take me with you any. special. online. hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of our environment magazine eco africa mail inside me coming to you from the breaks in like a lagos nigeria but i'm not alone with me it's my lovely colleague video in south africa pelosi thanks and she can go vocal presenting the program from johannesburg

the reports on today's program will take us all over the african continent and a bit of europe too here's a quick look at what's coming up. we'll be looking at how crucial it was awful that ecosystems care about and called investing back home in germany that wants to be like top of most areas of nigeria and who visits as the special school for young earth is in the soup. nearly every day there is news about all the species going extinct directly or indirectly to human behavior but surely one of the coolest and a necessary to the cheese is the illegal wildlife trade of course reports takes us to cameroon so conservation education center dedicated to helping vulnerable and endangered species. i knew i right will takes in he surroundings limby why live center income you know this african gray parrot was brought in by local youths

a practice the sumptuary encourages newcomers a fast place inquire and. then can give or keys to even text them to be examined by a team of vets mane of the pirates they see a really bad condition read in the power sites injured on their feeders clipped to prevent them from flying head veterinarian john and young explains how the bugs get here with that. 2 sources series jaw i mean for authorities and a pleasant year or by the nation if you carry them on they see they need to leave the animal to come on but i've yet. to sources see joe and donation were done by animals the vets way the patients and check their vitals.

damaging further the pool to neighboring new ones to grow. to examine the scene and treatment the bugs are taken care of until they're very early enough to be released back into the wild. as many as 25 parents are brought to the rehabilitation center every month from all over come iran we have received more than 5 problem adults without incident part of this this is a huge number of our last what are our. released. so many talents thousands of them. the highly intelligent dads are very good at being impressions. but. for that reason they're one of the most popular and then pets the wild over people will pay as much as several cows in europe for

a single parent. is so profitable that the once common species is a new lease of p.r.t. some african countries. was once one of the wilds biggest exporters in 2016 the global trade in one african paros was officially banned but that hasn't deterred on poachers. so if something is not done about them then for $31.00 of them across the years they have been exploited without. without their a sense of. how long on the exploitation or on by various people on what i mean there are swords there where you live become tree. outside in omaha a clear view you live without minister the need to go on there of. india where they

live center was established in 1993 by becoming iranian government and the pan religious foundation for the race q. and rehabilitation of wildlife from red tails to crime it's the medical staff who supported be countless volunteers from kameron and in their work and. the constant influx of parents presents a whole challenges for the wildlife center funding is needed for food in magazines and there is a shortage of spares african grey pirates need a lot of exercise to keep their muscles toned in their natural habitat they can travel up to 10 kilometers a day. there are plans to build a large cage that will enable the pirates to practice flying before being released . it's a success when you put one item above into the water. remembering that many come and some. from. the.

sun not get to be released some die but it's time you were just one animal it is exciting that it sucks this. one animal in the forest one more on a more and b. and into conservation. another animal that's home on much all the african continent is the hippo you probably won't see your post for sale of markets or kept as pets but they're under pressure to destruction all the habitat the situation in kenya is especially drastic now scientists that have found that the massive mammals may actually be crucial for the ecosystem. in a time 81500 kilos on average that he plays one of the most impressive mommas in africa but numbers of the creature have drastically declined in kenya according to our dr direct. in kenya what we're seeing which is really devastating hippos is

over grazing over the past years where the hippos need to go if you go to nairobi national popular find all the area near the hippo pools areas are overgrazed it's not by hippos it's actually by livestock so what we're seeing is the food for the hippos has been completely eliminated and hippos of dying of starvation people is increasingly have to compete with livestock for food people started bringing their animals into protected areas because of the increase in drought periods global warming is also accelerating the destruction of their natural habitat. at night hippos graze on land but in the daytime they have to be in water they're very sensitive to the sun and so when the lakes and rivers dry up they've got nowhere to go when playing numbers of peoples could also be affecting the eco system of rivers and lakes in east africa researchers from the university of untrue have been belgium and i used to put down they found on the banks of matter if it

contains a high level of silica a vital nugent for datums a micro present in water that produces oxygen and feeds many species no longer becomes an imbalance between nitrogen phosphorus and silica. other algae take over the competition between the diatoms on the other algae and then we lose the diatoms of the dominant species and then we lose also the function of these times i think ecosystem according to the scientists the people city contribution accounts for over 76 percent of the total silica transported along the maori from city case vital to the region's aquatic consistence this nutrient is the lifeblood of african lakes and rivers and one that is now lacking. and that's why we see fish dying sometimes you hear in lake and i wash all of fish floating to the surface because

they die there's not enough oxygen and this is why because the algae replaces the diatoms which actually are a very important part of that ecosystem so this is a really interesting study that has uncovered a mystery that i think everybody knew hippos are important they didn't know this particular really interesting story behind why he also important raising awareness about the key role he plays play is vital to their survival researchers say without the creatures the system will be thrown out of balance with dire consequences for people and then found. now here's a riddle for you what do hippo poop and mobile phones have in common anyone out there know while they both contain silicon. you're right that sounds like a fun fact that's worth sharing with our friends and colleagues mobile phones actually consume a lot of different metals and minerals and many of them can be recycled but as is

often the case with high tech inventions plenty of the parts end up in the way stuff in this week's doing your bit we see how an artist is giving life to a wish. it's not easy to make a splash in the art saying but if new does it he kofi has done it his works are unique and arresting. and they give new purpose to discarded cellphones was he saying integrate old phones into my work to give them a 2nd life and to draw attention to the fact that our lives are so intertwined with technology so digitalized that allows us to be connected but we should also consider the environmental impact. new gets old phones from several sources what he can't use he passes on to recyclers after breaking them up he glues pieces on to canvases like mosaic tiles. in 2 years manu has used parts from around

24000 phones his works have made him a prominent contemporary an artist. he's even had exhibitions in belgium and france are with a political message which is that products don't disappear when we're done using them in fact most will outlive us all. 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 stories. even serve our progress costs manufacturing processes simply produce a lot of waste and one major source of this waste is fabric dyes the textile industry works with toxic compounds most of them are made from petrochemicals now

start up in france as found and environmentally friendly alternative using bacteria to generate brilliant color in shades ranging from burgundy to blue. you know. this may look like modern art but it's actually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails are made by bacteria. we've known for decades that microorganisms can produce pigments because what we're doing today is expanding their production to an industrial scale that would have you to replacing the production of patrol chemical dyes worldwide long. 70 blanche and. say they're the 1st to study this extraordinary natural process they're the founders of the french start up based in toulouse they see these microorganisms

this great allies that could be used to color all our clothes without any chemicals for years they work to identify the microorganisms best able to produce color in 2015 they finally developed a low carbon method to obtain pigment for dying textiles it's a method that's been used for centuries in the food industry you know we allow these microorganisms to ferment to bit might fermenting beer. but instead of consuming sugar to make alcohol the microorganisms are consuming sugar to make dyes also in the because of that. it takes a week and warm temperatures for the blue pigment to appear the substance is then tried to obtain a biodegradable powder. said who power is suitable for dyeing different types of fabric depending on the formulas we apply we can produce colors ranging from burgundy to light blue. this

biotechnology could change the face of the fashion industry. the textile industry is one of the most polluting sectors in the world. it uses a huge amount of chemicals to make diamonds. but also 100 kilos of petroleum are needed to make one kilos so in our everyday clothes there's a kilo of petroleum just for the dyes. or dismissal of it and if we take just one piece of clothing like a t. shirt or a pair of trousers for instance 10 to 40 percent of its environmental impact is due to died so that the. people you we are effectively going back to the story of to lose because they were creating dies out of plants until the 19th century then petrochemicals arrived now we want to develop again a production made out of renewable materials about older material and over. so

follow the startup has produced several kilos of. with the help of the bacteria but they will need to improve the process if that's to compete with petro chemical dice to achieve its costs they're planning to use i could cultural waste as a substitute for sugar. but it's an easy one it's a big advantage is that we can take all of the leftovers like stang's leaves or other parts of the crop and use them as a source of carbon so we can kill 2 birds with one stone. but. 520-2170 plash and his team expect to be producing several tons of dipole to a year we might then be able to find clothes died without pigment but they would need more time more money and more production capacity to become a serious alternative to the petrochemicals industry.

here in my home country nigeria a portion of the population is not connected to the electricity grid that means people especially those in the remote rural areas are forced to use fossil fuels for their part and that is not sustainable well guess what that's likely to change a crowd investing platform in europe germany is looking to finance renewable energy projects here. oh. it's hard to miss the silver mini greed on the edge of the village bright and shiny in the sun this is bubble gum 3 hours from lagos by car it's isolated location was more of a factor in scaling the solar panels than environmental reasons connecting the village to the national call grace was not considered worth the effort so many

people here make a living with i recall just some of the green building alterations like richard the bearing the ship previously used a few cards in the rates to run for grinding machine is now the parklands and the sun. well yesterday. i bought 500 now one thing. now we can leave the lights. there's lights at home and my 1000000 bad was the situation was different one way is not your all home. home and good. clear skeptical at 1st many here have since switched to green energy. and the $500.00 households now get their path from the solar grid. that means france fewer c o 2 emissions according to nigerian aaa rebate checks so some funding for the project came from a german government agency the renewable energy business actually is something that

is really viable for nigeria to look into you know because. like you know nigeria actually has about 55 percent of its population without access so and we know that it's not cost effective to extend the grid to these areas so $1.00 of the best with this by deploying in the with these locations. the project is also the guy german company based in frankfurt. a crowd investing platform called better quest raised 220000 euros for the celebrity greats in nigeria. c.e.o. marilyn tape says the company is paying customers who want to invest in construction ecologically projection other parts of the world. our future market is africa because this market is crawling so tremendously and the amount of people there that need it for city is the highest all over the world. so

there is much money needed there is a much potential and also as mentioned the interest rates there are very very high so they need cheaper money and they need especially any way of financing there is no solution there are no banks there will finance those smaller projects all the crap from the platforms at the moment the solutions to that money can come to africa small and medium sized enterprises to prepare the tricity into that. but there is a sure dark side to the solar energy being. a factor today only last 20 years and then they have to be disposed. and the lead acid batteries needed to steal electricity can cause serious pollution but for now the mini grid has improved the lives of many here boosting their businesses and improving the brain. education is

a basic human right yet millions of children and young people still have no access to it last year starving 264000000 children worldwide well unable to attend school yes and that's a stocking figure and around half of those kids live in sub-saharan africa for instance a farm is often can't afford to send the children to school all the kids themselves have to work doing regular classroom hours luckily some now have the opportunity to attend school. when he whistles heard follows. every day germany takes these counties many kilometers through the highlands of le so turning looking for grass and water. he will soon be 14 and has worked as a herd for more than half of his life. every day i'm out

here crazing the animals where you would go on if you have to make sure they get enough to eat i like their work it's also the only way to survive here. the cows to money tends to belong to a farming family in similar kong a small town in central a soldier in exchange for his labor he gets a roof over his head and he gets to keep a calla the end of the year. the young teenager doesn't have time for school his parents have died so germany has to fend for himself. this is my 1st job. but it's the 1st time i've been treated well. the last farm i worked for for example just didn't pay me. i'm great i things are going better here . in lesotho one in 3 boys of school age works full time as

a livestock herder often miles away from their family and without any hope of going to school full time most of the boys are illiterate and will likely remain so for the rest of their lives. you your smile row is familiar with the situation you have to leave school after 2nd grade money so you could look after his mother and 2 sisters. he says that's common in lesotho but it wasn't the life he had hoped for. he wasn't maintaining it. but because of the this is and there paul fired too and living under bid len i was supposed to wait because they said but although it was in nice because even though we're breeding us they need dogs they didn't even feed us they breed does like this

leaves. us quickly learned that not having an education can make it difficult to fight for your rights. over the years he paid for both his sisters and their children's schooling with the money he earned as a shepherd he also managed to put aside a tiny bit of his pay until he could complete his own education now every evening he shares his knowledge with the young herders in san juan kong. when they finish tending to the animals for the day they come to us the shepherd school germany is also here. they study reading writing and arithmetic. teaches on a voluntary basis he believes that a basic education can change the young herders lives. they have been to or that

they have some of these. and they didn't even know where they. now i do claim by almost 30 years that here but then you got to another subject is health including aids prevention it's an important issue in the sotto which has the 2nd highest rate of hiv infections worldwide. under a warm meal or sometimes provided when there have been enough donations for many it's the only proper meal of the day. socialising essential to the time spent here . wake you have to care for then must then you were born here. with other people but only have been here is a separate school where the learn how to spell ace is where they live how paul speak. where they live in if need be. to learn everything they heard has come

from far and wide that germany walks 10 kilometers every evening to get here. when i can read well write well i want to teach to. i want to pass on what i can. but germany still has a long way to go the next morning he returns to his solitary work in the hills like so many other livestock herders here in the soto. we've come to the end of our show for today thanks for watching i hope you tune in next time my name is the congo and i wish you all the best from johannesburg south africa and i'm outside with signing off from the big garden in lagos nigeria until next week in the meantime don't forget to check out our social media platforms and i eco africa website bye bye.

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