his life story you have ground to look. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. yes thank you for what. cinema stars me twenty seven w. yes. 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 felice n.t.s.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 male we bring you greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about half an hour i was so 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 we need to make shoe polish. and how solar taxes are changing public transforming causative well. and then our project in south africa is teaching stories of valuable knowledge of indigenous people. would you take a ride by the sun in the coastal town of juggling called deval solo talks as i'm beginning to repeat 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. people like sophie really in the republic of course 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 which can be had to find one available. call it takes time you have to wait it's a real problem. 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 of taxes have been designed and put into service in several places around the world these three real solar taxes are brought to read by knotting they're parked in the workshop this is also where they assemble before they hit the road was in the room 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 will want or. cannot istar 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 particular meters to travel further than that the other batteries need to be recharged regularly but they're still expensive to put it on a regular vehicle and better for the environment every day the batteries are

charged here and the tax is given a once over. if you force the monks who went on their taxes parked i check the status i switch on the ignition and see how many volts or charged it takes about five to six hours to get fully charged each vehicle has ten batteries. their 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. very very standard rolls and when the battery the batteries are charged using solar energy here to. think through what this panel generics twenty five kilowatts but this is where the energy is stored and i see that with the three wheelers can be rich and here at night when they are packed. they solar taxes have even created jobs eleven people work for the company and that's not all the

solar taxes are environmental borne. so there are more tools 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 at present both don't. the company hopes to introduce a similar taxes to other cities like you. but some. by the success of villa's pilot program have 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 tries to go thousand kilometers south you'll have a definition of our next report watching which means what a hole in the law would have been to do a simple. quite true is also the 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 old and hunches date back twenty six thousand years the san people have a tremendous knowledge about nature and plant life and they're sharing it with visitors in the cultural sense eco 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.

have special significance for the sun. if you look at the animal itself it's quite massive it can provide a lot of it can provide a lot of. times a blanket blanket and there is also a fence they use it for use it for their use of for cleaning themselves. doctors they use it also for another purpose and this is why i say. with. us works as a guide at the quote to sound 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 identify as sun working at the center as colleague newkirk dymo has learned to appreciate the beliefs and traditions of her people. well it's. it is. it is the way of living the right the learn so that you can keep your child so that you can live with so that one day 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 illustrate 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 ailments. 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 ream 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 illustrated another we naturalists zation 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 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 through polish it sounds crazy but that's exactly what university lecturer paid to go to from kenya does he's even been awarded

a pace and to transform the blackjack weave into organic shoe polish it's how he does his bits for the environment. it's not so every day you see a university lecturer shining a student she use. the canyon by a chemist peter it's a perfect opportunity to test this in if it's if products of an eco friendly she polish. blackjack wheat is considered a nuisance by farmers and gardeners the frockcoat tea and a group of students it's a freely available grow material. in the lab the we just dry it and cool variety just. a county that extracts the substance he uses as the base for his own comic she polish him once and a few bios opens with an added. to the name

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. if you do not tell us about it. in those. stories. thanks. bernie you are not aware of the impact the activities have on the environment and that is in spite of the efforts to push this kind of information. microbiology do you think it should not be so that shouldn't have a university of lagos decided to do something about it ok beside it use the

creative art poetry here and his colleagues of the parliament of course are trying to do what they have. and even includes teaching the younger generation about the environment and what they can do to protect when i ponder nature's paradox for the greens rehearse the tease i am paul 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. the twenty five year olds writes these nature inspired portals to express his creative ideas through them. and nature beautifies our work. it's occupies a significant part of a society of the physical society so eve i am a poet's past no less legislators for the world and as a kind of poetry that focuses on nature and gives neat shortcuts pride of place the

will stops me from promotes induct kind of court if you like that's why buck up about you they launched his initiative parliament to forums two years ago. the group meets 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 you're trying to this is what you're talking about means on my side this is not what you bring abstracts meaning you know the artistic poets mind this is poetry talking real life from which everyone contributes and i think the terms actually bring in portree closest society so party now is not the snake you know see that there's something in the nature of politics to be environmental be keeping our environment clean and telling us that it's portree is not something that is that's an abstract suppose although she did

a lot beginning way he said to preserve entirely more and to preserve good accreted . i appreciate i really liked because they issued and i position to do the ticking killed need to do to do with what is supposed to us humans were actually. making it worse each day three micro budget day and his friends take environmental problems seriously because nigeria has a very environmental issues there are many problems such as oil leeching to the environment which occurs here in the ogoni delta. this also untreated garbage shoots landfills. the group doesn't just recites their poems to each other they also go to the secondary schools and to teach school kids about the importance of environmental stewardship. points not just occupying a space in the society they have the rule was missing and where it has to transform

and yes a site. the members of parliament of ports teach students and teachers how to writes your own poems to raise awareness for nigeria some viral mental problems. what the link is that. i call. and nature and it's all about syllabus undef. when one in a money chain no one else will teach. michael i need i think we should call pollutes use. not 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 kane's global warming nuclear warming by all wished 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 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. is gone more than half. only a small section of it is left with. used 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. as if there are no winds no ski lifts none of that just farming. situated in the mountains this part of the 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 ideal it seen 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 one half expect more events of this kind when we measure the slopes we find that nearly all of them are shifting it's not possible to monitor all of the slopes and. or even just those above settled areas. steen. but the geologist do the best that make her 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 demand 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 mold 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 rudolph dutch nor his neighbors have any intention of leaving their farms not even after their houses when the only flattened. store you just have to keep calm that's the best thing you

can do. these farmers seem to have a will stronger in the mountains we've already showing you how to make things like furniture and bags out of old 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 it was more use cause than any of the continent and of course many of the east end up on the scrapheap where the question is would you wear sandals made from time. what leads you to make up your mind. that worn out 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 it just has to be so we are also using these are sort of what you do to say that is them that we can give to these tires which would be more durable which would affect our environment. the tires are transported to a business partner about twenty miles outside. 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 thai is 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 are bang on 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 claimed we are 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 markets. 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 one of a put out and i love it and he puts up with the prison for that because like i had is made from prison us live in the prison business meeting so you know we used to push them to tell them that we have the police and. none of them but.

the tires to send those projects was driven by a passion for his dedication and efforts christian nicky made the twenty seventeen africa youth awards last of the one hundred most influential young africans and in 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 continent for now though 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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