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00:16e a extinção é sempre.
00:18Mas recuperação é totalmente possível.
00:21E aqui, no gulf do Oman,
00:23coral está sendo regrada
00:25e A.I. ajuda a proteger turtles.
00:27Em este episódio,
00:28nós exploramos como nature,
00:30given a chance, can heal
00:31desses ríos para a conservação em Uzbekistan.
00:36Este é um dos novos
00:37mais recentes de pesquisas,
00:39e os cientistas estão assistindo a crise unfold.
00:42Oceãs são muito importante.
00:44Eles representam 90%
00:46do espaço para o nosso planeta.
00:49Oceãs estão em
00:50descobertura. Eles estão enfrentando
00:52uma multidão de threats,
00:54seja que de fato de climate change,
00:55de polícia, mas também de
00:58humanas atividades que estão
00:59causando extinções e reduzindo
01:02a biodiversidade.
01:03Então, aqui, eles estão construindo
01:04o amanhã para o futuro,
01:07antes de chegar.
01:09Oceãs se agregam,
01:10e a quantidade de oxigênio,
01:11e a quantidade de oxigênio
01:13que eles têm reduzido.
01:15O que nós temos aqui é um
01:16insight into o futuro
01:18de o que muitos oceanos vão
01:19parecer.
01:21Oceãs estão trabalhando na fronteira
01:23de o que os oceanos,
01:24e a proteção dos oceanos
01:53Iconic animals.
01:54They've got a vital role
01:56in marine ecosystems
01:57and so they keep
02:00the marine ecosystems healthy.
02:02And lately,
02:03the numbers of turtles
02:04off this coast
02:05have begun to turn.
02:0695% of the turtles
02:08that I've personally photographed
02:10during the last six months,
02:12they are juveniles.
02:12So this is already
02:13a very good sign
02:14of how population is doing.
02:17The other is the coral reef
02:19just offshore
02:20and across the world,
02:21reefs like this are dying.
02:23The world should really
02:25pay attention to this
02:26because if we lose
02:28the coral reefs,
02:29we will lose a tremendous amount
02:30of biodiversity in the ocean.
02:32Up to half a billion people today
02:35are directly or indirectly
02:37dependent on coral reefs.
02:40The corals that cling on here
02:42survive heat that would kill reefs
02:43anywhere else.
02:45The studies we do
02:46on coral reefs here
02:47can of course tell us something
02:49about future scenarios
02:51in other places of the world
02:52where they don't have
02:53the same temperatures
02:53as we have here.
02:55But this is not just a place
02:56that measures loss.
02:58Here, they are reversing it
02:59by hand,
03:00one coral at a time.
03:02The coral nurseries
03:04that are outside
03:05the laboratory here
03:06are basically
03:07what we use
03:08is tables
03:10anchored in the seabed.
03:12and on top of these tables
03:13you basically put
03:14small mini corals
03:16under optimal conditions
03:18it will grow out
03:19and produce a new coral
03:20because a coral
03:21is an animal.
03:22But this fight
03:23to bring nature back
03:24is not unique
03:25to the ocean.
03:26Thousands of kilometers
03:27from here
03:27in Uzbekistan
03:28the same battle
03:29is being fought
03:30on land
03:30through the saiga antelope
03:32of the desert plateau
03:33and the mark
03:34are high in the mountains.
03:36Behind me
03:37stretches
03:37the austere plateau.
03:39Somewhere out there
03:40a herd
03:40saiga antelopes
03:42is moving.
03:4330 years ago
03:44there were a million
03:45of them
03:46living across the region.
03:47Today
03:48less than 1%
03:49of that number
03:50survive.
03:50This saiga antelope
03:52is Uzbekistan's
03:53answer to that collapse.
03:56Here on the austere plateau
03:57the Uzbek part
03:58of the saiga antelope
03:59range has become
04:00a test of recovery
04:01after collapse.
04:02For saiga antelope
04:03survival depends
04:04on movement
04:05water
04:05and protection.
04:07The saiga antelope
04:08covers more than
04:09600,000 hectares.
04:11Here conservation
04:12means practical work
04:13in extreme conditions.
04:44The same desert
04:45is part of a wider
04:46migration route.
04:47A saiga cross
04:48border
04:48in search
04:48of food
04:49and milder weather
04:50keeping this
04:51habitat usable
04:52helps keep
04:52this species
04:53alive.
04:56Further west
04:57in Kerkalpakstan
04:58Sudhochi
04:59shows another
04:59side of the
05:00same story.
05:01Once connected
05:02to the RLC
05:03this bay
05:03became an
05:04independent lake
05:05as the seer
05:06treated.
05:06Today
05:07it's a critical
05:08stop oversight
05:09for migratory
05:09birds.
05:10That stop
05:11over now
05:11depends on
05:12water.
05:13Birds
05:13still come here
05:14to feed,
05:14rest and gather
05:15but falling
05:16lake levels
05:17are changing
05:17the habitat.
05:33For flamingos
05:34the stakes
05:35are immediate
05:36in Uzbekistan
05:37thinness
05:37only here.
05:38If water
05:39level keeps
05:40falling
05:40Sudhochi
05:41may stop
05:41being a
05:41breeding site
05:42and become
05:43only a
05:43passage point.
05:47further
05:48south
05:48the pressure
05:49sheets
05:49from water
05:50to protection
05:51in the
05:51Kukitang
05:52mountains
05:52Subhan
05:53State Nature
05:54Reserve
05:54protects
05:54species
05:55that
05:55have
05:55nearly
05:56disappeared
05:57from
05:57this
05:57range
05:58the
05:58marhor
05:59and
05:59the
05:59bukhara
05:59or
06:00hill.
06:18Those counts
06:19are hard
06:20won.
06:20Many
06:21animals
06:21live on
06:22steep slopes
06:23and are
06:23rarely seen
06:24so the reserve combines field patrols
06:26with scientific monitoring.
06:45Technology helps, but protection still depends
06:48on rangers in the field.
06:49Their work follows plants, animals
06:51and signs of movement across the reserve.
07:01In Surkhan, the latest counts give the story
07:04its clearest sign of recovery.
07:06The Murhar population is rising,
07:08even as threats around the reserve remain.
07:11The global Murhar population is still listed
07:14as endangered.
07:15The threats, poaching, livestock pressure
07:18and fragmented habitat have not gone away.
07:21But the population is growing
07:23and this reserve, located in one of Uzbekistan's
07:25most remote mountain ranges,
07:27is a proof that the sustained effort
07:30of wildlife recovery is possible.
07:32From the Gulf of Oman to Uzbekistan,
07:35this proves that protecting our planet
07:37isn't just possible, it's already happening.
07:39Whenever people choose to act.
07:42That's all now for this episode of Earth Now.
07:45Join us next time as we uncover more about the work
07:48underway across our planet to safeguard it.
