every journey begins with the first step and every language the first word early in the. week oh he's in germany to learn german why not with him simple on the line on your bottom three. d. w. z e learning course you can speak german. 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 are changing because of climate change my name is from east enders b. 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 snail. greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about how from the. i was show full of a mental story that i have very exciting well here's a line up that we have for you today. how you can use women to make sure you polish . the house so the taxes are changing public transforming cost of war. and then our project in south africa is teaching tories a viable knowledge of indigenous people. would you take a right by the sun in the coastal town of job building code to sort out talks as i'm beginning to replace the conventional bush ones three wheels on a panel it's a pretty simple concept and with zero emissions it's good for the environmentalists

but now let's go take a ride and see what all the hype is about. for people like sophia from really the republic before 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 hard to find one available. all it takes time and you have to wait it's probably all. over the last eight months the situation has improved taxis that run on solar energy have come to the city for sophie it's a relief. i've never had one of these taxes talk because its battery was in chad but that does happen with vehicles that run on four then you have to get out and

wait for another taxi. models have been designed and put into service in several places around the world these three will. read by knotting they're packed in the workshop this is also where they assemble before they hit the road was the room i discovered and this is a solar taxes in china i was there with a friend from tokyo we bought twenty vehicles and realised they were very good that's how it ended up in the solar taxi business group or most of all they want all. to start 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 expensive to put in they're not regular vehicle and better for the environment every day the batteries are charged

here and the tax is given a once over. conduct a. full force among who when their tax is parked i check the status 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 least. the drivers head out with a five and when they're empty the tax is brought back and the batteries are replaced with five fully chalons thank. you very very standard but also run the battery their batteries are charged using solar energy here to. rethink what this panel generics twenty five kilowatts per hour this is we have the energy stored and i see that with a three wheelers can be recharged here at night when they are packed recently elected to go. this solar taxes have even created jobs eleven people work for

the company and that's not all the solar taxes are an environmental borne. so the mortals don't emit carbon dioxide that's one environmental aspect of course and they don't make any noise the motors a vision 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 taxes to other cities like. markey but sam and co but the success of real's 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.

if one of these solar charger goes thousand kilometers south you'll arrive at the definition of our next trip was watching which means what a hole in the law 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 entity you might not have such an ancient culture in your country though we have the oldest son cave paintings of adam alyson 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 sense. africa took a tour. de lint antelopes are shy creatures. but. knows how to get up close slowly and steadily and from down when. his people the sun hunts the animals but she says only checking up on the herd

elance have special significance for the sun. if you look at the animal itself. 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 fat they use it for. and they 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 to sun 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 san 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 sons 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 identify as sun working at the center colleague dymo has learned to appreciate the beliefs and traditions of her people. well it's . it is. it is the way of living there right the learn so that you can keep your child so that you can live with so that the one thing you can tell. 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 amends knowledge of medicinal plants like congo bus 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 and that's. my tio says 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 quad 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 illustrated another very natural is ation 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 here is it sustainable and keep it for the next generation this is what one tool and. 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 at p.h.l. got 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. it's not every day you see a university lecturer shining a student shoes. the kenyan biochemist peter t. it's a perfect opportunity to test his ineffective product an eco friendly shoe polish. black jack wheat is considered a nuisance by farmers and gardeners procacci and a group of students it's a freely available grow material. in the lab the week just dried and cooper arised. about season extracts the substance he uses as the base for his own comic she polish them once and a few bios opens a fan out it. 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 long life to live. life. if you also want to tell us about it. website or see those. stories. there are many who are not aware of the impact of the activities on the environment i'm. that isn't spite of the efforts to push this kind of information. michael baigent it thinks it should not be so but you don't have a university of legal decided to do something about it maybe started to use the

creative art poetry here 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 nature's paradox. green teas i am ball by your creation and a marvelous you'll love with michael is reading from one of his many poems they're all about nature and environmental protections. to express his creative ideas through them. beautifies. it's a significant part of our society of the physical society so eve i am a poet who aspires to be no less legislators for the world and there's a kind of poetry that focuses on nature and gives pride of place don't go

stops me from kind of quiet you know like that's. his initiative. two years ago. three times each semester to present. it's part of the efforts to help protect stay environment. this is what you're making a difference to try to this is political can about the ins i'm outside this is not what you bring up strikes me anything of the artistic with mind this is poetry talking real life friends which everyone contributes i think memes actually bring in portree closest society so part two now is not the thing is making us see that there's something in the nature of the kids we environment we keeping our environments clean and telling us that it's portree is not something that says that it's abstract suppose although she says i love the old beginning ways say to please

entirely more and then to preserve good accreted. i appreciate i really like because they should and i position to do that you need to kink you'll need to do that to do with what is supposed to us a few months. old we can it's worse each day. michael budget and his friends take environmental problem seriously because nigeria has a very environmental issues there are many problems such as any 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 transformed and yes a site. the members of parliament of port's teach students and teachers all to rights your own pours to raise awareness for nigeria some viral mental problems. but the lenses that. i call. and nature and syllabus undef. playing on each a normal one i'll try to teach. michael and this i wish updates every moods use. notes destroying scenes of nature. only fista to school so far but they hope to inspire more people to protect the environment with points like this one climate change. quakes already kane's global warming nuclear war by always human with depletion and in children e.t.c. e.t.c.

. when you think of austria you tend to think of towering mountains and went to sports it might look identical but locals are only so 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 kurt remembers as if it were yesterday. but is gone more than half. 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 one cubit that. there are no wind no ski lifts none of that just farming. situated in the mountains this part of the valley is still largely untouched by two isn't it's a picture rest landscape of meadows woods rushing mountain streams and a few farms but the

a deal 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 can 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 i'll cite 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 he was. neither really don't know 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 this. these farmers seem to have a will that's strong in the mountains where i'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 there are being sold across the country it's a practical idea because africa imports more years cause than any of the continent and of course many of these jobs end up on the scrap heap but 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 one day cameron'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 are sort of what he did to say that is them that we can give an alternative 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 you know and. 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 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. we 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 are hoping that you know nationalities acclaimed we are hoping that this young people in prison is able to be financially empowered and how they need to be able to you know make a life out of these. the send those 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 i go friendly items made by prisoners. it's a bunch of a put out and i love it and it puts up with the prison for you because like i have is me from prison as you move in the p.c. business meeting so you know we used to push him to tell him that we have the police and. now nobody. has the tires to send

those projects was driven by a passion for his dedication and efforts christian nicky made the twenty seven africa youth awards last of the one hundred most influential young africans and twenty eighteen he was named the luxembourg peace prize as an outstanding youth peacemaker. wow what a nice and colorful series i really like them it was such a pleasure to present this week's edition of africa they standing next three four in europe was featuring fresh ecological ideas from all over the continents so now that it's time to say goodbye from johannesburg thank you felicia and if you like to find out more about the topics on the show just receive 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 vegas and i do.

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