miss the most amazing those who look at me the way my arm said. i am an honest soul the original n. the secret of the lisa starts john 3rd d. w. . here. doug. a warm welcome to our environment magazine africa after months of restrictions imposed because of the poor nowhere else pandemic public life is slowly returning to normal that applies here in uganda as well as to many other countries in africa to find out more let's ask my co-host in nigeria hello neal to how are you doing hello sandra well good here and good it's been wonderful seeing how life is slowly

returning to normal still i'm also glad that i'm here that i reporters can finally travel and produce reports in their own countries here's a look at what you've lined up for this week when a social entrepreneur in uganda who's using recycled plastic to make protective facial to hospitals to find out about a new app is in form of water treatment in germany i would go to botswana to learn how dogs are helping to ensure that you watch you just i kill. we start of in south africa here to lock down regulations have been eased in recent weeks but the effects are still noticeable tourist are staying away and nature reserves and zoos are struggling financially the current about crisis a severely impacted south africa's largest bird reserve the world of birds normally it is filled with visitors but those days it's empty apart from a few employees and the birds of course.

such a the morning in kept with a country still under lockdown this is generally not a lot happening outside it's a different. life some sharing because biggest bangkok is home to 3 calls and bugs and. at this time of the day they only want to be fed. putting them in the food qichen john t.v. and his team are getting breakfast for maybe they're in charge of the hungry primates. this is about i'd say roughly about 20 kilos of food and of norman it takes us of our tradition of everything. we obviously always disinfect all of all the 4 years and so the cycle that they. are preparing meals for hundreds of different species require a lot to walk and at the vast range of food fruits veggies meat and grain.

the monthly food bill adds up 217-0000 grant they give a little over 8 pounds and only runs local companies provide that on top of that in sponsorship but that still leaves the park with a big bill to forward and at present they are not receiving any interest fees to cover the bill the park closes its nose at the end of march because of the current of us pandemic many johanna treeck the only is right we are asking almost daily on on facebook and back a body for donations we are asking in the media for donations but the deference best time if everybody's asking for donations and at the same time everybody is struggling so donations are coming in very slowly at the moment. 10 o'clock it's feeding time priest is one of 15 stuff members currently on duty the park

employees 40 people from the nearby community but down only a skeleton crew has been present you took it on a virus regulations sonny ties of mosques and social distancing all part of the routine work. it's a different story amongst the screw monkees and drink ted limos. the only one to get the best bits. well the e-mails. and reach checks in on the patients of the hospital the park also functions as a sanctuary for seek and injured like life such as these poor little creature or little firm one after birth that came in during lockdown because we still offer that service to the public. whenever a little red i doubt that came in during the week possibly about. 12 days old or so

face going to need some care from us for the next few weeks and then will join up with the other thing we really feel in chile and recant his team hope that local tourists will be able to visit one of my own so that these colorful noisy sure can go on. ok so now we had around 250500 kilometers north west of san diego where thumb young people have come up with an idea designed to motivate the public to dispose of garbage properly so it doesn't litter the streets they added a cool slogan and the dunk your junk campaign was ready to go we find out how they are coming along in this week's doing your bit. many cities in west africa don't have enough public trash cans as a result litter often ends up on the streets. to encourage people to dispose of

their rubbish properly for the camera from senegal invented a basketball game that makes throwing away litter a fun challenge. and his team have designed a brain that's shaped like a basketball hoop the neck is handmade by one of his friends each one goes in like a fishing net. the group in the bin are made by the local metal worker it takes around $26.00 to finish one basketball bit foday and his friends pay for everything themselves their bins are placed on public spaces so passers by have somewhere to junk their junk. they call the right year. which means i score. i. we want in the habit of putting rubbish in the bin here. so for a long time i ask myself how can we solve this. and what would it take to get people

to have the reflex of using a trash can. that's how i got the idea of making basketball bins. so far for basketball bins of the place around the city of me i need a 2 hour drive from seneca as capital. bitching no plans. i'm installing more glitter hoops starting at schools. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website oh send us a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. what a great idea i like to try and see whether i can score a point myself i'm always amazed by how much imagination young people here in

africa show when it comes to dealing with trash problems recycling and reusing brings saves cost and protect the environment and now during the current about it can even help save lives. here in northern uganda i recycling company was a reboot of operations. is now making less fields that are ardently needed in the hospitals all the plastic parts like the stripes on the plastic west which ringback often comes from the hospitals themselves. oh. when you can gauge the works in hospital in northern uganda on awards not specifically for favored 19 patients nonetheless is a frontline health care worker she's upgraded her personal safety precautions. it's very is a full and very important in this chain more like i can't get close contact confessions

during my 1st year i protect myself they're all. a lot of what he does is administer medicine mostly via drip she often has to throw away more than 20 empty drip bottles in a single shift disposing of all. plastic is burdensome for the hospital but not for peter or cuoco and his team. we normally twice in the month and whenever we come to pick their waste we take about 10 socks 10 plus sucks but we use in the process is a quick oh is a community and environmental activist and his business partner page balcombe is an engineer from the us together they founded tech attack a plastics recycling company based in gulu they had just started producing pavers and tiles out of plastic trash when uganda went into lockdown because of the cave

in 1000 pandemic instead of shattering their company they switched to producing essential protective gear for medical personnel fighting the pandemic. we especially heard about the need for fish shields how a lot of the hospitals here in uganda don't have protective face shield for the doctors and so we're like oh those are made from from plastics and that's what talk a talk of plastics does maybe we can do something to help tucker tucker employs 14 young people to handle the production 1st they start by cutting the number plastic material off the bottles then they wash them and leave them to dry in the sun. then they shred the plastic the full melting and molding it into frames after attaching the screen and the headbands the fake shields are ready to be used. these space shows they can be reused they can be disinfected in use again by the doctors in the

medical stuff but if for some reason they get broken or like even the scrap that we have from production we can take it back to our shredder and we should it bring it back to small pieces and then we can make new face shields new products from it again the face shields cost around 2 year as 50 each cuoco and balcombe say the company has so far sold about a 1000 of them and for each one sold they don't need one to a hospital in the region. in gulu plastic litter can often be found in the streets. tucker tucker is now working with major sources of such trash like markets and restaurants to get rid of it. so we've established a couple of our mini collection points in different parts of the loop and initially what used to happen is that the plastics would be making about other categories of

waste and dumped at the landslide so when we made this being made from our plastic bottles it makes before realized that well there's been a specific reason for plastics. are in position to like down there plastics in the bin. but they're recycling facility cuoco and balcombe attending to future challenges they want to share their locally designs technology with other recycling operations that too plastic waste could be turned into reusable products that would create jobs and protect the environment and could even help save lives. what a good example of how little it takes to make a big difference sometimes it is hard in germany companies researching how to purify dirty water more efficiently and the best qualities the hydrogen created as a byproduct can be used to fuel cars sounds incredible but is actually one of those

they are still the test phase. big cities generate a lot of waste water. here in berlin much of it gets processed at this sewage treatment plant. it deals with the effluent of more than a 1000000 people a quarter of the city's population. the water passes through a series of filter beds. within a day 98 percent of the impurities are removed. nature deals with the other 2 percent after the water is fed back into the outside world. with before we release the treated waste water we add a lot of oxygen to make sure there's enough in our lakes and rivers for the fish and other life forms. as you can see it creates foam but only briefly it's entirely biological and it soon disappears over there is gone already. the process of

purifying waste water is complex. samples are taken a various stages in the process for analysis in the plants lab. the water is brown because it contains lots of microorganisms more than 200 species that are added on purpose so they can do their job eat up dirt in the water. when they finish their work what's left over is sewage sludge. it's then fed into bio gas digesters. the gas that's produced their powers turbines to generate electricity to run the treatment plant. what's then left over is process water which is still pretty dirty it can contain compounds that produce ammonia which is toxic to fish so this process water has to be purified some more. we use

a biological process to clean the water we deploy specialist microorganisms different from the ones used in the 1st stage of the process. this 2nd treatment step is complex and expensive. that's why gans hunger comes in. his company is developing techniques to improve the water purification process and make it cheaper. he uses samples from the treatment plant for experiments in his lab. for him wastewater is a resource a raw material and he hopes to make money with it one day. the violet light shows the purifying process is underway. it involves some pretty

advanced plasma physics. has come on the force if you can think of plasma small both of lightning which carry a strong electric charge that can split molecules in the water and thereby purify the water on the tunes. the hydrogen produced can be used as a source of energy. it can be mixed with bio gas to create a fuel suitable to power a vehicle. this company already runs on it the company's test facility can currently purify 200 liters of waste water a day the facility itself is powered in an environmentally friendly manner with wind and solar energy the next step for graph force is to build a larger test facility at the water treatment plant itself.

many people think high tech solutions are the answer to protect the environment but traditional ways of life and the knowledge of all digits people can also help preserve the endangered hobbit and the most forest in kenya is home to the people who live from and with the forest together with the organic and all developed with ends of using the forest sustainably for example by sitting up and he's an obsessive behinds. this is dangerous work the people of the mao forest keep their beehives high up in the trees but the modest amount of honey these hunter gatherers harvest isn't enough anymore here in western kenya forests are being felled to make way for corn and to solve a fields. we have been forced to cut it out subsystem from the flu

to keep. from is going to start and lee we need to like other kenyans because all this says that. around us more and more of them our forest is being lost and the old losing their land when the wide number of community leaders have decided to breed seedlings so they can be forest they're growing mainly native trees the preferred species of wild bees. the old yet have also started using modern beehives on the ground. in there you know we find approximately. even when the do that to kill us. well when harvest when it's the new beehives easier to access 12 groups of beekeepers have joined together to form a collective honey is a lucrative business. we don't have. because we have so militarist us. today the reddish black honey is sold out but there's still some b.

bread left pollen mixed with nectar the beekeepers will also be able to sell this. people have started learning that these are not. poor little that leak we're not trying to improve even because even the tool of talking about can not satisfy the demand which is upcoming we have other communities. this still have the traditional behaves. in the long term it's in their interest. only by preventing further deforestation well the eggs and the traditions be able to survive. well we wonder how can we reconcile the interests of nature and the environment with the economy it is or is

a balancing act what the organic people in kenya are trying to do with beekeeping is also being tried by another initiative in botswana with dogs can you tell us more about that. gladly sondra a local dog we've raised on trains to accompany the herds of cows and goats are shepherd dog the dogs to the predator of the way but not only that by making sure that few animals get killed they keep the promise happy unhappy bombers are much less likely to hunt down and kill pretty tough like then being judge ito. families in western botswana have to be vigilant summer in the grass itchy time might be lurking every year if obama's like to lose around 2 percent of their livestock to have a chance. to feel small hit is the figure is even higher as they often con to food security fencing. around fifty's and.

of course they get out on the pen one time if you wanted to but you got the dealer but it can kill 7 and what does kill. to protect the livestock many goats head issues oh police and predators. but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their heads to keep the big cats away. the families keep the local mixed breed dog which is well suited to the harsh environment. the idea was born and she's a conservation books one a an environmental organization based on only about a farm doctor in a county modise it takes care of the puppies and raises them to become part of the herd and staying with them day and night to protect them against threats. well.

66 the dog saw 4 in the. turn to. please more dogs and trying to hold or for most of the new hooves and in the hands on the other hand to do more she tours and was one of. 3 or 4 trained dogs protect the flock their presence and barking alone is often enough to keep predators at bay initiatives like this are part of an large a strategy to keep livestock from being harmed by wild animals. the wildlife organization also conducts research. michelle crow is the coordinator. she uses camera traps to learn more about cheetahs and develop solutions for human

wildlife conflict. the greatest numbers of cheetahs can be found in southern parts of africa they are skilled predators that can reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour making them the fastest land animals but these days the natural range is severely reduced the destruction of their habitat targeted killings by farmers and the hunt for their fur has brought them to the brink of extinction. predators such as cheetah their form the top of the ecosystem naked natural prey of control and prey of course also to fight you taking on the control as well as corner for us that's pacific if she'd have it also high enough for example to do so generally has a bad reputation among farmers a very important day clean up park and in this way also clean out diseases in the landscape. since the program was launched in 2015 many farmers have

stopped killing cheetahs for different moyo the program has been a success. thanks to his dogs he hasn't lost a single goat in the last 5 years by a blue shirt like the rendered. so i will be some people will go live a. long queue. he said if it were to. bring a few of us on mars. many species in africa still survive and co-exist in non protected wildlife areas ensuring humans and animals can live side by side remains a challenge thanks to conservation efforts scientists estimate that today they are some 7000 cheetahs living in the wild. and some of them their lives to the dogs that watch over the flux in the kalahari.

beautiful animals the teacher of the fosters live animals on the planet and can reach speeds of up to 100 kilometers but. i've always seem to outspread by 2 but the good news is next week we will be back to you take care of yourself and stay healthy until then i'm now outside way. from lagos nigeria it is time for me to say goodbye to you can keep in touch with us you can always find more information about the environment and when a website and on the social media platforms for now stay in touch and take kill yourselves i am sunda to no good here in kampala uganda good buy. go. girl. girl.

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