on project cassandra, in 2016 fern. our 3 pa documentary series on ma skiing has paula stats may 4th on d, w. the hello everybody, and welcome to a new edition of a co africa. the environment show brought to you by a tv in uganda, gymnast dw, and charles, tv, rock ca, nigeria. i am curriculums. and here's my co host, son drive in uganda. hi, crease. hello. everybody is good to have you back with gold. some exciting reports about environmental protection and sustainability coming up here is a quick look at some of the topics that will be exploring today. what met this

someone in the good incentive goals such a unique bias of why the number of cobble a bikes on the streets of germany is set to bend? how a phone go. we point should slide even. let's see plant in king a pulse for full take cells throughout because west coast funding to save every year gotten a generates a sad green $1100000.00 tons of plastic waste, but only 5 percent of that is collected and recycled. that's a pretty shocking finger. well, there is hope, a number of grassroots organizations coming together to see how they can make a difference. let's take a look of the beach cleaned up is going to be back breaking work similarly and listened future. well, this is a mission with

a difference. these volunteers on prime from beach east of gun is capital across and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan this salting, measuring and cancelling all the items as a weapon to find back against us goods. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups, helping with volunteers from nearby communities. so when willing to come around community members speak to shoes if the applicant shoes if applicant, plastics are clearly plastics. if the up it came down to pace difficulty to face this we, we are able to separate the recycle both from the non respect levels because we want to the most states in the community that they come based on value from these things. we're not done. finding them, you know what that weighs. lots of ways such as across call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps would only a tiny fraction of the city's trash being properly collected and recycled. besides, poisoning the land, the deputies flushed into the ocean,

breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the classic echo systems. and it's from places like color good, that a big deal of the trash wash is down to the problem from beach with plastic punch is working as they see the data collection of form of citizens science as a way out of the mess we. uh, when does between us hello not the solution for the plastic pollution minutes because this i funding this high side, they'll be more trust coming in power buy stuff, that's a very good activity to collect relevance visa. then once we have well situated onto the is the one, the sound, what the police on what this polluted. and also which brian, this which campaign yourself, what you would say by collecting these dates that we are able to understand by analyzing what this office of this for defense could be. where are we on the cell where the surface would be? and that is where we have an attack con,

direct our awareness accidents, and also solution finding f, $100.00. the data quite whose team can begin the crucial next phase, helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we're able to tell where the waste is coming from. and the type of ways that is coming into the show and then the one is that there is a couple and then the ones that i know we say couple. so this informed as, as the assembly, how to plan for the management of the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts a come back moraine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data.

from from beach and gun as a microcosm of world wide problem, it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash into the sea . most of its indestructible plastic, some estimates, say the rate of increase the triple in the coming decade. the un environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic of the things to groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to us guidelines. the data it's loaded onto a un platform containing the world's largest citizen signs. think this is unmarried . let's a officials of gunners, the physical service, city effort. this very useful then when you're cleaning the, the beach, they also compiling data that would lift policy, make us appreciate the value of the activity one to also

appreciate what we're doing to ourselves in terms of look for in the beaches to the extent that one it doesn't then coverage. tar isn't too. um, it's affects aquatic life. being able to present 15 pages is of course also find sold a gun of $1000000000.00 tory sector. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond kennedy choir group, the hardware cuz only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change . now that we understand the problem to solve it, so we need so new stance, we need political will. we need investments. it's a waste management system, is what they need to package and we need a self awareness. we are listening to the science. we are listening to the same and what the results uh given us when we make sense and we need some acts now and for us, of the citizen sciences of clean, the stretches from from beach and the trash data, it has been load. their hope is that if we overly understand what happens to the

plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of all trucks. again. well, it seems pretty clear that shifting to clean the fuel is key to toppling pollution . what, how easy, easy to make the 61 liberal, who in london, a demonstrative us a solely dose of community series. really help. that is right. the trees no local residents proved that we've vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources and you know, way that benefits a lot of households at was the, the new solar panels of the printer is yeah, i'm assuming the street will be producing its very own power residents in east london, lyn much road spent more than 2 years working for this moment and convincing the neighbors to get on board to day. that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of

saying something's going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it come to reality is, is kind of a relief, it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels. that was our goal. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult. actually to, to even persuade any one of autism. henry pollen done 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street linked into a grid. but some of the roofs are suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households on lynn miss road are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer at the that action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here. then it kind of floats quite well with the general public. given the ican on a crisis in the country,

not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 artists launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds the. ready spent several weeks during the winter living on their roof and filmed it as a crowd fund. wanted to make the streets as the locus of a story. but it also is a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support innovative ecological projects. mike says to help tackle the climate crisis, we need lots of parts of money which make it really upset the easy for people to get much funding or to get properly subsidized to,

to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations. what told me is that the moment, by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll stain off filming the installation of the solar panels. the 1st step on the path to us. so low road, the neva engine hoops the solar panels will help slusher energy bills, the dependents under roof. it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and i'm, once people say this happened, you know, it's on the started, they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now these so the power time miss austin le, rarity here that partner a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the u. k. we've got

pretty much like the one of the most that diets is good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels, so it pink time. so it's like 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generates is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course it's really expensive on sunny days. and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the grants instead of, sorry for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade. and create that flexibility heavy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. i guess when the rest of the street see this last 10 . 20 houses getting the solar panels. and i see that, you know, that it's, it's

a viable idea and that it's not have, right and, and just a couple of off this coming up with a totally pine. this guy i do, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hillary pals and them 8 those dean who this will be just the beginning. that dream is how much of the people everywhere in the city watts on is perry initiative for a next report. we as thing in you box heading over to germany with online shopping is a booming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bought in munich more and more parcels and now being delivered by a bike. this is why the city has set up a logistics hub for a couple of bucks on this week's doing a beat. we find out how it is going the

electric to go bike can transport as much as a small truck. then not only is flexible and admission free means of transport. they're often actually faster than the delivery trucks that cloak out. many streets in downtown munich, 40 minutes are going to see the, the amount of commercial traffic. and the fact that we see a lot of potential in a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. because i'm 5 companies have warehouses and the cognitive bikes, logistics, hub, they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can, provides law small delivering. it says the call gigabytes what, what? well, yeah, how much is it that is the subsystem minute? we have 30 stops that's manageable,

it's all the fall. the drivers are paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies where they're a $120.00 parcels and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day in our country is kind of, i actually enjoyed the journey around 500 on some of the news replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest find delivery companies alone could save 6 tons of c o 2 per year. and this is just the 1st step of an initiative that goes beyond manic cost at the cities have similar projects. we're all still figuring it out. i think it's important that we share our experience and learn the right lessons from it. so we're in discussion with other cities. we'll also work together to consolidate our projects. i look forward on climbing a box to us. we can no end of very different topic blonde till all too often chemicals. i used to get the range of diseases and improve views,

but these kind of bodily damage, the environment. the alternatives on the age of kenya is only surviving. tropical rain forests, a fung, but we phone a guest we is being developed in us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers grow well and can you to well in fact strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crumbs. it viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvest as agronomist adults can boil, explain if that part of c take when i know it's kind of caused some damage to a planted pass in, in the fall. as you can see, this move, it is planted by the time you have seen, i've tried to imagine the destruction you sort of already done, because the, say the cds on the ground. the parasitic plant attaches itself to the roots of

crops and then extracts nutrients from them at their expense. they start to wield while the weight flourishes. margaret keesa knows the problem all too well, which we regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for y'all's high ongoing measure to some well, we've been struggling with the problem of which we for many years we cannot crops, but the yield to no good school follow when we trying to stop it, spreading by sweeping up their brain and the animal waste human and distributing it in the field. but it doesn't make any difference with google mazda announcing the season. i've gone to the whole lake open. i will go forward to so that from this i only harvested one bag of ways that came to me, but it doesn't even leave enough for me to rebuild them. doesn't mean the monday. would you, michael now, but to us and kenyan scientists have identified a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective, even in tiny amounts,

such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the toothpick of project dorcas kimball. he manages the projects, toothpick company, for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills, to strike a plot. i don't see within that research on the bell control. so let's try going using say i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's try goliad, and each was drawn to me. the amount control technician on is contrary to what we do in this knob is wanting to play. the fung us as much as we can, so that is can $25.00 to a month that's can solve the farmers in great capacities for the last 5 years. ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product it costs about. so 2 year rose to treat a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to

prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective, and pharma is left with field harvests. that's why the tooth pick project is supported by a number of n g o is focused on food security. that is brittany effect of climate change. the app is warming, the swells warming and we're seeing dry got also moving even to some width as owns and to also some for the region. is that these expediency noah high production areas. senate means the food in security also is except that it becomes much more kenya, isn't the only country with a strike. a problem. according to the un, 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the more important it's successful. it could be introduced in other countries to so dorcas can, boy is working with a to farmers to help produce more fund going up to them. they can show acute that's

can be produced to add our laboratory is not enough to solve from mazda elk grove. this of, in county, so we operating in so that is the reason why we were in gauging village, you know, clump or do stuff at the village level can have passed. pretty put the final product. production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow. 20 key, those of rice are cooked and a small amount of fungus is added. then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate. the resulting 40 kilos of fungus enriched rice are enough for one, a couple of crop land. the research has found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops, owings that was enough to banish the strike and restore crop yields for small hold, as especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. and we end the program. well,

we've begun the west coast of africa and we to migratory bots, folk to send a go and movie tanya and the areas where they clicked on l. protect it, visited the lagoon they simona and set a goal on a real natural beauty, a new birth conservation area, to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far. the macro forest of the simone nature reserve or i haven't touched, was foster ray of species. the lagoons mix of fresh and salt water creates a breakfast environment and the rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's color. it's add birds of prey. it's an actual paradise. but local fishermen on not to have negative effect in the leg into that. but if we're not allowed to fish in the lagoon,

then we don't really have any of the options available coming in some pressure, but have decided to go out to sea instead of i thought like they don't bother me and i don't have that because then i think i didn't want to do a lot of times, they kept something, but there is no in yes, any fish, as in the nature relating. thank you. so it's hard for us now. like a new model for getting you brain fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the edge of the nature. reserve it during october and november that not allowed to fish year. so the face on and the ruling can recover. so cool eco, god, make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough of resting places for the areas main bird species such as purchased for us break. a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that they put play the probably 2 lagoon used to have a lot of 9 golf course. so, but mangrove would isn't huge to bond,

but it's often thought of as probably what it was, but the people here mainly use it's a full construction of what because they know it's much more to apply towards this and then any other woods. so there is a lot of do far as a, somewhat over is their book of visit with them it. so that is on for like a little way to please. and as the ben girl has disappeared, the fish populations decline to be the largest bodies showing people the audio. the e called costs have been working here for 10 years. they were employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a lively lot of a growing number of fishermen have started farming voices to compensate for the period when they are not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the lagoon. spect, texting the bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough spots and a spring a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit

every month at the locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income or not miserable if i'm to open them. you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation with them and then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to eco gasket. are they all 13 of them? and they come from the villages to help us if you don't remember that this is all very poor song organizations such as bird life international are also active. and the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges, elaborately finding menache repair. she lives on the banks of the lagoon. the main threats which are climate change related are erosion. and suiting the local us can see what's happening is we conducted studies in aust,

them what they've observed soon. the data f, have it on pause, you own it, the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger that they consistently presented your call. you may say they've noticed before that has become sandia and has a highest self conscious setting, easy resolve tablet. the organization studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost of these problems push down the d. guess go see when we offer them what solutions they would recommend, what practices they've noticed that seem to accelerate the problems and that should therefore be stopped. they themselves said that it's due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy of the fuzzy that i thought in them for school. one is actually know codes traditionally harvested muscles and oysters from the shoreline said bankrupt, damaging them in the process to date. the oysters are cultivated just above the

water line, so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the symbol of who. but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains of protect area for the time is flown by. i'm afraid we've come to the end of the show for this week. we hope you enjoyed the program before i say good bye. i like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you crease, merry christmas and puffy, 22 people. thank you so much for the opposite engagement with the problem. we hope to see you soon for now do take it out and sees it. the the

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