i know nothing at the germans because sometimes i am the most and nothing with the term and i think deep into the german culture do you. think this grammar yeah because it's all that who knows i'm rachel join me to meet them from the gulf coast . hello and welcome to this edition of eco africa then vironment magazine co-produced by d.w. in germany channel t.v. in nigeria and chris thank here in south africa on the films over and i'm joined by michael presenter and nigeria hello everybody and hi-z. i'm now it's a me here in lagos we are really in a element today we had to jeannie and we visited

a school garden in uganda but that's not all. out you can tell you go fishing in right. now shepparton germany contributing to biodiversity and how a man in nigeria is the decanting it's nice to advise 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 of officials turn a blind eye in some places gigantic trawlers on europe and china are depleting 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 every. and here leaves from

fishing but in the past few decades now detroit has 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 in 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 off our coastal law by the coming out sea shepherd have given us that opportunity to extend our posture as far as almost ninety percent of our water one shared a brooch have been arrested for are you you have been chinese vessel sea shepherd provides there have been coast guard with ships small boats and crew they're going

to zation also curry's or 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 old. russia. it's demented 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 is a country that of the second largest. a lot of these vessels very flags to somewhere like convenience 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 tollers catch the

illegally liberia's 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 who fishermen who live in the main causes controversial quoted to standards and e.u. 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 of your pain subsidized late this fish in two and a half percent toiled right up this is stable and now. the likelihood of sharks turtles and other large mammal surviving in the nets is extremely slim as is the net closes up it's no more over and fish turtles shots will suffocate one hundred million sharks every year mostly caught is by catch or for their fins last year on a vessel flying the spanish flag the neighbor and coast guard and the city shepherd

crew discovered more than one hundred into into blue sharks have had already had their fins cut off destined for engine market the un's world food program fears that global fish stocks could collapse by twenty forty eight if the situation doesn't change. a major problem with the perseid fishing vessels is their deadly efficiency they can circle with a school of children anything else in it up to a mile these nets are 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 the catch is it can blind and enter 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 need the 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 reading grants or many fish i've been cut down to burn wood so dry and smoke but catch leaving the area is abominable to flooding 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 out turn it of mangrove wood here in capital cannot create 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 salt

water 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 a cylinder 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 mis pay a fine of the equivalent of about ten year owes that's a lot of money here or there 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 n.t.o. has been able to convince the scylla family one of the largest farmers in the region of its innovative method as before all 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 they 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 it would remember not that they're going to undersell a 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 so 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 break it settle to dry inside attend the syrians here at since kids and see the high school in i'm going to uganda make them from paper and conservative plans find their. great first stop on path that is being great and century be chocolate will take five billion. about three days the students use the briquettes for kuki and bake in the projects was initiated by the

headmaster before they had to chuckle the school had to buy firewood and that's expensive. we can. both certainly thought that one hundred thirty thousand that was the cost. and so it was it is a lot. it's cut the cost of cooking here in home and also benefits the schools gone with producers grew. we knew we use our actions from the because you did say we use them as our photo lasers and in our school god in that safe they are getting is so clean and smart as smart as sin kids it is climate smart a culture project games to encourage environmental friendly cultivation and production we don't just factor is as you know a good dems which i can we can manufacture from the industrious but only organic

manual which you get from our plants thank green plants we put them you know i'm going to make them better and you see they are very i mean to the area is very small but we make it more productive. by doing so metabolic rate of a good indication system is key the students set up water channels to provide the field with drip irrigation they also grow plants in small containers and on shelves to use space more effectively and even grows it all mushrooms all of these using knowledge and in school they are young people we need to train them to find the solution to be entitlement because we are having a problem of environment under some of these environmental problems are caused by human sin 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

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

changed how much completely in this arid region of michelle she's been growing produce organically for two years now. 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 cherian n.g.o.s. and funded by international n.g.o.s. each participant to provide a plot of land and help to build a well. every plant also comes with a manual water pumps seeds some livestock and a cotton 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 me 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're also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet. we share your stories. 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 they're heard to spread seeds and pollen but in germany the roots the churches walk with the admiral's under threats why is that and well because of increasing industry lies ation in agriculture the areas it can walk across disappearing and that's why scientists are working on a computer program to help sherpas in the future let's see how it works. shepherds in germany have had enough the revenues for meat and milk production are declining while production costs continue to rise they're struggling to survive so they've organized a nationwide protest outside all the state parliaments like here imports damn near berlin. prices for grazing land are far too high supplies are far too expensive twenty two other countries in europe want to help their shepherds only germany says no more guards are on guard. more and more shepherds

are giving up we've come to the area of violent off on the border with luxembourg sack with is one of only nine hundred traditional shepherds left in germany who roam free with their 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 they unique grazing have it stimulate better plant growth. it's. just take this area 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 seeds but 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. then via does. this we no longer keep these areas open if we no longer allow seeds and sects to be transported from one area to another the populations in these isolated habitats will completely collapse due to genetic impoverishment a good meeting. computer experts in the nearby town of noise. have recognized 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 flocks in 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. would. the shepherds have welcomes 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 of 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're not or. what is true for germany is also true for other parts of the world wet additional shepherds are often held in low regard and in conflict with sedentary farmers. flocks help keep grass and 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 as he can he set up a sanctuary to help them while he also works to raise awareness about wildlife protection and i need more welfare there's no happiness in these eyes illegal hunters quote this creature in the with the nigeria it's been

a captivity in this lake a small kid for weeks now waiting for. she has been visiting this market for over fifteen years his father has brought him here when he was just nine years old shit shit. shit. and makes awful brakes is hot. so you've rescued as many as you can afford this pool a pint costs sixty thousand not. like him admission about arsenal and commission education many of these animals get out of the situation into a more more challenging profitable in a little sooner a little shouldn't try to do with one of them prior to getting the fish and. this is where chinedu brings the animals he rescues the green 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 professional i say is really lucky in that you it is good to know them in the pit but near him it's not it's because of the need is being now to another for question 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 you have that's when i want it that's what what he needs and we need. i'm 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 moved so i don't so i'm looking for the opportunity to. get it back to its financial shape. some of the animals in china the century are frightened

species from rubles to extinction. like the black crowned crane. really wanted to. play shannon in and jiraiya latin was once done just right and now it's the national director has come a little she'll see just a few indians initials people kill them because of the houses and this is just like london and you keep the peace in the fall and there are no people so you don't see them a good day once to create an environment where anyone especially children could learn to appreciate the value of all wildlife another reason why i decided to continue to talk to them was because i said yes i'm initially asked i wanted to have a three day project where i could actually breed these animals and have them you

know more to plan because yes but i unindigent animal means that very soon i meet at which it's going to be used that way and diesel habitat 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 have never seen the crane before i have never seen a patio eagle before and i've seen them like ok i don't know many second seed is in the wind a most don't even see them but having them here gives that opportunity to do is autumn a goal is to establish conservation areas clayton 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 some me to nail tigray in lagos nigeria join us again next week for another edition of eco africa environment magazine about.

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