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[Chimpanzee calls and forest sounds]

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GOODALL: For me, storytelling

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has always been the way to reach
the heart. The stories that you can tell around

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the images, along with the images
make something very,

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very powerful.

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TEXT-ON-SCREEN: For 50 years NASA satellites like Landsat have been measuring dramatic changes in the world’s forests. 

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PINTEA: Science and technologies,

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especially satellite imagery,
are absolutely essential

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because people's livelihoods,
natural resources

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and biodiversity
are connected to each other.

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Satellite imagery are our eyes in the sky,

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providing those insights
and up to date information.

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VILLAGE LEADER: [speaks in local language]

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TEXT-ON-SCREEN: Goodall’s Tacare program is a community-led approach helping both people and the environment

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Satellite imagery has been used as a tool in their conservation efforts.

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GOODALL: Going around the villages
at the beginning of our Tacare program,

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helping the villagers understand
the importance of conservation

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and what the deforestation
was actually doing to harm them.

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I will never forget when Lilian and I went
to one of these villages

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and he’d acquired one of these huge
satellite imagery maps,

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and we laid it out
and the villagers were sitting around it

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and their excitement
was absolutely fantastic.

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There was one woman saying,

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That's the tree where I put my baby
when I'm working in the fields.

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And another man was saying,
now we can see our sacred sites,

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this tree and this rock. 

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And I remember one woman

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and she said, well,
I used to do my farming on this hillside. 

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And she pointed to it and she said,
But then all the trees went away.

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And there was this terrible landslide
which showed on the map you could see

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where the mud had slid down and there was
no vegetation left on either side.

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So she said, Now I understand.

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Now I know that it's worth
walking a whole extra hour in the morning

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to get to a place where
I can cultivate the land without causing

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this terrible destruction
of the environment.

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MWANANG’OMBE: Tacare gives me hope.

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The way it gives me
hope is it is changing lives

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and it is also empowering
the local voices.

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You find they are people
they call themselves

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forest guardians, friends of forest.

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There are people who are becoming,
you know, tree planting groups.

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PINTEA: More than 80% of biodiversity

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 are in the hands of indigenous people
and local communities across the world.

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In Africa on average,

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more than 65% land tenure
is in the hands of local communities.

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So if we want to achieve conservation
impact and address the climate change,

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we have to work with local communities
and not only engage them but empowers them

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to own and drive decision
making in their landscapes.

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GOODALL: Well, the Tacare approach began

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when I flew over the Gombe area.

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I flew over an area which in 1960
was part of the equatorial forest

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belt that stretched right across
Equatorial Africa to the west coast.

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By the late ‘80s,
I flew over in a small plane

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and I looked down
and I saw the tiny island of forests

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Gombe National Park is very small,
surrounded by bare hills.

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As you know, I

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spent many, many years
studying chimpanzees.

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When I began,
there was probably between one and two

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and I'd say closer to 2 million.

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And today, 100,000 to 300 and a bit

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thousand is all that's left.

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Many of them are in fragmented
environments,

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isolated genetically
and have little chance of survival.

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So they are highly endangered.

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And if we don't take action,
then they will become

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extinct.

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PINTEA: The NASA satellite data

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helped us understand
what does it mean to be a chimp?

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It helps us understand where
to protect them.

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NASA's supports

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launches and maintains and manages
a constellation of different satellites,

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and some of them
going all the way back to 1972.

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By providing this data
to the conservation community.

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it helps us continuously monitor
the chimpanzee habitats.

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The chimpanzee

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habitat suitability model develop
with support from NASA,

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and The University of Maryland, includes
more than a dozen variables directly

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extracted from Landsat satellite imagery,
and it includes NDVI.

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It includes percent tree canopy cover.

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It includes tree heights.

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Using conservation
standards, approach and dashboards,

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we take those models and turn them
into habitat health indicators,

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into actionable information people on
the ground can actually work with,

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and the conditions of the forest
can change quite rapidly due

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to illegal logging, mining
or any other threats.

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So this information is updated in near
real time

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so the conservation decisionmakers
can see the individual threats affecting

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chimpanzee habitats
from village to national scales

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and across the entire chimpanzee
range in Africa.

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And this NASA data helps
identify areas under threat of illegal

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logging or fire damage,
where local managers

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could be deployed to mitigate the threat.
In addition, mobile apps enable community

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members to become involved in not just
tracking changes in their habitat,

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but to be active in enforcing
the protection of their village

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forest reserves from degradation.

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The community leaders
have even used this data to inform

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their village land use planning. Voluntarily
moving farms away from areas where forest

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restoration would lead to the greatest
gain for watersheds and people.

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GOODALL: It works both ways. 

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Sometimes you show a lush forest
and then you show how a few years later

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it's devastated.

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There's just a few burnt stumps.

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But on the other hand,

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there are other images
which show you a devastated landscape.

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And then five years later, trees coming
back, regeneration, new hope, new life.

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So the stories
that you can tell around the images,

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along with the images,
make something very, very powerful.

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And you need both to make the kind
of impact that we need to make today

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to help people understand the devastation
we've caused.

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But to give them hope
that we can turn things around.

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And that's what these satellite images
show.

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So clearly.

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MWANANG’OMBE: I'm convinced

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that we have planted a seed
that is going to spread.

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And this is a very good way
of trying to ensure our contribution

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to the mother planet.

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GOODALL: My future is a future where

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technology is married
to compassion and love.

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TEXT-ON-SCREEN:  Video footage courtesy Jane Goodall Productions.
Conservation dashboards created with support from NASA, The University of Maryland, Esri, Maxar, and the US Agency for International Development.