It's become this intense industrialized zone.

A new pipeline is being constructed to reroute oil flow around the exterior of a national wildlife preserve.

larger biomass inside the reserves.

So they started fleeing from the east to the west.

It has also chimpanzees.

Congo has five of the world's richest sites of protected area, and the Okapi Faunal Reserve is one of them.

And so what we did was, actually, we made moratoriums on the east and west coasts on drilling.

A very important environmental lesson could be learned from this.

Nature reserve

This is in the Bahamas Nassau grouper.

So the fishermen are catching more.

This is one of the things they ought to be thinking more about.

So it could have a negative impact on the whole population.

And this one interests me.

But we do have quite a lot at risk down there, as we all know, the 33 wildlife refuges, so much wildlife and fish and diversity.

Now you've probably heard about the Porcupine caribou herd in the context of its breeding ground in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

For Wild Animal Defensive Arts,

And the training center there was built around the scientific Congolese staff and some American scientists also.

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If you fish less, you're actually catching more.

People are losing their jobs because the fisheries are collapsing.

One very clear way is the marine protected areas, especially no take reserves that we set aside to allow for the recovery for marine life.

This is what many divers would consider paradise.

So they hosted and funded this meeting.

He can't go near the security zone.

Even on our little farm, without fossil fuel energy, farming and food production would grind to a halt pretty quickly and we would be left with, well, a nature reserve.

I did another story on marine debris.

This experience and this training

It was in a grizzly bear preserve, although no one told me that before we went.

It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the ocean as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.

The number of species increases 21 percent so if you have 1,000 species you would expect 200 more in a marine reserve.

Human population. And so if you're looking for growth industries to get into, that's not a good one protecting natural creatures.

So where are the Phoenix Islands?

Well, there are several ways.

And, in 1972, this nation began to establish a counterpart in the sea,

like the Chagos Archipelago.

We have this principal that we don't touch that produces returns, social, economic and ecological.

For example in the health sector.

Protected areas provide hope that the creatures of Ed Wilson's dream of an encyclopedia of life, or the census of marine life, will live not just as a list, a photograph, or a paragraph.

The first one is that people have no idea what marine reserves do, and fishermen tend to be really, really defensive when it comes to regulating or closing an area, even if it's small.

Despite these incredibly harsh conditions, humans have populated areas in the Arctic for thousands of years.

And one of the first places I worked was a reserve called Goat Island in Leigh of New Zealand.

So they might go through, pass through the Okapi Faunal Reserve.

These seeds are used for restoration.

But not so fast.