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in this week's show we go to germany to meet among who's hoping to turn the tight when it comes to plastic pollution in the rivers here are some other topics we'll be looking at today. we look at why being a ranger is such a dangerous profession. we also see how briefing that no wage and all related promise 1st stop them from inc. and find out how the plant waste is being put to use in modern guns. being a range 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 half we went to months and forced national park here in uganda to meet julius over one now

the wadded in charge of law enforcement there he has been confronting these day in day out for more than 20 years. to get. in the morning roll call julius one and 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 and foot with his men one of find. but as the rangers combed the area looking for more he received an emergency call. notice. 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. a spear at least. in the process of cutting and cutting away the need for india's call for the incident and they moved in swiftly adventures from these specific i would say. they moved in swiftly and they managed to one of. their race or paris offer. the storehouse 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 scenarios.

are made from. there was all motorbikes which are everywhere in the shops so a person will walk into the shop. as if he's going to buy spares for that model break he does not on a motorbike and he asks for the acceleration of clutch cable which you can easily buy at you pop right turn it into a snare and bring it into the park some of the traps can reach the evidence 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 the says that such cases are common and that is why he's always on the lookout for threats every day to come. out of there we know we have people

we 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 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 oneness convinced the tourist poachers 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 refund you

can use it for pussy and i think. most you do in the not to study my to tell you when i do indeed now i will do it you didn't hear anybody in school. in money which i'm getting from from the back. does boss up one is the warden in charge of law enforcement in march is in full 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 photograph a moment of an inspiring 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 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 by living in the northeast of the country. as 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 from doing then you get a 2nd wind and then you do it this is not my stuff 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. up 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 the 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. 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 motherhood sighing 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. my eyes. 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 once i'm saying this. after just 2 hours they've gathered around 2000 liters of garbage. stephanie halasz needs as many fellow campaigners if 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 equal to the so much trash amazing what people thought 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 beating down outside and did sandra in santa go a group of young engineers an architect of joint forces instead of congress they use oil to make of press 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 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. level 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 our young nigerian if i you buy this site it he doesn't want any more and so he began to do something about it. lagos nigeria is filmed to a number of illegal dump sites very waste farming local people the refuse 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 real materials it's extremely hazardous work with water and grown 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 tara and was founded by if fine or tunnel nigeria you tell me generates 1000000 tonnes of air from equates toques of what it allows importation into the countries the difference between our treatment and the informal. 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. he tear at

collects discarded devices like laptops speakers and mobile phones which are then checked over at the company's material recovery for 30 those parts that can still be used i restored and mostly donate to this charity the rest is dismantle the terror has invested in a 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 lead you can have so many carcinogenic materials that are trapped there sucked out and trapped trapped inside its are diminishing pretty effectively detoxified while we dismount. so all of the glass and all of the. plastic. parts of being dismantled the waste is separated and shredded. 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 the c.e.o. plans expand operations in the near future and he's happy that the items he recycles will not end up on the legal dumpsites like this one. now can you imagine growing anything on this kind of stuff ace like bush one here or could you imagine growing vegetables in it please that's cold when the on top of 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 s. and adventurous 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 didn't mark grose herbes and vegetables here pioneering idea. this one i think looks good too and then this 134 the 4th one is on the table. vidmar 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 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 feet 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'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 is just 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 some greens for you. so big maher is trying to show that there are other options. 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 back then jim and collects the leftover plant material for composting thank you every day if you take care you could 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 with 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 vidmar and doing this tour with here 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 so i just said you know i want 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 present is diminished it's back kind of person really 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 i'm sustainable 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 vidmar believes 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 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 5 but now someone has come up with an alternative fuel source tell us more sandra village does aligning 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 value of the trees. 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 has 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.

rice her 6 can also be used they need to char in this 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. they want to make pellets and briquettes from the coldest. they are diluted clay to the biomass to glue 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 you tease 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. dry 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 rumbles 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 a stove like this needs just a 5th of the fuel and by using bio char instead of would the embers last even longer because 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. but. stays inside. and

it's much faster to cook. the. design hannah 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 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. sure every funny you can have it while out living. like 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 on the school garden or. the child plants 5 trees a year and in a way says if greenery has spring up in the middle of the drawing grasslands for. then you should go you don't like it in series we can go in the field from diesel end cherry i forget i don't think can't have people that don't look and look just to mangoes because we're not that main was growing even in the dry. land strictly she's improved so it's just people didn't do it but she's grown. 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 type which i hope you enjoy the show thanks and bye bye probably.

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