it's really frightening. why aren't people more concern. to first w. 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 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 nail we bring you greetings from lagos nigeria we put together about half an hour of a show full of a governmental story that are very exciting well here's a lineup that we have for you today. so you can use we need to make shoe polish. and how solar taxes are changing public transforming could evolve. 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 solar taxes i'm beginning to replace a conventional bush ones three wheels and a panel it's a pretty simple concept and with zero emissions it's good for the environment too

but now let's go take a ride and see what all the hype is about. for people like sophia from really the republic of code 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. call it takes time 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 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 will. read by. their party in the workshop this is also where they assemble 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 it ended up in the taxi business. 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 tri cyclists 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 wriggly but they're still expensive to operate than our 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 they 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 five and when they're empty the tax is brought back and the batteries are replaced with five fully chalons thirty percent growth recovered because. they are also wrong the battery the batteries are charged using solar energy here to. think through what this panel generics twenty five kilowatts but this is we have the energy stored and that we need the three wheelers can be rich and here at night when they are packed . this solar taxes have even created jobs eleven people work for the company and that's not all the solar taxes are

environmental borne. so the 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 it is important. the company hopes to introduce a similar taxes to other cities like you. and coral but the success of this pilot program had an unintended side effect would just six eco taxes demand outstrips supply but it's a start in just builds bid to become wonderful green transportation in.

charge to go public you want to solve you'll arrive at the destination of our next report watching which means what a hole in the language of being 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 center for leisure and see you might not have such an ancient culture in your country though we have the oldest son cave paintings of adults and hunters date back twenty six thousand years the sand people have a tremendous knowledge about nature and plot life and they're sharing it with visitors in the cultural sense. africa to kids who are. ill and antelopes are shy creatures. but. 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 stocks on the animal itself. masson it can provide a lot of it can provide a lot of the same times a blanket the skin of a blanket and that is also offset they use it for. their use of for cleaning themselves. doctors they use it also for another purpose and this is why i. stick 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 sun 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 materials his colleague. has learned to appreciate the beliefs and traditions of her people. well it's. it is. it is the way of living there i learned so that you can keep your health. 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 illustrate the sun's immense knowledge of medicinal plants like congo bust cancer bush and wife of 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. mattio 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 renationalise 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 illustrate 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 use 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 through paullus it sounds crazy but that's exactly what university lecturer paid to a gutsy 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 so every day you see a university lecturer and shining a student she use. a kenyan biochemist peter ganci it's a perfect opportunity to test his in if its products and eco friendly shoe polish. black jack we need is considered a nuisance by farmers and gardeners the program t. and a group of students it's a freely available no material. in the lab the we just dry heat and cool varieties. of country then extracts the substance he uses as the base for his own comic she polish the wax and a few bios opens a fan out it. might be named the product by

a polish and was granted a patent for. the shoeshine scientist to seeking funding to back production because he says his client base polish is nontoxic and gives low life to let. me in my classes. if you will also do you want to tell us about it. more stories. thank. me you are not aware of the impact of the activities 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 children of a university of lagos decided to do something about it here beside it use the

creative poetry here and his colleagues of the parliament of course are trying to do what they have. even includes teaching the younger generation about b. environment and what they can do to protect when i ponder nature's paradox and new green teas i am ball by your creation and a marvelous you'll love with the michael j. he's reading from one of his many poems they're all about nature and environmental protections. the twenty five year olds writes these nature inspired portraits to express his creative ideas through them. and nature beautifies our work it's a significant part of our society of the physical society so eve i am a poets who aspires to be no less legislators for the world and there's a kind of poetry that focuses on nature and gives need shortcuts pride of place

there will stops me from promotes induct kind of work to do you like that's why bucko but you launched this initiative parliament of points 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 literally this is what you're talking about 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 in terms actually bringing in portree clothes as a society so party now is not the be it's making us see that there's something in nature called the kids we environmentalists be keeping our environments clean and telling us that it's for trees not something that says that's abstract says the police although she did

a lot beginning where you say to please each animal and then to praise our good accreted. i appreciate i really like you cause they issued an opposition to do that you need to get killed need to do you do with what is possible as opposed to us humans. old leaking 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 to the environment which occurs here in the delta. this also untreated garbage and shoots landfills. the group doesn't just recites your poems 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 as the way it is transformed and yes a site. that members of parliament of ports teach students and teachers how to write steer on porters to raise awareness for night your recent vironment to problems. what lenses that. i can. and nature and it's all about syllabus undef. when in a money change. teach. i can and this i thought was shut up it's cold it's use oh no 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 kane's global warming you will warm 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 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. area's gone more than half. only a small section of it is left. used to stretch from the woods over there along the bushes all the way to the next neighbors 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 they got family breed cattle the animals in the summer months high up on the mountain pastures that says the coals 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 for one year but then even more as if there are no wind no ski lifts none of that just farming. situated in the mountains this part of the bounds 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 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 in to roll 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. when 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 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 pasture is gone since the landslide he set up a protective barrier outside his house it may hold but falling boulder is but it also renders his posture useless. actions like that are necessary to make it safe otherwise he'd no longer be allowed to live here warner. neither rudolf gut nor his neighbors have any intention of leaving their farms not even after their houses when the only flattened lot more stores just have to keep calm that's the best

thing you can do with. these farmers seem to have a will stronger in the mountains. we've already shown you how to make things like friendly to and bags out of all tires but today we saw a very special initiative n present in cameroon inmates are making flip flops out of recycled tire is 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 the stuff end up on the scrap heap but the question is would you wear sandals made from tires will be true to make up your mind here. and discarded car tires they litter the environment and can release toxic chemicals

into the water. but in the 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 solutions he has local youths collect the old tires providing a purposeful activity for the young people because the scrap tires are considered the raw material for new products. a lot of people. just. so we are also using these. days that we can. we should be able which would not affect. the tires are transported to a business partner about twenty miles outside joan de. it's a prison here inmates who refer to themselves as prison for new oars 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 rehabilitate. ation 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 laiki 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. 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 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 the production i love it and put it in the prison for him because like i had. given the prison business meeting so you know we used to push him to tell him that we have a police car not. that tires to

sandals project was driven by a passion for his dedication and efforts christian nicky made the twenty seventeen africa youth awards list 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 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 out 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 vegas i do.

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