i know nothing at the germans well sometimes i am but i said nothing with them and i think deep into the german culture. you think you miss grammont yeah you know it's all about who you know i'm rachel join me to meet them on the gulf coast. for. the big. hello and welcome to the latest episode of eco africa this is now it's coming to you from the fossil park in lagos nigeria and if you ever wanted to know how you can make a difference in b. environment stay tuned ok with me is my charming colleague from south africa for leisure i know they're all hi everyone my name is felicia endace b.

and i'm joining you guys from johannesburg this week you can learn about how women in kenya are fighting for elephants and that's not all also coming up. a man who is bringing a superfood to south africa she has. an organization in cameroon teaching people how to use water responsibly. and after farming in madagascar and how it's leading to new livelihoods. mama tembo means mother elephant in swahili it's also an affectionate term some border women call each other and they mean it literally. some of them track the animals and do what they can to keep corridors free for them to move about that helps keep the elephants safe from harm but also ensures that both humans and animals have enough access to scarce resources like water.

it's early in the morning in some county kenya boitano is taking have families animals out to the grazing fields but that's just one job she'll do today. as a few accessories for her next job as a wildlife conservation and. she is the leader over women group popularly known as mama timbers mother of elephants their task is to monitor the movements of the big animals. one. at five am i do my chores and then get my children ready for school at eight am i pick up my data forms and the g.p.s. and walk to the wildlife corrido we don't just observe elephants but the other animals. the elephants are still their primary interest the paki

dams are endangered in kenya alone between the early one nine hundred seventy s. and one thousand nineties their numbers dropped ninety percent but here in the columb a community wildlife conservancy numbers are now increasing one reason is that. i have identified and signposted what life and livestock corridos elephants often pass through the area but left alone use the route they can lead to conflates the mama timbo take note of where animals tend to congregate as well as any trace of illegal settlements or traps set by poachers antelope trucks. i mean one conservation organization has provided the women with g.p.s. devices and data sheets the fact that antelope came through here is a good sign an elephant is just an umbrella species it's a big animal and if an elephant has enough space to survive enough space to whom around. no doubt other small animals will go under

a fence and this is why we it's been elephant and also the data that we have it coming from elephant. things are quiet today but that doesn't mean the women aren't on the lookout they want to protect wild animals but they also have to watch out for themselves. well now my dog i wild animals are dangerous we have lions elephants and other dangerous animals then when i do feel anxious as i walk you can run across and i was at any time and we don't even know what to do to save our lives these are the challenges i don't worry analysts who are another source of worry is poachers the conservancy collects the skull of slaughtered i mean malls but they are finding fewer and fewer of. life has become a little more secure for the majestic beasts sounds to the presence of drink as.

the consulate is in fact. of creating a commodious what their disposal areas. are in a very secure environment. because security is assured. after all when this bottle. and there they are an entire herd with a drop in porch ng they have become more relaxed in the presence of people. we have discovered that the elephant is a friend here anymore and this has also helps the community because the animals have now become very social in the past the wouldn't pass new homes because every time they passed the would be killed but nowadays they pass new homes without any human interference. in the evening and returns to her foster job a family depends on it the small sum she receives for monitoring the elephants is

a welcome extra income but contributing to the protection of the elephants is very widely felt. maybe you've heard of a plant called chia that comes from central and south america now more and more farmers here in south africa have begun planting it as well for them it's not just the business opportunity promising good returns the plant is also is it to cultivate it's seeds are packed with protein and this week's doing a bit we introduce a man who had a great idea. according to legend the ancient mayans used the seeds as a source of energy. thank you even the name chia meaning strength. today people use chia seeds to earn proteins in britain means to

your goods and cereals. martin toughed from denmark thinks the seed can serve as a nutritional meal on its own. it also grows well in our dreams of africa. to feel certain in twenty seven c. in the second year of a terrible drought in africa ninety eight great farm is planted fifty kilos of seed we brought to them in our suit cases all succeeded at growing chia. chia. encouraged by that success toft now raises money to provide seeds to thousands of pharmacy in africa for free. like them. if you're doing your tell us about. our website or send us.

your story. let's stick with farming for the moment while we move north to gonna like other small scale farmers in africa they have a problem marketing their products because they often just don't have the right contacts or enough financial support in the end that leads to food wastage because it spoils before it can be sold that's how it was until recently but then through young men and i had an idea for digital platform that allows the farmers all over gonna to market their product foster even ones who live in remote areas idea working have a look. i. care remember is a small community in northern ghana. farmer joshua tangay used to struggle to sell his produce but now he earns enough to support his wife and two children thanks to

a digital platform he's able to sell the fruits of his labor on a regular basis and at a fair price. there's my farm about one and half it gets. hard here bear bob barr eggplant a green bag and valuables. it is dice is in over here and i just finished how that's done my maize is so warm and rice and i sold it out to santa and their payment was done right on my my my phone through mobile money. gone as capital acra this is where the digital platform is based that has helped to make joshua's life so much easier. agro center is an agri tech startup that connects rural farmers with big buyers the company takes up to thirty percent commission from those buyers it's in agra centers own interest to get the best possible prices meaning the small holders also profit so far we've heard

about. close to ten thousand farmers probably sell from the platform now before that they were making less money now i would trade has helped them to increase their income tremendously so the farmers actually they love us that number are backing caroming agro center agents are visiting the village. here to teach the farmers not only how to use the check market prices but also how to maximize their output environment we've given him cs and we'll make sure that we take them through all the activities that they need to get high oh yeah. we realise that most families do a lot of trial and in production and also when they got their greens. libby didn't pay much attention to rate care little about where to store eight how

to drive eight. and because of that they run into spoilage and they don't get gold market. she is the agents create profiles of interested farmers what they farm how much they produce the company was founded in two thousand and sixteen now agra sent to operates in fifteen communities in four different regions in the nearby town of boulder tangere the startup has an office where the farmers data processed the platform also provides tips on how to farm more effectively. before we didn't know. much of their farming practices that were right for us tanks like our fabulous application. haha that stand in. storage and all those things where very difficult for us and more importantly how to have sold out our produce was

a major challenge. this is agro centers regional storage center from here the farmers produce is sold to big food buyers earlier the farmers had to sell their produce to local middlemen often for a third of its real value. the digital platform has helped the farmers to increase that income by about twenty five percent. if i move on said to me what happens from is i want to sell at fair market prices and if i was fair market prices are too good with money to be able to tickle your family or to even reinvest a portion of their farm through just to a tangle is not worried that he now depends on a virtual broker for him the benefits of very real. in our next report we take a trip to a german junkyard it might look a bit different from junkyards in nigeria but here it's

a place where people try to recycle. as much as possible some german cities forcing bans on diesel vehicles under government has been paying a premium on scrapped diesel cause that means that there are some wonderful auto parts to be had let's go over. seventy thousand square meters of metal waiting to be scrapped the more than two and a half thousand cars here have been discarded by their home is like this volkswagen the owner of the passat diesel is here to scrap it. in the aftermath of the v.w. use diesel emissions scandal because secondhand value has dropped to just a thousand euros a scrapping premium will net him around seven thousand. castille works perfectly just past its inspection but often at least in your car so this one can

go. with. the junkyard will even pay him something for the used parts but give you one hundred euros enough for a nice meal that's on top of the scrapping premium of up to ten thousand euros that some comic has ground as a discount when drivers scrap their old diesel car and go. with. the junkyard will even pay him something for the used parts but give you one hundred euros enough for a nice meal that's on top of the scrapping premium of up to ten thousand euros that some comic has ground as a discount when drivers scrap their old diesel car and buy only a new environmentally friendly a one. components like the engine are removed and later sold well at least they're being weak cycled. still trying to be really pains me because a car like this one it's only got forty seven thousand kilometers on it if it's so

clean it could still be on the road for years it works perfectly it's not complete and. that's not exactly saving resources. after it's been disassembled in the first workshop the car is taken to the colleague in the next one usable tires are also kept for every sale. old oil left over fuel cleaning fluid and coolant it's all disposed of. now the cars are placed out in the junkyard for customers in search of parts for about five hundred hobby mechanics come here every day for components. car in maybe new was lucky he found the back door he needed for a b.m.w. in togo. did you go out like this was stolen from my brother for on also i promised him i'd look for it here just to slice it. away.

at the junkyard clients pay only twenty to thirty percent of the price for a new part to undermine my couch for today. the simple. german drivers only an average of eleven cars in their lifetime them manufacture is a curse on the environment but the salvage work here helps improve the industry's recycling balance somewhat. at the end of the day it's time for the road worthy white v.w. to be taken apart its then dumped in the yard to be further devoured by the park minus. from the german junk yard back to the roads of africa where washing cars and other things of course will waste a lot of water as our next report will show but two young men started. that tries to raise the awareness of people about the value of water and take

a look at this week. oh. in many parts of come iran's capital young water is often was to them this is a really bad habits are common in many households ses mark kent the thirty two year old who wants with the energy or water heart. work with a little difficulty with the. bomb if you're washing your plates and letting the water run the you was doing water so it's a question of being able to wash your plates or clogs in the right ways or telling the children at home to be more careful with water duplicity really. the association seeks to teach simple ways to save the precious resource. fadden greenwood's has asked friends like mark to represent what i heard out in the field . we are going to our household now we go door to door to raise

awareness in the population see the knowledge transfer us from the federal set up the association nearly two years ago every day he works to encourage people to use water more efficiently. this is rainwater when informs you collect it in basins yes exactly and this is tap water drinking water this is where we put our major result. because in the attempts to educate people on how to get water wastage faddle and his colleagues often become involved in exchanges like this sometimes they go on for hours people are generally receptive to the advice he says but there are many reasons why seven water isn't easy the people in this neighborhood for example don't even have a regular supply. something we're so happy simply when the water starts flowing

because it's not always the case you have to understand. to help with the energy always feels activities fire drill has introduced a line of cloth thing called mr portable three months after the brand was launched it sold five thousand articles of clothing mr portable is proving popular with young people thirty percent of profits are earmarked for the associations activities. this is where we produce all our mr portable clothes when a customer places the order we send it directly here in the. model and placed her order two days ago via what's up all she had to do was choose the colors and patterns for the t. shirt she wants federal tax the opportunity to explain to her the environmental cause behind the fashion statement. you remember because you can still say received this chart i've learnt

a lot about what is behind the slow things that i didn't know before. so we'll go through the symptoms. in addition to raising awareness the what a heart association advocates for access to water for all by promoting the developmental water points like in the air to the district where fighting his friends have repaired a well that has changed the lives of the sauza of people who live in this neighborhood that is. full of worldly low to get water we used to have to go very far to get to the spring there is a river flowing down here and the stream there is where we used to water. big efforts have been made to make the drinking water point attractive for ideal believes that with the better planning it should even be possible to optimize water distribution to individual households in the district. i fear the water flows all

day and night there's water all the time i asked myself can you find a way to channel the water that comes out here if i don't know maybe we could build something to hold it or create a reserve one where we can store water more prominent. drinking water for all that's the idea of the heart of the water heart association and the energy all hopes to soon extend its activities beyond come iran's borders. now in turkey to madagascar fresh talks have been on the decline for a long time in local coastal waters but in remote brain the country's south the people there may have found an alternative. the marine animals are very popular with chinese go maize who are willing to pay high prices for them our reporter headed to madagascar to meet local eco farmers and face to fear challenges on the way. it's midnight one kilometer off the coast of madagascar.

the aqua farmers of temple over there signing in as they head out to their sea cucumber pens. it's only during a full moon or a new moon that the water is shallow enough for the farmers to go and count their stocks and harvest mature specimens. during the day the leathery a kind of germs bury themselves in the sand the farmers have to come out every two weeks because the stocks are vulnerable to disease and theft. and the ngo blue ventures helped the village set up their farms about ten years ago one of its employees weigh the sea cucumber to make sure they meet the four hundred gram threshold required to send them to market. one one two hundred seventy. the biggest. there are rules safeguarding the hatcheries we work this out with the breeders. for

example it's forbidden to enter the pens of other farmers without that consent all fishing is also forbidden except for crayfish you're allowed to catch them because they feed on the sea cucumber as. these rules are designed to protect the sea. before the aqua farms were set up overfishing had depleted stocks in the bay of assassins. today this once again a wide variety of fish along with snails and crabs although seventy percent of people in the country live below the poverty line this village is experiencing a certain degree of prosperity. my damn serafin was one of the first to start farming in two thousand and nine.

before the sea cucumber thumbs i had no way to improve my standard of living. and. by setting up my own pen i've earned enough to send my t. children to school as he said. and i've been able to buy some nice and useful things for my house and i also have a heard of. it's no. feeling. during the day when the sea cucumbers have buried themselves deep in the sand the farmers come out to clean the enclosures. catherine taylor is one of only a small number of scientists who study c q cumbers. it's a pretty special creature. that they're farming here and it's really valuable on the international market and so bringing it into a community like this and a sustainable aquaculture kind of way makes a huge difference for the people here but at the same time it's also an animal

that's vital for the ecosystem in this area it's kind of a natural filtration system for the area because it goes along just kind of hoovers up the sand and then it cleans out detritus and micro algate and bacteria and things like that. this is where they breed the animals to be raised in the bay a temple. with meet young sea cucumber costs the farmers and sixteen cents after being harvested nine months later it's worth a dollar thirty on average the aquaculture here not only pays off for the farmers but also benefits the entire bay and the other animals that live in it. that's all for today i hope you enjoyed the program and maybe learnt a thing or two i certainly did for now this is fallacious and just beside me all from joburg south africa see you next time and i guess for you to. thankfully

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