fact has blood on it from the ones that have yet to seal. what should be done with the stone or from africa. this is being hotly debated on both continents. stoneman so we'll start september 7th on d w. hello and welcome to the environment magazine co-produced by n.t.v. here in uganda china's t.v. in nigeria and in germany i am sundra to nokia and with me today i was always a micro present and new to hum of new how are you today i don't know their son jack i am just fine thank you very much and i want all come to you odd to viewers out

there we have a lot in store for you on today's program so let's take a quick look at what's lined up today. in senegal we visit some students who are thinking with a new solar car. in germany we hear about a push to make textiles on look we saw through. can you how we learn once again how crucial it is to protect our water resources. first we had to the south of the continent south africa's energy comes almost exclusively from coal fired power plants which is a major factor behind rising air pollution in an alias the government has announced plans to significantly increase the use of renewable sources within 10 yes being solo wind or hydropower they mischa to his being sped by green cape a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to innovative young green

startups. one year ago the protests heights academy school and camp town went solo without paying for the installation the system was financed by code funding platform their idea small investors buy ponies and earn an income from selling their atrocities to the school that is using them so far from cambridge his current funding platform equipped over 30 schools and companies within 5 years they plan to have more than $200.00 additional systems. install it if you want to put money in solar panels for an environmental reason put them in south africa you're offsetting 8 times the carbon emissions by the side of an hour here's africa than it would do in germany for example and you're getting twice as much electricity out of it so you just make more sense to put a solar power away you create more social environmental and economic impact and for the school the sought damage is cheaper than power from the grid with investment as

little as 4 euro's sun extant is also open to people with less income in fact many of the pupils at party are how it's invested in the solar cells themselves when the horn is the school's former principal she says that aside from clint cheap energy the project also brings another benefit to me always that yeah kids are so excited allen is to actually get involved and interest in neuro things and actually buy still sells him sow's and see how the money would increase or decrease or whatever i mean it was it created a huge interest in nearly excitement and then he says what do you want to teach our children for the future isn't to be near your skills innovative model is to find and produce green energy gently need in south africa the government aims to produce a quote off on electricity from renewables by 2030. general jones works for green care a nonprofit organization committed to expanding the green sector together with other

lobby groups they are made sure that and i just had taps gained an important role in government plans to transition south africa to its renewables. space. and they said this this road map to 20 cities in the road. it states it will be $20.00 gigawatts of renewable energy being procured and that comprises technologies within the religious space but for the 1st time what is very interesting is that. they have. designated gigawatts of small scale generation in. to the inside of the police document i r.p. integrated resource plan aims to have small scale solar power solutions account for some 10 percent of south africa's total energy mix then they are in effect as who are looking to the question for have some on one big company developed an underwater pump powered by the ocean's waves it turns salt water into drinking

water while at the same time producing a constant source of energy that could power up to 10 european austell it's all year round is always energy. if we said we're looking at a whole range of waves that come from different areas there's a lot of stuff that's produced locally by the local winds but there's an enormous amount of energy that's come from storms that could be thousands of miles away. there with pump is tied to a boy that leads with each wave that level movement pressure rises walked out to purify it and generator to cities at the same time for years the prototype unit was tested under water and is now back in the workshop for some maintenance work so far the unit has proven that the concept works the team says despite the challenges. we stay confident that these systems are going to. be

a big part of the solution and future is not really outside or when but working in conjunction with them the the challenges with the ocean is that it's an expensive system to develop when there is very little funding available with suffocation funding the company could start to pounce next year that would feed into the power grid the san extant card funding platform meanwhile has just received an additional $3000000.00 euros from one major investor powering on south africa's green energy translation. now it's off because of you was no we've all. from feature reports on research for the environment from electric cost to doing it yourself servants and recycling old laptop batteries they are the creations of inventive young minds on various countries hoping to make their visions reality that is right near to and this week we held an innovation from cynical a group of young research is

a university in dhaka have been walking on the solar powered it they call for everyday use he's this week's doing give me. this is a. it was built by university students in dakar. it's powered by the sun. the idea was developed by students in canada. the technical drawings come from italy. the students in senegal put the pieces together. it has a range of 60 kilometers. they can negotiate bumpy surfaces. and carry 2 people or goods weighing up to 250 kilograms. more than half the population of senegal has no electricity.

the majority live in rural areas. and method of grandma didn't provide power people need for their various endeavors in the field or for any other activity that requires electricity. you would realize it. is the answer to the problem. i said to the. battery can be used to charge mobile phones. or to run a $500.00 watt water pump for a full 12 hours. and how about you if you'll also do tell us about it visit our website. that does a tweet. hash tag doing your bit so. we share your story.

well roaming the countryside. for sheep or goats to graze. all of of the was. in their days it can be a hard life but for different reasons in different places in germany it is not privately owned and livestock has become increasingly rare another problem the price of war is so low it's not even selling but people would like to see the. textile put to good use. shepherd florian pies has brought his animals to rest in a green patch between warehouses and factories in the industrial ruhr area in western germany he's one of the few shepherds left in the country. there are around a 1000 professional shepherds left in germany that's not so many i don't know many young people who want to do this job i'll continue to do it with passion until i

have to step down it's certainly a dying profession that nobody wants to deal with you don't make much money. for. the sheep are eventually sold for their meat but municipalities also pay shepherds to have their flocks graze on public land. but wool has become a losing business these days sales don't even cover the costs of having the sheep sheared so that's from a beautiful merino wool. is. i have merino sheep they still have the best quality wool i get over a euro per kilo. one colleagues of mine who have other breeds get a lot less they get $45.00 to $0.65 per kilo. if some of them don't sell it anymore choosing to burn the world or toss it instead . they're going to. his wool goes to china where it's

processed and ends up in bedding upholstery carpets and other textile products some of these end up back on the european market where they're sold at high prices that make spaghetti pappa furious as to talent it's totally absurd buyers here purchase the wall and send it all the way to china for washing and it sent to paris where it's packaged and suddenly everyone wants it. gives it half it is a self-taught tailor. she initially trained to be a dental assistant now she's a businesswoman with a passion for wool she calls her products mosel tweed habits mr mcmullan i wondered whether the wall from the sheep in our region was also suitable for fabric and it turns out that it's very suitable for cloth and at that point i told myself that i do my best to save local wool while it. the cloth is made in

germany soley from will out of the region she already has about 100 meters in stock the company produces vests caps and sport coats from the material. so most assigned schama. have to receive support from the back and fan spinning around in a globalized textile market producing fabric regionally is difficult the production costs are too high the quantity is too low. for wool is processed here died and spun into yarn the vatican felt spinning wheel wants to promote local wool but has no illusions about the future of wool from germany of almost like you're sadly consumers today are not willing to pay higher prices at the retail level they're more interested in getting new products faster they want to see trends and changes in fashion so the cost has to be low it would be nice if people could change their

priorities and still. get a couple remains enthusiastic about her will in fabric it may be expensive but demand from high quality sustainable fashion is growing her mission is to eventually produce quantities approaching 10000 meters of her muzzle tweet. the next away had to go on which is home to africa's largest a stable forest in a fine population but sunday the numbers have increased dramatically in recent decades that's right sandra for farmers across the roaming elephants that may seem like good news but in fact the large animals are important for maintaining that ecological balance so wildlife with origins in low pre-nuptial parks are working to protect the elephants while helping the locals to protect their fields and their villages.

for. his anti-poaching team this is the easy part of the job not far from their station in low pay national park they're gathering data on flora and fauna. the family of elephants passed through here. ok so powerful and then they moved here and left their traces. thanks to the rangers the nature reserve has experienced no major wildlife crime in the last 2 years. low pay is one of 13 national parks established in cabo in 2002 it's a you know asco world heritage site and home to elephants panthers gorillas buffalo and over 400 bird species he stays the elephants pose more of a problem than the poachers do and important part of the work of the park manager

and his team is communicating with the residents of the villages on the edges of the national park. we realized that the elephants were more or less fleeing the interior of the forest because of growing pressure from poachers from the south and southwest. thanks to fences that the park officials have set up around the villages the elephants are slowly retreating back into the forest. in 3 of the villages electric fences protect the plantations plus we've been going hungry for 2 years people were losing weight there wasn't enough to eat but this year we have enough again we have vegetables we've been able to harvest what we planted to get. the cooperation between the park management and local residents is proving successful for the way in dong the fences in these communities have also come as a relief. if it was costing

a lot of money it takes $46.00 people to chase away 3 elephants and elephants not a dog it's not a sheep that you can push away with elephants you have to be very strict and vigilant. and grew up here like many of the rangers he's confident that humans and wildlife can co-exist peacefully. and we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today today we only read about dinosaurs and books. we can't just drive animals to extinction kill them without a 2nd thought. that would be a big problem so if you say. tomorrow we'll be back at work in low pay national park and the rangers and villagers will continue to maintain the fences that can help to ensure their future. securing the threshold for all living creatures it takes up much of the day for some and the more we humans encroach on the wildlife habitats the more we have to assume that i mean most will come on meat from our

gardens are serious issues like water shortages getting gold gardens to grove is becoming harder and harder in the south of frogs farmers are having to drill deep wells to obtain water for their food trees and vegetable prides but devising a present ways to use the water also helps to preserve it. these nectarines are growing plump even though there has been little or no rain here recently. now grosses fruit and 120 hacked years in the coal a region of southeastern france each tree needs about 8 leaders of water and day on average during the summer there have been long periods of drought in recent years and they exact a price then now has installed a sophisticated irrigation system with a water pump and sensors on all the trees and an app that lets them see how each tree is doing that's almost 40 if the leaves are too wet they can rot and attract

pests with this system i can treat them with pesticides directly and only when it's absolutely necessary. so it's a very economical what they can to support but this is. no need this is in charge of the equipment and the programming of the irrigation system. it is spent from a well that taps ground water at a depth of 80 metres the water is filtered and carefully dispensed with the help of a computer. the orchard is divided into 72 smaller plants. but also going to come up and this is what we used to run the system all create the program the watering schedule i select which plots to water and at what time of day and for how long. it lets us steer the entire irrigation process very accurately course. summers in europe are getting hotter and drier water is becoming scarce the summer of 2018 was the hottest on record in europe

drought in the north and center of the continent. plunged as much as 50 percent water rationing was introduced in some countries. and france to the funny sector is under mounting pressure. so it's important to optimize irrigation and not waste water the local chamber of agriculture is interested in pioneering work in the field. he's letting it conduct experiments on 3 of his 72 plants. monitors how much water there is in the soil and the trees. the damn drama there lets you see if the branch of the peach tree is growing or shrinking. if it's shrinking the tree needs water i guess. the project will track tree growth and yield for 3 years the aim is to study the economic and environmental impact of

a shortage of water growing fruit is an important part of the economy in this area and several solar want to model future scenarios. if one day $1020.00 or 30 percent less water is available will the fruit growers be able to respond appropriately. for. the project will help him fine tune his irrigation program. now careful use of what size a crucial issue here to me in africa on the way swamp is a white line in campbell county and also they had a water over nairobi river tributary the work life is very important source of water awful farming and divisive. and the reason more new to the swamp also helps to reduce the impact of floods during the rainy season and helps improve water quality the area has suffered a major degree addition as a result of the illegal discharge of west and encroachments by local people that

want to vetted members of the community to find a course of action project to protect the vital ecosystem. they used to be lots of great credit and cranes here but not a new poll on daily wetland was once home to all kinds of birds the duck and herring populations of also declined. c o 2 and store rainwater it on t.v. is a key source of water for the nearby town of kikuyu as well as the kenyan capital nairobi q is growing and getting ever closer. the wetland greenhouses and fields now reach right up to the edge of the swamp which covers 3.3 square kilometers the equivalent of $450.00 football pitches families used to harvest large amounts of grass from the wetland to feed their cattle which meant birds had less room to build their nests but that is no longer the case thanks to david work ok and his colleagues who

make up the friends of on t.v. wetland group when we started our walk there are so many for the harvest so our harvest in florida and advent of the year. are just after they goodbye and these bullies and this is. how the whole biodiversity destroyed the group purse $300.00 members. fail in the process of planting 8000 young trees around the wetland to help prevent soil from the fields washing into the wetland when it rains and to endure cattle from going there to graze. david kyra's farm is next to the wetland he's keen to make sure that the trees here can thrive. since the trees were planted in the place looks good in the past there was grazing

and sometimes cows would get into the swamp and sink in the bog. and now there's no more grass harvesting either. another problem is that waste water from the greenhouse pollutes the area with toxins including heavy metals that serious because the wetland is the source of a tributary of the nairobi river on whose water is the capital depends. the friends of the on t.v. wetland have persuaded some farmers to give up this kind of intensive cultivation. and helping to undo the damage. we are planting trees along this wetland they are very good. trees when it comes to sippin in the meadows that are coming out of the greenhouse farming. for a long time the local authorities did little to protect the swamp but that too is

changing. we're walking dead through their farmland because. india is. part of the allied so we. do keep digging them and creating awareness but then we also encourage them to do all the nick funny because when it demeans the cause then because it. thanks in particular to the efforts of the friends of on dairy the wetland has started to recover. the next project is to build a trail for that watches. the bugs that are found here can be very important. to this area because one. those areas that have been marked. i would be is

indeed i have learned is not one of them and that is one of the things that friends of one do to want to achieve if things go well and daily will once again become a paradise for a recent survey found the wetland now supports more than 70 different species as conditions here slowly improve. i hope. the importance of caring for our environment and maybe also inspired you to rethink the precious water resources and i hope you found a mixture of topics as interesting as a deed for now it is a goodbye for me sandra to nobody here in kampala uganda. and from me in the outside when lagos is goodbye i hope you join us again next week in the meantime julie is sure to check in with us on instagram facebook twitter or our websites so long for now stay safe by.

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