flo 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 strategic and vigilant. and grew up here like many of the rangers he's confident that humans and wildlife can co-exist peacefully. and most we do this so that our children can see what we are seeing today but 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. tomorrow we'll be back at work in low paying national park and the rangers and villagers will continue to maintain the fences that can help to ensure their future. securing food 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 on me from our gardens are serious issues like water shortage just 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 trees and vegetable clades 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. now gross's fruit and $120.00 have tears 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 they're 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 but if 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 fed from a well that taps ground water at a depth of 80 metres the water is filtered and carefully dispensed with the help of the 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 credit i 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 of 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. plunge 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 dam dramaturg 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. 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 only swamp is a wet lawn in campbell county i'm also the head of water over nairobi river tributary the white line these are the important source of water awful farming and divisive. and they 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 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 cranes here but not enable on the wetland was once home to all kinds of birds the duck and herring populations of also declined. what . 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 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 a 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 harvest in florida another end of the year. just after sama they goodbye and these bullies and this 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 serious because the wetland is the source of a tributary of the nairobi river on whose waters the capital depends. the friends of the on doing 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 that too is changing. we are walking dead to be there for months because you find that a p.d.f. india is. part of the allowed so we. do keep doing them and creating awareness but again we also encourage them to do all the next i mean because when it demeans the cause then they can cause a double. 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 beas area because one

and. those areas that have been marked. i would be is unknown did i have learned is not one of them i'm not is one of the things that friends of mine did a want to achieve if things go well one day we 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 all mix of topics interesting as a deed for now it is a good bye for me sandra to nobody here in kampala uganda. and from me and now it's a win in lagos it's goodbye i hope you join us again next week in the meantime

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