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00:35This is one of the world's newest marine research centres and its scientists are watching the crisis unfold.
00:42The oceans are incredibly important. They represent 90% of the habitable space for life on this planet.
00:49The oceans are in deep trouble. They are facing a multitude of threats, be that from climate change, from marine
00:56pollution,
00:57but also from human activities which are driving extinctions and reducing biodiversity.
01:03So here they are building tomorrow's ocean in a lab to meet the future before it arrives.
01:08As our oceans warm and their chemistry changes and the amount of oxygen they have reduces,
01:15what we have here is an insight into the future of what many oceans will look like.
01:20Researchers here are working at the frontier of ocean science, protecting our oceans while training the scientists of tomorrow.
01:28Two of the species they study tell this story most clearly.
01:32Turtles are important. They are a critical part of the marine ecosystem.
01:36By exploring their health, it tells us about the health of the entire community.
01:40Corals, they provide the complex habitats that many other animals need to survive.
01:45One has survived since the age of the dinosaurs and still reads the health of the sea like nothing else.
01:52Turtles are not just iconic animals. They've got a vital role in marine ecosystems and so they keep the marine
02:00ecosystems healthy.
02:02And lately the numbers of turtles off this coast have begun to turn.
02:0695% of the turtles that I've personally photographed during the last six months, they are juveniles.
02:12So this is already a very good sign of how population is doing.
02:17The other is the coral reef, just offshore.
02:20And across the world, reefs like this are dying.
02:24The world should really pay attention to this.
02:26Because if we lose the coral reefs, we will lose a tremendous amount of biodiversity in the ocean.
02:32Up to half a billion people today are directly or indirectly dependent on coral reefs.
02:40The corals that cling on here survive heat that would kill reefs anywhere else.
02:45The studies we do on coral reefs here can of course tell us something about future scenarios in other places
02:51of the world
02:52where they don't have the same temperatures as we have here.
02:54But this is not just a place that measures loss.
02:57Here they are reversing it by hand, one coral at a time.
03:02The coral nurseries that are outside the laboratory here are basically what we use is tables anchored in the seabed.
03:12And on top of these tables you basically put small mini corals under optimal conditions.
03:18It will grow out and produce a new coral because a coral is an animal.
03:22But this fight to bring nature back is not unique to the ocean.
03:26Thousands of kilometers from here, in Uzbekistan, the same battle is being fought on land.
03:31For the saiga antelope of the desert plateau and the mark are high in the mountains.
03:36Behind me stretches the austere plateau.
03:39Somewhere out there a herd of saiga antelopes is moving.
03:4330 years ago there were a million of them living across the region.
03:47Today, less than 1% of that number survived.
03:51This saiga antelope is Uzbekistan's answer to that collapse.
03:56Here on the austere plateau, the Uzbek part of the saiga antelope has become a test of recovery after collapse.
04:02For saiga antelope, survival depends on movement, water and protection.
04:07The saiga antelope covers more than 600,000 hectares.
04:11Here conservation means practical work in extreme conditions.
04:16On the first day, we have two-three saiga antelope.
04:19When we are at the moment, we have been to remove them into space.
04:24Then, we have been to save them with the effort.
04:27And what we have been to help to make about the forces of biotechic studies?
04:29On the basis of the seas, we have been able to fix them.
04:33And our animals have been strengthened by their cars.
04:35We have been discovered by our900 tragic years.
04:36In that head, we have been transformed by biotechic studies.
04:38We have been able to bring about the ashes in the waters.
04:42And we have been able to prevent them from the plant.
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