tv Eco Africa Deutsche Welle May 11, 2019 11:30pm-12:01am CEST
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sorry about the billionaire and champion of workers' rights now look. how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on love. don't expect happy ending. the church. hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of eco africa. in lagos nigeria and i am very happy to welcome me 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
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in south africa hello there z k n t 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 how we will see how a youth reporter heats up climate action. in cameroon and we meet people switching from firewood to bio gas to me today i mean she needs. and we had to go now to meet cocoa farmers struggling to boost big yields against the odds. 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 21 year old reporter in zambia is using a radio broadcast to inspire her peers to action wash syringa knowledge about deforestation
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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 zambian savanna assumed here and scooping fear climate fighter beaches feeley reports how filling these trees has an impact on daily life in communities in the sun milling with martians in the market a young radio reporter is looking for allies in how to heighten climate change. our ways and come on. be that one of you have to look for problems but rather look for solutions together we don't come here to look at what the negative things people are doing but rather to help as come up with solutions that are going to help us
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you know a collective collective so those are the things that we actually do and this is why we always have to come here and to collect stories that are inspiring and what it. really has her own show at a lusaka community radio station in an hour long broadcast each month she talks about environmental issues in lusaka and want to zambians can do about them i. tell you. the right thing. today she's talking about have visit to the shuttle market later she reminisces about her childhood telling how her neighbors would fight over water before the well ran dry due to persistent droughts . 3 believes that many zambians are already affected by the climate change but that most are not aware of it. and. so
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every person needs to have adequate information and that is what my vision is about in all the radio shows 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. climate change is deeply and just although african countries account for a tiny fraction of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere droughts floods and rising temperatures hit the continent with full force but theory is convinced that zambians i'm not. helpless and can mitigate the effects. that stats we've educating people. most of the vendors at the whole market have never even heard of climate change for many theories show is an eye opener helping
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them to understand the changing with the patterns they have witnessed. already in 20152016 some experienced erratic water supply due to to lead to a 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 of the markets to fink about ecological alternatives 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 you said
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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 waste management is a serious problem around the world but we are about to see that there chew through cooperation which is key to tackling the issue a movement that started in 2008 in estonia has caught on around the world thanks to the positive power of social media. pressure trash pressurize plastic plastic glass to class to class to class people are way way that carving up the planet yes. 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 mass movement began in ash tonia in 2008 when 50000 people gathered to collect waste across the country. in just 5 hours they picked up $10000.00 tonnes of illegal trash.
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from the estonian capital talent 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 or 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 defamatory 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 $35000000.00 volunteers since its launch in around $160.00 countries not an easy thing to manage. mostly when the clean ups are
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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 to use. their knowledge sheet to to 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 market stone in the projects progress that allows volunteers to locate truck pictures and other data like the type or size of the whites it makes coordinating volunteers an easier task . the team has also developed the world waste platform which. vides an overview of the worst situation of the whole planet a global market for a global movement. it's always a kind of highlights when you see people working in very critical situations there
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were people conducting cleanups in warsaw and in conflict zones there were people conducting cleanups in 2018 during hurricanes and cyclons if you see this kind of human bravery and will to make it happen the spite of the circumstances that's really humbling and inspiring. for the let's do it movement cleaning up is just the 1st step on a long road keeping the bold claim 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 working up 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
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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 many of you who are sick of you was know many people already doing just that here's an example in camera. every item has to be modified by hand it is a lot of work. how many established the nonprofit counterparts. every nubile energy come along read 3 years ago. i did 2 workshop in the capital e. i'll be there modifying a portable gas to instead of a gas bottle it should run on bio gas some families in the countryside are already
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using the system you are doing if you think most family don't use firewood to get into your house if you go by the your grass is then order over to the house anything that can get out of the police i didn't just come out it would resort to the cooking gas you have the he said he said i'll come for it and then you are organic my new and theirs is a bio gas digester bore 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 rice and be at it all they have schooled about 300 people over the past few months demand for the 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 it we don't want to listen listen
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a lot of nothing has been happening so they want to see so are 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 one day with a large septic tank for the recycling of a gun equates to. it was commissioned by a catholic seminary there at a cost of about $2.00 and a half 1000 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 $200.00 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. while they even sent me to china to see if i could source the
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equipment there to produce bio gas. that we discovered that there was already an enterprise in cameroon itself that makes what we need a mining somehow you're going through so we ordered it through camp and you'll come on. 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 source we intend to promote this thing in the world but you know we know finals know much to know they need you know support it's very very difficult to create i witnessed the government's development plan cameron vision 2035 m.c.g. promoting targeted 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
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some 2 percent of inhabitants experts say still rely on the line 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 seem to be a real need for additional alternative ways to produce food so it shows supplies when traditional crops fail doing your bit from nigeria may be a glimpse of what the future holds. nigeria's population already numbers more than 190000000. 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 an eco friendly solution to the problem. on his farm in
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ogun state he grows yams tomatoes and other vegetables using a method called aero panics. instead of using soil a nutrient packed misters 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 as are those of people from villages to be opened things so we need to be able to ensure the food for those come in for burn center. so far 40 farmers work in his greenhouse some sanogo hopes to convince more to help feed africa's most populous country. and how about you. and
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if you are also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories. now let's head to uganda and like victoria in the eastern part of the country there i've been lately some problems with my meter. scientists say those crocodiles attacks came from over exploitation of the lake near 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 the one who wants to save the reptiles but relocated them more than 400 kilometers up country they experience crocodile catcher has captured more than 100 now crocodiles impressive isn't it good to. be. on. the field some site of
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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 4 rushes predictors pools 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 7 people over the last 3 years lost her 7 year old granddaughter just a few months ago. they are back. 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 villages tried to save her that monday but it was too late.
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many victims are children who go down to the lake to play or fetch water fishermen are also a target peter is a crocodile expert with the uganda what they feel free 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 animal when we receive information with quickly leave us to deceive to call in the form we do assessment and we do that capture of the. locals they lead the team to the areas favored by the large reptiles. they lay at trap made from a piece of meat attached to wire or not brought the bait so that when a crocodile a comes the grabs the debate. and then they wire will die i that the lord your order by your when it is. there why
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i did. but in this instance the crocodile squad needs to adjust the trap the predator smells a rat and escapes. because all too many cases we cannot 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 were afraid 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 gone steam is here to take it away safely safe not just for the people but the crocodile too. after a 7 hour drive the team arrives at the crocodile farm on the outskirts of kampala
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and the animal is released the facility was set up by the uganda wildlife or 3 team partnership with the private investor. this one has reportedly killed 7 people the predator permanently lives in captivity now since its judged too dangerous for the wild. visitors pay 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 $1.00 to britain. we want them to really. and then we later incorporated the eggs and. we created the young one which will do all the work is impossible for the christian populace and for that the uganda where level 3 to puts the country's crocodile
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population at about $1200.00 crocodile expert peter one has captured and relocated over 120 of the wild creatures so far most of them are now living freely in national parks in uganda. thank you. who all of you ought that doesn't love chocolate did you know that coke originated in central america over 5000 years ago while in the meantime it has become a highly sought after global commodity and it may or may not surprise you to hear that today the top 2 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.
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there are parts that never ripe and properly because of the virus. nobody has is no good for harvesting we can't process it it spoils our. 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 as soon as i'm white many timber companies and gone are involved in illegal deforestation. charles pref an e-mail 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 are telling farm is through. to be a farm doing things. about sort of become really benefit from the own small plots of land and not to move into the robot the other aspect of it is what we have seen
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about big timber companies with some trying to degrade the forest and it's caught in the rocks redoubt really replaced and his dutch n.g.i. has rented farm land on the edge of the forest for the past 2 years they've run a tree nursery have. well under all small neat was among those who were given seedlings from the nursery. left by here the ngo has given him tips on how to piece the growth of his trees down sections of banal or 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. i use 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.
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at 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. back to west i'm gonna underline there was money. fortunately the government didn't reduce the producer price this year. so he'll the equivalent of one year a 31 kilo of trying to beans if the quality is good. however in orlando was money's been ledge that's bad 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 welcome you to it so our crew of community they all want the project to continue. and come with me i take your concerns very seriously
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i understand that you want the project to be extended for one or 2 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 ngo 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 zico bye bye and still next time see you n.c. bye for now and z. 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'm now outside with signing up from lagos nigeria so
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