toughest is for me. is for. beethoven his 1st. band beethoven his 1st. beethoven is for every man. beethoven 2020. 5th anniversary here on d w. w. w. a warm welcome to our environment magazine africa after months of restrictions imposed because of the poor have been going to public life is slowly returning to normal that's 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 colonia to how are you doing hello sandra well good here and indeed it's mean 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 we've lined up for this week with a social entrepreneur in uganda who is using recycled plastic to make protective ratio so how often do you find out about a new vision for the water treatment in germany i would go to botswana to learn how dogs are helping to ensure that you watch as 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 austyn away and nature reserves and zoos are struggling financially the current about this crisis is 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 employee morning in cape town with a country still under lockdown this is generally not a lot happening outside it's a different. life some shereen because biggest backpack is home to 3000 bags and. at this time of the day they only want to be fed. cut em in the food qichen john t.v. and his team are getting breakfast ready they're in charge of the hungry primates. this is about i'd say roughly about 20 if you knows our food and it normally takes us of our tradition of everything. we obviously always disinfect all 'd before we use it and so the cycle that. preparing meals for hundreds of different species require a lot of work and at the vast range of food fruits veggies meat and grain. the

monkey food bill adds up 217-0000 grant they could go into over 8000 owners local companies provide their own half of that in sponsorship but that still leaves the park with a big bill to fort i don't present they're not receiving any entrance fees to cover the bill the park peels its nose at the end of march because of the coronavirus pandemic many to him is like we're asking almost daily on on facebook and back a body for donation we are asking in the media for donations but the difference this time if that everybody's asking for donations and at the same time everybody is struggling for 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 in the park

employees 40 people from the nearby community but you don't only a skeleton crew has been present you took it on a virus regulations sonny ties of mosques and social distancing are all part of the routine work. it's a different story amongst the screw montes and green ted limos. the only one to get the best bits. well the animals are enjoying their food. and wreaked checks in on the patients of the hospital the park also functions as a sanctuary for sick and injured like life such as these poor little creature a little one of the birds that came in during the lockdown because with software that overthrew the public the floor whenever the little red eyed duff that came in during the week possibly about. 12 days old or so face going to need some care from

i for the next few weeks and then will join up with the others and be released eventually and recant his team hope that local tourists will be able to visit one of my own so that these colorful i'm not easy 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 bit that makes throwing away litter a fun challenge he and his team have designed a pain that's shaped like a basketball hoop the neck is handmade by one of his friends each one both in like a fish in. the loop in the banner made by the local metal worker it takes around 2 days 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 dump their junk. they call their i.q. . 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 pins. so far for basketball games of a place around the city of me i mean a 2 hour drive from seneca is capital. that you know plans on install. more bitter groups starting at school. and how about you if you're 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. 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 exactly here in northern uganda i recycling company was aborted its operations tucker tucker is not making this shields that are needed in the hospitals all the plastic parts like the straps on the plastic west which often comes from the hospitals themselves. oh oh. when you can gauge the works it gives you 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. like i can't get close to. my

1st year i protect myself they're all. a lot of what katie 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 that plastic. he's burdensome for the hospital but not for peta 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 our processes 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 big 19

pandemic instead of shattering that 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 shields for the doctors and so we're like oh those are made from far 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 patients 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 shut it bring it back to small pieces and then we can make a new face showed a new products from it again the face shields cost around 2 year olds 50 each cuoco and balcombe say the company has so far sold about a 1000 of them and for each one sold they didn'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 mini collection points in different parts of the group and initially what used to happen is that the plastics would be mixed with other categories of

waste and dumped at the landslide so when we made this being made from our plastic bottles it makes before realize that when there's been a specific reason for plastics. are in position to like dump the plastics in the bin. 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's a good example of how little it takes to make a big difference sometimes it is harder in germany a company is 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 it's actually one of

those they are still in the test phase. the 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 populous in and therefore we are least the treated waste water we are 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 of 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 that 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 out 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 where you ends 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. in this plasma coming 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 damage of those of us on i 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 digitals 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 an engine all developed using the forest sustainably for example by sitting up and easily accessible beehives. 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. thing to keep. probably is going to go out and lee.

like other kenyans because of the circumstances that. surround us more and more of them our forest is being lost and the losing their land while the whole 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 the a.o. we find opportunities. even when the do that to kill us. when harvest when it's the new beehives are 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 many visitors. today the reddish lakhani is sold out but there's still some be

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

a balancing act what the 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 breeds are raised on trains to accompany their herds of cows and goats are shepherd dog the dogs of the predator of the way but not only that by making sure that few of them all get killed they keep the promise happy and happy bombers are much less likely to hunt down and kill predators like the endangered cheetah. families in western botswana have to be vigilant summer in the grass a cheetah might be lurking every year if ominous like jeffrey moyer lives 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 50 zone.

of course. they get out on the paranoid term it wanted to budget at the dinner but it can kill serving it when one does kill. to protect their livestock many goats head issues oh poison 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 at cheetah conservation botswana an environmental organization based on only about i farm dog trainer conny 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. oh.

yeah. 6060 dog so far in this. we turn to. police more dogs and trying to help or for most of you who is here and in the hands on the other hand to do more she tours and will form. 3 or 4 trained dogs protect the flock their presence and barking alone is often enough to keep predators at bay. and they should have like this are passive and 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 cheetos 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 they keep natural prey and control their prey of course also tips of actually taking on their control as well as corner for us that's pacific if she'd have it also high enough for example that is 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 why they're. cutting so i will be some people. luke you. said what if it were a dog. both of us. 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 are their lives to the dogs that watch over the flux in the kalahari.

beautiful animals but she just other fosters land animals on the planet and can reach speeds of 100 kilometers but. i've always seem to have spread by 2 but the good news is inextricably will be back for you take care of yourself and stay healthy until then i'm now it's right away. 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 owned on a social media platforms for now stay in touch and to kill yourselves i am sunda to no good here in kampala uganda good buy.

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