An Island On the Brink of Collapse Makes a Huge Comeback | Short Film Showcase

[Music] Kakuta is a tiny islet in the Zanzibar archipelago off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa [Applause] for centuries Cotton's have prospered for making a living off the land and safe it is not the kind of place you'd expect to find people innovatively adapting to climate change but that's exactly what they're doing [Music] life here hinges on solving huge problems things like deforestation water shortages and a collapsing fishery climate change is making all of their problems even worse and the Cotten's survival depends upon their ability to adapt [Music] Hyuna Hyuna Buddhist amar Kumar the Seminole America muhabba nephewcompoop Allen Gianni pilot bassy ha ha ha ha ha Munna between G sana alia Vanessa Centofanti Laguna Salada wonderful coupons imipenem economy - Papa Harry unequivocally mahaparinirvana katakana meanwhile a mangaka national a kook [Music] we can start to get a feeling of how disastrous global deforestation would be by looking at Kakuta without a tree canopy ground temperatures skyrocketed soils couldn't retain moisture and without the grip of a dense network of tree roots they quickly turned into dust Baruch Musa Omar is from the neighbouring island of Pemba when he visited Kuwata for the first time the islet was teetering towards collapse Moran was only Dakota [Music] from Valley chokobo autonomous skinny sana hakuna Julian hoppin a dispenser how Kuno Mimi hakuna Maggie retractor nice idea La Quinta finale I'm a skinny segue no way so what about guess if Lana now and I was a new class idea what taco Kota Baruch realized that his Island Pemba was headed in the exact same direction as piccata Kazakh llaman anodd Oh yawns Oh binky the Amagi veña veña Patera lucky the 7-meter you're to the pit of my depending equally v-i window sunny but so come on I won over by a clever committee in a mannequin I've been doing by aki ali mahalia now meaty enough when teleport a baroque thought that if he could figure out how to get trees in the ground in Pemba that he might be able to do the same for Co kata Baruch also knew he couldn't tackle island-wide refer a station alone so he recruited Jeff Schnurr a 21 year old Canadian tree planter I came to pemba seven years ago now and I was just living here I was trying to write a novel at the time I didn't really know what I wanted to do with my life and borrow kind of heard that I was a tree planter came and we spent several long evenings just discussing you know what tree planting could look like you're in Pemba it was all fairly amateur we didn't have a lot of the expertise but we had a lot of Drive and motivation and that first year we were able to grow a hundred thousand seedlings [Music] it was an operation run on a smile and a handshake and we started getting support the Finnish Embassy supported us and then the European Union did and that really helped us take it to the next level Baruch and Jeff with a perfect team while Jeff concentrated an international fundraising efforts Baruch could focus on managing things on the ground he immediately headed back to Kolkata began about a hydrolysis to a sequestered yalla malsu demo him oh wow a custom awareness it has a little a master heated ECC the Maggie a shulam but another final work of several America tonight you foot beam a genie combi yo to miracles masala petechiae like any society casual in English on a new combat anatomy Ahmadi truth come a Porsche boom bow at magic you know Tony when you are taught wanna children of the village and when all the cabeza we'd sing in a tangled a in the condo to make us eat American scum Billy but I know in a quest 11100 to bacilli possible nutrition in la piscina Melissa [Music] now Hatake team but when they are the kakuta Vasaloppet a saltwater Machiavelli newcomer what avocado and a surfer the idea of muscle community [Music] Wow y jis'w deserves a command email even in the independent cosmos buddy what you know now I was easy Nico - 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Channel: National Geographic

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Keywords: Short film showcase, national geographic, nat geo, natgeo, animals, wildlife, science, explore, discover, survival, nature, culture, documentary, Showcase, short films, filmmakers, wildlife films, films, Kokota, Pemba, Zanzibar, deforestation, climate change, trees, forests, Community Forests International, Zanzibar archipelago, PLivjPDlt6ApRiBHpsyXWG22G8RPNZ6jlb, Pemba and islet, PLivjPDlt6ApTDlm7OufY6HAzNmFAqxWSo, PLivjPDlt6ApTjurXykShuUqp7LQcj9s8s, Mbarouk, Tanzania

Id: F5VcPoGj4DU

Length: 14min 59sec (899 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 24 2018

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[u/jackieatx]

What kind of 2 stick stoves are they using?