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Earth Report goes undercover on board of the Rita, formerly named Cindy, to buy Patagonian toothfish.

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Almost all the people of Alashan are dependent on goat herding - one of the main causes of desertification - for their livelihood. And as the desert moves in, life as a herder is becoming harder and harder.

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Most people arrive at development areas having lost everything to the desert. So international development agencies are helping to provide housing for those who need it most.

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Although each of the five countries bordering the Caspian has internationally agreed quotas on the amount of sturgeon that can be caught, scientists from the Caspian Fishery Research Institute estimate at least 10 times the legal amount of sturgeon.

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The sturgeon’s black glistening roe, better known as caviar, is a prized and valuable fish. The sturgeon is a slow-growing fish and it's extremely sensitive to over fishing.

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Starting and enforcing a ban on sturgeon fishing will depend on the governments of the Caspian countries agreeing to work together, which takes time - a commodity the sturgeon is running out of.

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Sturgeon hatcheries have increased in Russia. Will this save the sturgeon from extinction?

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Local Alaskans depend on the salmon in the Yukon river, not only for income but also for food for their families and animals. But the times of plenty seem to be over.

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Jeniece Pettitt takes us on an adventure as she goes out and about with Rocky Mountain Biplane Adventures.

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The Chinese Institute for Mountain Disaster and Environment is dealing with the erosion caused by clear cutting and overgrazing.

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Long before the Bogota River reaches Columbia’s capital it is already polluted. Some in the uplands chemical discharges already damages life in the Bogota River. But where is it coming from?

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Countries in the Middle-East have a long history of water related tension. Many poor people in rural areas are depending on the water to survive.

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The Dutch water management wants to turn agricultural land back into wetlands. Returning agriculture back to wetlands in the Netherlands, means a millions of tons of clay have to be removed.

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Maritta Kosch-Weser of the World Conservation Union explains how important wetlands are for the water systems and migrating birds.

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The situation of wetland conservation across the global is in serious threat says Mike Moser from Wetlands International.

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Lack of awareness about the value of wetlands is also a threat. In the tropics for example, wetlands are often viewed as wastelands.

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Rebecca D’Cruz of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands explains the importance of wetlands for communities who live off of it.

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An international convention was signed by 18 governments in 1971. Now 114 governments are part of the accord to help foster national and local action in protecting wetlands.

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The history of Sulu’s people began on land, but their thinking and living developed through life by the water.

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Covering 300,000 square kilometers, approximately the size of Japan, the Eastern Steppes of Mongolia are the last unspoiled and continuous grassland ecosystems in the northern hemisphere.