen has a solution to haiko's problem
17:06so the same principle of a sponge to retain water can be applied to the real landscape
17:13in this case you see here's a valley bearing without vegetation without a pond and this
17:23water will just blow quickly all the chemicals that run into the ocean so everything gets
17:31messed up so in contrast here the valley is covered with vegetation so it has been transformed
17:43into a sponge and the vegetation will remove all the chemicals before they run into the
17:49ocean so the whole system will become healthy
17:57congien has taken this vision and supersized it
18:06he's turned haiko into a sponge city
18:11and build landscape along the river to give water more space we create terraces along the
18:19river so that there's a runoff from the rice paddy from the fields from the from the city
18:26from the sewage will be filtered before the running into the river and we live vegetated or
18:35the wildest the river we introduce mangrove let the tide coming and because of salt water and
18:44the fresh water meet we create an ideal habitat for mangrove so the mangrove very happy here
18:53so water getting clean the fish come back the birds come back
19:02there are even benefits for the city the mangrove become a future it's like a like a sponge and a
19:10buffer
19:10mangrove will become a resilient solution to sea level rising under climate change
19:20for congien this is only the start you should not consider building sponge city as a cost but consider
19:33it as an investment investment for the lasting sustainable human environment a very dirty polluted
19:46concrete concrete river has been transformed into a beautiful lush green corridor
19:56so i have a new term now beyond the sponge city i call it sponge planet
20:12re-engineering our cities is better for the future of nature
20:19it could even be better for us
20:26free town in sierra leone west africa is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to the impacts
20:33of climate change
20:38in august 2017 resident idrissa contey experience just what that means
20:46it starts at two o'clock now nanette the gun is six three ten then when the third one happened
20:52it not take five minutes now we will be stoned by this hill part
21:01it passed five thousand of houses within this place where they all go mountain man the people
21:06crowd been there passed that front part
21:12so that morning tell where this thing where this hill here broke what that took over
21:19the way people are gone now under the rain they see now we are all tired hostess you know
21:23hostess you know zing all team does sink down at the ground
21:30the house they go from particular all team go now this village
21:35you know people and go people and die at this place
21:41everyone lost someone
21:56and i was getting ready to go off to the office in mali when i heard about the landslide in
22:03august of
22:042017 and the immediate effect of 1000 people losing their lives and immediately there was thinking about
22:12how to support cereal
22:14on hearing the tragic news senior climate advisor eric hubbard was compelled to make a difference
22:22a few months later i was here
22:26listening trying to understand how people that live in the community understand risks
22:36working with the city council eric learned that climate change caused crops to fail
22:43forcing thousands of people to move here and this had severe consequences
22:52urbanization in itself is not a problem but what we have is unsustainable and unplanned and what
22:58that does is create a level of deforestation that is also unsustainable for the city over two square miles or
23:07500 000 trees have been lost annually since 2011
23:14when you remove trees systematically you disturb the soil dynamics
23:24so what happens to the loose soil first of all it becomes destabilized the landslide of 2017 was directly
23:34caused by that level of removal and the destabilization of that slope
23:41the free town tragedy highlights the dangers of removing trees
23:47but the effects of deforestation spiral further
23:53what we are probably even more concerned about
23:58are the rising temperatures
24:01all across the city
24:03people are feeling the heat
24:05how much
24:09the city
24:09who had to leave
24:14in the middle of the city
24:18and now
24:23what does the city
24:26go in the middle of the city
24:31it's not it they don't want past the idea
24:35yeah they go she don't please leave the camp
24:39last time no place the tips
24:46the game cassava leo don't shoot you all the plans the point
24:49it's the point of the very same with the point
24:52wait well you know one on my money the game
24:55password so they're not making camp for the case
24:59wait on well it affects them bad so money and i think we're paying
25:03so if you make it clean they will take it off if you
25:06if he
25:08waste another day for stop this it's like i get so
25:12the next five six years it will watch for soon
25:17outdoor work is a critical component of how we live
25:22there will be a point at which it'll be biophysically impossible to do any of
25:27those things if we don't figure out a way you know
25:31to cool the environment
25:37eugenia carbo is the chief heat officer for freetown
25:49you can experience the heat you can feel the change when you talk to communities
25:54and you talk to people they can tell you that something has changed
26:00but in terms of data that's a challenge and that's why we did the first heat mapping was
26:08conducted in january which gave us a baseline of what the current situation is
26:21eugenia's eugenia's data shows freetown rarely cools down
26:26and the forecast is worrying
26:30projection from different stories have predicted that if nothing is is done about the situation
26:37temperatures will rise to about 30 35 degrees by the end of 20 30
26:46this heat combined with intense humidity will be unbearable
26:52a solution is urgently needed
26:57in our approach we want to cool the air scale and stabilize slopes and what we have found
27:03as the trees have the propensity to do both as well as preventing landslides
27:11trees can reduce city temperatures by as much as eight degrees celsius
27:18the solution may be to simply plant more but wherever they grow they need long-term care
27:26a survey of 176 new plantations showed that after five years half the saplings had failed
27:37growing trees in a fast developing city like freetown seems an impossible challenge
27:46freetown the tree town is a community-led community-owned community-driven restoration process
27:56the tree town project pays residents like sinature to not just plant trees but also be their long-term
28:04guardians literally pay to grow
28:15and the first payment i get from this tree planting that they are able to put me pick in school
28:22sinas planting a mix of 52 different species chosen for their environmental and also economic benefits
28:31and technology is ensuring as many of these saplings survive as possible
28:37the corner of the corner of the camp plants until next month they want to know if you don't pass
28:42or it's still in at the same level because the economic one they don't then track it
28:48therefore they will be able to know the trees and let city council serve able for monitor the
28:53trees and that will adapt to the app for let we serve able to identify the trees there outside
28:59then they don't know what you can plant that we left there
29:03and inside the app we get like the first style we say you put your own detail you the individual
29:09we've integrated digital technology into the process
29:19to ensure that we get a digital footprint of every tree and that way we can use the digital space
29:26to
29:27track the life you know and the health of the tree and so that creates the ability for the city
29:35to do
29:35something that most cities have never been able to do and that is to guarantee an 80 percent tree survival
29:41rate
29:43the tracking happens four times a year but the critical piece is that we have created a care economy
29:53so whenever a tree is tagged and in the database its digital footprint can be traded on the worldwide
30:00carbon market
30:05and thanks to the ongoing monitoring companies that need to offset their carbon footprint
30:10can guarantee the trees continued health and lasting value
30:18so we have built a natural capital investment strategy with corporate and institutional partners
30:23that are looking for carbon offsets that are that have made net zero pledges right that have supply
30:32chains into Sierra Leone carbon offsetting is not a license to emit but it could be a short-term solution
30:42to some urgent challenges the ecosystem services from those trees will really manifest around 2030
30:53but they have already begun to sequester carbon
31:07such big ideas could make a real difference to the people living here
31:12but that stick can always see so now plant they plant them for make sure to let you go save
31:18that stick they have so where they are that will make the hill will get it will get foundation
31:24so they make they can't plant that this area we make on a decision so to protect this place
31:31the
31:31i believe in the 30th and 2050 the rents is here will overcome this the city and i believe saying
31:38we prevent the the the the area for letting anything that they know they happen so you know
31:42go see them now open and for letting people hold on board let them see some events in there
31:46let them just wrap up and meet the trees there now don't be a protection for the environment
31:55the legacy of the project could extend far beyond this city the thinking was freetown the tree town
32:02and what we like to call tree town africa and so we've been doing a lot of work to build
32:09out our model
32:13this has created a context for us to share broadly step by step with cities
32:18across africa and across the global south what we've been doing and how we've been doing it
32:32if we can embrace nature carbon can reinvigorate our livelihoods
32:51we've been farming here all my lifetime
32:56no meg meg
33:00some days you have a lucky day and other days you know it falls apart like so you could blame
33:06it on
33:07the man not the dog
33:13my name is john moran we're in county leitrim higher end
33:22we've been farming here all my lifetime we have such beauty here on the farm
33:31when we were young everything came from the land
33:38for farming families like john's one particular gift from the land made the difference between survival
33:45or failure
33:48this is me and my dad here in the field with the horse and raker just up there we cut
33:53the peat
33:54it's an area called the black mountain it's on the peak of the mountain
34:05peat is waterlogged oxygen depleted soil filled with slowly decomposing plant material
34:14we had to use the the peat for the winter fire the peat was survival in the winter time to
34:20heat the house
34:22it boiled the kettle it boiled the spuds it it done everything there was no gas there was no oil
34:28so that was their heat it was nearly next to food like it was so valuable
34:40small-scale cutting for families has never been the problem
34:46but large-scale commercial peat extraction has had devastating consequences
34:52so
35:03dr guardanath chico works with waterlands an eu environmental initiative aiming to restore the peatland
35:13we are going this way i think this is the best option available
35:19we're going this way no no no that way
35:27on top of the black mountain guardanath can see why degraded peatland is such a problem
35:33when you start to go into detail and look in the vegetation that you have the biodiversity that you
35:38have pillars are the most important terrestrial carbon storage in the world so here we have a very
35:44good example of a heavenly book in this area you can see the hero of the book which is a
35:50span humus
35:50it's a really special plant because it trapped the carbon absorb the carbon from the atmosphere
35:54and then it put that there for thousands of years
36:02years of accumulated carbon make peat the largest store on land
36:10but this ancient landscape is extremely fragile
36:17so here actually we may have actually 8 000 years of history of carbon accumulation really slow
36:24accumulation on this black soil that we call peat sadly this area here now is releasing carbon
36:32that 8 000 years of carbon accumulation is great because uh natural pressures but also because the
36:39history the past history of human activities on here that have an impact on this land and now is
36:45promoting this loss of carbon
36:49peatlands cover nearly three percent of land on earth but 15 of them are degraded turning them from carbon sinks
37:02to carbon sources
37:09in ireland just a fifth of peatlands remain
37:14but guaderneth's showing the community how to restore them
37:18so today we're doing reprofiling so that's the fun part
37:22basically we go historical start cutting where we have a very steep slope so we're doing with the bigger
37:28today and the farmer is really profile that so we're making a gentle slope that actually will allow
37:33the vegetation come back and the water come back there
37:41about yeah two meters two meters yeah so by doing this we will make the water more stable the water
37:50table will be more stable and hopefully will be better
37:55better what we're trying to do is share the knowledge so they can then train other people
37:59and improve the skills of the community to do pillar restoration right
38:05the better of the condition of the feeling the better will be uh the function of the
38:10bill and how much carbon we can trap on that pillar
38:14despite the damage to the environment commercial peat cutting was only banned in 2022
38:23but more recent uses of peatland still impact the carbon cycle as well as the communities trying to
38:30live alongside peatland was always very cheap so it was brought up a lot of time by forestry and
38:40there's vast amounts of forestry that's wiped out the land because they're being planted with silica
38:46spruce and the young people listen coming back to live on the family farm and that's my greatest fear
38:54is the whole history of that land is gone each farm has a name passed down from generation to generation
39:01a name on each field and then it's just a waste it's a wasteland in because the silica spruce everything
39:08dies
39:11under it but there's a plan to help communities thrive here and support the peatlands too that
39:18one over there was that yeah gwarden earth is working with local farmer sean mcgovern on a
39:24particularly prickly problem there's there's a couple up there god yeah yeah i can see them yeah
39:31conifers are an invasive species the roots go down into the piece and break up the piece and that's
39:36releasing the carbons it's amazing how fast they grow in in in a few short years we cut the conifers
39:51the roots will die and that the carbon will stop being released into the atmosphere and it'll be uh
39:56sequestered it back into the bog one less there's a couple more up here i suppose i am a bit
40:06different
40:07in that i'm one of the few young people that is farming in the area a lot of family farms
40:12are closing
40:13down and plantations are coming in of conifers and forestries when forestry goes in people go out they
40:20don't come back i love being from here it's great to try and keep it alive and keep it going
40:26and keep
40:26people in the community by restoring peatland for carbon drawdown sean is eligible for an environmental
40:34grant from the government the better the condition of his land the more money he'll be paid
40:43now i think we're in a period of transition where attitudes are changing towards peatland and people
40:48are realizing how valuable it is i think the attitudes of of the older generation of farmers
40:54is quite impressive and that they're willing to take on new ideas and new things and and
40:58and try and make it work
41:07many people think climate change is a negative term
41:11i think it's a positive time
41:16it's opportunity to work together
41:23it's opportunity to actually restore habitats
41:27and fix together what we have destroyed through the millennia through the centuries
41:32we pay for the training and then we pay also for the labor so you can actually have some people
41:36full
41:36time job i think if you measured the black area where that's bad it would probably cover about
41:43would it cover about three acres four acres oh more more more more yeah oh would it yeah
41:50so on 2050 i would like to come back here with the farmers and and look this habitat and see
41:56the
41:56amazing work that we have done with restoration and see how we're trapping carbon and how this habitat
42:01have gone from a carbon source at the moment losing a lot of carbon to amazing carbon sink
42:07to do this because obviously this is a very big job oh yeah yeah of course
42:14indeed it's possible
42:20it is possible to see a future and live a better life with carbon
42:26and we can even do this in the face of the most immediate challenge of all
42:34for at least one month every year nearly two-thirds of the world's population face a severe
42:41scarcity of water and supplying enough of it to our growing cities is increasingly difficult
42:49even in some of the lushest places
43:04rio may be carnival city but beneath the glittering surface there are big challenges
43:17that are in the world's areas
43:18most of its water is supplied by the guandu river but heavy industry and intensive farming along its banks
43:25have left the river polluted and silt ridden
43:31with the city's water treatment plant working overtime the cost and reliability of the water supply
43:38is a growing problem for rio's 14 million residents
43:47but there's a simple free solution right on the doorstep
44:04ottavia baros has lived here all his life
44:13Campöstademos새
44:1328 houses, cerca de 100 people.
44:18If you want to drink water, you can drink water.
44:25Here is a cistern.
44:27The flow of water comes and fills this space.
44:31And from here, the water goes to the lower houses.
44:39The family of Lula made this little hort,
44:47but there are several things here.
44:50And they use the water to irrigate these plants.
44:56At first, we don't need to do this treatment
44:59because it flows from several places
45:01and we consume it all over the years.
45:03And it's rejuvenating, right?
45:05So we see, friends and colleagues say,
45:08this water is not the age that you're talking about.
45:11I think I'm playing here.
45:12You have more, I don't have less.
45:18The Enchanted Valley Community
45:20has enough clean, free water
45:24because it's alongside a crucial natural resource,
45:30the Tijuka Forest.
45:42Forests are like sponges,
45:44collecting and filtering rainfall.
45:58The Tijuka Forest is a small remnant of a once giant watershed ecosystem.
46:07The Atlantic Forest.
46:11Spanning the length of Brazil,
46:13it was twice the size of Texas.
46:19But today, farming and industry has made it one of the most depleted ecosystems on Earth.
46:28And the region's water supply is in trouble.
46:39But 60 miles south of Rio, conservationists at Regua Reserve are piecing this giant watershed back together.
46:54They can only do it with the help of Brazil's largest gardener.
47:29There, there, there.
47:38The tapirs have come from zoos, so to prepare them for life in the wild, they'll first
47:46spend time in an outdoor enclosure.
48:07Weighing over 300 kilograms, tapirs feast on large fruits and seeds, which become
48:15large trees, and the larger the tree, the more carbon it can store.
48:33While the tapirs acclimatise, regular manager Raquel Locke is evaluating how best to restore
48:41the health of the watershed.
48:43We must think of the forest as this live entity, where every little form of life is necessary
48:52and has to be added when possible.
48:56All that diversity will have communities of insects, animals coming back in due time.
49:05Certainly, some bigger animals won't be able to come back by themselves.
49:13The more wildlife can be returned, the better the chance of restoring the watershed.
49:22Having spent a month acclimatising in their enclosure, the tapirs are ready to go to work in the
49:28forest.
49:29forest.
49:31The promise of a treat is enough to lure one of them into its transit box.
49:44But the other tapir is not so easily fooled.
49:50The team will need all their skill and a lot of patience to lure this one in.
50:02We are using his favourite foot, but he's too clever.
50:08And just when the team think they've got the better of him.
50:16We decided to try it later, because it's too difficult.
50:21So maybe he can get it then.
50:27After some time, and a fresh bag of treats, they're ready for one more attempt.
50:50Relocating large animals is ambitious, expensive work.
50:56And making projects like this happen means we must all make some tough choices.
51:03The biggest financial backer is a fossil fuel company.
51:09It can seem a bit contradictory to receive the financial support of a petrol company for
51:19actions for conservation of nature.
51:22Ações that favor carbon sequestration.
51:27Entretanto, these are companies that have money.
51:37And we have to do it now.
51:39Now, we can't wait for the energy transition to have money to finance projects for restoration
51:48of ecosystems.
51:50The urgency is now.
51:52And we need to regenerate forests.
51:55We need to have a sauna in the forest to help in this regeneration.
52:02We need to have a sauna in the forest.
52:30We need to have a sauna in the forest.
52:31The tapirs will expand the water shed.
52:33The tapirs will expand the water shed.
52:34And Rio could save nearly 80 million dollars in water treatment costs.
52:42Abundant nature benefits everyone.
53:04All across our planet, people are making changes.
53:09To build a future with nature.
53:14Without people's involvement, care of a conservation project,
53:19it just wouldn't work.
53:21The more people involved, the better for nature.
53:26You have to take care of this globe.
53:28A nature-based solution can heal the planet.
53:36Just imagine what could be achieved.
53:42If every one of us was part of this.
53:48A global movement for nature.
53:54If we want to have a flourishing future and be thriving in 2050 and beyond,
54:02we have to do this.
54:03We have to make changes.
54:05We have to make a trade-off.
54:07The trade-off doesn't necessarily mean we lose.
54:09And this kind of dynamic will actually win.
54:13And that's all I got.
54:19The brighter the future of nature.
54:25The brighter the future for us all.
54:29If there is still or not.
54:44It is still possible.
54:59Honestly, we could also make things.
55:10Transcription by CastingWords
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