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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.
01:34Restoring 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.
02:13To me personally, forests are special because you're surrounded by giant beings, these trees.
02:22A forest is much more than the individual bodies, objects that you can see, the trees, or the soil, or
02:31the animals.
02:35There's a huge world of interaction and communication beyond our immediate experience.
02:42And through science, we begin to get glimpses out of that world.
03:03Professor Yadvinder Marley from Oxford University has been studying this forest for over 20 years.
03:11It's a profoundly central part of my being, I think, being out, realising that you're just one being in a
03:19community of species and entities and different forms of consciousness all around you.
03:33Research at Whiteham Woods began in the 1920s.
03:37It's one of the first places that scientists came up with the concept of an ecosystem.
03:46So here we've got this caterpillar consuming the leaves of this tree and is what makes up a forest ecosystem.
03:54Not the individual tree or the individual caterpillar, but this interaction between the two.
04:01This caterpillar may end up being consumed by a blue tit taking the food to feed its young chicks.
04:08And the leaf is also probably creating chemical signals to attract birds, to tell them that this caterpillar is here.
04:18This is just one small example of thousands of such interactions between species occurring above the forest, in the canopy,
04:27and below in the ground as well.
04:33These connections keep the forest healthy.
04:50All living trees are adorned with leaves.
04:55Beneath every single one are thousands of tiny holes.
05:01Stomata.
05:08They draw in carbon dioxide from the air, which the trees turn into food to help them grow.
05:18And nowhere is carbon drawdown more powerful than in the great tropical forests of our planet.
05:43Fed by constant rain and sunshine, the trees grow rapidly here.
05:50It's been like this for millions of years.
06:00Dense forests are the hardest to study, the animals often impossible to see.
06:07So the few places where we can learn about how the forest works are invaluable.
06:20Kibali National Park lies on the eastern edge of the Congo rainforest ecosystem.
06:30Here, our closest relatives are under observation.
06:41Chimps, who doesn't love chimps?
06:44I've been here since 2016 when I was a student.
06:49My first chimp to see was Tango Wheezy, always my favorite.
06:53It was such an infant, and it came out of the mother's nest, all busy, happy, and holding on to
07:00the sticks, just swinging around.
07:04I like the juveniles mostly because of the cheeky butt, and they are so funny and entertaining.
07:14Margaret Kobusingye is the field manager of the Kibali Chimp Project.
07:20She leads a team of researchers who keep up with the chimps from dawn until dusk.
07:35Every detail of their lives is recorded.
07:40Who's grooming who?
07:43What they eat?
07:47And where they go.
08:03A fig tree in fruit brings them all together.
08:13Chimps are first eaters, consuming up to ten figs a minute.
08:20And they can eat for up to eight hours at a time.
08:28By feasting on these fruits, they provide an invaluable service for the trees.
08:38If you're keen enough to double-check, you'll see that within the dung, there are seeds that are left.
08:44So this is the chimps' dung.
08:50As you can see, we have some seeds in here.
08:55They can move miles away from one feeding tree, and that means they can potentially take some seeds with them
09:03in a different location.
09:13So the seed is ready to germinate again, and the soils are really fertile.
09:21We hope we get another tree like this somewhere else.
09:34Chimps are critical to the health of the forest.
09:38Yet across the whole of Africa, less than 250,000 remain.
09:46Here in Kabali, protection is making a difference.
09:51Chivali National Park is the primate capital, the monkeys, the chimps, the numbers keep increasing.
10:02Of course, this gives us so much joy.
10:06As long as we keep the forest intact, they have a home to belong to.
10:10They have a home to stay in.
10:33The Congo rainforest is home to some of the largest trees on the planet.
10:42And when it comes to carbon, the bigger the tree, the better.
10:49Giants here can tower over 60 metres tall.
10:55But to reach their full potential, they need help from another creature.
11:09Smaller than their savannah cousins, forest elephants still eat an incredible 200 kilograms of vegetation per day.
11:19Mostly the shrub layer that's easy to reach.
11:25Which gives the larger trees more space to grow.
11:47There are over 10,000 animal species here.
11:54They're all part of a complex web of life
11:56that keeps the ecosystem working.
12:19The Congo rainforest covers more than a million square miles.
12:25It's so large, it influences the climate across the entire region.
12:47It's so large, it influences the climate across the entire region.
12:53Where it hits the Ethiopian highlands as rain.
13:02Feeding rivers which sustain some of the driest regions.
13:15The influence of a forest extends far beyond its borders.
13:23And every forest on Earth has its own unique character.
13:32In the north are the boreal forests.
13:44Dominated by evergreens that take time to grow.
13:51It's quieter here.
13:53It's quieter here.
13:53Not so many animals.
13:55And only a few tough species of tree.
14:03Scots pines can live for 500 years.
14:08They're not the fastest at drawing carbon down.
14:11But they are good at storing it.
14:17To study this, David Coombs and Alain Chan from Cambridge University
14:22are using some unusual technology.
14:33We can map the trees and work out how much carbon is in them.
14:40We've been working with this LiDAR dataset.
14:43We've popped it into one of the bits of software that game developers use.
14:48And then we just see it from a person's perspective.
14:56This 3D map gives a unique view of the forest.
15:04And the LiDAR can show precisely how much carbon is locked up within it.
15:14In this restoration area, David and Alain can assess the drawdown benefits of regrowing a forest.
15:22We have this sort of, if you look at the mountains behind us, that would be around 800 metres in
15:28elevation.
15:29So naturally, the forest would extend all the way back up to 650 to 700 metres in elevation.
15:35And the goal is to try to get the trees and the forest to extend back up there through natural
15:39regeneration.
15:42As it grows, each sapling has the potential to draw down half a tonne of carbon dioxide.
15:52And what makes the boreal forest even more unique is where that carbon ends up.
16:00So as well as understanding what these amazing ancient trees are doing, we're also interested in what's happening below ground.
16:07And in these boreal systems, the soil is mostly made up of organic materials like this.
16:13Leaf litter, pine cones, but also roots and some incredibly important fungi sitting in there as well.
16:20Together, they form a layer which is incredibly slow to decompose.
16:28This organic matter accounts for over half of all the carbon stored in the boreal forest.
16:35The rest is held in the trees.
16:40It's the largest carbon store on terrestrial earth.
16:48Looking after it in the face of climate change is essential.
16:58So the boreal forest, first of all, is a forest of cold.
17:03The vegetation grows quite slowly.
17:09It stores twice as much carbon per hectare as any other terrestrial ecosystem, including the tropical forests.
17:21I'm a member of the Innu community of Mastuyat.
17:24But I'm also the executive director of the Indigenous Leadership Initiative.
17:29Because of my connection as an Innu woman, I've always known that I would be doing work to protect and
17:36work with nature.
17:40The boreal is very much home to the iconic species of caribou, and it's such a fundamental part of Canadian
17:47identity.
17:47I mean, it's on our quarter.
17:50It is what has allowed my people to survive in this landscape for over 10,000 years.
18:01Because the caribou are so sensitive, when they're present, it's a good indication that other species who are a little
18:08bit less sensitive would also be present in that area.
18:14They're kind of like canaries in the coal mine, or a way of really giving us an alarm about what's
18:21coming in these ecosystems.
18:23And so we're definitely looking, as foresters and as people who manage these areas, to find caribou, because it's a
18:30good way of telling that the whole system is healthy.
18:36Caribou need old growth forests. In this cold environment, the lichens they eat take up to 50 years to grow.
18:49But even the slowest ecosystems need a boost now and then, to get the nutrients moving.
19:00Boreal is an ecosystem of fire.
19:05The soils in the boreal are quite poor.
19:09And because that organic matter decomposes so slowly, over time that soil can break down and become less and less
19:17productive over time.
19:18Well, what brings back that productivity, in part, is fires.
19:22Because what it does is it breaks down that organic matter and all the nitrogen that is in that matter
19:28gets released into the soil.
19:33Natural fires are usually started by lightning.
19:42Big burns used to happen once a century, giving time for the slow growing forest to recover.
19:50Fires are becoming more intense, larger, and more persistent than the norm.
20:00Canada's had a long forest management history, so we know what is the natural cycle of fires.
20:05And so every once in a while there's a big fire, then there's a lot of little fires.
20:09But what's happening is we're not getting a lot of little fires anymore, we're just getting big fires.
20:17More frequent storms and hot, dry weather are causing infernos that are actually damaging soils.
20:25Impacting the old-growth forest, caribou, and also local residents.
20:35I've got a lung disease that was probably exasperated by the fires last year.
20:42Two weeks after the fire started, did I notice that I was having shortness of breath.
20:50Peter DeRocha lives in Isle Lacrosse, Saskatchewan.
20:56I feel like I'm grounded when I'm right here.
20:59I don't feel grounded in my house. Here I'm grounded.
21:03It's beautiful. The forest is healing.
21:07Peter belongs to the Métis indigenous community.
21:10The Boreal Forest has been their home for generations.
21:15Indigenous people need forest.
21:19I feed my family off the forest and the water.
21:23Whether it's the rabbit, or the deer, or the moose.
21:32But under the pressure of climate change, life in the forest is getting harder.
21:41This fire was only about four hectares the first time it was seen.
21:45Four hectares.
21:47And it ended up burning close to a million hectares.
21:53That's a crazy number, eh?
21:56The initial fire seemed too small and too far from habitation to be a priority for the province.
22:04There was no response to the community's calls for help.
22:09By the time action was taken, the fire was bigger than Chicago.
22:16In all my life, all my 62 years of living on this earth, I never seen a fire behave like
22:21that.
22:22The fire was burning at 2, 3 o'clock in the morning.
22:25As hot as it was burning at 2, 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
22:30By the time May 29 came around, the fire was uncontrollable.
22:36In 2023, the hot dry spring caused fires to burn so intensely, they destroyed over 70,000 square miles of
22:46boreal forest.
22:48And sent a veil of smoke to New York City and far beyond.
22:52Hundreds of wildfires continue to burn across Canada, many of them out of control.
22:58An ominous orange haze envelops the Statue of Liberty.
23:03Wildfire smoke from Canada has billowed across the border.
23:07As firefighters try to contain the fire, officials in many U.S. cities warn air quality is at code red.
23:14100 million Americans are under air quality alerts.
23:18The potential health threat posed by wildfire smoke spanning as far south as Georgia and Texas.
23:30Wildfire smoke from Canada has billowed across Canada.
23:30Normally, where it burned here, would have slowed down.
23:37But because the fire was so hot, look how high it burned.
23:42Look at my hands, I mean, this is just from one tree.
23:46You know, this is only from one tree.
23:48One little tree that's probably only 15 years old.
23:52Now, if you look at a fire our size here that has 10 million trees.
23:59You know, how much carbon is actually being released?
24:04If this tree released that much carbon, what happens if a million trees burn like that?
24:09What happens if a billion trees burn like that one year?
24:14There's a problem out there.
24:15Just nobody's listening to us.
24:23Keeping the infernos in check is essential if we want the boreal forest to help balance the Earth's climate.
24:41The generations that are coming up behind me, what are they going to see?
24:49Change is going to happen.
24:51The biggest worry I have is how fast the change is coming.
24:55I love my grandkids, all of them.
24:57The forest is up there.
25:00And I want my granddaughter to experience it.
25:02I call her an old soul because she feels what I feel.
25:06And how do you say rabbit in Greek?
25:09Wapush.
25:10Wapush, yeah. See right there, look.
25:12Yeah. Wapush.
25:14We went hunting moose and she came with me.
25:16And we're sitting there and she says, listen.
25:19I said, what?
25:21I said, do you hear moose? No.
25:23She said, you can hear the forest.
25:26You know, which is the wind, right?
25:28And I thought it was just a blessing.
25:31A blessing for her to feel that, to understand that.
25:39Indigenous people take care of more than a quarter of all the land on earth.
25:45But they need support.
25:50In Canada, the government has pledged $800 million to fund their stewardship.
25:59It's a start.
25:59But there's an urgency for us to recognize the value of forests.
26:13To understand what forests do for our global climate,
26:18we have to take a more mathematical approach.
26:29Forests are the cathedrals of nature.
26:32They are where most of the biodiversity lives.
26:36And so it shouldn't be a surprise that forests are central to the carbon story of this planet.
26:45I'm Giulio Boccaletti. I'm the scientific director of this center, which is the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change.
26:53And we're all trying to understand the climate system and help society fight against climate change.
27:01Now, part of that fight is understanding precisely how carbon moves across the planet in and out of our ecosystems.
27:15Building on years of scientific data, the climate center has created detailed maps that show us where the carbon flows
27:23in and out of our forests.
27:34They show that it's not just the tropical and boreal forests that are significant in the global carbon story.
27:44One of the world's largest temperate forests is found along the Appalachian Mountains on the eastern side of North America.
27:59Temperate forests can be extraordinary sinks.
28:04If managed well, they can draw down carbon at rates that are comparable to the other forests of the planet.
28:16And because we live with and next to them, we have an extraordinary opportunity to really manage them better.
28:37The Appalachians are 2,000 miles long.
28:41And they're home to 26 million people who live amongst the deciduous forest.
28:55Each farmstead has a different story.
29:03My grandfather purchased this property in 1943 and we've held it since then.
29:13Susan Benedict is the third generation manager of her family's land.
29:20Today, the area is filled with over 2,000 acres of mixed hardwood forest.
29:28But this hasn't always been the case.
29:34In the early 1900s, great swathes of it were harvested.
29:45There was so much environmental damage done with all of that clear cutting.
29:50The streams were all clogged with mud.
29:53I'm sure that species that need trees weren't here then.
30:03Since that initial felling, trees have been planted and cut several times.
30:09Often, just a single species was used for easy timber.
30:15But this left the trees vulnerable to pests and disease.
30:21The year my father died in 2006, we had a three-year outbreak of gypsy moth coupled with a drought.
30:30And our consulting forester estimated that our losses of timber was in excess of a million dollars.
30:40And there's no insurance for that.
30:42That's just an economic loss that we can't make up.
30:48To hold their place in this working landscape, forests have to be economically viable.
30:59And that means healthy.
31:03Which is where nature comes in.
31:10Even in those woodlands managed for timber,
31:12animals like black bears, which spread seeds far and wide,
31:18can really enhance forest biodiversity.
31:23They're a keystone species along the entire Appalachian range.
31:30But biologist Katie Martin has noticed what looks like a worrying decline.
31:36Bears are a pretty good indicator of healthy forests.
31:40Forests and the wildlife are truly linked.
31:43They all work together in a working ecosystem.
31:47For the forest to function as it should, we need the wildlife, and vice versa.
31:51The wildlife need the forest.
31:54If one is out of balance, the whole thing can fall apart.
31:59Virginia bear populations have been a huge success story.
32:03But unfortunately, in recent years, we have noticed a change in our bears
32:07and something that's on the landscape that's making us pretty nervous
32:09about what's happening with our bear population.
32:16The bears are unwell, and many are dying.
32:23Katie's trying to find out why.
32:28We've actually got these little field kits we've developed
32:30where you can do a skin scrape really easily on the bear while you've got it down.
32:35Look at it underneath the scope.
32:37This bear is suffering from a severe outbreak of mange,
32:42a painful skin condition caused by mites.
32:46It's something bears normally survive.
32:48But recently, it's becoming fatal.
32:55Unfortunately, here in Virginia, we see a lot of really severe cases
32:59that do end up leading to the death of the bear.
33:01So it's really sad and heartbreaking to see.
33:05It is certainly a wide variety of factors that we think are probably impacting the bears
33:10and maybe causing these impacts from mange.
33:15The mites are likely able to live longer out on the landscape
33:19if we have warmer winters because they're just, you know,
33:21not succumbing from cold temperatures in a dense site or out on the forest floor.
33:29Potentially, that's helping the bears that are picking up mites more frequently
33:33because the mites can live longer.
33:36A mite population unchecked by winter may be impacting the less resilient bears.
33:44As we've seen winters get a little bit warmer over the past few years,
33:48this obviously, when it's 70 degrees in January, a bear is a hot animal.
33:53They're going to get up and start wandering about.
33:56There's still not food available in the forest at that time of year.
33:59So, unfortunately, that means likely getting into more urban or residential areas
34:05where garbage can be available to them.
34:08All of these things that are not natural foods for a bear
34:11end up becoming maybe a primary source of their diet.
34:17Junk food could be weakening the bears' immunity.
34:23And in the south, they're waking early because of rising temperatures.
34:32To help this whole region become more resilient to climate change,
34:37an ambitious project is needed.
34:47I'm Mark Anderson.
34:49I direct the Nature Conservancy's Center for Resilient Conservation Science.
34:56My generation spent so much time convincing our peers
34:59that climate change was real and serious,
35:02that we didn't realize the effect we were having on our own kids
35:05who were losing hope and not seeing a future.
35:10But there is a future, and now we have to focus on solutions.
35:13And a big part of that solution is healthy, functioning, thriving nature.
35:24The Appalachians are one of the largest remaining areas
35:27of temperate forest in the world.
35:31Running north to south, they're also a major corridor for wildlife.
35:38We call it a climate highway, where most of nature will be moving northward or upward to adjust to a
35:45warming temperature.
35:48It's predicted that every decade, plants and animals will move 11 miles north and 11 metres higher.
35:58Mark's project aims to ensure that they have the space to do so.
36:05So the key to creating a resilient landscape for the future is understanding where we need to work.
36:11That's what I've been working on for the last 15 years.
36:16And we've produced a map of the results of that, which we're now sharing publicly.
36:22The green areas on this map are the lands most resilient to climate change.
36:28And the blue areas connect those places together into a connected, resilient landscape.
36:39To create effective wildlife corridors, landowners in the Appalachians will have to help out.
36:49One of the reasons we've created this tool and released it is because we need people as part of the
36:54solution.
36:56So we need to involve them in the science and involve them in the conservation.
37:01Susan has recently enrolled in the Family Forest Carbon Programme, a new market for sustainable forestry.
37:09Susan, how's the program working out for you?
37:12We really have benefited from it.
37:15This area here is part of our mature forest that's enrolled in the program.
37:22Through the project, carbon offsets can be sold, and experts help people manage their forests better.
37:32Right now, I think our biggest project is to train the next generation in how to steward this property.
37:42That's why we involve the grandchildren.
37:45This is the forest for them that we're planting now.
37:50They're the ones that will be able to enjoy it and benefit from it.
37:57Riley is our expert tree planter.
38:00She does a good job.
38:02I love coming up here.
38:04It is my favorite place in the world.
38:07Being a tree makes me think of the future and what I can have and what I want to have.
38:12I'm going to own this place one day.
38:14And I just think that it's really cool that I have to learn all this stuff from my family.
38:20I think that climate change is one of the biggest problems in our world.
38:23And my family is trying to help by keeping this forest healthy.
38:27Personally, I feel like we're doing a good job.
38:32Family tree farms like this one can be part of a connected and resilient landscape.
38:39Enabling wildlife to move around and settle in newly restored areas.
38:51Recently, we're very excited because beavers have come back to our stream and our pond.
38:57And we feel like that is a real ecological success for us.
39:03That they've chosen to be here.
39:06And we're very happy to have them with us.
39:25Our forests are holding on in the face of climate change.
39:31But they're under extreme pressure.
39:35Keeping them strong and resilient is key to their future.
39:40And ours too.
39:43There are nearly 400 billion trees in the Amazon rainforest.
39:50That's three times more than the stars in the Milky Way.
39:58But if the world continues to burn fossil fuels, this entire ecosystem is at risk of failure.
40:07How this might happen is what an experiment in the heart of the forest is trying to find out.
40:15I usually scared of heights, but then, you know, first time I flew on this was so amazing.
40:26Here in Brazil, Dr. Carlos Alberto Quesada runs a project called Amazon FACE.
40:35It stands for free air carbon enrichment.
40:46The idea is try to mimic these conditions, particularly with the CO2, the best we can.
40:52So we look how the forest will behave and try to understand what's going to happen to the Amazon in
40:59the future.
41:00And then we can get prepared.
41:03It took 10 years to get the funding to build these structures deep in the forest.
41:1016 towers, 30 metres tall, encircling 90 adult trees.
41:23Carbon dioxide is pumped in, simulating the elevated levels that scientists are expecting in the near future.
41:38We really need to get this right, you know, to understand, okay, how this will work.
41:44This will influence your life, my life, everybody's life.
41:48So we really need to study everything we can inside of those rings.
42:02So please don't step off the path.
42:06Okay?
42:10How the trees respond will help predict the fate of the forest.
42:16Here we measure the soil respiration and here is the root productivity.
42:24This machine measures the CO2 concentration.
42:32As well as increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, climate change is predicted to make the area four degrees hotter,
42:40with only half the rainfall.
42:46If this happens, conditions couldn't support a rainforest at all.
42:52The test will help to indicate how soon this scenario might become reality.
42:58Without this giant forest absorbing carbon dioxide, the effects on the world's climate will be catastrophic.
43:09This great forest pump can't be allowed to switch off.
43:27Protecting the Amazon should be a high priority.
43:33But as well as suffering climate change, it's under constant human pressure.
43:46Over a million acres are still destroyed every year in Brazil alone.
43:55The country has pledged to cease deforestation by 2030.
44:01But so much has already been lost.
44:10The only hope for restoration is with the communities who know it best.
44:17Like the Shingu people of Mato Grosso.
44:28Like the Shingu people of Mato Grosso.
44:33When the U-N-Shing.
44:39There is much more and more than one of those people.
44:45So many of the among those people who stay there went,
44:47They are willing tonamentating me a second world's line of weighted iron at the U-N-Shing.
45:01They mostly used the concentration stream.
45:03The visit is a place in the prepare form of observation.
45:03and something like that.
45:06And that's why I am laughing,
45:08and I am in the face of this life.
45:17I have seen my tears.
45:18I have heard of it.
45:18I have heard of it.
45:20I have heard of it.
45:24I am to understand it.
45:26I can't understand it.
45:31I need to hear yours.
45:32The entire easter has passed away.
45:34They don't have their own work.
45:40They don't have their own work.
45:43They don't have their own work.
45:46They don't have any help.
45:49It's not just the need to be able to do moving.
46:05When people have to help nature, it requires an intimate knowledge of the ecosystem.
46:47Some of the seeds the women gather will be used by the Shingu Seed Network, an organisation funding forest restoration.
47:02Working for this network is Milene Alves de Oliveira Lima.
47:31Since joining the seed network ten years ago, Milene's life has transformed.
47:37From a young girl in a poor neighbourhood to a mother embarking on a master's degree.
47:44She's now using her academic training to find out if any of these seeds will survive in the fast-warming
47:51climate.
47:54Because these species are now dispersed in the dry season, in the most warm year.
48:00They will stay on the soil, exposed to this temperature, exposed to the heat, until the rain starts.
48:18The seeds that can still germinate in heat-wave temperatures are now essential for successful reforestation.
48:44Some species will be lost, but there is hope.
48:48The Jatobada Mata and the Tamburil were the most resistant species.
48:55It's hard, it's big, it's resistant.
49:01The tests show that the larger, harder seeds can survive extreme heat waves.
49:12This helps Milene choose the perfect cocktail, mixed together in a process called muvuca.
49:31The mixing mimics the chaos of nature.
49:35And it's nearly four times more effective than traditional tree planting.
49:46Many of the farms here are agricultural wastelands.
49:55Regulation requires them to restore forest to a fifth of their land.
50:00And some farmers have responded with promising results.
50:11Valmir Schneider has been on his reforestation journey for many years.
50:43The seeds of over 40 species of native plants.
50:46The seeds of trees were planted here.
50:50In the first week, the seeds started to grow.
50:55In a few days, it was already at the height of the legs.
50:58In four or five days, it was already at the height of a person.
51:04I believe that in the future, my child will also be part of this generation and will plant a muvuca.
51:19These pockets of trees will draw down carbon as they grow.
51:24But if they're isolated by miles of farmland, the biodiversity that makes them sustainable will never return.
51:35These small patches must become so much more.
51:41When people ask me if I believe that it can change and can be reversed.
51:46On the other hand, I don't believe if we continue to do it alone.
51:50But if we add the strength, we can become the key.
51:55We can change this reality.
52:00Whatever challenges we face, we're stronger when we work together.
52:15Nurturing a connection with our forests is the first step to looking after them.
52:21We have to think forward to the next generations and take joy in the hope of the future.
52:31Resilient forests are the best carbon drawdown tool we have.
52:44Imagine a world where forests can thrive and flourish hand in hand with humanity.
52:59While we still have forests, we still have hope.
53:13There still remains huge opportunities to really protect what's left.
53:22Not only for our own benefit, but that of the rest of the world.
53:32Well, we need nature to adapt to a changing climate because we need a living, breathing world.
53:41With forests in our future, that future will be brighter.
53:47We'll see you tomorrow next time.
53:50We'll see you tomorrow next time.
54:15perceber lateirst ofostim Doc added to this and then the future will be batteries.
54:28Transcription by CastingWords
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