Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone
توفر وایت: چه چیزی می تواند جنگل های بارانی را حفظ کند؟ تلفن همراه قدیمی شما
Through his startup Rainforest Connection, Topher White transforms used cell phones into guardians of the rainforest. Full bio
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as a tourist,
for the very first time,
جزیره بورنئو دیدن کردم
of the forest that struck me the most.
به گوش من میرسید.
a rhinoceros hornbill.
یک نوک شاخی گرگدنی است.
over a great distance.
برای هم آواز میخوانند.
was in fact a gibbon reserve,
در واقع زیستگاه گیبون هاست
صدای بسیاری از آنها را می شنوید.
was coming out of the forest that time
از جنگل به کوش می رسید
had actually noticed it.
اینجا زیستگاه گیبون ها بود.
rehabilitating gibbons,
to spend a lot of their time
that takes place on the side.
که در اطراف آنها انجام می شود، کنند.
the insects, and the rest,
in recordings you heard,
at great distance.
who were posted around this sanctuary
to guard against illegal logging,
در برابر چوب بری های غیرقانونی بود.
again as tourists, out into the forest,
who was just sawing a tree down,
مشغول اره کردن پایین یک درخت بود،
from the ranger station.
to hear the chainsaws,
the forest is very, very loud.
that in this modern time,
from a ranger station in a sanctuary,
someone who has a chainsaw gets fired up.
در حقیقت کسی قادر به شنیدن صدای آن نیست.
but in fact, it was quite true.
always to come up with a high-tech,
همیشه همراه با فناوری های پیشرفته،
it has to be scalable,
while were there was that
that would allow us to stop this
already in the forest?
dedicated, three full-time guards,
سه نگهبان جنگل تمام وقت،
what was happening out in the forest.
out in the forest.
way out in the middle of nowhere.
from the nearest road,
از نزدیک ترین جاده ها و مسیر ها فاصله داشت
but they had very good cell phone service,
اما آنها خدمات تلفنی بسیار خوبی داشتند.
were on Facebook all the time,
that in fact it would be possible
که در واقع ممکن خواهد بود
of chainsaws programmatically,
to go up in the trees.
to listen to the sounds of the forest,
network that's there,
to this issue for them.
to talk about saving the rainforest,
definitely all heard about forever.
have heard about saving the rainforest
has never changed:
it's super urgent,
این بسیار ضرروری است،
have been destroyed yesterday.
در گذشته تخریب شده بودند.
about half of the rainforest remains,
در حدود نیمی از جنگل های بارانی باقی مانده اند.
problems like climate change.
مثل تغییرات آب وهوایی داریم
that I didn't realize at the time:
و من در آن موقع آن را درک نمی کردم:
for more greenhouse gas
trains, cars, trucks and ships combined.
ماشین ها ، کامیون ها و کشتی ها باهم دارند
to climate change.
that takes place in the rainforest
like the illegal logging that we saw.
مثل همان چوب بری غیر قانونی که ما دیدیم.
enforce the rules that are there,
into this 17 percent
in the short term.
fastest way to fight climate change.
برای مقابله با تغییرات آب و هوایی است.
is heard in the forest,
of the chainsaw,
GSM network that's already there
and stop the logging.
و چوب بری را متوقف کند.
and finding a tree that's been cut.
a tree from a satellite
and fastest way to do it,
و سریعترین روش انجام این کار است
they weren't able to do it,
آنها قادر به انجام این کار نبودند،
were actually cell phones,
by the hundreds of millions every year,
هر روزه دور انداخته می شوند،
which of course we should do,
که البته باید در نظر گرفته شوند
to the sounds of the forest.
that you see here,
که شما اینجا می بینید،
engineering challenges
under a tree canopy,
under a tree canopy,
solar panel design that you see here,
که شما اینجا می بینید
byproducts of an industrial process.
for allowing me to do that.
که به من اجازه انجام این کار را دادند.
this is a device up in a tree.
این همان وسیله است در بالای یک درخت.
is that they are pretty well obscured
این هست که این ابزار خیلی خوب پنهان شده است.
they are able to hear chainsaw noises
about three square kilometers,
it would make the area unprotected.
we took it back to Indonesia,
by illegal logging.
illegal chainsaw noises.
Everyone had just gotten back down.
همه فقط بر روی زانو خم شده بودند.
and they all quiet down,
until that moment.
to actually stop these loggers.
arrived close to where the loggers are.
where I'm actually regretting
the other side of this hill.
been interrupted before --
event for them,
they have not been back since.
the entire operation works,
on the spot was that
in real time and stop people,
they won't come back.
آنها دیگر باز نخواهند گشت.
because we told a lot of people,
ما به مردم زیادی در این باره خبر دادیم،
amazing stuff started to happen.
started to send us emails, phone calls.
throughout Asia,
people throughout South America,
we thought might be exceptional,
pretty good cell phone service.
of the forests that are most under threat.
really amazing happened,
their own old cell phones.
تلفن های همرا ه قدیمی اشان برای ما کردند.
people who are already there,
مردمی که هم اکنون وجود دارند،
and use the existing connectivity,
that are being sent to us
something else in their afterlife,
can be completely recycled,
an entirely upcycled device.
because of any sort of high-tech solution.
what's already there,
that if it's not phones,
going to be enough there
in new contexts.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Topher White - Conservation technologistThrough his startup Rainforest Connection, Topher White transforms used cell phones into guardians of the rainforest.
Why you should listen
In 2012, Topher White founded Rainforest Connection, a startup which converts recycled cell-phones into solar-powered listening devices to monitor and protect remote areas of the rainforest. Now an established NGO, Rainforest Connection has helped stop illegal logging and poaching operations in Sumatra, and the system is being expanded to three more rainforest reserves in Indonesia, the Amazon and Africa.
With a background in physics and engineering, White worked as web chief of ITER and co-founded Enthuse, a sports engagement and mobile rewards platform. For Rainforest Connection, he’s fashioned a simple device made of discarded cell phones and solar panels that detects and sends alerts when it picks up the sound of chainsaws in protected rainforests, allowing for intervention in real time.
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