featured you know when you use music it's better to. be open stores. sounds good. oh sure that's so much more than just music. video game music d.w. . 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 are 2 nobody here in kampala uganda and invest with shall 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 the right being a ranger in such a dangerous profession. we also see how a briefing that no which an all relating on the 1st stop them from inc. and find out how the ground west 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 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 or 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 a foot with his men. but as the rangers combed the area looking for more he receives an emergency call. notice. colleagues in another part of the park have arrested someone suspected of having killed the buffalo. in his group and 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.

a spear at least. in the process of cutting and cutting where they need. coal for the incident and they moved in swiftly at ranges from these specific i would say. they moved in swiftly and they managed to one of their. race or perish 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 the. from. the acceleration cables of motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops

so a person to walk into the shops as if he's going to buy spares for that model right he does not on a motorbike and he asks for the acceleration of clutch cable which he can easily buy at a cheaper price and turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps connecting 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 through out 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 get these are sources and you do not have. enough information enough in there about them then you are forced to move almost everywhere to try and get to know what is happening in part of the bike so that you are sure that what you are managing is intact of one is convinced the tourist push is to quit 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 putting nothing i could get even if i went back with a meat refund you can use it for busy 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 did anybody. the

money which i'm getting from from the parking. 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 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 4 to graf a mountain and is complaining to fight plus the pollution around the world $322000000.00 tons 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 he wrote this week. he's getting closer to his goals stephanie halasz has been paddling for 4 weeks now from the western german city of copeland from the rhine to the capital lynn in the northeast of the country. as on the one greatest thing and this was a trip of 750 kilometers it's just this month 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 if this is not march off to being. you 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. troops on the

4th 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 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 staff and horses only traveled 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 with nothing it's

a trying resin here around 60 cleena opposite on the water and the river bank. was in full i think it makes total sense to not just collect waste from the rivers i thought but also from the landscape around them. my eyes kept us 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 this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephano wash 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.

them while they were equal to the so much trash amazing what people park in the cheap 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 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 well 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. do jem 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 as a dumping ground for most of the global ways so what is being done in africa to change that young nigerian if i you by name decide it he doesn't want any more and so he began to do something about it legal not joe is him to a number of illegal dumps and it's very weak for many local people the refuse is a vital source of income. of the taking of parts t.v.'s computers and other devices by hand 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 8 tara and was founded by a fine or tunnel. generates 1000000 tons of earth on it where it stopped less of what it allows importation into the countries the developing our treatment the informal homeless if 100 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 at the company's material recovery facility

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 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 you can have so many customer journey materials that are truck sucked out and trapped trapped inside if i do machine fix affectively 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 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 dome 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 fallen off on the small on group no into an island of spitsbergen their 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 big mark rose herb's in vegetables here a pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this 13. for the 4th one is on the table and 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 bezel and other plants so these see that we've got the human now off to remove the tower and. yet because we lift it from 20 to 45 yeah definitely. they're learning to farm. in these extremes by trial and error there's no experience to draw on then marc 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 weekend 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 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 some dreams for you. so did mark is trying to show that there

are other options. in the photo shows you also have received in this public good to see you have been to check it out. it's amazing to have this treasure trove. given back then jim and collects the leftover plant material for composting thank you every country should take care of your good thoughts 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 will turn lush and green really 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. reason 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 vidmar and doing this tour with you

today we nearly every day 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 wanted to have the freshest food possible. german student ana kessel helps out with planting in the garden she's a little more critical of the settlement in the far north. it's been physically semifinalist 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 technique that we developed 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 not 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 the forestation as quashing 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 over firewood but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does are learning a new process in which they can tell and plant waste on dry grass into fuel pellets it is so much better than cutting down the move value of the trees. donna not is a small town in the highlands of madagascar. it never had its own school until

a nonprofit organization called harner 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 has 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. writer 6 can also be used they need to char in the 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. they want to make pellets and briquettes from the coldest. they add 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 to the last few days cut each piece fit 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. drive 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 running a stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char instead of would the embers last even longer if the 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. he. 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 bio mass 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 to every fun you can have there while. living. like it's more fun to do you charge. 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.

then you should go you don't like it in certain we can go in the field from the celeb and we'll cherry i forget i don't think and have people that don't look and look just in mangoes because you know that may was growing even in the dry. land certain she's a poof so just people didn't do it but she did. design a team wants to plant $15000.00 new trees a year together with the people of fia donna. so that's it for this week a half an hour packed with lots of environmental news and the year's best global practices my name is now tied with opiate enjoy the show thanks and by by family. and good by 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 all social media platforms season by

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