we're going to have some climate impacts which are great or small. it's really fun but. you. are people are consigned. to first of all you. hello and a very warm welcome to a brand new episode of eco africa stay tuned to find out why erosion isn't just a problem in africa but is also affecting europe and how into high alpine

landscapes a changing because of climate change my name is felice industry and i'm presenting the show from joburg in south africa i'm joined from nigeria by my wonderful colleague hi auntie hi felicia and hello everyone my name is male a.b. i bring you greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about how from the. i will show all of a mental stories that are very exciting well here's a lineup that we have for you today. how you can use when to make sure you polish. them how solar taxes are changing public transforming could evolve. and then our project in south africa is changing as well received the valuable knowledge of indigenous people. would you take over right by the sun in the coastal. town of job building called the solar talkers are

beginning to replace the conventional bush won three wheels on apollo it's a pretty simple concept i with there were missions it's good for the environment but now let's go take a ride and see what all the hype is about. for people like sophie gigi from really the republic of korea for it's hard to get from a to b. public transportation is virtually nonexistent. when you go to the market and have finished your shopping and start looking for a taxi it can be had to find one available. all it takes time and you have to wait . it's a real problem all the shit out on several markets. over the last eight months the situation has improved taxis that run on solar energy have come to this city for sophie it's

a really. funny i've never had one of these taxis talk because its battery was in charge but that does happen with vehicles that run on for a while then you have to get out and wait for another taxi and the shopping models of solar taxis have been designed and put into service in several places around the world these three wheeled solar taxes are brought. to their party in the workshop this is also where they are simple before they hit the road. i discovered that this is a solar taxes in china i was there with a friend from togo we both twenty vehicles and realise they were very good that's how i ended up in the solar taxi business group the monthly bill the one that all. because i was able to. cannot is the to do the pilot program. here in the coastal city the sun shines almost year round that makes it a good place to introduce the solar try cycles the taxes do have a solar panel on their roofs but that provides a range of just thirty kilometers to travel further than that the other batteries

need to be recharged regularly but they're still listen expensive to put in the not regular vehicle and better for the environment every day the batteries are charged here and the tax is given a once over. for the monk who when their tax is parked the state has i switch on the ignition and see how many votes are charged it takes about five to six hours to get fully charged each vehicle has ten batteries or at the superbug the drivers head out with five and when they're empty the tax is brought back and the batteries are replaced with five fully chalons. rolls and when the battery the batteries are charged using image here to. rethink throughout this panel generics twenty five kilowatts but this is where the energy is stored and that way the three wheelers can be reached at night when they are packed. in.

this winter texans have even created jobs eleven people work for the company and that's not all the solar taxes are an environmental borne. they mortals don't emit carbon dioxide that's one environmental aspect of course and they don't make any noise the motors official quiet compared to the conventional engines we normally use in the ivory coast so our vehicles meet environmental standards they make a very positive contribution to the interaction of people and the environment it is important. the company hopes to introduce a similar select taxis to other cities like it was. by some. but the success of pilot program had an unintended side effect would just six equal taxes demand outstrips supply but it's

a start in just vehicles bid to become wonderful green transportation in cardiff one. thousand kilometers south you'll arrive at the definition of our next report watching which means what a hole in the eye would have been to do a simple. true is also a name of a new cultural center which opened a couple of months ago so what's so special about the santa lucia n.t. you might not have such an ancient culture in your country though we have the oldest son cave paintings of adam olden hunches date back twenty six thousand years the sand people have a tremendous knowledge about nature and plant life and they're sharing it with visitors in the cultural center africa to kids who are. deal and antelopes are shy creatures. but not. how to get up close slowly

and steadily and from down when. his people the sun hunts the animals but says only checking up on the herd. have special significance for the sun. if you look at the locks on the animal itself. masson it can provide a lot of it can provide a lot of the same times a blanket the skin is a blanket and there is also a fair they use it for use it for their use it for cleaning themselves. doctors they use it also for another purpose and this is why. it is the most with. my t.o.s. works as a guide at the quad tucson culture and education center in as a fun time near cape town it's the first center dedicated to sun culture in south africa. the son are also known as bushman.

the traditional hunters and gatherers are an indigenous people in southern africa their ancestors lived here when the dutch reached the shores over three hundred years ago the rock art they left behind emphasizes the songs deep connection to nature. the dominance of the european colonialists massive land loss and assimilation have marginalized the group today there are only about one hundred fifty thousand people in southern africa who identifies sun working at the center says colleague. has learned to appreciate the beliefs and traditions of her people. well it's. it is. it is the way of living that i learned so that you can keep

your culture so that you can. so that you can tell i am from that community. not far from the museum materials continues is trek across the shrub land the south africans call fine by us it's out in nature that he can best illustrates the sun's immense knowledge of medicinal plants like congo bust cancer bush and wild mint. he explains to the group how an infusion made from the leaves can be used as a remedy to treat a cold the flu and a host of other elements. as proud of the knowledge gathered by his ancestors much of it is now of great interest to the pharmaceuticals industry. the guide and his colleagues have been working for years to read naturalize the nine hundred hector site improving conditions for native medicinal plants like wild garlic and wild cannabis around to. today native animal

species like zebras springboks and leopard tortoises graze on fields that in the one nine hundred ninety s. were dominated by monocultures mountains of deadwood illustrate another wee naturalisation measure invasive species like the port jackson a tree brought here from australia are being removed to reclaim the space for native plants. it will take some time before this natural biosphere is back in balance but my teoh's and his colleagues have already achieved a lot his message about the environment is clear use it sustainable or keep it for the next generation this is what we want to lend. sustainability and environmental protection a message that has been passed down by the sun for generations. can you imagine

harvesting polish it sounds crazy but that's exactly what university lecturer paid to from kenya. he's even been awarded a paid sent to transform the black into organic through polish it's how he does his bit for the environment. and it's not every day you see a university lecturer and shining a student shoes. of a kenyan biochemist peter gotti it's a perfect opportunity to test his innovative products and eco friendly she polish. blackjack wheat is considered a nuisance by farmers and gardeners but procacci and a group of students it's a freely available grow material. in the lab the we just dry heat and cool variety just like. a country that extracts the substance he

uses as the base for his own comic she polish the box and if you buy a song from savannah that. might be named the product by a shoe polish and was granted a patent for it. the shoeshine scientist to seeking funding to back production because he says his plant based polish is nontoxic and gives low life. i don't. mind. if you want to move to tell us about it. website or see those. stories. where i'm very me who are not aware of the impact of the activity on the environment and. that is in spite of the efforts to

push this kind of information for. things it should not be so what sort of a university of legal decided to do something about it maybe started to use the creative art poetry he and his colleagues of the parliament of course are trying to do what they catch and even includes teaching the younger generation about b. environment and what they can do to protect when i ponder the nature of. green cheese i am bored by your creation and i'm obvious you love with michael is reading from one of his many poems of. nature and environmental protections. to express his creative ideas through them. beautifies. it's a significant part of a society of the society so eve i am

a poet's. no less legislators for the world and there's a kind of poetry that focuses on nature and gives pride of place then will stops me from kind of work like you like. two years ago. three times each semester to present your points. it's part of the efforts to help protect the environment. this is pushing making a difference literally this is more to talk about means on my side this is not what you bring up strikes me anything of the artistic puts mind this is poetry talking real life friends which everyone contributes i think memes actually bring in portree close as a society so party now is not the sneakiness see that there's something in nature

kids we environmentalists we keeping our environments clean and telling us that it's portree is not something that says that it's abstract suppose or that she loved the old beginning ways say to praise each animal and then to praise our good a critic. i appreciate i really liked because they issued. a position to do that you need to get killed need to do that you do with what is supposed to as opposed to us humans. oh we can it's worse it's the greed michael budget and his friends take environmental problem seriously because nigeria has a very environmental issues there are many problems such as oil leaching me to the environment which occurs here in the. this also untreated garbage shoots landfills. the group doesn't just recites their points to each other they also go to the secondary schools in lagos to teach school kids about the

importance of environmental stewardship. ports not just occupying a space in the society they have a rule missing and where it is to transform it and yes the site of the members of parliament of ports teach students and teachers how to write steere own poems to raise awareness for nigeria some vironment to problems. but the language that. i call. em nature and it's all about syllabus undef research when in a money chain no one else has to teach me. i can and this i push up its. moods you. know it's destroying teams of nature. the group has only fista two schools so far but they hope to inspire more people to protect the environment with points like this one climate change. quakes already

keane's global warming nuclear war may come by always human with depletion and in the show e.t.c. e.t.c. . when you think of austria you tend to think of towering mountains and went to sports and might look identical but locals are only too aware that in some places this pristine alpine world is under threat from climate change global warming is causing the alps to slowly crumble. it's been months since it happened but rudolf girt remembers as if it were yesterday. is gone. only a small section of it is left with no. use to stretch from the woods over there along the bushes all the way to the next neighbor's. in a matter of seconds one hundred fifteen thousand cubic meters of rubble thundered

down into the valley the rock slide came to a stop just twenty meters from his house in a small to rolly in village in the files valley. that considers it nothing short of a miracle that he and his family can sit at this table today no one came to harm to get family breed cattle the animals in the summer months high up on the mountain pass just dance as the curls are his pride and joy his family have been farmers for generations and intends to continue the tradition. it's been a long long time. nothing but farming since the area was settled. there are no wind no ski lifts none of that just farming. situated in the mountains this part of the bowels valley is still largely untouched

by terrorism it's a picture rest landscape of meadows woods rushing mountain streams and a few farms but the adele it seemed can change at any moment geologists going to high school knows from experience that nature is and always will be unpredictable part of his job is to monitor danger zones from the air there are plenty of them into role and scientists predict that climate change will create many more is just a couple of minutes flight to an in scotland four hundred meters above the valley right now it looks stable. if the amount of precipitation increases and indications are it will then we'll have to expect more events of this kind. we measure the slopes we find that nearly all of them are shifting it's not possible to monitor all of the slopes until or even just those above settled areas. steen.

but the geologist do the best that they current they have equipment that measures the direction and distances between reflect is that they've set up on the rock faces in landslide danger zones. once a month they also use a high precision laser scanner when construction begins on a new road a geologist will observe every movement on the slopes above and beyond work cease if need be. so now rudolph is more concerned about the damage from the last rock slide than those that might occur in the future much of his posture is gone since the landslide he set up a protective barrier outside his house it may hold but falling bold is but it also renders his post useless. for cautions like that are necessary to make it safe otherwise he no longer be allowed to live here. neither nor his

neighbors have any intention of leaving their farms not even after their houses when nearly flattened most stores just have to keep calm that's the best thing you can do. these farmers seem to have a will stronger in the moment. we've already shown you how to make things like furniture and bags out of all tires but today we saw a very special initiative in prison in cameroon inmates are making flip flops out of recycled tires and they are being sold across the country it's a practical idea because africa import more use cause on any of the continent and of course many of these end up on the scrap heap where the question is would you wear sandals made from tarps. what leads you to make up your mind.

or notes and discarded car tires they litter the environment and can release toxic chemicals into the water. but in your own day cameroon's capital there's no public refuse service that officially takes care of recycling. where other people see problems civil society activists christian lake ac solutions he has local youths collect the old tires providing a purposeful activity for the young people because the scrap tires are considered a raw material for new products. a lot of people culturally believe just possibly so we are also using these a celebrity to desensitize them that we can give to these tires which would be more durable which would not affect our environment. the tires are transported to

a business partner about twenty miles outside of joan de. it's a prison here in mates who refer to themselves as prison printers produce sandals out of the old tires it takes about four hours to make one pair and seven flip flops can be made out of a normal size tire we're not allowed to interview the prisoners but the project is seen as an opportunity for rehabilitation and it's helping solve an environmental problem at the same time you know engagement in prisons we saw the process of transforming tires firstly as an effort to protect the environment as an effort to support you know the global conversation on climate change and we saw the inmates in prison as the first community we can talk because a lot of people abandon them but they have time they need people to give them an opportunity to transform. eventually the rubber tires become fashionable professional looking products christian he helps to market them under the prison

brand creative skills for peace a project for young violent offenders they're sold internationally for around thirty five euros a pair the inmates receive more than fifty percent of the profit the rest is divided between the prison and the state. who want to build a big market because it is part of the called the ground which is the branding of the products that we produce from prisons and we're hoping that you know nationalities guns human acclaimed we're hoping that this young people in prison is able to be financially empowered and have the need to be able to you know make a life out of these. the sandals are also available here in cameroon of course for somewhat less than on the international market. christian lake a personally seeks out customers slowly the locals are buying the idea of eco friendly items made by prisoners. it's one of a project and i love it and put it to prison for a day because like

a head is made on prisoners live in the prison prison as maybe so you know we used to push them to tell them that we have the police cannot get out of. the tires to send project was driven by a passion for his dedication and efforts christian nicky made the twenty seventeen africa youth awards the last of the one hundred most influential young africans and twenty eighteen he was named the luxembourg peace prize as outstanding youth peacemaker. wow what nice and colorful shoes i really like them it was such a pleasure to present this week's edition of eco africa they standing next three four new reports featuring fresh ecological ideas from all over the continent for now though it's time to say goodbye from johannesburg thank you felicia and if you like to find on more about the topics on the show just visit our website you can check us out on our social media platforms as well looking forward to hearing from

you until next time it's goodbye from lagos nigeria. we're.

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