with the austrians give. them a little bit location. really on t w. hello and welcome to eat who are free to go 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 are 2 nobody here in kampala uganda and in these 6 show we go to germany to meet a month who's hoping to tahn 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 exults a dangerous profession. we also see how a briefing that no wage and all related almost 1st stop them from inc. and find out how the plant waste is being put to use in the mud augusta. being a ranger come 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 half we went to months on forced national park here in uganda to meet julius or one now the warden 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 of warner 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 combed the area looking for more he receives an emergency call. colleagues in another part of the park to rest 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.

spears. and in the process of cutting on where they need. cole incident they moved in swiftly and us from these specific i would say. they're moving swiftly and they managed to one of their. paras off. the storehouse poaching traps are piling up. but the one that says that it's an uphill battle the more the rangers find and dismantle the more i'm lead by the poachers they're people who have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of the scenarios. are made from.

the recent cables of motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops so a person will walk into the shop as if he's going to buy a spares for that model break he does not on a motorbike and he asks for the acceleration of clutch cable which is the right i did you pop right and we turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps reach the end of the harm that the. many animals also be at the painful science this elephant almost lost a truck at the poaches. one of the says that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day through the park. out there we know we have people who will always want to force themselves into a protected area to try and get these resources and. where they come

to get these resources and you do not have. enough information enough intelligence about them and then you are forced to more almost everywhere to try and get to know what is happening in part of their bike so that you are sure that what you are managing is intact. of oneness convince the tourist coaches to quit the illegal wildlife trade by offering them work. people like out that. he's happy with his transition from poacher to gamekeeper although alone will follow almost killed him on foot patrol. he knows exactly the movements of the poachers because when i was putting national couldn't get in if i went back with a meat refund you can use it for bush and i think going to hell it might you do and are not a study by the time when i joined in now i would do what you do and there anybody

school their money which i'm getting from from the parking. but does possibly one is the warden in charge of law enforcement in march a sinful national park he says the n.c. pushing 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 graf a mountain 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 stephon hole 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 this is just one 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 truck 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 designer's way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. troops

on for 2 of them are i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above public. this is the average amount of garbage from one kilometer of river 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. 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. they have to tying resin

hair ram 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them. and i stop 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 and saying this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephanie halasz 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 waste.

while they were equal to the so much trosch amazing what people can achieve but now back to. offical weather 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 grace 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. to 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. 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 beat. share your story. there are reports that africa is a common dumping ground for most of the global ways so what is being done in africa to change that our young nigerian if i you buy this site it he doesn't want any more and so he began to do something about it. lagos nigeria is him to a number of illegal dump sites very waste farming 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 real 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 effectively trash a company in lagos has come up with an alternative solution for handling waste it's called eat tara and was founded by eve klein 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 harmless if 100 all have the knowledge they don't have the tools all the machinery to safely take off 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 donate to this charity the rest is dismantle the terror has invested in the range of machinery it allows the workers to dismantle 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 hard to machine so it's affectively detoxified while we dismount. so all of the glass and all of the. plastic. parts of being dismantled the waste is separated in shreds they're all material salvaged such as i live in the glass and i and the company's main source of income. business has been going well for the

company so well that the c.e.o. plans to expand operations in the near future and he's happy that the items he recycles will not end up on the legal don't sites like this one. now can you imagine growing anything on this kind of sawfish like bush one here or could you imagine growing vegetables in a place that cold windy on 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 on group no into an island of spitsbergen there 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 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 vid mark grose herb's and vegetables here a pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this 13. 4 the 4th one is on the tape. vidmar and his employee hey give 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 basal and other plants think if you see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yet because we lift it from 20 to 45 yeah definitely so 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 is 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 season but so how do we cope with the light season is just 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 some greens for you. so big maher is trying to show that there

are other options. talk to other chefs who also have listen to him and this is probably good to. give in to check it out. 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 during 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 for the greenhouse and its builders have achieved a certain notoriety hello my name is benjamin vidmar and doing this tour 'd 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 wanted to have the freshest food possible. german student ana kessel 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 bits back kind of personally i don't see spitzbergen as a place where people should be living. because it's gone it's 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 technique that we 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 vidmar believes that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way to africa so much the gas got to be precise where the forward station as oak washing impact 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 all. but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does are launching a new process in which they can turn 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 it never had its own school until a nonprofit organization called zatanna made it possible for the residents to build one. founder of the hana has come to visit. talk to run me on tania revoked wants to increase environmental awareness and make sure that it's established in the school curriculum. the team is prepared a series of workshops. undie run and so 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. writer 6 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. the way. 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 while you really do. you know sally field who does more talk one from these 2 i get asked if you reached out to cut the ts they 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. dry 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 harner 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 ones to convince everyone that running a stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char instead of would the embers last even longer if 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 hannah 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 bio mass 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. missing. it's more fun to do you charge by. 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 says if greenery has sprung up in the middle of the drawing grasslands for.

then you should go you don't like it in certain we can go in if you can from the celebs cherry i forget i don't think and have people that do not just in mangoes because we're not that main ones growing even when they're dry. land strictly she's a poof so just people do stupid but she to. 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 yes best global practices my name is now tied with i hope you enjoy the show thanks and bye bye probably. and goodbye from me in uganda my name is sandra to nobody and if you'd like to know about it then of course be sure to join us on all social media platforms see you

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