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[00:00:10] in
[00:00:29] in
[00:00:36] of
[00:00:44] of
[00:01:00] Ocean is extraordinary, it
[00:01:02] of helps regulate our climate, provides food and is home to
[00:01:06] some remarkable
[00:01:08] of creatures. Some look like they belong on another
[00:01:11] planet, others have a surprisingly
[00:01:15] familiar shape. Apparently the ocean
[00:01:19] has guitars too, just without strings,
[00:01:23] meets the gitter fish. In Gana it is
[00:01:26] critically endangered and some
[00:01:32] of of the people trying to... save it at the very fishers would use to catch it, maybe because they love
[00:01:35] deters, as much as I
[00:01:37] do.
[00:01:46] It looks like
[00:01:46] a cross between a shark and a ray and it has been gliding over the sea buds
[00:01:50] for hundred million years, but its future looks
[00:01:53] black. Their population is heavily
[00:01:57] depleted, but protecting them could put live.
[00:02:06] meet the common guitar fish, we bet it will strike a cold
[00:02:10] with you. this is ajua community on
[00:02:13] ganz coast where fishing is a part of daily life and the
[00:02:17] guitar fish used to be a common catch, not
[00:02:20] anymore.
[00:02:40] of Joseph's experience reflects a wider trend
[00:02:44] along west africa's coast line, all four species of fish
[00:02:48] that leave
[00:02:48] of the coast of Ghana are critically
[00:02:53] of endangered fish were not only valued as food,
[00:02:56] their fins are considered the delicacy beyond garder borders.
[00:03:01] of
[00:03:19] of
[00:03:30] very slowly, making it particularly vulnerable to
[00:03:33] overfission. Marine biologist Isa sedu has made it his
[00:03:36] mission to protect guitar
[00:03:38] fish.
[00:03:42] They are messo predators in the mar
[00:03:45] ecosystem which feed on
[00:03:49] invertebrates. The absent
[00:03:51] of these species can impact the balance of
[00:03:55] life in the marine ecosystem, because they control the
[00:03:58] population of. these invertible species
[00:04:02] from growing disproportionately in our may
[00:04:06] ecosystems. researchers like Isa have observed that some
[00:04:09] species such as the sawfish have already disappeared from
[00:04:13] Ganean waters and without
[00:04:16] of urgent action guitar fish could face the same fate. in the
[00:04:19] 1980s they were get if they were getting
[00:04:23] of over 200 individuals perfection trip now it has reduced
[00:04:27] tremendously to now some
[00:04:29] of the are getting as low as even 10 individuals or 15
[00:04:33] of individuals per fishing trip, which is quite
[00:04:36] alarming. isa saidu and his team are tackling the
[00:04:40] problem on several fronts, reducing accidental catches of
[00:04:43] guitar fish, identifying remaining populations and
[00:04:47] creating alternative sources of income for fishes, but
[00:04:51] convincing them isn't alway
[00:04:52] easy.
[00:05:06] in
[00:05:24] so how can certain fish species be protected without causing
[00:05:28] hardship? one answer may
[00:05:31] lie on land rather than at sea. the marine
[00:05:35] conservationist have helped to develop snail farming as new
[00:05:39] source of income for more than 50 fishermen a and
[00:05:43] other coastal communities, snail farms don't require
[00:05:46] much in the way of running cost, it can even be more
[00:05:50] lucrative than
[00:05:51] fishing. giant snail meat
[00:05:55] is a good source of protein, the hope is to
[00:05:59] persuade more fishes to tend to part time snail
[00:06:02] farming, especially during the closed and spawning
[00:06:05] season. fishers are also being trained how to release guitar
[00:06:09] fish unharmed when they get accident.
[00:06:14] and further the coast the ngo
[00:06:17] is teaching them
[00:06:17] to use gps tracking so they can help monitoring
[00:06:21] airports.
[00:06:44] the goal is to set up locally managed marine area where guitar fish are
[00:06:47] protected. fishers have already mapped 15 square kilometers of
[00:06:51] critical habitat. the data they have collected is being used
[00:06:55] by researchers like Jessica and
[00:06:57] unis.
[00:07:02] wanted to publish my work so that the government or the
[00:07:06] fisheries commission will be able to see if possibly they can draft
[00:07:10] a policy that will protect cat fish because "there's
[00:07:13] no policy protecting race and race in
[00:07:17] Ghana, especially the guitar fish and the sharks, but there is
[00:07:21] progress in April 2026, Ghana declared its first
[00:07:25] marine protected area a 703 square
[00:07:28] kilometer conservation zone off the coast,
[00:07:32] it aims to protect the spowning and nursery grounds of various
[00:07:36] pieces, all of this should help this ancient marine
[00:07:40] creature, the guitar fish to.
[00:07:45] It's quite insightful to document this film
[00:07:49] in throughout the coastal communities that we visited, I have seen a
[00:07:52] suit transformation. One is one that touches my heart
[00:07:56] is how fishes now understand that a particular
[00:08:00] species that's a guitar fish is getting extinct and
[00:08:04] they also want to help in the conservation effort,
[00:08:08] why? because thisese fishes understands the
[00:08:11] implications that the extension these
[00:08:14] guitar fish can have on the balance of
[00:08:18] life in the marine
[00:08:19] ecosystem.
[00:08:30] meat kelp: it is one the busiest water plants. it
[00:08:34] starts the day by supporting fisheries, then removes excess
[00:08:38] nutrients from the water and stores huge amount.
[00:08:42] of carbon, now the giant calp can grow 60 centimeters a
[00:08:46] day in ideal conditions, it's underwater
[00:08:49] forests are big bustling neighborhoods
[00:08:53] where over 1,500 animal species
[00:08:56] consider it home. scientists reckon
[00:09:00] kelp forest capture huge amounts of carbon every year
[00:09:04] helping us fight climate change. now one study values its
[00:09:08] ecological services at around 500 b
[00:09:12] million US dollars a year, the catch around the
[00:09:16] world, kelp forests are shrinking fast, so some
[00:09:19] clever people are asking, what if we didn't
[00:09:23] just protect kelp but farmed
[00:09:27] it? for years, fortune seekers
[00:09:31] flock to luderit on the namibian coast to deep for
[00:09:34] diamonds, but there's another tiny treasure to be found
[00:09:38] here, not under the soil but beneath the ocean surface,
[00:09:42] it's contained in these seeds that grow into giant calp, the
[00:09:45] largest these species of
[00:09:47] seaweed.
[00:09:51] to find out what is so special about calp, we visited a project that's
[00:09:55] trying to unlock its value for commercial
[00:09:58] reasons and to combat climate
[00:10:01] change. this is what we are farming here
[00:10:05] in the shawara bay and as you can see this is beautiful calp,
[00:10:09] this calp grows very fast, it can grow up to 30
[00:10:12] cm per day and up to 60 m in
[00:10:16] height so it's really beautiful, it's rich a lot of
[00:10:20] compounds like alginate uh fucoiden,
[00:10:23] fucoxanthines and really lot of polyphenols, which is what
[00:10:27] we want in our biostimulant, which is the product that we make when you harvest it from
[00:10:31] the farm. the harvested calp is used as a biostimulant
[00:10:35] agriculture and in cosmetics and it also captures
[00:10:38] carbon dioxide as it
[00:10:40] grows.
[00:10:45] the seedlings are hatched under laboratory conditions with each baby plant
[00:10:49] attached to a line wrapped around a
[00:10:50] spool. each line
[00:10:54] holds nearly 80 such plants that are wrapped around growing
[00:10:58] structures in the underwater
[00:10:59] farm.
[00:11:03] the namibian coast is a kelp hotspot thanks to the benguela
[00:11:07] current that brings cold and nutrient rich water from the southern
[00:11:10] Atlantic and provides all the ingredients necessary for this
[00:11:14] jant algae to thrive. within months the seedlings
[00:11:18] reach the surface and produce a canopy like a land
[00:11:21] forest.
[00:11:30] "we are creating so much life in this forest and it's taking up lot of
[00:11:33] carbon every day uh contributing to carbon sequestration
[00:11:37] so I mean it's it's just beautiful
[00:11:41] place to be at and I can see it also on the faces of our
[00:11:45] divers, almost all the stuff are from
[00:11:48] Namibia, Zacharias Malienge grew up far from the
[00:11:52] sea but says he has grown to appreciate. the project, it means
[00:11:56] a lot really uh, apart from the fact that I
[00:12:00] able to support some of my family members like my younger
[00:12:04] brother who just recently started university, also just that pride
[00:12:07] of uh doing something which was not common to our
[00:12:11] community, by pioneering professions that speak
[00:12:14] directly to the blue economy, I think it
[00:12:18] will also show people out there that yes it's possible and we are
[00:12:22] able to find people within the... community who are able to do
[00:12:26] the job just as
[00:12:27] well,
[00:12:33] the diving team harvests over 12 tons of kelp from the
[00:12:37] canopy per day by hand, leaving the lower parts
[00:12:40] untouched, the collected calp is transported to this
[00:12:43] factory where it is processed into a range of commercial
[00:12:47] items, the main product is seaweed extract for boosting
[00:12:50] crop heels on land, the kelp can regre
[00:12:55] for a harvestable canopy every 3 months, when it dies, the
[00:12:58] carbon captured in its structures is buried in the marine
[00:13:01] sediment. Calpblue estimates that their farm could
[00:13:05] eventually remove one megaton of carbon from the atmosphere
[00:13:09] per year, equivalent to the annual emission of 20000
[00:13:13] cars.
[00:13:17] Figures like that remain projections, however, the company says it's
[00:13:20] still tracking the farm's carbon sequestration performance.
[00:13:24] They... the non-native kelp on the biosphere is also
[00:13:28] closely monitored, but the project has had some upside
[00:13:31] already beyond the creation of jobs on land. the new
[00:13:35] underwater forest has rapidly become colonized by many other forms
[00:13:39] of
[00:13:39] life.
[00:13:46] what is quite unique about kelp is that like it's not
[00:13:49] one species, they are this ecosystem
[00:13:52] forming - species so like, you can't imagine kelp
[00:13:56] without everything else that exists with kelp, so looking
[00:14:00] at that, when we grow more kelp and
[00:14:03] ensuring that the natural kelp is safeguard and left alone to
[00:14:07] thrive even longer, combined we have much much greater
[00:14:11] chance of fighting - climate
[00:14:13] change. while kelp
[00:14:17] aquaculture alone is no carbon capture silver bullet, it could
[00:14:21] be another tool to reduce climate warming gases and
[00:14:25] project like this one off the coast of Namibia can show the world the
[00:14:29] potential of this amazing
[00:14:30] algae.
[00:14:46] sea grass at the bottom the sea, it provides food and shelter to
[00:14:50] marine life, when washed ashore like here at the Baltic Sea
[00:14:54] Island of Pul,
[00:15:30] am Ende stehen vielleicht dann auch mal Einsparung im Bereich der Entsorgungskosten, weil zurzeit
[00:15:34] ist auch die Biomasse, die wir dann los.
[00:16:07] natürlich auch sehr sehr drauf gucken, wie teuer ist die
[00:16:09] Aufbereitung.
[00:16:12] After processing, only 5% the original mass remains as pure
[00:16:16] seagrass, the rest is stand. So far the seagrass has only
[00:16:20] been used in private construction projects, approval processes are
[00:16:23] currently on the way to certified as insulation material
[00:16:27] across Europe. Marits has already received inquiries from
[00:16:31] mediterranian countries and da gibt's
[00:16:34] z.B. hier eine Eigenart, die wir jetzt von Azoren zugeschickt bekommen
[00:16:38] haben, die stellt da ein riesengroßes Abfallproblem da, also ähnlich wie das Seegras
[00:16:42] hier, ist da diese Alge, die sich, wenn sie getrocknet ist, gar nicht
[00:16:46] so unterscheidet von so einem
[00:16:47] Segrasblatt.
[00:17:07] Substances uns kümmert auch so ein bisschen die Entsorgung,
[00:17:11] weil wir halt ein Alt Bausanieren, kennt man sich ja aus mit Sachen, die man
[00:17:15] entsorgen muss, und ich kann mir vorstellen, dass man Seegras, falls man
[00:17:19] das Haus irgendwann wieder abreißen sollte auch leichter wieder
[00:17:23] recykeln
[00:17:23] kann.
[00:17:36] Und dadurch, dass der... kunde vorhat oben drauf mit dielen zu arbeiten, die also Atmungs
[00:17:40] oder Atmung zulassen, kann das Material noch eine Stärke ausspielen, die
[00:17:44] man bei Dämmung erstmal gar nicht denkt, und zwar die Feuchte Regulation, das
[00:17:48] Material kann Feuchtigkeit aufnehmen und auch wieder abgeben, ähnlich wie auch ein Lebenputz
[00:17:52] und das sorgt dafür, dass die Gesundheit im Raum deutlich erhöht
[00:17:54] wird.
[00:18:02] aims to further refine his process and expand to process tens of thousands of
[00:18:06] tons of seagrass. from other communities along the Baltic Sea
[00:18:09] coast, lowering cost and increasing
[00:18:12] supply.
[00:18:17] In one the wettest places on earth, you would think
[00:18:21] the challenge is staying dry, so why would anyone there
[00:18:25] struggle to fill a glass of water? Clearly, the
[00:18:29] weather forcust doesn't tell the whole
[00:18:31] story.
[00:18:35] Cook, clean, farm, fetch.
[00:19:38] We are in Mosinram which holds a Guinness World record for the highest
[00:19:42] average annual rainfall, receiving nearly 1,200
[00:19:45] centimeters of rain each
[00:19:47] year,
[00:19:52] and yet in one the wettest places on earth, villagers like
[00:19:56] Monica have had to plan their entire day around the availability of
[00:20:00] water, often losing hours each day in the process
[00:20:04] and
[00:20:41] Meghalaya lies within the baraak meghana river
[00:20:43] bason, yet even in high rainfall
[00:20:47] areas like Monica's village bongkong steep
[00:20:50] terrain, rocky geology, deforestation and changing
[00:20:54] land use cause rainwater to run off quickly, leaving little
[00:20:58] to recharge the underground aquafers that feed
[00:21:01] springs. this is environmental
[00:21:04] scientist b.k. tiwari, no
[00:21:07] relation. he studied Meghalaya's paradoxical
[00:21:11] rainfall patterns for decades. the Meghalaya receives highest rainfall,
[00:21:15] but this highest rainfall is confined only to a
[00:21:19] small area. near cheerapunji
[00:21:22] and
[00:21:23] mosen rom and that platu, rest of Meghalaya receives up to
[00:21:27] 250 300 centimeter rainfall which is not very high,
[00:21:31] then again the rain is confined to about six months in
[00:21:35] year, otherwise it's dry,
[00:21:37] particularly the months of December to
[00:21:41] February is quite
[00:21:42] dry, across
[00:21:46] Meghalaya, nearly 80% of people depend on spring. for
[00:21:50] the daily water, these are natural
[00:21:53] outlets where ground water reaches the surface, but
[00:21:57] many these springs once perennial are now becoming
[00:22:00] seasonal. climate change has definitely caused some
[00:22:04] variability in distribution of rain
[00:22:08] and intensity of rain. the population is
[00:22:11] increasing and the consumption and
[00:22:15] production is increasing, so this has
[00:22:18] definitely put pressure on
[00:22:22] most the natural resources, including
[00:22:24] water, but the region is
[00:22:28] finally getting some help, youth volunteers like
[00:22:32] Kintivang Karbani are stepping in to protect the springs the communities
[00:22:36] rely on. They track across the hills,
[00:22:39] tracing water sources, mapping recharge zones
[00:22:43] and digging contour trenches. They also plant
[00:22:47] native trees to help rain water seat back. to the
[00:22:50] ground, they're not just fixing the point where water
[00:22:53] emerges, but restoring the entire spring shed, the hidden
[00:22:57] underground system that keeps a spring alive.
[00:23:01] what began as youth activism soon grew into a statewide
[00:23:04] effor.
[00:23:08] in just over one year, more than 55,000 springs across
[00:23:12] Meghalaya were documented, helping identify which were drying
[00:23:15] up and where urgent action is
[00:23:17] needed. Since
[00:23:20] 2014, these grassroots efforts have been supported and expanded
[00:23:24] by
[00:23:24] the state under the spring protection
[00:23:26] initiative.
[00:23:30] Vankit Keswar, deputy project director at the Meghalaya Base and Development
[00:23:33] Authority, now helps coordinate and guide this work across the
[00:23:37] region, bringing together local communities and government efforts.
[00:23:41] We leverage on the power the communities, we only give them the
[00:23:45] devices, showed them how to calibrate, how to measure and we were
[00:23:49] able to monitor. number of parameters like for example amount
[00:23:53] of dissolved solids that it has,
[00:23:55] saninity, electrical conductivity, to
[00:23:59] physical aspects like discharge, how how was the discharge every month and
[00:24:03] so all were dependent on these springs in the
[00:24:05] village, but restoring springs in
[00:24:09] Meghalaya is not just about water, it's also about
[00:24:12] land. nearly 95% of land here is
[00:24:16] owned by clans and families under customary law, not by
[00:24:20] government, that means many springs lie on private land,
[00:24:24] even though entire villages depend on them.
[00:24:27] managing water therefore requires negotiation, trust and
[00:24:31] collective agreement, especially when land owners no longer live there or when
[00:24:35] community land is
[00:24:36] scarce.
[00:24:42] there are many good examples where private owners have you
[00:24:46] fullhearly given their land, but you still encounter those issues.
[00:24:50] in many places where they don't have community lands, then the
[00:24:53] limit of your interventions, you
[00:24:55] becomes smaller.
[00:24:59] back in Monica's village, the springs are flowing
[00:25:02] again, over dozen have been restored and are now
[00:25:06] maintained by residents like her through regular cleaning,
[00:25:09] monitoring and
[00:25:10] protection.
[00:25:50] Monicas no longer have to hike miles in search of