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Our 4th stop to is that a nature reserve in the himalayas . A privately one job or keep nature to serve was neglected and full of weeds just a few years ago. Now its been restored and not rushed in line to the endemic ecosystem. And these conservation efforts are even creating jobs for locals who are forced to look for them elsewhere. Is this a feasible model to look after . Lets find out untouched forest is becoming an increasingly rare sight. In such a forest wife, life is allowed to roam free, sprawling acres of green cover, left undisturbed by human activity. Over the past few decades, the strain on forests has reached disastrous proportions. The changes upset delicate ecosystems and diminish wildlife habitats. At the same time, the poorest part of the population dependent on forests. Most of the brunt of the changes. A lifelong resident of the job Market Village near the mystic of a town of land. And province 40 year old davy has always relied on the surrounding forest for daily needs. They provide fire wood for cooking and grass for cattle. Over the years, however, uncontrolled tree felling by nearby villages has resulted in a drastic depletion of green. In addition, a majority of the forest belong to private landowners, most of whom have become more and more protective of their land. As a result, what used to be a fruitful backyard for locals like elma, is today out of bounds in what seemed like a practical decision. 5 years ago, helma decided to take up a job at the job markets meters or a few kilometers from her home side. If i ever used to think it would be good to have a lot of cows and let them graze in these forests, but we later realised that they would be chased away from everywhere and the poor animals would roam the streets and would add to their troubles we didnt want that, we love our animals. We feel extremely disheartened when they are hurt. Now were happy because money comes from my salary as well as from the milk from my cow. Its a predicament that is not really new for communities that depend on forest for their livelihood, as do some 2 thirds of the population of a conservationist. Dr. Sujan voter is no stranger to the problem. A cofounder of the java kids nature reserve. She has been working closely with the local authorities in the area to really get everything. Everything that could happen before this was happening at these well being lawfully. Having failed, those illegal logging going on. There was hunting, going on. There were ports is borders. Why osa, as we demoed on was on this, there was, you know, as, as a source you know, support system. I think forests should be utilized. Theres nothing that says that you have to completely close a forest and everglades it. But i think how utilize it, how you manage it. And so in that theres no long term damage to the forest that if and then used to provide a source of that was. And so we have also not actually closed the forest, theres often sit on the forest, its really a contract that were social contract that we have in the communities to say you can continue to use it in a sensible manner. But at the end of the day, a good thing for us with wildlife is what is going to bring you the economic benefits from the room. Job acute nature reserve is among the countrys few privately owned forest projects. The reserves earnings come from guided nature walks conducted by trained local residents as well as a Membership Program for schools, companies and interested individuals. A maximum of 30 visitors are allowed in per day. Most arrive from missouri, a hilltop tourist hot spot of the region. All employees are from the local area, theres not a single employee whos from outside. So the 1st thing was generating local jobs and supporting the economy. So theyre not competing with anybody. So what has happened is that actually the local villages in the local settlement has benefited from getting the home, stays the restaurants, the pub was the taxi drivers, you know, so theres this spread of economic benefit around the area. The restoration of the forest has brought back animals not seen for close to 50 years from the himalayan bear and leopards to go wild boar and barking deer. The result has been attracting large groups of breeding populations, acting as a sort of for many calls or for the wild like off to meet. Some of these images were taken by very in their seeing who hails from the neighboring village of cruelty leader who joined the reserve right out of school when he was 17 and age. When almost every young man is expected to find a job in the surrounding tourist towns. This is why this is this. And today he is the chief guide in residence at the reserve. He learned on the job and took additional courses on conservation and the environment. Hes also one century assures young naturalist award. How can we say . Yes, im here. Ya know. With another name in the village where i come from, people are not so confident around outsiders. Theyre mostly shy and dont talk to anyone. I was the same. I never used to say a word to strangers, but i have completely transformed after coming here to come from whatever field. So i can talk confidently and explain things well. When your knowledge increases, your confidence does to. Now be one of the biggest goal is to be able to hand over the management of a pet project to committed people like that. And that the idea is to enable the local community to assume ownership of the job market nature reserve and become the real stakeholder. In this venture. Trees are also important in the streets in germanys capital berlin, for example, aligned with 400000 trees. They provide shade and clean, but they themselves also need citizens. They have developed a project to make sure that looked after this next report is a part of on building sustainable cities military man, a livable is best achieved with the hope of people who live here using new technology to contribute to a better understanding of traffic. I would like to see the city authorities and the general public taking care of the trees. Water at last. Berlin has experienced 3 years of below average rainfall, and the trees are dying out. A tree needs at least 10 of these watering cans of water a week. This group of volunteers wants to be part of the solution. Theyve gotten together today to water their citys trees and says it has, lets last summer, the tree in our back yard dying because it couldnt withstand the drought. So it was just gone and i thought the ones in front of the building might be next. And i didnt want to see that happen the next weekend before im homeless or, and this mediation project based at berlins city lab, set up the neighborhood watering initiative online. The platform shows how much water the different trees need. City lab is a Nonprofit Foundation based in the german capital where innovations are born with the aim of making the city and more sustainable. The data comes from the city administration, with daily weather updates and information about whether or not the trees have had enough water. This map contains more than 625000. 00 tree points. For each tree you can find out what type it is, the age and its water requirements. And thats what we have for now. But there are other features we could include, like the height, the diameter of the crown, the diameter of the trunk. Its really exciting, especially in terms of watering. Thats what almost 2000 berliners have registered so far. Some of them just water trees occasionally. Others have taken responsibility for a single tree on their street. And berlin has 2500 parks there. The green lawns of the city, the trees improve the climate and filter out exhaust emissions, and more people are becoming aware of their importance. There are now several environmental initiatives in berlin. This neighborhood in quotes back as some regular gardeners today there, spruce up the flower beds and planting bombs for next years flowers. We are all in this together regardless of where we come from and its a global environment. So we planted flowers and different sorts of things to have a healthy environment to be nice and above all we just like getting all these people together to do something together. Theyre happy to be together. The watering group has their work cut out. Theres been no rain for nearly 3 weeks. The volunteers can easily see on the app which trees need water. Theyre hoping the initiative will spread beyond berlin. And one comes off on time study, but you could use this platform for other cities because its open source in principle. Any city that has a tree register available, and that has weather data, which is most of them could implement this amp themselves. And the volunteers will keep up the good work until winter, helping to keep the thirsty trees a berlin alive. If the residents of mumbai also recognised the benefits of open forests, only 13 percent of space trapped by has green. But Nonprofit Organization forest created as a working to change that they are using the media locking method to plant trees in dense groups. Lets take a look. It is almost impossible to believe that this 4 acre land called the lungs of thought up world was once an industrial dumping ground for its transformation took just 3 years says this used to be an extremely unhygenic toxic players. There was always a stench from all the garbage dump, including plastic of rubber and bags of chemicals. We could not be are to be here. Were going to the 25 feet tall man, made harvest is now home to over 30000 trees of 38 with idees and several species of birds. Reptiles and subsoil creatures see just 100 kilometers south of this young forest, the metropolis of mumbai. It is facing an unprecedented development. Its clean spaces are slowly, but surely dying. Today mumbai is clean cover is less than 13 percent. An alarming statistic which is why a growing number of organizations are using an event to station technique that has its roots in japan. But could be a perfect fit for space trapped mumbai, its called the me of hakim, at her high density plantations are created with different species of need of trees. We need top money to please take effect and you can increase greenery even by planting nonnative trees in mumbai, between 50 and 60 percent of trees are not needed in a conventional plantation. One acre of land, we can only have 2000 trees, but its more than a mere bucky. Mattered. We can plant between 12 to 13000 trees. A hunger were bought as a suburb and mumbai has become the unlikely home for the citys false. We are lucky forest, a project by a local and my mental group that began in january 2019. You need to be very, very conscious about what kind of environment that we are going to. So so are you the most important part where the water board so 1st to understand the soil . The 2nd step is scientifically surveying the areas biodiversity and selecting suitable need to tree species to be planted. All the saplings and Raw Materials are then brought to the plantation site dollar as anyone else. For the next 2 years, the saplings are regularly monitored and watered costing would mean 1. 5 dollars and 3. 00 poetry. To me, aki technique could be crucial in the quest to revive urban green spaces. And the impact can be seen in a matter of few years. As demonstrated in thought up all over 90 percent of mumbai has been paved and contra ties in the past 4 decades done in the city into an urban heat island. A large built up area that traps heat and drives up temperatures even at night. Carbon dense forest created using the me of aki technique could be enormously useful in combating this, despite their many benefits. These young voters cannot be treated as substitutes for naturally growing old forest. But its certainly a start. Dreams also provide homes to other creatures that depend on them like follow life. For example, scientists disagree on how many types of fun guy that are potentially could exist. But the german biologists in our next report are focusing on just 11 that has the potential to change the way we construct buildings. At 1st glance, the helmet by a technologist fast and schubert is wearing might look normal. But he is hoping that it could spare had a green revolution. The entire interior of this bike helmet consists of fungus, my silja men, agricultural waste there for its extremely sustainable and a very good return it. If to the plastic interior of conventional helmets, they have made out of might sound bizarre. But for schubert and his 2 colleagues, it makes perfect sense. Back at the lab in the Technical University in berlin, all they need to do is to take the cells of the tinder fungus and mix them into culture. This is then added to hemp waste, a perfect snack for the fungus. Within some 10 days, its roots, the my senior summer to find the contents of the back. Its a shock absorbing material that can compete with Petroleum Based materials in many ways. That was our main motivation. There are so many products, materials that end up in the trash can, such as p. S. Foam expanded polystyrene. Thats the material that were replacing in this helmet makes up 30 percent of Plastic Waste in landfills worldwide. Thats a lot of first tests have shown that the helmet can even outperform conventional ones in safety terms. The team still needs to come up with a sustainable outer shell and to ensure that the product is long lasting. Once theyve sought those problems, they want to go into business. Almost one in 4 cyclists in germany wear a helmet that time schmidt, another by a technologist at the Technical University of berlin, discovered the novel uses for fun. Be cheering, a Citizen Science project that he led. The fascinating organisms are neither animal nor plant. They come in many shapes and sizes. They love rainy days like this one. And they have lived on this planet for millions of years. A fungus may well be the biggest living organism on earth. With when they stick their heads out, thats not even the tip of the iceberg, but only a very small part. You dont see the main body. It penetrates the entire forest floor. Everything here is creating a Communication Network with other organisms that is constantly in operation. The organisms dont always like each other. There is fierce competition. And generally this contest for nutrients and territory completely passes by. Except when its obvious for all to see as on the street trunk thats covered with a tinder fungus. For trees, this means a slow and there are also some of the tufts feeding on the material. Here. The more my celio piece 2 species meet inside the trunk. It would be interesting to see how they interact with each other, their competitors. After all, both want to decompose would their ability to break down organic material is what gives them the energy to grow. Other materials that will smith tend to steam, discovered that the local tinder fungus works best for their big plans for the fungus compas. It after the initial growth phase, it can be broken up into really grown in molds to create different forms and sizes, but also put them up before i could certainly imagine that you could build whole walls from funky and the supporting frames from other components like wood if you wanted to remain recyclable, i can certainly imagine that you could build a large house with it. For although the lightweight funky bricks are not a load bearing, they could replace many of the building materials. Once theyre dried and the growth of the mycelium is halted, the brakes could replace polystyrene, for example, providing a much greener form of insulation. This compas, it was also very flexible that tom and his colleagues are planning to scale up the work, working together with architects and engineers to see where the material can still be optimized. It wasnt by talk license. We are, we want to make a contribution towards solving global problems. Where do we get our resources from . How can we switch to a circular economy . And how can we recycle use products . And i think that from the material covers all those bases with which includes much of arms and burst, are grown in a controlled environment. Funky could just be the stuff to help build the houses of the future. From germany, lets head to indonesia. He had a social entrepreneur working with women and helping them use their traditional skills, leaving big from balmy doctrines to break away from the shackles, holding them back to see them having a voice to point out what they want. And then what the and knowing that they can buy whatever they want, just because the money is from their own effort, not from the one that is the highest happiness and things that are doing. We tried to figure out what kind of economy of scale that be already have that we do not have to introduce this leveraging whatever. And there is still local resources as well for all of the realtor. And we found reading from paul, the relief of your trees are a very abundant there. The skill itself has inherited between generations along these women. And this we work with the women to give them training and increase of quality and introduce designs as well, functionality. And also aesthetically, and then we directly give them access towards our business more for wholesale, 85 to 90 percent of our revenue come from wholesale. So we sell to a court for corporate gifts, like laptop back laptops and even they have seminar there for truck back that they hand out are from, you know, one of the husband was not really happy when he knew the wife was leaving for a couple of hours a day and then he started to track them his wife saying that if i see what weve again and you, you know, you dont do your household course. I will burn all the recovery. And then the wife took all the sheets and hip and knee, worst house, and then she weave in the neighbors house. And after a couple of months, we started after new research was done, we started to prove that there is a buyer income started coming in. And now after a couple of years, the husband is doing all the dishwashing, sweeping and all the household course knowing that we can even going to actually provide for the family as well. Dreams are the lungs of the many cultures. Consider them or suspicious f