Equal india unsung that i lets start by taking a look at butterflies. Their presence in our surroundings indicates a hell the above meant much in the city like a perennial concretize dust. Butterflies are struggling to find a continuous green cup, which is the basic requirement for them to try a group of ecologists and citizen volunteers observe this phenomenon and are now striving to help them out. These small grass yellows are working hard. The male butterflies are looking for salt and minerals in the damp sun. They need to ingest valuable nutrients to ready themselves for the meeting season. So this is not some remote and pristine rural area, but daily. More than 100 species of butterfly live in the city, one of the very largest and most polluted in the world. So here in medan is an ecologist of the Conservation Education Center in delhi. Hes an expert on butterflies. The reason behind us being lucky enough to see the number of species that we see in the knee is is that we still have a lot of green area, green spaces left in the early ones. These sanctuaries, or these green spaces become such theyre going to be no more movement for we need guys bead any sort of wildlife. They need a color door to go in and out of that protective space. In daily is done to new and to grow in half as a fashion. Heres a green tree that connect the citys main butterfly sanctuaries. Divide like sanctuary in the south, and delhi rich in the not are at risk. As more and more buildings go up. Much down, considers that a major risk to dalys butterflies. I dont. The world butterflies are under threat. More than 40 percent of all insect species are in danger. Off extinction. As bawly need to, butterflies are important for maintaining biodiversity for from a solo, if youre trying to get to either. But then i find something on where you are clustered. Very, a mere 3 says about and then theres a man ducking me Veronique Kapoor sort of has made a garden the latest habitat that we have been doing it right here across the river in order of corporate drug down is heading to us, got better batch of base land is being turned into a butterfly garden. Most of the land for the project belongs to the ministry polity. Some individuals and companies also make lots of illiberal. Some of jan is an ecology student. He contributes his knowledge and labor to the project while learning more about what butterflies need in order to try. This is a kind of blood and all the. Busy plans that we have this plant will sponsor butterflies and about from the normal those nothing or there they act as horse plants or all the butterflies like this one is for the common one. The major difference of labrador, the normal part will be that there will be no formal design with the butterfly hybrid dad that you will be able to make out because we wanted to be overgrown. We wanted to be growing why you feel the Conservation Education Center daily has so far created more than 40 butterfly garden out across daily, with the help of hundreds of volunteers for as its manager, helmet on shares, his expertise and knowledge and encourages cities as a dense to get involved and help look after the cities, why life until couple is one of the volunteers. In just 2 weeks, the 74 year old has cleaned out a trash full near johnson a city forest in the south of delhi, and transformed it into a habitat for butterflies. People were impressed, but baffert war, do you mean a bunch of right block in this set . Im getting you getting this in there doesnt mean sound off in ground where we throw all their money mark, but now people have accepted that yes. By them. Fry particles monday kony is a then are not a far colony. Some years ago, also, hillman launched a campaign to get people across daily to go out and count and identify butterflies near their homes. Every september. That has really boosted Public Awareness and enthusiasm to do something to have ones like goddard or is in place. And not just being in place ones. We have substantial number 8200, but of labrador thats across the city. We were definitely see large increases in the population, especially for the butterfly species that are dispersing. If there are 100 laid by a butterfly and another butterfly only whoville big or dull, but of lies on their own nest 98 will be eaten. And many more lovey, are killed by pesticides. Some people consider the Little Creatures unwelcome guests in their garden. Think of all the glorious butterflies they might have because now alongside butterflies, every living being on the planet polluted. The long term effects to be devastating. If pollution is a massive problem in many cities in india, last year, even total a list of cities with the worst quality in the world. And why would i be given a 21 . Evolution was also huge problem in london in the united kingdom. But things. Ringback seem to have changed now. Everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among the green meadow falls down the river where it rose, defiled among serious shit banks and the waterside. Pollution of a great and city piece of work, one written about dead in which a cotton or beijing. This is how Charles Dickens described in london back when he read the novel bleak house more than 150 years ago. And he was of the early one struggling to breathe. Now, london still looks pretty great, but it used to be even more polluted then cities across india are today. You know, the reason that youre a slave and so you see it. This matters because evolution is one of the biggest killers in the world. Every year we have w7w sprint to the gates who was based on who should, i mean, i think this gives you an idea of the terrible Public Health we are big here. Satellite images show particular concentrations of 2019, greatest across asia and africa. Europe, meanwhile, has gotten much safer. So what can londons past teach asian cities today . The World Health Organization call their mission. The sign of every breath we take contains invisible particles, things that together no 2 to 3 years of our life. These harm the lungs i mean to diseases like asthma and lung cancer. But those partly cause the particularly to look at their own small, teeny, that they go everywhere this mornings ones. They will go eat what would blow the street. And then from there, obviously they can affect any system. Any one of the Biggest Barriers is that many governments consider pollution a necessary evil. However, many people get sick and pollution rises when countries industrialize. And cities across asia have developed like london did back during the industrial revolution. When workers burn coal to power engines, theyre released particles that stain shuts and shock try to like the smoke lowering down from chimney pots, making a soft black drizzle with flakes of sorts, and its as big as full grown snowflakes. Dickenss description stayed valid for decades to come. The amount of raw sewage at the time was so great that victorian london experienced the great stink a century later. The pollution caused the great smoke which officials at the time estimate killed 4000 people in a week. Now this made life as horrible as it sounds the focus or dont let it stop trains, traffic shops, and even help keep the problem the dock. And thats all before you factor in the cost to help. London has died from lung to be like bronchitis in great numbers at the works at the peak of the pollution and the Health Damage alone is estimated to have cost up to 20 percent of british g. D. P. Ease. With that deadly, there today is pretty much a spot of london 12 a century ago. And like in london. But they still going about it in synchronicity at rates now and yet, you know, i think and in the minute you know, it was that you, you know, about 26. Now, you know, it isnt really all about that. Is that a new one today that me and my children small, but that is shut up. Knowing the scale of the damage, put the parents in an impossible to get text about in winter because farmers in surrounding states burn crops and the colder trucks might look closer. But much of the herbert indias pollution has come from burning more coal and driving more cars. When i grew up in both in mumbai, in the eightys and ninetys, having a car was an incredible, incredible luxury. I bet if you stanleys had a car in the last 20 years that look, there lies ation and globalization taking place in india car so they can be caught when it starts. And these are not held to the same standards as scarse in the us in europe. Scientists say that quality 1st gets worse of countries industrialize and use more energy. But then after a while the cost become too high to ignore and invest in solving the problem. Thats how britain fixed it over the course of a century. The government, factories out of cities brought in a Clean Air Act to find companies belching out poisons, and replace coal cookers with it, built parks and Public Transport Networks that produce for life on cars. And in doing so, they showed critics of environmental regulations that saving lives also means saving money. Piecing argument that if you want to develop economically, you need to destroy the environment by this story in the environment. History might not correct. But europe still has an outdoor air pollution today, still called the 400000 deaths in europe. Each year. People in the poorest parts are 2nd to factories in ready to quit pollute. And because europe has exported a lot of its manufacturing to factories in asia, its exporting some of its evolution to what kind of an indian takeaway from this . Both parties are tightening fuel standards and in some cities, placing power stations and restricting when you can drive cars. India is also looking next door to the progress made in china. After president declared war on pollution, beijing reduced its levels of fine particles by 35 percent in just 5 years from 2030. But in cities across india is clearing too slowly to celebrate. And until the government tackled the source of the pollution, residents are forced to live their lives around it. Thats why director often makes heap of filters to block toxic particles coming in from outside the theyre purify and start off white. This isnt like in one of the, this is something it looks like within a month. And then if you ask for the, this is what you get. This is the pollution what you put it in, in the early this fridge that has been used for more than 3 months without solving the cause of the bad pollution filters. Like these just reduce the effects of the problem. I am enough that i have a rule. Oh, you know, i can manage it well, you know, and you think thats just money. But with so many successful examples to learn from indian cities now need to Scale Solutions up to bring the pollution down. And if they really start fresh as well, they could be worth going out and planting a tree. I think congested streets, chockablock with scenes victuals trucks and to play a big part in causing air pollution. In bangor, its not a bad experience to spend what it all would in traffic to cover the distance of just a long way to predict a few decades in the city of come together to encourage more people to switch to bicycles. When you can this be healthy and safe time and money. Oh, the worlds most traffic congested city. That was a designation given to bangalore to have the start of 2020. Its a dubious honor for indias hub, which is home to some of the worlds biggest tech corporations. During rush hour commuters here spend an extra 243. 00 are stuck in traffic into 1900, thats 10 days and 3 hours in traffic each year. So whats the best way to beat the congestion in jena . Kartik on the mountain bike, but can he really be faster than his colleague whos driving a car to riyadh . Ive been a long and we need to get to the dont move, which is approximately it from here. So i get you there. You got to climb the mountain and i read the book by the same company. Navy will travel by car while cant think on the mountain will take us by the invention or discovery property or a small stretch. Cycling has been part of carthage on the mountains daily routine since his childhood. As a seasoned writer, he explored lee navigates the citys jampacked roads using his tried and tested and by meant to be friendly mode of transport. Taken, we less than 9 minutes to go in. The cooler does the minimum. And i get the full article sign every 6 minutes later. His you know, by almost 15 minutes got the wrong amount and is the clear winner. But cycling in bangalore comes with strings attached. The answered, of course, at 19 may have led to fewer vehicles on the streets, but it is estimated that by 2022, the number of vehicles in the city will cross the 10000000. 00 mark. So even though it can be a quicker option, riding a bicycle in bangalore can be dangerous, as the city lacks cycling infrastructure, such as bike leave the for me, my helmet and my glove. So there are 2 nonnegotiable. So the minute, i mean when i get to these 2, come along with me in 2019, karthik on the mountain became a bicycle ambassador for his company as part of the city right initiative called cycle to work. He wants to encourage his colleagues to also make the switch to using the bicycle as a long Term Solution to decongest. This city cycle to work was born out of a desire to target people who have the option to choose between various modes of transport for their work commute and ensuring that the off on a bicycle for that particular trip. The project was initiated by sat there, not i and some good and a techie turn. Entrepreneur consulting on urban mobility and planning for smart cities. Goes their cost condition and the cost pollution causing this together. It is one tough to not i and son couldnt, is also known as by lose bicycle mayor and on it are read all commissioned by b. By c. S. Adult social enterprise working world wide to get 50 percent of all city trips made by a bicycle by 2030 i think every time a person makes this choice of buying a bicycle, the entire city benefits, its one thing for you to enjoy riding the bike and make it recreational option and get fit. But its another thing to make it cold for the city. He developed the cycle to Work Platform that cyclists can use plenty of charge to clog their daily work right through and now the death toll for each trip comprises workplace location. The route taken distance traveled and calculates the Carbon Emissions offset by the commute. This creates a leaderboard that is updated in real time to do 2000 people in bangalore who are today or just heard on the cycle to work together. They have clocked 600000 kilometers by writing their bicycles to work just within 2 years. Traffic snarl ups are expected to reappear in the city forced lock down. But these citizens of bangalore, who are fighting hard to prove that bicycling, could be a viable and eco friendly mode of transport for india has been working class and a simple choice, whether to cycle to the supermarket or to work can have a huge impact on the street and also on how we connect with nature. Were living in an age where its important to find that connection a bit at the british. Next, hes found it neat, quick to help. One of them was important creatures on our planet. The beads keeping bees and working as a d. J. Are normally activities that most people would see as related in any way, but not to be any separate. His music comes from the buzzing of bees. He produces cool beats with it and has a message for his listeners as being a hard ass of loss. He said, during the time i was trying to make a performance and all of your pieces, state workers get these suspects and sells people connect today through the silence, the only center studied art and designed and began his experimental music. While he was still a student, he calls it insect at. C low key uses a special software to isolate the different frequencies of the bees a minute. There are 3 types of being a high. This is the queen group who is the draw and the charge of their own frequency, right . So the crave has a high pitch piping sound high workers as economy gear, midrange sound, drum and i are being asked to produce pains. So he uses a scanner to record the sounds made by the buildings. The frame he built is fitted with microphone use and a digital recorder which can capture hours of buzzing in libya. A high of being nice, always tinkering with new instruments for his music. Once hes filled the recorders memory and the london park he sent to takes it home to his studio. He analyzes the bee sounds and arranges them through various synthesizers, to create a track. And when you put sounds, all of this, they become kind of a last trick to commit. Clearly. Interface for this synthesizer is to be flying into the flower. Youre the only samples taken his sound installations all over the world. He always takes to the stage in a beekeeper suit. He wants to remain anonymous. He wants the listeners to concentrate solely on the music. But this year, his performances are cancelled during lockdown of luckily being able to come appear to mind beings just maybe tirades. You know, regardless of the pandemic in lockdown, i receive the bees just carry on as normal and that she, theyre happy that theres not as much pollution this year. If his bees are happy being any semblance to his sounds are ahead. Especially with young audiences. At the same time, they raise awareness of the world wide decline of the populations. The bees, the people a bit. 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