3 quarters of all the land on earth are now significantly affected by human activity the few remaining pockets of wilderness left are themselves at risk of becoming ecological this that ive been called to industry urbanization Climate Change and hunting all these they see made it go systems and destroy biodiversity. 60 percent of the world sunny miles but relations have been wiped out since the 1970 s. Scientists claim that the planet is witnessing a mass extinction. In response a Worldwide Movement is now underway to rewire the countryside to restore land to native one in the city at the tip of south america the succeeding oil expectations. I have come to but i wanted to meet chris duncan a philanthropist was dedicated the best 2 that gets to the protection of this area the conservation projects he started with the husband doug has become a true inspiration to those who believe the wilderness can heal itself to even have a chance. But i wont miss a bust region of mountains and forests spawning seldom cheap energy and dina. Though famous for its a stunning landscapes for center receipts has been an important region for livestock farming many of its grasslands have been graced bare. At the regions hot lights Patagonia National park. And here to find out how this became one of the biggest conservation projects in history. And you know full well i think here i mean im chris ok and what are you a little do. Former c. E. O. Of Elder Company but they go in your priest Mary Doug Tomkins and interplay newer and ive been through who had founded rival brand the north face. Both fronts made them by your mentor protections central to their Company Ethos but chris and doug wanted to do more from the early ninetys but over 300000000. 00 u. S. Dollars of land for preservation across chile and argentina they build parks complete with largest campgrounds and trails to support a good story some after dark side in their in 10 to 15 carried the mantle as president of their foundation tompkins conservation what was it you saw here that may you take of this if in those things you know the next 20 years. I didnt see it frankly that theyre still on the side. He saw a landscape that was beat up and miles of fence line to take down and that convinced me this was the conservation chance of a lifetime. In 2004 in the. Christian dog this sheep ranch of almost 200000 acres of overgrazed grassland they said about returning it to me to along with the harmful of smaller farms using a process called rewilding rewilding is the restoration of an entire ecosystem to its natural state by removing foreign species reintroducing and protecting native ones it begins with the removal of livestock that will debilitation to flourish this encourages insects and overly learned most attracting birds and other small predators removing fences allows the return of therapy forces which are preyed on by apex predators those at the top of the food chain which then also multiply. Species in critically low numbers totally absent or rehabilitated ultimately free and predator populations regulate one another and the ecosystem evolves into a by a long term selfsustaining wilderness. When lee bought this property there were probably 500 miles of fence line. That needed to come down and when you take the fences down you see wildlife coming back and because for 80 years its been excluded from the best grasses prices are to keep wildlife. Out of the best grasses and keeping your life start and the best. So its very exciting to see the grasslands and the forests begin to restore our selves and thats the joy of taking fences down. One on the most benefiting from this grass is that when i call those relatives of the llama and a keystone species that is one that plays a crucial role in the functioning of the ecosystem. Not often you see one by itself theyre pretty emblematic of the paragon ian step if theyre plentiful and theyre calm like this one is then you know that the system is coming back and that they feel no threads course and thats where. I want to see what rewilding looks like up close and. Kristen so still the parts they rector of conservation has agreed to show me. A spin a guiding hand on the rewinding process is the part beginning so no one knows the flora and fauna youre better than him. On route we bump into a few of the locals and. Meow but. In some ways. Part of the course of this park. The pygmy old priests and small birds rodents and in 6 to thrive in healthy grassland. Takes me 2 years of the park but it borders on a working ranch the difference in the grass on either side is the striking. Here is a good example of what happened in one place where you remove the livestock and one place where landowners decide to put more livestock then their land is able to support in terms of food. So the consequence is that you last division and you see the composition of the plant seeds different so if you have livestock permanently eating the grass they dont have the chance to release the feed and their recovery phase low there are some consequence like erosion that is very hard to. Take over destined to be really recall for. The park at least and the team have established a Breeding Center for. The us to reach darwins riya. Baited and brought here to a climatized before being released. Really. Strongly associated with. Going in a big grassland so i grassland without a real complete. Main proposal of. The captive population is providing in the. Population the main issue here. Relation was so. Less than 20. Population of riya mated by hunting and the destruction of their hobby done but is now slowly growing and successfully was person here from a very year that have been relieved when you see that there is a line of fans right now we are removing it and that be proved they cannot be barriers that have been released to be me with a wild rear we are now in the 3rd generation and we are planning to keep this Program Running the next 35 years when we are made that we can read up with relation of about 100 birthing there while. The tiny the growing real population will in turn help sustain their only natural predator and the species and most excited to see they lose the king of pop. And come to me at their former herd there and hunter. In the area used to keel over tend. To protect their communities flocks for. The. Fair go. No i. Think when. You know words are so wide like word and and its the parts risk in too much trucking expert if anyone can find it seemed. Like it but out of it having. A medal i think i understand their 1st. And only. Course im going to wear you. And i want you to give us one for my i mean i mean and i said ok and i said ok. Well you know what im more real but i dont have any. We dont need any money to a possible. For you to see that only this man has of the land. I can see there that he can distinguish. Anywhere here who most prefer to hunt at night on our chances of seeing one are very slim so were doing the next best thing sitting a camera. On the t. V. Used to monitor their activity. When i went to one of the men it was clear that. They come over here. Both because youre in jail. Various terms. Should draw into most curious that another cut has been here. Were going to leave this camera trip for a few days and see whether we get lucky. It may be hard to actually see a pool but for crease their return in credit reports and predators have been systematically persecuted for decades and decades so their numbers get precariously love every ecosystem has whats called their apex species here in patagonia its promise and if you take out the very top predator everything cascades down from that. Comes out of order one even though its early here in the park in terms of rebalancing we can see some big changes where there are Water Systems and grasslands are definitely coming back the number of bullets in the park and the numbers of what not goes in the park fox says but the success comes when all of those species are truly back in a system thats functioning without human intervention. As well as helping to clean air and water large expanses of forest and thats really sequester carbon a crucial way to mitigate Climate Change. This riggin orating forests also play host to a tree too so rare its almost mythic and its rehabilitation could be the parts biggest challenge. To wildlife rangers have promised to help me find it. All. Over. Again with. The nearly any of the media. For them but then they go off. I know right off i did i dont know if part of i wanted to get anyone i am but i can and i can be a little nicer and if thats honest then you need trucks will move you seem to limit free the something now that takes radio frequencies in meetings from cold or some to the year. When i suffer a little so it is a case of momentos tunnel anyway so it didnt feel well yesterday seems only to say theyre going to know what im not satisfied with getting what time was he and perfect i could be in the head 9 day the city all must have been on the v. A. Yeah and i think i have 30 across. Yeah. How did that destruction and poaching abroad deal with sometimes called the stealth and the and dear to the brink of extinction. There are fewer than 2000 left in the wide just one percent of their original population look them in chile and argentina. But i. Honestly love it i like it enough for nothing and the man on the ferry there left you. Make a hairy man turn a. Reform on a little boy. In the im. Just. Really close to my. Now open a can or cannot come. Out of theyre going to. Keep. Going on where they came to me and. The nearly invites me back to his family home to meet his wife. Their family comes from a long line of gauchos ranching people found the cross but the owner who are often fiercely proud of their way of life. Many go in the nearby community of cochrane conservation as a threat to both their livelihoods and their culture. The neon worked on the old ranch a shepherd for 6 years before taking a job conserving wool in the park to replace the. Really you know. Sort of think. That. You can have this is. One. Of. The fellas fancier neither of us has had but. Those who still ranching also complained that must leave the park to peel their livestock. 16 people working on the ranch when it was closed then employed at the park 8 of them a spark wardens like the near. By 2018 the park employ more than 90 people during high season meanwhile to recently has created sustainable sources of income for local populations this was truly an emblematic ranch so just the image this region shifts when the land use shifts and that was really hard on people which i completely understand i would hate to have this area be 100 percent tourism the culture would fracture the structure of society would begin to fall apart and thats what im interested in im interested in working ranches alongside conservation areas so theres dignity and health on both sides. But when chris and doug started buying land local grievances were just the beginning. Some chileans said it was the us. A plot to control the countrys whether. The state. The duncans also infuriated conservatives when they joined the Popular Campaign to stop a giant dam project near the park. But theyre high profile role in the movement in which thousands took to the street forcing the government to reject the project one of the many admirers across chile. One way there from nation hopes to contribute to local communities while also convincing them of the benefits of conservation is through a free you creation program. Lena is leading a school group from the nearby settlements of 20 and more on a 2 day trip. Villages you take a little to the land of leave but to me she got to be single for the overtaking we have also take. A look at why that. Is about an extension excel in the next as your nearest get to north of us who cover us as it is obvious. Quite. Fond of. The us on the. In and out of the old all. It. Is and if you like it i need a company get innocent anyone come to get it come. To me all the. Time or. d another listen i still feel. I want to sell a glass and he can take. Its a lonely go. To both of us are going to be very good days and all colonial when i say what im waiting for. So. The employee know you are going to in the. Summer yeah despite living in the countryside for some of this is their 1st time counting in the wild. Fighter youre going to get an idea. Done. Done done in london. One on the phone with a little girl she knew. By meeting up with the chick outcome in a trap. We have heard that the woman has been spotted with the carcass of a when i go and go to check it out. To get in here get him to get there but if. The. Critter youll get all that icky. And were not going to know my phone. He. Definitely i think on my phone and i sure dont and im. Going to. Put out on what he said all of us had. Assumed. Just to get in a so that. You know. Were not going to save us and you know youre. A lunatic you know. No luck this time but thats on the team have used camera traps to look you meant over 35. To must now resident in the park. With balance returning the donkeys foundation feels ready to do what they have always done with their parks unaided to the state in a 2800. 00 signing ceremony with then presley and michelle freeze handed over to the east and another park worth a combined 1000000 acres it was billed as the biggest donation of private land to a state least ery. 1 the chilean government also contributed 9000000 acres of their own boy this land now forms 5 new National Parks and expand 3 others an area 3 times bigger than yellowstone and yosemite combined. This. May be the root of parts a scenic road 1700 miles long connecting 17 parks across chile boosting the economies of the communities from route. Right now just another 2 days facilities are closed down until the handover process is complete so the whole team theyre all saying goodbye to one another and its not like hell be back next year. Yet its sad. Less than 4 years sucked her dog died in a car looking accident seeing their dream finally become a reality you support in a moment. Here years. The day that doug died he was on a kayaking trip with our best friends and they got caught out. A severe westerly when they were getting pushed farther and farther out into the center of the lake and so they decided to abandon the kayak and try to swim to shore. And it was just too much. It was in the water for over 2 hours and they use helicopters to hospital and play ok and somehow the word spread so fast. Had either die or was in trouble and as we drove to the hospital people were. Taking their heart had softened opening up and. It was so amazing really thought. It was extraordinary anyway we got so. I can die 20 minutes before so. Soon after dogs that she List National congress voted to make him an honorary citizen it was an official recognition both of the top contribution to the countrys Natural Heritage and of how much the public have come to be braced and what a life. Heres a guy who had no limitation to life. You know youre so easily stopped by things that are difficult or seemingly impossible. With some plans to many people you know. Ill leave behind a legacy of if you dont establish some sort of value system that award space between human and nonhuman. Youll never get where we need to go. Im using my final evening in the park to take a proper hike the only way to truly appreciate this particular place. I feel so lucky to have had the towns to be said one of the few remaining great wilderness of the word experience has shown me just so precious this ecosystems are and how easily they can be used for human activity whether thats also giving me hope to see that these grasslands of forest have been revived to welcome back the amazing creatures that once called them home. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. Business updates brought to you by Qatar Airways going places together. A football tournament like no other urban or at the beginning we used to play football in the streets using a softball aljazeera weld meets a group of sudanese boys determined to win against a backdrop of conflict and downsides in t. V. I was watching when i walk in the street people soft me oh my man its because of. For football for peace on aljazeera. This is al jazeera. Youre watching the news hour live from a headquarters in doha. 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