Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone
Тофер Уайт: Что может спасти тропический лес? Ваш старый сотовый телефон!
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,
и впервые побывал в Борнейских лесах.
of the forest that struck me the most.
услышав всепоглощающую музыку леса.
сочетание звуков.
a rhinoceros hornbill.
малайский гомрай.
over a great distance.
на большом расстоянии.
was in fact a gibbon reserve,
в заповеднике гиббонов,
was coming out of the forest that time
совсем другой звук,
had actually noticed it.
rehabilitating gibbons,
to spend a lot of their time
тратить немало времени
that takes place on the side.
на окраине леса.
вычленить и сделать тише
the insects, and the rest,
насекомых и остальной живности, —
in recordings you heard,
фоновый шум.
at great distance.
цепная пила.
who were posted around this sanctuary
работают три человека,
to guard against illegal logging,
в борьбе с незаконной вырубкой леса.
again as tourists, out into the forest,
пришли в лес,
who was just sawing a tree down,
Они рубили дерево на наших глазах!
from the ranger station.
В нескольких сотнях метров от лесничества.
to hear the chainsaws,
the forest is very, very loud.
что лес невероятно громкий.
that in this modern time,
в современном мире!
from a ranger station in a sanctuary,
не могут услышать,
someone who has a chainsaw gets fired up.
кто-то заводит бензопилу.
but in fact, it was quite true.
но это чистая правда.
незаконную вырубку?
always to come up with a high-tech,
изобрести что-то сверхъестественное,
it has to be scalable,
while were there was that
that would allow us to stop this
на основе того,
already in the forest?
dedicated, three full-time guards,
которые работают здесь целыми днями.
what was happening out in the forest.
что происходит в лесу.
out in the forest.
way out in the middle of nowhere.
работает сотовая связь.
from the nearest road,
but they had very good cell phone service,
но есть надёжная сотовая связь.
were on Facebook all the time,
that in fact it would be possible
of chainsaws programmatically,
to go up in the trees.
должно быть помещено на дерево.
to listen to the sounds of the forest,
которое будет прослушивать звуки леса,
network that's there,
to this issue for them.
to talk about saving the rainforest,
и поговорим о спасении тропических лесов.
definitely all heard about forever.
have heard about saving the rainforest
слышат о необходимости спасения лесов
has never changed:
it's super urgent,
по спасению тропических лесов».
have been destroyed yesterday.
сколько футбольных полей уничтожено.
about half of the rainforest remains,
около половины тропических лесов,
problems like climate change.
такие как глобальное потепление.
that I didn't realize at the time:
for more greenhouse gas
влияет на развитие парникового эффекта
trains, cars, trucks and ships combined.
поезда, машины и корабли мира.
to climate change.
причина глобального потепления.
that takes place in the rainforest
тропического леса
like the illegal logging that we saw.
Мы с вами увидели, как это происходит.
enforce the rules that are there,
сотрудникам леса бороться с беззаконием,
into this 17 percent
парниковый эффект на те самые 17%.
in the short term.
fastest way to fight climate change.
методов борьбы с глобальным потеплением.
is heard in the forest,
звук бензопилы,
of the chainsaw,
GSM network that's already there
стандартную сеть GSM
and stop the logging.
и остановить её.
and finding a tree that's been cut.
ходить и искать, где валят лес.
a tree from a satellite
позволяющих увидеть
мгновенных мерах.
and fastest way to do it,
простое и бюджетное решение.
they weren't able to do it,
не пользовались этой возможностью,
were actually cell phones,
если в качестве звукосчитывающих устройств
by the hundreds of millions every year,
выбрасываются ежегодно.
which of course we should do,
Хотя правильнее было бы считать и их.
to the sounds of the forest.
that you see here,
engineering challenges
инженерная задача,
under a tree canopy,
и в принципе
under a tree canopy,
под кроной дерева
solar panel design that you see here,
уникальной конструкции,
byproducts of an industrial process.
промышленных отходов.
for allowing me to do that.
this is a device up in a tree.
прикреплённое к стволу дерева.
is that they are pretty well obscured
под кроной дерева.
they are able to hear chainsaw noises
about three square kilometers,
территорию около 3 кв. км,
it would make the area unprotected.
если его легко найти и снять.
действительно ли это работает?
we took it back to Indonesia,
мы вернулись в Индонезию.
by illegal logging.
сталкиваются с незаконной рубкой леса.
illegal chainsaw noises.
зафиксировало звуки спиливаемого дерева.
Everyone had just gotten back down.
and they all quiet down,
и все замолчали.
until that moment.
to actually stop these loggers.
arrived close to where the loggers are.
когда мы были так близки к цели...
where I'm actually regretting
the other side of this hill.
лесорубов в действии
been interrupted before --
их намерениям.
event for them,
такое сильное впечатление,
they have not been back since.
the entire operation works,
on the spot was that
in real time and stop people,
этих людей,
they won't come back.
не осмелились вернуться.
because we told a lot of people,
быстро распространился.
amazing stuff started to happen.
started to send us emails, phone calls.
начали писать и звонить нам.
throughout Asia,
people throughout South America,
we thought might be exceptional,
что хорошая сотовая связь в лесу
pretty good cell phone service.
of the forests that are most under threat.
где чаще всего незаконно рубятся деревья.
really amazing happened,
their own old cell phones.
свои старые сотовые телефоны.
people who are already there,
смотрителям леса эффективно
and use the existing connectivity,
сетью и в то же время улучшить её.
that are being sent to us
люди со всего мира.
something else in their afterlife,
can be completely recycled,
использовать для остальных деталей
an entirely upcycled device.
because of any sort of high-tech solution.
супертехнологичного.
what's already there,
из имеющихся ресурсов.
that if it's not phones,
что всегда есть выход.
going to be enough there
эффективно использовать то,
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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