and i mean when you should finish the feasts you will have to see which job would go with. what he's going to get much more for right jeff dahmer. were to carjack i'm intrigued to know why is the difficult relationship between russia and the u.s. and between their presidents how does their rivalry and their dangers mutual admiration affect the rest of the world. starts august 3rd on d w. a one welcome to this edition overall environment show. i am some from kampala here in uganda of course will also be covering the events of the corn of virus pandemic in africa here in uganda for example the looked on husband to the street side so

news the poster dry up many people are clearly staying at home on the 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 here in africa as a result of coverage 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green beans coming up this week. the environment needs volunteers to help more than ever nowadays will mean to kenyans doing what they can to assist. with meat and on the usual environmental activists from senegal and we will introduce you to or specie of antelopes in ethiopia that have been hunted almost

the extinction. is a famous on the streets of the senegalese capital the car for his outlandish outfit they singlehanded 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 mode you for going to virus restrictions in my view cramping his style a bit but the environmental activists work is paying off and he's determined to carry on the fight. oh. to full has had to change tack in his fight against plastic waste with a wild in the grips of a pandemic 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 mostly known and plastic complaint 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 people once instead with the remains of work. well some people are put off by his unusual appearance he usually gets his message across. with a new trial for a black man i don't have this bugs i just want to show a little time to stop blasting and use this is little. more 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 before drinking from them she now stop to shop with them even though they're more expensive not all her customers want them 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 out and help people find alternatives such as making their own bugs 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 will cost 400 years of pollution are probably very good news as you. will see your more deuce passion for environmental protection began after he completed his military service

returning to the car he thought the city looked like a huge dump site he had to take action people put he was crazy including his family but today his. wife lisa couldn't be prouder of water husband has achieved you know i mean i knew 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. in 10 to 16 the country's president awarded him the national order of merit more due has also helped his community plant around 600 trees according to the slogan one house one tree it's been a long campaign but now many have come around to do so we of thinking even the government is getting serious about enforcing the laws about single use plastics

for. them with i'm not telling myself to stop entirely but i have to carry on the fight and push the authorities there's still a lot to do with the 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 youth encouraging them to be an example in this. piece of commerce one. 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 a gene will go some way towards winning the battle against plastic west. no. morning coffee has clearly got the plastic man's message when it comes to waste he's an artist in cote d'ivoire whose work 6 to highlight just how many cellphones

were thrown away he's already transformed fastens of them into art works that have been shown in exhibitions in africa and further afield now here's this week's doing your bit. it's not easy to make a splash in the arts but if new does a coffee has done it his works are unique and arresting. and they give new purpose to discarded cellphones. integrate old phones into my work to give them a 2nd life and to draw attention to the fact that our lives are so intertwined with technology or so digitalized that allows us to be connected but we should also consider the environmental impact of. new gets old 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 artist. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website. a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your story. the amount of garbage produced here. hasn't really been reduced to despite all the many ideas and initiatives that. processing waste and it's not likely to get better with this pandemic is it. well the corona virus is certainly having an impact although it's not all but in fact here in kenya's capital nairobi there is actually more waste landing on the garbage dumps because with less traffic

on the roads the west disposal trucks are getting through what is me 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 the 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 king young to earn their living collecting and sorting the waste but they live in fear of the coronavirus. what the people. there are 300 way speakers here. if they touch contaminated wait they won't wash their hands they'll do it in the evening at home or by then there i've 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. but 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 that. the water become governor they're using our blogs and the people. for the lockdown means there is less commercial way street ching the 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. and that increases the risk of infection

as daniel pattern holds he runs one of kenya's few recycling operations. a lot of mouth must glass and sanitizers and that waste ideally should be treated as more dangerous wheat and should ideally be incinerated so the government has been pushing a lot for that waste to be incinerated so we are 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 a massive environmental problems corona 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 we doesn't go to dump sites in the 1st place because 2 professional sorting sites from the air goes to various

recycling composting gas or other reuse 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. we obviously need with management out of $25.00 b.n. we are out of that to talk about and there is speculation on. the grades on how with management would be the only thing is now going of course and who are the people who will 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 city's. environmental problems need to be addressed more quickly. by the time the government identifies infected waste pickers as a source of danger it will be too late and since the neighborhood is growing anyway we should close this dump site permanently. frontal now nairobi's authorities have

left the city's waste because largely unregulated. now the city has 2 challenges to solve the environmental problem and the coronavirus crisis. that. many of you will never have seen. hardly surprising as it is a very rare form of antilla up cookie is what we called locally in it in 1000 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 lawn traditions now the population is bouncing back. this wanes hartebeest spends just a brief moments resting in the shade before seeking the safety of the herd swings

on to be a star found only in ethiopia the largest population lives in the singular sanctuary in the south of the country an estimated $850.00 how to be slaves here. almost 40 rangers tends to the antelope safety and well being chief warden tested so and his team want to keep the animals from going extinct. mama you know i. saw they need. to 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 sanctuary 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 visit here a year later they were about 70 poaching had become rampant even though the traditional governance 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. he killed human being. so if someone kills the how to be swine the beasts he will be a punished $100.00 at us. 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 to 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 town true for example local communities and the equivalent of about $180000.00 euros a year from its sale. of a new 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 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 the heart of beast has benefited me a lot. like at a salary. you know not being able to send my children to school with that salary. so i have regular children 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 it's 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 test to be done so believes the crisis could open the door to a new form of travel now it is the reason number he's not done. it in good numbers

compared to the. location of the center. so i hope. the future of. the sanctuary right. there were let's start focusing on the. nature based reasons. as they wait for the visitors return the rangers continue to protect the animals day and night. no in march in building a house without using summit to make the concrete but taking a substance 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 it all concrete is market ready it won't only be cheap but it will also offer 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 much of this week it's good to think. because there was a lot of. we are quite happy to see there in. london spent years researching cement free building materials at the swiss federal institute of technology in zurich cement is responsible for 80 percent of worldwide carbon emissions a more sustainable building material is long overdue lentil 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 dong . like primary role matter to you that come from a place in gravel and sand. in some areas in the war but we use construction waste the landfill most of the time and. they have 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 landreau 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 this. kind of wall therefore you need to have ventilation system and stuff like this whereas if you don't i think. there's a demand for the cement 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 of not. being able to implement the core of. africa a huge achievement for 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 earth concrete. so off to create sounds like a good idea for the environment now let's take a look at another example for the change for the better to design in the indian ocean. as a result of climate change and the depletion of not sure resources. indeed sondra like so many islands along this african coastline but the community forests penned by and geo is helping people i adapt by planting trees changing their farming methods and keeping the the results i impressive we went to the time the island of . pemba island to see for ourselves. nowadays it's

difficult to make your way through the dense woodland in cocoa time 10 years ago this land used to be barren activist. and his n.g.i. have brought it back to life. the organization encourages local communities to plant trees install solar panels build fuel efficient cooking style and harvest rainwater as a result the tons in the island has witnessed a turnaround. and i can about it up to give somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of tree planting and as i hear you know 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 ground water brown and dry what was once 1st time soil turned to dust and people have to import food. the organization has planted over 680000 fruit trees and forest trees

in cocoa. to make sure that the reforestation a 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 cutscene had just to be hives now he has 75. i think 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 one on the war. is now on the road to recovery. but the eyelets of new job 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 apprentice designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. when it when courage them and help them in planting as well then what 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 work with. 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. with come to the end of this week's equal africa which featured an inspiring mix of small initiatives big projects on and dedicated people i am sunda to not do please do keep safe and join us next week goodbye thanks for staying with us even doing the koan the number of infections appears to be on the increase in many african

countries and 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.

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