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thousands of years caesar says they could become part of protected land and coastal marine areas and could attract plenty of visitors i found that some communities didn't realize that there was tourism potential in the area and that they could switch from harvesting to thumb thing like tourism taking people out teaching people about the area using the indigenous knowledge which people are so hungry for tourists who want to know what the locals know and local sometimes didn't realise that that was an ethic that their knowledge wasn't as several of the new protected areas are far out to sea but the one at simon's town is in coastal waters. it's become a popular destination to go scuba diving quote dive master eddie cousin high e. shows tourists the beautiful underwater sites. when we take people to dob in the
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n.p.a. areas the reaction of the docking is just amazing most of them they'll be like yeah it's amazing isn't but it makes me feel good because we know we still have. fishes in a lot of different spaces for people to see through being. protected areas. so it's not only college ists who are keen to see protected areas extended more and more people are coming to realize the environmental and economic benefits at the university of cape town seizo puts together data on marine biodiversity and coastal sites of interest she also models the social impact of potential new n.p.a. he's. we think conservation has to be on the one side people on the other side but we are part of a system and so if we are able to do bad i think we will be successful in expanding the marine protected area me to
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a can ensuring that it is representative of all our ecosystem time of south africa is to meet the goal and double the extent of its marine protected areas there's still a lot of work to do caesar's research should help the authorities decide exactly where to locate them and help ensure south africans will enjoy the benefits. and now buchan lunt we have a look at these in africa in trusting the keeping bees country of elephants away from corpse it may sound unbelievable but the giant creatures are terrified of the need to but not only that a project in tanzania shows how keeping bees could even prevent wide a species extinction. it's night time in the countryside around the turns in the city of every show must i women harvesting honey from beehives the african honey
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bees a calmer at night making the work much easier. once the honeycombs ever moved the wooden hives will be hung back up in the trees. and is one of the beekeepers. at the. end holly a village there are 40 of us women there are elderly mothers there are middle aged mothers there are young people doing the beekeeping. we train people and we ourselves have been trained on how to harvest the honey and how do wear these clothes as you can see. the training is done by the nonprofit organization african people and wild life it's instructors show the women how to assemble the hypes how to protect themselves and how to harvest the honey. the program gives them financial independence and also empowers them in the male dominated mass i community where their. camping
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is important for this masai community because they demonstrated hard work and a long history of protecting the environment with their beekeeping project as a venture to protect their environment while also securing some income for the needs through the sale of honey and other beekeeping products. with. the organization provides funding to help the women start their own businesses in return they devote some of their time to conservation walk some of them plant trees others clean up the village educate students on environmental issues and that's another reason why this project benefits the environment. under tons and in law the land surrounding a beehive is protected. you cannot cut down the tree and you cannot cultivate in the vicinity of the hive because the goal is wild pollination and maintaining spaces for wild bees and wild flowers across these beautiful ecosystems the african people and wildlife n.g.o.s says around 1300
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hives have been set up in the bush for harvesting and the 1000 messiah women have benefited from the program so far. the women hope that as that businesses grow more and more areas will come under protection to sustain wildlife the bees. in many african countries blushing and bonding is often the way used to prepare land for planting crops regardless of whether that land is depleted or flat tight but many overlook the fact that the method destroys the soil way down below the sufi's. indeed just sandra he wipes out any living organisms are neutrons in the soil but one young man in senegal house come up with a new way to cut down on bush was that good for the saw m b yeah i'm can't even produce a better obvious i see this. these
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are still hot recently trees are cut down here and want to make room for new fields . the tropical forest out on the village of sutil in south and senegal is endangered. the palmer of. all the forest provides the villages with fruits with wood to build on each other with palm leaves for the roofs of the huts. but again and again the forest is it a late clement somebody is a farmer from start to who wants to protect the trees he sees the slash and burn my thought is actually harmful for agriculture although the new fields may be fighting bonding also causes soil erosion which is bad for the palmira palm trees. we don't
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have proof of all. this is an example of a devastating bushfire last year someone set a fire here and then just left you can see the back of this tree bark down to the bees or that means the whole tree is now much more vulnerable the president. would be aware. if everything bans down then we won't be able to gather wood for cooking sale cecily said now who is one of the oldest villagers she tells us that part of the pond near a palm tree is also used. for. a crisis meeting village elder christophe kali explains how serious the situation ease slashing and burning does not only destroy a forest uncontrolled fires threaten the village itself. so who is setting these bushfires this is speculation but no one wants to point fingers they decide to
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patrol the area. and a very rare visit. of founded a quality that we look into the organisation of a patrol i don't tend to villagers from our own suit to participating in order to get these bush fires under control clearly says graham i did what would have to put a bullet but the final clemen someone who doesn't think but trolls will help he believes in the power of persuasion and he has an idea he discovered a method on the internet which will make depleted soils fight again then there will be no need to ban the forests to create arable farmland these methyl is called hugel quota or hill culture fast a layer of unusable logs and dead branches is lead don't believe grass and weeds is put on top then it only needs watering in time it becomes a fighter bed for planting clement's somebody tried it on his own fields and was successful. or needed good but we only want to eat
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once a week so not a lot and if you put your hands on top of each it's as if you are deep in the woods a really nice damp foreign soil and that's just what the plants need to do for a live report is more when you put. this or 2 villagers plant mostly veggie tables on their fields clemence some teaches them the forest friendly method. which also gives them valuable compost for. farmer cecil said not decided to use the compost on her fields. met miracle my language is significant and come to pass i make compost it gives me a profit instead of having to buy for to live with these profit i take care of my house and i take care of my children my 2 nephews i can go to the market to buy the hands that he raised to secure my future and save our forest master they can
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deposit. it so when we news in compost to revitalize the depleted fields and let them fatten again protect the pony up palm trees in so too and the whole tropical forest. we have come to the end of this freaks who are fricker featuring on inspiring makes or small initiatives big projects and dedicated people thanks for joining us our military so long from here the fossil probably goes nigeria see you next time we'll tell all the best and a good bye also for me i hope you have time again next trick to join us in the meantime please visit our social media platforms and our website for more amazing ideas and environmental stories i am standard signing off on compiler here in uganda. dum.
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