it's really frightening. why aren't people more concerned. shorts may thirty first w. hello everyone and welcome to the major's edition of eco africa. in lagos nigeria and i am very happy to welcome you today we have lots of new environmental topics and ideas from europe and africa but i'm not alone with me as my charming colleague in south africa hello there is a handy it's great to be here again my name is the courage of you and i'm so glad

you tuned in for the show today we'll be taking you on a trip all over our beautiful continent as we shed some light on the environmental threats we face here. who travel to zambia we will see how a youth reporter heats up climate action. in cameroon we meet people switching from firewood to bio gas to meets their needs. and we head to ghana to meet cocoa farmers struggling to boost big yields against dogs. while the culprits behind climate change come predominantly from countries around to europe the us and asia africans are taking the brunt of this impact many are already affected by rising temperatures and irregular rainfall it twenty one year old reporter in zambia is using a radio broadcast to inspire her peers to action wash searing a knowledge about deforestation pollution and other environmental challenges in the country she believes africans need to wake up and adopt before it's too late

oh. yes. i chuckle markets in lusaka trees that once protected the zombie and savannah and sylvia and school can feel climate science have beaches feeley reports how filling these trees has an impact on daily life in communities in lusaka milling with martians in the market a young radio reporter is looking for allies in how frightened into climate change . our ways. that well i'm here to look for problems but rather look for solutions together we don't come here to look at what negative things people are doing but rather to help as come up with solutions that are going to help us you know are a collective collective so those are the things that we actually do and this is why we always have to come here to collect stories that are inspiring and what it.

really has her own show i tell lusaka community radio station in an hour long broadcast each month she talks about environmental issues in lusaka and what to zambians can do about them in my. old age tell you. the right thing. today she's talking about have visit to the shuttle market later she really needs says about her childhood telling how her neighbors would fight over water before the well ran dry due to persistent droughts. really believes that many zambians are already affected by the climate change but that most are not aware of it. so overpriced and needs to have adequate information and that is what my vision is about in all the registers that actually gets to do it's about creating or giving out information

that is powerful information that is actually able to stimulate every person's mindset and say look i have been affected by this situation by climate change and i think it's high time we get to do something about it that's my position. climate change is deeply and just although african countries account for a tiny fraction of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere droughts floods. that stats we educating people. most of the vendors and the whole market have never even heard of climate change for many theories show is an eye opener helping them to understand the changing with the patterns they have witnessed. during the twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen zombie experience erratic water supply due to reach out to lead to or no rainfall and also that was

caused because many people were busy cutting down the truth and this is what we're actually going to get to see more if no action is actually implemented by we the people. she really wants to inspire the people at the markets to fink about ecological altena teams such as chattel made from banana peels all maize commitment shows how young people across the globe are becoming increasingly aware that climate change may compromise their future and that action must begin now. let's hope they continue to get the support they need to further develop the project in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way he said it's the spreading ideas about how best to tackle environmental issues isn't always easy although here we have an example of some people who got it down waste management is a serious problem around the world but we are about to see that their through cooperation which is key to tackling the issue

a movement that started in two thousand and eight in estonia has caught on around the world thanks to the positive power of social media. pressure trash pressurized plastic plastic glass to class to class to class tomorrow where we need a car you have not planted yet. the let's do it movement brings together people from around the world to clean up their countries on so-called clean up day. this civic led process began in estonia into town. an eight hundred fifty thousand people gathered to collect waste across the country. in just five hours they picked up ten thousand tons of illegal trash. from the estonian capital ptolemy has been part of the core team from the outset. i'm really happy that it's really small meant we have given people back the understanding that they have power to change things it doesn't have to be

organizing a worldwide cleanup for a country like tina it can just be the power of making a little bit different decisions every day because your friends will know it differently will know it it's the most important change you can inflict on the world changing yourself. since then the donations funded movement are spread around the world. the global network has engaged a total of more than thirty five million volunteers since its launch in around one hundred sixty countries it's not an easy thing to manage. mostly when the clean ups are organized you need a lot of people working together they are very very often spread all around the country but they need to work together is in a very synchronized way so we used you use you use their knowledge sheet to do assess the problem to plan the action and to communicate with each other it's

crucial otherwise you couldn't done it you couldn't do it in such a large scale. the launch of the waste mopping up mark to model stone in the projects progress it allows volunteers to locate trash are pictures and other data like the type or size of the watched it makes coordinating volunteers an easier task. the team is also developed the worldwide platform which provides an overview of the world situation of the whole planet. a global mark for a global movement. it's always a kind of highlights when you see people working in a very critical situations there were people conducting cleanups in warsaw and in conflict zones there were people conducting cleanups in two thousand and eighteen during hurricanes and cyclons if you see this kind of humor and bravery and will to make it happen despite of the circumstances that's really humbling and aspiring.

for the let's do it movement cleaning up is just the first step on among road keeping the well clean is the next part of the journey we call it keep it clean plan which is set of activities or steps we can take in in different sectors in each country so figuring out together with all those people involved through the movement through the world cleanup day how we can inflect changes in our polices how we can educate ourselves our kids grown ups how to make better choices every day. on her fellow activists know that small steps can lead to big change. now small steps can indeed lead to big changes one thing that really needs to change is the destruction caused by drilling and digging into the ground fossil fuels and the cutting down of forest in order to

generate energy if only we could find a way to turn all that garbage into energy right well as in many of you who are because of you was know many people already doing just that here's an example in camel. every item has to be modified by hand it is a lot of work. almost comic establish the nonprofit enterprise. and you come a long way three years ago. i teach workshop in the capital e. i'll be there modifying a portable gas stove instead of a gas bottle issued run on by a gas some families in the countryside are already using the system you are doing if you see most family don't use firewood to get into your house if you go by the your guys use them or your average in the house anything that can get out of the police i didn't just come up with a good result and how the cooking gas you have the he said he said i'll come up for

it and then you are organic my new and theirs is a bio gas digester mohamed and his team i visited a village north of your wanting to show farmers how to build and operate a bio gas system when a production to decompose don't take place they've gotten our ice and be at it all they have school about three hundred people over the past few months demand for devices and training is rising still it is sometimes hard to convince people of the advantages of this new technology we need that space where it can be practiced shown to people because people want to see who would want to listen listen a lot of nothing has been happening so they want to see so on many mass practitioners is to carry out a lot of experiments that the short of the people that this thing works. is installing its biggest facility to date in a corner a small town outside the a one day with

a large septic tank for the recycling of organic waste. it was commissioned by a catholic seminary there at a cost of about two and a half thousand euro's. human kitchen and garden ways to be fed into the tank the resulting bio gas will be used in the seminary kitchen which feeds the two hundred students. tama elevate as how the seminary with a project as a consultant should be looking for the why to technology for a long time. isn't a problem on t m m m a while they even sent me to china to see if i could source the equipment there to produce bio gas. that we discovered that there was already an enterprise in cameroon itself that makes what we need. so we ordered it through three camps that will come on. this. record was already installed a number of bio gas systems both portable and fixed but not many people

institutions and come along our way of bio gas as an eco friendly energy source we intend to promote this thing the world but you know we're no finals no more to know they need you know support it's very very difficult to create i witnessed the government's development plan cameroon vision twenty thirty five m.c.g. primeau to turn it to religious but so far the biogas plays a tiny role in the energy mix. food security continues to be of serious concern in much of the world and especially here in africa where around seventy percent of inhabitants experts say still rely on the land for their livelihoods especially as temperatures rise and the weather becomes increasingly extreme it is basically impossible to predict the outcome of seasonal harvest on the fields that seem to be a real need for additional alternative ways to produce food so the show supplies

when traditional crops fail are doing your bit from nigeria maybe a glimpse of what the future holds. population already numbers more than one hundred ninety million. but the country doesn't have enough land to grow food for the rising population. and due to climate change floods have become more frequent and for thailand has become even scarcer. samson a bully is found in eco friendly solution to the problem. on his farm in ogun state he grows yams tomatoes and other vegetables using a method called aero panics. instead of using soil and nutrient packed mist is sprayed on to the plants roots. this method allows plants to grow faster producing higher yields compared to conventional farming. due to the controlled climate in

the greenhouse crops are independent of seasonal changes and no pesticides have to be added to the system. there is a must face of those of people from villages to the open center so we need to be able to also ensure the food for those come in for burn center. so far forty farmers work in his greenhouse some sanogo late hopes to convince more to help feed africa's most populous country. and how about you. if you're also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your bit. we share your stories. now let's head to uganda i'd like victoria in the eastern part of the country there

i've been lately some problems in miami. scientists say those crocodiles attacks came from over exploitation of the lake deer agree indeed n.-t. it's a corker does don't get enough fish they behave aggressively towards humans villagers started to kill the crocodiles but pizza who wants to save the reptiles by relocated them more than four hundred kilometers up country experience crocodile catcher has captured more than one hundred now crocodiles impressive isn't it the be. the feel some sight of a nile crocodiles the largest a species of d.n.a. in africa while tourists cruise the nile hoping to see the imposing reptiles from the safety of a board along the shores of lake victoria the four rushes predictors pause a deadly threat to people living in the area drinking fish stalks and shrinking

crocodile habitants have led to a worrisome rise in attacks in recent times in the village crocodiles have reportedly killed seven people over the last three years a shia muslim lost her seven year old granddaughter just a few months ago. actually i received a phone call and i was told that people were frightened back home a crocodile had grabbed my granddaughter and disappeared with her villagers tried to save her that monday but it was too late. many victims are children who go down to the lake to play or fetch water fishermen are also a target peter oborne is a crocodile expert with the uganda wildlife will thirty he and his team have come in response to reports of a sighting they ask the villages for further details before setting off to search

for the enemy when we receive information with quickly leave us to this scene to form we do assessment and we do the capture of the. locals they lead the team to the areas favored by the large reptiles. they lay and trap made from a piece of meat attached to wire on that floor. so that when a crocodile a comes the grabs the debate and then they wire will die i didn't know what your or they are but your when it is right. there why are biting. but in this instance the crocodile squad needs to adjust the trap the predator smells a rat and escapes. because well too many cases we cannot bear might tell you so we may reach when it has already eaten something

nor did. we have to explain in that area will not be successful. we may fail to capture because the crocodile is not active actively hunting. in one village the crocodile hunters have more luck fishermen have captured a crocodile themselves or gongs team is here to take it away safely safe not just for the people but the crocodile too. after a seven hour drive the team arrives at the crocodile farm on the outskirts of kampala and the animal is released the facility was set up by the uganda wildlife or three thousand partnership with the private investor. this one has reportedly killed seven people they predict are permanently lives in captivity now since it's judged too dangerous for the wild. visitors paid to see the creatures

which helps finance the farm that ensures aggressive crocodiles a safe haven some of their offspring will be returned to nature but the program was set up for several reasons want to breed. we want them to really. and then we later incorporated the eggs and. we will get the young ones which will do all the work isn't proper for a christian populace and for such a uganda where level three to puts the country's crocodile population at about one thousand two hundred crocodile expert peter one has captured and relocated over one hundred twenty of the wild creatures so far most of them are now living freely in national parks in uganda. thank you. oh all of you ot that doesn't love

chocolate did you know that cocoa originated in central america over five thousand years ago while in the meantime it has become a highly so it's off to a global commodity and it may or may not surprise you to hear that today the top two cocoa producing countries are in africa that's good for trade but life on the farm is not always so sweet. with a heavy heart. is setting out to work. he has to cut down trees in one part of his plantation. and there are parts that never right been properly because of the virus. not by maybe this is no good for harvesting we can't process it it's spoiled swollen shoot virus is the name of the disease that's affecting his trees but it's not his only problem so with all this is part of my farm i planted cocoa planting and other

crops here just like elsewhere on the farm but the timber contractors have cleared everything and they didn't even compensate me so i'm white many timber companies and gone are involved in illegal deforestation charles pref uni made from the n.g.o.s and he is working with the farmers to at least ensure they don't further exacerbate the problem. we have telling farm is to. be a farm doing things. about so that become really benefit from the own small plots of land and not to move into the robot the aspect of it is what we have seen about big timber companies will so trying to degrade the forest and doing this cutting off locks redox really replacing the. his dutch angio has rented farmland on the edge of the forest for the past two years they've run a tree nursery hair. was among those who were given seedlings from the

nursery. left by sure the ngo has given him tips on how to boost the growth of his trees sections of phenomena trunks for example can help to strengthen the roots he's also learned how to treat the stumps of the disease trees that he's chopped down. herbicide to kill off the stump so that it can't regenerate otherwise it can infect the new trees that i've planted you have to use herbicide to kill the entire system i didn't realise that before i say. but it's not been easy for the n.g.i. fast many farmers were skeptical about the ex-pats from the city but that changed as the ngo won some powerful allies. as a respected and successful cocoa pharma a few years ago he gave his plantation i have a whole chopping down the older trees and planting new ones. going. back to west

in guyana and orlando was monterey. fortunately the government didn't reduce the producer price this year. so he'll the equivalent of one year a thirty one kilo of trying to locate beans if the quality is good. however in orlando was mani's village news the engineers project which has helped the farmers so much is due to end. the farmers have come together for a meeting at the local church. to groom community they all want the project to continue. and come with me think i took your concerns very seriously i understand that you want the project to be extended for one or two years i will forward this information to our donors i hope that something can be done but unfortunately i can't promise you anything right now with almost. even if the funding dries

up the n.g.i. has promised to continue advising the cocoa farmers thing. it's good to be reminded of all the hard work that goes into making those sweet treats i'm afraid that's all we have time for today thanks for joining us i so long for me zeke and over bye bye and still next time see you auntie bye for now and he was a pleasure co-hosting the show with you and to you our viewers out there remember you can find out more about environmental protection and sustainability on asocial media platforms but for now i know it's a way signing up from lagos nigeria so you again next time. i am. the be.

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