Podcasts about sea watch

Pour écouter mon podcast Choses à Savoir:Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/choses-%C3%A0-savoir-culture-g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale/id1048372492Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/3AL8eKPHOUINc6usVSbRo3?si=e794067703c14028----------------------------L'ONG Sea-Watch reprend ses missions de sauvetage en Méditerranée malgré des restrictions italiennes. Des dizaines de migrants ont été secourus cette semaine au large de la Libye.Traduction :Despite Italian restrictions, Sea-Watch resumes rescue missions in the Mediterranean. Dozens of migrants were saved this week off the Libyan coast. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Adrian Pourviseh hat sich als Seenotretter auf dem Mittelmeer engagiert. Er war mehrfach im Einsatz auf der Sea Watch 3 und berichtet von dramatischen Rettungsaktionen, an denen er beteiligt war.In dieser Folge sprechen wir über die unterschiedlichsten Fluchtursachen und die Gefahren, die auf dem Mittelmeer warten. Adrian erklärt, wieso die Küstenwachen und Frontex die Rettung von Menschen in Not bewusst unterlassen und sogar verhindern. So bleiben private Seenotrettungs-Schiffe die letzte Hoffnung für alle, die es nicht aus eigener Kraft an das rettende Ufer schaffen.Adrian berichtet, wie Rettungen auf hoher See ablaufen und welche Spuren diese bei ihm hinterlassen haben. Eine Art, sein Trauma zu bewältigen, ist die Medienarbeit: So spricht er über das Erlebte, und hat ein Grafic Novel über das „Schimmern der See“ veröffentlich, welches ihm noch in schmerzhafter Erinnerung ist…Adrians Buch „Das Schimmern der See“ findet ihr hier: https://www.avant-verlag.de/comics/das-schimmern-der-see/Weitere Infos zu Sea Watch könnt ihr hier finden: https://sea-watch.orgMit „Ein Leben für den Ozean“ ist ein Buch zum Podcast erschienen. Es erzählt 10 Geschichten über die Held*innen der Meere und begeistert bildgewaltig für den Ozean. Ihr könnt es unter www.ein-leben-fuer-den-ozean.de bestellen.Den Link zu meinen Werbepartnern findest du hier: https://linktr.ee/helden_der_meere_partner

Controvento è un documentario che vuole parlare di diritti, libertà e confini – da Lampedusa racconterà la missione dell'imbarcazione Aurora che porta soccorso nel Mediterraneo. Parliamo con i registi Federico Conti e Mattia Bosco, e Giacomo Zorzi di Sea-Watch, esplorando l'idea e il significato del crowdfunding come gesto collettivo.

2015 begannen humanitäre Organisationen Flüchtende auf dem Mittelmeer zu retten. Seither hat sich nicht nur das Klima gegenüber Migrantinnen und Migranten verschärft – auch die zivile Seenotrettung wird immer weiter erschwert. Artikel vom 09. April 2025: https://jacobin.de/artikel/sommer-der-migration-seenotrettung Seit 2011 veröffentlicht JACOBIN täglich Kommentare und Analysen zu Politik und Gesellschaft, seit 2020 auch in deutscher Sprache. Die besten Beiträge gibt es als Audioformat zum Nachhören. Nur dank der Unterstützung von Magazin-Abonnentinnen und Abonnenten können wir unsere Arbeit machen, mehr Menschen erreichen und kostenlose Audio-Inhalte wie diesen produzieren. Und wenn Du schon ein Abo hast und mehr tun möchtest, kannst Du gerne auch etwas regelmäßig an uns spenden via www.jacobin.de/podcast. Zu unseren anderen Kanälen: Instagram: www.instagram.com/jacobinmag_de X: www.twitter.com/jacobinmag_de YouTube: www.youtube.com/c/JacobinMagazin Webseite: www.jacobin.de

Beneath the waves of West Wales lies a complicated network of relationships that determines not only who's belly rolling who, but which calf survives.  Join Katrin Lohrengel and her team at Sea Watch to search for one of the ocean's most loved and misunderstood creatures: bottlenose dolphins.  For the Welsh transcript of this episode please click here. [Ad] Wild Tales is sponsored by Cotswold Outdoor, your outside retailer and epic guides to adventure.   Quick breathers, calming walks or heart-pounding hikes. We feel better when we get out more.   Find quality kit and 50 years of outdoor wisdom. Plus, supporters save 15% in-store and online. Feel in your element, in the elements, at Cotswold Outdoor.   www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/  Production:   Host: Rosie Holdsworth   Producer: Marnie Woodmeade Sound Designer: Jesus Gomez Discover more:   Find out more about the dolphins in Cardigan Bay: www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk/  Did you know , you can see dolphins from the shore at Cardigan Bay? Explore the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty's coastal walks:  www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/strumble-head-to-cardigan  Special thanks to Katrin Lohrengel for extra fact checking work and the whole team at Sea Watch.  Follow Wild Tales on your favourite podcast app or on Instagram @wildtalesnt. If you'd like to get in touch with feedback, or have a story connected to our wild world, you can contact us at podcasts@nationaltrust.org.uk 

A breathtaking subdivision in British Columbia, known as the Seawatch development, was designed to be a luxurious paradise. The homes, valued at over a million dollars, overlooked pristine waters, but when winter came, disaster struck. Houses collapsed into sinkholes because they had been built on unstable ground. This tragic event illustrates a powerful truth Jesus taught in the Sermon on the Mount: a life built on a faulty foundation will not stand. As Jesus concludes His sermon, He tells the parable of two builders—one wise, one foolish. Both build houses, both face storms, but only one house remains. This lesson is not just about building homes but about building lives.

In this episode, we speak with Arturo, captain of the refugee rescue ship Seapunk I.    He's going to tell us all about the Seapunks activist group and its connection with punk rock music. He also tells us about a dramatic rescue mission in the Mediterranean Sea in January, in which several people died.    We also discuss how the Italian authorities force NGO ships to take the refugees to distant ports, and how this deliberately results in more refugee deaths.   ---Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   info@civilfleet.com   civilfleet.com --- Show notes ---   For more on Seapunks, visit seapunks.de/en    Follow them on Instagram on: Sea Punks e.V    And on Bluesky here: @seapunks.bsky.social   For more on Sea-Watch, check out episodes: 43, 22, 7 and 1 of The Civil Fleet Podcast   Listen to episodes 48 and 20 for more on Louise Michel   For more on Iuventa, download episodes 54, 36, 24 and 2   For more on Refugee Rescue, see here: linktr.ee/RefugeeRescue   Interviews with Alarm Phone activists are in episodes 48, 5 and 3   Check out our two interviews with Brendan Woodhouse in episodes 43 and 22

Support Sea-Watch now: https://sea-watch.org/en/donate/ In this eye-opening episode, we speak with Giulia Messmer from Sea-Watch, a search and rescue organization dedicated to saving lives in the central Mediterranean - one of the most dangerous migration routes in the world.The Mediterranean has become a graveyard for thousands of refugees fleeing war, violence, and persecution, primarily from North-Central Africa. Many risk their lives in overcrowded boats in hopes of reaching safety, but tragically, many never make it.Giulia shares the urgent reality of the refugee crisis, the obstacles facing humanitarian groups like Sea-Watch, and how political repression and criminalization of rescue efforts are putting lives at risk. Civil society plays a vital role in offering a lifeline to those in need, and the NGO/non-profit Sea-Watch is leading the charge.Learn how Sea-Watch is fighting to save lives and what you can do to help in this ongoing crisis.Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for notifications on new episodes! Let's spread awareness and work towards solutions for one of the world's most pressing humanitarian crises. Find out more about Sea-Watch ~Website: https://sea-watch.org/en/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seawatchcrew/ X/Twitter: https://x.com/seawatchcrew/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@seawatchcrewLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sea-watch-e.v./ ~ About Guila Messmer ~Giulia Messmer works as spokesperson and Head of Communications at the German civil search and rescue organization Sea-Watch e.V. Previously, she was Project Manager of the Safe Passage Fund, and was involved in academic research on transformative justice and state violence against migration. In addition to her paid work, she is involved in the fight for queer rights and against the European border regime. She firmly believes in the power of collective liberation.~ About GoodViral ~We believe that people can, and want to, do more to help others. We invite you to join the conversation about the small and large ways that we can help people, animals, and the planet.  Subscribe and be part of the movement.When Good Goes Viral, The World Gets Better.~Follow GoodViral ~ Website: ⁠⁠https://goodviral.org/TikTok:⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@goodviralorg⁠ Instagram:⁠https://www.instagram.com/goodviralorg/⁠ LinkedIn:⁠https://kr.linkedin.com/company/goodviral⁠ Facebook:⁠https://www.facebook.com/GoodViralOrg/⁠ YouTube:⁠https://www.youtube.com/@goodviralorg/videos⁠The Marketing Stuff ~ Sea-Watch charity, sea rescue missions, Mediterranean refugee crisis, refugee rescue efforts, GoodViral podcast, human rights at sea, saving lives at sea, migrant boat rescues, marine humanitarian aid, ocean rescue organizations, refugee support at sea, maritime rescue efforts, Sea-Watch interview, sea advocacy charity, marine rescue operations, migrant crisis solutions, Sea-Watch podcast episode, ocean conservation activism, volunteer with Sea-Watch, supporting refugee rescues, Mediterranean migration help, Sea-Watch humanitarian work, help refugees by sea, global humanitarian crises, Sea-Watch donation initiative.#SeaWatch #RefugeeRescue #SaveLivesAtSea #HumanRightsAtSea #GoodViralPodcast #MigrantBoatRescue #OceanRescue #MaritimeHumanitarianAid #RescueAtSea #SupportRefugees #MediterraneanRescue #VolunteerForSeaWatch #CharityAtSea #SeaWatchMission #HumanitarianAtSea #SeaWatchCharity #RefugeeSupport #HelpRefugees #MigrantRescueMission #MarineRescueEfforts #MediterraneanMigration #SaveRefugees #OceanConservation #RescueCharity #SeaWatchInterview #HumanRightsPodcast #SeaWatchHumanitarianWork #ProtectRefugees #GlobalRescueEfforts #SupportSeaWatch #RefugeeCrisisHelp #SeaWatchRescue

Nach dem Rathaus-Triell von Radio Hamburg in Kooperation mit der ZEIT:Hamburg kommen hier auch die Spitzenkandidierenden der kleineren Parteien in Hamburg zu Wort, die nach unserer repräsentativen Trend Research Umfrage in Kooperation mit der ZEIT:Hamburg sehr wahrscheinlich in die Hamburgische Bürgerschaft einziehen werden oder sich berechtigte Hoffnungen darauf machen dürfen. Zu Gast bei Markus Steen und Marc Elvers sind Dirk Nockemann von der AfD, Cansu Özdemir von der Partei Die LINKE, Britta Peters von Volt und Katarina Blume von der FDP. Sie präsentieren uns ihre Ideen zu den Top Themen vor dieser Wahl: Wohnen, Verkehr, Innere Sicherheit und Wirtschaft.Faktencheck zum AfD-Interviewteil Minute 13:51: Dirk Nockemann hat zu den Demonstrationen gegen Alice Weidels Auftritt hier in Hamburg gesagt, die Hamburger Demonstranten seien Feinde der Demokratie und Deutschlandhasser. Nockemann bestreitet das.Quelle: hamburg.t-online: "Bei den Demonstrierenden handele es sich um 'Feinde von Demokratie und Deutschlandhasser' sagt der Hamburger AfD-Landeschef Dirk Nockemann. "Die wollen keine Änderung, aber Demokratie lebt davon. Wir befinden uns in einer Zeitenwende".Minute 15:14: Dirk Nockemann behauptet, Sea Watch 2 steht mit Schlepperbanden in Verbindung:Quelle: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Watch: Der Frontex-Chef Fabrice Leggeri warf im Februar 2017 den Seenotrettungsorganisationen vor, durch ihre Mission Schlepper zu unterstützen. Leggeri verwies darauf, dass zuletzt 40 Prozent aller Aktionen durch Nichtregierungsorganisationen durchgeführt wurden.[58] Die Vorwürfe wurden vom Sea-Watch-Vorstandsmitglied Frank Dörner wie auch in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung von Sea-Watch mit Cadus, Jugend Rettet, Alarmphone, Mission Lifeline und Borderline Europe im März 2017 zurückgewiesen. Nach Ansicht von Sea-Watch zeigen diese Zahlen vor allem, dass die EU hier ihrer Verantwortung nicht nachkommt.[59][60] Nach Aussagen des Migrationsforschers Jochen Oltmer wird die Wirkung der Seenotrettungsorganisationen wie Sea-Watch und Sea-Eye als Pull-Faktor in der Wissenschaft verneint.[61]Minute 17:18: AfD Spitzenpolitikerin hat Waffen im Wahlkampf verteilt. Dirk Nockemann kann sich im Interview nicht daran erinnernQuelle: spiegel.de

2015 genomgick Sverige och Europa den största migrationsströmmen sedan andra världskriget. Det har gått ett decennium, hur har Sveriges och EU:s migrationspolitik förändrats? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I den andra delen av P1-serien Europas nya ansikte gör vi nedslag i de dödliga resorna över Medelhavet, det hav som förknippas med badande semesterfirare men som genom åren blivit till en massgrav för migranter.Medelhavet är en del av EU:s yttre gräns. Atlanten en annan. Men det finns också landgränser, såväl yttre som inre. EU:s största myndighet Frontex är den organisation som ansvarar för att bevaka EU:s gräns. På ett par decennier har Frontex budget vuxit lavinartat, från 6 miljoner euro till närmare en miljard euro. Vad får vi för pengarna?Och vad hänger med Schengen när allt fler inre gränskontroller införs?I del 2 hör vi bland andra Frontex chef för grundläggande rättigheter Jonas Grimheden, Adal som nästan dog när han flydde över Medelhavet till Italien, kustbevakaren Helen Karlsson, EU-parlamentarikerna Tomas Tobé (M) och Charlie Weimers (SD), tidigare EU-parlamentarikern Malin Björk (V) och före detta kommissionären Ylva Johansson (S). Alice Petrén, som under många år var Sveriges Radios Migratiosnkorrespondent, tar oss genom politiska beslut och gränser, och besöker Sicilien.Europas nya ansikte gjordes av Alice Petrén, Sally Henriksson och Carl-Johan Ulvenäs, produktionsbolaget Dist, hösten och vintern 2024. Slutmix Fredrik Nilsson. Ljudklippen är hämtade från Sveriges Radio, Seawatch, The Guardian, CBS, TV4 och SVT.

2015 genomgick Sverige och Europa den största migrationsströmmen sedan andra världskriget. Det har gått ett decennium, hur har Sveriges och EU:s migrationspolitik förändrats? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I den tredje och sista delen av Europas nya ansikte landar vi i dagens och framtidens migrationspolitik. Till sist har EU-länderna enats om en migrations- och asylpakt, efter många års förhandlingar, men kommer den att fungera i praktiken? Synen på EU:s åldrande befolkning och arbetskraftsinvandringen – vem är välkommen? Och den skärpta migrationspolitiken där flyktingfrågan har fått ett allt större fokus i hela EU. Nu talas det om asylprocesser i tredje land, åtgärder för att få fler att återvända och “ordning och reda” vid Europas gräns. Vi återvänder till ”Adnan” i södra Stockholm som nyligen fått permanent uppehållstillstånd, och som snart varit i Sverige i tio år, men fortfarande väntar på att bli svensk medborgare. Vi hör också bland andra migrationsminister Johan Forssell (M), Sverigedemokraternas migrationspolitiske talesperson Ludvig Aspling, tidigare EU-parlamentarikern Malin Björk (V) och tidigare EU-kommissionären Ylva Johansson (S). Europas nya ansikte gjordes av Alice Petrén, Sally Henriksson och Carl-Johan Ulvenäs, produktionsbolaget Dist, hösten och vintern 2024. Slutmix Fredrik Nilsson. Ljudklippen är hämtade från Sveriges Radio, Seawatch, The Guardian, CBS, TV4 och SVT.

2015 genomgick Sverige och Europa den största migrationsströmmen sedan andra världskriget. Det har gått decennium, hur har Sveriges och Europas migrationspolitik förändrats? Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. I den första delen av P1-serien Europas nya ansikte tas vi tillsammans med Sveriges Radios tidigare migrationskorrespondent Alice Petrén tillbaka till 2015. Ett år tidigare har Moderaternas dåvarande partiledare hållit sitt berömda ”Öppna era hjärtan-tal” på Norrmalmstorg i Stockholm.Hösten 2015 kommer det flyktingar till Europa från framförallt Syrien och Afghanistan i ett antal ingen hade räknat med, och de flesta söker sig till Sverige och Tyskland. Vi hör bland andra dåvarande statsminister Stefan Löfven (S), Moderaternas dåvarande partisekreterare Tomas Tobé, Migrationsverkets före detta generaldirektör Mikael Ribbenvik, ”Adnan” som flydde från Syrien till Sverige och Rasmus Carlsson som kastades in i ett intensivt volontärarbete.Europas nya ansikte gjordes av Alice Petrén, Sally Henriksson och Carl-Johan Ulvenäs, produktionsbolaget Dist, hösten och vintern 2024. Slutmix Fredrik Nilsson. Ljudklippen är hämtade från Sveriges Radio, Seawatch, The Guardian, CBS, TV4 och SVT.

In this episode, we speak with Katja and Matthias, co-founders of the refugee rescue group CompassCollective.      They tell us how they operate their rescue ship, the Trotamar III, to document human rights violations and save lives in the central Mediterranean.      They also tell us about the recent rescue of an 11-year-old-girl they found by chance floating alone at sea for 2 or 3 days.     ---Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   info@civilfleet.com   civilfleet.com   Support:   ko-fi.com/civilfleet   ---Show Notes---   For more on CompassCollective, see their website here: compass-collective.org/en/start     Follow them on Twitter: @boat_spotting   Mastodon: @boatspotting@digitalcourage.social   Facebook: facebook.com/compasscollectiv     Insta: compasscollective_boatspotting     And YouTube: youtube.com/@Compass_Collective/videos     For more on the Piantedosi Decree, see here: sosmediterranee.org/consequence-of-the-piantedosi-decree/ And/or check out episode 65 or The Civil Fleet Podcast     For more on Sea-Watch and their reconnaissance planes, listen to episodes: 65, 43, 22, 7 and 1     For more on Alarm Phone, check out episodes 48, 5 and 3     For more on Maldusa, listen to episode 46

The French government collapses, Georgia's brutal police crackdown, and the UK bill to legalise assisted dying. Then a Justice Special, featuring 'The Future of War Crimes Justice' author Chris Stephen on the ICC, with reports on Sea-Watch's case against the Italian coastguard and a Norwegian miscarriage of justice. OC-Media website link: https://oc-media.org?maca=en-podcast_inside-europe-949-xml-mrss

In this episode, we speak with Paul Wagner, the media officer for Sea-Watch's airborne operations.    He tells us about the rescue organisation's reconnaissance missions over the central Mediterranean, the push and pullbacks they have witnessed at sea, and how the EU has refugee blood on its hands.    He also tell us about the various ways the Italian government has tried to stop them from carrying out their human rights monitoring missions.     ---Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   info@civilfleet.com   civilfleet.com   Support:   ko-fi.com/civilfleet   ---Show Notes---   For more on Sea-Watch, visit: sea-watch.org/en   For more on the Seabirds 1 & 2, see here: sea-watch.org/mission/airborne/   Follow Sea-Watch on Twitter on @seawatch_intl Bluesky: @en.sea-watch.org  Instagram: seawatchcrew   Also, check out episodes 43, 22, 7 and 1 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Sea-Watch.    Read more about Carola Rackete here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/01/17/italys-highest-court-confirms-ngo-captain-should-not-have-been-arrested-for-saving-refugee-lives/    For more on SOS Humanity, see episodes 55 and 31   Read The Civil Fleet's coverage of Sea-Watch here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Sea-Watch   For more on the Matteo Salvini kidnapping trial. see: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/09/15/italian-deputy-pm-matteo-salvini-faces-possible-six-years-in-prison-over-migrants-case  It was SOS Humanity who rescued one person at sea in late October. They were then forced to sail to the distant port of Salerno, 870km, away from where the rescue took place. Read more about that here: twitter.com/soshumanity_en/status/1850235169568891033   You can read Ben's interbiew with Sea-Watch's Tamino Bohm, here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/07/18/the-libyan-coastguards-interceptions-of-refugees-couldnt-happen-without-europes-planes   For more on the sip captain Paul metions who was arrested for handing people over to the Libya, see here: euronews.com/2021/10/14/italy-ship-captain-convicted-after-sending-101-migrants-to-libya-in-2018   The merchant shop Ben talks about was the Maersk Etienne. You can read about that saga here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/09/13/forty-day-nightmare-finally-over-as-the-mare-jonio-brings-the-etienne-27-to-land   For more on the Maersk Etienne case, check out episodes 18 and 47   Read about Malta's treatment of the civilian rescuers here: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Malta   For more on the Pylos shipwreck, see Episodes 60 and 52   Paul mention's a testimony by Ibrahim Hsian, the son of Mohammed Hsian who drowned in the shipwreck of 2nd September 2024. You can read that here: sea-watch.org/en/my-father-was-a-unique-irreplaceable-person

La proposta di Raffaele Fitto alla vicepresidenza blocca la Commissione europea.La risposta del Quirinale al post di Elon Musk contro i giudici italiani occupa buona parte dei quotidiani di oggi. Trump ritorna alla caasa bianca dopo il 2021 su invito di Biden. Valeria Zummo e Laura Melis intervistano Giorgia Linardi, portavoce di SeaWatch, sull'omissione di soccorso da parte della Guardia Costiera dei 21 migranti naufragati al largo di Lampedusa.

Ansa - di Silvia Gasparetto.Con Meloni un legame personale. A Salvini pieno sostegno social.

L'Italie a commencé à transférer le premier groupe de migrants vers les centres qu'elle gère en Albanie, une première pour un pays membre de l'Union européenne. Le patrouilleur de la marine italienne Libra a appareillé hier avec 16 migrants à son bord. Il doit arriver demain mercredi en Albanie.« Le grand bluff », s'exclame La Repubblica à Rome. « Deux jours de voyage pour transférer hors d'Italie 10 Égyptiens et 6 Bangladais qui, sur des bateaux de fortune, avaient quitté les côtes libyennes de Sabratha et Zuara. 16 migrants donc qui se retrouvent à bord d'un navire de la marine nationale italienne de 80 mètres de long, capable de transporter environ 200 passagers. (…) Et tout cela pour un coût de 250.000 euros… »Plus qu'une couleur pour leur redonner espoir…L'envoyé spécial du Corriere Della Sera a pu visiter ces centres de rétention en Albanie. « Les sols peints en vert, couleur de l'espoir, frappent le regard même à l'extérieur, en plein air, comme s'il y avait des pelouses tout autour. Cette couleur a été choisie parce qu'elle est relaxante. C'est du moins ce qu'explique le directeur du premier centre de rétention construit à l'étranger pour accueillir - selon les lois italiennes - les demandeurs d'asile ayant peu ou aucune chance de l'obtenir : des hommes adultes, sans famille, qui ont été sélectionnés apparemment en bonne santé et venant de pays considérés comme sûrs par Rome. Il en faudrait bien plus pour leur redonner espoir. »L'envoyé spécial du Corriere Della Serra s'est rendu notamment au centre de rétention de Gjader, à une vingtaine de kilomètres à l'intérieur des terres : « une énorme clôture en béton surmontée de barrières métalliques de six mètres de haut délimite une superficie de 70 mille mètres carrés divisée en trois secteurs : le plus grand est destiné aux demandeurs d'asile. Une autre section du centre est dédiée à ceux qui se voient refuser l'asile et attendent d'être rapatriés. Et puis, il y a un troisième secteur qui est un petit pénitencier de 20 places, pour ceux qui ont commis des délits au sein du centre. »Obstacles…Le Times à Londres s'interroge : « les nouveaux centres pour migrants de Giorgia Meloni en Albanie fonctionneront-ils ? » Pas évident… « Les demandes de rapatriement sont souvent ignorées. (…) Au cours des cinq années précédant la pandémie de Covid-19, l'Italie a réussi à renvoyer peu de migrants vers des pays supposés “sûrs“ : seulement 24 % des arrivants sont retournés en Tunisie, 13 % au Nigéria et 7 % au Bangladesh. Le taux de rapatriement pour le Mali et la Guinée était seulement de 1 %. »Qui plus est, pointe encore le Times, « le projet albanais a été dénoncé par plusieurs groupes de défense des droits de l'homme. Sea Watch, l'une des ONG qui exploitent des navires de sauvetage de migrants en Méditerranée, a déclaré que son lancement ouvrait un “chapitre sombre“. Amnesty International a qualifié ce projet d'“expérience cruelle [qui] fait tache sur le gouvernement italien“. Et puis autre casse-tête pour Meloni, relève le quotidien britannique : la Cour européenne de justice a estimé que les pays d'origine sûr – vers lequels les migrants peuvent être rapatriés – devait être sûr sur l'ensemble de leur territoire. Exemple : le Nigeria et l'Égypte figurent sur la liste italienne des pays sûrs, mais le sont-ils à 100 % ? Non. » L'Europe veut durcir sa politique migratoireHier, relève Le Monde à Paris, « Ursula von der Leyen, la présidente de la Commission, a fait savoir que Bruxelles allait proposer une nouvelle législation pour faciliter les expulsions des personnes en situation irrégulière. (…) Bruxelles propose de faciliter les expulsions des personnes en situation irrégulière, en établissant notamment une reconnaissance mutuelle des décisions prises par tel ou tel Etat membre. (…) Moins de 20 % des décisions d'expulsion de migrants en situation irrégulière sont suivies d'effet, a encore souligné Ursula von der Leyen, promettant une coopération renforcée avec les pays tiers concernés, en durcissant par exemple l'octroi de visas à des pays récalcitrants. »Attention, prévient El País à Madrid : « Bruxelles doit veiller à ce que le traitement des migrants soit conforme aux normes européennes en matière de droits de l'homme. (…) Il serait bon que les auditions de la nouvelle équipe de commissaires – qui se tiendront en novembre – servent à exiger rigueur et transparence dans l'utilisation digne des milliards d'euros alloués à l'immigration. Externaliser l'horreur, conclut El País, n'est pas compatible avec les valeurs que l'Europe prétend défendre. »

In the second episode of Spare a Thought, Tom chats with Dr Samantha James, an NHS doctor who volunteered for the German charity Sea Watch collecting refugees in distress in the Mediterranean in 2022.  Together, Sam and Tom discuss why Sam became a doctor, how she found out about Sea Watch and explore her experience in the Mediterranean.  To donate to Sea Watch: https://sea-watch.org/en/  To follow Sea Watch on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seawatchcrew/  Sea Watch testimony: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frx_ZlIY4HI  Human Rights Watch - The Mediterranean explainer: https://shorturl.at/jT1W1 Libya militias take EU funds for migrants: https://shorturl.at/Dm5kZ Libya: number of detained refugees soars: https://shorturl.at/Va2zE   Other NGOs you can follow on this matter include: Borderline Europe, Captain Support Network, Compass Collection and Médecins Sans Frontières. Also, feel free to follow Tom via Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sparetom/

Die Cartoonistin und Autorin Stefanie Sargnagel durfte für ein paar Tage den Verein Seawatch begleiten. Vom Flugzeug aus werden Menschenrechtsverstöße gegenüber Geflüchteten in ihren Booten im Mittelmeer zwischen der italienischen Insel Lampedusa und Lybien beobachtet und gemeldet. Aus diesen eindringlichen Erfahrungen hat Stefanie Sargnagel einen Text verfasst – und vorher war sie, gemeinsam mit Laura von Seawatch, die übers Telefon zugeschaltet war, bei OKFM4 zu Gast. Sendehinweis: OKFM4, 3.10. 2024, 17:00

Eliminaziun dals trieps da lufs pudess procurar per recurs – «Sea-Watch» dat in'invista en sia lavur da salvament.

This week, we're sharing a presentation from the 2023 Another Carolina Anarchist Bookfair in so-called Asheville, NC. From the presentation: The Mediterranean Sea is Europe's deadliest border. For years, non-state actors like Sea-Watch and other NGO's have played a part in humanitarian search-and-rescue operations. In spite of legal repression and the technical challenges of maintaining a “civil fleet”, anarchists, anti-fascists, and other activists try to stop needless death at sea. Hear a report back from a wayward American yacht-punk who spent the summer doing rotations on two different SAR (Search And Rescue) ships. We'll discuss the general political situation, the reality of everyday operations and how you could get involved. One case Quoyle mentioned was the Luventa Crew in Italy, they were acquitted of all charges in April of 2024! For more audios from ACABookfair 2023, check out the site. To hear a 2023 interview we conducted with an activist with Maldusa on a similar topic, you can find it at our website. We also have this 2016 interview by A-Radio Berlin that we aired in 2016 about conditions  a No Border Camp in Greece. And here's one we conducted with an immigrant from Africa and a supporter in Germany in 2016. Also, check out this podcast called The Civil Fleet with voices of others involved in solidarity in the Mediterranean route. Announcement Sundiata Jawanza Mail Tampering? The only publicly identified Jailhouse Lawyers Speak activist, Sundiata Jawanza, is concerned that his outgoing mail is being tampered with. If you've been in contact with Sundiata and haven't heard back, please reach out to freejawanza@protonmail.com

Bureau Buitenland maakt op NPO Radio 1 twee weken lang ruimte voor de Olympische Spelen. Daarom brengen wij hier, in de podcast, onze serie 'Waar is Sarah?' nog een keer ten gehore. Researcher Angela maakt een afspraak met het plaatselijke immigratiekantoor, om de achternaam van Sarah te achterhalen. Ondertussen onderzoeken Laura en Rob op Sicilië hoe men in Italië aankijkt tegen reddingsmissies als die van Sea Watch. Is het beeld van reddingswerkers tussen Robs eerste missie in 2016 en nu veranderd? Ze spreken af met de Siciliaanse politicoloog Eugenio Cusumano. Hij vertelt hoe Italië alleen gelaten wordt door Europa en wat voor weerslag dat heeft op de positie van reddingswerkers als Rob. Veel mensen denken dat reddingsschepen een zogenaamde ‘aanzuigende werking' hebben. Klopt dat? De Eritrese Samuel vertelt vanuit zijn eigen ervaring dat de aanwezigheid van reddingsschepen niet meespeelt in de beslissing de zee op te gaan. Hij beschrijft de lange en gevaarlijke reis die hij aflegde en de omstandigheden waardoor hij moest vluchten. Na twee dagen is het zover: Rob, Laura en Angela hebben een afspraak bij het immigratiekantoor. Daar krijgen ze nieuwe informatie over Sarah, die geen Sarah blijkt te heten…

Bureau Buitenland maakt op NPO Radio 1 twee weken lang ruimte voor de Olympische Spelen. Daarom brengen wij hier, in de podcast, onze serie 'Waar is Sarah?' nog een keer ten gehore. Rob is aan boord gegaan van het schip de Sea Watch 3. Ze vertrekkene vanuit Sicilië richting de internationale wateren, naar de zogenaamde Search and Rescue zone, waar veel mensen op zee-onwaardige bootjes dreigen te verdrinken. Laura houdt vanuit Nederland contact met Rob via spraakberichten. Thuis hoort ze hoe Rob op zee de ene redding na de andere uitvoert. Ze hoort hem schreeuwen tijdens de hectiek, fluisteren als hij tussen de slapende mensen loopt en hoort hoe zijn begrip van tijd verdwijnt. Ze vraagt zich af: wat zijn nu eigenlijk de regels op zee?  Jurist en migratiedeskundige Lisa-Marie Komp vertelt hoe de EU en de lidstaten zich steeds meer terugtrekken, terwijl de maritieme wetgeving mensen verplicht anderen te redden. Voor de zoektocht naar Sarah schakelt Laura researcher Angela Tullio Cataldo in, zij komt in contact met een arts die Sarah moet hebben behandeld op Sicilie. Het is inmiddels kerst als Laura met haar kinderen de kerstboom versiert. Als ze een nieuw audiobericht van Rob ziet verschijnen twijfelt ze of ze Robs parallelle werkelijkheid wil toelaten. Toch drukt ze. 

Jedes Jahr versuchen Tausende Flüchtlinge und Migrant:innen über das Mittelmeer nach Europa zu gelangen. Viele geraten in Seenot, ertrinken. Der Dolmetscher und Fotograf Adrian Pourviseh ist immer wieder auf dem Rettungsschiff SeaWatch dabei. Moderation: Ralph Erdenberger Von WDR 5.

In April, I went to Bihac, a small town in Bosnia near the border with Croatia, to see how the solidarity network No Name Kitchen (NNK) supports People on the Move there.    In this episode, NNK's volunteers in Bihac will tell us how they provide first aid, food and clothing to the People on the Move there, and how they document border violence.    We'll also talk with a few of the people trapped in Bosnia, who'll tell us about their journeys to the Balkan country, and the abuses they have faced from border guards at the edge of Fortress Europe. ---Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   info@civilfleet.com   civilfleet.com   Support:   ko-fi.com/civilfleet   ---Show Notes---   For more on No Name Kitchen, see their website here: nonamekitchen.org   Follow NNK on Twitter via @NoNameKitchen1   Follow them on Instagram: @no_name_kitchen    And listen to episodes 58 Part 2, 51, 41, and 6 of The Civil Fleet Podcast.   Want to know where Bihac is exactly? Check out this map: tinyurl.com/34txjd3d    Joe mentions the IWGB union. For more on them, check them out here: iwgb.org.uk   Joe also mentions Sea-Watch, one of the bigger refugee rescue groups operating in the Mediterranean. For more on them, see: sea-watch.org   And check out episodes 54, 43, 22, 7, and 1 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on Sea-Watch, too.    You can read Joe's article on the Chinese person he meet in Bosnia, here: nonamekitchen.org/a-new-friend-in-the-field-people-from-china-in-the-balkans-seeking-for-a-better-life/   

Einen Pass zu haben, der es einem erlaubt, zu jeder Zeit an nahezu jeden Ort zu reisen, ist ein Privileg. Ana und Ida Lutzenberger aus Memmingen entschieden sich, dieses Privileg für einen guten Zweck zu nutzen. Die beiden Schwestern wollten mit dem Rad bis nach Peking fahren und unter dem Slogan „Rette, Rette, Fahrradkette“ für jeden gefahrenen Kilometer einen Euro für Sea Watch sammeln (@retterettefahrradkette). Die Reise führte u.a. durch Kirgistan und Usbekistan, den Iran und Irak-Kurdistan. Unterwegs kamen sie an Landesgrenzen immer wieder auch an ihre eigenen Grenzen, erfuhren viel über Frauenrechte und erleben eine große Gastfreundschaft und Herzlichkeit. Wie es zu dieser einzigartigen Tour kam, was die beiden unterwegs erlebten und im wahrsten Wortsinn erfuhren, warum Fahrradreisen im Prinzip dasselbe wie Jahrmarktbesuche sind und ob und wie sie ihr Ziel erreichten – das erfahrt ihr in dieser Weltwach-Folge! WERBEPARTNERhttps://linktr.ee/weltwachUnterstütze unsere Show mit einer Mitgliedschaft im Supporters Club und erhalte Zugriff auf werbefreie und – je nach Paket – exklusive Bonusfolgen. Alle Informationen findest du hier: https://weltwach.de/supporters-club/ Spotify-Nutzer können direkt in Spotify nach “Weltwach Plus” suchen. STAY IN TOUCH:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weltwach/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/weltwach/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Weltwach/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/WELTWACHNewsletter: https://weltwach.de/newsletter/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marco Daffra"Un mare di porti lontani"Un mare di porti lontani – Omaggio di verità a chi tende le braccia ai naufraghi del Mediterraneo è il potente film del regista fiorentino Marco Daffra che “smentisce i luoghi comuni sulle navi umanitarie” (Avvenire). Il film presenta le testimonianze di capitani, marinai, medici, infermieri, macchinisti, interpreti e mediatori culturali, nonché quelle del dr. Pietro Bartolo, “il medico di Lampedusa” che visitò 350mila sbarcati in 30 anni, e di Padre Bernardo Gianni, Abate di San Miniato a Monte. Presentato in anteprima a Firenze, alla presenza di Marco Tarquinio, già direttore di Avvenire, da Monsignor Gian Carlo Perego, Arcivescovo di Ferrara e presidente della Fondazione Migrantes, e da Valentina Brinis, portavoce Open Arms, il film inizia adesso il suo tour internazionale toccando città come a Roma, Vienna, Zurigo, Ginevra, Parigi, Bruxelles; ed anche a Bogotà, Città del Messico, Guadalajara e Tijuana, centro nevralgico della emigrazione sudamericana, ossia in città di paesi dove il tema delle migrazioni è molto sentito. A Firenze il film tornerà il 22 aprile, sempre allo Spazio Alfieri, alle ore 19. Le altre date già in programma sono il 18 aprile alle 21 al Cinema Santo Spirito di Ferrara, il 2 maggio alle 21 al CRC dell'Antella (Fi) e il 4 maggio alle 21 a Greve in Chianti. Nel 2023 Marco Daffra e la sua cinepresa hanno navigato da Carrara a Siracusa per più di mille chilometri sulla nave Open Arms. Daffra è poi volato in ricognizione di naufraghi con Pilotes Volontaires. Il regista ha infine intervistato tanti protagonisti a Lampedusa, centro nevralgico degli sbarchi di migranti, come testimonia il monumento  “Porta di Lampedusa – Porta d'Europa”. Tra le interviste, spiccano quelle del dottor Pietro Bartolo, “il medico di Lampedusa” e eurodeputato, e quella di Padre Bernardo Gianni,  Abate di San Miniato a Monte.Dice Bartolo, che visitò 350mila sbarcati a Lampedusa: “Si parla ancora di “emergenza sbarchi” quando invece da decenni c'è un fenomeno strutturale. Hanno criminalizzato i migranti. Dicono: sono alieni, vengono a rubare il lavoro, c'è l'invasione, portano malattie. Hanno propagato “un'informazione tossica” che diffonde pregiudizio e rancore. Dicono questo perché non hanno mai visto negli occhi il terrore di queste persone. Allora bisogna fare una contro narrazione, raccontare la verità.” “San Bernardo di Chiaravalle – osserva Padre Bernardo Gianni nel film - diceva che la misura dell'amore è non avere misura. E così sento di poter dire su un altro versante analogo all'amore, la misura del salvare è non aver misura. Qualsiasi legge, disciplina, regolamento che intenda contenere questo impeto del cuore che fa grandi le persone che si dedicano al salvataggio di vite altrui (….) è davvero un attentato alla dignità.” L'azione umanitaria è ora ostacolata da leggi e ingiunzioni perentorie che impongono alle navi umanitarie “porti lontani” anche oltre mille chilometri e molti giorni di navigazione - ulteriori giorni in mare che gli scampati, già stremati e in cattive condizioni sanitarie e psicologiche, devono subire, spesso nel maltempo. La “politica dei porti lontani” è aggravata dalla proibizione di soccorsi plurimi, da processi, multe, blocchi delle navi in porto, e da sanzioni draconiane e spesso illegittime contro gli equipaggi delle navi umanitarie. Questa politica ha sottratto al soccorso più di 300 giornate-nave nel solo 2023. Quante vite avrebbero potuto essere salvate, se invece le navi umanitarie fossero rimaste operative a Sud dell'Italia, là dove sono più necessarie? Come ha scritto Avvenire “il film smentisce i luoghi comuni sulle navi umanitarie”, accusate di favorire l'immigrazione clandestina e di complicità con i passatori marittimi, spesso con argomentazioni che in tribunale si rivelano inconsistenti, come nel caso delle navi Ocean Viking, Sea Watch 5, Humanity 1,  e come nel clamoroso maxiprocesso alla nave umanitaria Juventa, nel quale la stessa accusa ha richiesto l'assoluzione, dopo 8 anni di udienze, 3 milioni di euro di spese, il sequestro e la rovina della nave, e la perdita di più di 2000 giornate-nave di soccorso. In effetti, le navi umanitarie hanno sbarcato ultimamente meno del 10% dei superstiti, mentre la grande maggioranza degli sbarchi si deve ai meritevoli soccorsi di Guardia Costiera, Guardia di finanza, Marina militare e navi commerciali, nonché a imbarcazioni autonome. In 30 anni le morti di migranti accertate in Mediterraneo sono 50mila, ma in realtà sono ben di più perché è testimoniato che molte imbarcazioni, con migliaia di migranti, sono partite ma mai arrivate. Per fortuna, però, molte più vite sono state salvate, un grande miracolo che continua a ripetersi ogni giorno grazie anche ai volontari che “tendono le mani ai naufraghi del Mediterraneo”, persone che il documentario di Marco Daffra ci permette di conoscere e di ascoltare, dando così voce ad una verità che dovrebbe essere gridata ma che, purtroppo, viene travisata.  IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Spätestens seit der „letzten Generation“ sind Aktivist*innen in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt. Wie allerdings lebt jemand, der mehrere Stunden am Tag nicht mit Arbeit, sondern politischer Aktion verbringt? Wie steht es bei diesen um Arbeitsschutz? Was sind Berufsrisiken? Über diese Fragen haben wir mit Chris Grodotzki gesprochen, freier Journalist. Er war u.a. aktiv bei Seawatch. ---------------------------------------- Den Arbeitswelt Podcast findet ihr überall, wo es Podcasts gibt, und immer unter https://arbeitsweltradio.podigee.io/. Weitere Informationen und aktuelle Termine der DGB-Region Stuttgart findet ihr unter https://stuttgart.dgb.de. ---------------------------------------- Der Arbeitswelt Podcast ist ein Angebot der DGB-Region Stuttgart. Radaktion: Peter Schadt und Andre Fricke. V.i.S.d.P.: Julia Friedrich, DGB-Region Stuttgart, Willi-Bleicher-Straße 20, 70174 Stuttgart

In this episode, we speak with Camilla from the refugee rescue organisation SOS Humanity.   She tells us about the time the so-called Libyan Coastguard shot at them, disrupting a rescue operation in the central Mediterranean, and causing the death of at least one person in early March 2024.     She also tells us how, after that ordeal, the Italian authorities then ordered the Humanity 1 rescue ship to sail for a port, thousands of miles away.    And how, when they finally reached land, the authorities tried to detain the ship because they apparently disobeyed the Libyan Coastguards.    --Get in touch---   Twitter: @FleetCivil   Mastodon: @civilfleet@kolektiva.social   Bluesky: @thecivilfleet.bsky.social   Instagram: thecivilfleet   info@civilfleet.com   civilfleet.com   Support:   ko-fi.com/civilfleet ---Show Notes---   For more on SOS Humanity, check out their website, here: sos-humanity.org/en/sos-humanity   You can donate to them here: sos-humanity.org/en/donate-now   Follow SOS Humanity on Twitter: @soshumanity_en   You can watch video footage of the Libyan Coastguard's interference of the Humanity 1 rescue, here: youtube.com/watch?v=ARLiTPf7kzc&t=7s&ab_channel=TheCivilFleet    Check out episode 31 of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on the Humanity 1 rescue ship   Also, read more about SOS Humanity on The Civil Fleet news blog, here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/SOS-Humanity   Ben mentions Mediterranea: Saving Humans and their rescue ship, the Mare Jonio. For more on them, check out episodes 18 and 47 of The Civil Fleet Podcast    Ben mentions a trip to Trapani and the Iuventa rescuers. Check out the previous episode of The Civil Fleet Podcast for more on that, and check out episodes 2, 24 and 36   Camilla mentions fellow refugee rescue organisation SOS Mediterranee. For more on them, see here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/SOS-Mediterranee/     Fore more on the Libyan Coastguards, see here: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Libyan-coastguard   And read this exclusive story on the EU continuing its support of the Libyan Coastguard despite its fears of human rights abuses: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/eu-to-continue-supporting-the-libyan-coastguard-despite-its-fears-of-human-rights-abuses/    And this 2020 investigation on how the EU's supposed training of the Libyan coastguard has only made things worse: thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/sending-refugees-back-to-hell-with-eu-support/    Camilla mentions Alarm Phone. Want to know more about them? Check out episodes 48, 5 and 3.   Read about Italy's top court declaring Libya not to be a safe port: reuters.com/world/africa/returning-sea-migrants-libya-is-illegal-italys-top-court-says-2024-02-18/   Read about the Libyan Coastguards harassing MSF's rescue ship Geo Barents here: https://searchandrescue.msf.org/testimonies/eu-sponsored-shameful-abuses-in-the-central-mediterranean-must-end.html   And watch this video of another incident: https://twitter.com/MSF_Sea/status/1768986324139217156   Ben mentions the Pirate History Podcast. Check that out here: piratehistorypodcast.com   You can read SOS Humanity, Sea-Watch and Sea-Eye's joint statement on the detention of their ships in March 2024, here: sos-humanity.org/en/press/italy-escalates-the-obstruction-of-civil-search-and-rescue/ 

DOCS tipt deze keer de podcast Waar is Sarah? Laura Stek ontmoet Rob Timmerman, die zich voorbereidt op een nieuwe reddingsmissie op zee. Rob stopte zeven jaar geleden met zijn betaalde baan en besloot als vrijwilliger aan de slag te gaan bij Sea Watch, op een boot op de Middellandse Zee. Tijdens zijn eerste missie redde hij de pasgeboren baby Sarah, die op hem een onuitwisbare indruk maakte. Rob wil weten wat er van haar is terechtgekomen. Radiomaakster Laura Stek vraagt zich op haar beurt af waarom Rob dat zo graag wil weten. Luister naar ‘Een groezelig pakketje', deel 1 van de podcast Waar is Sarah.  Een productie van Prospektor en VPRO's Bureau Buitenland voor NPO Radio 1, mede mogelijk gemaakt door het NPO-fonds. Luister ook ‘Debaltsevo, waar ben je?', gemaakt door Laura Stek: https://www.2doc.nl/docs/2023/115-debaltsevo-waar-ben-je-.html DOCS is de documentaire podcast van de publieke omroep onder eindredactie van NTR en VPRO. Presentatie: Mina Etemad. Meer informatie: 2doc.nl/docs. Vragen of reacties kun je sturen naar: docs@ntr.nl

DOCS tipt deze keer de podcast Waar is Sarah? Laura Stek ontmoet Rob Timmerman, die zich voorbereidt op een nieuwe reddingsmissie op zee. Rob stopte zeven jaar geleden met zijn betaalde baan en besloot als vrijwilliger aan de slag te gaan bij Sea Watch, op een boot op de Middellandse Zee. Tijdens zijn eerste missie redde hij de pasgeboren baby Sarah, die op hem een onuitwisbare indruk maakte. Rob wil weten wat er van haar is terechtgekomen. Radiomaakster Laura Stek vraagt zich op haar beurt af waarom Rob dat zo graag wil weten. Luister naar ‘Een groezelig pakketje', deel 1 van de podcast Waar is Sarah.  Een productie van Prospektor en VPRO's Bureau Buitenland voor NPO Radio 1, mede mogelijk gemaakt door het NPO-fonds. Luister ook ‘Debaltsevo, waar ben je?', gemaakt door Laura Stek: https://www.2doc.nl/docs/2023/115-debaltsevo-waar-ben-je-.html DOCS is de documentaire podcast van de publieke omroep onder eindredactie van NTR en VPRO. Presentatie: Mina Etemad. Meer informatie: 2doc.nl/docs. Vragen of reacties kun je sturen naar: docs@ntr.nl

Quando Mory Camara fugiu da Guiné-Conacri nunca pensou vir para a Europa, queria apenas estar em segurança. Um ano e meio depois, atravessava o Mar Mediterrâneo pela quarta vez, depois de meses de tortura e escravatura na Líbia. Foi resgatado pela Sea Watch com mais 46 refugiados, a 19 de janeiro de 2019. Mas a sua viagem não acabou aí. “Mory” é a primeira parte da série “Aquilo é a Europa”. Ouve aqui. [Nota: algumas das pessoas que entrevistámos nesta série falam em inglês. Se preferires uma versão dobrada em português procura o canal “Extras” do Fumaça, na tua aplicação de podcasts, ou vai a fumaca.pt.]Ajuda-nos a ser a primeira redação profissional de jornalismo em Portugal totalmente financiado pelas pessoas: https://fumaca.pt/contribuir/?utm_source=podcast+appSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En aandacht voor de strenge anti-lhbti-wetgeving die in Rusland is aangenomen. (00:44)Waar is Sarah: #4-Engelen of zondebokken? Laura Stek en Rob Timmerman reizen in aflevering vier van de podcast ‘waar is Sarah' af naar Sicilië om af te spreken met een arts die in 2016 voor het Rode Kruis werkte. Herinnert hij zich Sarah nog? Daarnaast onderzoeken Rob en Laura hoe men in Italië aankijkt tegen reddingsmissies als die van Sea Watch. Veel mensen denken dat reddingsschepen een zogenaamde ‘aanzuigende werking' hebben, maar klopt dat wel? (21:59)Buitenland Uitgelicht: Europa Draait Door In onze podcast Europa Draait Door is dit keer journalist en Ruslandkenner Helga Salemon te gast. En met haar onder meer aandacht voor de strenge anti-lhbti-wetgeving die in Rusland is aangenomen. Presentatie: Sophie Derkzen

Adrian Pourviseh ist ein deutsch-iranischer Comiczeichner, der als Beobachter und freiwilliger Seenotretter eine Mission der SEA WATCH 3 begleitet und Geflüchtete aus dem Meer gezogen hat. Diese traumatischen Erfahrungen hat er in einer Comic-Reportage beschrieben: „Das Schimmern der See – Als Seenotretter auf dem Mittelmeer“. Ein Augenzeugenbericht u¨ber den schrecklichen Alltag an den Außengrenzen Europas, der für die meisten von uns ganz weit weg ist.

(00:46) Waar is Sarah #2: Parallelle werelden In de tweede aflevering van de zesdelige podcastserie ‘Waar is Sarah?' vaart Rob Timmerman op het reddingsschip ‘Sea Watch 3' naar de Search and Rescue zone. In dit deel van de Middellandse Zee verkeren veel mensen in rubberen en houten bootjes in grote nood. Via spraakberichten houdt Timmerman contact met Radiomaker Laura Stek. Zo hoort Stek hoe Rob Timmerman op zee de ene redding na de andere uitvoert. Ze vraagt zich af: wat zijn nu eigenlijk de regels op zee? Met hulp van de Italiaanse researcher Angela wordt de zoektocht naar Sarah voortgezet.  (22:46) Buitenland Uitgelicht: Europa Draait Door Het is vrijdag, dus daarom ook uitgebreid aandacht voor onze podcast Europa Draait Door. Deze week bespreken Arend Jan Boekestijn en Tim de Wit de verkiezingswinst van de PVV. Want wat betekent dat voor Europa, en hoe wordt er vanuit Brussel nu naar ons gekeken? Europa-correspondent Kysia Hekster en politiek journalist Kees Boonman schuiven aan.  Presentatie: Sophie Derkzen

Be it in the Mediterranean or the heart of Africa in Congo, colonialism isn't past, it's a modern day disaster. In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear brings us information on the so-called silent holocaust taking place in the Congo, where some 6 million people have died as nations across the region and the world vie for the more than $24 trillion worth of natural resources within Congo's borders. Next up, Giulia Messmer from Sea Watch explains her organization's rescue work in the Mediterranean, how European nations are moving to criminalize migration, cross-border solidarity, and more.   The post Colonialism Today: From The Crisis in Congo to Capsizing Boats in the Mediterranean appeared first on KPFA.

Zu Gast im Studio: Kapitänin und Aktivistin Carola Rackete. Die Vorsitzenden der Linken planen sie zur Spitzenkandidatin der Partei für die Europawahl 2024 zu machen. Carola wurde 2019 international bekannt, als sie mit aus Seenot geretteten Flüchtlingen auf dem Schiff "Sea Watch" trotz eines Verbots der italienischen Behörden die Insel Lampedusa anlief. Es folgte ein Strafverfahren, das 2021 aber eingestellt wurde. Ein Gespräch über Carolas Weg in die Politik und ihre Pläne im Europaparlament, die Rolle der Klimabewegung in ihrer kommenden Rolle, ihre Forschungsarbeit in Irland diesen Sommer, ihre Kindheit und Jugend, Gaming, ihr Seefahrtstudium, Fahrten in die Arktis und Antarktis, Haltung zur Bundeswehr und NATO, Frontex und Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer, ihre Verhaftung in Italien als Kapitänin der Sea Watch 3, ihre politischen Überzeugungen, die Überwindung des Kapitalismus, die Entstehung der Spitzenkandidatur für die Europawahl, die strukturellen Probleme der Linkspartei sowie Greta + eure Fragen via Hans Bitte unterstützt unsere Arbeit finanziell: Konto: Jung & Naiv IBAN: DE854 3060 967 104 779 2900 GLS Gemeinschaftsbank PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv

Sie ist ein wenig untergegangen, die Aktion des Millerntors, des FC St. Pauli und seiner Supporter für Seenotrettung; überschattet vom Polizeieinsatz im Gästeblock.Ein Grund für mich, dieses Thema in einen Podcast-Zwischenruf zu packen; auch weil das Thema mich als Segler und Nachfahren von Fischern persönlich berührt.Links zu Themen im Podcast:* Aktion “sicherer Hafen”, die einen Restart gebrauchen könnte: https://www.stpaulinu.de/seenotrettung-macht-hamburg-zum-sicheren-hafen/Auswahl an Organisationen, die eure Spende benötigen:* Sea Watch - https://sea-watch.org/spenden/* Mission Lifeline - https://mission-lifeline.de/spenden/* Ärzte ohne Grenzen - https://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/online-spendenJetzt auf See und dann kein SchiffMeine eigenen Erfahrungen zum Thema Seenot sind vergleichsweise lütt und nicht mit dem Horror zu vergleichen, den migrierende Menschen auf dem Mittelmeer erleben. Mein eigenes Erleben sensibilisiert mich jedoch - und deswegen will ich dir davon erzählen:Ich erinnere mich noch sehr gut an den ersten Seenot-Moment in meinem Leben: wir segeln zu dritt auf der Nordadria als von Lee eine schwarze Wand aufzieht. Das Grosssegel bekommen wir gerade noch runter, die Fock, ohnehin schon eine kleine Solent Jib, reißt als 12 Windstärken in unser Rigg knallen. Wir sind urplötzlich nur noch einen kleinen weiteren Riss von einer Seenot  entfernt, mitten auf der kochenden Adria mit einem kaputten Vorsegel und einem kaum laufenden Diesel.Als ich die Funke anschmeisse, höre ich auf Kanal 16 lauter Mayday-Rufe; nur deswegen setze ich selbst keinen ab. Das verzweifelte Rufen eines Jungen auf einer schwedischen Yacht klingt mir heute noch in den Ohren. Nach alter Tradition nehmen wir unsere persönlichen Papiere an uns, damit wir später identifiziert werden können, falls wir das Schiff verlieren und kämpfen uns 12 Stunden durch den nicht nachlassenden Sturm.Ich kann meiner inneren Tankanzeige zusehen, wie mein Körper in der nassen und zehrenden Umgebung an Kraft verliert. Viel länger hätten wir nicht durchgehalten, als wir in Mali Losin Schutz in einer Bucht finden.Die raue, aufgewühlte See lässt im gesündesten Selbstvertrauen einen kalten Horror entstehen, den sich Landratten einfach nicht vorstellen können.Dabei lag zwischen uns und dem Untergang noch eine seegängige Jacht, und eine Seenotrettungsorganisation, die uns ohne zu zögern einen Hubschrauber aus Pula geschickt hätte; ich kann also nur schwach erahnen, was es heißt, entkräftet, durstig und am ganzen Wesen klamm an einem Stück Plastik treibend, sich dieser Hoffnung fressenden Kraft gegenüber zu sehen.Meine Vorfahren waren Fischer aus einem kleinen Dorf an der Elbe; in früheren Zeiten war es normal, Verwandte und ganze Männergenerationen an die Nordsee zu verlieren. Vielleicht entstammt dieser Erfahrung mein tiefer Respekt gegenüber Seenotretter_innen und dem Kodex, der auf See alle Menschen gleich macht. Denn das sind wir alle, die wir auf den Meeren fahren – im Angesicht der grauen, Lebenskraft saugenden See. - via Blogfrei BlogSeenotrettung ist kein Verbrechen sondern menschliche Pflicht; jahrtausendealt. Get full access to St. Pauli POP at stpop.substack.com/subscribe

Only four people survived the incident in the Mediterranean Sea. They were taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday. We speak to Paul Wagner, from Sea Watch, about how the rescue mission unfolded. Also on the programme: A summit aimed at protecting the Amazon wraps in in Brazil; and musician Sixto Rodriguez dies age 81. We speak to Stephen Segerman, the owner of a record shop in Cape Town whose search for the musician became a hit documentary which helped revive Rodriguez's fortunes. (Image: A file photo shows the Italian Coast Guard ship transporting migrants in Lampedusa. Credit: EPA)

Join us as presenter, author and farmer Kate Humble guides us through magical ancient woodland near her remote Wales home in the Wye Valley. With infectious enthusiasm and occasional impressions, she tells us about the plants and animals along our route as well as the story of her accidental career, becoming host of nation's favourite Springwatch having never wanted to be a TV presenter! Kate also talks worldwide travels, access to nature and planting trees with the Woodland Trust on her smallholding. Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Learn more about the Woodland Trust at woodlandtrust.org.uk Transcript You are listening to Woodland Walks, a podcast for the Woodland Trust presented by Adam Shaw. We protect and plant trees for people, for wildlife.  Adam: Well, in early spring I went on a woodland walk in Wales with presenter, author and farmer Kate Humble, who was taking me around what promised to be some amazing woodland with her dogs. But as is increasingly common in these podcasts we of course had to begin with me getting absolutely and entirely lost.   This is an absolute disaster. Although I am bad at directions, this is not my fault *laughs* So Kate sent me a pin, she said look this is going to be hard to find my place, she sent me a map pin. I followed the map pin. Look I'm here I don't know if you can hear this you probably can't hear this. This is the gate that's locked, which is across some woodland path. So I can't get there. And of course there is no phone signal, so I'm going to have to drive all the way back to some town to find a phone signal. And I'm already late.   OK. I have managed to find a village where there is a phone signal. I've managed to call Kate and Kate *laughs* Kate has clearly got the measure of me and told me to give up and she is now going to get in her car and find me in this village and I will follow her back. In the meantime, we have passed Google map pins back and forwards, which apparently tell her that I'm sitting outside her house. But I really am nowhere near her house, so I seem to have broken Google which well, that's a first. Anyway I've got a banana here, so if she's a long time, I have dinner and I'll just wait. This will never happen. This will actually never happen.   Well we've found Kate. We've found a whirly country drive lane. Feels a bit like rally driving. It's like, I mean, I don't understand why my map wouldn't find it, but this is certainly a bit of rally driving we're doing here getting to her house. My goodness. We found her house.   OK. Well, we're here. Which I never thought I I really thought it was really lovely. The idea was nice, and next time I'm in Wales, I'll give you a call so really, it's it's better than I thought better than I thought. Anyway, so you're leading me off with your two dogs.  Kate: I am. I am. I'm leading you off into one of the most beautiful I think I mean, obviously I'm a little bit biased but it is one of the most important areas of ancient woodland in Britain. This is the Wye Valley. We're the lower Wye valley, so we are the the the the bit really where the River Wye is in its sort of last bit of its journey. It's risen in mid Wales, about 136 miles from here. I know that cause I've walked the whole route.  Adam: Really, we're not doing that today, are we?  Kate: No we're not no I promise. I promise Adam. So yes and we are basically about 5 or 6 miles from where it flows into the River Severn and then out into the Bristol Channel and the woods around here are a lovely mix of broadleaf, so we're walking through broadleaf woodland now and this is literally this is what I walk out of my front door. Aren't I lucky?  Adam: You are lucky.  Kate: I'm so lucky. So we've got a lovely mix of broadleaf woodland now and we're just coming into that time of year. Which is the time of year that makes everybody's spirits lift, because we are coming into spring, and if we actually just stop just for a second. You can hear that's a blue tit calling *imitates sound* and I mean, this isn't the perfect day for birdsong, but the birdsong was really picking up. And that's the lovely thing about living alongside woodland. So even in the winter, even when you don't think there are any birds at all, what you hear in these words is *imitates sound* that's a very, very bad impression of a great spotted woodpecker.  Adam: OK, I'm glad you. I I was guessing it might be a woodpecker, but I didn't want to.  Kate: So they start to drum around about sort of late January, they'll be drumming. And and then as the and we also have tawny owls, lots of tawny owls in these woods. We've got an owl box and we used to have an owl that we called Percy who we have no idea whether it was a boy or girl.  Adam: I was gonna say it was, a reason it was called Percy?  Kate: Don't know, just it just it looked like a Percy.  Adam: Just fancied the name. Fair enough. Yeah. Yeah.  Kate: But we have lovely tawny owls here. So, you know, at dusk and and when when I take the dogs out sort of last thing at night round about 10 o'clock 11:00 o'clock at night we walk down this track and and you stand here and you hear this wonderful and everyone thinks you know, tawny owls go toowit toowoo. They're the classic toowit toowoo owls, but actually you've got 2 owls calling, so you've got the male going *imitates noise* and then you have the females going *imitates noise*. And they're calling each other, establishing territories or going ooh I like the sound of you, there's a bit of flirting going on. So these are, as I say really it's it's just the biggest treat to live with this on my doorstep.  Adam: Right, so fantastic. You you clearly I mean, you've launched into a sort of fantastic description and detailed knowledge, but you are not a country girl by birth are you?  Kate: No, I am a country girl by birth.   Adam: Oh you are? I though you were born in London?  Kate: I am. No. Well, I was you're right, I was I was  Adam: Sorry, do I know where you were born and you don't.  Kate: Well, being born and where you were brought up is different.   Adam: Yeah, OK. OK, fair enough.  Kate: So I was, you're absolutely right, I was born in London. I was born in well, I was born in Wimbledon in fact. This is my neighbour by the way.  Adam: Right. Right. Wow. I didn't, we're in the middle of nowhere I didn't know there'd be a neighbour.  Kate: I know, but I know. But there are other people mad enough to live in these woods, and he's particularly mad.  Adam: OK. Does he mind you saying that?   Kate: Not at all. Not at all. No. He's absolutely used to it. Hello. Come and say hello to the Woodland Trust podcast.   Adam: No. OK, I'm just checking. OK. Hi, I'm Adam. Hi. Nice to see you. Yeah, I hear you're her neighbour.  Kate: This is this is this is writer Mark Mccrum and his dog Jabba. Yes. So I'm just dragging Adam down to take a look at the ponds and talking about the ponds down there.  Mark: Oh lovely. Which ponds?  Kate: The ponds down there.  Mark: Oh those ones? Yeah, very good. I might see you on the reverse cause I'm gonna go all the way round.  Kate: Oh you're gonna go round. OK, fine. Lovely.  Mark: These are lovely woods cause you never see anybody here. *all laugh*  Adam: I'm sorry.  Kate: Apart from you   Adam: I was gonna say, and me, I've ruined it.  Kate: Yeah we're the only people who see each other aren't we.  Adam: So you were telling me you are you are born in Wimbledon, but you you grew up in the country then?   Kate: Yeah. So I was I was born in Wimbledon and yes. So after about, I think I was about six months old, my mother always says that she realised that London was clearly not the place for me and   Adam: From six months? Outward bound baby were you?  Kate: Yes! She said she said there basically wasn't enough space in London for me. So so yes, so I was brought up in Berkshire, right? And I was brought up next to a farm. So I was always a sort of vicariously farming kid. Even though my parents weren't farmers and and spent my childhood looking after various animals of various descriptions, and I think the wonderful thing about being the age I am, so everyone bemoans being old, but I think I just I I am so thankful that I was born in the sixties.  Adam: Why?  Kate: Because no one had invented health and safety, climbing trees, no one had climbing frames, you climbed trees. And I think the trees enjoyed it, and so did you. And if you hadn't fallen out of quite a lot of trees by the time you were 10 and had various, you know, scars or broken bits as proof of a proper childhood, it wasn't a proper childhood.   Adam: Right. OK.   Kate: So I had a lovely proper childhood of, you know, not being plonked in front of a screen of some description or another. We're going to cut off piste a little bit and head down here.  Adam: OK, I'm is this a precursor warning that I'm about to get bumps and scrapes and?  Kate: This is a precursor warning that you might yes, you might. It's quite a steep descent.  Adam: OK just as long as my, my face is my fortune though, as long as that's safeguarded throughout this, that'll be fine. OK. Well, that's good. Yeah. Lots of leaves around. Yeah.  Kate: Of course it will be a soft landing whatever you say. Lots of leaves. One of the nice things again about broadleaf woodland. And as you can see, I'm sure your leaf identification is brilliant, but we've got a lovely mix of oak here and beech, as well as the evergreen so the hollies and lovely, lovely mosses. But yes, what you're walking on is is a sort of glorious mulchy carpet, but we have a profusion of bluebells.  Adam: Already they've come up?  Kate: Well the bluebells, the the plants themselves have come up so the leaves are up and there are one or two I'm going to show you, is it, will it be your first bluebell of the year?  Adam: It, almost, almost we we can pretend it is for dramatic purposes. Let's let's go along.  Kate: OK, OK. They are, they're just, they're just starting to come here now and and you get that lovely moment. It'll be about probably about three weeks or a month's time, slightly depending on on what the weather does, where you get the, the unfurling of the beech trees. So that glorious kind of neon green which when the light goes through you get that sort of wonderful, almost disco light effect show.  Adam: And aren't they in Welsh, aren't they called cuckoos? The Welsh translation for bluebells is cuckoo clock. I think it's because it's like it's a harbinger of spring along with the cuckoo.  Kate: Oh, I didn't know that.  Adam: Oh my God, I found something you didn't know.  Kate: You know, you know, you'll know lots, I don't know, but  Adam: No, no, let's hope that's true that's that's I'll have to go check that. Do check that before you tell anybody.   Kate: Well, I'll just blame you.  Adam: But no, I do think in Welsh the translation for Bluebell is is cuckoo clock or something like that because it is this harbinger of spring and I think that's it's a really nice I I won't even try the Welsh but in Welsh it sounds very so I mean, I thought we were going to chat about your conversion to nature and everything, but actually that's a lot of nonsense. This is this has been a constant in your life?   Kate: Well, it's been, I mean, coming to Wales, so I did live in London, you know, after I left home.  Adam: Except, I mean, you didn't choose a a nature career, did you? I mean, you you're involved now we can talk about that. But first, what was your first career?  Kate: Well, I mean. Career always seems such a grand word and that you've planned it.  Adam: Yeah. OK, so your accidental career.  Kate: So my accidental career, well, I had this idea that that I that I wanted to work in television, although again I don't really know where that came from. We're going just down here. Part of me also wanted to be a a safari guide.  Adam: Good. I can see the appeal of that.  Kate: I went to I when I was 19 having never really been abroad at all, because again, our generation didn't really go abroad as a matter of course. So I went to Africa when I was 19 and.  Adam: Sorry we're not talking on a holiday?  Kate: No it was a well it was a it was probably a rebellion.   Adam: Right. You went as far away as your your parents as you could. I'm not going out for the evening I'm popping off to Africa?  Kate: Yes, yes. I'm popping off to Africa and I don't know when I'll be back. One of those.  Adam: Right. Yeah, good. Good exit line. So where, where, where in Africa were you and what were you doing there?  Kate: So I I started in South Africa. I ended up in Egypt.  Adam: Right, just bumming around doing sort of bar work or doing something more serious?  Kate: I did I did I was a waitress for a little bit, but I was very, very bad and was sacked. I I was a model for a little bit, also very bad, very bad at that too.   Adam: Why were you so bad at that?   Kate: Because because I really don't like having my photograph taken and I really like food.  Adam: Yes, OK well I would I would have guessed I could have advised you that wasn't the career for you.  Kate: So so the two things, yeah, didn't really weren't terribly compatible to that. But I then got a job as a cook and a driver on a safari, and I drove a truck aged 19, having never really been out of Berkshire, from Cape Town, through Botswana and into Zimbabwe. And and then I hitched back to Cape Town. So I had a a real adventure. But what I what it really did for me was, having had this very sort of unconsciously wild childhood, I don't mean you know lots of parties and taking drugs I mean, a natural wild childhood, I then went to a place where the natural world was was so extraordinary and so mindblowing, and on a scale, you know, everything was was was like technicolour. You know, the birds were amazing. The the you know the the the size of the animals, the proliferation of the wildlife, the size of the landscapes, the emptiness and I think it was that journey that turned my mind to really re-look and re-examine the natural world and think it's, you know, it's extraordinary, it's it's mind blowing in every way and so even though I then came back and thought I want to have this sort of career in telly what I really wanted to do in my career in telly was work for the natural history unit.  Adam: Right. And is that what you did?  Kate: No. Not initially anyway.  Adam: OK, but you have done, I mean you've done nature programmes, lots of nature programmes. What did you first start doing?  Kate: We're going down here. I have. So I first started sweeping streets in the East End.  Adam: In EastEnders?  Kate: No, in the East End, no. I was a runner so I basically got jobs wherever I could get jobs and I got a job on a commercial that happened to be shooting in the East End and they needed the streets swept and so that was one of my jobs. But had no plans to be on the telly that that really did happen by mistake.  Adam: I think you know my first job in telly. I don't know if you remember That's Life with Esther Rantzen. Do you remember they she always had rude, funny vegetables?   Kate: I do, yes  Adam: That was my job to find them, yeah so only only marginally above the street sweeping.   Kate: Oh my goodness!  Adam: So you got how did you get picked there? I mean, we gotta get back to the natural world. But you've had such such a fantastic life. So I mean, I think people will be fascinated to know you have not much of even a vague plan about what you're doing. You're fumbling about a bit.  Kate: None, yeah. Living in a squat. Eating crisps.  Adam: So yeah, right. So not many models will be will be living like that and eating crisps, I get that You're sweeping streets as your way into telly, all of a sudden you're on telly. How did that happen, was that more of a plan or did someone just turn around and go, hey, you, street sweeper, you'll do?  Kate: No, it wasn't. So I had I had graduated from street sweeper, so it took about probably four four or five years I have become by now a sort of senior researcher. And I got a job at the BBC. My first job at the BBC on a programme called Animal Hospital.  Adam: Right. Yes. And you were still a researcher there or presenter?  Kate: Yeah, as a researcher. And and I think the reason that I got the job was actually my childhood. Because I think it was the first series, in fact, I think the only series that they did of Animal Hospital in a rural practice. So we went to a practice that didn't just do small animals, pets type animals, but also bigger animals like farm animals and horses and I think the only reason I got the job was that I was the only person they interviewed who knew what to do with something bigger than a hamster.   Adam: Right ok great.  Kate: And I had my own wellies.  Adam: Oh good. Always important for a career in telly, your own wellies, see these are the secrets people wanna know. Good. So you've got your wellies?   Kate: Always really, really important. They are. So I got that job I got that researcher job. And at the end of it, the BBC do this appraisal thing. And they said we thought you were alright, you did OK, will you come back and do the next series and I said I'd absolutely love to. I'd really loved it, absolutely loved it. Can we just pause here a minute because this,  Adam: A sea of wild garlic?  Kate: No, these are bluebells.  Adam: These are bluebells? Oh, sorry. Look at the ignorance here.  Kate: These are bluebells. Well, those white flowers let me show you these because they're beautiful.  Adam: I thought like I I think that's what I thought was wild garlic shows you *unintelligible* OK, we've got a proper safari expert.  Kate: No. So look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, first bluebell starting to unfurl except my dog's just walked all over it. Come on you're not supposed to walk on there.  Adam: So this is, all of this is bluebells?  Kate: So all of this will be bluebells and in about 3 weeks time you get this absolutely, it's so blue it's like the colour actually detaches itself from the flowers and floats above it in this sort of glorious mist, it's beautiful. But this these flowers here I love. And these are these are one of the flowers along with celandines which are the kind of waxy yellow flowers that people will see in woodlands and even in their gardens at this time of year, these are wood anemones. And they are lovely, very delicate white flowers with these slightly sort of hand-like leaves and the lovely thing about these, they're not looking at their best at the moment because it's been quite a wet day. But when the sun's out, they open to the sun like these brilliant white stars. And sometimes there are areas around here where you'll see carpets of wood anemones and they're one of the first I've seen these as early as January, although not this year because we had lots of frosts.  Adam: It's funny you, you, you, you use the word magical I'm just looking at this tree with covered in moss and everything, there is something magical about these sorts of places, a sort of sense of, sense of, a Tolkien type moment isnt there?.  Kate: Absolutely. Absolutely. I've I I don't think it is a coincidence that lots of fairytales are set in woodlands because there is something otherworldly about them. We're going to head keep heading down just so that you have a really good climb on the way up.  Adam: Yeah, I was gonna say I'm fine going down, I'm assuming you're sending a car to pick me up? It's well a little, a little Uber will just I'm sure,   Kate: Nice try, Adam! Lots of Ubers around here. Look, look, look.   Adam: Oh look now that is OK that's a proper bluebell.  Kate: That is a, a, a bluebell that's a proper bluebell.  Adam: Yeah, that is my first proper bluebell of the year.  Kate: And you can see all the others are just starting to come.  Adam: And that's and it is lovely because clearly so few people come here that's the problem often with bluebells is when people trample all over them. And we've got just one clean path down here and it's completely undisturbed for as far as the eye can see. So yes, we OK, we we did a little pit stop for bluebells. We're back on and the what was the programme, animal?  Kate: Animal Animal Hospital.  Adam: Animal Hospital. So they wanted you back as a researcher. I'm interested in the jump from behind the screen to on screen.  Kate: So so they basically said lovely we'll see you in four months and I said oh well, I've got a landlord and rent to pay, I can't not work for four months. I'm going to have to get another job and it may mean that I'm not available. And they said ohh well, maybe we can find you something else within the BBC as a stopgap. And I had also at that point, so this is the mid 90s now, started writing. I was writing travel. And I'd spent at the the a end of a a, the second Africa trip that I did between 94 and 95, I'd spent the last two months of that in Madagascar.  Adam: Right.  Kate: Madagascar was a place that I was obsessed with because of its wildlife because it has unique flora and fauna. I came back and got an article commissioned to write about it, and it was the first,  Adam: Your first commission?  Kate: Yes, my first commission and my first article, and it was in a broad a broadsheet newspaper, and I was very excited and very proud about that. And so when I was asked by the series producer of the BBC Holiday programme, whether I would consider coming to work for them because I was a travel writer,  Adam: Right OK, yeah, you're now a travel writer because of your one article.  Kate: I am I am now a I am now a travel writer on the strength of one of one article.  Adam: Whoa oh Kate, I'm so glad you were the first person to sort of go over *Kate laughs* That was before me I just want that on record.   Kate: Yeah.   Adam: OK so I haven't gone over yet.   Kate: You haven't got over yet.   Adam: OK. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah.  Kate: Yes. So I got a job on the BBC Holiday programme. Anyway the next day I got called into the big boss's office. And I assumed that my short lived career at the BBC Holiday programme was about to be ended because I wasn't quite sure why, but perhaps because I hadn't been taking the producers guidelines as seriously as I might and that also I had smoked on a fire escape, which probably wasn't a good idea. And instead I was asked to do a screen test and I assumed that this was the sort of common test that the Holiday programme did and I tried to say I really don't want to be a presenter thank you, I love doing, I love making the programmes, I love the research, I love talking to people, I love putting things together. I'm quite, I like logistics. I'm quite, you know, I like all that stuff I don't want to be a presenter. And they went well do a do a screen test. So at this point I just thought I've just got to get out of this office because I feel very embarrassed by the whole situation. So I will just nod smile say yes, do it, it'll be a disaster, and then everything can go back to normal. So that's what I did. Three weeks later, the boss came into the office,  Adam: Sorry, we have to stop. This is a story that's gonna last all day, cause I keep stopping because your dog is posing or it was posing beautifully by this river.  Kate: Well, so this river is an important, one of the sort of parallel streams that run into the River Wye for this is the Angidy, we are in the Angidy Valley, surrounded by amazing woodland on both sides, it's a very steep sided valley. This river is particularly good for dippers, which are those lovely chocolate brown and white birds, they look like little waiters.  Adam: Right *laughs*  Kate: And they and they, they're called dippers because that's exactly what they do. So we'll keep an eye out because we might see some, but they'll sit on a stone like that exposed stone within the waterfall there and they will jump into the water and literally completely submerge. They'll disappear completely and they're looking for things like caddisfly larva, which is what they feed on, and then they'll bob up and come back up and they're they're just these wonderful, perky, very smart little birds.  Adam: Brilliant, OK.  Kate: They're the only British songbird that is also a water bird.  Adam: Wow, OK, good. All right.   Kate: There you are, little bit of, little bit of,  Adam: No, I like these these these sorts of diversions we take, it's it's almost like doing a stand up routine, so we're gonna go gonna go back to the story now. So you thought everybody in the world gets a screen test. So I'm just doing this and then they'll leave me alone.  Kate: Yes, yes. And and then the boss came into the office about 3 weeks later. And she said, can you go to France tomorrow? And I said yes, of course, assuming that they needed somebody to carry the heavy stuff. Bhcause carrying heavy stuff is the other thing that I am good at. I can whistle very loudly and I can carry very heavy things and those are really the only two things that I can offer the world.  Adam: OK, I I you, you have set yourself up for a big whistle at the end, so we'll we'll wait for that then let's hold out.  Kate: It it will blow your ears well, that's all I'm saying. So she said, we want you to present a film on a barge in Normandy, could you please do something about my hair, she said. My own hair.  Adam: I see she didn't ask you to be a hairdresser? Also could you cut my hair?  Kate: Yes could you cut my hair *laughs*. No, could you do something about your hair, she said. I thought she's been talking to my mum, who constantly despairs of my lack of my lack of grooming.  Adam: Right, also right at this point of hair hair disasters, we have to pause because we've come across as you may hear an extraordinary small waterfall, it's a weir, really, isn't it?   Kate: It is really.  Adam: I'm gonna take another photo of this before we get back to the life and misadventures of Kate Humble. So I'm just gonna take a photo. You'll find that, no doubt on one of our Twitter feeds. Oh, I know beautiful, oh no the dogs disappeared, the dog doesn't like posing for me. But all right, so now, you're off to France. You need a haircut and,  Kate: So I'm off to France. I need I need I need to basically smarten myself up. Off I went to France and presented my first film.  Adam: Right. And that was, I mean, we could talk about this forever, but that was the beginning of that was the beginning of this, the story. OK, well, amazing.  Kate: Yes. My first job for the natural history unit came in 2000. And I was asked to do a programme, which was a sort of, was made in response to Blue Planet. So the very first series of the Blue Planet, which I think everybody watched with their mouths open because we had never seen the oceans in that way before, particularly the deep ocean. And there was a phrase used which I have used many, many times since, which was that more people have been to the moon than there have been to the deep ocean. And people were fascinated by these, they were they were creatures that looked like they might have been designed for Star Wars. They were so extraordinary.  Adam: These sort of angler fish which have which have this light don't they.  Kate: That sort of thing, and these these, you know, these astonishing, you know, plankton with flashing lights, there were Dumbo octopus with, you know, little octopus with these sort of literally did look like Dumbo the elephant, you know, deep water sharks that people had never seen before that were really slow moving and and, you know astonishingly well-adapted to live at depths and in in at water pressure that no one thought anything could exist in and come on dogs we're gonna keep, do you wanna have a,  Adam: And so yours was a response, in what way?   Kate: So we did a live,  Adam: The dogs keep looking at me like they want me to throw something for them is that what's going on?  Kate: They do, and I'm going to just try and find a, here let's try let's try this, here we are.  Adam: Look, they're very, oh you've thrown it into the river?   Kate: Go on, in you go.  Adam: Oh, look at that go!  Kate: Come on Teg, do you wanna go in as well? Here you are. This one's going to sink, go on. Ready? Go. Good girl. Where's it gone? Teggy, it's just there. That's it. Well done, well done, dogs.  Adam: Oh they like that.  Kate: Well, I can't go and get it, you have to bring it here, that's the deal with sticks *laughs* So we did a live programme from a boat in Monterey Bay. I made some films to play into that live show. So I went to the Cayman Islands, which is a rotten thing to ask anybody to do, can you imagine?  Adam: Terrible, terrible. You wanted to be back in the East End really.  Kate: I did really, sweeping streets and instead there I was, doing films about coral reefs and this is the one of, this is the wonderful thing about the natural history unit or just about making films with animals is the lengths that you have to go to to be able to capture the natural world in all its wonder. And so I was asked to go and film a shark called a six gill shark that lives very deep and only about 10 people in the world had ever seen. And I was sent to go and find this creature. You know, I can't I can't even now I can't really believe that I was asked to do that.   Adam: And did you find it?  Kate: Eventually. We had to do two, we did one trip we failed to find it,   Adam: How how long was that?  Kate: So that was, we did 6 dives. It was an amazing trip. We didn't get the shark on the first trip. We went back for another trip. We didn't get it. We didn't get it. We finally got it and it was incredible. Incredible moment. And that was the first job that I did for the natural history unit and there was then somebody who came up with the idea of doing British wildlife life live at kind of springtime, like kind of now.   Adam: And this was Springwatch was it?  Kate: This was the precursor to Springwatch.   Adam: Oh I didn't know there was one.  Kate: There were two!  Adam: What were they called?  Kate: So the first one was called Wild In Your Garden. So I'm just going to put the dogs on a lead here. Hold on, poppet. Just hold on my poppet. That's it. We've got to take Adam up the hill now. So yes, so the first one was called Wild In Your Garden and it was Bill Oddie and Simon King and me. And we did two shows a night, from gardens in Bristol, and it sort of worked as an idea.  Adam: Right. OK.  Kate: It worked well enough or it wasn't so much of a disaster that there wasn't a thought of let's try it slightly differently, maybe on a farm instead of in the garden, and we went to this wonderful organic farm in Devon and basically made camp for three weeks. And made a series called Britain Goes Wild. And Britain went a tiny bit wild. And so the following year we thought, well, we'll do it again, but maybe we'll just call it something different.  Adam: Right.  Kate: And someone came up with the idea of calling it spring watch and everyone said, and it always went out at the same time as it does now, sort of end of May and people go, it's not really spring though is it? And we're like, well spring enough, still spring things happening and Springwatch seemed to capture everybody's imaginations and and I presented that for 10 years.  Adam: And you presented that for how many, how many years?  Kate: Ten.  Adam: Blimey! That's a long,  Kate: Yeah, I know. I've just grown old on telly and then Autumnwatch came into being and then Winterwatch and I did Seawatch. So I did a series about British Britain's seas and and marine life. Yeah. So I did eventually get my wish of working for the natural history unit.  Adam: Oh, that's very good. The fairy godmother in the form of the BBC descended and granted your wish. And now from all of those adventures abroad and on TV and everything you then said, I'm gonna move to this really quite, there's another car coming, quite quite remote parts of Wales. Why that?  Kate: We're going to head up here. Hold on, dogs. There we are.  Adam: Oh there's some steps. Hallelujah.  Kate: OK, only for this little bit.  Adam: Look, stop stop taking away the hope.  Kate: *laughs* So so I we moved,  Adam: Yes so you you picked up sticks and then moved to Wales. Perhaps it's not such a big move because the natural world has seemed to be always the centre of things for you. So but why Wales in particular?  Kate: Well, that is a curious question. I had no connection with Wales as far as I was aware. I honestly honestly can't tell you why I felt this extraordinary pull to live here. But it really was it was like a magnetic pull. There is actually a a Welsh word and I'm not sure I'm really allowed to use it in my context, but I can't think of a better word to use for the feeling that I had. And it's hiraeth and is a word that it's sort of more than home sickness. It's like a deep longing for the place that you belong. A yearning, a pit of the stomach emptiness for your home.  Adam: You felt this was a spiritual home, did you?   Kate: I don't know I really don't know, Adam. I, as I say I just had this extraordinary pull to live here. And yeah, I would look at the, there are these old fashioned things called maps, and I would look at the A to Z of Great Britain. And you know, there I was in the South East and if you look at a thing called a map,  Adam: Yes, sorry is this a point about me getting lost on the way to you.   Kate: No no not even remotely. No, it's the fact that no one uses them anymore, and yet, they're the greatest treasures we have. So if you look at a map, the South East of England is just this chaos of colour and roads and towns and names. And it's just, you know, there's not a square millimetre that hasn't got a name in it or something in. The further west you go, the browner the map becomes, and when you go over the border into Wales, it's mainly brown and green and it's got beautiful lyrical names like Abergavenny and and it's got mountains and mountains, when you've been brought up in Berkshire mountains are the height of exoticism. To live in a in a country that had mountains all of its own just struck me as being remarkable. I still, 15 years on, find it remarkable that I can I can get up at breakfast, not go terribly far, and climb a bona fide mountain. I love that. And that's what I love about Wales.  Adam: And and you've done more than, I mean, people might feel that and move to a beautiful part of the country and live there and more or less carry on with their ordinary life. But you've not done that. I mean, you're not just you don't just go for walks, the natural world is something you've created a a new career out of as well. Is that fair?  Kate: I wouldn't call it a career.  Adam: OK but you're very much well, but you make money from it and it fills your days.   Kate: Well, no, no, I don't think I don't know I don't I don't think that's I don't think that's true at all. I think you know I my working life is peculiar. I've I still am involved making television programmes, some of which involve the natural world. I still write, some of that's about the natural world, but not all of it. The natural world for me is nothing to do with making a living. Making a living. But it is about living. And it was one of the things that I was acutely aware of when I lived in London was I felt cut off from the seasons. This year you know, I know I can tell you that I didn't hear a skylark until the middle of March last year it was Valentine's Day. I can tell you that because that's what I'm experiencing. And I love feeling that instead of the natural world being something I watch on the television or I read about in a book that I am able to be part of it. And that's one of the big problems I think that we face now with trying to engage people with the importance of things like biodiversity, species loss, habitat loss. None of those things sound very sexy, and none of those things appear to matter to us because we as a species so weirdly and inexplicably view ourselves as a species separate from the natural world and the natural world has become something that we just watch for our entertainment. But we are just another mammal in this amazingly complex, beautiful, brilliant web that is the biodiversity web, where everything fits in and everything works together, and one thing feeds another thing and you know, until we feel properly part of that, immersed in it and and wrapped up in it, why are we ever going to worry about the fact that it is now a biodiversity net that's full of holes, and those holes mean that the net becomes less and less effective and the less effective that net becomes, the more it affects us, but we see ourselves as somehow immune from that process and we're not. And what I love about living here, what I love about walking in this area every day, twice a day, is the fact that I feel that I can, I'm I'm more in tune with our natural world and that is sadly, it shouldn't feel a it shouldn't be a privilege, but it is.  Adam: And do you feel, I mean, you're you feel passionate about it. Do you feel evangelical about it?  Kate: Yes.   Adam: So what do you, do you have a prescription to help to bring others on side?  Kate: I wish it didn't, I wish you didn't have to ask me that question. I wish it didn't have to be an on side.  Adam: Do you do you feel that's an unfair question? Or do you think there's?  Kate: No, I don't. I think it's a very fair question because lots of people don't feel or don't perhaps don't experience it experience the advantages of the natural world, or they haven't been they haven't been given the opportunities to properly understand the impact that it can have on us and all those impacts are positive. I mean, there's loads of science. And you know, it was talked about endlessly during the pandemic about how green spaces are good for our mental health, blue spaces are good for our mental health, being outdoors, being in nature, listening to birdsong, sing plants grow, all those things are good for us. But we've got to a place where we've been so divorced from it, where we look for our pleasures in shopping malls and online and and we forget that actually all we need is right here. And, you know, it's a hard sell for some to to somebody who's never experienced this, who hasn't had the privileges I've undoubtedly had, you know who have not grown up in the countryside, who find it fearful or boring or inexplicable, don't understand where they fit in.  Adam: And I think one of the perhaps growing debates, I think or interesting ones anyway for me is is the balance between trying to either scare people or make them aware of the environmental challenges and potential for disaster. And then so to sort of go engage with the subject it's really it's really newsworthy, it's it's it's imperative people do things and actually turning people off going well we're we're all going to literally burn, enjoy the party whilst it lasts. So what what do you feel about that?  Kate: Yeah, yeah. I mean, all all, all you have to do, all you have to do is watch Don't Look Up. Have you seen that film?   Adam: Yes.  Kate: And and and that, you know, absolutely embodies what you have just said.  Adam: So what do you think about that? Because I think there's a balance between going, offering hope, the power or audacity of hope is a phrase one hears as opposed to the sort of potential to frighten people into action. Actually the opposite, don't frighten them into action. Offer them hope of change. And I wonder where you feel that, if we've got that balance right, or whether,  Kate: No, we haven't got it right and I, but I don't know what the balance is because I think there's a real, I think that a lot of programmes that are made about natural history now have become so glossy and so beautiful and and so almost otherworldly that they don't actually reflect the reality of the natural world. And a lot of them again show the natural world without the context of people. And of course, that's sort of how we want to see it, we don't want people muddying those pictures. We don't want, as you say, the kind of the awful stories of the litter and the, you know, the the, the, the negative impact that human have humans have had on the natural environment. So we kind of don't want to see it, but equally if we don't see it, we don't engage with it and we kind of can watch one of those documentaries and even if David Attenborough is telling you that, you know, this is a habitat that's in peril or this is the last animal of its type that you will ever see, you don't really take that in because you're looking at these really stunning pictures and you think it's kind of OK. But I don't know what the answer is because I also know that as you say, if all you peddle is hopelessness and helplessness, no one's going to engage, they're going to stick their heads in the sand and just hope that it all goes away and pass it on to the next generation. So somehow we as communicators need to find a way that really does cut through. That really does make people feel, genuinely feel part of the natural world, that it isn't just another thing. I had the great joy of interviewing Tim Peake not that long ago, and I was interviewing him for a book that I'm writing about the concept of home. And I thought he would have, of anybody, a really unique idea of home having not just left home but left the planet. And he told me that he did a spacewalk, he was out in space for over four hours, and he said the blackness is like a blackness you cannot imagine. But he said, you know, you see Mars and Jupiter and Venus and you see Earth. And he said, when you're there, amongst the planets in that way you see that Earth is, as far as anyone's experience, and any telescope has been able to tell us, unique. You look at it and he said there it is, this colour, this blue and green planet, whereas everything else is, you know silver and and ghostly, ours is a living planet and he said he had this, he had this sort of feeling when he was there looking at Earth and imagining somebody, some other being coming up and tapping him on the shoulder and saying hey, hi,  who are you? I'm Tim. And he'd say oh hello so where are you from then? And Tim said I felt this enormous swell of pride to be able to point to our planet and say I'm from that planet there. I'm from Earth. I'm an earthling and I thought if all of us had that experience, could understand what it was like, how special our planet is in a universe that is infinite as far as we know and that we have, we have no idea what's out there, but what we do know at the moment is that our planet is unique and I think we would treasure it that much more and have moments like this of just standing amongst the trees and midges coming out, the drizzle, the mud and go, this is our home, this is where we live. It's really special. Aren't we lucky?  Adam: You're taking me uphill again aren't you.  Kate: I am taking uphill, but you've done the worst bit and you and and actually you marched. I was impressed!  Adam: Oh OK good. You know I'll fall apart after, I'm just doing it so I don't embarrass myself too badly.  Kate: *laughs* I'm afraid it is going to get very, very muddy, so you're going to have wet socks, mud up to your knees, you know, that's why I spend six months of the year in wellies.  Adam: Right OK. But you know, that is the privilege of being an earthling, isn't it?   Kate: It is it is.  Adam: So you've been you've got involved with the Woodland Trust.  Kate: I've been involved with the Woodland Trust for quite a long time, but it really started when we took on a farm near here.  Adam: What's this an arable farm?  Kate: No, it was a small council farm. It belonged to the council and people are not really aware that there are such a thing.   Adam: I've never heard this one.  Kate: No, but there used to be about 16,000 council farms throughout Britain and they were set up as part of the 1906 Smallholdings and Allotments Act and they were there, low rent, small areas, usually 30, 40 acres that sort of size and they would be available to rent for farmers who for whatever reason, didn't have a farm of their own. And over the years, as farming practices have changed as economic models have driven farmers to need to to produce things on a bigger scale, small farms have been basically relegated to either hobby farms or they've been broken up and sold to land that's been added to bigger farms. So we've lost an enormous number of these small farms and with them an enormous opportunity for people with farming skills to stay on the land and produce as food. And that's what was going to happen to this farm. And for whatever reason, I just felt this was not the thing to do and to cut a very, very, very long story short, we ended up taking over the farm and setting up a rural skills centre o prove that a small farm, ours is just over 100 acres, could still be viable. It supports itself and that's really important. But one of the things that we wanted to do, we were really interested to do when we took it over was to add more trees. It's it's got some wonderful ancient trees. There's an oak tree on the farm that we call Old Man Oak, as did the tenants before us. They introduced us to him and we think he's about 600 years old. And but we wanted to plant more trees. But we had this conundrum of how do we increase the tree cover on the farm without taking away the pasture because obviously we needed the pasture for the livestock and it was the Woodland Trust that helped us with that conundrum. So they looked, together we walked round the farm and we identified either areas where there were small copses or where there was a bit of a hedge. So what we did with the Woodland Trust's advice and input was to put in trees as shelter breaks, so not actually impinging on the pasture, just or very much, but adding a kind of a thicker bit of hedge if you like, or making a copse a little bit bigger and in that way we've planted over 1,000 trees on the farm in the last decade that we've had it. And then at home we have a four acre small holding and and so at the beginning of last year I started thinking maybe it's an age thing, you start thinking about legacy and when you when you take over a piece of land, what you start to understand actually very quickly is that you will never own it, that you are simply the caretaker of it for the time that you are around. And I think we've got cleverer now. Our knowledge has become greater. We understand that just planting trees isn't the answer. We need to think about we need to think of landscape as a mosaic and so what we wanted to do was to create a little mosaic. Plant trees, create water or make a space for water, make sure that there was going to be areas that had glade that was good for insects, that was good for wild flowers. And so I talked to the Woodland Trust and said, are you going to be into this idea, because it's not just planting trees and they went, that's exactly what we're into. That's exactly what we want to do. We want to create habitat. It's not about blanketing a landscape with trees. It's about planting the right trees in the right places at the right density to create something that you know, in a generation's time will have real lasting value, and that's what's been so wonderful about working with, you know, an organisation like that that sees big picture, sees longevity as as an advantage rather than as a disadvantage. And and that's what's been so lovely is that, you know, I can go to them and say so I've got this plan. I mean, I'm not even going to be alive to see it kind of come to fruition but do you care? And they went, we don't care, do you care? No. Let's do it. And that's wonderful.  Adam: Wonderful. OK sorry, this is a bit, this is the bit where I'm going ohh well, I'm swimming effectively swimming now.  Kate: Sorry. This is a very wet bit.  Adam: Hold on a second. OK. Right. That's a very Norman Wisdom walk I seem to have. OK. Yeah. OK, so ohh sorry, hold on.  Kate: It gets, that's the that's the wettest bit now, now we're now we're more or less home and dry.  Adam: Oh well you know what we we might be home, but we are not dry. That would be inaccurate at this point. So well, that's a neat story to bring us back to home with isn't it. So you know things are looking good. It's all hopeful. A a long journey and a long one ahead, you know, not just for you, but for that natural world you're creating.  Kate: Well, I hope that you know the the I I think going back to to what you said about how we can, we can help us all feel that we are actually, you know part and parcel of the natural world rather than observers of it or visitors of it and things like planting trees or being aware of the seasonal joys of the bluebells coming through, or, you know the leaf fall in the autumn and the colour, all those things if if i you know if we can build that awareness that brings with it huge joy and reward, then maybe we'll start to cut through again and people will start to feel more like the natural world is their world and not just another part of the planet that they live on.  Adam: Well having arrived back at Kate's home, let me just say there are lots more woodland walk podcasts for you to enjoy wherever you get your podcasts from. And indeed, if you want to find an actual wood near you well, you can go to the Woodland Trust website www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/findawood. Until next time, happy wandering.  Thank you for listening to the Woodland Trust Woodland Walks with Adam Shaw. Join us next month, when Adam will be taking another walk in the company of Woodland Trust staff, partners and volunteers. Don't forget to subscribe to the series on iTunes or wherever you're listening to us and do give us a review and a rating. And why not send us a recording of your favourite woodland walk to be included in a future podcast? Keep it to a maximum of five minutes and please tell us what makes your woodland walk special or send us an e-mail with details of your favourite walk and what makes it special to you. Send any audio files to podcast@woodlandtrust.org.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. 

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Jeden Morgen bleibt er einen Moment in der Haustür stehen und schaut auf seine „fantastische Straße“ mit dem Kopfsteinpflaster, den Bäumen und den besonderen Menschen, von denen er viele kennt. Und die ihn kennen. Als Seemann „Halbe Lunge“. Der Typ mit dem Irokesen-Haarschnitt, der früher als Kapitän in der Welt unterwegs war. Der seine beiden Autos auch mal für einen Urlaub an andere Kiezianer verleiht, Obdachlosen hilft und als Aktivist Flüchtlinge aus dem Mittelmeer gerettet hat. Jürgen Prey (56) ist der Kapitän vom Kiez mit dem großen Herz. „Halbe Lunge“ berichtet von „Nutten, Schnaps und Zigaretten“. Von der Einsamkeit auf großer Fahrt und den Häfen voller Mädchen. Davon wie anders es mit Prostituierten in Südamerika abläuft. Von seinem Wunsch zu helfen – als Anwohner auf dem Kiez und als Kapitän auf dem Mittelmeer. Er spricht über seine Missionen für „Sea-Watch“. Von den Geretteten, den Toten, dem Geruch der Leichen und diesem einen Moment, den er niemals vergessen wird. Die MOPO-Reporter Wiebke Bromberg und Marius Röer trafen den Seemann in seiner Wohnung auf St. Pauli.

Om ett Europa vars gränser flyttas söderut, bortom Medelhavet, ner mot ekvatorn. EU satsar stort på att migranterna ska hanteras av andra. Vi följer en mans försök att ta sig från Sydsudan till Europa. Längs vägen mot Medelhavet finns många hinder, smugglare, miliser och gränsvakter. Och vissa av de här hindren är finansierade av EU - som den libyska kustbevakningen som varje år lyckas hindra tiotusentals migranter från att ta sig över havet mot Europa. I Libyen riskerar de övergrepp och kan säljas som slavar.EU-fonder, som Sverige bidrar till, har gynnat icke-demokratiska regimer som Sudan och Libyen. Och den libyska kustbevakningen försöker nu dra tillbaka migrantbåtarna innan de når europeiskt vatten.Räddningsflyg hotas med luftvärnsrobotarVi följer med räddningsflyget Seabird som vakar över vattnen men hotas av luftvärnsrobotar när den libyska kustbevakningen tycker att de stör. Räddningsfartygen är få utanför den italienska ön Lampedusa, flera hjälporganisationer har skrämts iväg av rättsprocesser, hot och trakasserier.Men migranter och flyktingar fortsätter att komma över havet. Europas politiker förbereder sig för en situation som liknar den stora flyktingsommaren 2015. Gränserna stärks. Samtidigt som livräddarna uppgivet fortsätter att bärga både levande och döda.Medverkande: Puot från Sydsudan på flykt i Nordafrika, Jorrit Rijpma, juridikprofessor vid Europa Institute of Leiden Law School i Nederländerna, Olivier Wilmart, pilot för den räddningsorganisationen Seawatch, Tamino Böhm, koordinator för Seawatch, Ingo Werth som är kapten på ett av frivilligorganisationen ResQships fartyg, Giovanni d'Ambrosio och Emma Giacomo vid den katolska organisationen Mediterranean Hope, Migrationsminister Maria Malmer Stenergard, moderaterna.Reportrar: Anna Roxvall och Johan Persson.Programledare: Fernando Ariasfernando.arias@sr.seProducent: Ulrika Bergqvistulrika.bergqvist@sr.seTekniker: Jacob Gustavsson

Episode 315 of the Seibertron.com Twincast / Podcast begins with some end of year leaks for Legacy as pictures have surfaced of Voyager Skyquake as well as Deluxe Class entries for a new Junkion and Animated Prowl. The cast continues the toy talk with in hand experiences with the Haslab Victory Saber. Next, thoughts on toy leaks continue once again with a cartoon-style G1 Hound followed by Rise of the Beasts Wheeljack and Nightbird. Quick reflections on the surprise bonus tier for Haslab Deathsaurus featuring Micromasters Pipo and Boater round out the discussions on upcoming toys. A brief mention of the forthcoming Tranformers Reactivate videogame comes next, followed by a brief installment in the show's ongoing "Classics" Retrospective. Listener questions get answered next, first about what characters need to be added to Legacy's Core Class, then the second asking the cast to reflect on their favorite IDW memories. As usual, Bragging Rights closes out the episode.

Heute geht es um eine Demo der Hamburger Kitas, denen Tausende Mitarbeiter fehlen. Weitere Themen: Busse und Bahnen fahren wegen Corona seltener, Makler bekommen Post von Hamburgs Datenschutzbeauftragtem – und Sea-Watch schickt ein neues Schiff ins Mittelmeer, um dort Flüchtlinge vor dem Ertrinken zu retten.

Des migrants sont vus sur le pont du navire de sauvetage Sea-Watch 3 dans la zone SAR maltaise, le mardi 19 octobre 2021. Entre le 17 octobre 2021 et le 18 octobre 2021, Sea-Watch 3 a secouru 412 migrants sur sept bate- aux en détresse et demandait un port sûr pour les débarquer. (AP Photo / Valéria Mongelli.

Der Schauspieler Friedrich Mücke ist zu Gast bei Koschwitz zum Wochenende und spricht über seine Rolle in der ZDF-Mini-Serie „Liberame – Nach dem Sturm“. Die fiktionale Serie begleitet das Schicksal einiger Geflüchteten, die im Mittelmeer beinahe ertrunken wären – und die Segler-Truppe, die zufällig auf das gekenterte Boot getroffen war. Im Podcast erzählt er, wie es gelingt, eine solche Geschichte ohne Moralkeule zu erzählen und warum dieses Thema auch angesichts anderer Krisen nach wie vor Beachtung verdient.

Civil sea rescue by organizations such as Sea-Watch saves lives, but the fundamental problem that Europe is sealed off to many who seek refuge remains, argues Ruben Neugebauer. Neugebauer is a co-founder of Sea-Watch, a non-profit organization committed to doing search and rescue missions on the Mediterranean Sea as well as advocating safe passage for refugees. In this episode, he talks with Aida Baghernejad about ways to reform European migration policies and how the situation on the Mediterranean Sea is affected by economic circumstances. Neugebauer is a photojournalist, geochemist and activist.

Mein heutiger Gast ist Tobi Schlegl. Er ist Notfallsanitäter, Moderator und Autor. Tobi Schlegl hat seine Fernsehkarriere mit 17 – parallel zu seinem Abitur – begonnen. Von VIVA zu Pro7, zum NDR, ins ZDF und in die größten deutschen Radiosender: Fast überall war Tobi in den letzten 20 Jahren zu sehen oder zu hören. Umso größer war das Medienecho, als er 2016 – nach mehr als 20 Jahren vor der Kamera – beschloss, sich weitestgehend aus der Branche zurückzuziehen und Notfallsanitäter zu werden. Er hat sein Leben umgekrempelt und ist von einem Umfeld, in dem Oberflächlichkeiten eine übergeordnete Rolle spielten, in eines gewechselt, in dem es wohl nichts Unwichtigeres gibt, als jene Oberflächlichkeit. Letztes Jahr verbrachte er als Notfallsanitäter zweieinhalb Wochen auf dem Seenotrettungsschiff Sea Eye und hat seine Erfahrungen aus dieser Zeit in seinem Buch “See.Not.Rettung” festgehalten. Ich wollte von ihm wissen, wie sich sein früheres und sein heutiges Ich unterscheiden, warum es ihn damals so früh ins Rampenlicht gezogen hat und was Glück für ihn heute im Unterschied zu damals bedeutet. Wir sprechen über Relevanz und das Ankommen bei sich selbst, es geht um den Unterschied zwischen Bestätigung von außen und von innen, um Verantwortung und um Haltung. Außerdem teilt er seinen Blick auf Europa und die Geschehnisse auf dem Mittelmeer. Wir sprechen über den Tod, das Leben und das Dazwischen. MEIN GAST: https://instagram.com/tobischlegl/ DINGE: Tobias Schlegl “Schockraum” - https://tidd.ly/3h72f2s * Tobias Schlegl “See.Not.Rettung” - https://tidd.ly/34WVQVa * Sea Eye e.v. - https://sea-eye.org/spenden/ Sea Watch e.v. - https://sea-watch.org/spenden/ WERBEPARTNER: fraenk - https://fraenk.de/ CODE “hotelmatze” BookBeat - http://bookbeat.de/hotelmatze CODE “hotelmatze” (gültig bis 31.12.2022) Heineken - http://heineken.com/de/heineken00 Bibi Blocksberg und die Generation Kassettenkinder von Kiddinx - https://kiddinx.lnk.to/generation_kassettenkinder MITARBEIT: Redaktionelle Mitarbeit: Lena Rocholl Musik: Jan Köppen Mix & Schnitt: Maximilian Frisch MEIN ZEUG: Die Hotel Matze Suite bei Apple: https://apple.co/3DTfsFb Die Hotel Matze Suite bei Spotify: https://bit.ly/3J7OLjJ Wunschgäste bitte in die Kommentare: https://apple.co/2RgJVH6 Mein Newsletter: https://matzehielscher.substack.com/ Instagram: https://instagram.com/matzehielscher LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/matzehielscher/ YouTube: https://bit.ly/2MXRILN Twitter: https://twitter.com/hotelmatze1 Mein Buch: https://bit.ly/39FtHQy Mein Fragenset: http://beherzt.net/matze Übersicht zu meinen Partnern: https://bit.ly/34cEJ0E *Affiliate Link (Thalia)