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On a river
in the American Pacific Northwest...
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...the yearly salmon run
has collided with the modern world.
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This floodplain used to be
easy passage for fish on a mission.
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But a road has turned it
into a deadly gamble.
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The salmon must take their chances...
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...to reach their spawning grounds upstream.
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They are driven
by an overwhelming instinct
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to swim against the current.
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So they've just gotta go.
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And where one succeeds...
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others can too.
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Millions of migrating salmon
must today run a treacherous gauntlet.
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From the open ocean...
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...inland past tarmac, concrete,
and steel...
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...these determined travelers
will stop at nothing to reach their goal.
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If they succeed,
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their migration will bring a pulse
of vital nutrients in their bodies
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that nourishes a vast forest network
that spans the Pacific Northwest.
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To stay healthy,
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this forest and everything
that depends on it...
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...needs its fish.
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And these heroic salmon
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are just one in a cast
of incredible creatures
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all over the world...
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...whose battles to survive...
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...adapt, and reproduce
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also have the power to help nurse
our ailing planet back to health.
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They are our most powerful allies
on the Earth's road to recovery.
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While they fight for their futures,
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they are in fact fighting for ours.
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Humans.
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We've done some strange things
to this planet.
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By attempting to build our dream homes...
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...we've created a confusing world
for the neighbors.
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Wherever we've spread,
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the dangers we've introduced
are causing havoc.
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But one creature
has been preparing for the worst...
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his entire life.
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Hunkered down in his Florida bunker...
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the ultimate doomsday prepper.
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Inside a rock-hard shell
six feet underground.
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Now that's how you stay safe.
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But even a recluse needs to eat.
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For a gopher tortoise,
leaving your burrow may well be daunting.
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But to find fresh shoots,
he needs to come out of his shell
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and out of his comfort zone.
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Come on, how scary can it be?
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Here goes nothing.
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The neighbors seem pretty harmless.
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All busy keeping Florida's
longleaf pine forest in tip-top condition.
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Pollinators.
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Tree planters.
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Even pest controllers.
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But it's best to give some a wide berth.
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For our play-it-safe tortoise,
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coming out of his shell
seems to have paid off...
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...with a midsummer feast.
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But he can't let his guard down.
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Because high summer is also
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wildfire season.
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It's nature's way
of making space for new life to grow.
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If he can't get back to his burrow,
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he'll be cooked in his own shell.
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Time to put the pedal to the metal.
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Burning at over 600 degrees...
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...the fire claims an acre
every ten seconds.
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Amazingly...
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the tortoise has survived.
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But how?
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He didn't make it home.
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But he has dug safety bunkers
all over this forest.
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And his doomsday prepping
hasn't just saved his own skin.
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Over 300 different species
seek shelter from summer wildfires
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in the burrows of gopher tortoises.
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He has saved his neighbors.
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And as each animal
plays its own role in the forest,
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together they'll help
their home to recover.
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We will increasingly rely
on heroes like him
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as the web of life on which we all depend...
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...is threatened from all sides.
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In 2020,
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Australia suffered
its worst ever bushfire season.
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One-fifth of all its forests
turned to ash.
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Three billion animals killed or harmed.
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But there may yet be a way
to heal this broken land.
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A flying fox descends on Downtown Sydney...
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...with thousands of other fruit bats.
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Her forest destroyed, these refugees
are trying to survive in a new home.
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This world is like
no forest she's ever seen.
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A canopy of concrete.
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Electric branches.
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Razor blade undergrowth.
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Nothing in 50 million years of evolution
has prepared her for this.
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But she's learning fast.
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And pinpoint night vision
helps her find food
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even in the heart of the city.
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She must eat her fill before dawn.
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Because after the night shift,
she's got a day job to clock on to.
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In a park nearby,
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what used to be a rest stop
for migrating bats,
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has now become a permanent roost.
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Hiding something truly precious...
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her hungry baby
waiting for his morning milk.
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But the day shift
brings its own challenge.
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Heat.
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Sydney summers
now regularly top 110 degrees.
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Far hotter than shaded forests.
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And deadly for young bats.
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But mom has
some neat tricks up her sleeve.
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Blood flows through the thin skin
of her wings
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so she can try to cool down.
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And she can fan her pup.
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But the temperature is still rising.
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He's in trouble.
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She must find a way to cool him down.
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There's one thing left to try.
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Water.
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It calls for a daredevil descent.
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The airspace is crowded...
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...with fierce competition.
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But it's nothing she can't handle.
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A single dip soaks her fur.
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Enough water to cool her pup...
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...with a soggy, life-saving embrace.
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Whatever this hostile place throws at her,
she will do her best to find a way.
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And there's more
than just her baby's survival at stake.
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Because fruit bats have the power
to shape the world around them.
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Amazingly, each flying fox can pollinate
50 different species of tree...
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and spread thousands of seeds
in a single night.
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Even here in Sydney's parks,
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there are signs that they are nursing
nature back to health.
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Over time, if these bats
can return to their wilderness home...
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...this vast tree-planting air force...
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could help regrow their lost forest anew.
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The healthier the Earth's wild places,
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the harder they work
to the benefit of us all...
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...protecting the air we breathe
and the water we drink.
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The future health of our entire planet
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may rest with
nature's last great strongholds...
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...and their most important inhabitants.
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This grandmother has
a growing family to support.
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Every new baby, a blessing.
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But also another mouth to feed.
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Forest elephants have
demanding nutritional needs.
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And there's only
so much grass you can stomach.
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So, it's just as well
she has Africa's biggest drugstore
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right on her doorstep.
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The Congo rainforest.
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Bulldozing their way through
the dense undergrowth is slow-going.
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But there's a quicker way.
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A path.
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Generations of her ancestors
have walked these same routes...
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creating thousands of miles
of elephant-sized corridors...
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...making it far easier
to browse the aisles.
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And this path leads...
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...to a forest pharmacy.
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The clay is rich in salts and minerals...
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that help them survive
the sweltering heat.
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Like an isotonic mud drink.
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But to grow big and strong,
this family needs fresh vitamins.
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And Grandma knows
every trick in the book to find them.
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Elephants can hear
some of the lowest frequencies
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of any animal.
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And they can even use
the sensitive pads of their feet
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to pick up the faintest of tremors.
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And that is the sound of fresh fruit
hitting the shop floor.
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Grandma has a bearing...
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and she knows the quickest route there.
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And in their quest for a healthy diet,
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wherever this family roams,
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they also boost the forest's health.
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Each elephant spreads
over 200 pounds of mineral-rich compost...
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...and weeds out several miles
of choking undergrowth...
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...every single day...
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...which gives the forest's
slow-growing saplings
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the chance they need
to transform into giants.
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Giants with the power to help save us all.
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As humans drive up the amount
of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere,
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this mighty elephant-grown tree
is drawing it down.
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It then performs
one of nature's greatest magic tricks.
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Transforming carbon dioxide into sugars
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through the power
of sunlight on its leaves.
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Locking planet-warming carbon safely away
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into its branches, trunk, and roots.
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The work of gardening elephants
allows Africa's tropical trees
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to draw down an extra billion tons
of carbon every single year.
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These giants could help us turn the tide
on rising carbon dioxide levels...
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...and actually fight climate change.
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While Grandma simply searches
for what she needs
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to keep her family healthy.
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But in the last 30 years,
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we have lost three-quarters
of Africa's forest elephants to poaching.
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With so little
of our planet's wilderness still intact,
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we need its wildlife now more than ever.
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Nature's greatest healers
are disappearing on our watch.
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Species that do most
for our planet's health
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are amongst those
most at risk of extinction.
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And as everything is connected
to the vast web of life,
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their fate could soon become ours.
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But what if we could help
some of these vital animals...
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to rise again?
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Saiga antelope.
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They once roamed the steppe
from Europe to China in their millions.
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Grazing and spreading seeds,
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these nomads maintained
the world's biggest grassland
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for millennia.
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Until the 1990s,
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when rampant poaching
devastated their herds.
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Their numbers fell faster
than any mammals in history.
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And as the grazers disappeared,
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so too did the grasslands
that depended on them.
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But a decade later, saiga hunting
was banned throughout their range.
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The future of the steppe
rested on whether a few survivors
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could come back from the brink.
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A new hope.
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And one becomes three.
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Tomorrow's grazers ready to roam.
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And thankfully, they are not alone.
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Other saiga mothers
have gathered at the nursery grounds.
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At a year old, they give birth to twins,
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and even triplets.
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So with each yearly baby boom,
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the herds nearly double in size.
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In just 20 years,
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a few thousand survivors
have become a force a million strong.
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This new generation
is ready to reclaim their ancestral home.
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Marching for thousands of miles
every year.
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Breathing life into the grassland
wherever they spread.
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And securing the future of the steppe
for everyone who lives here.
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Scientists have calculated that supporting
the return of just 20 large mammal species
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could help revive nearly a quarter
of all the land on Earth.
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So today, a movement is gathering pace
across more than 70 countries worldwide...
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to hand damaged landscapes
back to their natural caretakers
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in a process called "rewilding."
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In Argentina's IberáWetlands,
over a million acres of swamps, forests,
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and grasslands once thronged
with over 4,000 species.
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But centuries of cattle ranching
drove out the wildlife
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leaving this rich tapestry
at risk of collapse...
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...until the turn of the millennium...
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when work began
to hand this land back to nature.
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But now, one species is standing
in the way of complete recovery.
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With the cattle gone,
clans of capybara are filling the vacuum.
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Hundred-pound rodents...
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mowing down any new shoots
that try to grow.
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Which means Iberá's recovery
has hit the skids.
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Not that these giant guinea pigs
seem worried.
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They're so laid back...
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...they're horizontal.
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But all that is about to change.
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This pen holds one of South America's
most feared predators...
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...hunted out here over 70 years ago.
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This rescued jaguar
could solve the capybara conundrum.
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While her challenge
is feeding her twin daughters.
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Everything now hinges
on whether this killer can learn to hunt...
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...on the other side of the fence.
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The first free-roaming jaguars
to set foot here since the 1950s.
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It's all theirs for the taking...
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if Mom can just tune
into her killer Instinct.
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Stealth mode.
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Keep low.
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Get close.
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Then wait for your moment.
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These capybara have
only ever danced to their own tune.
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Until now.
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Her daughters witness a masterclass
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and share the spoils.
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They too will become agents of change...
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...unlocking the full potential
of this vast landscape.
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This family of assassins
will now bring fear wherever they tread.
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The capybara will keep to the waterways
where they feel safer.
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Keeping grazers on the move
gives more plants a chance to recover...
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so pockets of new habitat can emerge.
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And even more species
can return to this old cattle ranch...
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...building their own connections,
making it more resilient to change.
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Iberá's restored webs of life
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will help it endure long into the future.
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Thanks to the return
of one missing piece of the puzzle.
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Empowering nature's healers
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can protect us from many of the perils
of a changing planet.
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Wildflower meadows boost bee populations...
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...helping secure
a quarter of our food supplies
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from increasingly unpredictable seasons.
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Protecting sea otters
revives kelp forests...
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which shield coastlines
from increasingly stormy seas.
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And rising whale numbers
fertilize the oceans,
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helping to feed blooms of plankton
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that capture ten billion tons
of carbon every year.
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As much as all our rainforests combined.
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When we help nature, nature helps us.
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The signs of a hopeful recovery
are there to see.
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Across Washington State,
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the paths
of the mighty salmon run are blocked
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by more than 10,000 man-made obstacles.
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Numbers of some salmon species
have crashed by up to 95%.
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But as we begin to see the bigger picture,
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today on one river...
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things are about to change.
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A campaign to tear down old dams
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is transforming waterways
across North America.
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So far, over 1,900 have been dismantled.
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Thousands of miles of rivers
can once again run free.
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So too can their salmon.
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Finally, they can reach
their ancestral spawning grounds.
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As they lay their eggs
in the cool, shaded streams...
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their journey is complete.
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But their legacy will endure.
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An entire generation of salmon
give up their bodies.
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And their death
pumps life back into the forest.
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This vast transfer of nutrients
from ocean to land,
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from one life to the next,
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is the forest's lifeblood...
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providing up to 80%
of the nitrogen it needs to grow.
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The salmons' offspring
will travel downstream
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to start their cycle anew.
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With our help,
their numbers could flourish again,
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sustaining an entire web of connections...
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from mountain...
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...to sea.
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Bringing new hope
for everyone that relies on them.
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Nature can help heal our world...
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if we just give it a chance.
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Every living being
is an invaluable link in the web of life...
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on which, ultimately, we all depend.
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In our connected world,
every action has consequences.
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And the choices we make
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really matter.
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Armed with new knowledge,
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we can take steps to help nature
nurse our planet back to health.
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The time to act
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is now.
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Because it's no longer just a case
of whether we can still save nature,
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but whether nature can still save us.
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