we take care of ourselves a good distance wash your hands if you can stay at home we're d.w.b. profusely we're working tirelessly to keep you informed on all of our platforms we're all in the studio and together we're making trying to stay safe everybody stays in you stay safe stay safe please stay safe. a one welcome to this edition of all environments show it off because i am sandra from kampala here in uganda of course we'll also be covering the events of the coroner a virus pandemic in africa here in uganda for example the looked on hustling to the

street side so news the poster 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 coverage 19 but here are the who africa we will continue to focus on the important green themes coming up this week. the environment needs volunteers to help more than ever nowadays to kenyans doing what they can to assist. with meat and on the usual environmental activists from senegal and we will introduce you to was pushy up until in ethiopia that had been hunted almost the

extinction. he's a famous on the streets of the senegalese capital the car 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 mode you for going to virus restrictions and might be cramping his style a bit but then vironment to activists work is paying off and he's determined to carry on the fight. oh. do feel has had to change tack in this fight against plastic waste with a word 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 accounts

mostly known and plastic complaining for more than 15 years he's been going around schools need more goods in markets like this one in the car and stopping plastic bags for people once instead within the meaning of work. well some people are put off by his unusual appearance he usually gets his message across. with a new trial for a big man ok don't take this bugsy just want to show a little time a t.v. start blasting lose this incident. 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 oil 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'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 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 a bridge if. everyone can do eat go to the fabrics tent 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 in the form of gas your very minute these are still. 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 dump site he had to take action people put he was crazy including his family but today he's. wife lisa couldn't be prouder of water husband has achieved to be able to. do much 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 what it was so i'm passionate today i'm happy so happy now i understand and i'm happy to see everyone is talking about me. that my intent is 16 the country's president awarded him the national order of merit more due has also helped his community plant around 600 trees and according to the slogan one house one tree it's been a long campaign but now many have come around to do so we often king even the

government is getting serious about enforcing the laws about single use plastics. i'm not allowing 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. one thread. once the curtain of a rest restrictions a leave to more 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 plastic west. 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 cell phones were thrown away he's

already transformed problems of them into artworks that have been shown in exhibitions in africa and for the field so here's this week's doing your bit. it's not easy to make a splash in the arts but if. kofi has done it his works are unique and arresting. and they give new purpose to discarded cell phones. 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 where so digitalized that allows us to be connected should also consider the environmental impact. 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. that does a 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. waste and it's not likely to get better. 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 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 unsalted rubbish and appear 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 and. the law what would you have thought what if. there are 300 ways pickers 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 look down 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. to collectors aren't in any more danger than before according to waste management official here braemar. because of the local boundary might be required to leave when all these. people have to be king and they will also become very blogs on the p.p. . but the lockdown means there is less commercial way street ching the dumps meaningless 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

standing up half an halts 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 ways to be incinerated so we are expecting that there would 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 being needed is a complete shift away from that model and that ideally we doesn't go to dump sites in the 1st place because to professional sorting sates from there goes to various

recycling composting gas or other we use or recycle 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 we need with management are going to have been we are. talking about and there is regulation on. the guides on how with management would be the only thing is now to enforce and ensure that people who wanted one now the money always nairobi resident richard can younger who says it's not enough to rely on personal responsibility and government regulation that the city. 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 on the way we should close this dump site permanently. nairobi's authorities have left the

city's waste because largely unregulated. now the city has 2 challenges to so the environmental problem and the coronavirus crisis. many of you will never have seen or heard. hardly surprising as it is a very rare form of cooking is what the called locally 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 line traditions now the quirky population is bouncing back. this way is hard to spend just a brief moment resting in the shade before seeking the safety of the herd. to be

star found only in ethiopia the largest population lives in the singular sanctuary in the south of the country an estimated $850.00 hard to be slaves here. almost 40 rangers tends to the antelope safety and well being chief warden tested it out so and his team want to keep the animals from going extinct. and i've already got everybody knowing that mama you know i was the uncovered. so they needed. to be pondered by. them from national community even though. 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 business 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. he killed human being. so if someone kills the how to be 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 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 yours a year from its sale. a little bit new couldn't. because some people benefit from the resources. like 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 it's 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. and i've been able to send my children to school with that salary. and i have a personal discipline that and i've been able to send all of them to school. to their cause i mean the one brother you know. nearly 40 species of mammals live here but a callous way is 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 not it is that this number is not. it 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 visitors 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 it sounds like a shoo in for an environmental magazine like it is it it and it is a process which i young months from total walking alone 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 landrover and t.-bo demo and 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 this week it's good to think. because there was a lot of. 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 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 done compared to conventional concrete and there are advantages that we'd all. like primary role matter to you but come from a place in that crowd from inside and. in some areas in the war but we use construction 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. yeah 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 this. kind of wall therefore you need to have a ventilation system and stuff like this whereas if you're going to think that 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. so being able to implement the cause of. africa being a huge achievement for us so all enable people to have. affordable safe decent and. the 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 1st concrete ready. 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 is. as a result of climate change and depletion of not sure resources. and good sondra like so many islands along this african coastline but the community of forests penned by enzio is helping people i adapt by planting trees changing their farming methods and keeping the the results i impressive we went through the time the island of course 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 angio 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 times and the island has put this to turn around. like anybody up to get somebody who now the community is very well versed in the issue of tree planting 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 groundwater brown and 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 a successful local communities regulate felling. among the people benefiting up 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. just to be hives now he has $75.00. i think what i can't do anything without a forest slug. when you hang behind it's like we've done here week at 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 new job just a couple of kilometers away is still in dire straits. but cocoa to in the past has

no clean drinking water and the land is degraded. this tree planting event is designed to help the islanders understand the importance of trees. when encourage them and help them in planting as well. 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 when you move. 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 featured an inspiring mix of small initiatives big projects and dedicated people i am sundra to know do please do keep safe and janus 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 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. duck. duck.

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