template. 3 princes. who dream of the arab world. their hunger for power and boundless ambition have rushed to the middle east into a crisis. the rival princes of the gulf states nov 27th on t w. hello and welcome to eco africa where we highlight green topics and ideas from africa and europe. where i'm in lagos nigeria and with me is my co-host in uganda hello there

sandra hi there on sunday or 2 nobody here in kampala uganda and in these tricks shall we go to germany to meet a month who's hoping to touch on the tight when it comes to plastic pollution in the way that he has some other topics we'll be looking at today. we look at why being a ranger is such a dangerous profession. we also see how brain fingered no wage and already letting thomas 1st stop them from inc. and find out how the plant waste is being put to use in much augusta. being a ranger can be a dangerous job some $100.00 wildlife guardians lose their lives each year in their line of duty many of them in east and central africa well accidents account for about 50 percent of those fatalities porches were responsible for the other we went to months and forced national park here in uganda to meet julius or one now the

wadded in charge of law enforcement there he has been confronting these day in day out for more than 20 years. in the morning roll call julius one a tells his men that poachers have set traps during the night to capture animals. they have to move fast to save their lives after covering a few kilometers and puts with his men one of the signs the wise sneers. but as the rangers combed the area looking for more he receives an emergency call. notice. colleagues in another part of the park have arrested someone suspected of having killed the buffalo. in his group got away. the rangers confiscate

the meat of the animals here have protected status no hunting is allowed. that came from their communities of course. they came with. a spear to do this. and in the process of cutting and cutting away the need for india's got a call about the incident and they moved in swiftly that ranges from these specific i would say. they're moving swiftly and their money into one of. their race. storehouse poaching traps are piling up. but the one that says that it's an uphill battle the more the readers find and dismantle the more i'm lead by the poachers there are people who

have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of the scenarios. from. those old motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops so a person will walk into the shops as if he's going to buy spares for their model break he does not on a motorbike and ask for their acceleration or clutch cable which he can easily buy i did you pop right to turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps reached the end of the harm that the. many animals also be at the painful science this elephant almost lost trucks to the poaches. but one of the says that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day to farm. out to there we know we have people

we always want to force themselves into a protected area to try and get these resources and. where they come to get these are sources and you do not have. enough information enough in there about them then you are forced to maul almost everywhere to try and get to know what is happening in part of their park so that you are sure that what you are managing is intact. of one is convinced a terrorist purchased a quit the illegal wildlife trade by offering them work. people like out that. he's happy with his transition from poacher to gamekeeper of the lone buffalo almost killed him on foot patrol. he knows exactly the movements of the poachers because when i was putting nothing i couldn't get in if i went back with

their meat refund you can use it for pussy and i think i had it my to do in the not to study but to the time when i joined in now i would do it you didn't hear anybody in school in money time getting from from the parking. does possibly one is the warden in charge of law enforcement in march a sinful national park he says the anti-poaching efforts are already paying off and tourism is proving. he's helped to arrest and prosecute over 700 poachers in the area julius obama has witnessed the population of elephants grow in the last 25 years from less than 400 of the animals to over 1600 today. someone for to grow up a mountain and is hiring campaign to fight plus to pollution around the world $322000000.00 tons of plastic is produced each year and you can find plastic waste

lived pretty anywhere much of it ends up in the rebbe's stephon which is trying to bring people together to change these is it this week. he's getting closer to his goals stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of copeland's on the rhine to the capital by lynn in the northeast of the country. as on the greatest thing on this was a trip of 750 kilometers if this person was to come up against your limits when you think you'll never make it drink then you get a 2nd wind and then you do it because this is not my soft cultivating. he started out doing the collecting on his own he'd make an arrangement of the garbage from

the rivers photograph it and put it on display it's the photo designers way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. up on 40 of them are i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above public don't go. ridge this is the average amount of garbage from one kilometer of river and kilometer from in germany but not in asia and we have to work to reduce the odds that germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers turned out to create a few kilometers. in total around 7300 kilometers and stefan horse has only travelled a fraction of them so far. alongside exhibitions he also organizes regular cleanup events 7 cities are taking part in this one like oberhausen on a tributary of the rhine. and what you have to look closely i pull out pieces of plastic all over the place to look just like the stones my boats already full up.

he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch. hair around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. their life just because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them. and their eyes. i think it's important to realize that this is not just happening in the caribbean or wherever be aware that it starts here with us i'm saying that. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephano wash needs as many fellow campaigners as he can get because that's plenty of work to do. but he's happy to have come this much closer to his goal of clean water waves.

while they worried it could elect of so much trosch amazing what people thought can achieve but now backed up. because weather the best of contemporary attempts to combine innovation and age old knowledge to construct buildings that remain cool even when the sun is beating down outside indeed sandra in santa go a group of young engineers and architects have joined forces instead of congress they use oil to make compressed earth breakers it's an economical and sustainable building method now let's have a look see how far their work has gone. in senegal the summers are swelteringly hot without air conditioning life can get

unbearable especially if you live in a concrete building. do jem is a construction engineer he founded a company that produces bricks out of soil. the material makes it much easier to keep buildings cool. level to one of the benefits is that the thermal insulation stops cool air from escaping where a cement instantly lets heat in so you have to use air conditioning all the time you can't switch it off because as soon as you do the walls absorb the heat and let it in. the red soil and senegal is perfect for making compressed earth blocks. after $21.00 days left to dry in the sun there ready to be deployed. building with soil is a traditional technique but over the years the method has been refined the mixture used here contains 10 percent cement making the bricks more stable and water resistant building using earth bricks is far better for the environment than using

pure concrete. production of the brick involves a far lower rate of c o 2 emissions plus residents have less need for air conditioning. 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. there are reports that africa is a dumping ground for most of the global ways so what is being done in africa to change that our young nigerian if i you by name decide it he doesn't want any more and so he. we got to do something about it lagos nigeria is filmed to a number of illegal dump sites very waste many local people the refuse is a vital source of income of the taking of poets t.v.'s computers and other devices

by hands they resell the components as rule materials it's extremely hazardous work with and water and ground severely polluted by heavy metals and toxic chemicals some electronic devices come from developed countries in the form of the nation's unfortunately only a fraction of food functional the rest is effectively trash a company in lagos has come up with an alternative solution for handling the waste it's called eat terra and was founded by trying or tunnel. generates 1000000 tons or tonic with talk less of what it allows importation into the countries the difference between our treatment and the informal homeless if 100 don't have the knowledge they don't have the tools all the machinery to safely because and dismantle the. device.

the terror collects discarded devices like laptops speakers and mobile phones which are then checked over at the company's material recovery for 30 those parts that can still be used restored and mostly d.n.a. to this charity the rest is dismantle the terror has invested in the range of machinery it allows the workers to dismantle the waste in a way that is safe for the environment and for themselves and exhaust hood is used to contain the toxic feed. your very not lead you can have so many carcinogenic materials that are trapped there sucked out and trapped trapped inside it's our diminishing 30 affectively detoxified while we dismantle all of the glass all of the. plastic. after being dismantled the waste is separated in shreds. they're all material salvaged such as aluminum glass and ion

the company's main source of income. business has been doing well for the company so well that they seal plants expand operations in the near future and he's happy that the items he recycles will not end up on the legal dump sites like this one. now can you imagine growing anything on this kind of saw face like bush one here or could you imagine growing vegetables in it please that's cold when the on jocko months on end and the ground is as hard as a rock i guess what i'm talking about europe's fun off on the small angry boat no engine island of spitsbergen the extreme conditions there make it apologize for research as i venture is like benjamin britten his mission to boldly grow what no one has grown before that's good check it out. finally

a little light every day in winter the darkness here stretches on for months it's minus $25.00 degrees celsius and the ground is permafrost there are more polar bears than humans on spitsbergen. but one of those humans benjamin didn't mark grose herb's in vegetables here pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this 134 the 4th one is on the table. then mark and his employee hey get harvest the crops grown in the lab as he calls this room. it has an almost tropical climate in the midst of a frozen wilderness and he's planted cress bezel and other plants think if you see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yeah because we lift it from 20 to 45 yeah definitely. they're learning to farm in these

extremes by trial and error there's no experience to draw on then mark came up with the idea because he was desperate for fresh produce one day he even hopes to grow some tomatoes they would be the northernmost crop of them on earth. it's pitch black here by 3 in the afternoon benjamin's used to that by now. he's originally from florida but 10 years ago the ship's cook washed up on the shores of the icy no we didn't island enjoy the dark season but so how do we cope with the light season as best a challenge. season is very relaxed don't have to do too much but when the light comes. we get very busy and you have to run all of the time. whether dark or light vid mars business is booming he's barely able to keep up with demand and capacities are limited spitzbergen is located nearly a 1000 kilometers north of the next populated settlement practically everything has to be flown in including produce this other stuff but that's expensive and bad

for the environment or some greens for you. so big mark is trying to show that there are other options. talk to other ships who also. receive him and this is probably good to. give him to make sure you know. it's amazing to. this treasure trove was given back then jim and collects the leftover plant material for composting thank you every country should take care of you because yes thank you. this isn't a u.f.o. it's the gardener's greenhouse in the darkness of the polar night it's 20 below in here but when spring brings back the light it will turn lush and green we have some days you know over the midnight sun there's sun in theory 24 hours a day so it just moves around in the sky and it can get like $2530.00 degrees in

here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice if the greenhouse and its builders have achieved a certain notoriety hello my name is benjamin vidmar and doing this tour with you today we were nearly every day he has a lot of curious visitors. i didn't started to save the world i didn't start it i just said you know i want to have the freshest food possible. german student on a capsule helps out with planting in the garden she's a little more critical of the settlement in the far north. it's been physically seminude us of its back kind of personally i don't see spitzbergen as a place where people should be living. because it's got such an extreme climate and it's so unsustainable to live here but there will never come a time when people don't live here so i think it's a very good idea to try growing your own plants here. but harbaugh says it's about more than just having fresh vegetables on spitsbergen. this techniques that we

develop here can be used to grow food in this inner city can be used to grow food on different islands so it has many. applications to other places as well so if we can do it here it can be done anywhere this is the most challenging place to do it . then chairman vidmar believes that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way so africa so modern gas got to be precise where before we station as quashing in fact previously 90 percent of the island was covered with forests now only a 10th of that remains according to environmental experts trees are mostly being cut down to create farmland or. but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra villages are launching a new process in which they can tell on plant waste on dry grass into fuel pellets

it is so much better than cutting down the mall. fear done and is a small town in the highlands of madagascar that never had its own school until a nonprofit organization called zatanna made it possible for the residents to build one. founder of the hanna has come to visit you talk to a hunter running on tania revoked wants to increase environmental awareness and make sure that it's established in the school curriculum. the team has had a series of workshops. and the rambles on runs a course on bio char a charcoal produced from plant matter the residents collect drawing grass and leaves press them in to predict holes in the ground and carefully light them. they then quickly seal the hole to cut off the air supply so the biomass can slowly char

. rice husks can also be used they need to char in this pit for 12 hours where the restricted air supply says it looks good but the waste from the rice harvest has charred nicely we can empty out the contents now to process it. they want to make pellets briquettes from the coldest. they are diluted clay to the biomass to glue together so they can then needed into bio char. it's a far better fuel source than would be burns for 10 times longer and using bio char also has another advantage. to make charcoal i usually use. you know. the small talk one from these try. to respond to cut the teas via don't have to go far away. the residents used to spend hours gathering firewood for

cooking. people hear it right several times a day. dr plains now cover the land where forests used to grow everything has been cut down. there are only trees in the town now which the organizations are hannah replanted. the best way to burn bio char is in special clay ovens protected from the wind. and the runnels on teaches the residents how to make them. the women are already using the ovens to cook at school. but the zohan a team wants to convince everyone that a stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char and stead of wood the embers last even longer the old habits die hard though winning people over takes patience despite the many advantages what do you all know musea saves

a lot of fuel. stays inside. and it's much faster to cook. the. design is testing out a new machine that could help them produce by a char. it was highly praised by technicians from the provincial capital. the machine is supposed to press and compact the bio mass in the cylinders more effectively and can be done by hand but it didn't work as hoped and still needs to be optimized. in for love you have to clean it out every time you use it it's always blocked up. i think that is fair to make. sure every funny you can have their one. missing. leg is more fun to do you charge for. the school is also teaching the children a few i don't know about gardening or the plants and trees here were planted by

pupils on the school garden or. the child plants 5 trees a year and in a way seas of greenery has sprung up in the middle of the drawing grasslands for. then you see you go you don't like to be certain we can go in the field from disallows cherry i forget i don't think can't have people that don't look and look just in mangoes because we're not that may was growing even in the dry. land strictly she's improved so it's just people didn't do it but you through. the zohan a team wants to plant $15000.00 new trees a year together with the people of fear donna. so that's it for this week half an hour packed with lots of environmental news and yes best global practices my name is now tied with i hope you enjoy the show thanks and bye bye from lagos

and goodbye from me in uganda my name is sandra to nobody and if you'd like to know more about us then of course be sure to join us on all social media platforms see you soon but i. no. a little. dot.

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