about something. good people what ever it takes to not running all. media now to. explain the recent run up a w. . made for a minus. a one welcome to this edition of the environment show africa i am sandra teen nobody from kampala in uganda of course will also be covering the effects of the koran of virus pandemic in africa here in uganda for example the looked on husband to the street side newspapers to dry up many people are clearly staying at home and minimizing quote hello how is the situation in nigeria for you and of course the

neighboring countries hi sandra and hive us a big hello for me in lagos nigeria indeed the pandemic is far from over here have to unfortunately say but because people are staying at home the use of cashless digital payment systems has risen by almost 15 percent in the last few months i have a feeling that a lot of things are going to change in africa as a result of coping 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green femurs coming up this week. the environment needs volunteers to help more than ever nowadays will need to kenyans doing what they can to assist. with an on the usual environmental activist from senegal and we will introduce you to us but she up until in ethiopia that had been hunted almost to extinction. is a famous on the streets of the senegalese capital to call for his outlandish outfit

a single handed come pain to raise awareness of the plastic waste problem children don't know whether they should laugh at him or be afraid when they see or meet the so-called plastic man mold you for going to virus restrictions and might be cramping his style a bit but the environmental activists work is paying off and he's determined to carry on the fight. to full has had to change tack in his. against plastic waste over the world in the grades of up and to make he's only 2 right now is his smartphone but that's not likely to draw nearly as much attention. this is what he surely looks like more do it in a girl's most ring on until plastic complain for more than 15 years he's been going around schools neighborhoods in markets like this one in the car and stopping

plastic bags for paper once instead of work. where some people are put off by his unusual appearance he usually gets his message across. with the good news out of a bad man ok don't take this bugsy just want to show a little time to stop blasting lose this instead. he ties the plastic bags he gets to his suit to stop them from polluting the environment. like many cities in the world has a plastic pollution problem i don't 10 percent of the cars worst is plastic best and most of it ends up in the streets model for doesn't hesitate to engage people in conversation is made you know goodness so she's already switched to paper cups. maybe not explains that customers prefer drinking from them she now stalked her shop with them even though they are more expensive not all her customers want the

she sees but she thinks drinking from the paper cups is also safer. through an association he heads more do wants to achieve a 0 was sent to go and help people find alternatives such as making their own bounce out of fabric something that's relatively easy to do here so. i'll go live under the. everyone can do eat go to the fabric stand and buy some fabric ask a tailor to make you a bag when it gets a bit dirty you can wash and reuse it several times it's much better than using a plastic bag. that took one second to make 20 seconds to use and because 400 years of police uniform very many good moves are still recoverable. more duce passion for environmental protection began after he completed his military service returning to the car he thought the city looked like a huge damn sight be hard to take action people thought he was crazy including his

family but today his wife lisa couldn't be prouder of water husband has achieved it will mean new michael in the beginning people will tell me he was crazy because the way he dressed up and it's really hard to me and i didn't understand that but he was so passionate today i'm happy so happy now i understand and i'm happy to see everyone is talking about me. that much in 2016 the country's president awarded him the national order of merit more due has also helped his community plant around $600.00 trees and according to the slogan one house one tree it's been a long campaign but now many have come around to lose weight of thinking even the government is getting serious about enforcing laws about single use plastics for. them with i'm not selling myself to stop entirely but i have to carry on the fight

and push the authorities there's still a lot to do a book with a city that i love it could take another 20 years before we pick up all the tapes of plastic in the ground and i'll be behind the you encouraging them to be an example in this. case of commerce. once they couldn't of a rest restrictions or leave to do will be able to continue his work in honest in the meantime perhaps the growing awareness of hygiene will go some way towards winning the battle against the. so. kofi has clearly got the plastic man's message when it comes to waste he's an artist in cote d'ivoire whose work seeks to highlight just how many cell phones we've thrown away he's already transformed thousands of them into artworks that have been shown in exhibitions in africa and for the field now here's this week's doing.

it's not easy to make a splash in the arts but if new doesn't feel has done it his works are unique and arresting. and phones from several sources what he can't use he passes on to recyclers after breaking them up he glues pieces on to canvases like mosaic tiles. in 2 years manu has used parts from around 24000 phones his works have made him a prominent contemporary devouring an artist. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website. tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your story.

the amount of garbage produced here. hasn't really been reduced just by all the many ideas and initiatives that are voiding processing upcycling waste and it's not likely to get better with this pandemic is it. well the coronavirus is certainly having an impact although it's not all bad in fact here in kenya's capital nairobi there is actually more west landing on the garbage dumps because with less traffic on the roads the west dispose of trucks getting through is the is that good or bad for waste money isn't it africa went to find out. in the middle of a nairobi residential area amidst a coronavirus lockdown this waste dump is just one of many in and around kenya's capital. every day hundreds of tons of unsorted rubbish end up here some of

it highly toxic. people like richard tin young to earn their living collecting and sorting the waste but they live in fear of the coronavirus. so now what with me i thought what the people. there are 300 way speakers here. if they touch contaminated waste they won't wash their hands they'll do it in the evening at home by then their love already contracted the disease so now your. volume of trash hasn't lessened despite the coronavirus lockdown nairobi's roads are less crowded right now so the municipal waste or 30 can deliver more ways to the dumps than before the crisis some $3000.00 times a day. for the collectors aren't in any more danger than before according to waste management official here pretty much. because of the lockdown they might be

required to leave when all these. people have to be king and the will to become governor very blogs and the people. for the lockdown means there is less commercial way street chinglish dumps meaning less valuable waste that can be recycled. and a lot of supermarkets have gone over to handing out disposable masks and gloves to their customers some of that lands on the dumps or on the streets so the pandemic has increased the amount of medical waste. that increases the risk of infection standing up tough and holds he runs one of kenya's few recycling operations. a lot of mouth mass glass hand sanitizers and that waste ideally should be treated as more dangerous weeds and should ideally be incinerated so the government has been pushing a lot for that ways to be incinerated so we're expecting that there will be some

legislative changes and basically stricter codes or rules for how that kind of waste is generally mannish cities like nairobi were already struggling with massive environmental problems carona crisis has only made matters worse lower middle income areas don't even have waste collection systems in place. what is really needed is a complete shift away from that model and that ideally which doesn't go to dump sites in the 1st place because to professional sorting sites from the air goes to various recycling composting gas or other we use or recycling mechanisms and then ideally then a damn site only it's left to be used for about 5 to 10 percent of the waste that cannot be recycled. the authorities say that the massive catch all dump sites are already on the way out. of this one with management act 25 pm we are out there to talk about and there is

a big commitment. to guide on how with management would be the only thing is now going of course and whoever you want to be disappointed will now be mining though is nairobi resident richard can younger who says it's not enough to rely on personal responsibility and government regulation but the cities and. our a mental problems need to be addressed more quickly. by the time the government identifies infected waste pickers as a source of danger it'll be too late and since the neighborhood is growing anyway we should close this dump site permanently. robi's all 37 left the cities waste because largely unregulated. now the city has 2 challenges to solve the environmental problem and the coronavirus crisis. many of you will never have seen. hardly surprising as it is a very rare form of on to the cookie is what the called locally in eat in

a to ethiopia in english it is known as swans to be used in the 1990 s. the subspecies when nearly hunted to extinction but the local roma community banded together to ensure its survival in part by following age old blunt traditions now the quirky population is bouncing back. this wayne's hartebeest spends just a brief moment resting in the shade before seeking the safety of the herd seem want to keep the animals from going extinct. but i've already got really cutting down your mama you know i was young got nobody. saw they needed special i think you will be funded by. the international community even. poachers used to be the biggest threat but these days it's hyenas and jackals young antelope are especially at risk the rangers have their work cut out for them and the patrol the century around the

clock and will shoot an attack in predator if need be their dedication a spate of this year about how for the young antelope survived. in the early 1990 s. there were an estimated 3500 hard to base here a year later there were about 70 poaching had become rampant even though the traditional governing system of the aroma people took takes respect for nature to put an end to poaching clan leaders agreed on strict penalties the rangers help win local people over to the system if anyone. caught poaching at the beast it will be punished us. he killed human being. so if someone kills the how to be swine the beasts he will be upon is to $100.00 cuts. but penalties alone are not enough to deter poaching. the

antelope can only survive because the sanctuary benefits local people they're permitted to harvest the dry grass that the antelope no longer need. it might not look like it but the hay is a valuable resource it's used in touch through for example local communities and the equivalent of about 180000 euro is a year from its sale. non-locally gobble i mean you couldn't. because some people benefit from the resources. by cutting the grass and selling it. now the resource is being protected. unlike in the past when people used to build houses in the park on. monday but thought bob. over the years this century has lost about a quarter of its land to farm in an illegal settlement. leaving only about

58 square kilometers that makes protecting the remaining hartebeest all the more important when a small herd left the protected area in search of water local people helped return the antelope to the sanctuary instead of hunting them for their meat this century is a boon to all both animals and people who. are working here and protecting our to beast has benefited me a lot. of all i get a salary you know that you know i've been able to send my children to school with that salary. and i have a casual dress and i've been able to send all of them to school. so that i mean there were a number of other you know. nearly 40 species of mammal live here but a callous way it's hard to be century has never drawn large numbers of tourists now the court of virus has put tourism on hold for didn't believe the crisis could open

the door to a new form of travel not a definite reason number it's not just that. it is in good numbers compared to the . location of the sun. so i hope. the future of the. sanctuary is bright. the world let's start focusing on the. nature based reasons. as they wait for the visit is return the rangers continue to protect the animals day and night. no a much in building a house without using summit to make the concrete but taking a substitute made of recycled roll materials instead sounds like a shoo in for an environmental magazine like it is it did and it is a process which i young months from toggle is walking on in switzerland with

a patna when the concrete is market ready it won't only be cheap but it will also over a long time climate protection benefits will. 2 men with one vision. lead lando and t.-bo demo one to transform the construction industry with cement free concrete with support from businesses they're constructing a display house it's their 1st attempt to use the material in their impishness project it's kind of an amazing feeling we didn't think. this week it's good to think. because there was a lot of. we are quite happy to see there in. london are spent years researching cement free building materials at the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 8 percent of worldwide carbon emissions a more sustainable building material is long overdue land will founded on

construction sites where every year millions of tons of clay based excavation materials are disposed of but when they're mixed with a naturally occurring mineral and water they result in a construction material that's more environmentally friendly than standard concrete or the corporate cement free of concrete is up to 90 percent. c o 2 production then compared to conventional concrete there are advantages that we'd all. like primary whole much to you but come from a place and like gravel and sand. in some areas in the war but we use confession waste the landfill most of the time and. they are much as cheap to access therefore like and reduce the price of the material.

of this earth concrete can be processed more or less like standard concrete. but it currently around half the cost. yes the landrover was inspired by building practices in his home country he grew up in togo where clay or earth houses are a common sight in many countries in africa cement housing this. kind of wall therefore you need to have ventilation system and stuff like this where you don't need something that there's a demand for the cement free concrete in industrialized nations but also in countries where affordability is a priority including in parts of africa where millions of new homes need to be built in the upcoming years. it's. our dream and. so being able to implement. this in africa is

a huge achievement for us so all. the people to have. affordable safe decent and. same time sustainable accommodation. the display home is one step closer to fulfilling that dream the good trying ones will undergo further tests as the 2 scientists work to optimize their furth concrete. so author who create sounds like a good idea for the environment now let's take a look at another example for the change for the bit to design in the indian ocean is in jeopardy as a result of climate change and the depletion of not sure resources. indeed sondra like so many islands the longest coastline but the community forests penned by in geo is helping people i adapt by planting trees changing their farming methods and

keeping the the results i impressive we went through the time i learned a quarter of the course of pemba island to see for ourselves. nowadays it's difficult to make your way through the dense woodland. 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist. and his engineer has brought it back to life. the organization encourages local communities to plant trees install solar panels build fuel efficient cooking states and harvest rainwater. as a result the times and the island has witnessed a turnaround. and i can be about it up to give somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of tree planting and as i hear a new combo i mean when i when they were. some years ago the people of cocoa to use slash and burn farming methods leading to massive deforestation. most rivers and

the groundwater dry what was once fertile soil turned to dust and people had to import food. the organization has planted over 680000 fruit trees and forest trees in cocoa. to make sure that the reforestation is successful local communities regulate felling. among the people benefiting beekeepers the trees provide bees with a well protected and shady twining place and a source of food when they're flowering. 2 years ago saloon cassim had just to be hives now he has 75. what i can't do anything without a forest slug. when you hang the hives like we've done here we get best quality honey it's clean and the bees can't be attacked by other insects. and we're going on a war. is now on the road to recovery. but the eyelets of

mage out just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. like cocoa to in the past has no clean drinking water and the land is degraded. this tree planting adventist designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. but when it when courage them and help them in planting as well then then when the rains come we work together with the communities when we visit them and plant trees in their areas for the purpose of ongoing conservation. the organizations activities are funded by the european union the aim is to enable communities to become self-sufficient by means of our great business. we've come to the end of this week's equal africa which future an inspiring mix of small initiatives big projects and dedicated people i am sundered to no doubt please do

keep safe and join us next week good bye thanks for staying with us even during the kona the number of infections appears to be on the increase in many african countries just remember when you protect yourself you also protect your environment a heartfelt goodbye from me as well in lagos nigeria and do stay healthy see you again. dum. dum.

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