But the qatari coastline and its desert are also the source of a different kind of natural wealth. And if left unprotected qatars native species and those who use the tiny gulf nation as a stopping point as part of their long migration. Could be endangered as a result of the knots of habitat. And that means that in the waters off the guitar in total we are surrounded by whale sharks the biggest fish in the washing of you. In this edition of time to aljazeera well take you on a journey with us to qatar as diverse wildlife will be joined by an environmentalist and also 800 asian ist and well be discussing the impact the potential Uncontrolled Development could have on these that diverse wildlife species living here if im protected. It all started a few months ago we wanted to know more about the presence here of the do go or seek out we have the 2nd largest of the world. This is how we 1st met dr mussen i am married environmentalist and professor from catarrh university responsible for taking this beautiful journey images. And also his mouth from Exxon Mobil Research theyve been studying the do go on and why they gather here in such large numbers. We have to play both we got 4 earth of the wonderful low 101. And so these are the only thing we do go into yes so i mean its important to protect it now theres a very important you know without that they go through enough are going to go on the order but the most important for us how to protect it from the fishing net how to protect it from. Removing this food which is near the sea grass. Seed grass area already. Removed. A lot of different elements going on bridging. To bruges and. We were incredibly lucky to find the elusive herd on another day. The. Same using that even if you cant be close up to them and you can see these. Things really. Its a huge number but 500. 00 to plus but its a beautiful thing to see them close. But the reality is that these animals are endangered. On a deserted beach in the north of cattle are a hint at why their numbers are decreasing. 5 percent of the. Have a. Bike i mean its attached to the fishing and they need to breathe it with within 5 minutes to 6 minutes they are under there and you know. And because of that you will not see any physical evidence you know how do you stop this from happening. Just to protect their feeding area where they. Just dont form that people like. Endangered species which are the protect them we should do something. The survival of our planets natural treasures depends on the protection of wildlife of habitats of entire ecosystems just an hour north of qatars capital doha we continue our journey with a professor to find a landscape many would be surprised is here in the gulf a lot of feast on here that are big and this. Really is quite extreme coastal area for the region so really its been if we could go to the country the city have to make hundreds of routes and these routes if we look into it we had a pretty think clearly from this source so they breathe through one of these and really benefit you can think about it when the high tide is coming. Smaller fish to go and hide the communities roots pro from predators exactly because the big fish kind of goes from the growth is a beautiful to see if. You know its in 6. Everything. We return at high tide to see the difference. So its completely different at high tide. This is where the big fish coming no to feed. And so theres a lot of development that is happening here how concerned are you about the impact that thats going. I have on the mangroves in a place like this. Since i started my carrier and marine science this is area really still protected and this is really a very good sign. Only i am you know thinking about the future if there is some things have been and we need to this is for reason rather this is going to be you know. Disappeared from the room our marriage and next generation come and they will see nothing and this is my only concern. And what kind of an impact this pollution have on the mangroves only the human impact will be able to really leave when they are leaving the area like a blasted thing please maybe you can see there is one plastic bag its already there it can be really hurting the mangrove. Its twisted all around the branch in my hope its this plastic will be just burned in this country its possible you know so many country this is so good because this is killing really a lot of even land animals like camels i see a lot of people just throwing things out of their car there seems to be a bit of a lack of awareness. Is it any different with my hard to believe but now this this is bitter. But it is time but if we stop the last think we go into a really. Good job to protect them but. On the northern tip of qatar a small taste of just how enormous the worlds prostate problem is. Sado heads a group that organizes beach cleanups and urges the community to get involved. Well everything that you see here is being washed off from the ocean but whenever i say that you know i want to be sure that we dont create a misconception that hes always washed up be someone else or not or try it is our trash you know 80 percent of the plastic that is found in the ocean comes from land sources so that plastic bottle that you and i just threw away whatever we were at the core needs from the bar got a sports event is going to find its way to the beach and eventually the ocean is going to dump it back on the beach if that didnt sink to the bottom of the ocean the scale of it how bad because this i mean its just littered everywhere this plastic everywhere or just to give you a little bit of scale and understanding beach weve done in the last year we did 14 cleanups we had 1600. 00 volunteers that came on all those clean ups and we collected 20 tons of trash in 14 clean ups the biggest cleanup on record that weve done was in may of last year during ramadan we had 300 volunteers in one hour we collect that 5 tons of trash in probably 2 or 300 meters of beach so show me a little bit about what you find because you can see light bulb loads of plastic bottles and absolutely so if you dont mind what we can do is we can grab a black bag very quickly and just emulate what we do in are clean ups so you guys can see how quickly we fuel up a bag. Of. So i think by now if you get the point right yeah we spend. 5 minutes maybe we filled up a bag each bag is a ron popeil. So you can do the math and if weve literally ben in a tiny. We havent moved we have a move i mean we and we both had a little bit we havent even really started to clean it so when we bring a 100 volunteers 300 volunteers you can see how we can just call her a lot of ground and end up with 450 of these bags in one hour. So that tells you the magnitude of the problem that we face. The going to pandemic means theres been less of us out and about traveling. We took a boat of qatars northern coast with dr mussen to gauge the impact. Have you observed a change in nature. Less people on the water let people out there than it should not just in the anybody with even the vision you can see a clear sky everywhere the water to become more clear more fish coming close to the. Things where the human lives the disaster they can see you doing very well without outright. If you leave something alone anything even if its done there is recover titian in them blood but if tell me shortly going to lose. This area is also rich in bird life. Thousands of cormorants been feeding all around qatar throughout the day and now is as the sun is setting coming back to where they spend the night. And its incredible to see theyre just flying over our heads thousands and thousands of them. Birds are having a passion. Ive been watching birds for more than. I was a hunter so when i started photographing birds so i decided to stop pumping. Because actually they show me something i i wasnt seeing before. We have. Spotted like more than 350 birds in qatar so its a good thing qatar its like. A station for these birds while they are mad waiting for my place to other. But to get the shot patience and blending in are key. And how does it feel when you get that perfect shot that youve been waiting for for so long like forget hours right days years sometimes exactly sometimes when you are focusing on where birds and you want to get very nice growth. Week Something Like that for sure i spent. 3 weeks just one shot while his diving in the water theyve been fish and coming off. The ministry of the environment is good news in place to protect some of these birds during their breeding season the hunting season runs september to march now side of that it is illegal to hunt were told you hunt but you also appreciate nature and understand the need to protect it how do you balance how how can you find a balance between those 2 things actually its the balance between these 2 because we are hunters and we belong to traditional people we used to hunt also like our parents its a traditional thing. So when you come and you tell them please dont. Be like a challenge and you need to fight for protecting this maybe it will change in about 5 or 10 years later i hope so. Then just as we finished our interview i think were going to. Talk. A little light relief a wind gust frees us from the unbearable heated greenhouse effect of the tent. Its slightly cooler at dorton and our journey continues. We had south. This time we want to take a look at mans efforts to try to help make sure because of what we have destroyed. Guitar environmental expert mohamed el jaida has been involved in the placing of artificial reefs along this coast ideally would have naturally. Morning why do we no longer have not the filter supply we notice in 96. 98 its the heat wave that came and killed maybe 90 percent of the course the reefs or coral i mean and also you know in the sea but there is also. Increased navigational movement in the gulf you know the minister to put pressure on the oil in this is not to use the you know says make search and how they use you know wave but this also affects mammals you know we put pressure on them to compensate so the compensation consist of you know replacing coral reefs sea birds sea grass you know or programs to study marine life so this is all compensation from the oil industry so the reality here is that there is a lot of Development Oil and gas urbanization how do you balance thats a reality that is going to change how do you balance that with preserving and conserving nature the number one difficulty is the mentality you know mentality of people we deal with you know when we tell them what youre doing is has an effect on the environment they dont believe it on or god created this and god will protect them yes but also god gave us the knowledge to do that you know so once we go over this obstacle sometimes we deal with with good you know. People in charge and they understand that i sort of a push into the environment that balances by compensation that otherwise there is no other way to to balance it you know. Qatar has some beautiful coastline beautiful beaches and despite it being the heat of summer weve come here to the North Eastern coast because we want to find out more about whats happening under the water and to do that we need to speak to a couple of marine biologist and a captain about starting these waters for almost 15 years theyre currently in france were going to give them a call. Hi john isis single. So we are 8 just north east on one of the beaches tell me a little bit about the changes youve seen happening particularly when it comes to underneath the water since you 1st arrived the coastline of kut has been developing really rapidly in the last 10 years. Especially when it comes to source of wrestler fan to the long sea or this coastline has been developing really quickly with the per se and all these projects on the coast and thats a big. Cause for the development is actually. Affecting the habitat the fishing is certainly had an impact theres a lot more fishing now than there was and the netting you see a lot of nets now washed up on structures no beaches. We didnt used to have you know those good. I was going at the moment you also work with the oil and gas industry i just want to get a sense of like in terms of compensation is there are there are laws in place that try and compensate for whats being damaged how is that working the ministry of environment is actually quite strong in qatar i can i can say from working in other places of the world especially in the indian ocean that cattle its got d quite a Good Management for the Marine Environment slows and practice proved to be efficient so for example when the no in gas company. Is doing a new project that will. Probably have an impact on the Marine Environment. They have to make an Impact Assessment and report to the a. M. A. Me and together with the minister of environment they have to put in place some strategy of mitigation and compensation going back to the greek. Installation. Which we just did a recent one with 200. 00 units which was for 600. 00 tonnes almost of relief 3 days after we put it there we thought wed done it and it was fish living there really was before it was just a barren piece of ground 3 days later we had fish moving in. The arabian gulf is a very special sea its extreme it can go to 15 degrees in the winter to 35. 00 degrees in the summer so theres like 20 degrees range of water temperature and for course for example this is completely insane on the Great Barrier reef if the temperature varies by cheating griese above the normal they start reaching and suffering and eventually dying in cata the species we have and they adapted to the harsh condition so they thats what we call them super course because how can this core survive in this kind of conditions where the rest of the course on the planet die with very small a range of temperature so its really interesting scientifically that we have some species here in qatar that can survive. The worst temperature that we planning in 2100 prediction of firstly water temperature in the stroller thats why its worth protecting them as well because the they might be the future of of course as well you know. We had back out to sea for one of our final trips and its the one im the most excited about. Were looking to find the worlds biggest fish. There. You know. Whats happening now you know the criminals spawning. So its a melting frenzy to find one female and theres like 34. 00 males around there so as she jacks the eggs they you know the inject also their sperm and its a big fight the strong one which will you know. That spend one and the biggest amount of eggs you know. And what happens this frenzy the sound of the sharks they will detect it you know and they will gather all the sharks in there they will go and they would come to this spot. And then you know once the spawning stops you will find hundreds of sharks and they come and feed on the area and how many how many wells are staging observing this. Normally and one are going to get the biggest week or we recorded by a drone as 350 with one shot you know but in our database we have more than 600 you know its a world record you know and why do they aggregate in this area and particularly the main thing in this area is the temperature the what you see if you go 5 or 6 kilometers out of this area the water temperature is about between 32 to 34 average 32 degrees centigrade in this area here. To about 2728 you know its the best or the ideal temperature for fish to breathe you know so when they breed or spawn near. The shark comes for the protein you know they come specifically for the fish caviar. The bucket list moment as they say. Our 1st glimpse of these enormous gentle giants. Its hard to describe the feeling of swimming alongside them watching them feet. Feeling like tiny. In significant privileged guests in their world. The sun sets on our journey through katters natural wealth. Just minutes from the capital doha. Whats ahead of all. Of us i like it and even. My computer screen its this theres megson already its amazing i remember the every day what would you like to see. More to protect. Like what would you like to see done what youre hearing. One thing he did everything as if this is the most important thing 2nd for the new generation maybe the old b. Will be used to use this. Example why i want to hunt in here its culture is a long time ago that is a limitation of the food but no its handle everything available so with the kids education and health of affected driving your car over the nearest coming to hand this very or other reason i like falcon level weve got to protect the community and fellow we are going to handle. Its the end of our wildlife travels it stand months. Many are not aware of just how rich the small desert country is when it comes to nature increased awareness hopefully will lead to more efforts to protect and conserve all these diverse back tickles of nature. Not just through Government Policies but its also down to us as individuals to do our part in protecting the land and the waters. That we are privileged to share. Was. Selfless act human bravery 10000 precious pieces of literature rescued from being burnt to ashes in a besieged sorry. Wild its the bosnian women and men who risked everything to save vera to merit change. The love of books on aljazeera. Told a number told stories from asia in the pacific on aljazeera jumped into the stream and julian of Global Community this generation will have to create its own democracy with social media on and will online be part of the debate let me put some comments to you when no topic is off the table is taking on all the systemic i list that people of color have suffered not only now but for decades we are going to need to transform lives the way he keeps human way to business if were going to adapt to climate break out of this stream on out is there. India records more than 3000000 corona virus cases and the worlds highest daily increase in code with 19 infections. Again i am peter w. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up the u. S. House of representatives reverses cuts to the Postal Service to rule out delays in mail in voting for novembers president ial election. The opposition leaders says Police Violence against protesters was the governments biggest mr
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