bill so now we're down to assemble. the weeks to do what makes crisis. to life. goals. nov 27th on the w. . hello and welcome to equal africa where we highlight green topics and ideas from africa and euro notes that i'm in lagos nigeria and with me is my co-host on your god i love that sandra hi there are 2 nobody here in kampala uganda and in this week's 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 tidbits we'll be looking at today. we look at why being a ranger in such a dangerous profession. we also see how a briefing that no wage and already letting almost 1st stop them from inc. and find out how blood waste is being put to use in my the gas guy. 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 we're responsible for the other we went to months on forced national park here in uganda to meet julius or one now the wadded in charge of law enforcement there has been confronting these per 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 received an emergency call. colleagues in another part of the park have arrested someone suspected of having killed the buffalo. in his group and got away. the rangers confiscate the meat of the animals here have protected status no hunting is allowed. but that came from their communities of course. may claim with.

spears they spearheaded this. in the process of cutting and cutting where they need. coal for the incident and they moved in swiftly adventures from this specific outpost. they moved in swiftly and they managed to rescue one of. their race paras off. the storehouse poaching traps are piling up but. it's an uphill battle the more the rangers find and dismantle the more i'm late by the poachers there are people who have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of this. men are made from. their cables of motorbikes which are

everywhere in the shops so a person will walk into the shop as if he is going to buy spares for their motorbike 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 to turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps can see recently evidence of the harm that the. many animals also be at the painful signs this elephant almost lost a truck at the poaches. of one of this is that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day through out 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 move 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 one is convinced the tourist push is 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 load 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 even if i went back we don't need a friend you can use it for busy and i think it might you do in the not to study but to the time when i joined in now i would do it you didn't anybody. in mind

which i'm getting from from the back here. is the warden in charge of the enforcement. national park he says the anti pushing efforts are already paying off and tourism is proving he's helped to arrest and prosecute over $700.00 poachers in the area julius that has witnessed the population of elephants grow in the last 25 years from less than 400 of the animals to over 1600 today. ugh just one photograph a moment of an inspiring campaign to fight plus the pollution around the world $322000000.00 tons 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 here is what this week.

he's getting closer to his goal stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of cool blends on the rhine to the capital berlin in the northeast of the country. the. songs even the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers if this was to come up against your limits when you think you'll never make it then you get a 2nd wind and then you do it. he started out doing the collecting on his own head 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 paddling on garbage this is the average amount of garbage from one kilometer of river in germany not in asia and we have to work to reduce that because germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers drowned out. in total around 7300 kilometers and stefan horse has only traveled 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 motherhood sighing resin

here around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. because in full i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them called my 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 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 today but he's happy to have come this much closer to his goal of clean water waste.

them while they were equal to the so much trash amazing what people can achieve but now backed off because whether the best of contemporary artistic 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 to use oil to make compressed earth breakers it's an economical and sustainable building well 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. 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. 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 buy this site it he doesn't want any more so he can't do something about it lagos nigeria is filmed to a number of illegal dump sites for. the 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 rule materials it's extremely hazardous work

with 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 eve find a tunnel nigeria usually 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 don't have the knowledge they don't have the tools all the machinery to safely. and dismantle. the device. the terror collects discarded devices like laptops speakers and mobile phones which are then checked over of the company's material recovery for certainty

those parts that can still be used i 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 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 you can have so many carcinogenic materials that are trapped there sucked out and trapped trapped inside its are diminishing pretty effectively 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 i live in the glass and i in the company's main source of income. business has been doing 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 it please that's cold windy on top of 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 group no into an island of spitsbergen the extreme conditions there make you 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 vid mark grose herb's in vegetables here pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this one tree. for the 4th one is on the table and then maher and his employee hagen gives 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 so these see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yeah because we lifted it from 20 to 45 so yeah definitely. they're learning to farm in the. 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 is best to challenge the dark season is very relaxed don't have to do too much but when the light comes back 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 color sir but that's expensive and bad for the environment some days for you. so did mark is trying to show that there are

other options. in the photo shops who also have received him and this is probably good to see you have been to check it out. it's amazing to have this treasure trove. 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 gardeners greenhouse in the darkness of the polar night it's 20 below in here but when spring brings back the light it'll 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. isn't here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice for the greenhouse and it's builders have achieved a certain notoriety hello my name is benjamin vid mar and doing this tour with you

today we nearly every day 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 demanding disputes back and 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 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 did not believe that if these 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 quashing but previously 90 percent of the island was covered with forests now only a 10th of that remains according to environmental experts trees mostly being cut down to create farmland or. but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does 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 movie. 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. the team has had a series of workshops. undie run mills on runs a course on bio char a charcoal produced from plant matter. the residents collect drawing grass and leaves press them into 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 hearst's can also be used they need to char in this pit for 12 hours with a restricted air supply so i see 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 coal dust. 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 char while you really do. you know so you feel the small talk one from these jackasses here we start to cut the cheese fit 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. drive planes 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 the stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char instead of would the embers last even longer if that 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 hannity 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. i mean full of it you have to clean it out every time you use it it's always blocked up because i think that it's fair to make. sure every funny you can have they want. to. make it's more fun to do you chalk mark. the school is also teaching the children a few i don't know enough 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 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 the series we can call in if you can from diesel land sorry i forget i don't we can't have people that we can look just to mangoes because we're not that main was growing even in the dry. land strictly she's improved so just the people didn't do it but you close. the 100 team ones to plant $15000.00 new trees a year together with the people of 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 lp enjoy the show thanks and by by 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

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