we like different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all speak up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of the press. giving freedom of choice global news that matters to. you. hello and welcome to equal africa where we highlight green topics and ideas from africa and europe. and i'm in lagos nigeria and with me is my co-host and you've got i love that sandra hi there i'm sundered to nobody here in kampala uganda and in these 2 weeks shall we go to germany to meet a month who's hoping to turn the tight when it comes to plastic pollution in the

way that he has some other topics will be looking out today. we'll look at why being a ranger you see such a dangerous profession. we also see how green fingered no wage and already letting on the 1st stop them from inc. and find out how blood waste is being put to use in my 2 guns. 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 so much so in force 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 or tells his men that poachers have set traps during the night to capture animals. they have to move fast to save the animals lives after covering a few kilometers and foot with his men. but as the rangers comb the area looking for more he receives an emergency call. colleagues in another part of the park have arrested someone suspected of having killed the buffalo. in his group that 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. and i may claim we.

had to do this. in the process of cutting and cutting away the need for india's call about the incident and they moved in swiftly adventures from this specific out. there moving swiftly and their money into one of. their race paris off. the storehouse piling up. but the one that says that it's an uphill battle to move the radius find and dismantle the more i'm lead by the poachers there are people who have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of this. for all my. tables of motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops

so a person will walk into this shop as if he is going to buy spares for their model break he does not on a motorbike and he asks for the acceleration of clutch cable which he can easily buy at the cheaper price and we turn it into a snare and bring it into the park so some of the traps can reach the end of the harm that the. many animals also be at the painful science this almost lost the truck to the poachers. of one of this is 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 it is a resource is and you do not have. enough information enough intelligence about them then you are forced to move almost everywhere to try and get to know what is happening in part of the bike so that you are sure that what you are managing is intact. of oneness convince the tourist poachers to 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 law will follow almost killed him on foot patrol. he knows exactly the movements of the poachers because when i was plotting nothing i could i'm going to run if i went back with the meat in a fund that you can use it for pussy and i think on her might you do in the not to study but at the time when i joined in now i would do it you didn't hear anybody.

the money which i'm getting from from the park. is the warden in charge of law enforcement in march is in falls 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 4 to graph a moment of an inspiring campaign to fight plastic pollution around the world $322000000.00 tonnes of plastic is produced each year and you can find plastic was literally anywhere much of it ends up in the rivers stefan which is trying to bring

people together to change these and he is. 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 living in the northeast of the country. the farmers even are on the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers it's just this month was to come up against your limits when you think you'll never make it bring the new get a 2nd wind and then you do it because this is not my just offering. 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 designer's way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. up on

40 of them on. i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above paddling on garbage 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 trying to reach the feet of who's going to meet up. 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 with nothing it's i wasn't here

around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. because i think it makes total sense to not just collect the waste from the rivers but also from the landscape around them. and i stop that i think it's important to realise 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. each step cannot wash needs as many fellow campaign and since he can get because that's plenty of work to do. but he's happy to have come to this much closer to his goal of clean water waves.

while they were equal to the so much trot. amazing what people can see but now back to africa weather the best of contemporary artistic attempts to combine innovation and age old nominate to construct buildings that remain cool even when the sun beating down outside indeed sandra in san diego a group of young engineers and architects have joined forces inside of concretes they use soil to make compressed grapes it's an economical and sustainable building 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. to do j.m. is a construction engineer he founded a company that produces bricks out of soil. the material makes it much easier to

keep buildings cool. 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're also doing your bit tell us about it. visit our website or send us a tweet hash tag doing your best to. share your stories. there are reports that africa is a come a dumping ground for most of the global a waste so what is being done in africa to change that a young nigerian if i buy they decided he doesn't want any more and so he began to do something about it. lagos nigeria has him to a number of illegal dump sites very waste for many local people the refuse is a vital source of income of the taking of poets t.v.'s computers and other devices by hand they resell the components as raw materials it's extremely hazardous work

with it and water and grown 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 and functional the rest is affectively 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 the fine or tunnel nigeria usually generates 1000000 tons from it where it's talk less of what it allows importation into the countries the difference between our treatment and the informal us if $100.00 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 i restored and mostly denatured as 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. you're not blurred you can have so many carcinogenic materials that are trapped there sucked out and trapped trapped inside its argument such affectively detoxified while we dismount. so all of the glass and all of the. plastic. also being dismantled the waste is separated and shredded. they're all material salvaged such as glass and ion the company's main source of income. business has been going well for the company so well that they seal plans

to 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 question on here or could you imagine growing vegetables in a place 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 you apologize for research as i venture is like benjamin vidmar his mission to boldly grow what no one has grown before let's go 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 vid mark grose herb's and vegetables here a pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this 13 for the 4th one is on the 3 of us vidmar and his employee haig a good 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 that 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 yes 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 actually enjoy the dark season but so how do we cope with the light season as best a challenge but 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 to some greens for you. so big maher is trying to show that

there are other options. in the photo to show to also on the receipt in this public good to. have been through. 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 we're good there in 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 degrees in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice for 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. started to save the world i didn't start it so i just said you know i want to have the freshest food possible. german student ana ketzel helps out with planting in the garden she's a little more critical of the settlement in the far north. it's been causing the stem i noticed it's 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 year round plants here. but harbaugh says it's about more than just having fresh vegetables on spitsbergen. this techniques that we've developed here can be used to grow food in this inner city it 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. benjamin did not believe that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way so africa so my the gas got to be precise where the forward station as oak washing impact previously 90 percent of the island was covered with forest now only a 10th of that remains according to environmental experts trees are mostly being cut down to create farmland all. but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra villagers 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 but i do have a tree. fear done and is

a small town in the highlands of madagascar it never had its own school until a nonprofit organization called zahara made it possible for the residents to build one. founder of the hanna has come to visit. talk to a hunter running on tania revoke wants to increase environmental awareness and make sure that it's established in the school curriculum. team is prepared a series of workshops. undie run mills on runs a course on bio char a charcoal produced from plant matter. the residents collect dry 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. right us can also be used they need to charm 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. on our lives. they want to make pellets and briquettes from the coldest. they are diluted clay to the biomass to glue it together so they can then need it 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 do. you know. the small talk one from these dry gas you respond to tease fear don't have to go far away. the residents used to spend hours gathering firewood for cooking. people hear it rice 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 teeny wants to convince everyone that i want a stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char instead of would the embers last even longer because 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 a team 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 biomass in the cylinders more effectively than can be done by hand but it didn't work as hoped and still needs to be optimized. in full of it you have to clean it out every time you use it it's always blocked up. i think that is fair to make you can shoot every fun you can have there while on the way out. like it's more fun to do you charge by. the school is also teaching the children of fear i don't know about gardening or the plants and trees here look planted by pupils on the school garden or. the child plants 5 trees a year and then a waste is of greenery and spring up in the middle of the drawing grasslands.

then you see you go you don't like to be certain we can go in the field from the celebs cherry i forget i don't think can't have people that don't look and look just to mangoes because you know that may was growing even in the dry land strictly she's improved so just people didn't do it but she'd grown. design 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 the year's best global practices my name is now tied with lp enjoy the show thanks and bye bye from lagos and goodbye from me in uganda my name is sandra to nobody and if you would like to know about us then of course be sure to join us on all social media platforms

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