Nature based Solutions for Climate Resilience

Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Well, good morning everyone and welcome in from across the continent and beyond today for super exciting exploring by the seat of your pants broadcast. If you're joining us for the first time, which so many of you are today, we are all about bringing conservation, adventure, and science into classrooms around the world. And everything we do goes to our YouTube channel. So, if you want to check out this program in like 3 weeks or 3 years or like 4,000 other programs we've done, you can head there and do just that when we're done this broadcast. Lots to explore and discover. Before dive in with our topic duour, want to note we do have cahoot today. So, between our talk and our Q&A, if you want to play along with little four question quiz, you can pull up this game pin below on separate tab and we'll be getting to that in about 25 minutes or so. Cool extra way to have some fun mid show. If you're joining on YouTube, please feel free share your questions there throughout the program. We're going to take as many as we can when we're done. But of all the programs we do, I'm particularly excited you're all here today because today we are continuing our epic series in collaboration with the amazing folks at the World Wildlife Fund. Of course, the most popular, well-known organization working to save species and habitats around this planet. Check out their website. Check out our series with them. Check out all our programs on YouTube. They do such incredible work on planet Earth. Now, today we're going to bring in Marcen Mitchell, who's senior vice president there, and she's going to talk to us about nature-based solutions, how we work with nature to help make solutions for both wildlife and people alike. This is topic that keeps coming up in our exploring by the seat of your pants broadcast. And I'm so excited you get to learn about it from someone as amazing as Marcen, freshly back from one of her epic field sites, which we're going to talk about in the broadcast. So, without further ado, you're not here for me. I'm going to zip my lip. Marcen, welcome to the program. So nice to have you on and take us away. It's so wonderful to be here everybody and thank you so much for for choosing to to join me today. I'm Marcen Mitchell and have one of the best jobs in the world. work for the World Wildlife Fund which works around the world to protect animals and landscapes and our climate so that we can have better future and and better planet to live on. So, I'd like to talk to you today about how nature helps us with climate and in in terms of us being stronger to deal with the impacts of climate change. Let's see my You're good to go. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Here am. So, let me just start and raise your hand if you have ever experienced any kind of extreme weather event. That means like have you seen flooding or have you had really hot days, you know, when you don't expect it or have there been major storms? Yeah. So, can't see people. Hands are up. Hands are up, Marcy. bet there are lot of hands that are up. And so, the reason why we're having more of these events is because our planet is getting warmer, right? And it gets warmer because we're putting these gases in the air called most of the gases are called carbon, carbon dioxide. And you can imagine it, it's like the Earth has blanket, right? And it's important for us to have blanket. It keeps this our our atmosphere and our our world really nice and warm and cozy, and that's how we can have life here on Earth. The problem is when we put these gases up, it's like adding extra layers of blankets. And so while one blanket is nice and cozy, two and three and four starts to heat up the earth and it gets too hot and it it impacts all of the things like our weather, like droughts, like heat waves, and things of that sort. So, we need to move away from putting these gases into the atmosphere. But one good thing, one second, going the wrong way. that we can use is nature to help us with that. It has big role to play in climate change as things get hotter. And the reason is is that nature can these are natural systems that can help us fight climate change. One way that they do that is by absorbing some of that carbon because plants and trees, they actually take in that carbon and they breathe out oxygen. So that's really good way of balancing. They also help us maintain water supplies to help us with flooding. They safeguard biodiversity. That means all the animals and plants on the on the planet. And they improve our well-being. If you've ever taken walk in garden or in park or in forest, you know how good it feels to be in nature and it really helps us. So that's why it is really important in terms of using nature to help us fight climate change and other problems. And we also talk about this big word called resilience. What is resilience? But resilience is just really way where we know that these impacts are coming, the big storms or the floods. And it's an ability for us to get ready for those, to prepare and respond to those impacts that we know are coming. We know the storms are coming. We know the floods are coming and we just need to start preparing ourselves so when they do come, we're ready. We're ready. And we can also clean up afterwards really well. So the next thing want to talk about that's that that these things have superpower one solution but you get many many many benefits from that for example we protect forest we as told you they take in that carbon dioxide and they give us beautiful oxygen so that helps fight climate change they protect animal homes right they clean the air provide provide jobs for people who protect them and they create places for hike hiking and camping. So when we restore say forest or wetland, we prevent flooding, we clean the water, we store the carbon, we create homes and we give people beautiful places. So that's how say one solution, but you get many many many benefits. So let's have an example of mangroves. and so mangroves are what we call forest that's right between the ocean and the land, right? we often see these in tropical places. in this country, we have mangoes say in Florida. they're mangoes are all over the world and they're beautiful. And the thing about mangroves is again they're that super power where they have many many benefits for one kind of solution. for one thing is that they can take up more than four times that carbon we talked about than any other types of forests, right? And at rate 10 times greater. So they're really good at capturing that carbon which we know that we really need. they also I'm going to give you just recently traveled to the island of Fiji. and that is where got to chance to see some mangroves. So, let's I'm going to play video of me here in Fiji. Hi. This week am visiting the beautiful islands of Fiji and going to see how Vangro are helping communities become more resilient to climate. This is mangro restoration site. You can see the young plantings on the beach to restore and protect. Great. So, that's picture of mangroves in Fiji. And you can see those roots that go down. You can see the mangroves are sitting right in the water. And and then they protect the seashore. They protect storms coming in. They are able to absorb all the water that comes through. They are fishery for little fish, nurseries for little fish that can live under the trees and crabs and things like that. so they're really very very very helpful both absorbing carbon as talked about, but also helping the people on the land be safe from storms, helping people in the land be safe and and looking for. So, here's some other pictures of mangroves in Fiji. You can see them on the beaches. Here's me with some of the woman from the the women's cooperative. And these women, they make all their income from collecting crabs that live in the the around the roots of the mangroves. And when they cut them down, there no crabs. There's no habitat for the crabs. And so these women didn't have anything to sell. So we help them at WWF replant those mangroves. and then also build to the picture on the left is little store where they can then sit out of the the hot sun which is Fiji and sell their crabs and then make living for for their village life. So, it's really win-win situation here. It's just boat that we went out in and actually were able to look at sharks as well while we were there. So, hope that you loved learning about mangroves as much as do. And we have website and web story coming out. So, please check that out and you can even learn more about mangroves and why they're what we call nature-based solution for climate change. So, there are other type of solutions like that. One is restoring the coral reefs. You know, coral reefs are these beautiful they're actually living. They some somewhat look like rocks, but they're actually living creatures and they sit at the bottom of our usually in shallow fair relatively shallow water and they support lots of little fishes. They're beautiful. they provide habitats to 25% of all fishes and other underwater species and support the livelihoods of 1 billion people on the earth. So having the coral reefs, they help our oceans. They provide places for fish. They provide places for human to be able to fish and to collect things. Many of us don't live in these far out places where you have coral reefs or where you have mangroves. But that doesn't mean that we can't use nature-based solutions to help us in our cities where we live. So that part of it is about building greener cities and things that we talk about when we talk about greener cities is having more gardens, putting just little planter boxes outside of our windows if we live in apartments. Taking pavement, we have lots of concrete in our in our cities and making them so that they can actually absorb rain versus have rain, you know, and snow sit on top of them. having green roofs. Green roofs is where you actually can plant garden on your roof or plants around on your walls. And again, they absorb the heat. They make it easier for your building to stay cool or your home to stay cool. And you don't have to spend so much money on air conditioning. And then also we can make wetlands. So when in New York they have big project called the billion dollar billion oyster project where they're putting oysters in the bay and oysters put more oxygen in the water. They help the storm surges. they have all these the school children working on this project and they really create way for storms to come into New York without destroying all the buildings and things. So these are other type of of ways of putting nature into our cities. And again, you know, some of the most favorite places in our cities are our parks and our green spaces. So for our again for the humans, not only are they good for the environment, they're also good for us because we really enjoy it. And they keep our cities cooler during the summer. They help us have better air quality and support local wildlife and really help us stay healthy and and sane in in very busy busy world. So other types of nature is about forests, right? Did you know that forests are some of the biggest areas ways of taking carbon from the air? Again, remember forest they love carbon. They take that carbon inside and then they breathe out oxygen. So taking in carbon, breathing out oxygen. So, this is great for us because we're putting too much of that carbon, too much of that blanket up into our atmosphere and we're getting too hot. So, forests help us do that. But, we need to keep those forest standing. You know, we're cutting down forest in, you know, major major ways all over the all all over the globe. mostly because we're using the land to to for agriculture, for food, for cows to graze and for planting soy and corn to feed the cows to graze and for other types of for agriculture. We're cutting down forest. We're cutting down forest when we do mining or when we build roads or when our cities just expand. You know, places where there used to be forest are now suburbs. And so we need to find way of continuing to grow, continuing to feed ourselves clearly, but not cutting down our forest because the forests are really providing us with these nature-based solutions, the solutions to carbon, the solutions to making sure that we're keeping all of our animals and our our parks healthy and and and growing. So what can you do? You also have superpowers. Not only does nature have superpowers, you have superpowers to help nature because nature needs us. So at home, we can plant trees even in with your parents. You could plant them even in your yard or there are lots of organizations out there. You can volunteer for their plant tree tree planting days. And that's such fun thing to do with your friends. And you go out with little teeny trees and you put them there and you know that you are going to help the earth. Create rain garden or rain barrel to catch water. don't throw away your food scraps. Put them into compost where it's outside. You can make healthy soil that stores carbon. You can reduce and reuse and recycle. really important to decrease the demand for new products. We keep making new products and coming from the earth, but if we just reuse some of the things or we recycle, we really can reduce the energy needed to make new products. And then of course in your home, I'm sure your parents have said this million times, turn off your lights, unplug your devices when you're not using them, and then try to use fans instead of air condition whenever is possible. at school. One of the most fun things you can do, think, is start an environmental club. you know, and and have it focused on nature. I've seen schools where they've put in garden or little nature trail if there's any room around it. they can, you know, even again plant trees or if you're living in really urban environment, you know, some of those those window boxes where you're just putting some green in. talking to your school about what can the school do? Maybe there's park ne nearby so you could plant some trees or you could organize community planting day or you could clean up park clean up creek that's by you and then it's so easy to create little garden for bees and butterflies. So, lots of things and the most great part about it is you're doing it with your friends. there's nothing more fun than when you're doing things together and you're really making helpful to to the earth. Again, in your community, there are lots of local environmental groups that you can volunteer with. Take your parents with you. do make it family day. Sometimes like during Thanksgiving, my family and it's day of thanks. And so we give back, we do something, we volunteer with local environmental group and it's great feeling to do something not only with your friends but with your family. you can also write to local leaders and ask them to protect parks and plant trees and and have green infrastructure. This is way of you know making your voice heard. But mostly for some of the some of you kids who are older or hopefully the older and only with your parents' permission spread the word on social media or give presentations to your school. Again, this is something that you can do. Talk about it with your friends. Find way of being part of your community of really helping bring nature into into the into your life and into your community. So, that's all want to say before we questions. want to thank everybody. hope that you've learned something about nature and nature based solutions, climate change, and little bit hopefully little bit of love for mangroves out there. Marcine, thank you so so much. And geez, you you highlighted so much in there, but want to do special shout out because you mentioned the amazing folks at Billy and Oyster Project. We've actually had them on the broadcast before and they're on our YouTube channel. They're amazing. We've also done bevy on mangrove. So, if kids are keen to find out more, again, our YouTube channel, one-stop shop for lots to explore there. If you want to come out of screen share so you can see us again and have bit of conversation, we are going to start by diving in with our cahoot. So, see who is paying attention, test some understanding, have some fun. Marcen, if you want to give us hints as we go through this quiz. you're welcome to shout out and give us some guidance. And then we're going to dive in with questions. There are already some questions coming in on YouTube. Miss Mallerie's class, you're our on camera class, so we're going to come to you guys in bit and dive in. But am going to share my screen, bring up our Cahoot, and we are going to get underway and do this thing. if you're new to Cahoot, the faster you answer, the more points you get, and what you win is Marcine and I's everlasting respect, which is quite So, let's dive in and do this thing. You could absolutely get started after we've gotten underway. But let's go with our first question in three, two, one. Let's see. All right, drum roll, please. We talked at the beginning about this. Mangroves can sequester how much more than other forests? Is it two times, half as much, four times, or 50 times? What do we think? Let's see. Get those answers in. Get those answers in. All right, 10 more seconds. 20 seconds per question. Marcine, you want to give us hint with few seconds to go? Well, remember, mangroves are is power factor, so I'm giving you that hint. They're pretty strong. It was our highest correct answer. Four times is correct. Let's see what that does to our leaderboard. Shining dove is in our lead. Majestic lion close second behind. All right, we'll go to question two. Marcine's main adventure with mangrove. She just got back from there. We saw the footage. Was it in Panama, the US, Guyana, or Fiji? hope everybody gets this right. Let's see. All right. This is place that I've long wanted to go. This is like, you know, think when people think of tropical paradise in their minds, this is the place. and everybody got it right pretty much. How was it, by the way? Like broad strokes. Exciting. It was amazing. Just beautiful It's series of islands, right? And it's just amazing and beautiful with mountains and then of course the sea. and just that kind of water that the blue water you're just, you know, you can't believe how gorgeous the water is. think think you need another visit there just to monitor the stuff for few more months. think you should head out there and Yeah, we'll we'll vouch for you. All right, question three. Coral reefs. This is another nature-based solution main ecosystem that we talked about. Support the livelihoods of how many people? This was on the slide. Who was paying attention? I'm gonna give you big hint. It's very big number. Huge number. Yeah. Well, you guys as an audience are killing this. And this is, you know what love about ocean ecosystems is that grew up in Toronto, so was nowhere near an ocean, but billions and billions of people on this planet rely on the ocean every single day. One billion is correct for all of you who got that. Way to go. Let's see. Shining dove keeps our lead barely over luminous coyote. Okay. And if you are any of these people, let us know who you are in the chat at the end. 404. What are some ways you can make positive difference for the planet? Plant native plants in your yard. Share what you learned today with family and friends. Use reusable materials or hint hint nudge nudge and thing that always use in quotes. Maybe all of the above. Let's see what we got. Seven more seconds and then we are going to do live with Q&A. Please do share in the chat on YouTube. Everyone, Miss Mallerie's class. We're coming to you momentarily. lot of you are quick with It is All of the above. All right. Our leaderboard, our finale. Let's see where we go. Third, dramatic Clark, who inexplicably is moose in party hat. Two is Luminous Coyote, who's frog with soother. And number one, for all the marbles, was it wire to wire? Let's find out. It is Shining Dove. If you are Shining Dove, let us know who you are in the chat. Way to go, everybody. Thanks for playing along and paying attention. And we're going to dive in with questions. So Marcen, one of our first questions is about if this is happening in other places than Fiji. So you highlighted some really cool projects for replanting mango forest there. Is this happening around the world? Who's doing it? Is WWF leading the charge? Anything you can share? Yes, this is something that people are really working on and there is coalition of folks on mangroves to restore mangoes around the world because mangroves are not just in like places like Fiji. They're here in in our south, for example, like in Florida. They're all through Central and South America. they're in Africa. There are just so many places. They're tropical areas where mangoes are. So, there's big push to restore mangoes around the world. just got back from Abu Dhabi and the World Conservation Congress where all the nature nerds met up to sort of pave future for wildlife. And they have huge mangro forests. like as you you drive to the conference venue past the big mangro forest. they're such special ecosystems. So love that question. Thanks guys. All right. Ottawa grade six is Miss Mallerie's class. If you want to flick on your mic, we'll come to you for our first question. come on in and take us away. Hey. Hi. How long have you been doing wildlife research? Yeah. Awesome question. Yeah. So have been working on climate change in specific for like 20 years. for really really long time. I've been at WWF for about five years and at here we're really focused on the where nature and climate work together, right? And so it's been about five years that I've been able to work on these nature-based solutions and really see the difference it makes for the planet but also for us, right? It's something that really works for for for people. Yeah. love that you mentioned the sort of linking of climate and biodiversity. So, it used to be that there was like climate conference and biodiversity conference and increasingly they're smooshing together because we're realizing that the more we support natural ecosystems, the better we can withstand the impacts of climate change, whether that's storms, it's all the things you talked about at the beginning. But this is something that we keep coming to in lot of our broadcasts. So, I'm really glad we got that message. Thanks, Miss Mallerie's class. Quick follow up on that from group on YouTube. They want to know what did you study at university? If someone wants to be you when they grow up, where would you guide them? Wow. So actually mean one studied things about international right international development. So that's like how does the world you know develop and how do we we build ourselves and go forward. So that was one of the things that studied and then also studied and this might be surprise. studied finance and business because at the end of the day we need not only do we as individuals need to take action, we need our businesses and our governments to take action. So lot of the time that I've been working in this area, it's been investing in technologies to help us. So I've invested in renewable energy. I've invested in green buildings. I've invested in electric vehicles, things like that, which are the solutions to climate change, investing in nature. So that's what have done. So little different. You know you probably thought was like an environmental scientist, but really I've come upon the practical ways of how do we solve this problem because you know this is going to affect us for generations and generations to come and we want to make our planet better for every generation that comes after us. Well, and love that you mentioned this too because we have lot of environmental scientists on, but at the congress was at, they had whole business summit because for so long and kids, you'll you can ask your teachers and parents about this sort of environment was always pitted against business. Like they were inherently against each other and we need to take resources from the earth. We need to build our homes. We need to power our vehicles. We need to power the world around us. But we can do that in as good way as possible. And so it's so important to have those conversations because businesses are made up of people. And just like every other kind of person, so many of them want to make better world around them for themselves, for the future generations. And so when we have those conversations, we've had lot of good, especially in the last decade. So it's really exciting time to be in environmental sustainability, Marcine, and and thank you so much for that. All right, I'm going to take one more from YouTube and then we're going to go back to Miss Mallerie's class. complicated question. Miss Cork's class wants to know, "What is it that makes mangroves four times better at sequestring carbon? Do we have the science on that?" So think mostly it's the root system. If you saw some of those pictures, you saw these roots that went way deep into the water, right? And so that really helps in terms of absorbing that carbon and turning it back and then giving out the oxygen. So that plus the trees and the density of the trees are really what makes it such you know, superpower, climate superhero. hope some of our students take the chance to look up mangroves when you're done this. some of the videos of people kaying around them. Like there's such weird trees. Like for Canadian who grew up with all like pines and maples. it's really surreal to see mangro forest. It looks like almost an alien ecosystem because of its root systems. Yeah. And the water drains away and then you have these trees that look like they're floating and then they come back and sharks are swimming between the roots. Like it's really cool stuff. do check it out. Miss Mallerie's class, you're right at the camera. So we're gonna come back to you guys and then we'll take few more from YouTube. Come on in. Unmute your mic and take us away. Hey. Hi. What made you what made you switch from finance to do this? Well, because feel like I've noticing in my area how we were having more storms, how we were having more floods and droughts and heats. And, you know, was talking to my kids and they were just being very concerned about climate change and they felt like, well, there's nothing we can do about it. It's just what's going to happen to us and we're just not going to have great planet. And knew from doing the finance part that that's not really the case. There's lots of things that we can do. And in fact, we've made progress. People feel like, there's, you know, we haven't done anything and our world leaders haven't done anything. And while we're not doing enough, we need to get everybody involved to do more. We need to press our leaders and our business people to do more. We have made progress. And so just wanted to encourage people and to to come to especially with young people to let you know there's lot of hope and there's such better future on the other side of this. Right? When we solve climate change, not only do we solve that the issue of putting carbon into the atmosphere, we're going to have cleaner air. We're going to have cleaner water. We're going to have more animals around. we'll have more space to go into nature and to enjoy nature. we'll make our cities, you know, better places to live. So, there's so much positive of the future that we can create. It's challenge for us right now, but wanted to be part of that. And so, that's why moved to really working with nature as part of the climate solution. What beautiful message. mean, this is something that we talked about the Congress. It's something that you live and breathe in your job, but mean condors, wolves, whales, crocodiles, like pick your species in numbers are either increasing or stagnant. mean, where we're doing so so much to bring back wildlife around this planet. On the climate change front, mean again, as you said, there's so much more room to be done. But when was boy, there was almost no renewable energy and like solar and wind have absolutely exploded on this planet. think it's third of all power is generated by renewable sources, which is unbelievable to have happened in the last two decades. like the pace of development technology getting the cost down for it is just tremendous. There's no going back. Like there's literally there's no future in which we don't do this because it's cheaper and better and more effective and less polluting in every way. And and so 90% of the new power that we put in is renewable power, right? And so over time it's we're really going to transform into this and there's no lack of sun, right? The sun will always shine and the wind will always blow. So that's what's so great about it is so we don't have to worry about scarcity. We don't have to get it from other countries. It's right here in our own country and and for other places it's right there in their own country. It's something that we all share and and so it's really brighter future. It really is. live in Newfoundland on an island on the east coast of Canada and we've just ended our moratorium on wind farms. So we're going to be putting up wind turbines to help power the whole province and beyond. It's really exciting time. find them really beautiful. So, I'm really excited to see them personally, too. so love that question and thank you so much, Miss Mallerie's class. All right, an interesting one from Miss Riddle's class. don't think we've ever had this in our history. Do invasive species contribute to climate change or are they separate issues? Like, they're both really big issues. Do they link in any way that you can think of? Well, the way think about it is when you have when you're you're the Earth is warming, right? species who could could never before live in different places are now able to travel up there. So let me give the example in of mosquitoes right particularly in places like Africa where they they you know carry malaria and really bad diseases that hurt human beings. So if you were living in Kenya and the highlands up up you wouldn't have these issues with mosquitoes. But now with climate change where it's getting warmer, these mosquitoes are able to go up and and then and then infect people who've never had that problem, never been, you know, infected before. So what the climate does by warming the planet, it allows these invasious species, be it be it insects, be it plants, who were never there before to be able to come and thrive in areas that in in in the past they would not be able to. Literally yesterday there was story about mosquitoes coming to Iceland for the first time. this remote island in the middle of the Atlantic. Never had them before and their range has shifted and whether it's storms or winds that brought them there. It's it's going to be really interesting time for lot of species on this planet because of climate change. Orcas are getting into new places that they haven't been before and eating through everything because they're the oceanceans's apex predator. So, this is going to be really interesting space to look at and understand in the decades to come. That's great answer. Yeah. And let me just say one other thing that we're really worried about is fish. So, you know, fish can move. Now, come from Boston, right? And we are very and and New England in general. We are really proud of our main lobsters or New England lobsters, right? This is like we're known for that. Well, these little lobsters are on the bottom of the sea and they're like, it's getting actually kind of warm here. We like cold water." And they're becoming Canadian lobsters. Hello, Jesse. Canadian lobster. The lobsters are moving. And so but it's problem because we have whole industry in New England that's based on lobsters and people go to New England to get lobster and etc. And so that this is the kind of thing where the Canadians might be happy. don't know if they call them invasious species, but we're we're not happy because we're losing it. And that's that's another example of of animals and fish and and and lobsters moving because of climate change. Yeah. What great answer. Geez, this has been lot of fun. Professional detachment out the window. I'm having field day with this. Miss Cowan's class, our virtual schools in Tennessee, if you want to come on in for question with your grade 12s, we go to you and then we'll wrap up with Miss Mallerie in minute because time flies and you're having fun in these broadcasts. There just too much to cover. but come on in and take us away. Hello, Clean Memphis. I'm sorry. am not with the class. No, know you're virtual. didn't know if you had any questions from them or anything, but you're all good. If you have any Thank you so much. have enjoyed this presentation so much. I'm working with some students in Memphis on the National Geographic Slingshot Challenge and so we they couldn't be here live so thought would attend live for them so that we can make sure that we get all the information as part of our solutions. Awesome. Well, thank you so so much Michelle and hope they get to take part. We love the slingshot challenge here at Exploring by the seat of your pants. It's an amazing initiative. in that case, we will go back to Miss Mallerie's class for another question. come on in, folks, and take us away again. Hello. Feel free to unmute. There we are. Hello. Hi. Hi. when were mangroves discovered? When did we find mangroves? Wow. don't know. They're pretty ancient, right? So you have these old ancient forests and think people native people, indigenous people have always been able to use mangroves you know in terms of cultivating they're like little nurseries for baby fish, right? Because they can kind of go into these little nooks and crannies under the roots and and native people have always used them. They've also known that they protect their villages. So you know villages were able to to grow up closer to the sea where they had mangroves because the the waves wouldn't come up and wipe away their villages. So these have been part of people's cultures for very very long time. What we didn't realize in modern times is how much protection they were giving us and how much help they were giving us. And so many times we would come and we would clear the mangros and you know build fancy hotel or resort and then not understand why we were having so much trouble with you know the storms coming in and washing away the beaches. Many many people have seen that their beaches are eroding meaning the sand is going away and the beaches are more narrow and lot of that is because we took away the mangroves. So like in many ways we need to go back to some of our you know the our ancestors or the ancestors who are the native people who understood that relationship between man and nature and and and the world and nature and take some of these practices back because they're they're they're natural to us and it really helps us in terms of being able to live safe and productive life. what an answer. always wrap up by asking sort of one final message and will take do that in minute but that was beautiful last thing to end on. Geez. want to stress for anyone who's keen to learn more worldwife.org has is like your one-stop shop for all sorts of information on mangroves and all manner of other ecosystems. The amazing work that the team there is working to do to protect them. If you want to check out our next program with them November 20th, we've got an amazing one coming up and we'll be doing more with WWF throughout the year. So please do tune in here and you can share this one with your family and friends on our YouTube channel. As I've said, I'll also follow up with bunch of resources and opportunities to share what you thought about everything. But Marcen, before we wrap up and bring in our class to say big thank you and farewell, is there final message you want to leave us with today? Anything before we say goodbye? just want folks to enjoy nature. Bring nature into your world. be it garden, be it at your school, reach out to your family, share this information. And we're sometimes afraid to talk to our families about this, but this is the type of thing that you can talk with your friends, talk with your family, get involved, and and it really gives you benefit as well as helping the planet. So enjoy that. take the time, learn more about mangroves, and and really about how nature can help us. Nature needs us now. So let's let's and we need nature. no better message than that. Now, most of our audience is on YouTube. So, if you want to scream and yell and annoy the principal, wherever you are, you have our permission to do so. Please do. On behalf of WWF, who can't speak for, you can yell in your classes. Miss Mallerie's class, please feel free to join in. Flick on your mic. Thank you so much to everyone for being here today. What an incredible program. And we hope you'll all join us for the rest of the series and more in the weeks to come.