church i know the evil feeling that you feel when you think you. stop a. rock and religion class that brings many parallels to fight for the 2 really so irreconcilable card doesn't look at. 17 on t w. hello everybody and welcome to this new edition of our environmental magazine show eco africa i'm going to go coming to you from johannesburg south africa joining me in west africa most specifically in nigeria is a host n.t. so what's up in lagos n.t. . all fine here and very flocking z.

and indeed i am now it's a way now it's my pleasure to greet you all of us we have an interesting entertaining show put together just for you starting with a report on housing kenya but that's all. for find out how children generate electricity while playing. check out on urban gardening projects in berlin . and see what the government is doing to the combat poultry. is there anyone out there who has not wished they could turn their heads almost all busy the way around like the owls an interesting feature they have sadly in parts of the world out often fall prey to superstition in africa for instance their population has been falling for yes but that's changing now in kenya thanks to a local conservationist for morrissey people are starting to wise up to the front

but also serve a useful purpose. only is a fascinating and secretive but in many parts of africa the are associated with bad luck and that all prosecuted as a result. conservation is palm release fighting to protect the bugs he has been monitoring a small condo in need of miking those eagle ols in the killer region of central kenya as. p.d. days and farming practices here do still threaten these birds of prey but the numbers slowly beginning to grow. you know i.e.d. i have this is the city specific number of this house because i have about 16. and of 16 peers that are breeding b.s. the others are just losing state listing listing past.

the fields of not being good and his family are very close to the colony. they also find reach pickings here paul marie the husband shredded local farmers that the birds serve their own interest because alls eat mice and rats the damage crops more read these efforts seem to be paying off. when we were young our elders believe that even own cried again till something bad will happen but time this has been disproved for me now when you come here and hear old crying i don't believe that it can cause death or something bad to get you. cannot hear this is an african road all that injured itself on our piling it is being lost but to hold here at rutgers let ability and trust in the capital nairobi

along with many other buds who have heard and luck encounters. basically our main aim with the trust is to rescue and rehabilitate birds of prey mainly but we also take in water birds and basically and it's more but also a game where the trust is to basically get as many birds back to the wild where possible those birds that cannot be released for whatever reason basically end up as a surrogate parent partner or as an education but. this is no ordinary delivery the airport's parcel has been flown in from canyons east cost an hour long plane ride away. inside a buzz and with a neck injury the body is given an injection to prevent infection. this wide 1st

all has already been was told to good health along with some party recovered patients it's waiting to be released back into the wild this is a mixture of. white face and african wood else so the reason there are so many is basically because a large part of the weather has not been so good for releasing we had a long spell of very very dry conditions which means this is actually nothing out there for these birds to eat releasing them is a pointless pointless exercise at this point. they're mocking the eagle all the difficulties porter against iraqi surroundings conservation is palmer really helps visitors identify them until them about the creatures lives 10 he's made it his mission to persuade people that the birds are far from a bad omen but rather a seen $1000.00 and useful creatures that deserve to be protected. now another example of having a little information goes way knowledge if we want to maintain balance in our

ecosystems thank you robert there is a trend in many cities to put more nature back in urban life one way to do that is by creating one in germany for instance environmentally minded locals are growing vegetables flaws and herds on former wish light we paid a visit to 2 of their. french peppermint. and edible flowers. to him a peach cafe specializes in vague include scenery and most of the ingredients come straight from the garden this is one of many urban gardening projects in germany growing food in the city has been a popular trend for some time in berlin for example it's brought new life to several neighborhoods. this is a chance. i want to see empty areas put to good ecological use. we want

to show people where their food actually comes from here and we also want to show them how this kind of gardening works. this kind of activity brings people together him as being one of the most recent urban gardening projects in berlin. another project in a neighborhood that princess and garden dates back to 2009 back then hundreds of volunteers cleaned up of a concise and set up plan to create. urban gardens i now find around the world the princess and garden features more than 500 right he said vegetables but there's more to it than just growing progeny used. to be mentioned in the city dwellers can try out new things here. cities are so organized and disciplined that they

ought to have open spaces where people can work on projects like this i think urban gardens have a real role to play open spaces shouldn't just be someone all. of those urban gardens should be a part of every city. that. the budgetary and dishes served to make our face all featuring the oak leaves sourced increasingly. now enjoying time outdoors is something everyone enjoys especially the children if only we could come up with a way to harvest all the energy to produce running around i'm always school won't that be great. while n.t. it's already being done in this week the doing a bit we see how a merry go round at a village school and governor like the children's faces both outside the building.

a welcome highlight of zippos village school. for the school kids in the eastern region it's more than just fun. playing on this merry go round generates electricity. as in many rural areas in ghana this village is not connected to the national grid without electricity the children can do their homework at night. inside the merry go rounds generators and magnets produce electricity. the unit is connected via cable to a battery in the school building the plant was donated by the u.s. funded n.g.o.s them power playgrounds it didn't take much time to install. the best. he needs 120 minutes to fully charge alarms and which provides about 40

hours of light alarms and so then taken home by the students to study in the evening. i was able to study at home only when my parents didn't use the light for their needs so sit. now i can study together with other pupils whenever i want. to gather 55 kids have been installed in guyana. and how about you. 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 story. let's move further south to go bomb now the country is home to africa's largest forest elephant population yet between 242014 the number of the climbed by

a shocking 80 percent elephants in the border region still remain under threat but go bomb is getting the problem under control in more central areas and drop a national park for example the wildlife management has been able to stamp out poaching watch how ping locals protect the field and villages it's meant. for and his anti-poaching team this is the easy part of the job not far from their station in low pay national park they're gathering data on flora and fauna. the family of elephants passed through here they ate here. possible and then they moved here and left their traces. the team normally spends up to 14 days in the national park to collect data and keep an eye out for poachers thanks to the rangers the nature reserve has experienced no major wildlife crime in

the last 2 years. but they say poachers are still active in the national parks close to the border with the republic of congo most of the poachers are on the lookout for elephants. and if i travel to my coke or with a public prosecutor and a poacher threatened us with a gun he took out the cartridge to show he wasn't bluffing he put it back in i was unarmed but he was scared of me because i was in my uniform for him and he moved backwards saying stop or i'll shoot until this is going to move towards him he stepped back and tripped and so i just stepped aside and cases gun went off by mistake. i love the city. with a mixture of dense forest and grassland slope is one of 13 national parks established in cabo in 2002 it's so you next go world heritage site and home to

elephants panthers gorillas buffalo and over 400 bird species these days the elephants pose more of a problem than the poachers do and important part of the work of the park manager and his team is communicating with the residents of the villages on the edges of the national park. initially there were lots of elephants in the northern zone. but then they started encroaching on built up areas. we realized that the elephants were more or less fleeing the interior of the forest because of growing pressure from poachers from the south and southwest was one of the sickest. shows waned on constantly gets calls about elephants entering the villages for the park management dealing with the concerns of the local people is

a major priority the elephants destroyed their. fields and plantations the basis of their livelihoods. thanks to fences that the park officials have set up around the villages the elephants are slowly retreating back into the forest. in 3 of the villages electric fences protect the plantations. these fences are inspected on a regular basis and the local say they're feeling much safer again. is that with us we've been going hungry for 2 years people were losing weight there wasn't enough to eat but this year we have enough again we have vegetables we've been able to harvest what we planted to get. the cooperation between the park management and local residents is proving successful for the way in dong the fences in these communities have also come as a relief. to people it was costing a lot of money it takes 46 people to chase away 3 elephants and elephants not a dog it's not

a sheep that you can push away with elephants you have to be very strategic and vigilant. the balancing act between protecting the park and helping local sustain their livelihoods calls for careful planning and grew up here like many of the rangers he's confident that humans and wildlife can co-exist peacefully. simple moves we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today but today we only read about dinosaurs and books. we can just drive animals to extinction kill them without a 2nd thought. that would be a big problem so if you say. tomorrow we'll be back at work in low pay national park and the rangers and villagers will continue to maintain the fences that can help to ensure their future. according to the world health organization around 7000000 people die every year from the effects of air pollution and as is too often

the case it's the poorest who suffer the most they often have no alternative but to burn coal in order to heat and cook some of the worst levels on the planet have been measured here in south africa some 90 percent of the country's energy comes from coal fired power stations and many of the plants are located in boma long a province there the prospect of cleaner more sustainable energy generation seems a long way off. this is no place for children to be growing but most are come as home to many families it's a community located in south africa's northeast in the province of mccomb along which is rich in coal reserves the coal fired power station is right next door it's a missions pollute the groundwater and they are here. my daughter is no longer alive left me a granddaughter things that she's always coughing she's been in hospital repeatedly

but she just isn't getting better we don't know what's causing it. and then the neic enter her family were forced to leave their homes and relocate 20 years ago to make way for a coal mine they were never compensated they can't get work at the power station and don't even have electricity despite all the pylons in the area electricity is a big question you know that's what you also want to know why are they not providing them with electricity because at the end of the day the pollution is affecting them. also the mining companies that are right next door also affecting them but there is nothing that this comes is getting. the coal fired power station amid sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide while the mines right next door produce toxic effluent and dust greenpeace says the province has the highest levels of nitrogen oxide pollution in the world the power station also uses huge amounts of

water in a country where water is in short supply. at the university of johannesburg victor monica spent years studying the human cost of the environmental pollution from respiratory illnesses and skin rushes to london seas and cancer the annual death toll shockingly high. rate calculated to be somewhere in the region of $2200.00 tribute to all deaths that people who died prematurely that wouldn't have died if they were not. exposed to to call this pollution in the entire province as a patchwork of power stations with 12 huge coal fired facilities south africa still gets 90 percent of its electricity from coal but many big corporations are now selling off their minds to smaller firms as coles reputation continues to worsen. but south africa is continuing to build new coal fired power stations might the

massive plant 19 german firms are helping with the construction while the german bank is involved in the financing the facility belongs to the state power company nascar we wanted to ask about environmental standards filter systems and how much water it will use but eskom declined to speak to us. south africa's environment ministry is looking to phase out called long term in favor of renewables in the meantime the ministry wants german firms and banks to participate not only in building power plants but also in reducing the pollution those plants cause. i think there's a been improvement if you're going to be investing in doing in this is it all on quinn this should be looking at mitigation over this is it it will they have to say . here at this disused mine local residents bench for leftover coal.

bunky much angle and her daughter is in a live right. by the t n d b colliery the mine has been officially closed for decades but is still polluting the ground water it's a dangerous area parts of the mine are burning underground as a result of spontaneous combustion. forsman is a small community not far from the mine. residents here suffer from the pollution and also from the uncontrolled explosions inside the mine. much younger whose daughter was injured in an explosion 3 years ago since then she suffered from epilepsy last year much on who herself was injured in an explosion. if only for a fall it was on june 5th i was making lunch for the children at around $130.00 then i suddenly had this huge explosion. and i hit the ground was not 100

up and someone jacked me outside then half the house collapsed and a friend took me to the hospital about a lot of heavy since then bang you much angle hasn't been able to move her arm properly but she's received no compensation. even though they themselves are dependent on coal to cook and heat their homes in winter people in communities like foresman or masa khan will continue to suffer from the impact of the coal industry . while the situation doesn't die at the moment the government is taking steps to produce more and more electricity with renewable energy sources the plan is to reduce the amount of energy produced by coal to just 20 percent by 2050 from south africa we're now heads uganda to visit the concourse slum in the country's capital kampala despite the poor infrastructure living conditions there are improving day by day yesterday on our 3rd party. with jews

it's really i mean what's the rule in our process we are the idea of constructing a portable building with the help of used wofford bottles this for us project lotteries is just the beginning. how many plastic bags does it take to stuff a plastic bottle raheem another can gay has never really counted but it's probably between 250 and 300 there are plenty of them strewn about herring camp a slum in camp paula. i use this until it gets had lots of cars if i get a soft top you've got to make a brick through the plastic bricks these women are making will be used in the construction of a new office building for a local initiative called big get

a research lab. the organization was founded by patrick. who's lived here for over 10 years part of the idea behind me get a research lab is to give young people an opportunity to work and participate in local projects and at the same time clean up their environment. the buildings made with the bottle bricks of proving to be quite sure a bill. with us. was not developed cracks in the effect that. you know. it's not the group's 1st building project here in kemah last year the young people built public toilets which they used by hundreds of people every day water is available here even for showering which is an improvement over the previous toilets

. the construction project had the supportive community leader herman katz on goalie. he even offered a piece of his own land to build on for free. we are proud of our toilets it's one of a kind. it's become an attraction and many people come here to take pictures. so far the initiative has financed all its projects with donations mainly from a u.s. based n.g.o.s the office building isn't finished yet but patrick new jersey is a ready thinking about the next project and now the public toilet in urgent need of an overhaul and this is our next target. districts. also need we need to have these people around here because this do it as more than 400 people that use it today. at the moment this is where they get

a research labs project ideas are developed people meet up here regularly and even cook together the association has several 100 members all from can walk oh isn't this what we had in this initiative some 7 buck after realizing that there's a lot of unemployment in that get off on top of youths who are doing nothing. and they get a research labs operating principle is patrick. waste is only waste when you waste it. won't come to the end of this week's show thanks so much for joining us. again next week for another edition. saying goodbye from there in lagos nigeria. and it's also a time for me to say farewell from joburg and felt africa but remember you can always check in with us on our social media platforms or use our equal africa

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