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Caption: Applying nature-based coastal defence to the world's largest urban area - from science to practice (ANCODE)
Dr Judith Wolf, Physical Oceanographer and Marine Modeler, National Oceanography Centre and Dr Zhan Hu, Associate Professor, School of Marine Science, Sun Yat-sen University

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Professor Zhan Hu walks towards the camera.
Professor Zhan Hu is conducting marine related experiment;
Professor Zhan Hu is observing glass container;

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Speaker (Dr Zhan Hu)
In the current world, flooding induced by sea level rise and typhoons is very challenging.
And our project aims to develop innovative and sustainable measures
To create safer and greater coasts.
In urban deltas, like Pearl River Delta,
We are facing greater risks of coast flooding.
And the lost in each year is enormous.
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Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Caption: Dr Zhan Hu, Associate Professor, School of Marine Science, Sun Yat-sen University China
Flooded land and woods;
Ocean flooded trees at the coast with green hills in the back;
A bridge connects the island in the ocean with the woods at the coast;
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Some fishing boats are drifting on the sea with leaves dancing in the foreground;
Tree trunks are drowned in the sea;
Many wastes lie on the sandy shore;

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Speaker (Dr Zhan Hu)
By our project, we want to promote natural-based coastal defence
To use coastal wetlands like mangroves and seagrass
Into future integrated coastal protection schemes.
And right now, we are looking at how to better preserve and restore those valuable ecosystems
In order to use them in future coastal defense.
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Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Boats drift in middle of the sea with leaves and wetland in the foreground;
Boats drift in middle of the sea with a sapling in the foreground;
Under the blue sky is the wetland with green hills in the back;
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
An egret walks through the wetland in the distance.
A crab walks out of a hole in the wetland.

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Speaker (Dr Zhan Hu)
Our project is already making difference in wetlands restoration.
We can fence a national wetland park in Yangjiang to create oyster reefs
To protect mangrove seedlings and to facilitate to mangrove creation.
To our knowledge, it is the first time that such measures been taken in China.
And we hope in to see such measures will be applied in many more coastal areas.
If we have the prize,
We will have the chance to test more ideas for mangroves protection and management.
We want the future with beautiful and safe coasts,
With vibrant and healthy ecosystems.
Thanks to the Newton Fund and we can collaborate with our UK partners.
And truly think our partnership will help to build better coasts in the future.
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Crabs bustle around the wetland in a mangrove forest;
Crabs bustle around the wetland with saplings in the back;
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Two farmers are working in the wetland with houses and hills in the background;
A close view of 2 or 3 mangrove roots;
Seawater is rippling on the mangrove root;
A farmer is planting in the wetland with houses and hills in the background;
Many crabs are bustling in the wetland which reflects the sunset;
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Crabs are bustling around the wetland with fishing boats in the distance at sunset.
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Many crabs are bustling in the wetland which reflects the sunset with trees and house in the background;
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Thick leaves are dancing in the wind;
Researchers stand in the wetland in rain boots;
Researchers are collecting data in wetland;
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.
Green leaves flutter in the wind with hill in the back;
A large woods in the front with villages and hills in the distance.
Professor Zhan Hu is speaking in front of the camera in a marine specimen lab.

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Executive Producer
Zhan Zhang
Directed，Filmed，Edited by Manman Yang
Second Cameraman
Wei Wang
Produced by Believing is Seeing Studio Guangzhou

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Special thanks
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British Council
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Sun Yat-sen University

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