up. front for you to flash from cars that. this is where they are. welcome to seventy seven percent. to six g.w. . hello welcome to equal india a sustainability magazine which puts the focus on solutions to some of the most pressing problems affecting the world to be this week we connect you to change makers from india laos and germany people like you and i were the system people subdivision policy for sustainable world son of that raghu coming to you from mumbai in india. over the next thirty minutes find out how an illiterate woman in india is educating to a community to build a new story lives why an activist in mumbai is holding the beautiful the city streets. and why movies in laos are going extinct. let's cross look at an issue that forty percent of india's population has to deal with every morning the government is void stored the case for access to clean and functional door looked in the last few years opened is a complex problem in india too extreme poverty and cultural conditioning for the last three decades one woman is revolutionizing access to safe sanitation in the district of cardboard in the north of india. so it's see. if there. is a village people shall go to people i love with these you know she's accompanied by many of those if you set your mind on something and there's nothing you can audit she. could be five years to see these words with pride and confidence i watched where. she's been the driving force. in history by going door to door to check if homes have functional voids and if you want to build them. jointly began how we want to police she describes is in the help. i needed the used to live like. there was a tiny pond that everyone used to be a father daughter goes everybody ended up going there because there was no way. there was a time when an old man don't vary you when you would see feces in the open it was everywhere. a chance encounter with the look lean to you that works towards improving hygiene and sanity from of communities who's been the views of change began to do in. a lot of the government below fifty five in the public going to premises in michigan never ending do always need to be dug one. and the other. two pipes would pass through each opening while one gets pulled up the second one we get. our fair one the kind of give our job at the door hard cattle getting up and. never mind when they make a laugh and when i started talking to people about sanitation they would see no good would ever come out of it despite going on strike for a full month nothing happened i was not even from want to fins would i be able to me. when it got here. i do them i can leave that responsibility to me i also showed them that i wouldn't believe the slump of the job was done that's when they agreed to stand by me but those were very challenging days where the. people mostly ignored the women hardly a left their homes and the men were just not ready to listen the regard to my god we're all an accident cannot go just about any day to avoid that why shouldn't we build and use our own toilets. this is the boy lit. and if this is the market at which the structure will set you know what i want to. be has built two thousand five hundred. some with. money some with government grants and some generous donations. we should consider ourselves lucky that we have the space here to build all of. these don't even have that space. in india more than five hundred million. because. i believe there co-exist a lot of country. is for the prosperous. while the other lives in what is it with. these other people who are forced to defecate in the open. the biggest problem is that they live in support. of it they have no legal rights which is why they don't invest in the police because there isn't much to fear of their houses being. so many government out there but then a couple going to be more difficult. this lack of access to sanitation is a much more compounded problem for. more still fluid india and in open slums like roger. compelled to be compete for dawn in the morning and navigate visited streets and the dogs themselves. saw. men find it much easier to relieve themselves in the open like they don't fit the shoes well being shy or of feeling any shame but for women for young girls and for those who go to school the problem is much much bigger it will. be. a community without toilets also faeces the long term consequences of poor hygiene and health. a fact is still the leading cause of it's in india among children that in the making. and. how many do not have that leaks wedge of the usual these thoughts and to tell you that it's a menace programs but engines like show me the the. at the grassroots. want on the local d.c. general so why do you in the absence of the. case going on one of us out there also work are that they got their also mucky guess about the money. find innovative ways to explain to them how if lies didn't discord on film and on our food that's when they realize that each time the difficult in the open and they risk falling sick. they're going to behead another. but mark you honey where are you on american anyway three hundred. open the damn. use all. the mom up there thought and there are a lot of children who pass on these lessons on to their parents who then end up listening to them. in your car even the grooves under my sleeve was scary traces of mind in them when i entered my house carries the dirt right in for the good since she came to the city of cancun as a child right there still and they would embrace the focal out with the fifty five she's now a good boss on the beat to the next generation. if i'm in my neck a matter of ok here or somewhere up in a modern world particularly when i started out in the initial years i used to cover my face with. the women i spoke to and tried to ward read used to tell me if you want covering your feel how do you expect us to venture out of our houses or hunger think a hiney kind of buying it i remember telling them why wouldn't you be able to go out of your moses are men the only ones capable of making a difference tell me one person in this world that is beyond the capacity of women . it sometimes takes only one individual determined and persistent to bring about big change now the city of mumbai has three and a half million trees each one essential to maintaining the fragile balance in this rapidly urbanising metropolis our next story is about. and how he's been fighting to save more by his trees from being indiscriminately cut down. in the end diana city is bursting at it seems because there are new buildings there's more traffic so we need more of these more like the city being mute want to look more like the word something doesn't fit all that to do we not need montes. i mean he's not part of the and never look one of those if you. don't need the room and i was noticing that more and more trees were dying along the way you would see the wooden ruins of large dead trees which would be to give the green trees i googled up the issue and i thought that d.m.z. had said that there was a media bug every day me which was affecting these n.g.'s and therefore the trees were dying and he said to go find no the island i got saying that this is the issue no problem and very simple that once a real infected needs to be cut and removed. to prevent infection from spreading to the l.d.p. next no and the moment they did that many months dog splitting and then please don't die any longer in mumbai as i want more and more in one day which is that all over this abuse this girl's destruction of becoming. that is a yes which was made in nineteen seventy five it says that on the side of every lord there must be the governor and board sides of every one of the war department once who got to do the deed of argument is supposed to use their common sense and times the of the so discreet i thought it be any application which comes up with the fear that if you visit the school maze they can get a. list means only need to be cut and if they find needed to be you need to be i presume ninety percent of the cases the you just blindly sanction it and then the . public notice in the paper saying that they'll be proposed to cut so many trees it's all so into. an occasion if there is something where we can object about then i take the time and trouble and the effort to object about it. we had a car station they're putting on your. station so there is a plea coming their way it's like a photo that we're going to let me off as i said that he is not coming the only the bandits he's going got this to you for the three is still something and yes but activity sometimes you need to better treat my vote with in order to. be should be cut but like i did before going away. to highlight this issue off and this each week of being there for them it will be decided to hold a symbolic funeral where we actually got it like three on our own does from the one or two billion we went by a month earlier appear to be in ferguson not an order we got a lot of support a lot of people came out to shore that symbolic protest that this new gun killer feel like it's not fair. cutting back tree or cutting a fifty hundred year old just because you can cut it is a senseless act because nothing is going to be able to replicate that hundred year old like even if i plan on one hundred new days it will not be equal to that one hundred year old tree. now protecting the natural ecosystem is definitely the need of the hour there was a time when the blackberry or the moon bit as it's also called time to cross the ship today they're ready to be found in the continent and are listed as a vulnerable species how did they get here i reporter travel to the. north of laos to find out. is absolutely crazy about strawberry. jamb. there. are only four months old he's the youngest resident in the sanctuary the young bear was just getting bones when he was seized from a legal animal traders. in fact hong kong spend fattening him up since he arrived. here besides kung fu australian ngo free the bears has managed to rescue three other cubs so far this year. needham normally a young player spend the first three years of their lives with their mothers but she's usually killed and the cubs are kept under awful conditions come from his brother died in captivity he probably starved to death the animals have a really terrible time. and. this fully grown asian black bear also called moon bear is almost two metres high standing and weighs in at one hundred fifty kilograms and cut the sanctuary they try to keep the animals under the most natural conditions possible. the bear refuge lies in the north of laos right next to a well known waterfall the nearby tourist attraction means a lot of visitors take advantage of the chance to walsall see the bears. hardly any of the visitors can imagine the ordeal these poor animals have been through. like colby who lost his right front leg after he was trapped by poachers in a snare. he was destined for an illegal bear farm. risk he was lost in luke nicholson explains to the visitors that bear bile is used in chinese medicine. and it commands a high price. on a house in tony cages no bigger than the beds themselves. it's twenty years and saw those pages. is expected to surgical means from the day using a syringe imagine going through that the frequency of every couple of days living on his systems a very very big russians afraid. these pictures show up their bile farm near the lao capitol dnd chant. the bears face is a portrait of pain. nobody knows how many farms like this are in laos it's actually illegal in laos to treat animals like this but as all too often in southeast asia enforcement and punishment are totally inadequate. luke nicholson says the greatest threat to animals is human poverty. you can find products from the illegal wildlife trade in almost every local market here they're popular with chinese tourists. that's a tale they have been sold for fifty u.s. felicity. we have a cool here. right next to them law whiskey with animal parts preserved in them including bits of bear. the battle to protect animals and species can't be won without environmental awareness so the bear sanctuary regularly invites school classes. i. allot of the kids don't even know that horse is to bet thomas is a resident in their forest and also a threatened species. i followed us hidden and ball so it bears can train their natural foraging instincts. that. conservationists are supported by foreign donors. thirty eight asian moon bears now live in the open here far too many. the reserve was only designed to take ten of them. but allowing these colossal creatures back into the wild would be too dangerous. for. this number of reasons why these babies can't return to the law some have physical trauma some have psychological trauma and some of the handwriting for little cubs but that they rescue the babies that have been hand raised it imprinted on humans if we would release them back to the wall that they to a village looking for food and that's where we get him and becky. and that's when people invest. today some monks have come from the nearby village of c. . a blast the conservationists work with a buddhist ritual the ceremony is supposed to bring luck to the workers there and fend off evil spirits free the bear certainly needs every bit of support it can get so that confluence and his friends can enjoy our brighter future in laos. let's not shift focus to an innovation that could be a game changer for women truly india a lack of running water and rural coombes often means that women have to travel long distances on foot to fetch water an american company is trying to change that with a simple but significant tweak to the traditional water picture. collecting water is a challenge for millions of people. wells are often far away from their homes. the job is done mainly by women and it can take half a day to collect all the bones her family needs. carrying heavy votes of twenty liters for hours on end can cause health problems. the who's who wheel is designed by the us organization of well it's a rolling barrel with a handle and can hold forty five leases a porsche the wheel costs twenty to thirty down it was not only does it lies in women's loads the wheel can also help businesses like small scale farms over outside restaurants. like them. tell us about. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your bit sharing your story. can big data help us study the effects of changing ecology germany college's stephon stall is trying to find out just that at one top national park in germany once the variables that identified the data can potentially be used to study how the national park has evolved over many decades allowing us to study the good and the bad effects of human activity it has endured shows how he's breaking it down. these trees are being felled but for a good cause sunlight needs to reach the forest floor so that deciduous and can never as woodland can grow here again the conservation zone in one fork was established three years ago ma the real nature ration of the forest progress is researchers will also be collecting extensive data on the local ecosystem a stream flows through the national park the riverbed used to be completely overshadowed by the spruce trees explains hans joachim whose yes from the progress they were ready. the stream and the metal will now be able to develop gamma clee that makes woodland that's already growing here will also evolve and light and warmth will restore the river valley to its natural state. scientists at the nearby environmental campus bill confederate collaborating on the re nature ration project they've set up probes and measuring stations around the forest the institute specializes in environmental i.t. research and teaching staff on show is a water ecologist. this is a multi parameter probe we use it in the town back stream in the national park eight different environmental parameters are measured in the water and these are sent to the campus via data transfer the data is fed into a german network that is part of a european network that in turn is part of an international network so what we're doing is making environmental data available to help politicians make decisions and react as promptly as possible to environmental problems so. the environmental campus bill confed brings together international scientists from the field of i.t. technology and the environment geo informatics is a central focus of research here satellites are able to gather data on changes in the global environment the scientists goal is to make data collected from various sources more easily available to experts in africa and asia be a global environmental data network. because the major advantage of earth observation data is that it provides us with comprehensive information unlike isolated measuring stations which can only compile selective data we can also get inside ravines and look at forests on mountaintops that are usually inaccessible basically we can very efficiently get a comprehensive data and when necessary react accordingly. to problems such as pest infestations and over exploitation of the world's forests these are problems that can be tackled tackling climate change on the other hand is more complicated at the environmental campus. and his team are working on developing models based on incoming data that can predict the environmental consequences of increased temperatures the scientists run through potential scenarios and experimental setups in order to measure the reactions of plants to environmental changes as the cause of faggoty want the main issue we're addressing is the long term effect of climate change on ecosystems one approach is to replicate an artificial ecosystem we can feed the data collected from the sensors in the national park into this artificial world to see what it will be like you and your twenty thirty and how temperatures affect plant growth and the whole ecosystem. flounced off those consequences to. the collaboration with the environmental campus has already paid off for the national park there's more and more data on the conservation zone which eventually will be made available in real time to the park rangers by a smartphone. we're taking measures now and plan to follow their progress to see if their measures that make sense we have no specific expectations we'll just allow nature to run its course the data we gather will help us judge whether our management measures were successful or not the board of management was not for cars. the project is a long term one renae to ration in the ones where the national park will take years and its benefits will only become apparent in decades to come. oh and i hope you had many they could be assumed to be a chauffeur we bring you many more stories of innovation and the people driving them goodbye and have 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