to say. 60 minutes on. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the. nico is in germany to learn german why not learn with them simple online on your mobile and free to some d w z e learning course nikos fake german made easy. job. 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 sondra to know if you want with me today i was

always a micro present a new to a 100 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 have us 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 the new solar car. in germany we hear about of push to make textiles some locally sourced room. and can you know 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 up pollution in an atheist the government has announced plans to significantly increase the use of renewable sources within 10 yes being solar wind or hydropower they mischa to his being spearheaded by green

cape a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to innovative young green startups . one iago to protest 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 sending the electricity to the school that is using them so far from cambridge is crowdfunding platform equipped over 30 schools and companies within 5 years they plan to have more than $200.00 additional assistance. so if you want to put money in solar panels for an environmental reason put them in south africa you're offsetting $8.00 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 it just makes more sense to put a solar powered crane more social environmental and economic impact and for that school the solar energy is cheaper than power from the grid with investment as lead to as for euro's some extent is also open to people with less income in fact many of the pupils at patel heights invested in the solar cells themselves wendy hahn is the school's former principal she says that aside from energy the project also brings another benefit to me always that yeah kids are so excited allan is to actually get evolved into neural things and actually by slow cells and sauza and see how the money would increase or decrease or whatever i mean it was it created a huge interest in nero excitement and then he says what do you want to teach our children for the future isn't to be near all skills innovative motors 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 review up was. dismissive. and they said this this road to 20 cities in the road. it states that there were $20.00 gigawatts of renewable energy being procured and that comprises technologies within the renewable energy space but for the 1st time what is very interesting is that. they have. designated works of small scale generation in the. to inside of the police document i r p o integrated resource plan aims to have smallest kind of 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 lightly by the local went but there's 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 up 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 face a confidence 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 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 transmission. now it off because he was no we've all. from feature reports on research for the environment from electric cars to doing it yourself wind turbines 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 have an innovation from cynical a group of young research is a university in dhaka have been walking on a solar powered they call for everyday use he's this week's doing give me. 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. that. provide power people need for their various endeavors in the field or for any other activity that requires electricity before you 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 post that does a tweet. hash tag doing.

your story. well roaming the countryside. for sheep or goats to graze. all over the was. there days it's gonna be a hard life but for different reasons in different places in germany is now privately owned and livestock has become increasingly rare another problem the price of war is so little 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 some of you before merino wool. is reclining. i have merino sheep because they still have the best quality wool i get over a euro per kilo. and colleagues of mine who have other breeds get a lot less they get $45.00 to $0.65 per kilo.

some of them don't sell it any more 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 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 habbush 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 one of. the cloth is made in germany soley from wool out of the region she already has about $100.00 metres in stock the company produces vests caps and sport coats from the material. so most of science sharma. have to receive support from the vatican felt spinning around in a globalised 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 viking felt spinning wheel wants to promote local wool but has no illusions about the future of wool from germany have always wanted to 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 in 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 and if on population but sunday the number dramatically in recent decades that's right sondra for farmers who lose their crops to roaming elephants that may seem like good news but in fact the large animals are important for maintaining that because logical balance so why why have authorities in no pre-nuptial our working to protect the elephants while helping the locals to

protect their fields and their villages. for his mt 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. here. ok 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 these days 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 sols unsolved west. 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 elephants not a dog it's not a sheep that you can push away with elephants you have to be very strategic and vigilant. and grew up here like many of the rangers he's confident that humans and wildlife can co-exist peacefully. simple as we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today. today we only read about dinosaurs and books you know so we can just drive animals to extinction kill them without a 2nd thought that would be a big problem c. difficile. 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 food is essential for all living creatures it takes up much of the

day for some and the more we humans encroach on the wildlife habitat the more we have to assume that i mean most will come and eat from our gardens but due to serious issues like water shortages getting those gardens to grove is becoming harder and harder in the south of france farmers are having to drill deep wells to obtain water for their fruit trees and vegetable plants but devising efficient 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. grosses fruit on 120 hector's in the coal a region of south eastern france each tree needs about 8 leaders of water a 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 $40.00 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 very economical what they can to support but this is you. know me bess is in charge of the equipment and the programming of the irrigation system. it is fed from a well that taps groundwater 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 said this is what we used to run the system 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 friends 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. no monitors how much water there is in the soil and the trees. the dam dromedary 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 . want to model future scenarios just like 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 the crucial issue here to me in africa on this one is a work plan in campbell county i'm also there had a water over nairobi river tributary the work life is very important source of water awful farming and divisive. and the reason more to that 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 as a result of the illegal discharge of west and in question meant by local people that want to vetted members of the community to find a course of action project to protect the vital ecosystem. that used to be lots of great crammed cranes here but not a new poll on daily wetland was once home to all kinds of birds the duck and heron populations of also declined. c o 2 and store rainwater on daily is a key source of water for the nearby town of kikuyu as well as the kenyan capital nairobi. 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 farm is 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 another vendor of the year. just after they goodbye and these bilious. this play is. how the whole biodiversity destroyed the group purse $300.00 members. they are 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 hinder 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's 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 these wetlands there 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 back to this changing. we are walking dead through the famines because. india is. part of the allowed so we. do keep doing them and creating awareness but then we also encourage them to do all the next sunday because when it demeans the cause then. thanks in particular to the efforts of the friends of on dairy the wetland has started to recover. and 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

and. those areas that have been marked. i be is unknown do you know i've learned is not one of them i'm not is one of the friends of one did i want to achieve if things go well on t.v. will once again become a paradise for birds 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 good buy for me sondra to nobody here in kampala uganda. and from moon outside when lagos is good bye i hope you join us again next week in the

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