COP28 TOLD ''ACT NOW'' BY CHARLES DARWIN DESCENDENT - NR

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HEADLINE: COP28 TOLD “ACT NOW” BY CHARLES DARWIN DESCENDENT DURATION: 04:24
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Governments must act now to preserve and restore nature before global warming and climate change mean entire species and their habitats are destroyed.

That’s the contention of botanist Sarah Darwin, whose great-great grandfather Charles Darwin is credited with being the father of evolutionary theory.

Speaking from the heart of the Brazilian rainforest, which her famous ancestor investigated almost 200 years ago, she called on world leaders at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai to “stop waging war on nature and find new ways of living in it, in a sustainable way”.

Sarah Darwin is supporting Darwin200, a 40,000 nautical mile voyage retracing Charles Darwin’s journey aboard the HMS Beagle that ignited a scientific revolution. Like Darwin before them, 200 young conservationists will be exploring and documenting the natural world, taking stock of the state of nature almost 200 years on from Darwin’s groundbreaking circumnavigation.

The Darwin200 tall ship sailed into Rio De Janeiro on the latest leg of its epic journey giving those aboard the opportunity to see Brazil’s natural beauty which was chronicled in Charles Darwin’s journals.

Shotlist - All shot November 2023

1. Darwin200 boat arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th November 2023
2. Mast shot, Darwin200 boat, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 4th November 2023
3. Darwin200 boat arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th November 2023
4. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"So this year’s COP is all about having a Global Stock Take and with Darwin 200 we are going to be doing exactly that."

5. Darwin200 boat arriving in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 4th November 2023
6. Mast shot, Darwin200 boat, Rio de Janeiro Brazil 4th November 2023
7. Darwin200 conservationists aboard holding rigging, Brazil
8. Darwin200 conservationists aboard hoisting sail, Brazil
9. Darwin200 conservationists taking photos, Brazil
10. Darwin200 conservationists aboard looking through binoculars, Brazil
11. Darwin200 conservationists aboard examining samples, Brazil 12. Darwin200 conservationists aboard, Brazil
13. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"So these young people are going to be going around the world following in the wake of Darwin, nearly 200 years after Darwin. And we are going to be doing a comparison between what Darwin saw, what he collected, what he wrote about in his diaries and journals and we are going to be able to see what the state of the planet is like today."

14. Darwin200 boat at sea with dolphin
15. Turtles swimming
16. Darwin200 boat at sea
17. Dolphin swimming
18. Darwin200 boat, sunset
19. Aerial, Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
20. Sarah Darwin walking, Charles’ Darwin’s great-great granddaughter, Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
21. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"I’m here in the Atlantic Forest at last, experiencing something that Darwin would have experienced. The joy of being here in this pristine, beautiful, stunning forest and I’m really running out of words to describe what it feels like."

22. SarahDarwinwalking,Charles’Darwin’sgreat-greatgranddaughter,sAtlantic Rainforest, Brazil
23. Aerial, Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
24. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"Well, ever since I read that beautiful text that Darwin wrote in his journal about walking in the Atlantic Forest for the first time, I've wanted to come here. So this is an absolute dream come true for me."

25. SarahDarwinreadingfromCharlesDarwin’sHMSBeaglevoyagediary:

"Most paradoxical mixture of sound and silence pervades the shady parts of the wood. The day has passed delightfully. Delight is, however, a weak term for such transports of pleasure. I have been wandering by myself in a Brazilian forest. And amongst the multitude, it's hard to say what set of objects is most striking. To a person fond of natural history, such a day as this brings with it pleasure, more acute than he may ever again experience again."

26. Aerial,AtlanticRainforest,Brazil
27. Aerial, Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
28. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"This forest used to cover the entire coast of the Atlantic coast of Brazil, but now it's reduced to just under 10%"

29. SarahDarwinwalking,AtlanticRainforest,Brazil 30. Atlantic Rainforest trees, Brazil
31. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"You know, we're part of nature and at the moment we're waging war on nature and we need to admit that we're part of it and find new ways of living in it in a sustainable way."

32. Aerial, Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil
33. SARAH DARWIN SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH)

"What I hope to see at COP about nature is action. We've had a lot of scientific research. We've had a lot of studies. We really all know what's going on. And now we need to take action. We need to preserve, for example, the forests that we have. And we need to restore what we've lost."

34. Aerial,AtlanticRainforest,Brazil 35. Aerial, Atlantic Rainforest, Brazil