you'll be amazed at these creations. 60 minutes w. . i'm not laughing at the germans because sometimes i am amazed that nothing with me but i don't think deep into the german culture. you did see bill gates and his grandmother dale you know it's all about who know i'm right so join me to meet the gem of a post. hello and welcome to the environment magazine co-produced by n.t.v. in uganda channels t.v. nigeria and date of moon in gemini i am sondra to know be honest with me today as

always my co-presenting. take me into how are you today just fine sandra thank you very much and a warm welcome to all of you our viewers out there as always we have a lot in store for you on today's program so let's take a quick look at what we have coming up on the show today. we'll hear how a national park in the islamic help mitigate the effects of weather disaster. about an ingenious chemical free weights what i'm asking those. i'll go bone is taking measures to ensure that marines fish stocks remain healthy. our 1st report takes us to talk oh like many places around the world and here in africa so those urban areas are expected to grow dramatically in the coming yes and that raises the question of how to feed be expanding population well some people and organizations are already thinking ahead and planting gardens in some rather unexpected places.

this is boma a typical west african vegetable it was born in a former dump psych like this one. like many other african cities togo's capital law may have several illegal land fields but a narrow and he startup found a way to breathe new life into these deteriorated areas. right now we're at one of the many illegal landfills in this city is the kind of place that we transform into a vegetable garden to develop an organic culture we also recover other and used to spaces in the city to transform them into vegetable gardens. by 2050 africa's population will have doubled and more than 80 percent of that growth will occur in cities poor infrastructure and luck of worst management mean many of

africa's centers and not equipped to ensure food security for a larger population. this was actually right now the rural areas function as food producers for the city is one of the have as has been brought in it mr been transported from the countryside to the admin areas may truly be consumed for this displacement of resources causes a cap on footprints that up and that he wants to avoid by producing directly in the city for the residence they have. been the take is an online platform a celebrated by the technology incubate a war lab it had dental files and max illegal landfills or abandoned spaces using digital maps on the web platform they then removed the trash and poor soil before starting to plan for sids they 1st analyze the existing earth and in french soil if needed so the power. imparted so we take a part of the soil and put it in water and then see the different parts that make

up the soil to know what seeds should be planted in this area then we build up the beds so they are a little higher we create these channels in order to produce small water reserve was every time we water so that there is a little water retention. l. me read you sonny and his colleagues have already transformed for lamb fields into vegetable gardens. here we have americans. here we have moringa and undersigned we have families as you can see here. and here we are cultivating to me you are wrong 2 months have been acted like still involved the community giving the helpless free vegeta balls in return all paying them a small wage. just a call he is one of the helpers who grow veggies in one of these former dams on the

outcasts of law many. schools only so. much of what we eat today no longer has any quality at all because of the pesticides and chemicals or whatever they use. customers can either order vegetables on line or go directly to the nearest garden like mary helen who's become a regular customer she's been enjoying produce from the garden for a few months now. and if we've got you to love. i decided to shop there because these are natural products they did not use for life as that could cause illness and this project is helping the environment because they want to be any more dams here there or anywhere else so if they continue transforming the spaces that are unhealthy everybody else however i want but it will melt. with the wild moving

increasingly to the city optimizing the app and space to improve people lives in a priority that it wants to expand and in the future supply not just individual plants but restaurants to. food security is just one of a number of ongoing concerns here in africa another is covering infectious diseases like malaria which is transmitted by mosquitoes insect repellents can be helpful but the chemicals they contain aren't exactly healthy that's true but a young man he knew and has come up with a simple but seemingly effective solution to the problem and it's also if a friend has this week's doing get it. mosquitoes are tiny but they can spread deadly diseases like malaria. over 90 percent of malaria deaths around the world happen in africa.

mosquito nets are for protection but there might be another solution. electrical engineer julie is twined invented a more natural way to ward off the pesky bugs. after about exposure uganda we have some news they have is which helps us mean that they pay the mosquitoes i did have like $5.00 of them i missed them and other shadow maintained. after collecting the arabs he drives them and crushes them into a powder he puts that power into his battery powered mosquito. when it's turned on scented air flows out of his tiny holes. twined says that mosquitoes don't like the smell so they avoid the area.

it has a range of 15 square meters about the size of an average bedroom in uganda. the divide. powered by a built in solar panel. 3 hours of sun a week isn't enough to keep the battery charged. and how about you. if you are also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. doing your bit. we share your stories. the fashion industry is driven by trends but in recent years the time between trains keeps getting shorter and shorter these days a lot of clothing sheep are not made to last and suddenly garments cast aside by

europeans often find their way here in africa where they're sawed ought local markets or even end up in landfills many many countries on a long day interested in taking unwanted low think which is forcing the textile industry through why is its business more. this photo shoot is were german retailer she bows online shop the company 1st sold coffee and later branched out to other products and services including renting clothes customers will be able to buy or rent these items it began with clothes for babies and children now other service is available to customers of all ages for a fee you've just the couple of euro as a month customers can hold on to items as long as they like close that get sent back all cleaned and offered for hire again as a bizarreness femi i getting pieces are particularly popular a red jacket for example unusual colors or cuts things you might not normally buy

an it i terms our rented out an average or 4 times then they tend to look a bit tired people often discard cloves speight by after just a short time this recycling company process is 70 tons of clothes a day stefan folk to be nitty of history for 20 years not throughly manufacturers figure articles well only be warren for a year or $2.00 i and consumers what one something new or so a lot of clothes aren't made to last that holds true for half the trousers we see. cheap fabric poor workmanship here clothing is sorted for use recycling or destruction a high proportion just end up in the trash. a lot of fabrics contain synthetic materials that are made from or oil and all full of chemicals. one month was 100 years ago a jacket made of wall could be cut up or shredded and the material reuse. and

nowadays there are all kinds of blends a cotton polyester polyethylene perhaps a medal and it's really hard to do anything with them devoid of and beyond of all good motives a chemist and expert on textiles who works with the environmentalist organization greenpeace she's discovered the delights of clothing swap events anything goes it just has to be in good condition to have it we want to see things we'd be happy to give to our best friend and which point it would be all of also likes to buy clothes in 2nd hand shops or acquire pre-warn ones on clothes swap websites. chatting and i haven't bought anything new to wear for 10 years for ecological reasons the clothing industry has a huge impact on the environment it uses so many chemicals it's a disaster especially in southeast asia it's responsible for up to 11 percent of

greenhouse gas emissions so i decided i'm not going to play along let me have mending clothes is part of the new culture of keeping clothes going for longer. i would try to pick up the stitch and darn the holes but if the all wanted to be visible she can choose a different color otherwise i would try to make it is in conspicuous is possible. that you can make peace of mind. champions of swapping say you don't have to renounce any. i think it's like shopping just without a guilty conscience you can enjoy clothes again i find inspiration choose whatever you like because none of this is new no resources have been squandered. second hand is nothing new but more and more people are realizing it can be cheap trendy and good for the environment and the internet is boosting the cultural shift with all kinds of sites popping up for swapping renting and buying.

next we head towards a week a country extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change extreme heat rising sea levels and storms a making life difficult especially for people living near the cost but in all these bad news and devastation once again we see evidence that healthy ecosystems play an important part when it comes to restoring balance. the town of boozy lies at the mouth of the poem way river when cyclonic died told through here in march 29th team floodwaters from the entire region flowed into the river. the poem wave best it finds flooding the surrounding countryside houses were washed away including that of farmer philippe whose entire harvest was wiped out. for the cycle and kerry might be making good progress but when it hit it literally threw me

back to square one i'm now starting from the bottom again point 0. point 20. things would have been even worse if it weren't for the gordon goes and national park this unique wetland landscape lies 140 kilometer river like a sponge the vegetation and the network of streams and rivers there absorbed huge amounts of water dumped by the cycling. mark salmond's the chief ecologist at the park checks the water levels regularly he says even several months after the cycle on the flood waters were still draining out of the landscape and into the pond way river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffering effect there generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather extremes of wind and the extremes of water and that's why we need those those big landscapes they also serve as

a threat of war be or horse thing by their 1st horse thing systems that are effective for their functioning but this natural paradise is under threat on nearby mt goran goes the residents have cleared huge swathes of forest for farmland forests have a key regulator a function absorbing and releasing water it with clear that if the deforestation continued many of the springs that sustain the wetlands would disappear. so 6 years ago the park administration came up with an idea instead of subsistence farming residents could help restore the forest by planting coffee along with hardwood trees to provide shade for the crops to thrive project manager see an armani shows as a plantation with 250000 young coffee plants and hardwood saplings. that . there were almost no trees left here at all the whole place was totally exposed

to the sun and now with the coffee in the trees we have 2 layers of shade the foam . goring goes a coffee is already a success story more than $400.00 farmers are now growing the new crop that's nearly half the families in the region the park administration buys up the harvest at a guaranteed price those who are looking for an additional income can help with the processing of the beans and water but seeing that it is possible to produce coffee on mt. the community has embraced the idea that producing coffee replanting trees taking care of the forest and helping the environment. that we have done. since the start of the project farmers have planted more than $140.00 hector's of coffee and $50000.00 hardwood trees all the trees are native to mozambique the plan is to add another $150.00 hectors next year if deforestation can be halted or reversed the

wetlands of corn goes and national park will be preserved forests protect the park which in turn helps to protect people living in coastal areas as climate change continues well functioning ecosystems will become more important than ever. over and over again we see that's a lot of devastation results from our failure to keep ecosystems into it and that's the case both on land and sea indeed it is overfishing is causing serious problems on the west coast of africa these days and that's why i want to set up a marine protection program that aims to stop illegal fishing and develop more sustainable fishing practices in order to protect the ocean and the fish in the long run. just off the shore of bones capital equal of the.

cannot come on his eco guards patrol the coastline for illegal fishing. since 2017 nearly a quarter of stop on the waters have been named marine protection areas making the pond gara marine park the biggest protection zone on africa's west coast. says the idea to create a marine park came from the need to preserve the fish stocks and to reduce the pressure of fishing particularly industrial fishing. and it's. that's why the park was created and from the shore it goes out around 4 kilometers . commercial fishing is strictly prohibited here but he and his men still come across illegal fishing activities every day these fisherman have been caught before they've already been given a warning. when

the men go ashore they'll have to report to the authorities that they went fishing illegally. in league of the fishing communities the marine parks are viewed with mixed feelings of where the fishermen feel they're being pushed as if they're fishing grounds ali acking to mentone mabo is the deputy president of gambon's largest fishing co-operative he's come to terms with the new regulations. sure the park has taken over some of the fishing waters. but what many people don't understand is it doesn't mean the fishing business is over it's not over because once the fish that are produced in the park mature they also leave these areas they leave. sessile. everyone in this community is involved in the fishing business from making the nets to selling the fish and then smoking it so that it can be transported to other parts of the country

a few years ago much of this trade was informal but then the government ordered the registration of the boats and the formation of the cooperatives. the wildlife conservation society has been working with the cooperatives on behalf of the government the n.g.o.s helps them understand why for instance the match in the nets has to be big enough to let small fish through and why it's more sustainable to let the fish grow and reproduce. get their shots isn't that the are too cynical fishing business doesn't produce any bicultural waste everything they catch is kept in music. they produce for the local gap in his market while industrial fishing is mainly export oriented and that's why we want to promote artists in the fishing but it shouldn't be just done in any old way it should be done well. from head to tail every part of the fish is used for the people and gab on fish is

a staple food demand is high and the authorities know that even small fisheries are an important part of the economy. was good it was a region we believe today is marine resources are tomorrow's gold that's why we have to protect or ecosystems and of course i mean as opposed to well the eco gartin does everything it can to watch over the protected areas the hope is that dark bands concerted efforts not only keep the small fisheries in check but also keep the big trawlers at bay. we'll send a lot of evidence today that supports a philosophy that often the best solution is to me things the nature so you're from in kenya who's fields i've been overrun with rodents don't call an exterminator call a conservationist like paul morrissey he's getting people to set aside their superstitions and wise up to the fact that the alls serve a useful purpose. only is

a fascinating and secretive animals but in many parts of africa they are associated with bad luck and that all prosecuted as a result. conservation is palm read these fighting to protect the bugs he has been monitoring a small colony of miking those eagle ols in the killer region of central kenya for years. p. days and farming practices here do still threaten these birds of prey but the numbers are slowly beginning to grow. you know i.e. i have a specific specific number of this house because i have about 16. and of 16 peers that are breeding p.s. the others i just was in state listing past. the breeding. the fields of not being good jerry and his family are very close to the

colony. they also find reach pickings here paul marie the husband shredded local farmers that their bad serve their own interest because alls eat mice and rats the damage crops morry these efforts seem to be paying off. when you are young elders believe that even own pride and therefore something bad will happen but time this has been disproved for me now when you come here and hear olds crying i don't believe that it can cause there or something bad to get them or to an idea. this is an african wood all the injured itself and all piling it is being lost but to hold here at rutgers it had to be dictation trast in the capital nairobi along with many other bugs who have had in luck encounters. basically our main aim with the trust is to rescue and rehabilitate birds of prey

mainly but we also take in water birds and basically any small but also a game where the trust is to basically get as many birds back to the wild where possible those birds that cannot be released for whatever reason basically end up as a surrogate parent partner or as an education bird. this is no ordinary delivery the airport's parcel has been flown in from canyons east cost an hour long plane ride away. inside a buzzer to the neck injury. the body is given an injection to prevent infection. and. these suede 1st all has already been was told to good help along with some other party recovered patients it's waiting to be released back into the way this is a mixture of. white fur scopes also and african wood elf so the reason there are so

many is basically because a large part of the weather has not been so good for releasing we had a long spell of very very dry conditions which means there's actually nothing out there for these birds to eat releasing them is a pointless pointless exercise at this point. they're mocking the eagle all the difficulties porter against iraqi surroundings conservation is palmer really helps of easy to identify them until they were both the creatures live he's made it his mission to persuade people that the birds are far from a bad omen but rather a seen 1000 and useful creatures that deserve to be protected. that's all from us this week we hope you enjoyed our reports on environmental topics from africa you go join us next time for now it's bye bye. i just had a couple territory and goodbye from me in kampala do visit us on all social media

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