The Lost Forest — Nobel Peace Prize Shorts

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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. Everybody, welcome to this expedition to Mount Liko. We'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. It's 125 metres for the last couple of days now, and it's basically ready. They're going to finish it off this morning, and then we're going to start sending people up. So, good. I think this is going to be a really interesting expedition. I think it's going to be a really exciting expedition. 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. I'm 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, we know of nobody in the surrounding communities who has ever been up to the forest. [00:05:19] Speaker 2: Okay, so does that feel okay? Yeah, that feels okay. All right. Okay, so you keep doing that to get tighter and tighter. Yeah, and then I'll be good. Okay, you just tuck it away. [00:05:31] Speaker 3: Step in like this. If you can, your foot should be tight in the leg and it'll warm the time. [00:05:38] Speaker ?: - I'm just down to my leg. [00:05:50] Speaker 1: - Ah! You okay? [00:06:08] Speaker 3: - Okay! I'm up! Woohoo! Woohoo! [00:06:43] Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Look at all these beautiful butterflies. It's beautiful. Very, very nice to be here. As a scientist, I'm very lucky to be able to visit all these largely unexplored natural areas such as these rainforests and to spend time in them and to see the magic and the beauty that they have to offer and to show people. And we can't camp up here unless we can't camp up there. And we can't camp up here unless we find some water. But I noticed from down the base camp there's a massive seepage thing coming off the cliff over that side. So if we can find the source of that. Have a camp nearby there. Should be good. Okay. [00:07:53] Speaker ?: Okay, let's go to this flat bit up here. [00:07:53] Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to this flat bit up here. [00:07:54] Speaker ?: This would make a lovely campsite. Look at it. Beautiful. Nice on the edge. Nice and open. Perfect. Okay. Let's set up camp. [00:08:01] Speaker 1: We have the best scientists in the world on this expedition. We have a truly international and global team. 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 there's nobody being paid for this expedition everybody who is here is here because of the desire to conserve these places climate change will change habitats 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 with a forest which has had no human interference and so therefore any changes that we find on mount lico compared to other forests that we looked at will be down to climate change to have a good baseline to compare [00:09:31] Speaker 4: it to so it'd 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 influence is and add that to the man-made climate change part of the equation because it's not the forest releasing carbon it's us causing the forests to release carbon [00:09:50] Speaker 1: we're looking to maybe through the soil cores go down go back in history and see if 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 [00:10:11] Speaker 2: yeah i'm going to pass me a bucket so i have an idea there's a bucket right here see how you're doing oh not so bad yeah we put them level with the soil so what we're doing is putting in buckets so that we can catch small vertebrates so any shrew we get up here is almost certainly going to be uh new to science so any shrew i will be very excited about [00:10:42] Speaker 1: 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 what's protecting these sites the idea is to raise the butterfly trap as high as possible and then you bait it with a fermenting banana mix and that attracts the canopy flying butterflies such as your caraxis we could find a new species of correctness that would be as big as it gets in the butterfly world that's like finding a new monkey oh not too far off 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 very magical creatures most of the time i just like watching them we only have a limited amount of time in the forest on mount lico to discover as much as we can it's going to be intense work [00:12:06] Speaker 2: - Sausageum. - Sausageum. - Oh, is that it? - Yeah. [00:12:11] Speaker 1: - Or is it Gus, isn't it? - No, no, no, no. Sausageum. [00:12:15] Speaker 4: Obviously, that's the first one I want to see. [00:12:36] Speaker 1: 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. Poppyana, Saimatoe belusai poppyana. My beautiful daughter Poppy, she's very inquisitive. So she says, "Daddy's going to the mountain," or, "Daddy's going 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 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 sites won't be there. They're just being destroyed through climate change or through human destruction. 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 short-sightedness makes me very angry. [00:14:11] Speaker ?: and I have to do that, and I have to do it. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. I have to do it. 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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, well, it'd be fascinating. The results from this will be incredible. They could dramatically improve our understanding of how climate change is affecting our planet. [00:16:50] Speaker 2: But I'm surprised how many animals have made it up. [00:16:52] Speaker 4: And the droppings that you've found that you've learned. [00:16:54] Speaker 2: And there's antelope. We haven't seen the antelope yet. We've put camera traps out. But how would an antelope get up that cliff face? It's just bizarre. I don't know. It's very interesting. [00:17:07] Speaker 1: Okay, there's five here. Three of them are the black caraxis, which is that group. Oh, black margarita. And they're the two that are remaining. So these are the interesting ones. Of the black caraxis group, which is a very interesting group. There is potential for this to be new. So there's a fair chance that this could be a 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. The rainforests are also where 70% of all terrestrial life is found on this planet. What is being lost is disgraceful. It's actually disgusting. And I'm almost a little bit ashamed that we, as a human race, cannot actually gather ourselves together and see the magic and the quality and the value that these habitats actually contain. Oh, yeah. Oh, look. It's beautiful. It is grumpy. Nice. 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. [00:18:52] Speaker 3: Is that Poppy? [00:18:53] Speaker ?: Is that Poppy? Daddy. [00:18:54] Speaker 3: Hello, Poppy. It's daddy. Where is daddy? 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