global corona crisis you can find more information online at the w dot com and on t.w. social media channels. hello and welcome to he who africa where we highlight green topics and ideas from africa and europe. and i mean lagos nigeria and with me is michael phelps and you got a little bit sondra high there on sunday or 2 nobody here in kampala uganda in these 2 weeks shall we go to germany to meet a month who's hoping to turn the tide when it comes to plastic pollution in the way

that he has some other topics we'll be looking at today. we'll look at why being a ranger in such a dangerous profession. we also see how a briefing that no wage and all relating almost forced to stop them from inc. and find out how blood waste is being put to use in much augusta. being a ranger it 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 while accidents account for about 50 percent of those fatalities porches were responsible for the other hot we went to months and forced national park here in uganda to meet julius or one now the warden in charge of law enforcement there he has been confronting these per day in day out for more than 20 years.

in the morning roll call julius one or tells his men that poachers have set traps during the night to capture animals they have to move fast to save their lives after covering a few kilometers a 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 to rest someone suspected of having killed the buffalo. in his group that got away. the rangers confiscate the meat of the animals here have protected status no hunting is allowed. that came

from their communities of course. they came with. spears. and in the process of cutting and cutting away they need. coal for the incident and they moved in swiftly at a vengeance from this specific outpost so. they moved in swiftly and they managed to rescue one of. their race parrots 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 made by the poachers there are people who have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of this.

from. there was of motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops so a person will walk into the shops i say if he's going to buy spares for their motorbike he does not on a motorbike and ask for their traditional clutch cable which he can easily by at a cheaper price and to turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps pretty recently added to the harm that the. many animals also be at the painful science this elephant almost lost a truck to the poachers. of one of the says that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day throughout 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 these resources and you do not have. enough information and enough intelligence about them then you are forced to move almost everywhere to try and get to know what is happening in part of the park so that you are sure that what you are managing is intact of one is convinced the tourist poachers to create the illegal wildlife trade by offering them work. people like out that. he's happy with his transition from poacher to gamekeeper of the lone buffalo almost killed him on foot patrol. he knows exactly the movements of the poachers. because when i was poaching nothing i could get even if i went back with a meat refund that you can use it for boise and i think i had it my to do in the not to study but at the time when i joined in now i would do what you did that

anybody schooled in money which i'm getting from the paki. does boss of one is the warden in charge of law enforcement in marches in falls national park he says the anti pushing efforts are already paying off and tirzah is proving. he's helped to arrest and prosecute over 700 poachers in the area julius obama has witnessed the population of elephants grow in the last 25 years from less than 400 of the animals to over 1600 today. someone photograph a mountain and is wearing campaign to fight plastic pollution around the world $322000000.00 tonnes of plastic is produced each year and you can find plastic was literally anywhere much of it ends up in the rivers stefan which is trying to bring

people together to change these and here is what they call here this week. he's getting closer to his goal stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of copeland's on the rhine to the capital berlin in the northeast of the country. as on the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers this is just one 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 because it is not my shaft. he started out doing the collecting on his own he'd 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. trucks on

for 2 remarked i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above public non-god. ridge this is the average amount of garbage from one kilometer of river and kilometer from germany but not in asia and we have to work to reduce the odds that germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers or drowned at least the feet of who's going to meet up. in total around 7300 kilometers and staff and horses only travelled 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 of motherhood siding resin here

around 60 clean opposite on the water and the river bank. their life just because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them. and their eyes. i think it's important to realise that this is not just happening in the caribbean or wherever be aware that it starts here with us i'm saying that. 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 to do but he's happy to have come this much closer to his goal of clean water waves.

while they were equal to the so much trosch amazing what people can achieve but now backed up. because weather the best of contemporary 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 they use oil to make compressed earth breakers it's an economical and sustainable building method now 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. to do jem is a construction engineer and he founded a company that produces bricks out of soil. the material makes it much easier to

keep building schools. 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 bit. 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 by name decide it he doesn't want any more and so he. we got to do something about it lagos nigeria has him to a number of illegal dump sites free weights for many local people the refuse is a vital source of income of the taking of poets t.v.'s computers and other devices by hands they resell the components as rule materials it's extremely hazardous work

with and water and ground 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 defining or tunnel. you're using me generates 1000000 tons from equates talk less of what 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 because and dismantle. the device. the terror collects discarded devices like laptops speakers and mobile phones which

are then checked over of a company's material recovery for certainty those parts that can still be used have 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 the 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 lead you can have so many carcinogenic materials that are trapped there sucked out and trapped trapped inside its are diminishing 30 affectively detoxified while we dismantle all of the glass all of the on a 1000000. plastic. after being dismantled the waste is separated in shreds. they're all material salvaged such as glass and i and other companies main source of income. business has been doing well for the company so

well that they seal plants 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 when the on doctor months on end and the ground is as hard as a rock i guess what i'm talking about europe's falling off on the small angry boat no engine island of spitsbergen the extreme conditions there make it 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 and vegetables here a pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this one tree. for the 4th one is on the table. 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. yet because we lifted it from 20 to 45 he said yeah definitely. they're learning to farm in these. 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 is 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 season but so how do we cope with the light season as that's the challenge but 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 other stuff but that's expensive and bad for the environment to some greens for you. so vidmar is trying to show that there are

other options. in the photo shows you also have received in this public good to. live in to make sure you know. it's amazing to have this treasure trove. given back benjamin collects the leftover plant material for composting thank you everybody should take a good thought yes thank you. this isn't a u.f.o. it's the gardener's 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. in here i really like to do some root vegetables carrots potatoes would be nice if the greenhouse and its builders have achieved a certain notoriety hello my name is benjamin button mar and doing this tour with

you today we nearly every day he has a lot of curious visitors. started to save the world i didn't start it i just said you know i want to have the freshest food possible. german student helps out with planting in the garden she's a little more critical of the settlement in the far north. it's been pressing the stem i noticed it's back kind of person really i don't see spitzbergen as a place where people should be living. because it's gone to 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 techniques that we develop 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 with. benjamin did not believe that if these ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way so africa tomato gas got to be precise way before we station as quashing in fact previously 90 percent of the island was covered with forest now only a 10th of that remains according to environmental experts trees mostly being cut out to create farmland or before but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel sources tell us most under villages and learning a new process in which they can tell on plant waste on dry grass in. pellets it is so much better than cutting down the. fear done and now 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 is prepared a series of workshops. and the rambles on runs a course on bio char a charcoal produced from plant matter the residents collect dry grass and leaves press them into pretty dark 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 writers can also be used they need to char in the pit for 12 hours with a restricted air supply. looks good but the waste from the rice harvest has charred

nicely we can empty out the contents now to process it. don't. they want to make pellets and briquettes from the coldest. 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 charcoal i usually use. you know sally field who gets more talk one from these trying to get us to. cut the ts 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 dr 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. it's much faster to cook. the. design a team 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 biomass in the cylinders more effectively than can be done by hand but it didn't work as hoped and still needs to be optimized. we're looking for love you have to clean it out every time he uses it it's always blocked up because i think that it's fair to make a pension for every family you can have they want them out. like it's more fun to give charcoal. the school is also teaching the children a few i don't know enough about gardening all the plants and trees here were planted by pupils on the school garden each child plants 5 trees a year and then away says of greenery and spring up in the middle of the dry grass

nuns. then you see you go you don't like it these years we can go in the fields around the celebs sorry i forget i don't think and have people that don't look just to mangoes because we're not that may was growing even in the dry. land straight this is a proof so just the people didn't do it but it was. the hunted team wants to plant $15000.00 new trees a year together with the people of fia donna. so that so far that's week half an hour packed with lots of environmental news and i guess best global practices my name is now tied with i hope you enjoy the show thanks and bye bye family. and goodbye for me in uganda my name is sandra to nobody and if you'd like to know about it then of course be sure to join us on else social media platforms

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