Russia’s forests under threat | DW Documentary
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- The taiga. The largest boreal forest on Earth and a crucial oxygen source. But its ecosystem is increasingly distressed, due to global warming and exploitation of raw materials.
The forests of Russia produce some 1.3 billion tons of oxygen every year. But Greenpeace Russia warns that millions of hectares are being lost every year to fires and clearing operations.
Along with ecologists, climate scientists, an environmental inspector and members of indigenous communities, this documentary runs a health check on the taiga and examines the potential impact on the world’s climate if this vast boreal forest isn’t protected.
Open-cast mining in the Kuznetsk Basin is inflicting irreparable damage on the natural world, while business booms. Whereas Russian mining companies extracted around 260 million tons of coal in the year 2000, two decades later that figure climbed to some 400 million tons. And it’s set to rise even further - to some 590 million tons by 2030.
Oil production is also a destructive force in many places. In 2020, Russia was the world’s second-largest oil producer with a market share of more than 11 per cent. But facilities are often in very poor condition. Russian environmentalists record some 10,000 cases of oil pollution every year.
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After watching this documentary, I realized how important it is to teach about environment conservation to kids in elementary school, after all they are the future leaders, businessmen, corporation. At the very least, even if they want to make money they will not be aware about mitigating secondary problems from harnessing natural resources. You can clearly see, from the documentary that businessmen and corporations have real disconnection about subsequent hazards that give birth from harnessing natural resources. If they had watch those documentaries when they were kids at least they would have strong emotional connection of being mindful about resource extraction.
Learn Buddhism nd visit Bhutan..
It is taught! I was taught in Primary school 50 years ago.... but yes, maybe more!
we were taught bs and dumbed down and now doomed
Where there is corruption,is destruction.Taiga has no chance .
Where Money ruled. No corrupcy!
Banks.
Do you know what your European exploiters in Africa does to both the local environment and it's people I guess you have no idea I mean does it even matter as long as your lifestyle is maintained again you're told that you're helping them without going into specifics about what their activities actually are.
@@jamesmiller2735 I believe Africa is not occupied by Europeans anymore.So why do Africans accept European exploiters on their soil ???
Amazon also fall
Is that why most of European forests have been converted to farmland or made available for economic activities..
The world is so breathtakingly beautiful but yet us as human beings are the only species that destoys its own habitat.
"Coniferous', nice new word for me, thanks for your ever so interesting documentaries, DW!
It is just plain murder what happens here. Governments are looking away everywhere. It should be stopped rightaway. It is crazy and even the oligarchs will die in an unlivable world. Somebody tell them ;) ?!
FINALLY !! , some News on the Taiga.
That issue is worldwide. Thanks DW.
Thank you so much DW for sharing this video!❤
Thank you for watching! :)
Lake Baikal has fresh water coral reefs that act as natural water filters and is the deepest of all lakes on earth. Some of the life at certain depths even utilize unique forms of bioluminescence.
DW a source of reality !!!!!!!! Thank You from Norway DW (how do you do all this ...? I'm brimming with fascination of YOUR work )
Coral reefs are ONLY found in salt water.
Russia will probably destroy that too.
The big lake baikal once was part of the ocean. It has sponges seals and other ocean creatures in it that have become fresh water species.
Well.this is happening everywhere, not only in russia
Facts. It’s sad but true.
Looks like the Canadian tarsand pits.
I am from India my self I.V. SHIVA , I liked your environmental based programme thanks for your dedication and work👍👍
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I watched a lot of documentaries flims about taiga forest I love the wast wilderness of the mighty taiga it makes me so sad that it is under threat now 😢 thank you DW for such a great and dedicated work 🙏.
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@@DWDocumentarysir please this video in dw Hindi channel b
i appreciates these kind of vlog
I’m heartbroken for our home, the home God has given us. I pray it’s not to late when better angels get control of governments. Thank you DW. The world needs to be truly aware of what we all have done.
The belief a god has given us the planet to use as we see fit is one of the reasons things have become so dire.
The European Church Mice are squeaking at the Russian Bear. But the mice are digging up the Ruhr for dirty coal.
@@DistinctiveBlend Yeah well thats a shame becuase that belief is a gross misinterpretation of what Stewardship means. God entrusted Man to take care of the world not abuse it. 11 times in ther Bible. How people still manage to confuse that is beyond me.
Are they actually making pallets out of those trees?
Underrated
Temporary profits in exchange for irreversible pollution..
just like bacteria thriving in their champagne brew and eventually dying while suffocating from their own excrements (alcohol)
8 billion and counting. Only a matter of time.
9 billion
childish brain!
Hope that the government in place will act to save these land... It's so sad 😥and frustrating😡 to see.... So many People, lands and animals are dying.. what are they waiting for... The end of the world??? So sad😭
We are in the 7th mass extinction.
Russian government officials and their cronies are busy throwing extravagant parties (using the country's budget money). They are having a time of their life, and the environmental issues are the least of their worries.
The problem is government doesn't care
I truly enjoy watching DW documentaries. This is what I call, "Real News."👍👍
Somewhat good but slanted again Russians come to BC or Wyoming or Germany for coal mines, make Russian operation amatureure.
Interesting
That's why most country are not allowing personal drones anymore. They don't want people to film their crimes.
That cat is our of the bag. In 10 yrs drones will be 4k and about the size of a grasshopper
Coal you can put filters on the machines to make the smoke clear.
It makes me sick when I see what man is doing to nature and our planet. And taiga is not the only problem. Until the demand decreases, we will watch even more one-sided documentaries like this.
Larch...An Amazing Tree!!
You should see how many towns in America still cant purify water properly for it's citizens.
You should see how some Africans get water every day. You should also watch how owls mate. They’re amazing creatures.
Crazy question but… What do you think about the coal and forest mining in Russia that destroys nature?
Russian forest is amazing
*Was*
Too many people are busy destroying it.
But it’s at risk
I've made a rather big painting about this "The earth is on fire" (too bad that you can't post images here). Like 3 years ago, when the forest fires were very intense. I see nothing changed :(
It must be really hard for the indigenous people to see their world being destroyed. Personally, I don't think we know half of what is going on in these wildernesses. And sadly I don't think the greedy people that are doing this damage are going to stop no matter what happens. They will just move to another area to exploit.
Western media loves to criticize other countries while neglecting their own responsibility, what a double standard.🤣
defo proper finger pointers the west 🤣
Everybody, who buys these products are also guilty.
We're our own destroyers...
Corruption is destroying it
5:07 do a barrel roll!
Russia is so blessed, vast, and rich.
I truly hope and wish the Russian people will be able to become better stewards of all this wealth. You cannot have a healthy culture without a healthy environment.
Is the tiger a keystone species?
Need to protect the wild life❤️❤️❤️
Putin's gov't treat nature as they treat humans. Like shit. Anyone know of a documentary about Soviet era ecocide, with English subtitles. I know the Anglosphere likely hasn't done an exhaustive review of this subject.
thanks DW for humanising regular Russians and showing that the regime is the problem, not the people.
No they just need speak about Russia some propaganda. LOL China is at least x10 worst, but Germany is depend to them so hard.And for sure you will never see documentary for USA industry pollution.
Yeah western nazi regime
American regime is the problem, not Russians or the democratic government of Russia.
You mean Like the regime of saudi that always supported by the US/WEST 🤣🤣🤡
Or the regime of israel (US/WEST ally) that occupied palestine for DECADES 🤣
Absolutely! You can hate the people in power but how can you hate citizens who don't have a say. They're just trying to live a life the same as you and me.
🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
Did you know the rain forest actually consumes more oxygen than it produces? I wonder how this forest could possibly be any different.
Pretty disingenuous to put it like that. Humanity cutting/burning the rain forest for cattle/agriculture is the reason it is only recently consuming more oxygen than it is producing.
@@EhEhEhEINSTEIN facts are scary if you make a living off of lies
I wonder how concerned you were an year ago :)
We have to thank the Russian conservationists who risk emprisonment to advance the cause of land conservation and for their demands to clean up the polluted places that displace Indigenous people from their stewardship of these places. Kudos to DW for working with such groups to document these monumental problems. Is it too much to ask the Russian government to consider their exploitation of these resources as a threat against humanity? When Americans and Canadians did the same to their forests, their greed was only promoted as an economic boon to those areas until those impacts became known as to their detrimental effects on all of humanity. We are all in this struggle together. Transitioning away from unfettered exploitation of natural resources has to close with the will of the world to enforce agreements made by our countries to curtail damaging exploitation. It isn't going to be easy, as these wars over resources around the world play out. And people don't see this relationship of climate change as being the source for wars for resources!
Forests are not Lungs. Lungs remove oxygen and release CO2. Forests are CO2 scrubbers or oxygen generators.
Both the structure and function of a tree is l i t e r a l l y a lung turned inside out. The trunk is the bronchial tube, the loadbearing branches are the bronchi, the leafbearing branches are the bronchioles and the leafs are alveoli - or your lungs, by structure and function, are literally two trees. The only difference being the material they are made of. Look it up.
@@WormholeJim That is an excellent explanation
@@Campaigner82 Thanks for those kind words🙂 but I don't own that. It's a realization that came to me as I sat by a tree breathing and trying to imagine the oxygen from the tree going into my lungs with each inhalation while the CO2 from my exhalation in turn being absorbed by the tree.
Sort of like rinsing a handfull of mudpellets in a stream of water to see the dissolved mud flowing out between the fingers and suddenly seeing one of them is actually a gemstone, I don't know if that makes sense. Suddenly there was just no real separation between me and the tree anymore, sitting there in this vital connection of mutual breathing. Crazy, I know. Like, "what's next - should I hug the damn thing too?"
6:46 Papering it over.
How about Germany give up all its industrial production, contribute its share to environmental protection?!
Great subject, but the music and narrations were over dramatic.
Russian missiles and artillery sure do destroy nature
The Folly of man ✌🏻😭
Environmental degradation is prevalent in germany than in russia. High energy cost has resulted citizens cutting trees and destruction of forest to keep warm.
That's like comparing two types of deadly cancer. Both are bad.
Save nature save tomorrow
Profit, is always at somebody else's expense.
Not always.
@@Lepocoloco Where does the profit come from then?
@@newfineart have you ever heard about work? It’s like a mutual agreement where you pay someone this thing called money and they do things for you so you can make money. Many people do it over and over again all over the world.
@@Lepocoloco I admire the fact that you are defending a position, even though you are missing the point that you just made. A person goes to work to make something. the item costs 10 Units to make including parts and labour and it sells for 15 Units. The person who employs the worker to make the item makes 5 Units of profit out of the effort of the worker. That 's called profit. Sure the employer had to find the work, set up the work place and provide the tools to do the job, but that is included in the cost of making the item. The person who buys the item knows they might be able to make the item themselves and probably for the same price but out of convenience they pay the price quoted. that's a simplified way to explain profit. When you scale up production you can increase your profits and then you look for ways to increase your profits further by cutting your costs, lowering wages and using cheaper tools to increase profits further. Do you understand?
@@newfineart Wtf are you talking about? What a rant where you try to explain what profit is. 🤣 you said that money is always made on someone else’s expense. I just told you about this brilliant invention called work where both people benefits and both make money. But thanks for the wall of nothing where you try to wrap your head around profit.
It seems the end is near
And not just for humans.
Throwing Stones by Bob Weir.
Any actual papers claiming the Mongolian steppe used to be forested?
You cannot preach economic development and environmental protection at the same time. Development does not deal with environmental protection.
Why are we destroying our world ?
$
We aren't ogliarchs, elites and their greed is
money . but none for me or thee
if the countdown for the forest started...humans have "seconds" to do something about it...(we are doomed...and the Earth will be a paradise once again...if humans are gone).
I appreciated DW vedio, informative and some news, God made the earth good and perfect, but the words corrupt led distraction the earth, and its real happening.
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Great show Russians along with Canada, USA, Brazilian etc etc moving into indigenous lands. How would earth be if they were still in charge of Leading our future
👆 Hey you won a prize
Is anybody allowed to enjoy the lake Dimitri or is it just you??? 🤔 Hmm
I pray and hope humanity never discovers interstellar travel
why so the oligarchs can escape the mess they've made because poor people won't be able to leave
As In EU The same state praxis,so mostly ignored The nature prosperity ( all 4 Cars)
Ban coal ! ..
It's not "Russia's green lung". As if it only impacts one single country. It's "earth's green lung".
We are doomed!
As long as PUTIN ...... stays in position
This will continue
This is high time we human should take step ffs how dare u harm mother earth .
Before you point your finger to Russia (or any other place for that matter) perhaps Germany can first close its lignite fields and perhaps DW can make a documentary about that.
And after you cleaned your own house you can comment on some ones else house.
@Fletcher It's more like the US's Republican party defending Trump by fixating on Hunter Biden's famous laptop computer. 😐
@@Dimitris_Balf Not at all, lets make sure we don't pollute any place if we can avoid it. However for a German based media outlet to point to Russia while that same Germany is still using lignite coal, is a bit hypocrite don't you think?
I have to agree here. Germany's moronic Green movement caused them to shut down Nuclear plants and transition to natural gas. Now that Russian gas is no more, they are reopening coal plants and burning coal at all time high. And still playing a cautious card with russians :facepalm:
@Fletcher Boogaloo!
@@aatkarelse8218 It's not like DW is run by the German energy-industry, nor does it have an obligation to first address all of Germany's polluting issues, wait till they get sorted out and *then* move on to what others are doing. We all share this world and neither air nor water knows to respect national borders. Nah, I'd rather *applaud* Germany for it's super fast acting and banning as much as possible sulfur emissions in the Ruhr district back in the 80's when it became clear that it caused acid-rain to kill of huge tracts of forests in then-eastern Germany and Poland
Besides, what you say is literally what Putin is going to say to this docu, only he'll say "US" and "Europe" instead of "Germany" and then feel good about himself as he chooses to do nothing at all about it. We just have no more time for bickering amongst ourselves anymore on this issue. Come on, join the good fight. 👉#savesoil #consciousplanet
keep population low, so the ones up at the top can keep in power?
The fire is going to be much worse the summer watch test me in this
This place jn Russia is so beautiful.
This madness is happening or has already happened all around the world.
Speeding up.
Its Sabotage, they know what there doing.
This depressing well made documentary only confirms my worst fears, sadly I fear, it to late to turn back the clock, The only thing Putin really cares about is wealth and power, and those who do the work, it’s a job, capitalism is destroying this planet, we can’t have environmental security that support life and economic and military security, only world peace and making corporation responsible for cleaning up and restoring nature, which isn’t likely to happen, especially under Putins regime, tragically…
70% of Russia is covered by forests. In Germany it's 33%. If DW had any real concerns about ecology, they would ask what happened to forests in their own country.
@@alexsilent5603 Every country needs to be concerned about what happening to their Forrests, DW has a nice documentary addressing this “Wind and Climate Change”…
@@alexsilent5603 Here we talk about Russia and not Germany, you do not solve anything to name the neighbor who perhaps did worse, it is a typical behavior of children lol
Let's always do good 🌈
Earth is on target to resembling Venus. See it, Feel it.
Do they reclaim the land after the close the mines?
You should look for new Indians on Mars 😂
God created this beautiful world. Man is destroying it. So sad!!😢😢
Many Christians claim there's no problem , they don't think we should control population growth because their book says go forth & multiply & be fruitful & fill the earth & they cite this as reason to carry on like we are , never mind that every extra mouth will need a lifetime of earth's resources to sustain it . Truly tragic
@@garyk1334 "Many Christians," "their book."🤔🤔 Interesting!!
да,у нас КРАСОТИЩА на РУСИ🙂
ruzzian Nazis has nothing to to with Rus' stealing the name from other country does nor makes you Rus' you have been wild Moscowia and will remain wild Moscowia
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At this rate it won’t be beautiful for long
@@KUSHxKiNG look at what is happening in your country, Russia is not obliged to be responsible for the well-being of all countries, oligarch thieves from the 90s with the help of the "generous West" destroyed our country, many companies for cutting down and extracting natural resources were sold by traitors to Russia to Western conglomerates, we will cope with our problems, you will cope with their own without cheap energy resources of Russia☺
@@KUSHxKiNG be sure, it will be beautiful forever😇
Russians wrecking things, whoever would have thought.
same world over for that matter and has been for a very long time. rich people do anything for money which includes death and misery wherever they go and put a hand to.
🗺PLANET EARTH PLACES 🌏🌎🌍🇳🇬🌹
seems like
1 man making it
and 1 man breaking it
the taiga
or Ukraine
What about Bolsonaro deforestation of the Brazilian Forest !
What a LIAR he is!
They eat horses as their main food? So do I care if they lose their land? No.
I don't see why you'd think that because they eat horses they should lose their land. Horses are eaten in other places too.. just because they don't share your diet choice doesn't mean they should lose their land.
Also horses are assholes, cows are far more friendly animals.
😪 Rich people don't care.
Mining can be done a lot cleaner. Certain protocols just need to be adopted. The US, Sweden, New Zealand lead the way in this. Mining with environmental protocols should be advocated. Anyone advocating against mining will fail because they themselves demand mining to happen.
May the Anthropocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earth's history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.
Obvious bait.
A taiga is a biome, not the name of a forest. Canada and the US have huge tiaga belts just like Russia.
It has been called the taiga forever. Way before they knew of Canada. The name was taken to describe the northern temporal Forrest by science. Since it already was used to name Russian Forrest
@@nobody687 Alright, I looked this up: Apparently in Russian the word 'tiaga' means 'virgin forest', and was not used to refer specifically to boreal forests until 1869. In 1916 the word was latinized and used in the first biome naming schema in the United Kingdom.
@@ReallyGoodName3000 good job. I've read a few Russian novels. And they always refer to it as the tiaga. Novels written in the late 1800s and early 1900s. As with alot of Russian words, they don't mean the same as the translation make them out to mean. Such as a Virgin forrest.. tiaga means more like the untamed wilderness that's a vast mysterious place. At least that's how I understood it to mean in the novels.
@@ReallyGoodName3000 it's a boreal Forrest, right . Thanks
I think that DW is being sensible. This geography effects Europe. Putin is the enemy. Not Russia. Place yourself into context of the situation.
Meanwhile most of Europe has been clear cut and converted to farmland...
Yeah putin is the enemy......just like bush/Blair for invading a sovereign state on a lie
Door swings both ways am afraid
What an idiot statement, in what respect is Vladimir Putin the enemy
Russia is also the enemy until they change as a people.
yep, putin singlehandedly commits hundreds of atrocities indeed, lol
If Russia didn’t sell timber, how would Pootin be able to build that tenth castle?
Nice bit of subtle anti Russian propoganda.
It could definitely be more ani razzian. Too subtle imho.
Greed of capitalism in its best avatar....go on...sky is the limit for the profit.
Russia seems like a jail
Yes, it's a vast prison.
And yet you beg those prisons for food and energy. Now who's in prison now
@@raphael3620 who begs? How many times the the US save Russia from starvation? How about lend lease in 42? You’re the beggar Vanya.
Well yeah this coal generates some of the power you use, Germany uses even more now after sanctions, let's not be hypocritical here, they mine coal because there buyers for it so half the blame lay on others too please show the entire picture not half of it
Clone the tigers and problem is solved..
great, now you gave putin an idea
Is that where you guys are stealing all the big cats & wildlife from that you always have on your Instagram accounts?? Great people 👍👍
"Putin wants to score ecological points"? That's a bit of a churlish way of putting it. When Germany is closing its nuclear power plant, is that "scoring ecological points"? Or perhaps actually wanting to something positive? (Not that I agree with closing them, and still burning lignite) However, there are obvious severe problems, as you illustrate. Germany? So far, opencast lignite mining has altered 179,490 hectares of countryside in Germany. Since 1924, 313 settlements have been lost to lignite mines in Germany. 50% of Germany's imported hard coal (Germany no longer mines hard coal) comes from, guess where? Russia. Don't get me wrong, environmental destruction, greed are all wrong, wherever they occur - Brazil, the Appalachians, Africa, Indonesia. It is heartening that brave people in Russia are trying to stand up to big business and corruption, as they do in so many other parts of the world. However, I have come to the conclusion there is no now chance that humanity will actually deal to these matters, and that within the next 100 years, several billion people will die or be displaced or will be killed in resource wars.