we are working tirelessly to keep you informed on all of our platforms we're all in this to get on together and we'll make it fit in. d.c. for everybody stacey stacey stay safe please stay safe. there. a warm welcome to our environment magazine africa after months of restrictions imposed because of the plan of various 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 we're 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 with the social entrepreneur in uganda who's using recycled plastic to make protective ratio to hospitals to find out about a new application form of water treatment in germany i would go to botswana to learn how dogs are helping to ensure that you watch out i kill. we starve in south africa here to lock down regulations have been eased in recent weeks but the effects are still noticeable. thing 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 employees and the birds of course.

such a the morning in cape town with a country still under lockdown this is generally not a lot happening outside it's a different. country because biggest backpack is home to 3000 ballots. and at this time of the day they only want to be fed. it's a party in the food qichen john t.v. and his team are getting breakfast for me they're in charge of the hungry primates . this is about i'd say roughly about 20 if you know their food and have nobody takes us a bar our tradition of everything. we obviously always disinfect all of all the 4 years 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

monthly food bill adds up 217-0000 grand they could fall into over 8000 ira's local companies provide their own half of that in sponsorship but that still leaves the park with a big bill to fort 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 coronavirus pandemic many to hillary is why we're asking almost daily on on facebook and back a body for donations we are asking in the media for donations but the deference this time if that 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 they don't only a skeleton has been present you took her on a virus regulations sunny ties of mosques and social distancing 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. food. and reek checks in on the patients of the hospital the park also functions as a sanctuary for seek and injured wildlife such as these poor little creature or the 1st one of birds that came in during lockdown because we still offer that service to the public. or whenever the little red eye does 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 hopefully join up with the others and be really feeling chilly. and recant his team hope that local tourist 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 thong 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 camera from senegal invented a basketball bit that makes throwing away litter a fun challenge. this team have designed a plane that's shaped like a basketball hoop then it is handmade by one of his friends each one goes in like a fishing. group in the bin are made by the local metal worker it takes around to see the finished one basketball bit cody 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 the right yet. 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 bins of the placed around the city of me i mean a 2 hour drive from seneca is capital. that you know plans. i'm installing more bitter hooch 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 share 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 not making this field that are ardently needed in the hospitals all the plastic parts like the straps on the plastic waste which often comes from the hospitals themselves. oh. when he gave the works of gulu hospital in northern uganda on awards not specifically for favored 19 patients nonetheless as 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 to. my

1st cigarette i protect myself were 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 our processes a quick go 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 officials how alot of the hospitals here in uganda don't have protective face shields for the doctors and so we're like oh face shields those are made from the 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 we can make new face shields 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 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 mini collection points in different parts of and initially what used to happen is that the plastics would be mixed with our other categories or voiced and

dumped at the landslide so when we made the bin men from our plastic bottles it makes before realize that we're just been specifically for plastics. are in position to like dump their plastics in the bin. at their recycling facility cuoco and balcombe attending to future challenges they want to share their locally designed 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 harder in germany a company is really touching 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 what. 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 see which 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 poppy that's in it and therefore we are lease 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 to 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 where ganz 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 a plasma physics. this plasma coming come on the force you can think of plasma small bolts of lightning which carry a strong electric charge that can split molecules in the water and thereby purify the water 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 there to protect the environment but traditional ways of life and the knowledge of will digitas people can also help preserve the endangered 100 tons the most forest in kenya is home to the people who live from and with the forest together with the organic an engine or has developed with it's of using be a forest sustainably for example by sitting up and easily accessible behind. 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 the fields. who have been forced to cut it out subsystem funding to them to keep the. problem is going but only.

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 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 bee hives on the ground in the a.o. we find opportunities. even when they do that to kill us. well when harvest. 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 of his staff's isms today the reddish black honey is sold out but there's still some b.

breads left pollen mixed with nectar. the beekeeper's will also be able to sell this. people have started learning that these are not. fuel that leak we are not trying to be given because even the tool of talking about not satisfy the demand which is coming we have. immunity of. they still have their traditional behaves. in the long time it's in their interest only by preventing further deforestation well the yanks and their traditions be able to survive. well we wonder how can we reconcile the interests of nature and 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 our company their herds of cows and goats are shepherd dogs the dogs to the predator of the way but not only that by making sure that few on them all get killed they killed the farmer happy and happy farmers are much less likely to hunt down and kill predators of like the endangered chito. families in western botswana have to be vigilant summer in the grass itchy time might be lurking every year families like jeffrey moyer lose around 2 percent of their livestock to credit. for small hit is the figure is even higher as they often can't afford security fencing. around fifty's and.

of course. the kid out on the prairie no one term it wanted to but you got the deal about a good kill serving it on what doesn't 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 a nearby farm doctrine economy modise it takes care of the puppies and raises them to become part of the herd them staying with them day and night to protect them against threats.

66 the dog saw for. we turn to. please more dogs and trying to help or for most of the new hooves and in the hands on the other hand. she tarzan was one. of. 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 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 the 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 tips of actually taking on the control as well as carnivorous that's pacific actually typical so how you know for example that is so generally has a bad reputation among farmers they 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 i appreciate why they rendered to me. so i will be some people. luke you. said what if it were a dog. 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 there 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. of.

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