still there's probably no place anywhere in the way things are in such quick succession. this week. d.w. . the e.u. . hello and welcome to this edition of africa then vironment magazine co-produced by d.w. in germany channel t.v. in nigeria and chris that here in south africa on the phone is 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 ireland and today we had to guinea and we visited

a school garden in uganda but that's not all. down to cut fishing in the area . how shepherds in germany are contributing to biodiversity and how a man in nigeria is the decanting it's nice to have nice conservation. illegal fishing is coming west africa's coastal waters there are a number of reasons for that either there are no regulations all fishelson turn a blind eye in some places gigantic to all this 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 accompany 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 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 coast a lot by the coming out 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 or asian vessel sea shepherd provides there have been coast guard with ships small boats and crew they're 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 field 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 was a country that of the second largest oil. a lot of these vessels may be flagged to somewhere like benny and somewhere in the caribbean or nigeria somewhere like that and the beneficial line is actually in europe. even though some coastal areas that this is netted for some. distance efficient big international toll as such 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 consequence is 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 times they sustain it will. likely go to sharks turtles and other large marine mammals surviving in the nets is extremely slim resistant net closes up there's no i'm over and fish or turtles shots or suffocate one hundred million sharks every year mostly caught is by courage for their fins last year on a vessel flying the spanish flag that i bear and coast guard and the sea shepherd

crew discovered more than one hundred and eight a 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 suckle it 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 is what is at stake. 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 breeding grounds for many fish are being 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 he. capital cannot create the smell of smoke fills the 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 as cilla needs to burn three kilos of wood to get one kilo of salt and among great forests on the coast of disappearing. look 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. and 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 will make it clear that the mangroves must be protected will 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 must pay a fine of the equivalent of about ten year owes that's a lot of money here or you agree the mangrove forest 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 and it's 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. 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 a tent the students here at citizens to high school. make them from paper and considered plans fiber. grades for stock on pep talk all that is being read and. they talk with dick five big extension about three days here and 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 if that's expensive. we can. both certainly thought one hundred thirty thousand that was the cause to predict. and so it was it is. it's cuts the cost of cooking here in home and also benefits the school starting with produces growth. we use we use our ashes from the because to do devastate we use them as our fatah lasers and in our school god and the taste they are getting is so clean and smart as smart as sin considers climate smart a culture project dangerous to encourage environmental friendly cultivation and production we don't use but i use as you know our guidance which i can make chemical manufacture from the industrious but when reagan can manual which we get

from our plants thank green plants we put them in our gardens to make them better and you see a very mentally area is very small but we make it more productive by drinks 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 shells to use space more effectively and even. all of these using knowledge gleaned in school they are young people we need to train them to find a solution to their environment because we are having a problem of environment under some of these environmental problems are caused by human 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 had they are now

outreach for the youth we're trained to them in these projects that we have been in school and also more not only do youth even other communities they call in many groups are benefited a lot since his attorney doesn't restrict itself teaching fiore it also gives citizens the chance to develop volatile practical skills skills that will help them see good can from veron 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. it's gotten 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. i know i. find. 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 providing a plot of land and help to build a well. every plant also comes with a manual water pump seen 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 niamey one hundred twenty kilometers away. the project lets people with disabilities and an income and it seeks to integrate them into that village communities and the plants they grow help protect the land from the hearts. zahara winds. and how about you. if you are also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your bit. 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 that are under threat why is that in well because of increasing industry lies ation in agriculture the area across disappearing and that's why scientists are working on a computer program to help shepherd in the future let's see how it works. shepherd say in germany have had enough of the revenues for me to wool 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 the. 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 shepherds are giving up we've come to the area of off on the border with luxembourg going to is one of only nine hundred to dish will 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 habits stimulate better plant growth. it's real screen just take the 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 tastes. like a sponge she furch 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 and it moves from one pasture to another. then via does. this we no longer keep these areas open or if we no longer allow seeds and 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 start under vines have recognised the ecological importance of sheep. with day to front aerial photographs satellites radar and legal language histories they

have developed a software that identifies optimal routes for flocks 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 into. the ship it's 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 to 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 cat he set up a sanctuary to help them where he also works to raise awareness about wildlife protection i mean more welfare there's no happiness in these. illegal hunters quote this creature in the with the nigeria it's been

a captivity in this latest market for weeks now waiting for. 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. in a soft briggs's hot. so you rescues as many as you can afford this pool a pint costs sixty thousand not. like him with a mission of accomplishing our secular commission that actually many little get out of this place into a more familiar surroundings are comfortable enough and of course you know the real issue don't try to be on the list of one of them right in this location. this is where chinedu brings the animals he rescues the grain syngas conservation god and the young nigerian stars of the century back in two thousand and twelve

using his own money and any donations he can attract he already has an impressive are at sea 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 on the ice is really lacking in nigeria is its mirror image 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 always a good one to just i mean it's a drug but surgery or one of what's the right kind the animal needs that and that's what one of the birds you have that's what we want it that's what what he needs and we need. to for the opportunity work and help his brother regain its when he's lost his confidence he doesn't really you don't see it's not so i don't so i'm looking for the opportunity to. get it back to his financial shape. or.

some of the animals in china to sanctuary our friends and species from rubles to extinction. like the black crown crane. really wanted. the asiatic to nigeria what daddy was one of punjab standish recognize as a national day or have coming of jesus to just up here indians initials people kill them because of your houses and this is just like the landing on your t.v. still before there were no people to see them genetically wants 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 that was because yes i'm initially asked i wanted to have a brigade project where i could actually breed these animals and have them you know

multiply because yes but i unindigent animal means that person i do eat at which it's going to be used that way and do you have a tough loss on them if you want to see 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 prettier eagle before and pursued them like ok i don't know many second seed is in the wind muslims i don't even see them but having them here gives that opportunity generators ultimate goal is to establish conservation areas play can 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 i meet you now tag me in lagos nigeria join us again next week for another edition of eco africa environment magazine about.

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