Democrats Security Forces in duress are being given extra powers to stop the violence thats followed last sundays disputed president ial election six days on and the clear winner is yet to emerge from the vote. Of the head nines but stay with us next its techno with the story of the conservation of an endangered species. Facing reality is a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a train of these to go through which we can bring of the ecosystem to bear getting to the heart of the matter or do we need to the ball some of my previous uses to hear their story on talk to aljazeera at this time. This is the fact the smallest porpoise on the planet one that could soon be lost forever. With an International Team of scientists is determined not to let that happen now its a race against time to try and save a species. Without intervention how long do you give the i would say here to about us to this is the hail mary or is. This is techno a show about innovations that can change lives were going to explore the intersection of hardware and humanity and were doing it in a unique way this is a show about science by scientists. The vet keita is the most endangered Marine Mammal is a naturally elusive this has never been captured tagged was studied up close by marine biologists. Techno is married to davison and chris would take a crisis thats an emergency plan to stave off extinction the gulf of california one of the most beautiful marine sanctuaries in the world it is here in the turbot gulf waters at the edge of the Baja California desert the worlds smallest cetacean has found a home. Already but one of the. America because of the motives. And the wreckage is found nowhere else right this is the only place that it exists yes exactly this is the only place this is a species. Ok only we can find it on the place in the war mexico we are so lucky to have these as these are boys belongs in mexico you know if they buy get a berth here if you are. In a hole so is an acoustic researcher for mexicos government sponsored the rescue project today to stop when his team plans to deploy several submerged pods or underwater listening devices the pods are used to track but keep us his research picked up the Early Warning signs that indicated the bucky the population was crashing the data is sent to researchers in san diego crystal dilworth has that part of the story tell me what is that the key to and why do you love them so much the cases are especially i think a lovely part because they have a nice paint job they have sort of like black mascara black lipsticks are about a god willing. Few scientists have studied the key as intended. As Barbara Taylor she heads up in advance Genetic Laboratory based at the u. S. National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in San Diego California her main partner renzo row has brought joe who heads up the mexican project is equally passionate about saving the key to losing that in a way its just a minute eunice a masterpiece if someone destroys that your condo or. Whatever the world be expecting is that nothing is going to change youre going to wake up in the morning youre going to help but the world is going to be poorer in many many ways and i think i just. I think renzo and i always thought we can say that you know we knew it was one issue it was throughout was and we thought we could change it and its. Its a hard thing to see you know hard its not happening. So what is killing the vicki according to scientists the main culprit is gil nets used to capture and another endangered species found the gulf of california a fish named the twelve. The Environmental Investigation Agency demand for to be traced to china bird has sold illegally. For about the concorde which is also in Southern China on the coast which is said to be a major center for trade in. Some chinese believe the dry swim bladder at the to twelve improve skin and liver conditions and figure a circulation and stops bleeding none of this has been proven medically but the illegal trade into twelve is extremely lucrative. To twelve a fishing in the gulf is illegal because the same nets used to catch and snare the keita they have decimated the key to population. Techno Merida Davidson was shown how the pro is that the back of a can not but they believe this was in their work for the brain where they work if they can get in time with their hair here or there or the frame so obviously they work if i can do to refer to the surface and then they get things so they just get stuck with you and they perish theyre going to break. And three adult that we started operation milagro and two new nets preborn. And i dont all of them were. And the results of the examination show that they all die of asphyxiation and all had like marks of nets under skin so they dying because of the that is for sure you know leo is captain of the sea shepherd a Marine Conservation group that voluntarily patrols a proposal for four to twelve five dead rocky to us were found in the gulf from january to may two thousand and seventeen its a horrific to see how much. Creatures are trapped on those nets its heartbreaking for this protected Marine Mammals are dying for no reason theyre just dying this is the two hour and its its. The story of the back is a classic collapse of a species scientists began tracking back in the late one nine hundred ninety s. And we determined twenty years ago that the fishing ban was unsustainable for akitas bay would we predicted that they would be declining about this problem for twenty years. Well i mean the people who originally found them found them dead on the beach. From fishing nets and said hey heres a porpoise nobodys ever found a porpoise here it cant be very common and its dying in fishing nets and so yes hes was discovered because it was dying yeah it was found dead on beaches and in fishing dubs you know its sort of odd that people wouldnt see it but the more you get to know this shy animal the more you understand that you really have to know what youre looking for and you really have to look for them to see them because they avoid any motorised vessel and theyre really small theyre only in groups of one or two so theyre really difficult to see they are like the flashy dolphins and come up and ride your bow and you know you get to see every aspect of their lives and porpoises are very shy they move away and so you really have to look for them with like really big binoculars with bucky thats on the brink of extinction the team made a decision that was as bold as it was all day ships in order to save the bucky the remaining population now numbering less than thirty would have to be taken into captivity the plan was implemented in november two thousand and sixteen at the eighth meeting of sort of the International Committee to save the bucky the only option is separate. From the main respects regarded scaling them. For twenty minutes at this point in time and also i mean they are of no ones but what we really know is that if we dont take them out they wouldnt get so this is the lesser of two evils h yeah thats why its black or white techno was given preliminary plans that spell out how to capture the elusive but keep us and bring them to the northernmost cove in the gulf where they would be held in sea pens and kept under guard twenty four hours a day seven days a week there are also plans for land based tanks systems and support apparatus. Keep the captured porpoises alive in case of emergency where weve brought in this amazing team were going to have about forty people from all over the world all with Different Levels of expertise and we have specialists and capturing harbor porpoises from denmark and the netherlands we have veterinarians that have worked with porpoises from hong kong to to the netherlands we have people who have specialized in taking capturing so we have that that team that we have the team of people who i work with that are experts in finding them will be using both acoustics and visual and were even going to be bringing in maybe dolphins to help us try to track this really elusive species the u. S. Navys Marine Mammal program utilizes bottlenose dolphins to locate underwater sea mines little is known about the vacuum no one has ever tagged them or been able to study them up close the problem of how to capture them and large but during a Scientific Team meeting a breakthrough from a scientist who works with the navy program in here that they do you ever think of using maybe dont fence or miller and i mean thats completely out of my way to old books and she said well you know if they can find value verse and objects in the water and sure they could find what you. Next day we went to the maybe facility years they trained a dolphin and they took them to the golden gate in San Francisco where they have harbor porpoises swimming in the dolphins wherever to find it so when we sold that part who seem to be the most difficult when they well. They we are there. Im floating in the middle of the vikki the refuge area here in the gulf of california now this refuge was set up by the Mexican Government to protect the fact that populations are whats left of them theyve set up here because over the past several years through observation and through acoustic recordings this is where the rocky does really tend to hang out at least recently weve been out here for a while trying to see if we can find anybody thats no surprise to me that we havent seen any and that really underscores how difficult and complex this mission is really going to be stuff as Data Analysis indicates the remaining baccy of the population may be concentrating across three sections in the upper part of the gulf todays sea pod drop will try to confirm those locations so weve just arrived at one of the points where theyre going to drop down a moorings and attached to that is going to be potus so its the acoustic measuring device that they leave for four months here to measure and and pick up the sounds of the vacuum clicks so thats what weve done weve weve navigated here via via g. P. S. Its a really vast area and theyve set up and they see it that much in place eighty seven theyre going to put out eighty seven of the c. Pods right now were putting up the last eight. Years. Later back on shore showed us a Computer Program that allows us to hear the bucky humans can hear the clicks because theyre too High Frequency but theres a way for you to modify them so that we actually could you have me listen to this of course Michael Walker oh my. These unwanted by the program and now you. Are looking for oh oh. The bucket the refuge measures in area sixty four by nearly one hundred kilometers along the upper third of the gulf of california when you are in it the refuge seems vast and problematic to police effectively. Since two thousand and five gill net fishing has been banned here but the real story is much different. Especially at night it is pretty dramatic and it is crazy every night its so busy it never stops we have are amazing radars on our bridge of the same time going into farley mowat and on us radars we can see the new activity at night because poachers really go out at night the night of march eleventh two thousand and seventeen this year the most the sea shepards farley mowat here on patrol for poachers spotted a small fishing boat in the back of the refuge. And when we see a target ladies we can get our ship as close as possible and then the drone team is going to be ready to buy their drugs the drone was able to film is illegal fishermen with what appeared to be a boat load of twelve of the fishermen noticed the thrown and began hurling objects at it then we get the fourth age for our own these illegal fishermen retreating to two odd minutes getting to a two hour bus i call into the authorities tell them to position. Tell them what were seeing at the same time and and then they calm and they tried to arrest them the next day the ship caught another seemingly bolder Group Fishing in broad daylight this was the first time the drone was able to capture full daylight images of a boat load of coach to twelve and to twelve minutes can the big problem is money just like always this Illegal Fishing activity for to two hours brings out a lot of money because china is opening a black market that is attracting a lot of organized crime says its a two hour bus and batteries sold out for more than twenty thousand dollars a kilo of course when you come to those fishing villages where the minimum wage is so low and they can make our five thousand dollars a kilo locally with a good one. Same gladder. The Mexican Government has invested so far over a billion barrels in compensating fishermen and from someone got forty isnt a scientist but he cochairs the baccy the rescue program in mexico he created a plan to use economic incentives to keep your nets out of the gulf for the past two years mexico has paid fishermen not to fish until alternative gear that dont kill that gaeta could be developed you can imagine going to the communities and trying to convince families not to go back and fish which is what they have been doing for generations thats who they are right as part of their identity i would say and thats the whole purpose also of these programs to have them go back and fish but being able to do so without arguing but you. Its important for mexico to save them to keep the from extinction and i would do its equivalent to the same efforts as china has been doing to save panda mexicos efforts have seen mixed results progress has been made but the numbers dont lie the baccy is almost gone there recently that we are where we are its because our fishing overages have failed to come with alternative fishing gear for two decades i mean thats incredible they havent been able to do it even if i had twenty years ago if they had hired the mit creation lab where we would have already something. But the creature is barman has a monopole and bury the only one tests alternative here so with thats horrible. It is Early Morning in ensign on the mexican techno has been invited to travel out to the Pacific Ocean to see where the bucky the rescue plan is truly taking shape these pens belong to bottle farms a mexican tuna Farming Company the bakkies a rescue team turned to them for help where where would the natural get these big problem we have the big dan youre losing the back you know so we are aware of that we are delighted to be part of or one carlos we bungle is the Operations Manager of a bloody o. C. On a sea pen designed to give tourists an up close view of the tuna farming business this plan is currently located off the coast of ensign out of mexico on the pacific side of Baja California and contains hundreds of bluefin tuna but before long it will be moved to the gulf of california and if all goes well with a back up the rescue effort instead of china there will be by keep us swimming within it be bunko provided renderings of the redesigned back of the pen which feature two observation tubs this tourist attraction will become a Floating Laboratory you know were looking at the tuna in the observation area it struck me that theyre feeling very close to the surface and thats not normally how they feed right. So theyve had to learn a new way of feeding and that will essentially be the case for them i keep them i suppose so. As far as i know the rocky days eating the same thing that the dolphins two of the open ocean and i mean they are eating small fish and that sweet things play out there for when those kind of organisms of the ocean they differently they reckon. If youre going to learn how to eat the rocky the pen will be taken here to the northernmost end of the gulf in an area called much or a cove gustava showed us the area during our golf tour the blue building im sure is an old trim Processing Plant that will be converted to an on site Veterinary Care center so you think thats the best shot absolutely its not only the best shot but its the only shot that we have were going to have facilities in the ocean and were going to have some oh so limited land and were also looking to one of the. Most important pieces of these projects is to have a facility right in the heart of the key. Area where we can have vets where we can have twenty four seven care for but keep those there we can be monitoring them we can learn a little bit more about but there is a little opposition to the rescue plan within the Scientific Community the conservation groups led by the Sea Shepherd Society believe the problem should be solved without captivity. Hes always been fighting against captivates and cultivates it for me its not a solution and first ship is not a solution because saving it anymore is not having it in a Swimming Pool and it should be free and leaving its life and contributing to the eco system. Maybe its not working right now and plan b. Those that. There were many questions surrounding the capture program but if scientists are successful the next step in the process will be to try and breed that the key to scientists in san diego are getting ready these will be the ancestors of all the cute and into the future this Breeding Program so we need to make sure that we know what weve got and keep that variation that natural genetic variation in that population into the future Philip Morris and works with the to key to rescue teams. In san diego hes a Research Molecular geneticist is that the key to can be successfully bred in captivity he will have to figure out how to make the genetics work so that they keep a special because it lacks this genetic diversity that other species do how is it managed to survive for so long so what we believe happens in a population like species like the key to it is that theyve been in a small population size for a long time so that bad diversity has slowly been purged from the species so that means they have less of the bad diversity they also have less of the good diversity. But in a stable environment like the northern gulf of california theyve managed to survive and there is still diversity is not to say they have none because of this lack of diversity in the vicky is it possible to accidentally do harm to the species through the Breeding Programs that youre developing. Yes yeah i mean there is no way to avoid that were going to lose diversity. Theres no way to avoid that because were collapsing the population from thousands down to a few and then theyre going to have to breed to some extent with the same individuals in order to build that population. More and has been studying the key to using tissue samples stored in the deep freeze at the san diego Fisheries Science Center its cold in here minus twenty degrees celsius and besides myself in this open here theres about two hundred thousand tissue samples from a variety of marine small c s forty five of those samples are from and thats the hope that those samples contain some silicon Genetic Information that can help save that species and how long the samples temperature of these samples are about thirty years old now and were still extracting d. N. A. From them. So were hoping theyre going to last a long time so its like science evolves just the right time to be able to help the big key to right before it they go extinct the ability to culture cells and transform them is changing right now so that if we get living cells from the skins of of these the ketones are brought into captivity we can keep them alive in the lab we can transform them into any types of cells we want so even if we catch an animal. That may be too old to reproduce or only reproduces once and if it cant reproduce a more if we have those cells its possible we can convert those into dam eats into sperm and egg cells in the future and use them put them back in the population as if that and the most alive. Advanced genetics may end up being the game changer for that the key to san diegos frozen c two has played a key role in trying to save many nearly extinct species a porpoise and a right nasir might not seem to have that much in common but scientists here at the frozen zoo at San Diego Zoo global are working to save the noise. Theyre in white right now and techniques they developed could act as a blueprint to save the big keita we are pretty confident that if we get a good quality sample will be able to grow and successfully freeze the cells thats going to tell us more about the big kida its going to Say Something about its population history it will provide may be. Very useful information about whether theres enough genetic diversity in the remaining population to allow it to recover and expand all of a rider is director of the frozen zoo it holds more than ten thousand living cell cultures if nothing else works the frozen samples would become a last resort for an extinct species the vicky is such an endgame at the end of the day all we may have are cells and we mustnt though. Ignore that. Were engaging in. An enterprise that we dont know ultimately what time is running out for that the key to science maybe its last hope but it comes with a price tag the rescue effort is expected to cost five million u. S. Dollars the u. S. National Marine Mammal foundation says it has four point five million on hand three million to come from the Mexican Government the rest from private donors many of the scientists that donating their time all to give the key to a fighting chance for techno im sure the same araa. 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