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As a South Sudanese am truly grateful that you guys have given this issue the exposure it desperately needs. Thank you!

More than 2.4 million trees of sub-tropical forests are to be cut down to make an international airport here in Nepal. The region is an important habitat for several endangered species including asiatic elephant. This project will have more impacts than benefits for a long run. Hope you make a video on that too. 🇳🇵

Kudos to the Terra Mater team for the high quality contents as always

The only thing the canal would do is to cause more of the problems it was build to solve. More flooding but more importantly longer and harsher draughts. The wetlands serve as a water reservoir and supply downstream lands with water when there's little to go by. If you make the water move faster, you'll get more water when there's an abundance of it, so it will cause bigger floods. And there will be none remaining for the dry season.

Surely this is the type of thing that should become a unesco world heritage site so that it’s protected

Love this channel Seriously you guys deserve so much better views and recognition One of my fav channel with all your heart for the environment

The shots in this video were outstanding, great job as usual!

These type of canals have already been build in the Donau river basin. Wherever they were made they ruined all the ecosystems.

I grew up in South Florida as a native and already watched one swamp turned desert by canals don't let them tell you it wouldn't be destroyed

I really like this video a lot, and one thing that I want to add is, that the Blue Nile from Ethiopia contains 86% of the total river volume and it is by far the largest.

The Sudd should become a formal protected area, perhaps it's time to establish a new National Park.

Amazing video! Already waiting for the next one :)

I don't understand why people don't listen to scientists when making major decisions like this

Great video, I hope they stop this project, Southsudan is only thinking about Egypt's money without thinking about how it will impact its own territory.

It will not be so bad... We've got controll of the situation... yada yada. Have this government not learnt about what happened to the Aral Sea? I'm no hydrologist, but I have a bad feeling the same thing would happen to the Sudd if this goes through.

This is such an amazing channel that covers so many topics!

Thank you Terra Mater for all the fantastic videos =)

The cinematic is so beautiful, the ecosystem was beautiful 😮

If it’s not broken don’t fix it. Thanks terra matta.

your videos are greate (but you also!) so iteresting and absolutly on point!

First day and am already loving the channel nice one

It will be a desaster for Sudan in future, good approach by environment minister of South Sudan

Sudd wetlands is located in the central Nuer tribe Check your information well. Nuer lives on the both sides of the Nile

Brilliant content as always. Please make content on cheetah reintroduction programme in India. Historic moment in the conservation of wildlife in india.

Maybe if Brilliant were to sponsor the South Sudanese government too, then they wouldn’t have seen the need to destroy the wetlands of their nation.

My advice to South Sudan: “DO NOT BUILD THAT CANAL BECAUSE IN LESS THAN 10 YEARS YOU WILL REGRET IT!! DO NOT LET EGYPT BULLY YOU!”

Reminds me of the Aral sea, project. Ill informed.

Dams damn the water cycle creating droughts

South Sudan needs to set a price for the extra water they'll deliver to Egypt.

It can't stay like this we have to do something to protect animals and people.🌳🐘🐘

5:03 . . that the canal can reduce "evaporation" (evapo-trsanspiration, is more correct) lost is a specious plea. Actually the (so-called) "lost" water makes clouds to cause rainfall to reduce temperature for humans & animals, to preserve the eco-system saving it from desertification. This bluff should be called & the South Sudanese must be educated more, on it. Great video, Congratulations!

Such a beautiful river now mired in a political mess it doesn't deserve to be in. It really makes we are really making things very scarce for ourselves in how much we consume of mother nature's bounty.

Smash the machine... Teach them Corruption is no longer tolerated

This channel is so underrated

Is there a way to build the Nile Canal without changing the Sudd

Politicians did something similar to the Aral Sea and it didn’t go so well

The population and wildlife of South Sudan will be the biggest losers

The Jonglei canal will never be completed! We the youth of South Sudan have spoken and it's final!

How would you even go about calculating the value of a biome?

Egypt is ironically killing the river that gives it life.

As an Egyptian, and environmentalist, I am in the most unfortunate position regarding this project. On the one hand I am all for the preservation of wildlife and our planet but on the other we really are running our of options regarding our water problem especially with Ethiopia's dam problem. Is that what an American would call a Catch 22? Damned if I do and Damned if I don't? What alternatives would you suggest?

We all know trusting Egypt with water is a bad idea... Maybe they shouldn't have built a dam down stream, just maybe.

I think many of us viewers would like to see alternative solutions in this video as well. What could be done instead of building a canal?

This is madness! ... Last time Sudan and Egypt tried this, the workers got killed.

It is rare that a war become a good thing for the nature.

Wow scarred

I don’t understand how people can be so stupid.

Nile canal good for the country, economic strategies can feed the people. Elephant can shift to other places. With the elephant living and the people starving is also not logical.

Gajah nya besar sekali KK 👍👍

Ethiopia nile tribute is not the second rather it is the first with a contribution of 86% of the Nile river.

Well, lets learn from the soviet, when they build several canal to divert water from the river of Amur Darya and Syr Darya to build and irrigate cotton plantation. And right now the downstream lake, which is Aral Sea, became a desert and bring several problem to several breakway soviet state, mainly salt storm, and rising temperature above global average. So why some of South Sudanese and Egyptian want to repeat the same mistake the Soviet did? Sure in the short term this project will bring more benefit to Egypt (more water) and South Sudan (less flood). But what about long term impact?

So Ethiopia builds their dam so they can build electricity and further their country, Egypt fears of its country collapsing because of the dam. So, now Egypt is building this canal in Sudanese that could end the animal wildlife environment? that's crazy all around.

I think the opposite, I think the canal is crucial and building it will be the best thing for the South Sudanese future generations - - - the liberty of free thinking

The video downplays the benefits for South Sudan.

It's really sad to see it , hope it gets cancel Also I hate it how some countries get to make dam and let less water go to the next country

"Hey, let's turn our own country's land to desert, what could go wrong? Also, the people that live there are from a different tribe, and Egypt will bribe me, so get digging baby!"

Great Effort, It’s really a concern to distress the life’s of 2000 elephants and 15000 crocodile, and possibility of rain reduced in the area, but helping to secure a live of 100 million Egyptians is not really a big concern!!!

This actually was the reason behind the outbreak of the sudanese civil in 1980th so people of south sudan will not allow such a destructive project to take place

Instead of building South Sudan's Economy by using the waters of the Sudd for Agriculture and industrial use To get a better GDP per Capital and per year, The leaders are thinking of ways to destory the territory as a whole. Wat a disgrace

What do we do?

I wonder If the water supply from Jonglei canal mitigates the impact on Egyptian Nile river from Ethiopian dam GERD, Then that makes sense Egypt wants to support the canal. Does anyone know if it is true?

can you say the same to ethiopia's dam that may kill the nile

You are brilliant in this one in the world Yor hope you are criminal crooks

the fx are like 1db too loud

This is greed and unfortunately greed is too common around the world and they will hurt themselves.

It's a sad sad world.

Desalination would solve Egypt's water problems.

Hope this giant machine stays off !!very informative.

If the gov are stubborn and go ahead with canal, will it have unseen benefits? Like will it allow wildlife, evaporation for rainfall... etc? I guess this is what the gov is banking on

Create a urban settlement along side the canal ... It will both the problem ...

Are those people hellbent on digging the canal bone headed...?! 😠😡👿 Can't they see what happened to Aral Sea..?!

Humanity's downfall will be it's own doing!

people like this minister must remain steadfast as they're, buy our animals as much time as they need. You all are doing a fantastic job, but a necessary one!

Humans won't stop until the whole world dries or drowned...

That’s just crazy… humans, we do not see a mistake before animals and humans die.

The best things Egypt can do is to reduce it birth rate because no one is threatening to take over Egypt, Arab people have history of creating desert where there is no desert.

People of the land are Jieeng not Dinka, Nuer and Chollo (shilluk)

this canal is idiotic on all levels, thanks for informing us!

It’s sad that humans are still considering these ecologically disastrous projects.

Global 500 should pay to south Sudan in return get carbon credits. Eco systems which this area support storage huge carbon and maintain waste grass land in surrounding areaa

The canal can still be built with environmental protection measures. The whole river will not be diverted.......only a small portion.

Not a river anymore, but a bigger volume of water:a ņew sea

Remember the Aral sea? And the Dead Sea? Stuff like this is never a good idea.

We are actually ugly humans especially politicians

Egypt should pursue desalination instead

Ask the people who used to live around the Aral Sea, water diversion will kill the eco system.

This is bad 😔

What can we do to prevent this project from starting?

Humans are very shortsighted 😭😭

Why do you play music over the narration?

easy vote. save the Sudd

Why aren't more people talking about how selfish EGYPT is?

Just move water from The Kongo. That is super easy to do. If you increase the Discharge in The White NIle, by 50%, then you can send this surpluss into this chanal.

I'm Definitely Against The Canal , Nature Was Perfectly Fine Without Our Help.

Africans have to make these decisions themselves. They are not easy decisions.

It is the first climate emission of human development into the Earth's atmosphere. Nature balances itself but when we start consuming natural resources the natural balance becomes unbalanced so that today people all over the earth are facing the effects of climate without directly knowing it. It is the need of the day for all countrymen to unite. This is not yours, not mine, this is the problem of the people of the whole earth. So together we can reduce the impact of climate on nature. Different regions of the world have been collecting and saving a lot of data for many years. When that collected data is transferred, or provided to people. Everyone is convinced that the earth can be made habitable. We all have a responsibility towards our motherland 'Earth'. We all love development and evaluation come with responsibility so that we can responsibly and peacefully develop the areas we have left for development. All of us born in this world need peace and development to move forward. Please help by addressing the comments I made. We all live on earth we need to do and we do it individually, what do we do by ourselves? We all don't think my life has any limits. When I look at the picture of the whole earth there are no lines, no boundaries. We are all born, live, and die here. I think life has no limits we need to live life to the fullest. See a connected world in the open sky without borders. There is no limit here, we make everything here ourselves, so there is no theft, here there is no limit even in the open sky, there is no limit even under the sky. I don't need to get into political issues but everyone has freedom of opinion. In my opinion, I am also free, but it does not mean that there is freedom, the world community has also started talking about borderless politics. When problems begin to arise in the universe, none of the problems are confined to man-made boundaries. So, when trouble starts, it affects everyone who lives between the borders. So there are many problems in the world today. Among those common problems are global water climate change, food shortages, droughts, human life, and wildlife problems in the region. Various countries, organizations, and individuals around the world are ready to reduce the risk to plants, animals, and humans from its effects. We are all doing the same thing for the world, for life, for peace, and for the future. It makes our life meaningful, when we think about the future, peace, and life beyond the limits of what we are, life becomes meaningful and important. A perfect life on earth is important. Losing one in nature is a great loss. It all means, what problems we are facing all over the world today. All these are the result of our system development. Limited resources and their high consumption have led to climate change on our planet. Today, we humans are so evolved that we can imagine a bright and beautiful peaceful future by solving these world problems. I was born in the corner of mother earth at the turn of the century. But I live for the world, for life, for peace, for a bright human future. I am a graduate student in Nepal. I am trying to control and minimize this world's biggest disaster "climate change effect". Currently, there are many problems in our world such as climate change, drought, reduction in production, lack of food, and decline in human health. To solve this problem around us we must try to balance water and air. Today we are trying to mitigate many of the conditions in our world system such as global temperature change, drought, reduction in food production, lack of availability, environmental change, deterioration in public health, etc. We are trying to reduce and control the world's biggest disaster "Climate Change Impact". In an attempt to solve these difficult situations, new solutions have come up. Let's all help to make this work successfully.

Backward minded people who think about their pockets can sell their mothers for their interests. Shame on them if they ever have shame to begin with.

what the heck is uno doing,why cant we build railroads instead of cannals

Sometimes I wish people would just leave nature alone. When you think about it, it feels like 90% of things humans do to nature do not have to happen! Just leave it. Not everything has to be about power or money or whatever. How about we try just living in the world as it is and finding solutions to our problems that don‘t harm anyone, including wildlife and nature?