Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone
Topher White: Mi mentheti meg az esőerdőket? A használt mobiltelefonod
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,
borneói esőerdőkbe,
of the forest that struck me the most.
várnak ott az emberre.
a rhinoceros hornbill.
orrszarvcsőrű madár.
over a great distance.
gibbonrezervátumban rögzítettem,
was in fact a gibbon reserve,
was coming out of the forest that time
ami akkor az erdőből jött,
had actually noticed it.
rehabilitating gibbons,
rehabilitációjára szentelik,
to spend a lot of their time
that takes place on the side.
fakitermelők elleni küzdelemre.
the insects, and the rest,
és a többit,
in recordings you heard,
at great distance.
hangja volt hallható.
who were posted around this sanctuary
alkalmaztak ezen a menedékhelyen,
to guard against illegal logging,
az illegális fakitermelőktől,
again as tourists, out into the forest,
sétálni mentünk az erdőbe,
who was just sawing a tree down,
aki épp akkor vágott ki egy fát,
from the ranger station.
az őrállomástól.
to hear the chainsaws,
the forest is very, very loud.
az erdő nagyon, nagyon hangos.
that in this modern time,
a mai modern világban,
from a ranger station in a sanctuary,
természetvédelmi őr állomásától,
someone who has a chainsaw gets fired up.
beindít egy láncfűrészt.
but in fact, it was quite true.
de sajnos mégis igaz volt.
jogtalan kitermeléssel?
always to come up with a high-tech,
egy high-tech,
it has to be scalable,
kell lennie,
while were there was that
már eleve kéznél volt.
that would allow us to stop this
ami segíti a leállítást,
already in the forest?
Mi volt már eleve ott az erdőben?
dedicated, three full-time guards,
a három főállású őrrel,
mindezt leállítani,
what was happening out in the forest.
hogy mi történik kint az erdőben.
out in the forest.
way out in the middle of nowhere.
from the nearest road,
több száz kilométerre,
but they had very good cell phone service,
were on Facebook all the time,
Facebook-on lógtak,
that in fact it would be possible
hogy igazából lehetséges lenne
of chainsaws programmatically,
kiszűrni a láncfűrész hangját --
to go up in the trees.
fent a fák között.
to listen to the sounds of the forest,
ami az erdő hangjait figyeli,
network that's there,
to this issue for them.
az ott élőknek.
to talk about saving the rainforest,
az esőerdők megmentéséről,
definitely all heard about forever.
have heard about saving the rainforest
has never changed:
it's super urgent,
ez nagyon sürgős,
have been destroyed yesterday.
pusztult el tegnap.
about half of the rainforest remains,
már csak kb. a fele van meg,
problems like climate change.
vannak, például a klímaváltozás.
that I didn't realize at the time:
az, amit akkor nem vettem észre:
for more greenhouse gas
a megnövekedett üvegházhatásnak,
trains, cars, trucks and ships combined.
autója, kamionja és hajója összesen.
to climate change.
a klímaváltozásnak.
that takes place in the rainforest
90 százaléka
like the illegal logging that we saw.
ahogyan azt az előbb láttuk.
enforce the rules that are there,
betartatni az ottani szabályokat,
into this 17 percent
abból a 17%-ból,
in the short term.
fastest way to fight climate change.
út a klímaváltozás elleni harcban.
is heard in the forest,
hallható lesz az erdőben,
of the chainsaw,
GSM network that's already there
ami már eleve ott van,
and stop the logging.
megállíthatja a fakivágást.
and finding a tree that's been cut.
hogy már kivágott fát találnak.
a tree from a satellite
and fastest way to do it,
leggyorsabb módja,
they weren't able to do it,
nem tudták megcsinálni,
were actually cell phones,
mobiltelefonok lennének,
by the hundreds of millions every year,
which of course we should do,
amit szintén nem lehet kihagyni,
to the sounds of the forest.
that you see here,
engineering challenges
mérnöki kihívás,
under a tree canopy,
egy lombkorona alatt,
under a tree canopy,
egy lombkorona alatt,
solar panel design that you see here,
amit itt látnak,
byproducts of an industrial process.
ipari melléktermékből készült.
for allowing me to do that.
this is a device up in a tree.
is that they are pretty well obscured
ez egy eléggé rejtett valami
they are able to hear chainsaw noises
hangját kiszűrni
about three square kilometers,
területet lefedve,
it would make the area unprotected.
a terület védtelenné válna.
we took it back to Indonesia,
visszavittük Indonéziába,
by illegal logging.
az illegális fakivágás.
illegal chainsaw noises.
az illegális láncfűrész hangját.
Everyone had just gotten back down.
hogy akkor jöttünk le a fáról.
and they all quiet down,
lecsendesedtünk,
until that moment.
to actually stop these loggers.
hogy leállítsuk a favágókat.
arrived close to where the loggers are.
where I'm actually regretting
tényleg megbántam
the other side of this hill.
hogy mi van a hegy másik oldalán.
nekem is menni kellett,
been interrupted before --
nem szakította őket félbe,
event for them,
they have not been back since.
azóta se tértek vissza.
the entire operation works,
hogyan működik a haditerv,
on the spot was that
in real time and stop people,
és leállítod az embereket,
they won't come back.
hogy nem is jönnek vissza.
(Taps)
because we told a lot of people,
sokaknak elmondtuk,
amazing stuff started to happen.
elképesztő dolog történt.
started to send us emails, phone calls.
e-maileket, hívásokat küldeni.
throughout Asia,
people throughout South America,
we thought might be exceptional,
rendkívülinek gondoljuk azt,
pretty good cell phone service.
of the forests that are most under threat.
ami egyben a legfenyegetettebb is.
really amazing happened,
their own old cell phones.
mobiltelefonokat küldeni.
people who are already there,
akik már eleve ott vannak,
and use the existing connectivity,
a meglévő kapcsolatot,
that are being sent to us
amiket nekünk küldtek
something else in their afterlife,
valami másra is használható,
can be completely recycled,
újrahasznosítható lenne,
an entirely upcycled device.
because of any sort of high-tech solution.
what's already there,
that if it's not phones,
hogy ha nem is telefonnal,
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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