yes. beethoven is trying to. use your. the big talking 202250th anniversary you're going to give you. the best. hello and welcome to equal africa where we highlight green topics and ideas from africa and europe. and i'm in lagos nigeria and with me is my co-host and you've 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 turn the tide 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 uses such a big dangerous profession. we also see how a briefing that no wage and all related almost forced to stop them from inc. and find out how the plant 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 well accidents account for about 50 percent of those fatalities porches were responsible for the other we went so much sun force national park here in uganda to meet julius or one now the warden 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 than will slice after covering a few kilometers a foot with his men. but as the rangers comb 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. they came with.

spears. and in the process of cutting and cutting away the need for india's got a call about the incident and they moved in swiftly adventurous from these specific i would say. they're moving swiftly and their money into one of. their race paris off. the storehouse poaching traps are piling up but. it's an uphill battle the more the rangers find and dismantle the late night the poachers there are people who have dedicated their lives into manufacturing these some of this. from. the recent cables of motor bikes which are everywhere in the shops

so a person will walk into the shops as if he's going to buy spares for their model right he does not on a motorbike and ask for their acceleration or clutch cable which he can easily buy at you pop right and 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 elephant almost lost a truck to the poachers. of one of this is that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day through out the park. outta 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 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 has 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 load 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 bush and i think i had it my to do in the not to study but at the time when i joined in now i will do what you do and anybody. in

money time getting from from the back. does boss of one or 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 obana 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 moment it is hiring 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 our basic. he's getting closer to his goal stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of corpulence on the rhine to the capital berlin and then north east of the country. the farmers even are 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 this is not my call to being. 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. troops on

40 of them on. 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 in germany and not in asia and we have to work to reduce that because germany has a lot of kilometers of rivers. 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. i was growing cotton 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 of people. he's joined by new volunteers at every new stretch

with motherhood sighing resin hair ram 60 clean opposite on the water and the river bank. your 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 they are is the stuff that's as 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 this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephanie halasz needs as many fellow campaign and says he can get it 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 he could elect and so much choice amazing what people can achieve but now backed off because whether the best of contemporary attempts to combine innovation and age old knowledge to construct buildings that remain cool even when the sun is written down outside indeed sandra in santa go a group of young engineers and architects have joined forces it's out of congress to use oil to make compressed earth breakers it's an economical and sustainable building well 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. you do j.m. is a construction engineer he founded a company that produces bricks out of soil. the material makes it much easier to

keep buildings cool. 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 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 legal snipe joe is him to a number of illegal dump sites for. forming local people there is a vital source of income. of the taking of poets t.v.'s computers and other devices by hand they resell the components as rule materials it's extremely hazardous work

with and wall to 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 in fine or tunnel. generates of all 1000000 tons of our product waste talk less of what it allows importation into the countries the difference between our treatment and the informal harmless if i want to live don't have the knowledge i don't have the tools all the machinery to safely recall paul and dismantle. the device. the terror collects discarded devices like laptops speakers and mobile

phones which are then checked over at the company's material recovery for certainty those parts that can still be used i restored and mostly donate 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. you bring up you can have so many customer journey materials that are truck sucked out and trapped trapped inside are diminishing defectively detoxified while we dismantle all of the glass and all of the. plastic . after being dismantled the waste is separated in shreds. they're all material salvaged such as i live in the glass and i and the company's main source of income. business has been doing well for the company so well that they seal

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 saw face 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 you up so far not on the small on group no into an island of spitsbergen the extreme conditions there make you apologize for research as i venture is like benjamin his mission to grow what no one has grown before let's go 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 in 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 and then maher and his employee hey good 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 bezel and other plants so if you see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yeah yeah because we lift it from 20 to 45 yeah definitely so they're learning to farm in these extremes by trial and error there's no experience to draw on them or 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 actually enjoy the 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 to some greens for you. so big mar is trying to show that there

are other options. in the photo to show to also on the receipt in this public good to. have been for sure you know. it's amazing to. this treasure trove was given back benjamin collects the leftover plant material for composting thank you ever if you take a look because just like you. this isn't a u.f.o. it's the gardners 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 for the greenhouse and it's builders have achieved a certain notoriety hello my name is benjamin vidmar are 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 ana ketzel 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 her silly i don't see spitzbergen as a place where people should be living. because it's got 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 it. benjamin did more believe that if his ideas can take root in spitsbergen they could grow practically anywhere. from i see no way so africa to madagascar to be precise where deforestation as a quashing impact previously in 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 over firewood but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does are launching 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 move to a patrice. 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. talk to each hunter around me 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 rommel's 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 this pit for 12 hours with a restricted air supply so as it looks good the waste from the rice harvest has

charred nicely we can empty out the contents now to process. them. they want to make pellets and briquettes from the coal dust. they are diluted clay to the biomass to glue together so they can then needed 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. you to use the don't have to go far away. the residents used to spend hours gathering firewood for cooking. people here eat 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 and. 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 because 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. and it's much faster to cook. the zaha najim 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 for love you have to clean it out every time you use it it's always blocked up. i think that is fair to make you can shoot every fun you can have there while. missing. it's more fun to do you charge was. the school is also teaching the children of fear i don't know enough about gardening or the plants and trees here were planted by pupils on the school garden or. the child plants 5 trees a year and in a way says if greenery has sprung up in the middle of the drawing grasslands for.

then you should go you don't like it certain we can go in if you can from the celebs cherry i forget i don't think can't have people that don't know you can look in mangoes because you know that may was growing even in the dry land strictly she's improved so just the people didn't do it by cheap clothes you. design a team wants to plant $15000.00 new trees a year together with the people of fear donna. so that's it for this week half an hour packed with lots of environmental news and yes best global practices my name is now tied with opie and joy the show thanks and bye bye family. and goodbye from me in uganda my name is sandra to nobody and if you'd like to know about us then of course be sure to join us on all social media platforms season by

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