for the. british. version. of the. beethoven's 9th. for the world starts to simmer down oh and b.t.w. . the end of the big. hello and welcome to eco africa on today's show we will talk about the problem of plastic waste and the waste and their impact the club in 1000 pandemic is having on the environmentalists and now it's i in lagos nigeria and i am sundra 3 nobody oh here in company. uganda a big hello to everybody thank you for joining us as always we have lots of

interesting stories for you from africa and europe on a range of environmental issues but fast here is what is coming up in a big. help to young people in uganda you know missing business news about 20 feet of society. health jamin cities are preparing for the climate crisis. and why in a minute cynical walks around covered in plastic bags. how can job speak created for young people why aren't in the same time protecting our planet and its resources close to a cup or to a company we visited and learning how which encourages young people to tonga business visions into reality. our house collapsed when the mother died from injuries she suffered so i turned to

my pin for post into a motivation. i never knew that's what i'm doing. this big to me and to the environment. i thought about i thought discriminated because of my often falling sick from malaria i am now part of the solution in my country. 2 people each with a vision journo's a bigger producers so quick to say that repels mosquito according to the un every 2 minutes a child under the age of 5 dies of malaria. even if i'm not saving all the kids that are suffering right now i am saving the ones that i can john merrick who is founder and director of the green business up cycle africa which builds houses out of recycled plastic bottles. consumer and elevator are graduates of the social

innovation academy all seen official so. it's located in the town of p.v. about 30 kilometers south of uganda's capital kampala. here young people including oftens and street kids learn how to develop their ideas into successful businesses due to the code of 900 pandemic only a few students are currently able to attend classes on campus especially in uganda people are not prepared through the work together to present themselves to ask critical questions to find their own solutions on answers and we are learning that unseen are and that's why often not everybody will become an entrepreneur but many of our scholars as well that have been seen out have found jobs. one of the solutions lead to come patter with plastic waste is a huge problem. $350000.00 tons of trash accumulates in the ugandan capital every year and only half of it is disposed of. much of the plastic lens on this

trash dump recycling isn't coming here. john merrick of the map pays young trash collectors together bottles that he can then use to build houses. every time i come here and i do give some money to other people for example if locally all keeping our environment limited to gives me a lot of hope that it will be featured in the litter and will in the hold it holds the planet that we are we have done all we have protected from plastic with. earth is pressed into the plastic bottles to make bricks many women work full to view men's business giving them the chance to earn their own money. give him a says the house is a cool inside even on hot days his business has already constructed more than 100 buildings using over 3000000 plastic bottles in the process. due to the colonial virus pandemic commissions have slowed but there is funding coming in from abroad

we are revising different solutions on the way we can be able to survive as a company we've also got some people who came along to support us for example with some funding for ikea and i trim it that decided to support us and especially in the. journal of acre has brought a few bars of soap to one of the women who supply her with lemon grass a key ingredient in her product before the covert 19 crisis nella baker charge tourists and hotels a bit more for her soaps so she could keep the price down for locals but now that they are hardly any tourists she's expanded her online presents i have a vision to make. a better place i have a vision to make africa hatred of running away from it to make it a better place. if my own mother happened to see me now i know it will be

probably. protection and conservation that's also what our next report is about in recent decades ghana goes to fast track a rain forest it is a situation that is a once in a climate change that's right sondra one local eco activist and entrepreneur decided to address the problem and reforested a piece of land by practicing sustainable forestry there he helped revive the natural ecosystem he's enterprise is not only a boon for the environment it's become a popular destination for equal taurus. but i haven't made these come forward this is a moment well intended by i didn't actually enjoy treating his visitors to the intoxicating center of the langley langley. example several to get around but the fact is going to smile like that for weeks at school and walking in

a flower garden is quite beautiful. and it's very nice to see that there's an area like this and god that. others whether they're hearing god or even outside of the country could come to and actually enjoy nature. it started 20 years ago when biden planted all his holding of 210 acres. he founded porto forest estates and initially just sold would pull it off so. we thought we could enter crawford food crops and keep it going by. selling those food crops to generate short term revenue except that the community and the workers kept eating everything even before us was ready to generate more income he and his team had another idea they decided to propagate local plants and extract essential oils in 2018 they added eco tourism joining every tall visitors and served up

a typical kenyan dish that is made exclusively of local forest produce. one intended by doing is also linking up with the local community in better here's hired several locals as chefs and tall guides also work in his laboratory technician isaac could joe is in charge of producing the essential oils as well as natural cosmetics such as soap. because up with. natural source from the forest they tend to have less side effects and the really how to get out. very effective treatment like for my remark therapy you can really get the feel of that. from the plant and they have no side effects or anything whatever the oils are sold across the country including in the capital across retailers they also provide interested costumers we detailed information about the

program. on guided tours visitors hear about the company's mission future plans include sustainable construction projects for their eco tourism business this is because we want to make use. from pretty much on the environmentalists took up cost question i think we should. all friendly we want to reduce that and all of our monthly from. wellington biden attaches great importance to passing on is knowledge to the next generation. and now our main focus is. the experience showed an insight into where we're going to teach people what we have learned over the last 20 years this is the only way that we come quickly disseminate what we've learnt because it's all about training and empowering people

to also go out there and do it themselves in that way biden's projects provide an example to local residents showing how day 2 can make a living from protecting the forests. now more than half of the population of nigeria live in cities like lagos and others of the asian is on the rise all over the world not just in africa in europe currently more than 70 percent of the population already lives in towns and cities but a growing problem is that cities are vulnerable to extreme weather caused by climate change in germany steps are being taken to protect towns on the heat and massive rainfall with the help of nature. these young trees fresh from the nursery are being planted in the new residential neighborhood complex in hamburg the leaves on some looks surprisingly green and fresh given how late it is in the year especially when compared to these beach south wings they are spain's

alter a hybrid species bred from japanese and caucasian alder with many beneficial characteristics nursery owner about half an 11 explains that when it gets hot the pores in their leaves close to retain valuable moisture. we haven't planted many of the space out there yet it's new here a climate change tree a city tree of the future. we still have to see how they fare in urban settings my suspicion is they're far superior to native species around the corner are some states alter that were planted in the spring the summer was very dry but they're still looking good. better than the endemic species here. 20 years ago we started to say that we're going to have to plant different kinds of trees new ones better suited to cities where they're subjected to a lot of stress it took a while for people to sit up and listen to climate change just playing havoc with cities around the world one reason why many cities can't deal well with heavy rain

or floods is that so much city surface has covered by concrete and water can seep into the ground. environmental scientists complain that this ceiling effect means half of all rainfall is lost compared to woodlands and meadows and not available to people or nature. rainwater that's channeled straight into drains and carried away is gone it can evaporate and it's removed from the natural water cycle. evaporation cools the air and we feel that you can all the sealed surfaces heat up on. and stay hot if there's no cooling effect from of operations that's one reason we get urban heat islands an alternative approach can be found in southern berlin in a neighborhood where sponge city water management principles have been adopted here

rainwater is collected on open ground and roofs and channeled into local pools it doesn't just disappear down the drain and get whisked away on a coup there is a geographer and hydrologist who works for berlin zone municipal water company think tank. rainwater is a very valuable resource we needed to adapt our city to a changing climate that's what our goal is to manage and use that locally. the entire project takes up 10 tears it's full of unpaved surfaces strips of garden and the roofs here are also covered in soil and plants lots of opportunities for rainwater to be soaked up and slowly released into the air or ground imo if it's come off the. rain will to see it's directly into the ground between the paving stones or it flows into little depressions in the ground like this one that's why there's a gap in the curb. and that water is sinks in or it evaporates less benefiting

the trees. than how funny you have been set up his climate cops 5 years ago has heat resistant trees can't do entirely without water but it will take time to find out just how much water they need and how well they adapt. using guns on farms it's still in the early stages. when testing $61.00 species of tree seeing how they fare. we've been growing some of the species for decades so we already know their strengths and weaknesses. and. his nursery has so far raised 10000 trees new to germany's urban landscapes. but better able to weather climate change trees like the turkey oak and new climate treaty which is being introduced more frequently into hamburg's neighborhoods all of which should make for some pretty cool cities. talking about 30 is one thing you will find in

many homes our works of art beyond making us happy these are pieces can also draw attention to social issues like and bomb and so pollution in today's edition of doing your bit for the environment we meet i mean press of nigerian artists who sculptures do just that. lifelike creations made of sawdust. the material that's plentiful in lagos. to plentiful says nigerian artist. it's a sign of how many trees are being cut down nigeria's forests are shrinking the artist uses the sawdust to highlight the problem mixed with water it can be molded into all kinds of animals and insects from spiders to big cats animals are crying because. you have. between is being taken away by the

monkey to be a crime to be with. and ask a christian awareness pringle probably where power to control. his works cost between 20600 euros apiece he sells them directly from his studio or online. all the late can lash a con has won numerous awards both for his works and his commitment to the environment. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your story. we now talk about one of the world's greatest waste disposal services i'm talking about the one provided by ball shows these governors are not only willing the. you're to do the

dirty work of cleaning up the caucuses found in the wild of course and did you know that there are 23 different species of the bot of course the ones suddenly for too many of them they are under strict bot the fuck to the vultures play a vital role in keeping ecosystems healthy which makes them well worth protecting let's take a look. of the health of africa's 11 vulture species artists hearing on the brink of extinction the environmental and nature kenya has been observing the developments in east africa it's distressing because without these scavengers dead animals would rot wherever they dropped and that could upset. what is a very much important in. cleaning the environment we call them the. undertaker the clean the environment all the dead carcasses and by doing these these top the

spread of diseases diseases like threats. and all that nature kenya introduced a vulture conservation program in them aside mara nature reserves in 2014 it's a mystery spread awareness of the crucial role vultures play. this group of must i work is nature kenya's vulture ambassadors they explains in villages when a dead cow all go to spoil i grew chemicals in order to kill a pet it says that threaten their livestock all of the animals that feed on the caca poisons and that includes a lot to vultures so as i travel into. my region for example in my location i usually go to 1100 quite a fluke when there is a conflict. but it should be for its place and we we actually sometimes take the carcasses of both. classical animals and reef with them aside and you can.

actually talk to the owner of the animal no 2 ways when. support from villages and their leaders is key to the ngos campaign the assistant chief of one village tells us that battles between humans and animals are an ongoing issue in the area. there is a lot of conflict animals of in cuba. well leopards people out are getting killed by elephants and lions in the present a serious challenge for us here to have a complete incident awareness of i mean to beautiful. but too often the main victims of these conflicts of vultures and that's the environmentalists message to put an end to the agonizing that nature kenya also corporates with the mara reserves ranges. i think the biggest challenge is the issue of reporting.

cases of poisoning we normally don't get a lot of reports from the community because they know that it's a crime and so a lot of this go unreported. but it's reported the cases would get becomes a vacation is the chance to save the birds that's why keeping communication channels open is important. also supported by bird live international the program is focused mainly on east africa because that's where vulture death rates are especially high the campaign's push to improve the exchange of information is now starting to yield results we are getting reports on one human to live conflict and those responses to. what voices please and and by these some voices have been saved because there is. a poisoning response protocol that is being followed. case off in the.

incident. this year and international initiative was launched with the goal of reducing vulture mortality in africa by 50 percent within the next decade. but for it to work it's vital that the local communities are also on board. so true you need to monty big communities to take part in a vision activities especially when it gets to plastic so many cities are drowning in later and the plastic is mauled by a degradable it just hung around for many years in ever smaller pieces on particles so raising awareness is the name of the game let's go to senegal to meet a monster out to drawing attention to the problem which during coronavirus period is easier said than done. oh oh.

model fall has had to change tack in his fight against plastic waste with the 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 non anti plastic complained 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 the remains of work. what some people are put off by his unusual appearance he usually gets his message across. with the good news out of a bad man he don't have this bugs they just want to show a little tunnel stop blasting and use 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. 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 it 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 very many good moves are still. more deuce past. and

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 in 2016 the country's president awarded him the national order of merit more due has also helped his community plant around 600 trees and now according to the slogan one house rountree it's been a long campaign but now many have come around to lose we off thinking even the government is getting serious about enforcing laws about single use plastics. 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 a book with a city. or 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. 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 gym will go some way towards winning the battle against plastic west. it is good to know that we can all make a difference even in small local ways sadly that is all we help way today or africa we hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did it is a goodbye from me sunda train of you from kampala the capital of uganda and i'll be looking forward to seeing you once again next week. we look forward to being with you for a new edition of your coffee next week in the meantime you can visit us on social media or send us your thoughts on environmental issues that concern you goodbye for

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