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a warm welcome for me too and hope that you stay with us for the next half hour on the phone from johannesburg and south africa here's what's coming up. how an app can help protect a rare species in south africa. and why solar energy doesn't always have to be expensive. and how music group was formed in congo thanks to trash. south africa's western cape province is home to stunning plants some of them found nowhere else on the planet however recent reports show that the province is experiencing the 2nd highest rate of plant extinction in the world due in large part to rapid urbanization and habitat loss we met up with researchers to investigate the region more closely. this rub land is part of the famed both biome

a naturally occurring community of flora and fauna in the region around cape town in south africa it's home to almost $10000.00 species of plants many of them endemic as part of efforts to preserve this unique ecosystem volunteers come here regularly to photograph and document the plants they work for the organization of rare and endangered wild flowers also known as crew. so the reason why we have this program is that just the sheer numbers of threatened plants that we have it's not enough for a group of scientists to go and monitor those species so in the country we have over $3000.00 written plants and so that's a massive undertaking. this species of erica is critically endangered that means it's on the brink of extinction it's found only in this immediate area measuring less than half a square kilometer. today the crew volunteers

a documentary ref laura using a popular citizen science app called eye naturalist. the aim is to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their data collection we can only do conservation intervention if we know that there is a problem but if nobody is monitoring what is happening to those populations then we won't know and the species might go extinct without us even knowing about the app allows volunteers to take a picture of a plant or an animal and log the time and exact location and upload the data to the eye naturalist platform then biologists and botanists can access the information and create detailed maps of those remaining habitats. the app also allows researchers like every him to monitor the recipe she's more closely because they know where they're located as a botanist and as someone that works on plants we understand that all of plants of the ecosystem and plants form that the basis of the ecosystem and without the

plants the things that that sit on top of. the food chain above the plans where one exist we won't exist if it wasn't for plants and so i think to create an awareness about the importance of plants is really important for us. the western cape has already lost 40 species of plants since 1900 scientists estimate that many more are in danger the principal reasons are growing up in isolation infrastructure development and the expansion of agriculture me around cape town many green spaces have already been lost an organization called community tree is trying to restore at least some of the natural habitats that biodiversity. but what are you doing he had to be planting the ground cabbage and the pioneers that help prepare the soil for the more sensitive. area because in

recent years that are no longer here. the thought of being polluted lost all of it period and microorganisms so we are bringing those back and making space. true brain both to come back. again another example. in the cape flats area of the city used to be a rubbish dump over a 4 year period kevin cochrane and a group of community volunteers planted about $50000.00 indigenous plants and more than $300.00 trees on the site. was about those good people and their relationship with all species is one and that ideology. when it comes to endangered species charismatic animals such as elephants rhinos and lions often succeed in capturing the public's attention but the endangered

plants of the south african famed boast biome on no less important. raising awareness to bring about change for the better can be a huge challenge for us today let's go to rhonda where more than 80 percent of the rural population still live without electricity that means in the evenings a lot of school kids are left in the dark that's why dizzy with its crowd funding come painted give light of foundation hopes to support phones of students and teachers verse here the idea is to brighten their lives. like here's our doing your bit for this week. even after dark the sunlight's the past for children and come on you district it's all thanks to solar powered lumps like many parts of rwanda the region isn't on the national power grid but now the children have light to do homework and leave.

as a result fewer students are dropping out of school for old crates of also improved in the past they only had kerosene lamps which are unhealthy and dangerous now little son makes doing household chores safer to. it was all the brainchild of danish icelandic artist all of us on he joined forces with the german startup to distribute the lamps they given out to african students for free but sold elsewhere in the world to finance the project the initiative also has sponsors the way into deliver these loans for school kids we have to look at these lands for refugees for example in settings of migration and forced migration we have to deliver our mobile phone chargers to community health workers and we aim to power and to printers and small businesses as much into their bring energy. the little sun project was 1st

launched 7 years ago. it's now lighting up the lives of schoolchildren in 13 african countries. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send his or tweet. doing your bit. we share your story. and now off to the caucasus graphical region known as you asia i reports head it's a joy to see me there we saw so residents of a small village that sought to using solar energy to heat water which has a knock on effect of protecting local forest georgia lost 1.3 percent of its forest between 199-2010 that's according to the f a o the aim of the initiative is to provide the people with affordable and sustainable energy systems and to reduce c o

2 emissions in the villages. it's such at 6 30 in the morning and i go to open it is already out of the house with a bucket of hot water fresh from the faucet. which the cows utter has to be cleaned before milking. a little later after serving the family breakfast she makes cheese it requires a lot of patience she can tell that she's ready when the consistency is just right and everything here runs like clockwork with no time for breaks. while respected as a housewife i have a lot of work to do can i clean make the food clear cows and lots of other things that would be a perfect there's always something to do their office floor or. none are good and

it says 60 and was a nurse for 30 years she lives with her husband son daughter in law and grandchildren. that come out i always need hot water i'm glad we have this system. they received a solar powered water heater from a local energy cooperative. that comodo it's really handy when you don't mind saying there could be some money and sold a few things i don't like it was my husband who really wanted this work never it's quite expensive but it is manageable. it can show up like you don't like. lisa is also in charge of the housework in her home plus the farm and the grandchildren. she still heats water the traditional way on a wood burning stove in the living room she needs a lot of hot water and therefore

a lot of wood and club would come forward we save money so we can afford the wood but sadly there are a lot of families who don't care how we doing better than some we can pay for firewood the poor families current. form is going to have. the men collect the wood from high up in the forests of the carcasses mountains. they're still allowed to fill trees here. go get a hit is 27 he comes here regularly. go to estimates that each and every house in his area consumes about $2.00 to $3.00 truckloads of wood every year a local to sit in the oceans will be able to cut down trees anywhere else we could

cause rock slides. and that might endanger people in the village. the forest might seem lush but deforestation is rife across georgia the number of trees being cut has to be limited to ensure long term sustainability currently over 12 times that number is being felt. the work of those 2 mechanics is helping to solve the problem they're cutting solar panels. the machine dates back to world war 2 but it still works there part of the energy cooperative the systems they produce here should help to reduce wood burning and therefore carbon dioxide emissions. the cooperative as provided solar powered water heaters to more than 100 homes in the village. none are good

about it says back from the markets and the grandchildren are awake her son and daughter in law are at work so she has to look after the children no time for a break at this it's horrible slow like i'm 60 years old and i think my life is almost over i do anything to get my children and grandchildren a better future i hope they have a better life. and hot water straight from the tap is a good place to start. moving over to guyana to check in on a young entrepreneur who builds how this cheaply and sustainably she uses in mud and all the locally produced materials this idea is becoming more and more popular across west africa one major advantage even when it's hot outside but the temperature inside the houses stay constant no need for expensive and conditioning but that's all they've got going for that let's go see this. the technique is

called rammed earth construction has been formed into a wall. this new house has been built close to gunness capital and using an old method common in africa and now it's becoming popular in cities. clomid a year and joy and a sin founded a company in 2016 they realize there's a demand for houses that are both affordable and eco friendly. in a country well even a continent where a lot of things are very sustainable we thought of ways that we can renewable natural resources to build with most homes in gone out they use you know of cement and materials are important so we just for let's look to see what we can actually get to building. it's a mixture of sand gravel and clay it's just

a little bit of cement added the idea is very old. our grandparents our forefathers were already living in models before this came up even the china wall was built with dot when you go to mali. the mali empire most of the buildings you see they are all build with. holes so this is how the team builds a wall. they use different mud mixtures layered one over another that gives the house an interesting aesthetic there's a good exercise through you know. all the walls really solid enough. is just like a sedimentary rock real mcinnes said montreal deformed thousands of years. piling on top of each other over thousands of years but we are often in the process so. when for sunshine the word green after some time is big it's

like a man made storm. the company has built 4 houses so far it started out with a little prototype building experimenting with different materials and techniques including using bricks made of around. this cafeteria a north and don i was more ambitious and skill. this residential project is the biggest so far materials are cheap it's cost about $150000.00 u.s. dollars that's about one 3rd less than the price was invention building and there are more advantages you get very very good in indoor air quality. the walls are 10000000 solidity of directly the room temperature termites cannot eat it up is proof due to the monolithic structure of the wall and hasn't got any mortar joints in them so when there's an egg recall the ground shakes you don't get them collapse and the fact that they can stand up better to earthquakes isn't the only plus these

buildings help save electricity the building foods cool you don't need the scenes even if you did you know those rules of the i mean it's not just going to be minimal health to. sustain them by a moment to. reduce our carbon prints. the company's business is booming but a sin and have business partner given back to society is well ok 2 i think we are good to go we actually train the local people how to do have construction so when we leave they also have a skill that they can use a bit at the end and also. if we need to get some more workers in last minute then we can always call people from the villages to come and help us out of construction work. with construction cost in 30 percent less than conventional building

techniques. and creating a host of new jobs too high that is helping to lay the foundations for a brighter future. saving energy would round earth construction is one way of fighting climate change but even though an edge of buildings need paul carman here is a great war material for producing renewable energy in the form of. just 10 cowles can make it feasible what you think we go to kenya to find out how a german organization is supporting the farmers building a bar gas facility is not complicated and several 100 people have already inbox on the projects. it takes a week to build the unit but soon the ready for the 1st load of cow dung 2 weeks after that these daily farmers will have their own supply of buy again. the buyer digest it was

a major investment for the phone. i wanted. to cause. that i threw. it in. and you know how could you afford. to cause. and i wanted to get that money. went right to german n.g.o.s fair and its local partner sustainable energy strategies helped set up these buy a gas unit and 800 others across campbell county near the kenyan capital nairobi. but if you've got an armored convoy to buy a gas unit allowance to use count dong to generate clean bio gas one can run it so no smoke astrology used which means no c o 2 emissions so each by a gas plant means 4 tons less c o 2 each year. the biggest problem for people here is finding the money to pay for $1.00 of the

smallest model costs 300 year records for every day the market is huge in this county but the problem is a lot of people are known to work record through. the door now the money. who for 900. even though we get a subsidy from. campbell county is home to hundreds of small hold farms they grow mains and vegetables and produce cattle sheet. meal is a familiar just enough to feed the families farming the land so adding a buy a gas unit is a big deal. feeling someone who was able to of food mark she saved some of the money she makes with her 600 egg laying hens and her cows and money to secure a microlight. the bio digester is fed with manure mixed with water

and underground pipe takes the gas produced to her kitchen. area. i wanted the plants after i had seen one as my neighbor was like you wanted to get ticketed cooking is so easy now i used to have got if i wouldn't go buy charcoal and it was very expensive gotta. make now gone and now i have no problems i come home late and can have subsequently in 10 minutes. that they knew i could be going like a byproduct of the buy gas unit is a nutritious farming thing agent that can be used as organic fertilizer but this year the rainy season is very late many wells have dried up and pharmacy here are worried their crops will grow. buying water is their only solution.

if live in a monotone who act like i would have let it go no we are suffering because of the drought we have to buy water and it is very expensive it's hard for us we need was a vegetable stand on honeymoons with the money she saves using bio gas phyllis can afford that and in a year's time the loan for her plant will be paid off she doesn't regret the investment and slightest the biogas system has transformed her life for the better . now we head from rural kenya and take to the stage in kinshasa the capital of the de our congo and there we need to a band that not only produced cool beats but some very old original instruments for who was a key eco heroes of the. unique and original sound the band. playing and the concerts

a jazz festival this year. the name says it all full music means music from garbage in the local lingo among which. everything about this group is impressive especially the fact that they play instruments made from west everyone's dancing it was amazing. things. everything made out of west the idea came from a group phoned up disco crane he finds his inspiration at dumping sites. it's just. this bottle produces a nice sound and me far so lucky no this will make a good instrument for our music. a lack of proper waste management and recycling facilities has caused kinshasa to be littered with discarded plastic and other waste amid the music i came here to look for things that i can use to make musical

instruments but i also want to draw attention to their problem of west management in kinshasa the city is really dirty. recycle things is interesting turning a waste into instruments or using it to create costumes some people just throw stuff away but i look for ways to reuse trash because we're still not good for our wellbeing with a look at handing it out. so rather than buying instruments band members create their own from this kind of objects. using scrap metal plastic bottles tins or water pipes to make their instruments the group has gained a following who allowed their signature rhythms and inforced promote recycling in a city that produces as much as 9000 tons of west every day. 3 it is my wish to see this music and the radical all over the world and also to raise awareness about the importance of west management especially in africa.

exactly blues is a form of music which is about one point i would like to find a good representative who can help us spread this message through our music and. the most recent like i see people forming and the same time we also want to teach young people to practice recycling in the supermarket. he may not have the solution to the democratic republic of congo's fast got big problems but the hypnotic music and upbeat songs are helping them to get their message across to an ever growing fun base. and. very cool indeed expensively because it's all with recycled waste materials i hope we'll hear more from the band soon and i hope you enjoyed this week's show now it's time for me to say goodbye from johannesburg stay sustainable protect your environment so easy i'm still dancing to that music from goblets z. but now it's time to go all the best as always check us out on our website and our

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