positions compose their understanding of nature. to mark the 250000 of verse 3 of the composer's birth i like sharing program advice does not you know he's good. beethoven world wide pastoral project starts to come forth on d w. hello everyone and welcome to this new edition of eagle africa the environment magazine brought to you by channels t.v. here in nigeria and to even uganda and germany's door chavela. we're coming to you from lagos and joining me of course is my colleague sandra teen o.b.o. and hello there sandra. and hello from company i want welcome to all of us from

all across africa and the rest of the globe so glad you joined us for the program once again lucia examples of how to make a wild a little bit cleaner and thereby making it a bit better here's a quick look at a few of this week's report. in ronda we will learn how communities can live in harmony with the mountain gorillas. in senegal we will find out how simple it can be to compose to kitchen. and in ghana we'll meet a man who calls himself a forest. of the heart of the tom hasa nomics it is a small scale affordable housing project in south africa on the ships and its main mission is to replace informal bucket shots with durable structures and what's even more important recycled construction waste is used to build the homes made the

founder and director was already won a number of awards for his innovative business idea and also see how it works. in the good. stuff greater johannesburg is home to around 8000000 people many of them believe in densely populated informal settlements alternatives like so we're told just southwest of the city. you know. we have a lot of people who. coming in children's book going to look for work opportunities so most of them to prefer to live in a township because it's cheaper to live there when you're ready and the critical window for you to veer from where i used to go to work so they've created opportunity for homeowners to try to create a coalition for those people where they're renting the biggest structures but that

accommodation often consists of simple corrugated metal shacks and rented in backyards which often little privacy or protection from a brain and called. ludlow who grew up in a sheet metal shack him self trained very clear he got the idea to replace corrugated shacks with brick structures he even data locked away to make the breaks he uses to keep them as affordable and either mentally friendly as possible they want to call us like they're walking cause. your show you everything less than an order to cut your brilliant course by up to 30 percent lead level max's breaks out of all construction west so he doesn't need to use and that also means the vic's don't have to be fired from a kill with serves on energy because the building blocks are interlocking the pressure of their own weight is sufficient to make the wall strong and stable it's an unusual way to build but it's less of a battle on the environment than traditional mine so.

before moving into one of the new brick houses there's only see beer come economic spent 6 years living in a metal shack now he has a proper home he has to pay more rent for the new house but he thinks it's well worth it. actually our very very very hate people because if you're staying in the last thing in metal shake his leg. there isn't is not a place to be like is a human being actually staying in their room it's how you feel confident when everything next. building rubble is a major environmental problem in parts of johannesburg many companies just don't there are ways to legally to avoid paying disposal fields that's a border into mississippi or so much that she founded a startup to recycle the west rather than seed i love in honey but a lot of people do it ways to move over it they call it racism and they call it but

then we take responsibility over where the waste ends up really we have been changed roads with the waste we compost it we also send it distribute it to organization that make you service. organizations like learned that house building company have they just started tough compatible trust their construction west provides the basis for global's environmentally friendly bricks one issue still to be resolved is how to process building west and transport eat to construction sites . and. we are working out how we can actually need. and here's the rubble as raw material for making bricks and then we need people to separate their waste encrusted with this will. lead to many who come to johannesburg hoping for a better life and up living in insufficient housing they exactly the people he wants to help and not just be building homes for them he has many more ideas for

the future. the plan is to actually train the people that live here obscure them to actually build all sorts of so we can replace all the shacks by their names and also bringing them to prove their own houses sustainable homes constructed from the cycle materials using more and. afraid you may go forward thinking solution that's been official not just to the environment but the wellbeing of entire communities 6. round it is one of the most densely populated countries in africa even sold in the west of the country on the border with the democratic republic of congo is one of the last remaining refugees well that. a foundation is now showing schoolchildren how to resolve the gorillas how to talk that's what may help they feel that people are able to continue to co-exist with the endangered animals it off because when by see

the glory. ok knows national park in rwanda is home to a very rare animal the mountain gorilla there are fewer than a 1000 left in the wild the spread of disease from habitat loss pose a threat to the same dangers species. to help protect the gorillas valerie awkward to sing it teaches children about environmental conservation she's the program director for conservation heritage to run by or c h t which is located in the science district next to the park. kids have been to morals generation yes kids kids and is very spry been message kids can and so we create so we're just to have children to where people kids scorcher and and because they are they can be

a board today for their message to the rest of the community like. rwanda is one of africa's most densely populated countries so these children live close to the gorillas natural habitat most have never seen one. using paper machine masks valerie and her colleagues helped bring the gorillas to life. they also encourage the kids to draw pictures of the majestic apes. who call can she see the loch to draw the gorillas when they talk about it and the children start acting like her as beating on their chest. but conservation education is just one pillar in the efforts to save the mountain gorillas another is creating alternative livelihoods for the local community. this farmer has just received a lamb by donating sheep to local families the conservationists hope to encourage

people to stay out of the forest. all right now and get out when in value i feel happy about winning a sheep as a farmer will help me fertilize my field to come with it instead of going into interacting volcanoes national park which is the home of the mountain of going to i was too quick to do so says found can you be sure it's going to be. going to set and there has been a 40 east they can looking for meat that he was to happen to before but when you give them sheep it's a no 10 up to you to what they have been quite acting from with a mountain of what has had. the most exciting part of the classes is an excursion into volcanoes national park there the schoolchildren get an opportunity to see the mountain gorillas in their natural environment they come up to discover wow i dismounted what it has because they have been watching them and they feel old

they're all seeing them through visuals everywhere is showing them today so and they have never seen that so sing very natural habitat did i q wow did a cause so that also expressed them. valerie acorah just saying and her colleagues have received numerous awards for their efforts. for valerie it's further encouragement to continue her work so that the great apes can be preserved here for generations to come. hey all you coffee drinkers out there did you know that over 2000000000 costs are consumed one white every day and much of us comes from the growing africa did you know that. well and now i do know santa ana while great coffee is high in demand drive periods in states all lack of knowledge and resources leaves and many small coffee farmers struggling to

sustain a livelihood the situation is particularly critical in eastern africa that's why climate academics have been established to teach farmers how to adjust their methods to the conditions of a changing climate here's our report from kenya. you've written on the outdoor training session at the climate can to me more diffuse this. because. you know the herds and. the disease becomes more comfortable to multiply danes it becomes more people multiply their movement to prove you have been paid to have you for that. on today's show. 2 way to prune coffee trees the aim is to prevent the fungus that causes coffee berry disease we should destroys the beings. they found was that the climate academy are expected to act

as multipliers the idea is that then we pass on the techniques to up to 50 ad the farmers know. such that they will be. much of course is a coffee rejoin in south and kenya here are local cooperative or but it's a model coffee plantation but climate change brings challenges like diseases drought too much rain and this is causing yields to fall they can't occur to me is visiting today and wants to help the farmers i've just their program is funded by the fair trade foundation is just one way the farmers can become more successful again. we have nutrient application. to apply. because nutrient is. despite tips on cultivation many farmers find

it difficult to leave just from growing coffee through the climate academy they and michael credits and gain expertise on how to generate more income be that through aquaculture. or beekeeping. if you found my jam somebody is now trying his hand at chicken farming. with all my new knowledge learnt of the climate academy i can even sell more than 9 chickens and none of them sell for less than a 1000 shillings. even when my relatives come to visit me i can take the chickens and use them for food. before that it wasn't possible. but coffee remains the main source of income in the area they're called but if the process is its members have this and helps marketing it collaborates with the

climate academy and follows add green. this used to be a waste now farmers use it as a cheap organic fertilizer instead of expensive chemicals. recycling and making the most of existing resources we've got a couple of examples and that on today's program in this week's doing your bit we had to dakar senegal to see how a simple cleverly designed turns the mango peels coffee grinds and other household waste into rich fertile soil. most households produce a fair amount of organic waste every day. and that can be used to produce fertilizer for flower gardens. were not your chin gone couldn't find a compositor in senegal's capital dhaka she decided to make her own.

team turn standard metal barrels into simple but effective compositors. holes in the sides and top help to air it the kitchen or garden waste and speed up the composting process they'll also allow earthworms and insects to get inside and help break down the organic matter. a small door at the base makes all removal easy. after adding a coat of paint the compost is ready. they can be produced in several sizes over the past year the team made about $200.00 units. as a container the climate in senegal is perfect to come past with a humility there's no need to do anything it transforms on its own that's how we came up with the idea. that. any vegetable or fruit scrub can be added as well

as bread pasta to lead coffee and not an egg shells when mixed together the organ. breaks down naturally into a nutrient rich compost. it takes about a month for the garbage to transform into fertilizer which can be used for anything from plants in pots or boxes to papaya or orange trees. 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 stories. rising sea levels a was on the bottom and that is causing coastal loss and could eventually lead to an island being submerged it's a scenario that is already threatening an ecosystem on the coast of north western europe the world and see communities on the off shore islands are seeing

increasingly frequent floods a local flora and fauna could face dramatic changes i call reporter paid a visit to an island on the not the coast of germany. the sheep on the island of form might outnumber the 1100 inhabitants but their grazing helps to maintain the sea dikes and that serves everyone because on average lies a metre below sea level the dikes are in fact key to the island survival in times gone by the local population protected themselves from the high waters by building their homes on manmade hillocks known as dwelling mountains. twice a year these 2 men inspect the dikes to make sure everything is intact but can these vast structures continue to protect the island as the planet warms and sea levels rise be unleashed is a coastal defense expert for the northern german state. on the classes and ice

dying defenses are still the best solution because they offer as a way to counteract the effects of climate change and our measures for the coming years offer a secure future that means the population of the whole can continue to live and work in safety. lucious responsible for the upkeep of the roughly 8 metre high external dikes that run for almost 30 kilometers right around this island in the wotton sea. but internal dialogues also help to protect the island. as do the drainage channels. because it's not only the north sea waters that pose a threat but also those that rain down from above so how do the locals get the water off their island they channel excess water into a basin by the harbor where the from there it's pumped out into the sea at low tide it's a solid system except during periods of extremely heavy rainfall. increasing rainfall

and rising sea levels will be challenges for a pair of arm but as a tide marker in the harbor shows the islanders have plenty of experience with tidal surges they've done. battle with the sea on many occasions. nevertheless the local population can no longer rely on the exact same type construction that has served them in the past. zorba state officials the whole time came up with a strategy it's called the climate dike investment in london but proctor where factoring in climate change and are currently strengthening our dikes and such a way that we can build them as high as 2 meters above sea level it was even at eyes of. the green area shows what the dikes currently look like. the climate dike slope more gently towards the sea and a so-called safety cap of an additional 50 centimeters is built on top depending on how high the sea level rises even more height can be added at

a later date the whole exercise is very costly but many on share the view that the dikes are the safest form of protection and in the case that the defense has failed to stand up to the sea in the future the islanders are also planning to build emergency accommodation on twirling mounds the same kind of manmade hillocks on which houses used to be built without dying. if in the near future there are moments when the dogs can't hold the water back will seek refuge on the 20 mountains it won't be easy because storm surges tend to happen in the dead of night during heavy rains and strong winds. actually getting to the dwelling mounds wouldn't be a walk in the park but however difficult we still have to make up provision. on the whole the people of perform are calm perhaps because experience has taught them that land comes and land goes but they're absolutely determined to do

everything they can to protect their island. protection and conservation that's also what our next report is about in recent decades ghana has lost a vast tracts of rain forest it's a situation that is worsening climate change. that's right near to one local equal activist and in tripping you decided to address the problem and reforested a piece of land by practicing sustainable forestry there has helped revive the natural ecosystem he's enterprise is not only good for the environment but it has also become a popular destination for the eco tourists. oh. so can i have the ladies come forward this is a moment when into inviting if you like he enjoys treats in his visitors to the intoxicating center of the lanky long blossoms example. the

fact that backs going to smell like that for weeks as well in walking the flower garden is quite beautiful it is in this very nice to see that there's a very like this in god that. others whether they're hearing god or even outside of the country could come to and actually enjoy nature. it started 20 years ago when biden planted all his hold in of 210 acres. he founded porto forest estates and initially just sold would put up so. we thought we could enter crop for food crops and keep it going by. selling those food crops to generate short term revenue except that the community and the workers kept eating everything even before us was ready to generate more income he and his team had another idea they decided to propagate local plants and extract essential oils

in 2018 they added eco tourism jaring every tall visitors served up a typical kenyan dish that is made exclusively of local forest produce. one in 10 by doing is also linking up with the local community in there to here is hired several locals as chefs and told gods also work in his laboratory technician isaac could joe is in charge of producing the essential oils as well as natural cosmetics such as soap. because i put a natural source from the forest they tend to have less side effects and then the really how good are very effective treatment like for my remark therapy you can really get the feel of the of the room from the plant and they have no side effects or anything whatever the oils are sold across the country including in the capital

across retailers there also provide interested costumers with detailed information about the production. on guided tours visitors here about the company's mission future plans include sustainable construction projects for their eco tourism business. this is because we want to read cures a couple from print on the elderly took up cost russian activities. ever meant by the whole family we want to reduce that and more all of our monthly friends. wellington biden attaches great importance to passing on is knowledge to the next generation. now main focus is. the experience show that i think center where we're going to teach people what we have learned over the last 20 years this is the only way that we come quickly

disseminate what we've learned because it's all about training and empowering people to also go out there and do it themselves in that way biden spoke jacks provides an example to local residents showing how day 2 can make a livin from protecting the forests on a while lot of interesting reports with plenty of inspiration for ways to take better care over our planet that's all from it off because these time i hope you're feeling to the show as much as the hot i am sandra trinity of signing off from kampala the next time sandra and for you our viewers if you want to find out more about the people on the project keep profiles today visit us online and also check out our social media and do be sure to join us again next week well a new edition of eagle africa i'm now it's a way so long without from lagos nigeria.

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