for the. british. legal. beethoven's 9th. the more starts if you lose on t.w. . hello and welcome to the environment long as co-produced by m.t.v. in uganda channels t.v. nigeria and date of the in gemini i am song with me today already michael presenting. take me into how are you today just fine sandra thank you very much and i want 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. well hear how a national. banks of the weather disaster. about an ingenious chemical free weights what i must keep those. algo bony is taking measures to ensure that marines fish stocks remain healthy. a 1st report takes us to tell go like many places around the world and here in africa so goes about maybe as i expected to grow dramatically in the coming yes and that raises the question of how to feed the expanding population well some people and organizations are already thinking ahead and planting gardens in some rather on the expected places. this is boerma actually pickle west african vegetable it was grown in

a former dump site like this one. like many other african cities togo's capital law may have several illegal landfills my bees are but i marrow and his start up found a way to breathe new life into these deteriorated areas. right now we're at one of the many illegal landfills in the city is the kind of place that we transform into a vegetable garden to develop an organic culture we also recover 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 west management mean many of africa's centers are not equipped to ensure food security for a larger population. was actually right now the rural areas function

as food producers for the city is one of the heaviest has been brought in it mr been transported from the countryside to the admin areas where it will be consumed for this displacement of resources causes a problem footprints that have been that he wants to avoid by producing directly in the city for the residents they have. been matic is an online platform celebrated by the technology incubate a war lab it had dental files and max legal landfills all abandoned spaces using digital maps on the way platform they then removed the trash and poor soil before starting to plan for areas sid's they 1st analyze the existing earth adding fresh 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 4 landfills 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 too much i've been acted like stray involved the community giving the helpless free vegetables 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 it 11 i decided to shop there because these are natural products they did not use for the lives that could cause illness and this project is helping the environment because they won't be any more dams here or there or anywhere else so if they continue transforming these spaces that will help everybody else however. it will mount. with the world moving increasingly to the city optimizing the app and space to improve people lives in a prairie t. 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 come up with a simple but seemingly effective solution to the problem and it's also eco friendly here is this week's doing good bit. 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 offer protection but there might be another solution.

electrical engineer julius twine invented a more natural way to ward off the pesky bugs. for exposure uganda we have some they have those which have been in that their bed the mosquitoes i appointed have like 5 of them i mixed them under the shadow to maintain the. after collecting the herbs he dries them and crushes them into a powder he puts that powder into his battery powered mosquito. when it's turned on scented air flows out of these tiny holes. twine 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. this is powered by the built in solar panel. 3 hours of sun a week it's 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 and doing your bit. we share your story. 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 is sheep are not made to last and suddenly governments cast aside by europeans often find their way here in africa where their sword ought local markets or even end up in landfills many many countries and only interested in

taking unwanted clothing which is forcing the textile industry through why is it business what. this photo shoot is for german retailer 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 the service is available to customers of all ages. for a fee of just a couple of euro's a month customers can hold on to items as long as they like clothes that get sent back or cleaned and offer to hire again as a business from getting pieces are particularly popular a red jacket for example unusual colors or cut things you might not normally buy it . items are rented out an average of 4 times then they tend to look a bit tired people often discard clothes they buy after just

a short time this recycling company processes 70 tons of clothes a day stephon folks has been in the industry for 20 years not really. manufacturers figure articles will only be worn for a year or 2. and consumers will want something new 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 reuse recycling or destruction a high proportion just end up in the trash. a lot of fabrics contain synthetic materials that are made from oil and all full of chemicals. one month 100 years ago my jacket made of wall could be cut up or shredded and the material reuse. and nowadays there are all kinds of blends a polyester polyethylene perhaps some metal and it's really hard to

do anything with them devoid of and beyond of all good motives a chemist at the 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 the best which point it will be all over also likes to buy clothes and 2nd hand shops or acquire pre-warn ones on clothes swap websites. setting and kind 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 with me at 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 as possible and. then you can make it to mom. 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 and 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 so people storms a making life difficult especially for people living near the cost but in all this bad news and devastation once again we see evidence that healthy ecosystems play an important part when it comes to restoring balance. the challenge of foozie lies at the mouth of the poor way river when cyclonic died tore through here in march 29th cim floodwaters from the entire region flowed into the river. the poem wavecrest its banks flooding the surrounding countryside houses were washed away including that of farmer philippe whose entire harvest was wiped out. for the cycle and came i've been 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 3. things would have been even worse if it weren't for the goring goes and national

park this unique wetland landscape lies 140 kilometers up river like a sponge the vegetation in the network of streams and rivers there absorbed huge amounts of water dumped by the cyclamen. mark salmond's the chief ecologist at the park checks the water levels regularly he says even several months after the psycho the floodwaters were still draining out of the landscape and into the poem way river. in fact landscapes can play a tremendously positive buffeting effect they generally kind of attenuate the extremes of weather the extremes of wind and the extremes of water and that's why we need those big landscapes they also serve as a threat of war berry or horse thing by the versity they're hosting 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 forest subacute regulator a function absorbing and releasing water it was 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 managers see an armani shows as a plantation with 250000 young coffee plants and hardwood saplings. if . 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 or supporter but we're 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. and i've done. that 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 hectors next year if deforestation can be halted or reversed the wetlands of corn goes a 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 this a lot of devastation results from our failure to keep ecosystems into it and that's the case both online and. indeed it is overfishing is causing serious problems on the west coast of africa these days and that's why i got a bonus 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 copper believe will be due to still cannot come out on his eco guards patrol the coastline for illegal fishing. since 27000 nearly a quarter of ponds waters have been named marine protection areas making the park

the biggest protection zone on africa's west coast. 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 fishermen have been caught before they've already been given a warning. when the men go ashore they'll have to report to the authorities if they went fishing illegally. in league of the fishing communities the marine parks are viewed with

mixed feelings the fishermen feel they're being pushed out of their fishing grounds ali acking to mentone mabo is the deputy president of god on the 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 just about shell 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 with 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 mesh 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. and they get their chefs isn't that the artists know fishing business doesn't produce any bicultural waste everything they catch is kept unused. they produce for the local gap in these markets while industrial fishing is mainly export oriented and that's why we want to promote artists and their 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 gabble and fish is a staple food demand is high and the authorities know that even small fisheries are an important part of the economy. was what i was alluding to we believe today's

marine resources are tomorrow's gold that's why we have to protect or ecosystems 7 as opposed to one of the eco guard team does everything it can to watch over the protected areas the hope is that bonds concerted efforts not only keep the small fisheries in check but also keep the big trawlers at bay. well sent a lot of evidence today that's a process of philosophy that often the best solution is to leave things to nature so you're from in kenya whose fields i've been overrun with rodents don't call an exterminator call a conservationist like paul morici he's getting people to set aside their superstitions and wise up to the fact that they're also serve a useful purpose. all those of us in 18 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 cane you know for years. p.d. days and farming practices here do still threaten these birds of prey but their numbers are slowly beginning to grow. you know i.e.d. i have a specific specific number of this out because i have about 16. and of 16 peers that are breeding p.s. the others are just loose in state listing listing past which. caught it in the breeding. the fields of now turning 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 moree these efforts seem to be paying off. when we were young our elders believe that if an own cried a battle something bad will happen but time this has been disproved for me now when you come here and hear old crying i don't believe that it can cause death or something bad to get them or to an idea. this is an african wood all that injured itself and are piling it is being not about to hold here at rutgers it had to be dictation trust 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 lizard a buzzard we don't need injury. the body is given an injection to prevent infection. from. 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 wild 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 so 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 the visitors identify them until them about the creatures lived here 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 and europe join us next time for now it's bye-bye from just federal capital territory and goodbye from me in kampala do visit us on all social media platforms or you can drop us on line if you want to share your comments we hope to see once again very soon.

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