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what actually porting as people might actually think of it it is the lack of space and that space is with communities so all communities have to be at the center of conservation the members of the conservancy largely rely on funding from donors and only a 5th of its income is generated by tourism but this year because on a pandemic has devastated the region's economy without the 2 areas that visit their each year many only rely on their livestock as they lost their jobs us ranges in hotels or traders on the local markets. everything has become difficult getting food is a problem there are diseases all around us just locked down at home and conti the village of about well boom through crowd funding the national a team has been able to provide food aid to the villages it's a lifeline for now it will take
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a long time before tourists will start coming back by their visit they help to protect kenyans wildlife but conservation is lake only riyal worry that this may no longer work. so we need. a paradigm shift in their conservation movement to find out other are alternatives to sustain the important work that is done in conservation it's work in progress but o'leary ja ops that involving the local people in this process will build more resilient communities and help nature to. how much trust in kenya's maariv which areas of the the biggest plastic with problems you may be wondering and we are wondering as well all this can be seen not only from the ground level but also from. on high resolution stiff life images this
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several web platforms and obs the make these complex available we have a simple. knowing where action is needed also helps us to fight against pollution. and. in city parks that was the aim of the online call which hundreds of people in berlin followed the clean up call was based on data collected by volunteers who had discovered many polluted places in the german capital plan a supported the call the startups focus is environmental protection. climate change is not one problem climate change. lot of problems that are intertwined and our data approach helps us actually untangle this complexity we use the data to pinpoint exactly the locations and the types of issues that happen around the world that needs to be immediately acted on. the berlin based startup
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analyzes data from research institutions around the world. based on its findings plan a contact individual companies and community groups in the affected areas worldwide . they publicize their project and allow users to help fund them. data analysis can help to identify and address environmental problems more quickly . litter base is an online database that's open to everyone graphic show the results of more than a 1000 scientific studies on marine pollution. on a world map it's easy to see where research expeditions have already taken place. the latest results from the worldwide scientific community are regularly fed into the database. the aim is to make the global issue of marine pollution more
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accessible and easily understood including to nonscientists. nowadays you know whether it's anything anymore especially because of social media and people like to have a picture of having these maps and this imo this has graphs are providing useful information in the really short time for the public. another example the global forest change database at the university of maryland uses a map to show the state of the world's forests since 2013 users have been able to call up info based on satellite images they can see the effects of forest fires illegal logging and reforestation over long periods the platform is also dedicated to protecting forests and their inhabitants it combines satellite technology with open data and crowdsourcing. data platforms make the problems more visible and with
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an app everyone can do their bit to help tackle them the c o 2 tracking every forest on focuses on individual consumption and it gives you the chance to create and manage your own forest. the oral eco app is similar enter your daily habits with a few clicks and the app will calculate your carbon footprint and show you how to shrink it it also invites you to be a climate hero by supporting carbon offset projects that help people and the planet . or the digital activists in berlin mobilizing people is an important factor in tackling the global problem the climate for dickson has made people. at. unclear on what they need to do i think because of the language that is being used we speak. in a way that doesn't necessarily explain to people what the issues are we should be focusing more on actionable advices rather than simply speaking with big words
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about the issues. with the help of these apps and data platforms we can all contribute to the protection of the environment. height but the low carbon footprint that is amazing isn't it speaking of low carbon footprint our next report is about. stuff follow who goes mushrooms in ghana but in a very unusual resource a great new year to you all about how it works right i believe i do sandra you're basically sawdust wise. fungus cause i'm a lot of patients what i've done is in the details if you want to. this way then your work to be very precise and. this woman knows her fungus especially mushrooms businesswoman for.
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money just one of ghana's big commercial mushroom farms she stands at 5 years ago with just 10 bags today the company generates 150000 sperm banks in each production cycle we supply a lot of. chinese restaurants. so key. to the restaurant and also some of the household. a lot of the mushrooms. not much is needed to grow mushrooms spawn and in this case. there's plenty of dots cross. tongues of the upper juiced every day but few areas in gonna have been useable waste collection and sawdust takes a long time to composed. so most of it gets thrown on to try ships and burn
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together with all the garbage hardly anyone wants it apart from this mushroom grower. the mushrooms are very clear. that their mamas come for the bread and there's word for it when bennett and to across air pollution exhausts from automobile traffic and trash burning is an unhealthy mix. reducing the amount of air pollution was something on the fore to come to concentration when she set up a mushroom growing operation. there are many. other substrate for the production of the mushrooms and i just saw that because of the environmental. every couple of months a large delivery of soup doest arrives at the from. one of the challenges we
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face a mushroom cloud using company is the transportation of the role much from the so meals to the from site meanwhile the sawdust in itself is absolutely free preparing the substrate is simple yet labor intensive the sawdust is 1st mixed with rice bran and quicklime this mixture is then pressed into thousands of small bags fish will be the proof medium for the form guy in barrels the bags are he did say $100.00 degrees celsius to kill of microorganisms only then is substrate inoculated with a mushroom spawn it takes at least 6 weeks for the 1st food bodies to pop up i have over $100.00 well now both men and women but i haven't you know i have like 2 groups come in the morning and evening demand has grown german the corner virus pandemic eating mushrooms is considered to be good for the immune system and
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because of their relatively high protein content more and more people see them as a heavy substitute for meat. the oyster mushrooms cost a lot less than beef which is another reason they are gaining in popularity. but i was lucky read will believe all checking this is amazing i love it if more people produced and consumed regionally grown produce like. mushrooms it could have a sustainable effect on the governor's environment. they look great i mean to try those maybe you will soon have sawdust mushroom ca in lagos we have enjoyed the show and that you've taken away some ideas and inspiration that's all for this time goodbye and see you soon i know it's i already looking forward to next week i couldn't agree more all it is a goodbye from me to here in kampala uganda don't forget to check out our social
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they were called the rhineland bastards corner after the 1st world war. he was an illegitimate child and there were many of them even from. their mothers or germans living in the occupied rhineland their father's soldiers from the french colonies. suffered much in peace after german children had a hard time and because they were a reminder of the german defeat. they grew up in a climate of wounded national pride and racism if the european population felt that it was important to be white and to stay right by sublight. exclusion and contempt culminated in forced sterilization under the nazis. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence we call
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them the children. storage january 11th on d w. the book. the boy. this is the w. news live from berlin a grim new record for germany officials report more than a 1000 color the deaths in a single day the highest number since the pandemic began as the health minister warns of any pretend to normal life is still a long way away also coming up britain becomes the 1st country in the world to authorize a burgeoning use of the astra zeneca oxford university back saying as the battle to
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