featured you know when you use music it's better to. just be open stores. sounds good. oh sure that's so much more than just bad music. video game music d.w. . hello and welcome to equal africa where we highlight green topics and ideas from africa and you wrote. me and i'm in lagos nigeria and with me is my co-host and you got i love that sandra hi there i'm sundered to nobody here in kampala uganda and in this week's show we go to germany to meet a month who's hoping to talk on the tight when it comes to plastic pollution in the

way that he has some other topics will be looking out today. we look at why being a ranger in such a dangerous profession. we also see how a briefing that no wage and all relating almost 1st stop them farming. and find out how blood waste is being put to use in much augusta. being a ranger 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 well accidents account for about 50 percent of those fatalities porches were responsible for the other we went to months and forced national park here in uganda to meet julius or one now the wadded in charge of law enforcement there he has been confronting these day in day out for more than 20 years.

in the morning roll call julius one a tells his men that poachers have set traps during the night to capture animals. they have to move fast to save the animals lives after covering a few kilometers and foot with his men. but as the rangers combed the area looking for more he receives an emergency call. colleagues in another part of the park have arrested someone suspected of having killed the buffalo. in his group 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. make came with.

a spear at least. in the process of cutting and cutting with a need. call about the incident and they moved in swiftly adventures from this specific outpost. they moved into italy and they managed to rescue one of. their race parrots off. at the storehouse poaching traps are piling up. but the one that says that it's an uphill battle to move the readers find and dismantle the more i meet by the poachers there are people who have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of the scenarios. from.

wars of motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops so a person will walk into the shops as if he's going to rise fares for that model break he does not on a motorbike and he asks for the acceleration of clutch cable which he can easily by i don't you proper eyes will turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps getting rid of the harm that the. many animals also be at the painful science this almost lost trucks to the poachers. but one of the says that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day out there are. 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 get these resources and you do not have. enough information and enough intelligence about them and then you are forced to move almost everywhere to try and search and they only get to know what is happening in part of their park so that you are sure that what you are managing is intact. one is convinced a terrorist purchased a quit the illegal wildlife trade by offering them work. people like out that. he's happy with his transition from poacher to gamekeeper although alone will follow almost killed him on foot patrol. he knows exactly the movements of the poachers because when i was putting nothing i couldn't get even if i went back with a meat grinder you can use it for pussy and i think. might you do in the not to study but to the time when i joined in now i want to do and there anybody in school

. the money which i'm getting from from the paki. badass boss of one is the warden in charge of law enforcement in march a sinful national park he says the anti pushing efforts are already paying off and tourism is good. 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 4 to graf 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 a quote here this week. he's getting closer to his goals stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the west in german city of copeland's on the rhine to the capital palin in the northeast of the country. on the greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers it 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. after cultivating. 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 designer's way of making the invisible waste plain for all to see. that's on

for 2 of them. i took a photograph that shows a kayaker from above paddling on garbage 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 of germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers trying to reach the feet if you've got a meter. in total around 7300 kilometers and stefan horse has 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. 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 so i wasn't here

around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the riverbank. because i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers thought but also from the landscape around them. and they are as tough as i think it's important to realize 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 waste.

while they worried it could elect have so much trouble. amazing what people thought can achieve but now back to africa where the best of contemporary autistics attempts to combine innovation and age old knowledge to construct buildings that remain cool even when the sun is beating down outside and did sound right in senegal a group of young engineers and architects have joined forces instead of concrete they use oil to make compressed earth great it's an economical and sustainable building method now let's have a look at 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. is a construction engineer he founded a company that produces bricks out of soil. the material makes it much easier to

keep buildings cool. when i went to 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 that conditioning all the time you can 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 common 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 began to do something about it. lagos nigeria has him to a number of illegal dump sites very waste 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 the air 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 waste it's called eat terra and was founded by in fine a tunnel nigeria usually generates 1000000 tons of air from it where it stopped less of what it allows importation into the countries the difference between our treatment and the informal homeless if i want to live don't have the knowledge they don't have the tools all the machinery to safely. and dismantle. the device. the terror collects discarded devices like laptops speakers and mobile

phones which are then checked over of the company's material recovery for surgery those parts that can still be used 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 customer journey materials that are trapped there sucked out and trapped trapped inside it's our diminishing 30 affectively detoxified while we dismount. so all of the glass and all of the. plastic. parts of being dismantled the waste is separated in shreds they're all material salvaged such as glass and ion the company's main source of income. business has been doing well for the company

so well that the c.e.o. plans to 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 fun 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 13. 4 the 4th one is on the table with others then maher and his employee hey give 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 think if you see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yeah because we lift it from 20 to 45 yes 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's 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 enjoy the dark season but so how do we cope with the light season as best a challenge but the dark season is very relaxed don't have to do too much but when the light comes. 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 or some greens for you. so big mark is trying to show that

there are other options. then talk to other ships who also have visited and this is probably good to. have been to check it out. it's amazing to. this treasure trove was given about benjamin collects the leftover plant material for composting thank you ever since you take it you could go just 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 will turn lush and green we have some days you know over there in 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 for 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 were nearly every day he has a lot of curious visitors. i didn't 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 present is diminished it's back kind of person only 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 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 it . benjamin did not believe that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way so africa so modern gas got to be precise where the forward station as oak washing impact previously 90 percent of the island was covered with forests now only a 10th of that remains according to environmental experts trees are mostly being cut down to create farmland or what. but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does a new process in which they can tell on plant waste on dry grass into fuel pellets it is so much better than cutting down the mall. fear done and 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. dr rami on tania revoke wants to increase environmental awareness and make sure that it's established in the school curriculum. team is prepared a series of workshops. undie run mills on runs a course on bio char a charcoal produced from plant matter. the residents collect drawing grass and leaves press them into predict 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 . rice husks can also be used they need to char in this pit for 12 hours where the restricted air supply says it 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 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. the small talk one from these 2 i get asked if you respond to cut you tease fear 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 plains 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 wants a stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char instead of would the embers last even longer the old habits die hard though winning people over takes patience despite the many advantages what do you all know musea seems a lot of fuel. stays inside. and it's much faster to cook. the. design 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. in full of it you have to clean it out every time you use it it's always blocked up. i think that is fair to make you pay attention every funny you can have their one. losing. it's more fun to do you charge by. the school is also teaching the children a few i don't know about gardening or the plants and trees here were planted by pupils and the school gardener. the child plants 5 trees a year and in a way says if greenery has sprung up in the middle of the drawing grasslands.

then you should go you don't like the research we can become a lawyer in the field from the celebs chary i forget though we can't have people that do not just in mangoes because we know that may was growing even in the dry. land strictly she's improved so just the people didn't. design a team wants to plant $15000.00 new trees a year together with the people of donna. so that's it for us week half an hour packed with lots of environmental news and yes best global practices my name is now tied which i hope you enjoy the show thanks and by by family. and goodbye from 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 all social media platforms see you

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