the place probably no place anywhere in the way things are going to such a quick succession of. the renaissance. starts april twenty second d. w. . illiam. hello and welcome to this edition of africa then vironment magazine co-produced by d.w. in germany charles t.v. in nigeria and cry thank here in south africa on the film is over and i'm joined by michael presenter and nigeria hello everybody and highs e m l it's a me here in lagos we are really in a element today we had to genie and we visited

a school garden in uganda but that's not all. down to cartel if you go fishing in the area. shepparton germany contributing to biodiversity and how a month in nigeria is the decanting it's nice to have nice conservation. in a little fishing is coming west africa's coastal waters there are a number of reasons for that either there are no regulations all fishel stern of blind eye in some places gigantic troilus on europe and china i think policing the fish stocks one country in the region is taking steps to control illegal fishing and its waters namely like baby we are company the activists on the night when conservation and geo sea shepherd on patrol. this is robots part comes to town in the area nearly everyone. here leaves from

fishing but in the past few decades niger traumas have decimated fish stocks. local fishermen were getting desperate and to the national coast guard started patrolling together with ocean conservation and geo sea shepherd before the start of the operation few vessels had been arrested since january twenty seventh fourteen fishing vessels have been reported for you now fish populations are slowly returning to the area i used tons for illegal unreported or under glittered fishing . we were like just by choice forty to forty five percent of our costella by the coming of sea shepherd have given us that opportunity to extend our posture as far as almost ninety percent of our water my share of the boats that have been arrested for are you have been chinese vessel sea shepherd provides there have been

coast guard with ships small boats and crew there going to ascension also carries our groups on how to board suspicious vessels at the partners in form and train the coast guard on how to carry out security inspections. during this exercise captain until bird food from sea shepherd plays the role of the captain of a ship that's in violation of the low. it's estimated that twenty percent of the fish from west africa is caught illegally most of the vessels that are fishing illegally are from china all the european union. china has the largest water fishing fleet in the world and they you was a country that of the second largest. a lot of these vessels maybe flags to somewhere like veni and somewhere in the caribbean or nigeria somewhere like that and the beneficial light is actually in europe. even though some coastal areas that this is now. good for subsistence fishing big international tolan's catch there

illegally by various government does not have the financial means to enforce the regulations that results in overfishing which is a huge problem for the coastal communities and the terms of thousands of fishermen who live in them the main causes are controversial quality standards and you subsidies that distort the market so he's brought food the consequences of subsidize fishing is that fishing vessels will fish until the last fish is taken out of the water the care you're paying subsidize is fishing two and a half percent times right this is stable and now. the likelihood of sharks turtles and other large grain mammal surviving in the nets is extremely slim as is the net closes up it's no more over and the fish turtles shots will suffocate one hundred million sharks every year mostly caught is by coach or for their fins last year on a vessel flying the spanish flag that i bear and coast guard and the city shepherd

crew discovered more than one hundred into a to blue sharks have had already had their fins cut off destined for engine market the un's world food program fears that would be fish stocks could collapse by twenty forty eight if the situation doesn't change. a major problem with the person fishing vessels is their deadly efficiency they can circle with a school of children anything else in it up to a mile is not a huge. the legal vessels off offload that catch onto refrigerated cargo vessels illegal vessels are also all flooding that catches up to these rate the ships so where they catch is a combined into the market as label fish and you cannot keep track of the super trolls and protecting the bears traditional fishing communities their livelihood and that of many marine species is what is. i mean every situation doesn't

change for fishing communities soon they will have even more problems earning a living in our next report we see that the same holds true in guinea where fishing is a major source of income but unfortunately the cost or mongrel forest service breeding grounds for many fish are being cut down to burn wood so dry catch leaving the area is abominable to flood yes it's a vicious cycle people are destroying the basis of their own a livelihood but an organization is fighting against it helping local people to find alternative mangrove wood here north of guinea's capital can achree the smell of smoke fills the air many families have left their villages to set up makeshift camps along the coast it's the dry season the sun is hot these are the only months that it's possible to make salt. but i want you say we shouldn't cook the

saltwater using wood anymore. but how else should we do it. if you want us to stop burning wood you have to come and help us. we're just here to evaluate the situation but we'll be back with activists from the canadian ngo adam a trying to develop alternatives to the traditional salt producing methods far too much to sell and needs to burn three kilos of wood to get one kilo of salt and among great forests on the coast are disappearing. why does it look like the brine in this basin has to cook for twenty four hours to do that the wood has to be constantly replenished you can see how much would they use but these are only dry branches the thick tree trunks they used to have no longer exist. but salt making it's not the only threat to the forest. it's all been eaten away it's terrible.

cows are responsible. nomadic cattle herders have set up camp here in the dry season there is not enough for their animals to eat inland so they've come to the coast. and the herds came from over fifty kilometers away to reach the coast. that's how it works with pastoral farming. and then they graze on the mangroves. the animals love the leaves because of all the salt in them. a few hundred metres further along lies the port of candiotti ten years ago the ngo planted mangroves together with the community here since then a thick forest has grown around the village protecting the coast from erosion the village has set up a special forest protection committee now the activists have come to tell the committee about the damage being caused by the nomads cowls. thank you very much

for letting us know first thing in the morning we'll go to the nomads and talk to them we'll make it clear that the mangroves must be protected we'll tell them that from now on they have to make up for any damage their animals cause. the village takes care to ensure that not even a single tree is felled here adam representative mohammed says anyone who does chop down a tree missed pay a fine of the equivalent of about ten year rose that's a lot of money here. or you agree the mangrove forests has been restored here it had been completely stripped this is how we want it we want to protect our environment. in its efforts to preserve the forest the ngo has been able to convince the scylla family one of the largest farmers in the region of its innovative method as before the salty soil is scraped together and then mixed with

seawater and filtered. but now the brine is not cooked over a fire but instead placed into shallow pool and dried by the sun. with. the concentrated say line solution is distributed among the basins using a hose system then the farmers wait until the water evaporates leaving the salt behind because he tried it on their own for a bit then we formed squads and train them properly in the method today you can hardly find anyone cooking salt with a wood fire most of the producers here want to use this technique. that. on the sill of family is continuing to expand the salt production areas after all the business is very lucrative. they can harvest the salt after twenty four hours of evaporation in the sun fifteen to twenty five kilos per day

per basin that's a lot more than they could cook in a trough. profitable and environmentally friendly that's was convince the salt farmers to switch to the evaporation method and leave the mangroves alone. keeping things green now we move across the continent to uganda some schoolchildren are not only planting and gardening they're also making charcoal the projects are intended to raise the kids awareness of environmental issues. chuckle briquettes set out to dry inside a tent the students here at since his is to high school in gunda make them from paper and consider plan to find their. grades first stuck on the chocolate is being great under the extension the chocolate will take five days out of the extension about three days here the students use the briquettes for kuki and bake

in the projects was initiated by that had master before they had to chuckle the school had to buy firewood and that's expensive. we can read to wonder about that in the thought of one hundred thirty thousand that was the cost. and so it was it is saves a lot. it's cut the cost of cooking here in home and also benefits the schools gaudi we're pretty useless group. we use we use our ashes from the because it's a good the others say we use them as our photo lasers and in ours called god in that say's they are getting is so clean and so might as smart as sin considers climate smart a culture project dangerous to encourage environmental friendly cultivation and production we don't just fact i says you know a guy dems which are chemical chemical manufacturer from their industries but when

reagan manual which we get from our own plants like green plants we put them in our guidance to make them better and you see they are meant to the area is very small but we make it more productive by doing smart coverage of the good in the geisha and system is key the students set up water channels to provide the field with drip irrigation they also grow plants in small containers and shells to use space more effectively and even. use all of these using knowledge and in school their young people we need to train them to find the solution to their environment because we are having a problem of environment under some of these environmental problems are caused by humans since because it is reputation has spread throughout the surrounding neighborhoods the school set up a shop where locals can buy produce interest is growing we heard they are now

treated for the youth were trained in them in these projects that we have been in school and order some more not honoring the day youth even other communities they call him in new groups are benefited a lot since his attorney doesn't restrict itself teaching fiore it also gives students the chance to develop voluble practical skills skills that will help them take good care of him fareham and in the future. those kids are certainly learning a lot of useful skills but there is not the only god we're looking at this week and this week the doing a bit so we go to air and landlocked country that is wonderful to climate change but a green always this is taking shape too let's check it out. childhood polio has left so hard or with some physical limitations. this garden indoor so has

changed her life completely in this arid region of new share she's been growing produce organically for two years now. and i suffered a lot before the garden i didn't have anything i lived in misery but now it's better i make money with a garden i have food and can buy clothes i can even help others. and. this gardening project for people with disabilities is run by the new gerry and g'kar carr and funded by international n.g.o.s. each participant is provided a plot of land and help to build a well. every plant also comes with a manual water pump seeds some livestock and a carton donkey. a fence protects the plants from animals. five years ago this land was

dry and bad but mohamedou is so who is doing so well he could buy a motorized water pump some of his produce is now sold in the capital in the i'm a one hundred twenty kilometers away. the project lets people with disabilities earn an income and it seeks to integrate them into that village communities and the plants they grow help protect the land from the hot sun haro. and how about you. if you are also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet. we share your story. the job of herding sheep has a long standing tradition in germany too it might sound romantic but it can be

a tough life shepherds actually play an important role in biodiversity because their herds spread thieves and pollen but in germany the earth the chapmans walk with the animals under threat why is that anti well because of increasing industry lies ation in agriculture the area and walk across are disappearing and that's why scientists are working on a computer program to help shepherd in the future let's see how it works. shepherds in germany have had enough of the revenues for meat and milk production are declining while production costs continue to rise this struggling to survive so they've organized a nationwide protest outside all the state parliaments like here in potsdam. prices for grazing land are far too high and supplies are far too expensive twenty two other countries in europe want to help their shepherds only germany says no.

more and more giving up we've come to the area of on the border with luxembourg. is one of only nine hundred to dish well shepherds left in germany who roam free with the sheep he says his sheep provide an important ecological service which most people are unaware of the animals play a key role in preserving grasslands as that unique grazing habit stimulates better plant growth. just take a syria here if we didn't let our sheep graze here it would quickly degrade. we would have holes everywhere. and the meadow were no longer be able to fulfill its ecological role of. intensive agriculture and the construction of roads or residential areas has meant many grasslands and forests have been cut through. flocks of sheep however help to connect the isolated bio

tapes. like a sponge she takes in insects in sea when it brushes over the ground. just a single flock of sheep spreads tens of thousands of insects and seeds when it moves from one pasture to another. year does. this we no longer keep these areas open or if we no longer allow seeds to be transported from one area to another the populations in these isolated habitats will completely collapse due to genetic impoverishment. computer experts in the nearby town of noise start under vines have recognised the ecological importance of sheep. with data from aerial photographs satellites radar and legal language histories they

have developed a software that identifies optimal routes for flux and the computer system works a lot like a navigation system but in google you just have a car or pedestrian option we on the other hand have twenty to twenty five different parameters that tell the software what's important for sheep with this geo information system you can then autonomy create routes for shepherds you could call it intelligent routing. the shepherds have welcomed the new computer program it's good news for the sheep too as they now have more to eat the software has already helped to identify many new pastures and grasslands back over on the other side of the country the protesters hope that this scientific development will also trigger a political rethink. the shepherds are confident their work is far from being obsolete. there will be a future for traditional shepherding in germany and in the world that's certain

we're the world's oldest profession and we've survived many crises before but we should rather ask ourselves what future would nature have without us but we know. what is true for germany is also true for other parts of the world where traditional shepherds often held in low regard and in conflict with sedentary farm is their flocks helped keep grassland areas green and healthy. our next report comes on right here in lagos nigeria concerned about the suffering people inflicts on many wild animals one man has made it his mission to rescue as many of them i think that he set up a sanctuary to help them where he also works to raise awareness about wildlife protection and i need more welfare there's no happiness in these. illegal hunters quote this creature in the with the nigeria it's been in captivity in this latest

market for weeks now waiting for by. she has been visiting this market for over fifteen years his father has brought him here when he was just nine years old sure sure she. should stay in a soft brakes is hot. so you've rescued as many as you can afford this pool a pint costs sixty thousand not. like him with a mission about something i said you know i can help her she may meet this other mold and get out of the stage appear to have much more. comfortable putting a little sooner a little looser don't try to be ugly with one of them right in the face and. this is where she may do brings the animals he rescues the grain syngas conservation god and the young nigerian starts of the century back in two thousand

and twelve using his own money and any donations he can attract he already has an impressive variety of animals in a sanctuary in some cases some of the animals are badly one did their recovery sometimes complex and one of the fish in the ice is really lucky in that you know it's getting there and in the pit but never met so now it's because of the need has been now to another focus to dogs where there's no such thing as invasive surgery for even some animals think about having a dog the vet always a good one to guess i mean it's the drugs but surgery or what if what's the right kind of the animal needs that and that's what one of the birds we have that's what we're going to replace with what he needs and we need shall be looking for that which is why i can help this bird regain its wings has lost its confidence it doesn't really you don't see it's it's only idle so i'm looking for the opportunity to. get it back to its financial shape.

some of the animals in china the sanctuary are frightened species from rubles to extinction. like the black crowned crane. really wanted to. play shannon in nigeria larry was one of the bun jets fan dish rack announced as the national player has become little jesus said just below in your easy jewels people kill them because of your houses and this is just like the landing of your keys if you seen them before you know because you don't see them the unity wants to create an environment where anyone especially children could learn to appreciate the value of all wildlife another reason why i decided to continue past them was because yes i'm initially asked i wanted to have a three day project where i could actually breathe designing them and have them you

know multiply because yes but i unindigent animal means that person i do it at which it's going to be used that way and do you have a job loss on them a few other things these animals would soon be extinct so. having them here and breeding them gives room for a lot of people to come and see them ok i had never seen the crane before had never seen a patio eagle before and seen them like ok i don't know many second seed is in the wind and muslims i don't even see them but having them here gives that opportunity . is ultimately goal is to establish conservation areas place in releases animals into a protected environment. that's all for eco africa this week i hope you find the show entertaining and informative thanks for watching us so long for me in johannesburg south africa and thanks so me too now tigray in lagos nigeria join us again next week for another edition of eco africa environment magazine about.

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