The Lost Forest | Nobel Peace Prize Shorts

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Wow so look puppy but can you see this is where daddy's going to go gonna go in climb this mountain yes my name is Julian Bayliss I'm a conservation scientist I'm an ecologist my job is to try and help conserve and protect areas that are not previously under any form of official protection I saw this site through satellite imagery and I've never ever come across a site like this what was interesting about this site was the surrounding land was heavily cultivated and then the crater containing rainforest was very dense and intact and I thought that's a little bit strange because there should be evidence of human disturbance today I thought well maybe actually you cannot get to the forest therefore potentially this forest has never had any human interference to actually find a site with no human interference gives us this unique chance to investigate and measure aspects of climate change okay and daddy help you the speed at which climate changes occurring at the moment there is only one variable that wasn't there before and that's the number of human beings that are on this planet we're planting a forest up Eddie thanks my hopes of this expedition - ma'am Rico is that will help us understand various aspects of climate change [Music] it looks a bit like a volcano it's about a kilometre across it has a crater it has a rim and it has a basin of rainforest it has these very smooth granite edges that rise up to over half a kilometre it looks a little bit like a fortress from dear Zambia Thomas there everybody welcome to this expedition to Mount Nebo you've got a great team together lots of specialities lots of nationalities young and old and everything in between the two climbers Jules Lyons one of the best free climbers in the UK and Mike Robinson also one of the best free climbers in the UK have been rigging the climb at 125 metres the last couple of days now and it's basically ready they're going to finish it off this morning and then we're gonna start sending people up so good I think this is going to be a really interesting expedition I think it's going to be really exciting expedition and I'm expecting to find lots of new stuff new species hopefully and make this trip really worthwhile anyway everybody's welcome thank you very much for coming let's start working [Music] and very nervous about the climb yes the thought of being alone and exposed on the rock face is terrifying to most of the scientists because none of us are actually climbers the local people know of nobody in the surrounding communities who has ever been up to the forest okay so that feel okay yeah okay take it you keep doing that for the patient to be trying their leg live all the time [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay oh wow look at all these beautiful better place [Music] beautiful very very nice to be as a scientist and very lucky to be able to visit for these largely unexplored natural areas such as these rainforests and to spend time in them and to see the magic in the beauty that they have to offer and to show people and we can't camp up here unless we find some water but I know it's from down the base can there's a massive seepage thing coming off the cliff over that side so we can find we can find the source of that have a camp nearby there should be good okay let's go to this faculty up here [Music] this would make a lovely campsite look at it beautiful nice on the edge nice and open okay let's set up camp [Music] we have the best scientists in the world on this expedition we have a truly international and global team there's nobody being paid for this expedition everybody here is here is here because of the desire to conserve these places exciting [Music] climate change will change habitats [Music] nothing works in isolation so the climate changes then the forest changes the plants change the animals change when you've got human interference on top of these habitats it's very difficult to actually distinguish between what is actually relating to climate change and what is actually relating to human interference so here we have a very unique experience where the forest which has had no human interference and so therefore any changes that we find among leeko compared to other forests that we looked at we'll be down to climate change to have a good baseline to compare it to so to be like this is the carbon that should be in the forest and then compare that to other sites that are disturbed we can see effectively what the human influences and add that to the man-made climate change part of the equation because it's not the forests releasing carbon is us causing the forests to release carbon we're looking to maybe through the soil cause go down go back in history and see we get some estimation on what the climate was like maybe a thousand years ago here we're looking for a history a bit of a story line between then and now the other major aspects of this expedition will be to look for new species to science put them level with the soil so what we're doing is putting in brackets so that we can more vertebrates so any shrew we get up here is almost certainly going to be new to science so any shrew I will be very excited about the world is full of secrets and we have not discovered a fraction of them and the more new species a particular site has the more importance you can then attribute to that site and that can then leverage was protecting these sites [Music] the idea is to raise a butterfly trap as high as possible and then you baited with a fermenting banana mix and that attracts the canopy flying butterflies such as your car axis we could find a new species of Texas that would be as big as it gets in the butterfly world that's like finding our new monkey this time probably tomorrow we'll come back and we'll have a look at it and I can almost guarantee we'll have butterflies in there they are a magical creatures most the time I just like watching them we only have a limited amount of time in the forest on mountain eco to discover as much as we can it's going to be intense work sighs vision [Music] 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 a butterfly after her papi Anna Simon Toby Vale aside papi honor my beautiful daughter papi she's very inquisitive so he says daddy's going to the mountain while daddy's going to the forest so she's already knows where I am it is a unique experience to see the wonders of nature see the magic of nature and for my daughter not to be able to experience that would make me makes me very sad it is a possibility that she won't because it is possible that these sights won't be there they're just being destroyed through climate change or through human destruction [Music] these animals and plants that are being forced into extinction have been evolving over millions and millions of years to get to where they are today and for them to be just destroyed in a matter of years by ignorance and shortsightedness makes me very angry [Music] antelope it has this big but this is obviously his part of the mansion so maybe we put a camera trap you and the new new species of me but me yeah there's somebody inside today have you got something ever we got a mess true yes hey that could be our first new species [Laughter] discovery every layer of soil is going back in time and at this point while the deepest part of this pit is probably at one point three meters and at the average rate of deposition around here we'd expect to be several thousands years old we were expecting maybe a 30 centimeter sore pit to go back this deep back in that many thousands of years of life history of this forest and knowing that that's been without people is what it'd be fascinating the results for this will be incredible and they could dramatically improve our understanding of how climate change is affecting our planet well I'm surprised how many animals have maybe there are things that you family and there's antelope we haven't seen the antelope yet we put camera traps art but how would an antelope get affected face this is a very interesting [Music] 10 is 5 three of them on the black car axis which is that group like margarita another two that are remaining so these are the infestation [Music] of the black corrects this group which is very interesting group is potential for this to be new so there's a fair chance at this but these new species within these forests you could have all sorts of medicines and new antibiotics that we as a human race could actually use to make our lives more valuable and richer and healthier a rainforests are also where 70% of all terrestrial life is found on this planet [Music] what is being lost is disgraceful it's actually disgusting and I'm almost a little bit ashamed that and we as a human race cannot actually gather ourselves together and see the magic and the quality and the value of AD these these habitats actually contain grunty hopefully the evidence that we generate the research the new species all of that we're going to use towards protecting these sites and conserving them for future generations [Music] is that puppy hello puppy it's daddy daddy's in the forest on the mountain I'm having a lovely day on the mountain thank you copy is I wish you could be here puppy I think we have it in us to find a different class [Music] I have to believe that it's not too late [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: National Geographic

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Length: 21min 55sec (1315 seconds)

Published: Fri May 22 2020

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[u/davidkarlak]

Incredible. What a magical experience that must have been being perhaps the first people to set foot in that forest.