what secrets behind me. find that experience and explain as needing cultural heritage sites. d w world heritage. hello everybody and welcome to the latest edition of our environment magazine eco africa mail inside me coming to you from the brakes garden in like lagos nigeria but i'm not alone with me is my lovely colleague video in south africa hello z. thanks anti 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 to have a quick look at what's coming up. we'll be looking at how crucial it was awful the ecosystems you know about and quote investing platform in germany that wants the likes of the most areas of nigeria and would visit a special school for young writers in this suit. 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 seventies is the illegal wildlife trade of course reports takes us to cameroon so conservation education center dedicated to helping vulnerable and endangered species. i know i write texan he surroundings at the link below i live sent income you know these african gray parrot has brought in by a look down the drain feathers are put in

a bowl of nuance to grow. up to examination and treatment the bugs are taken care of thank you very well enough to be released back into the wild. as many as $25.00 pirates are brought to the rehabilitation center every month from all over come iran we have received more than our father an adult without incident partners has this issue which number are lost on the way out so what i'm. released so many thousands thousands of them all 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 euros for

a single parent. so profitable that the ones common species are nearly disappeared is 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 a sense of. how long on the exploitation or on. by vera it will solve all wants a 1000000 barrels towards where we can leave the contrie. so they're not a clear game to live with that there needs to be a need to. be

a wet live center was established in 1993 by becoming iranian government and the pan religious foundation for the risk you and rehabilitation of wildlife from grip to crime it's the medical stuff you supported be countless volunteers from kameron and their work and. the constant influx of parents presents challenges for the wildlife's into finding is needed for food in magazines and there is a shortage of spares african gray pirates need a lot of exercise to keep their muscles toned in natural habitant 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 pull one item of back into the water. remembering that many come and some. from that to.

some not got to be released some die but it's time you were released just one animal it is exciting that is soccer's. one on the mind of forest one more on the mark and being and into conservation. another animal that's home on much all of the african continent is the hippo you probably won't see your post for say that markets are kept as pets but they're under pressure due to destruction of their habitat the situation in kenya is especially drastic now scientists there have found that the massive mammals may actually be crucial for the ecosystem. when here in time 81500 kilos one ever the hippies one of the most impressive mamas in africa much 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 just where the hippos need to go if you go to nairobi national popular find all the area near the pools areas are overgrazed it's not by hit it's actually by livestock so what we're seeing is the food for the hippos has been completely eliminated 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 one to have been buried him on the rise to put down they found on the banks of matter if it contains a high level of silica a vital nutrient for datums are present in water that produces oxygen and

feeds many species when there becomes an imbalance between not engine phosphorus and silica and other algae take over the competition between the diet. and then we lose the diatoms as a dominant species and then we lose also the function of these times i think the system according to the scientists that people silica contribution accounts for over 76 percent of the total silica transported along the maori of our city is vital to the region's aquatic consistence this nutrient is the lifeblood of east african legs and rivers and one that is. now lucky. that's why we see fish die sometimes you hear in lake and i wash of fish floating to the surface because they die there's not enough oxygen and this is why because the 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 pulls us important raising awareness about the key role he plays playing is vital to this frightful research of say without the creatures the system will be thrown out of balance with dire consequences for people and the environment. 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 can save 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 same but if new does a coffee 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 or so digitalized that allows us to be connected but we should also consider the environmental impact of. new gets old phones from several so. 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 devorah an artist. he's even had exhibitions in belgium

and france hard 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 story. it is said about 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 a toxic mix of 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 virtually a natural process at work believe it or not these blue color trails are made by bacteria. and we've known for decades that microorganisms can produce pigments because what we're doing today appealingly is expanding their production to an industrial scale that would have you to replacing the production of patrol chemical dyes worldwide. on. 70 blanche and. say they're the 1st to study this extraordinary natural process they're the founders of the french startup 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 worked 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 mike fermenting beer. but instead of consuming sugar to make alcohol the microorganisms are consuming sugar to make dies . because of what. it takes a week and warm temperatures for the blue pigment to appear the substance is then tried to obtain a biodegradable powder. the 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. i don't often see if 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. 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 died so that the. people he 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 all the material went over. so far the startup has produced several kilos of dolly powder with the help of the bacteria but they will need to improve the process if that to compete with petro

chemical dice to it's use costs they're planning to use i could cultural waste as a substitute for sugar. one of those it's an easy one it's a big advantage is that we can take all of the leftovers like stands leaves or other parts of the crop and use them as a source of carbon so we can kill 2 birds with one stone. 520-2170 plus and his team expect to be producing several tons of dye powder a year we might then be able to find clothes die without pigment but they would need more time more money and more production capacity to become a serious alternative to the petro chemicals 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 but 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 solar mini greed on the edge of the village bright and shiny in the sun this has been the gumption 3 hours from lagos by car it's isolated location was more of a factor for installing the solar panels than environmental reasons connecting the village to the national congress was not considered with the efforts that many people here make a living with agriculture something green milling operations like richard the bearing the sheep previously used

a few car generator to run her grinding machine is now a part came from the sun. well yesterday i bought 500 now 1000 pocket so now we can leave the lights on at those lights that's a hole in the palm of my 1000000 but it was the situation was different than the one we use now you know not all home down by new home and get. this skeptical the 1st many here have since switched to green energy. over $500.00 households now get their parts from the solar grid. that means since fewer c o 2 emissions according to the nigerian company rebate checks. 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 boasted by german company based in frankfurt. a crowd investing platform called better vest raised 220000 euros for the soul of many greats in nigeria. c.e.o. marilyn hape says the company is paying customers who want to invest in construction ecologically projection other parts of the world. so. our future market is africa because this market is crowing 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 are finance those smaller projects all the crowd funding platforms at the moment the solutions to that money can come to african small and medium sized enterprises to prepare the tricity into villages. but there is a sure dark side to the solar energy being. manufactured today only last 20 years and then they have to be disposed. and the lead acid batteries needed to store electricity can cause serious sure pollution but for now the mini grid has improved the lives of many here boosting their businesses and improving the breed. 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 where i'm able to attend school yes and a stocking figure and around half of those kids live in sub-saharan africa and for instance a farm is often content for 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 the hurt follows. every day germany takes these counties many kilometers through the highlands of le soto looking for grass and water. he'll 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 it 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 germany tends to belong to a farming family and simone 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 account 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. to go to and 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 the sotto 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 know your smile your 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 the soto but it wasn't the life he had hoped for. it wasn't maintaining. your faith but because of the this is paul t. and living under a bit len i was supposed to work is this a but although it was in nice because even though we're reading us like dogs they didn't even feed us they've really 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 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 simone kong. when they finished tending to the animals for the day they come to us the shepherd school germany is also here. they study reading writing and arithmetic. u.t.s. teaches on a voluntary basis he believes that a basic education can change the young herders lives. they have been to a bed they have some of the. when they didn't even know where they are. now i am still playing by almost 30 is that here but then

you know that 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. and of war mail is sometimes provided when there have been enough to nations for many it's the only proper meal of the day. socializing is central to the time spent here. wake you have to keep up with the en mass then you don't have to. talk with other people but you already have been here is a separate school is where the learn how to spell ace is where they live how to speak with us where they live in if need be. to learn everything they heard has come from far and wide. germany walks 10 kilometers every evening to get here.

when i can read well right well i want to teach too because i want to pass on what i can. but jeremy 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 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 now trying 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 our eco africa website by .

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