as long as the top managers do not go today nothing will change you know the banks pay you fine and so watch the language of the bank. speaking the truth global news that matters d. w. may for minds. 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 our host and team so what's up in lagos anti. all fine here and thankful asking z. i mean did am now type of way now it's my pleasure to greet you all our viewers we

have an interesting entertaining show put together just for you starting with a report on aus in kenya but that's all. find out how me and children generate electricity while playing. check out on urban gardening projects in berlin . and see what the government is doing to combat poaching. 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 local conservationists for what we see people are starting to wise up to the front but also serve

a useful purpose. owns 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 read these fighting to protect the bugs he has been monitoring a small kernel need of miking those eagle olds in the killer region of central kenya is. in farming practices he had to threaten these birds of prey by the numbers a slowly beginning to grow. you know i.e.d. i have a specific specific number of this house because i have about 16. and of 16 peers that are breeding b.s. the others are just losing sight listing.

the fields of not being good to me and his family are very close to the colony. they also find reach pickings here paul marie the husband traded local farmers that they barred serve their own interest because alls eat mice and rats the damage crops more read these efforts seem to be paying off. when you are young elders believe that even on craig's i battle something bad will happen but with time this has been disproved for me now when you come here and hear old crying i don't believe that it can cause there or something bad to get you. cannot hear this is an african road all that injured itself and are piling it is being lost but to hold here at rutgers let it be detention trust in the capital nairobi along with many other bugs 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 basically and it's more. 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 and hour long plane ride away. inside a lizard a buzzer with a name injury. the body is given an injection to prevent infection. this wired 1st all has already been was told to good health along with some other party recovered patients it's waiting to be released back into the wild this is

a mixture of. white faces and african wood l. 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 there's actually nothing out there for these birds to eat so releasing them is a pointless pointless exercise at this point. the mocking the eagle all the difficulties sport against iraqi surroundings conservation is palmer really helps visitors identify them and tell them about the creature. he's made it his mission to persuade people that the birds are far from a bad omen but rather for seen 1000 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 3 year average there is

a trend in many cities to put more nature back on life one way to do that is by creating. in germany for instance environmentally minded local growing vegetables flaws on earth on form always light we paid a visit to our. fresh peppermint. and edible flowers. to him a bit cathay 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. as one of the most recent urban gardening project in berlin. another project in a birla neighborhood the 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 this 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. urban gardens have a real role to play open spaces shouldn't just be sawn off. of. urban

gardens should be a part of every city. that. the budgetary and dishes served in the cafe all featuring locally sourced increasing. now enjoying time outdoors is something everyone enjoys especially to children if only we could come up with a way to harvest all the energy to produce running around. one grab a great. while and it's already being done and this week the doing a bit we see how a merry go round at a village school and governor lights up children's faces both outside the building . welcome highlighted 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 by a cable to a battery in the school building the plant was donated by the u.s. funded n.g.o.s playgrounds it didn't take much time to install. the best. she needs 120 minutes to fully charge alarms and which provides about 40 hours of light the lines are 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. now i can study together with other pupils whenever i want. all together 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 for the soft to go bomb now the country is home to africa's largest forest elephant population yet between 242014 the number of the climbs 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 can locals protect the fields and villages it's been going on. 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. from. the family of elephants passed through here they ate here. ok and then they moved here you know if i left there 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. the macweb. travel to moscow cool 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 that was unarmed but he was scared of me because i was in my uniform in the open so he moved backwards saying stop or i'll shoot as it was most often the right move towards him and stepped back and tripped me so i just stepped aside in case his gun went off by mistake. let me set it off. with a mixture of dense forest and grassland low pay is $1.00 of 13 national parks established in cabo in 2002 it's a you know asco 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 for. shows when done constantly gets calls about the 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 bases 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 locals 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. if it was costing a lot of money it takes $46.00 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. and we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today today we only read about dinosaurs and books. that we can just drive animals to extinction kill them without a 2nd thought. that would be a big problem. tomorrow will 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 quiet but most are con is home to many families it's a community located in south africa's northeast in the province of much longer which is rich in coal reserves the coal fired power station is right next door it's a mission's pollute the groundwater and they are here. my daughter here 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 in the

c.n.n. 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 has spent years studying the human cost of the environmental pollution from respiratory illnesses and skin rashes to london seas and cancer the annual death toll is 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 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. about south africa is continuing to build new coal fired power stations like the massive plant 19 german firms are helping with the construction while

a german bank is involved in the financing the facility belongs to the state power company nasscom 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 good improvement if we're going to be investing in doing in this instance it all on the queen in this should be looking at mitigation of the problem to sit with them they have to say. here at this disused mine local residents bench for left over coal. bunky much angle and her daughters and they live right. by the t n t v 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 his daughter was injured in an explosion 3 years ago since then she suffered from epilepsy last year my child who herself was injured in an explosion. for him is his life or it was on june 5th i was making lunch for the children at around 1 30 am then i suddenly had this huge explosion. and i hit the ground was not 100 someone jacked me outside and then half the house collapsed and a friend took me to the hospital by

a lot of heavy and i've been sick since then bunky 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 and 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 now had to uganda to visit the concourse slum in the country's capital kampala despite the poor infrastructure living conditions there are improving day by day yes see an artiste. which is really is really i mean what a rolling out process we are the idea of constructing

a portable building with the help of used bottles this for us project trades that is just the beginning. how many plastic bags does it take to stuff a plastic bottle. has never really counted but it's probably between 250 and 300 there are plenty of them strewn about. a slum in camp paula. so i use this and. it gets had a lot suffer because if i get that soft top you've got a brick. the plastic bricks these women are making will be used in the construction of a new office building for a local initiative called the ghetto research lab. the organization was founded by patrick to train teacher who's lived here for over 10 years part of the idea

behind the 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 are proving to be quite general. with the us it was. also not developed cracks in the effect that. you know. it's not the group's 1st building project tearing chemical last year the young people built public toilets which he used by hundreds of people every day. water is available here even fish 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. also need we need to have these people around here because the state 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. so this is what we started this initiative many of us about after realizing that there's a lot of unemployment in there get built on top of youths who are doing nothing. and they get a research labs operation 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 shows it 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 all social media platforms or use our eco africa websites m v counted over until next time by.

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