stories of people who for information. want to express g w on facebook and twitter today in touch. with. hello and welcome to this edition of africa then by men's magazine co-produced by d.w. in germany channel t.v. in nigeria and chris thing here in south africa i'm going to go 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. down to the go fishing and right. now shepparton germany are contributing to biodiversity and how a man in nigeria is the decanting it's nice to have the rights conservation. in ingle fishing is common in west africa's coastal waters there are a number of reasons for that either there are no regulations or fishel is turn a blind eye in some places gigantic troilus on europe and china i depleting the fish stocks one country in the region is taking steps to control illegal fishing and its waters namely live baby we have company the activists on the nile in conservation and geo sea shepherd on patrol. this is robots part comes to town in the area. ever. no one here leaves from

fishing but in the past few decades niger trailers 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 corporation 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 grated fishing. we were like just by choice forty to forty five percent of our costella what economy our 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 you have been chinese vessel sea shepherd provides there have

been coast guard with ships small boats and crew they're going to ascension also carries out 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 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 is a country that of the second largest. a lot of these vessels may be flagged somewhere like benny and somewhere in the caribbean or nigeria somewhere like that and the beneficial line is actually in your. even though some coastal areas that this is. netted for subsistence fishing big international tollers 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 of fishermen who live in them the main cause is 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 late this fish in two and a half percent times dried up this is stable and now. the likelihood of sharks turtles and other large metal surviving in the nets is extremely slim as is the net closes up it's no more over and fish oils shots will suffocate one hundred million sharks every year mostly court is by coach for their fins last year on a vessel flying the spanish flag the neighbor and coast guard and the city sherpa

crew discovered more than one hundred and eighty 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 person fishing vessels is their deadly efficiency again circling a school of children anything else in it up to a mile is not a huge. the legal vessels off off like they catch on to refrigerated cargo vessels illegal vessels are also 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 does what. 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 all mongrel forest service breeding grounds for many fish are being cut down to burn wood so dry and smoke but 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 out turn it's of mangrove wood he. capital cannot create the smell of smoke fills the way 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. and then i wonder you say we shouldn't cook the

saltwater using wood anymore. but how else should we do it. what if you want to stop burning would 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 are trying to develop alternatives to the traditional salt producing methods far too much to sell a need to burn three kilos of wood to get one kilo of salt and among great forests on the coast a disappearing. look at 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 is 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 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 and. 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 cow. 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.g.o.'s 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 scrape 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 have meant that they're going on the cilla 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 break it settle to dry inside attend the soon as here at citizens to high school. make them from paper and consider plans fiber. braces for. the chocolate has been great and. the chocolate will take five big extension about three days the students use the briquettes for kuki and baking the projects was initiated by the headmaster before

they had the chapel the school had survived the fire mooted that's expensive. we can require a boat to one boat certainly thought one hundred thirty thousand that was because to predict. and so it will it is. it cuts the cost of cooking here in home and also benefits the schools god in where produces growth. we use we use our ashes from greek and the bigoted you get as they we use them as our fatah lasers and in our school good in that safe they are getting is so clean and so much as smart as sin kids it is climate smart a culture patriots games to encourage environmental friendly cultivation and production we don't just fact i says you know our guidance which our chemical chemical manufacturer from the industry is but only organic manual which you get

from our own plants thank green plants we put them in our gardens 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 drinks metabolic rate of a good in a geisha in system is key the students set up water channels to provide the field with drip irrigation they also grow plants in small containers in on shelves to use space more effectively and even. all of these using knowledge gleaned in school they're 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 human sins 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 had an outreach for the

youth we're training them in these projects that we have been in school and order some more not only the day youth even other communities they call women the groups are benefited a lot since his attorney doesn't restrict itself teaching fiore it also gives students the chance to develop valuable practical skills skills that will help the ticket good council environment 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 greener ways is taking shape there too let's check it out. childhood polio has left so hard and with some physical limitations. this garden into also

has changed her life completely in this arid region of new share 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 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 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 their village communities and the plants they grow help protect the land from the hearts. haro wins. 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 story. the job of herding sheep has a long standing tradition in germany too it might some dramatic but it can be

a tough life shepherds actually play an important role in biodiversity because their herds spread seeds and pollen but in germany the roots the chapmans walk with the animals under threat why is that n.t. 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 shepherds in the future let's see how it works. shepherdson germany have had enough of the revenues for meat and milk production arctic lining 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 and supplies are far too expensive twenty two other countries in europe want to help their shepherds only germany says no more darker and darker. more and more shepherds

are giving up we've come to the area of maryland 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 habit stimulate better plant growth. we'll. 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 in 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 tastes. 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. year does. the. no longer keep these areas open if we no longer allow seeds and zone sex 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. 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. 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 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're not or. what is true for germany is also true for other parts of the world dishful shepherd so 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 where he also works to raise awareness about wildlife protection and i need more welfare there's no happiness in these eyes illegal hunt to school these creatures in the with the ny nj area it's been in captivity in this

lake a small kid food weeks now waiting for bio. she has been visiting this market for over fifteen years his father says brought him here when he was just nine years old sure sure she. should say in a soft brakes is hot. so you've rescued as many as you can afford this pool a pint costs sixty thousand and nine. o'clock in the mission accomplished i said no i come here for the many was able to get out of the situation into a more formal challenge a comfortable life and a little sooner a little pushy don't try to be ugly with one of them right in this location. 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 the fish in the ice is really lucky in that you know it's good to marry them 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 to think about having a dog the vet all week and once again i mean it's the drugs but the 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 get that's what what he needs and we need. to for the opportunity work and help his brother regain its wing has lost its confidence it doesn't mean you don't see it it's. so i'm looking for the opportunity to. get it back to his family it's shaped.

some of the animals in china to sanctuary our friends and species from rubles to extinction. like the black crowned crane. really wants to go. away shanshu nigeria latin run run run run just fine is recognized as a national player has been revealed to just feel in your position jewels people killed him because of your houses and this is just like the landing of your feet if you see them before you know the past and to see them she made a once to create an environment where anyone especially children could learn to appreciate the value of all wildlife another reason why i decided to come back tops that was because yes i'm initially asked i wanted to have a three day project where i could actually breed designing and have them you know

multiply because yes but i unindigent animal means that person i meet at which it's going to be and do you have to have laws on them if you want to 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 i have never seen a patio eagle before and seen them like ok i don't know many second see this in the wind a muslim's i don't even see them but having them here gives that opportunity in it is autumn the goal is to establish conservation areas play can release his 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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