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the natural environments of the earth are
spectacular
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however there is a species that never
appears in the images
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I am the doctor in saint jean as
scientist or conservationist
dedicated the last 25 years of my
life to study and protect life
wild wait wait my vision is
unveil a story that has never been
counted in those places where
humans are not separated from the
nature
we are part of it
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and under no circumstances do we depend
more of her than when we need
quench our thirst
we have learned that if we destroy the
water courses
we can all suffer the consequences
from the cold heat
I'm going to faint but on this trip
I'm discovering that if we change
our perspective we can restore the
natural cycle of water is this
the results can be spectacular
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water in northern kenya for half
year it rains very little or nothing in the
dry season the animals face
to a hard reality find water or
die
the problem is that over hundreds
of kilometers the rivers of this region
they are dry so in places
where there is something accessible from the
surface
we find an incredible
wildlife collection
Water is life and when it comes to seeing
even the most bitter enemies
they declare an uneasy truce but
these troughs would not exist if not
out for a particular species
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next to the stone is a good place
let's finish before I do more
Heat
yes for centuries
some people like these warriors at
buruz know the secret in certain
points under the sand the substrate
rocky keeps the water close to the
surface so that while the rest
of East Africa is dry here
They know how to find fresh water
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these wells are not for people
because I have the Samburu their
walking tour more than 160 kilometers
so that your livestock can survive the
dry season it is important to organize
well if you have multiple wells and
sometimes hundreds of cows so
that each pastor manages his own well
and sing your own song and
curiously every cow learned to
recognize its owner as soon as it recognizes
in his song they go straight to that well
so he does not hear us a song and
in another the song is something different and
so on every group of cows
he knows his owner's song
They have a good ear when the Senate
quench their thirst the samburu take it
looking for grass for
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once the animals have left
wild occupy the wells these
elephants could not survive if not
out by the shampoos but the al buruz
they also need the elephants
these giants eat trees and shrubs
so they keep the land cleared for
that the cattle can be taking out
water to the surface the humans
make it possible for even animals
Larger savages can survive
on this dry land in another part of
Africa happens exactly the opposite
in this place the animals more
tiny ones collect water and help the
humans to subsist
the sahel is the southern border of
Sahara desert and it extends to
across the African continent
all the living beings that live here
they are waiting for the arrival of the rain
the water has its cycles there is a time
between is plentiful
and another in which he is absent but in the
sahel
it's not always like that in the last 50
years due to climate change and
poor management of the land
the desert has engulfed large
extensions of the sahel causing great
famines
the town of fat
it was practically destroyed by the
desert until a man took
letters in the matter and cubas aguado ccoo
he is not a scientist
however what he has achieved amazed
the world has slowed down to the desert
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almost 40 years ago after a tough
famine and Cuba began to cultivate in
the worst time of the dry season
when nothing grows it did not seem like
common sense and everyone included
the local chief thought he had
gone crazy
people criticize your work
they said that what you were doing was not
well and that was against the rules
they thought it was crazy we're
going crazy
they said it threatened our
traditions the boss of my own family
He said the same but those criticisms do not
they gave everyone laughed but I do not
I said nothing more
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the young man and Cuba realized that
before the arrival of the rains
I had to be prepared to pick up
as much water as possible
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chopping hard earth like concrete
already Cuba out several holes and the
filled with excrement and garbage without
knowing it was going to have an unexpected
Joint
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the excrement attracted the termites that
they started using their wells so that
the fungus that constitutes its
basic diet and in doing so they dug a
network of small tunnels in the earth
who helped already he will fulfill his
objective
When the rains come, the tunnels
of the termite nests retain the
water and prevent water from being lost
enter the tunnels and stay there and
that enriches the soil a lot when
Finally the rains arrived and Cuba struggled
by retaining every last drop of
water built low walls for
slow down the loss of water from your
fields and instead of just sowing grain
he also planted trees
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but the locals considered it the
fool of the people
after years of ridicule because of their
strange methods of cultivation
Cuba's work finally gave its
fruits over four decades the
trees that he planted began to attract
the birds they brought with them
seeds that did grow still
more trees the desert of ya Cuba
it started to look more like a forest
this was my first tree I raised it
6 years ago
it is impossible to explain in words what
important that is for me the trees
bring life to the forest world of ya
Cuba has created a microclimate
blocks the wind and provides shade and
fundamentally elevates the water table
retaining water in the earth
near there their fields also
they are blooming
and he is no longer the town fool
ya cuba is the local hero
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during the harvest season
the whole town gathers to collect
in my son
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they harvest enough to
self-supply
yacoub's ideas have had so much
success that his methods teach
currently throughout the sahel and
recently they have helped Niger to
overcome a famine
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with the help of tiny insects
or a single farmer has known
take advantage of the natural water cycle
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since the dawn of civilization
this ability to manipulate water has
been key in our success as
species
we learned to irrigate taking advantage of
force of gravity we supplied to
our cities
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and with the passage of the centuries
our water control has gone on
increase
We can use it to supply
energy to our world
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we can even move entire rivers
up hill
over huge distances but if
we ignore nature and we use
too much water for our own use
It may end up happening a disaster
as here where an aggressive use of
water released forces beyond
our control and caused one of the
worst environmental disasters ever
caused by man
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only several decades ago
monjack uzbekistan was the port
main of the fourth freshwater lake
biggest on earth was so big
they called it bad but today these
children have never seen it with water what
that remains of the lake is 160
kilometers from here
the aral sea had half the
size of england
the fishing boats captured around
10,000 tons of fish in its waters
every year
so that a length of that size
disappear it should elapse
millennia not decades but then as
it happened to have a global vision
I need to find out what's left of the
water and that's easier said than
do what
Filming equipment is not welcome
in this former Soviet republic
It seems that there are a couple of guys there
we go incognito as tourists
If there is someone there, it will be better than
hide the lower chamber do the
Government of the country is very susceptible
beyond this it is about and denies that
force school children to
work in the cotton fields
here is I have a cotton ball and
cotton is the reason why the
Aral Sea has dried up in the 60s
the Soviet leaders wanted that
this region became the
main exporter of the world of this
White gold
so the engineers diverted the
two unique large rivers that nurtured
the aral sea to turn them into
irrigation channels
but the drying of the rivers does not explain
the level and pace of destruction
we release other forces and proof
it should be on the shore
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If I can find it
we are getting into the fact of
this dry lake trying to get up
the water and we carry hours and hours
driving in this kind of plain
empty and dry
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160 kilometers after finally
we found water and it does not fail is the
aspect that should have all those
lands and we have crossed heras and luis
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mother looks at the water demonstrates what she has
happened here
my mother yes soccer
this water does not taste like that of any
another sea is frightening is super
salted 50 years ago the aral sea she
almost so sweet that you could drink from
its waters
today it is three times more salty than
any oceans
then what happened was the
man's hand the one that pushed
literally to the sea and in that way
drained water and life from this region
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it all started in the 1970s
when the Soviet engineers
they diverted the rivers to plant
Cotton
when entering less water and with the heat of
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If the sea begins to evaporate well
when the lake began to descend
all the plants on the shore are
they began to sit without that resistance
the wind neighborhood this territory
the wind increases the evaporation
that means that the water level
would descend faster leaving the
discovered the lakebed one
salt crust
the wind drags this salt that poisons
to the earth and the plants and can
get up to 500 kilometers from here
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and things keep getting worse
constant reduction of the lake causes a
climate change winters are more
cold and the hottest summers
the sea of aral is now in a
spiral of destruction less water more
salt more wind from this nightmare no longer
it is possible to escape war is amazing
the amount of water that has been lost in
only 40 years
now the water level is around here
but when I was born it was higher
of my head
six floors above my head in a
Next future
we will not be able to recover all that
Fresh water
and we will probably never see
the hundreds of species of fish birds and
mammals that disappeared some
forever
the lesson you have learned is this if
we interrupt the natural course of water
through the earth
careful because the changes can be
sudden and irreversible
although of course nothing like this
could happen in the richest country of
the earth or yes
to the red river they call it the nile
American
the ingenious management of these waters in
the driest part of North America
supply a population of
approximately 36 million people
cities like denver the beautiful phoenix
and the angels depend on the colorado
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but just like what happened with the sea of
aral could get the colorado to a
inflection point
to answer that question
my plan is to follow the course of the river
from the grand canyon to the sea of
Courteous in Mexico
in the middle of the road to the dam of
Glenn truck is just one of the
more than twenty big dams that there are in
the colorado
these gigantic projects allow us
control the water course we are going to
go up to have a look
I want to see what's on the other side peter
mcbride writer and photographer has passed
the last four years studying the
history of the colorado
I suppose there's a long way to go
Down!
I think there are more than 200 meters of
fall from ascri peter gives me guide by
the course of the river to the sea and sky
holy when I started observing it not
he knew what his state was downstream to
people are only worried about their water
I've talked to engineers who have
worked on large projects in the
colorado and have no idea what it is
what happens at its mouth hayat '
My mission is to understand what impact
produces our use of water in the
nature
let's follow the course of the river
colorado through the grand canyon
to the sea of courteous in Mexico
I think it's the curve of the horseshoe
my mother here everything is huge
I like this river
yes but I'm very worried about his condition
above all downstream in another time
this river was able to pierce an abyss
of a kilometer and a half deep
through the crazy but in the
present because of the prey hardly
retains some of its former power
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To cross it in kayak is too slow
so let's go drive a part
of the road represented at the same time be
after the great canyon
we go through dozens of channels that
divert the waters of the Colorado River its
water is pumped hill up towards
phoenix tucson and the angels
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however in the imperial valley
we discovered that a lot of its waters
are intended for agriculture
today is the river
all that water comes from the river
more than 70 percent goes to the
agriculture the water that we gave in the great
Projector
Now this area is watering lettuces
produces the entire harvest of lettuce
united states during winter as well
that we are eating the river
Colorado
must eat
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thanks to the irrigation we can
Grow vegetables in one of the places
most arid in North America
even in the middle of winter
It's a brilliant combination of
solar energy and water in this area are
cultivates 80 percent of the
winter vegetables that are consumed
in United States
this every day weighs more
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but it is possible that we are diverting
too much river water
my mother when the Colorado River arrives
to mexico 90 percent of its flow
has already been used here is very
option
It's hard to believe it's the same river
look at this water that looks so clean
if they say that when you arrive, do not tell me
to the border eight has been used
Sometimes do not tell me why you tell me
that now seriously we are in a place
very beautiful we are going to do
it seems totally inappropriate to me
try do not do it
I am a little salty in being during the
next 27 kilometers
The Colorado River marks the border between
united states and mexico
the morelos dam in mexico is the
last deviation from the course of
Colorado
there it ends is not the end that's because
the level is so low there is no more
water thanks to a treaty
Mexico has the right to use the
last 10 percent of the river for its
own agriculture takes your team more
beyond the dam of our morelos
canoe are too big for the
meager river flow
so we've changed them for some
portable rafts
we are still 150 kilometers from
sea of courtesy
I really have a hard time believing that
let's be in the lower part of the river
Colorado
most of the rivers are enlarged
reach its mouth
but in this happens the opposite is
narrow more and more a hundred years ago
Steamboats sailed through this
same channel seriously has to end up in
some point
in fact, it seems that we have reached
final
incredible is water from the Grand Canyon
it's like watching the turtle hatchlings
when they go for the first time assmann you
it costs a lot to advance impossible
there will be 150 kilometers
just over 150 kilometers to the
impossible mall that comes from some
shape is beautiful
the truth is that I have trouble leaving this
place
I suddenly feel as if the child were
a living being is as if it were
trying to do what has been
doing for millions of years
it's weird it's a strange feeling
I know.
good as planned
let's follow the old riverbed
to the sea of polite with water or without
ella
this was once the largest study of
North America and look now
this is the story of an election
feeding a nation had a price
a century ago there were about 8,000
square kilometers of wetlands in
this same place
it was the habitat of endless birds and
mammals
even the jaguars that were around
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in this delta they fished and hunted
20 thousand Native Americans
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now everything has dried up has disappeared
what shocks me the most, as I suppose
will happen to most people is
that I did not know that this is what we have
chosen and the great canyon will dry the
people get angry day would be outraged without
But those same people are not aware
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this is the same river exactly the
same and in a way that annoys me
how have we been able to get to this
The Colorado River has reached the sea
for six million years and from
end of the 90's has not
come not a single short nor a single
in front of our eyes it's true heat
Afa but it is an oven what has happened
here it's depressing that the heat does not
can not even think clearly I'm going to
falter
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however there is hope
just when I feel unable to give a
more step
will a friend of peter come to
rescue us is the month whale
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and it takes us to a magical place
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because in the middle of this huge is
dry there is a hidden gem madrid with
you look at a forgotten wetland called the
clear santa bog
this looks like the everglades do not
had seen so much water from the great
canyon that must be the whole area
100 years ago it measures how many birds there
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the store consists of 16 thousand
hectares of magnificent wetlands
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and although it is only a small part of the
original wardrobe is full of life
there are even several species in danger
of extinction but most surprising
of this place is how the
Swamp is the result of chance
in the 1970s the industry
agricultural north
I needed a place to pump the
water that was too salty and was
loaded with chemical substances
harmful to the crop so
they dug a channel and poured the water
in the barren desert sand in a
30 year period
nature worked the miracle seeds
of totoras transported by the wind
they started to germinate in the waters
stagnant their roots pumped
oxygen to the earth which in turn
fed the microbes that eliminate
the harmful substances of water
over time the waters and cleared and
soon the birds began to nest in
the reed beds and the fish to swim in
The gaps
it is impossible not to perceive what it means
this place before us is endless
of possibilities
if this happens by chance
imagining what could happen with something of
help with a little foresight and
human ingenuity
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if we want to prove what beings
humans we can do for our
natural environments
just take a look at a region
located in the heart of united states
they see it 80 years ago
the inhabitants of missouri conceived
a plan to save this wetland
today the results allow us
enjoy a show that is
spread all over the horizon are
geese or wales in their annual migration
from the gulf of mexico to canada
1,200,000 land on the lake that is
on their backs
they will stay here for a while before
continue north
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honestly all this that I am
contemplating here is one of the
Greatest shows that I've
seen in my life and all thanks to the
inhabitants of this place that for 80
years they decided to let part of the
water they consume out to stop at
nature they simply wanted
share or not 50 percent
only 2% and the result is this
the national wildlife refuge of
squash creek was born in 1935 when the
citizens of this state
they thought the United States was
losing their migratory birds
even though the country was in full
great Depression
they dug ditches and built dams
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anywhere else
we associate this type of project
immediately with agriculture but
here it was built in order to
favor wildlife
seeing this we realize that the
engineering can also help the
nature
one of the species that has been most
benefited from these deviations from
water is the bald eagle over 150
bald eagles migrate ember click
It is a good place to find food
is eaglet has not yet developed
his white head and his golden beak
characteristic but the time has come
moment that he learns to trace the
lines
as soon as he approaches the geese
they take off
in the middle of the chaos it is difficult to distinguish
to the friend of the enemy
plus
a
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the young eaglet learned to fix a
particular goal is a combat
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the snow geese perform
spectacular evasive maneuvers
to
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this goose has a wound so the
Aguila
take the opportunity more
America once harbored enormous
concentrations of wildlife and
eskuak lic
shows us how with relatively little
effort we can recover some of
aquila ancient splendor
all we need is to conceive
new ways to restore the course
natural water
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throughout the continent
American
There are companies that have stopped being
tools
Games
now that they have been dismantled we can
reconnect the rivers with the sea
so species like salmon and
rainbow trout will be able to overcome the
river to spawn
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and it is not always necessary to dismantle
the dams
it is enough to change perspective to the
time to use them in the glenn dam
canyon where I started my trip by the
Colorado River
from time to time they release water to
mimic the natural floods that
produce in spring
the sudden increase in flow removes
the sediments and creates the kind of
habitat that existed naturally
before the construction of the dam
a few months after that cigarette
We went through the dry delta del cash
this happened
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a group of conservationists
convinced the authorities of
united states and mexico so that
will allow an annual release of water that
flow through the Colorado River to the
Dam of Morelos
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for the first time in more than a decade
The Colorado River has reached the sea
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