of doubts shows the geo political reality. the on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the welcome to echo off recall. i'm chris a lance in lagos, nigeria, nearly 3 quarters of the earth's surface is covered by water or oceans and what to weighs, a home to chain. so thousands of species today, we look at how we can protect these species and benefits from all they have to offer. i am sandra holmes, that we, nobody will write it in complex. uganda. here is what we have coming to sustainable and 6, the women we've a better way to how this oil says income be

a flourishing in the drought. merck in pharma is simple to and most videos and sliding fish out performing in africa's might say, like victoria is providing jobs and food security. let us begin the in south africa, tourists loved the cute sues on cape towns printing waterfront, but not many think about the importance of all these creases. play in under the water or how human activity is affecting them. this is a story of a what can happen when we don't respect the wild life around us. and also what can be done to help this dive is not a tourist. she's on a rescue mission. one that needs a delicate hand. she's not to injure target. one of the group of seals bosky in the

sun on the waterfront in cape town, so that protects the dive that has to poke through a gap between the boards and especially design platform to separately look strip of plastic that could have suffocated the same condition accomplished from the sales perspective, these race thing is lying there. he'll feel a tug on his neck. you'll get upset the seal next day, many a lot down again. so he doesn't even know there was a human involved almost 2000000 kate 1st sales live off the coast of south africa. and maybe these highly intelligent animals can even make themselves at home in places like cape town. but the voters here are a wash with plastic waste of poses a threat to the sales as a working hava. the is risk of plastics ending up in the ocean with owens in cape town. it just stories, everything in the ocean. so us, we provide thought, seem like really hard to scruple that out as they discovered it was put nets that

will allow the water that comes down the drains to be captured and then collected and salted and removed from the ocean. but the team from the to oceans aquarium still have to constantly take individual action. in this case, improvising with the fishing rod been 2023. they freight a 124. seals from plastics. this, although it's out and see where the seals are at greater risk. majority of our entanglements that we remove from off seals of fishing related. so these are, we believe to be outside of our harbor. they also use interact with them when they swim out to far to see they get new stuff in them and they get stuck with them and they return to hobbits and tangled. a lot of these are bucks, spanned fishing line along quoting island braid. this is an example of one seal that had all 3 of these and tongue. one items attached that about 12 items removed from them, which is quite a phenomenal number. the capes, the seals play

a vital role in the eco system of the coast of southern africa under a source of unending across the nation for marine biologist, on underwater photographer donald vent. so we've been diving with them for 10 years now. the animals are busy hunting, sometimes eating up to a 10th of their own body weight in one day, the keystones bc, meaning you can take them out. the whole ecos stem is on the verge of collapse, so they tucked down unbuttoned down bridges, meaning they feed on animals like fish and squid, keeping the populations in check, making sure they don't. oh, the boom, as well as they are the prey full animals like sharks and all goes meaning that they also help maintain the healthy shop population in oceans. but in a disturbing recent development, there's been a string of seal attacks on people. sometimes even online. typically in response to

being provokes. but while the animals losing the fear of us, scientific analysis of blood samples from such sales reveal toxins, trace back to a form of augi, the blooms of the south african coast. the toxins can alter the animals brain chemistry and make them more aggressive in a separate development. sales have been testing positive for ratings, you know, working with a lot of stakeholders. and together we can, we can in time and figure out solutions, but at the moment it's just a way in this off of the disease. while the causes remain unclear, under what the tourists need to be wary when the seals, they encounter no longer seemed just curious or playful. at cape tongue, diving the schools offerings still encounter to us staff have already begun to adjust the safety precautions. so if we get to an area

where seals are behaving in a, in a strange way we, we re done for times in the winter and we not diving immediately adjacent to the seal, hold us where we would previous encounter logic concentrations of sales we, we, we diving away from those areas. the cape c o population has recovered since the ninety's tanks to bond on commercial hunting in south africa. as for the current conflicts, leaving the seals in peace certainly wouldn't do any harm. ready keyless human activity has been affecting underwater life in other ways. our next story takes us to kenya and the was the same as last victoria, which provides a livelihood for some 4000000 people. the problem is that the fishing has proven dell fish talk. some people trying out a different way to farm in the lake that is most sustainable then doing it on the

land and it's bringing other benefits to today's catch has just arrived. louise macaulay works as an agent with juliet fish farms on lake victoria, africa's largest fresh water like a a mother of 3. she's glad to work for a company that believes in empowering women. i believe you like the village that i have in july. it is the fact that we can sit tool and share a meal with my bosses and other companies you might allow to voice your opinion to show the early hours of the morning or the best time to collect the fish you no sweat a and to somebody found to do that to fish funds over a decade ago. today it's specialized in cage fish, foaming and selective breeding. we've grown,

i thought maybe i had said i lived in high city in pena. so this, the 1200000 seemed that means by months when does that it would be 150000 thing. that means they do let fish tom squares, primarily nile tilapia, which isn't growing demand. crucially, it has a high tolerance to changes in water quality, which are governed by environmental factors informational, mojdeh, quality and other parameters such as fish stokes is provided by the canyon. marine and fisheries was such institutes, which has an office on lake victoria. as we look at the environment on the organisms like leaving it and we want to talk the environment there. what uh, what i mean does our, the change all the time and space. and also we look at the how that affects the

fish and the people that depend on the lake for somebody, one of the is the lakes. fish ducks have been badly depleted by over fishing and illegal operations. dropping by 25 percent in the last decades at quick coat to reduce the impact on the lakes bio diversity and also improves food security and comparison cage foaming allows for the best to control of the production environment. the institute identify suitable species for agriculture and also office training to business is focused on sustainable fish breeding. you need to have people who understand this fucking dance. it is like home inefficient kind of a mess up in the area. how to feed them, what type of food they need to grow. and also how do you, my name's this, is this because uh with the crowding uh its status of

a plus friend on the see. he knows where it has a most is in aquaculture and recognized its potential early on you know, shows his expertise in an at quick coach academy a training program at corporate as in east africa. his company ends to have at least 60 percent female employees. the set to can drive social change in local communities. he believes we have our women. that was, that we've tend their lives directly because that was the number of our flush. how do we mean they get enough for money for themselves and for their families? they can still into school. some also have seventy's as a business besides. so that's working for the unit. as an agent for the company, the reason because a is supplied with ice to keep the produce fresh. in the past, she goes around with motorcycle taxis,

but now she can use the company truck. she regularly deliveries to 15 to 20 female market vendors. they to a hunting well, thanks to to let's payment system. another company, another companies you buy, cash on, deliveries, way when that's why they come to do that because you get fish on credit. what will that you well known? and then if i buy a sustainable business model, a sustainable industry, agriculture is helping ensure that lake victoria can still provide millions of east africans with the likelihood. what to itself is a precious result, of course, at which you've been cause climate change affecting whether parton's water is increasingly in short supply across north africa farm us having to get smotts to cope with ongoing drought air as well as alicia and from a roco that's helping to save or to boost the harvest

a fine. so tom sees orchard is appearing fruit despite the drought in the north american town of magnus. this opinion onions are also growing beautifully on with just a little water for around 14 years. fine sitarski has been growing fruits and vegetables always using drip irrigation, but she's often had unreliable results in terms of her harvest. giftedness of faith when the additional watering, we cannot precisely observe the plants condition. so for example, one tree may have produced fruit while the one right next to it has not up. and these are also still green and have fruit law, but the other dreams are damaged. as far as she book an ad folsham nashua and this did i saw with the house of a computerized system findings the time. so you can now water each type of plan precisely according to its needs. a sensor measures the soil moisture and sense the

data directly to her mobile phone. next, what's called a little information of color coded so i can easily see the areas that need water and those that have had enough. okay, so the device helps me ration my water free back then. uh, what comes up at all. the system was designed by a startup and stuff crew not far from maintenance, that usually focuses on solar powered systems for agriculture. it's inventor, csa and 3 c showed us the brains of the operation side of how it gets up and so we can get back to the spirit data thanks to this function. because i think about us, if i can tell us about temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure suckers you by adjusting your irrigation amounts accordingly. following sitarski says she has been able to reduce water consumption on the farm by around a 3rd. hadn't been so it had that and i started using the device this i've had lice that i need less water and fewer resources. it's very beneficial at all. it's

financially beneficial to in a year of service, the system has already paid off the investments of roughly $1100.00 zeros in the form of bountiful har. let's head now to nothing you wrote with some people say on the wall to find me in hopes a lot of from is of course we don't mean just annual crop ocean say we can be used for fertilizer oxygen until. so that takes, honestly, one can see that the super food, like trees see we'd store coupling dias. items we'd use is the main dream goss that's drive in climate change. the one the cabassos see weed. hospice thing is booming off the coast of cork, land of the solutions to the climate crisis will take many forms. one of which is algy. that's according to

shift color monroe. he comes down to the coast every other day to collect seaweed here on the scottish aisle of sky. every week i do maybe twice or 3 times a week. i should have become a. yeah. say this one here, which is i would say probably with the best of the c spaghetti. and you can tell it it's cold, seems to be guessing because it just looks exactly at this. again is quite a subtle flavor. but you can use it just as even spaghetti together with climate active as shown. cameron the 2 are trying to bring see we back into the kitchen as a renewable alternative, a fish and me see read is the best of all of a c. and is available all your round there, sharing these ideas with schools, pond with recipes for the children to learn how to read. because humans change the climate that see reads and bibles are a huge part of culture. here for centuries, millennial people are eating these species. but we've kind of lost types with that

low but and higher. can we? so reconnect people with that tradition. shawna cameron and visions the coast as a garden somewhere that we can cultivate and use in a responsible way on maybe her small scale community enterprises could start to use that as a way to support their local economy in math as in to wants to capitalize on the iowa sky, see we by growing it? he's a trained fisherman, but for almost 2 years he's been farming. see we as a sidekicks, it's more sustainable. he says. but 1st, he must find out which type school best in these waters the beginning with who were using the for file stimulants. and, but we can stand off for testing 1st, see what kind of a nutrients the materials that has. and then once we face discovered that we'll, we'll know what we want to do with the after the b and matheson and other

entrepreneur is found at the farm on an area spending 40 hector's really pretty good hoff this whole thing for media. i'm not, she produced a writings, 200 tons of a kelp in the 1st year, and then the following year we'll put in the other half of the grid. so we'll be up to 400 tons in recent years. more and more count farmers have settled around the island. some funds are already producing. the seaweed sky can grow to over 2 meters long, and that's completely fertilizer free. until now, processing has been the bottleneck, a gap in the market, but allison baker is intent on filling for startup eco cascade is supported by the scottish government. they've just invested in a new shredding plans to see where it is going to

go into a, a research project for animal sage. but it's all sorry, this particular variety of health is very good for, for bias. stimulants is a silent, proven allison baker and her colleagues of life are banking on the small industries potential to grow quickly. but so far, large scale commercial uptake has been slower than expected. we want to be able to process a lot of see ways that can go on to a commercial market because that will promote the growth of the industry. because farm is will be able to grow to order. they'll be able to increase the size of a firm, and probably most the way people just have to get used to it. we discovered such just color monroe to figure out like any other vegetable and the other thing, but it just draws in to see that. yeah, there's a definite, maybe

a shift and mentality that might need to happen. but hopefully it's more people trying to see salads and things like that. it will become more in on the see is truly a treasure. and seaweed farming might just go some way towards saving it another very popular, underwater crop with an important ecological function is always those on the extra pull, it brings those back to going to be out on the western tape of africa. it's atlanta coastline has an abundance of these prize shellfish oil as to how investing in gump yet is usually done by women. but it's going to be hard on dentures. so it was great to meet a team of women. we're working hard to make oil as to have this thing not only sustainable bought safer as well or is does flourish in months before a tie type. the amount of roots of covered by the water. the oysters attached

themselves and through. nourished by marie denver and how fellow always this one was what inspired by this natural to abuses when they set up the last of funds on the gun in coast there, constructions, use bumble sticks and ortho shells to imitate natural conditions. now look, i want me to the oil so says it says, well, i'm yeah, process, ooh, from like bubble wrapped and tied them with the most inside the see that leave us side. this is the web. i these and this most of or stuck on just attach onto the if i ask you to sign it, you're going to be a waste around a month. in fact, the, from outside the village. of course, tom is near the bunks of a titled visit. so it's relatively easy to keep an eye on the voice to

the women used to go into the monger forests to have this was oysters, which they really do today was always to a how does to connect, they are smaller and the damages the trees in the process what's moved, title swelled, can i make it very dangerous for the women? for marie them to the new farming technique only has advantages when it is time to have as well just for the good that the little. you put it inside the bus kits, then you come on your way and then sunday process. marie deborah is one of the thought to women in the community of setup to funds. they always lock together and also share. they have a fuss. the women cook the oysters, then they remove the meat. of course the funding is part of a 5 year food and agricultural organization project. that's and,

and things that we've tried. it is designed to use people here sustainable sources of income until now coastal inhabitants have often encroached on demand for fishing and looking fantastic studies have shown the crucial ecological role that small group of forests play. one group out of the most uh, one of them would play spaces onto one of us being on the loss of mung roads. you're going to have a huge effect on the biomass today. we didn't date the photos of the o's, an s 2 at a one of the in box. we're going to have is that in a lung of the continued interested in, come on. so when we lose the mongols in this way, i wouldn't have moving out effects. reducing couple dioxide levels in the actual c will snow global warming. that's why a sustainable relationship with lungfuls is vital always to apple code to phones having to get my thoughts on the incomes yet. but the hope is that what of mouse will boost interest in these high binding houses. the projects also include the

regular training for the remaining will be setting up the fob or how to sell the oyster and they have access to a solar powered freezer to store their produce. reduce actually some i'll put capacity building showed i did kind of how the associate economic benefits of why did they are doing because that benefits doing well. unfortunately, because the system is not that much organized. they don't know what day is going to investigate, use a lucrative industrial. the women not only benefit from the project. they also give something back by planting mangrove seedlings. i think you would go to mothers. plan treat as much. ok, but we are more focused on mangroves, but they do not have well harvesting moisture is we pay attention to the main groups going from time to time. we also go round to find out that people are

cutting them or not. i give you for moving. you to the women of custom that have not another code division method in which the ortho is the role in net, but by using apple coaches instead of explosion demand growth that we may not want me to protect the local environment. they are building their own lives. they allow us to funds have another way to benefit we would have to take tie you for destiny by ensuring that nice place to read, you know, in conditions that i should have went to us is going to help in improving uh the, the production as well. and then we'll be able to see a set of with the face of what question pulse non, that'd be one. so obviously not, i'll quote quote you as an official for assess sufficiency. so marie, them. but they have the women. they can already do more than just feed themselves, and that's how to get the the order some business is very nice from you have your home going,

is of sony. he fiscal sees neatly the order on board land for themselves. uh, beautiful homes consumption. yeah. to it is a very good business because to project great examples of how environmental protection can succeed is to people effective, but it's also beneficial or if you like that story or if anything goes in the show, hold your imagination, then please write to us on equal at data be the com would love to hear what you think. now it is a good buy for me, sandra holmes, that we know do right? yeah. income? paula? uganda. and from me, chris, i live in lagos, nigeria, thanks for joining us. don't forget to head to equal offer online for moist, pirated stories. so you all to gain next time the

traditional cultures. and you'll find maybe what role does culture play versus modernization? we're asking african cultures at risk of being erased in the quest for globalization africa was that tough to, to get it started. so this is all they have told us nothing else has been sold to us. okay. okay. is that what can you do you think it's the contributing to this piece of interest in the 77 percent and the assignment is dw, the

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