The Lost Forest | Nobel Peace Prize Shorts

Wow, look puppy, but can you see this is where daddy is going? I'm going to climb this mountain. Yes, my name is Julian Bayliss. I am a conservation scientist. I am an environmentalist. My job is to try to help conserve and protect areas that were not previously under any type of official protection. I saw this site through satellite images and have never come across a site like this. What was interesting about this site was that the surrounding land was heavily cultivated and then the crater that contained the rain

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was very dense. and intact and I thought that's a little strange because today there should be evidence of human disturbance.

I thought maybe you can't actually get to the

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, therefore potentially this forest has never had any human interference, finding a site without human interference gives me this unique opportunity to research and measure aspects of climate change. Well, dad, it helps you. The speed at which climate changes are occurring right now. There is only one variable that did not exist before and that is the number of human beings on this planet. We are planting a forest in Eddie, thanks to my hopes for this expedition. Mrs. Rico, that will help us understand various aspects of climate change.

It looks a bit like a volcano. It is approximately one kilometer wide. It has a crater. It has a border. and it has a rainforest basin, it has very smooth granite edges that rise up to over half a kilometer, it looks a bit like a fortress of dear Zambia, Thomas, everyone welcome to this expedition to Mount Nebo, they have a great team. together, many specialties, many nationalities, young and old, and everything between the two climbers, Jules Lyons, one of the best free climbers in the United Kingdom, and Mike Robinson, also one of the best free climbers in the United Kingdom, They have been preparing the climb to 125 meters. last few days and it's basically ready, they'll finish it this morning and then we'll start sending such good people that I think it's going to be a really interesting expedition.

I think it will be really exciting. expedition and I hope to find a lot of new things, new species, hopefully and make this trip really worth it anyway, everyone is welcome, thank you very much for coming, let's start working and I'm very nervous about the climb, yes, the idea of being alone and exposed on the rock. The face is scary to most scientists because none of us are actually climbers, the local people don't know anyone in the surrounding communities who has ever been in the forest, so that feels good, yeah, okay , keep doing that so the patient is trying to live all the time okay, oh wow, look at all these beautiful places best, beautiful, very, very nice to be a scientist and very lucky to be able to visit these natural areas largely unexplored, like these rainforests, and spend time in them and see the magic in the beauty that they have to offer and show people and we can't camp here unless we find some water, but I know it's from the base where there is a massive leak coming out of the cliff. on that side so we can find, we can find the source of that, we have a camp nearby, it should be fine, okay, let's go to this college up here, this would be a beautiful camp, look at it, beautiful, nice, on the edge, nice and open, okay, let's set up camp we have the best scientists in the world on this expedition we have a truly international and global team no one is paid for this expedition everyone who is here is here because of the desire to preserve these exciting places climate change will change the habitats nothing works in isolation so the climate changes then the forest changes the plants change the animals change when you have human interference besides these habitats it is very difficult to distinguish between what is really related to climate change and what is really is related to human interference, so Here we have a unique experience in the forest that has had no human interference and therefore any changes that we find among the leeko compared to other forests that we analyze, we will rely on climate change to have a good baseline to compare it to. to make it that way is the carbon that should be in the forest and then comparing it to other sites that are disturbed we can effectively see what the human influences are and add that to the human-caused climate change part of the equation because it's not the forests that release carbon we are the ones that cause the forests to release carbon that we are looking for maybe through the soil because we go back in history and we see that we get an estimate of what the climate was like maybe a thousand years ago here we are looking for a story , a little bit of history between then and now, the other important aspects of this expedition will be looking for new species for science to bring to ground level, so what we're doing is bracketing them so we can more. vertebrates, so any shrew we find here will almost certainly be new to science, so any shrew will excite me very much.

The world is full of secrets and we haven't discovered even a fraction of them, and the more new species a particular site has. The more importance you can attribute to that site and then you can take advantage of the protection of these sites, the idea is to raise a butterfly trap as high as possible and then bait it with a fermented banana mixture and that attracts the flying butterflies from the canopy, like you In the axle of the car we could find a new species from Texas that would be as big as in the world of butterflies, that's like finding our new monkey at this time, probably tomorrow we'll go back and take a look at it and I can almost.

We guarantee we will have butterflies there, they are magical creatures most of the time. I just like to observe them. We only have a limited amount of time in the forest at eco mountain to discover as much as we can. It's going to be intense work. Sighs. Vision. I've been lucky enough to find quite a few new species over the years, including many butterflies, and for my daughter's first birthday I named her a butterfly in honor of her daddy Anna Simon Toby Okay aside daddy honors my beautiful Daughter, Daddy, she is very curious and says that Daddy will go to the mountain while Daddy goes to the forest, so she already knows where I am.

It is a unique experience to see the wonders of nature, to see the magic of nature, and that my daughter cannot experience that. It would make me very happy. Sad, I may not because these places may not be there. They are simply being destroyed by climate change or human destruction. These animals and plants that are being forced into extinction have been evolving for millions. and millions of years to get to where they are today and for them to be destroyed in a matter of years due to ignorance and

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ightedness makes me very angry. The antelope is this size, but obviously this is his part of the mansion, so maybe let's put a the camera catches you and the new new species of mine, but I, yeah, there's someone inside today, do you have anything?

Do we ever have a mess? Yeah, hey, that could be our first discovery of a new species. Each layer of soil goes back in time and at this point. While the deepest part of this pit is probably about three meters and at the average rate of deposition around here we would expect it to be several thousand years old, we expected that perhaps a 30 centimeter sore pit would date back to this depth. Many thousands of years of life history of this forest and knowing that it has passed without people is what would be fascinating. The results will be incredible and could dramatically improve our understanding of how climate change is affecting our planet.

I'm surprised how many animals they have, maybe there are things from your family and there are antelopes. We haven't seen the antelope yet. We put up art with camera traps, but how would an antelope's face be affected? This is a very interesting 10 is 5, three of them in black. car axle, which is that group like daisy, two others left, so these are the infestation of the black corrects this group, which is very interesting. There's potential for this to be new, so there's a good chance of this happening, but these new species within these forests. You could have all kinds of medicines and new antibiotics that we, as a human race, could use to make our lives more valuable, richer and healthier.

Rainforests are also home to 70% of all terrestrial life on this planet. What you're missing is It's embarrassing, it's actually disgusting and I'm almost a little ashamed of it, and we as a human race can't come together and see the magic, the quality and the value of the DA. These habitats actually contain grunts. Hopefully, the evidence that we generate will investigate the new species, all we are going to use to protect these sites and conserve them for future generations is that puppy, hello puppy, it's dad, dad is in the forest on the mountain. I'm having a beautiful day in the mountains, thanks copy. en I wish you could be here puppy I think we have the ability to find a different kind.

I have to believe it's not too late.