:00:13. > :00:32.stories from the south`west. Tonight, it's the Cornish
:00:33. > :00:49.`` out there. But is ShelterBox still true to its name's I find
:00:50. > :01:01.disaster? It is about emergdncy shelter within days of a disaster
:01:02. > :01:02.and a commitment to help people in those first few days. And wd visit a
:01:03. > :01:49.haven for winter wildlife. `` Dev one `` Devon
:01:50. > :01:51.in connection `` arrested in connection with fraud. But the
:01:52. > :02:28.charity is not under investhgation and
:02:29. > :02:39.Newquay. This woman has just given birth, a baby girl born
:02:40. > :02:39.birth when the house was ruloured around her. It was awful. They
:02:40. > :02:51.haven't got the resources to help themselves with all of that
:02:52. > :03:25.show. Wheat on the night
:03:26. > :03:49.the international disaster charity just
:03:50. > :03:53.And that has been the SheltdrBox ledge since the
:03:54. > :04:18.in Helston 13 years ago. To deliver its
:04:19. > :04:19.experienced fieldworkers. In 20 6, we feature the charity's machine in
:04:20. > :04:38.Pakistan for #. Was in charge of the earthquake. Mark Pearson was in
:04:39. > :04:52.charge of pence. We were in the Frontier province and Kashmhr. We
:04:53. > :04:53.quickly, very effectively done. Mark was also on the ground withhn days
:04:54. > :05:02.of tsunami. Every problem you could
:05:03. > :05:26.come across, earthquakes, snow, what distributed quickly was alw`ys the
:05:27. > :05:37.priority. It is first three or four days, m`ximum
:05:38. > :05:38.ten to 15 days after the disaster. At that point, it is pretty much
:05:39. > :05:58.finished, the emergency marketing. I know there are great in
:05:59. > :06:06.Cornwall and the product out there. But last
:06:07. > :06:11.year, ShelterBox was plunged into a crisis of its own. Its founder, Tom
:06:12. > :06:30.Henderson, was arrested in connection
:06:31. > :07:02.wrong and remains on police bail while enquiries continue. There
:07:03. > :07:09.followed the typhoon, SheltdrBox reported it had
:07:10. > :07:17.200 ShelterBoxes and 1500 tdnts But how does that compare with previous
:07:18. > :07:21.an earthquake struck Haiti, ShelterBox, then
:07:22. > :07:25.organisation, had within five weeks distributed 7000 boxes and tents.
:07:26. > :07:35.That is several times the alount handed out
:07:36. > :07:45.there were more challenging. Haiti and Typhoon Haiyan are
:07:46. > :07:56.was very obvious immediatelx that when you flew stuff into thd
:07:57. > :08:00.Somewhere like the Philippines, it is the sheer logistics moving
:08:01. > :08:05.between islands. When I was there for two weeks, it took me nhne
:08:06. > :08:52.flights to see three the exercise of saying, if we
:08:53. > :09:00.airfreighted it, it takes away the cost of the tent.
:09:01. > :09:00.was much early on , each aid was needed. We do not want to w`ste
:09:01. > :09:15.donors' money by putting aid on could not have given enough.
:09:16. > :09:17.ShelterBox is part of a much wider international response. We `re a
:09:18. > :09:27.relatively features airfreighted. It does not
:09:28. > :09:41.mention the usually slower sea Haiyan. That concerns some
:09:42. > :09:42.ShelterBox's former partners. Until 2012, ShelterBox's Norway affiliate
:09:43. > :10:23.Siegfried. We were told the main priority was send it by plaxing so
:10:24. > :10:31.clear in publicity materials that not everything is sent by ahr
:10:32. > :10:32.of going too fast. You have to think about the destruction of thd
:10:33. > :10:36.infrastructure be to move things about in the
:10:37. > :10:41.country. The last thing we do is create or contribute to
:10:42. > :10:50.bottlenecks or local diffictlties. The concern illustrated by `nother
:10:51. > :10:50.of ShelterBox's deployments before Alison joined. Its response to
:10:51. > :10:54.Haiti earthquake in 2010 was the biggest in its history. But, as
:10:55. > :11:16.these pictures distributed. In the Philipphnes
:11:17. > :11:24.ShelterBox tents were due as late as last week, but how useful
:11:25. > :11:24.are they after a catastrophd on this scale?
:11:25. > :11:32.in November, four days after Typhoon Haiyan, it advised tents were
:11:33. > :11:41.needed, the priority after that was
:11:42. > :11:56.rebuilding homes. The communities that where they had had
:11:57. > :11:58.some emergency needs met, stch as I tent and a tarpaulin, they were
:11:59. > :12:12.saying, we want is still finding families for whom a
:12:13. > :12:17.tent is a lifeline. The Philippines is
:12:18. > :12:18.and we are seeing that it still has impact, but some amenities have not
:12:19. > :12:32.been it delivers. P have specific
:12:33. > :12:48.benefits but compared to kept like tarpaulins, they are high`v`lue
:12:49. > :12:58.jealousy over who got what led to fears of violence against rdcipients
:12:59. > :13:05.and charity workers. In a cdrtain context, if one group of hotseholds
:13:06. > :13:18.get that Shelterbox and gets everything, and we collect
:13:19. > :13:25.So, to what extent is Sheltdrbox my thinking outside the box? It is now
:13:26. > :13:56.so`called sheltered kits, shmple tarpaulins and tools. On
:13:57. > :14:00.Philippines. But there were nearly four times as many unboxed pence, as
:14:01. > :14:12.well as thousands of individual items like solar lamps.
:14:13. > :14:15.delivers outside emergency but some believe that the message donors are
:14:16. > :14:24.given them closely enough rdflect the complex reality. I find it very
:14:25. > :14:34.problematic that they are tdlling donors but this
:14:35. > :14:44.three years to change their marketing,
:14:45. > :14:48.delivering at jewel Shelterboxes. With the discontents `` the concerns
:14:49. > :14:51.to Shelterbox. Their websitd changed.
:14:52. > :14:58.always explain the different kinds of help it sends. It says changes to
:14:59. > :15:07.their website or part of a donor trachea that this org`nisation
:15:08. > :15:33.is the longer just about a box of kit delivered to
:15:34. > :15:34.big fundraising effort in Atstralia. Its spokesman, Mike Greensl`de,
:15:35. > :15:49.seemed sure all the money will go to the Philippines. In fact,
:15:50. > :15:50.the Shelterbox website says that in the unlikely event of Sheltdrbox
:15:51. > :16:11.raising more than a Shelterbox says that the end of last
:16:12. > :16:23.year it had collected ?4.4 lillion guarantee it. Our intention is to
:16:24. > :16:28.spend all the money that we have raised. We still can't predhct how
:16:29. > :16:49.much we will end Shelterbox. Whatever they nded, we
:16:50. > :17:15.will be happy to give. That Shelterbox looks to move
:17:16. > :17:16.iconic box. Estuaries like this are gre`t havens
:17:17. > :17:22.for winter beautiful estuary in Devon, where
:17:23. > :17:36.instead of trying to build, It is home to some beautiful, but
:17:37. > :17:45.Gifford in South Devon ` 60 The magic
:17:46. > :18:42.threatened wildlife. of organism that is food for the
:18:43. > :18:51.birds. It is pretty the oozing. This redshank is feeding
:18:52. > :19:04.on the tide line as surface making them easy pickings.
:19:05. > :19:08.On the grassy banks, this ctrlew is probing even deeper. Its longer bill
:19:09. > :19:26.allows it to feed on a diffdrent with tidal flats that has a tide
:19:27. > :19:28.ebbing and flooding twice a the reserve itself. It looks like
:19:29. > :19:56.just a bit of wet grassland for the wildlife that would've used
:19:57. > :20:08.the original salt marsh. Those very rare. Now, Devon Wildlhfe Trust
:20:09. > :20:12.are trying to put some back. To do that they
:20:13. > :20:20.sea wall controlled by this very clever tidal valve. We have a big
:20:21. > :20:31.tube through the bank. sea water. We can control the sea
:20:32. > :20:57.water echoes in there. This sea water floods into the naturd
:20:58. > :20:58.there. We want the landscapd that we see out there to be replicated in
:20:59. > :21:27.there, as it once was. We nded salt water to go in
:21:28. > :21:28.wall as they are outside it. Salt marsh is
:21:29. > :21:46.shrimps and, in turn, the bhrds that feed on them. This egret already
:21:47. > :22:53.picking up the sea but `` to this sea wall in
:22:54. > :23:32.the bombing? There was a for that. We used to spend time down
:23:33. > :23:43.here swimming and catching lullets in the central canal,
:23:44. > :23:53.at rain here all the time. Despite the best efforts
:23:54. > :24:30.years the bird population started to go into decline.
:24:31. > :25:17.flooding, things are coming back. The Sheldrake,
:25:18. > :25:21.onto the River Avon and the mudflats. This is a great
:25:22. > :25:21.types of shank, green and rdd. The greenshank in front is a much rarer
:25:22. > :25:45.bird locally than the redsh`nk, with sandpiper. It's easy to spot at a
:25:46. > :25:53.distance. No`one they bob all the time. It could be
:25:54. > :26:02.to make them ragworm on the mudflats just by the
:26:03. > :26:12.hide. Moving water overall bird numbers are well down,
:26:13. > :26:36.though there are quite a For a keen birder like me, this is a
:26:37. > :26:41.real highlight ` the curlew. Our largest wader and a beautiftl
:26:42. > :26:49.and, thankfully, relatively common. This one is preening its fe`thers,
:26:50. > :26:50.but it's a bit tricky with only a long bill and legs to use. Ht uses
:26:51. > :26:54.its legs for the neck feathdrs then turns right round to rtb a
:26:55. > :27:01.gland near its tail with So,
:27:02. > :27:14.main body of feathers to kedp them So, not a bad morning bird watching.
:27:15. > :27:19.OK, not something the Exe or Tamar estuaries, but a
:27:20. > :27:34.nice intimate reserve with, if you are lucky, some real raritids like
:27:35. > :27:37.the ibis. I love this reserve, not just because it is interesthng, but
:27:38. > :27:51.because it is small and compact are into wading birds. Also, the
:27:52. > :27:59.salt marsh, or the salt marsh that will be. Year in,
:28:00. > :28:10.worth returning for. Our estuaries have always faced huge pressure
:28:11. > :28:16.from. `` from man. They are where we want to
:28:17. > :28:17.news that, 250 years on, ond small part of Devon is being at ldast in
:28:18. > :28:34.part given back That is all for this week, `nd for
:28:35. > :29:21.this series. We will be last year. A neighbour said she had
:29:22. > :29:22.terrible screams on the