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the wells phlogiston several species on the threat severe weather conditions on the land of the gradation mean that only 3000 survive in previous. i have you my for judea you're welcome to the program today show is about the effects the climate crisis is having on africa's people and its wildlife the u.n. secretary general until you can see it is opened an international climate conference on monday with a warning he said levels of heat trapping gases have hit a record high and the impacts could be catastrophic if nations do not take action to limit their greenhouse gas emissions africa is already struggling what effects of the mall for the towel climates drought are usually severe rainfall cycles 8 months ago cyclery did i read powerful and they east of zimbabwe our imports are
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privileged we shouted a visit that she money money and found many survivalists still living in tents. just took to life in the camps has been difficult for saigon survivors in zimbabwe. last year 3 children and similar when tragedy struck the night of march 15th now she lives in a tent with yasmin. she sees life is unbearable huda survived the storm but was left with long term injuries she is traumatised by the thought of staying in a tent throughout the rainy season which has just started to migrate at 8 i mean we are living in these tents and the rain is coming we are afraid staying in these tents is unbearable when it rains the water floods them we get so worried about our
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state of health where pray to god and we wonder who will take us to the hospital when disaster strikes will 21 be needed. people are living in temporary shelter we're hoping to have moved to permanent homes before the onset of the rains. moving is no longer possible and they will have to wait to the end of the rainy season in 7 months. these are all. constant reminder of what i've been on their feet for night and now with climate being more and more unpredictable these people and many others may not be out of the shadow of danger. prepare wake one damaged roads and bridges is only growing but it is a race against time with onset of the rains and. each government officials
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say they have completed your physical studies and identified land that is suitable for resettlement. this is in india which is they look to for the teaching caused by climate change but that claim that change can be exacerbated by 60 minute patents so we are taking move today to look for suitable behaviors we would to relocate those people. c more than a 100 were denied. and really move us to receive you know what was one of those who wished storms in memory. survivors like. they were not to be a repeat of a disaster on this scale offsite grown die joining me now is not going to davi oxfam's global climate policy leader who is in madrid for the conference i don't often say it's nice to see you and thanks for your time now we've just seen how
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people in zimbabwe are still struggling to psych only that now off from published their report today seen climates believe that catastrophe just how forced 20000000 people to flee every year in the past decade so the question is how badly is africa affect it. you know in general climate change climate related disaster is affecting africa mean shirty africa's one of the hardest hit. when it comes to you know global emission off because just contributing to 5 percent of the global emission when it comes to displacement. is so mind yet is one of the countries hardest hit there is so many others. there's also south sudan but for so money just in 2018 there were you know $7.00 persons of the population displaced because of climate still disasters. because of flooding this is in addition to conflict this means actually you know the entire
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population of new nick berg and bird and being displaced in a single year like you rightly said we are contributing to climate change but we are going to feel the effects even more all done the major polluters who we want to find i want to come you this do to push the world's biggest polluters to actually do wall to help prevent climate change. 80 you know old radio africa is suffering the consequences 52000000 people because of droughts repeated droughts there they're starving they're hungry across 18 countries in africa so african leaders have to come together actually in november they have made a strong call you know to the world's leaders asking for funding so that communities can be supported in terms of rebuilding their homes and so on they have
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also they have to ask world leaders especially rich countries you know you're the one who contributed to the global. emission and you have to sit in terms so if you know finance for either petition final score no sin damage so that's communities can be able to adopt at the end of the day do we on the consents are going to face the serious effect so we don't really have to wait for someone to do something right what can we do continental as a people to tackle this. old radio you know we're seeing some good examples for instance ethiopia is proposing you know to invest in a major way in renewable energy production that's a really good starts but still funding is needed you know to say supports africa in terms of reducing emissions cuts emissions 1 but where as i said we're actually contributing to 5 percent so we need to be able to find creative ways to adopt
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but again you know i don't they do we need to finance we need funding. very well so now it's got to be our farms global climate policy lead thanks for your time. thank you. now this cultural region is suffering its worst drought in the centuries the region's oldest town graph i met has always been patched bots with tops running dry farmers have to decide whether to keep livestock alive or let them die it's a big choice the other places with shrinking water supplies would soon be facing what are warming planets. and your highness on rensburg drives past what used to be a field of a guy on his. today there is nothing left. wrong
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the non-truth they are the missing that are they all died in 7. fun runs bugs farm is located in south africa's great karun the region is naturally dry but a severe drought is now taking its toll on humans and animals. there with the doubt that all beaming support without that i've gone through this one walk through is about to be obviously the length of this that out it's now lost the 5 years here we are another thing is. we are not being assisted anyway by by the government of the day. the dry land means there is no grazing so to keep his tuna half 1000 sheep and goats alive on runs book has to spend $9000.00 u.s. dollars a month many farmers have to slaughter the animals will file for bankruptcy and with many dams now completely dried up the provincial government recently declared
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the eastern cape province a disaster area but farmers and residents a still waiting for support. wendy tunes he has been living in the career town of gras fry net her whole life and we could go tap run dry and the toilets weren't flush. the children are getting. sick. the town's water trucks don't come regularly and wendy is disappointed with the local authorities. would had. over a week with. crafts right nash is among the worst affected towns dams and rivers a bone dry in april the municipality received $30000000.00 rand that's more than 200000 u.s. dollars in drought relief we try to find out what the money has been spent on and
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if a water management plan is in place but the mayor isn't available for an interview with the south african disaster relief organization gift of the givers has now stepped in the engine drills bore holes and distributes drinking water to the community. who struck enough water to supply at least 2000 children within the there's a water even today from now on until the municipality is back on track and they can take the the patient back and they can run again. it seems accountability and good governance and needed here every bit as much as rainfall is. and now it's a case where the welds large as several species threats the number of grevious plummeted by 83 percent since the 1970 s.
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and regional security decimated the population but severe weather on drought making things even worse. the dry northern plains of kenya used to be a safe haven for the iconic. the species as well suited to the arid conditions but loss of habitat intense drought and a land degradation is pushing these embryos to the brink this is many. religions and increasing numbers of livestock diseases like anthrax have also diminished. but the severe droughts have been especially deadly for the younger animals in particular the population structure is skewed many adults and few smaller younger individuals it basically means that the babies may be getting born but they're not surviving to adult hood the situation has become so drastic that conservationists are now being forced to intervene the main problem is
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they're literally starving to death the grammys eba trust another organizations that are trying to save this ebers actually have been feeding them during the dry season and bringing them hay conservationists say creating nature conservancy is in kenya it will secure the gravy zebras heartland and replanting grasses will rehabilitate the land but until that happens the survival of gravity is not guaranteed. that's a phone call from good of you suffered but i'll see you soon good bye. a devastating debut for joy him clean smile kept in berlin couldn't keep up with dortmund's to maintain and slip into relegation. by ending the close in takes down by in munich. tough luck for the variance who hit the woodwork 3
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