this morning to bring you more conservation. how do we make 6 great how can we protect our town so we can make a difference. to the entire series if you. don't want to come on. hello and welcome to the 77 percent my name is edith kimani and this week we have such a special edition and off show where we're talking about how we the youth are being affected by the changes in our environment coming to you from this see you make lake bulgaria national reserve right here in kenya. coming up on the show. we hear from but next i'm a copy of a young activist from uganda has joined the global climate movement to find out how almost like a meeting kenya is adapting to climate change any legal we meet young people on the

beat and what they're up to might surprise you. we're here as i mentioned at lake will gori which is a salt water lake in kenya as part of the east african rift valley scientists however warning that an ecological catastrophe is imminent if the water levels here continue to rise as we speak the lakes in this area at the highest level since kenya's independence in 1063 the water levels have been rising here for years but extreme weather patterns and usually heavy rains and human activities have made the situation even more dire for the people living here so i spent some time in the area and spoke to residents who explained how their lives have been affected by these climates anomalies. lake bulgaria so swollen from rising water levels at the shoreline changes every day. we see this early on in our trip when the access road unexpectedly becomes part of the league. here by the find

. has just arrived to open her bond restaurant but he's been a dramatic change. is what this water just came in with and one day i came slowly and slowly until it got to this level so without any notice you have to demolish within just a few seconds. chana gets has already been forced to move her business once it's inevitable that she will have to move again and she's not the only one the structure we're looking at is an entry point that was erected by the kenya wildlife service after their original gates was submerged by water 800 took 3 months before the lake eventually caught up with this one and we can clearly see that this water is unrelenting what we can't see but we can certainly smell is the sewerage that's also being brought to be this because obviously people here use trains and all their contents are now under water and the water is clearly unrelenting because all around us the ground a soggy and these little log all over the place. the extent of the flooding.

has been the worst. folks grew up on the shores of the. work has. significant. we're here. a logical catastrophe waiting around to value region have been rising dramatically and what you can see

behind me is actually one of the facts. hotels hospitals and schools all drowned by disasters. under us which are causing most people argue that this is actually an effect of climate change. the. ecosystem. to understand what is happening to the head to the forest. is recovering from. has been. 50 years he says the destruction of the catchment area is just one.

so what that means is every single day you have heavy grazing and that is really prominent around the ringle basin up in the hills on the side so all of that a rose is being washed off routinely so in 2018 we had rainfall which was the equivalent of el nino in 1908 then followed last year by these extraordinary rains which have continued for a whole year so that means degradation. huge amount of runoff and selfish action and it's the combination of those 2 that have made these rift valley lakes and even other areas like amboseli just lift 10 sometimes 15 meters. back in bulgaria storm bring. us. visibly worried and soon how worst fears are realized the water level has gone up again this could be the last day. it's the following day and construction has

started on higher ground and this is where china gets new coleman business when. it's a fresh and easy start no one can be sure what to what drives this high because no one believes the water would ever get as far as it already has. all right so we've heard from people here how the rising water levels have affected them and with me is mr henry real he's actually a farmer it's his father used to be at least just a couple of metres from where we are and i wanted to find out from you mr rio how has your life changed since the water started coming into your life actually. we have been having a problem. what about long time since the beginning of this year. this what i started from. how far was the lake originally.

turned. and from where we're sitting where we are standing. now persona's could we just we just. we. just left. a world where. i was some location. so we have internally displaced persons within. this supplication because of these water levels but also your harvest you told me that you very quickly had to go into the water and get your means when the water was up to here what are you doing about your life you could i mean that was your harvest we just tried. very small number because of the we have a. being a bit of bread to eat and people not even to. this though it's a small missile we'll try to get. people just have this this what that it's. a lot

of. so you homes your means of life but i can see that there is a gentleman here who's fishing is this now what you're doing because you started off as pastoralist then the weather was bad there was drought years decided you wanted to become a farmer and now you're becoming fishermen you see. community we used to be possible just but because you know we have this like we see the fish there is a little fish here and what's in there is also well and mold. crocodiles but because of drought. people are a lot of. problems and not our food but our shelter but they're willing to come to get no it's these things this is fish so people are sort of fishing but not all of them some very few different ones who will go don't like doing fishing but because of perfectly you're forced to change your way of life ok and finally you talked

about hippos and crocodiles is this something that you're having to deal with human wildlife conflict how close to the hippos gets and the crocodiles. so in this water as we speak these people as it is a lot of people's there is a lot of great bowler along here. very much threatened people live in order in fact what we're doing now we want to urge people not to come close but close we this was a last resort of things like this one because those animals are literally the they are very much. not normally come out of. them like this one so that is a big problem while you month or life conflict. well mr henry let her you know we really thank you for your time and i'm really sorry for what is happening here thank you. you know while people here are trying to come to terms with the changes happening here many of us are adapting our lifestyles to the changing world around us in smaller ways further south from here in iraq we met sally not in quietly who

told us about how she and particularly the women in how my community are adapting to climate change. selina lives in. a small settlement 140 kilometers west of kenya's capital nairobi. she wants to raise awareness about climate change and how my psych community. long droughts and unpredictable weather conditions related to climate change i want of the biggest challenge is the must now face. tent has seen as experienced long that growth play nice to be well but now it's hard to predict 3 predict even there with the grazing lands becoming more cus it's forcing the most is to keep the lesser amount of cash so limited has really made the mess a be forced to move from being nomadic bustard least to looking for other income.

and they went on and i get on when you. think you know. the option of moving to greener pastures has always been the basis of the mathias way of life. but now sustainable agriculture can be a solution to address nutrition security in the messiah community selena now spends her time showing my side women how to grow spinach and other vegetables. but it takes a lot of effort to convince traditionally nomadic it australasian title and finance and then yes. i have begun to think that as most a community we really need an ultimate source of livelihood and security. limitation security and i thought why not start kropf i mean he said of just having to do you know my request to release him so now it's just important to train a recipe for a hour or so says oh yes we would a nutrition security and even sources of income because the secrets you can you can

from them at any time. with selena hopes to convince pacifically younger women in the most high community because they'll be the ones bringing change to the family. yes. and for me it's my generation that with innovation my eggs that are the 1st ones to go to school to get a formal education so it's up to us to educate the community and bring back the knowledge we have to share with them so that we can grow to give the other is the whole population would be left behind it's only the indicated people who have been early and expertise and the only ones who can do things so we really have to share this knowledge and that is what we are doing now. climate change is such all to my side of lifestyle dramatically adapting to the changes could keep the communities going. now i want to take you out of kenya and broaden the view

a little see climate change has really become a rallying cry for young people globally in 2018 a swedish teenager gretta 20 bug spearheaded the fridays for future movements which saw students around the world demanding climate action from world leaders while we haven't seen huge climate protests on the african continent compared for example to some other parts of the world there are people who are working hard and dedicated to time to raising awareness and calling for climate justice the only problem is that it's sometimes harder to make your voice heard here in africa and here's why. vanessa narcotic she has become the symbol of the ugandan climate movement the 24 year old got involved in climate activism in 2018 after her country was hit by unusually high temperatures joining the worldwide climate protests vanessa camped with other activists in the freezing cold switzerland at the world economic forum's

unfortunately she didn't get the same attention that other activists thought she was cropped out of a published group photo and the incident went viral in an online press statement in a car to hit back at racism in the media other activists joined in solidarity including dornan bruno from south africa and gratitude from sweden so your focus is on target activism from different corners ills you know the western countries but what you're doing wrong is try as much as possible to says art and it is the voices from the global south it makes us feel like they are up to these disasters in the us it wouldn't be sending care for you but the incidence didn't deter vanessa from continuing her fight and drawing attention to climate change issues in africa. what top. it turned out to be

a positive thing because of how we responded to aids as optimus from us we got and it was our work and wants to use tools stand up and rise up and demand for option as well as our within the media and the public about the dangers of climate change . before the pandemic she also took her activism into the classroom at this school in central uganda she wanted to inspire the next generation to get passionate about the environment it's a message she says the children need to hear. the practical issues. i believe that every kid deserves an opportunity to be in such a close to clearly understand the important gives of the things that they see in their environment these kids understand they clearly knew they were going to see this tree but if you come into that trust and teach them and remind them that gets them our lot and our way out of the destruction that goes as that goes on in the

environment and pushes them to go south. since the start of the pandemic vanessa has kept up her activism online she's used her social platforms to draw attention to issues such as climate education climate catastrophes and clean energy vanessa has also found her voice on an international stage. leaders must acknowledge that we are in a crisis i'm stuck treating it as a crisis the people on the planet must come 1st before anything else if you do not treat climate change as a crisis then you will not do what is necessary for us to get out of this mess. vanessa believes that climate change is intrinsically tied to poverty hunger and conflict and she hopes that the leaders both at home. in uganda and will act

quickly enough to change things. i. the world produces more plastic than we need and we see it everywhere actually even on around me in 2017 can introduce one of the world's toughest laws against single use plastic bags in fact you can even get fined for carrying one randa has gone a step further and they've also banned plastic bottles straws and even coffee cups and the reason for these measures is that most of the world's plastic ends up in landfills or oceans or places like these it's estimated that by the year 2050 there will be more plastic weight in water than fish so we asked our correspondents from across the continent how their countries have been dealing with plastic waste and management. and city authorities right target the culprits there's currently no law that prevents people from using plastics all the wonder is such fish fully implemented and to littering laws but zimbabwe soon needs to do more.

like many emerging markets around the world nigeria is generating more waste than ever this is because the population is growing and people are consuming more than they used to research shows 2 that nigeria is among the top 20 countries in the world with the largest share of plastic waste that ends up in the ocean and estimates at 200000 metric tons of plastic waste is this chart from nigeria into the atlantic ocean every year. capito campolo a clean city that's a great story of discussion where it did. some parts of the city are really clean well maintained bridges are those kind of reflective exact offices it's going to see a plastic bottle being thrown out of a speeding car or. dumping garbage in a drainage but a city looks

a bit much more organized than it was. literary of any nature is a big challenge for zimbabwe though until literary laws exist then he's a very weak if you go on the streets they've hardly enough rubbish bins and people end up throwing litter anyhow the end result is very caring of what a bone disease is like typhoid and quality. well there you have it there not enough laws preventing people from littering and in many cases there are no proper waste collection or management facilities provided by government so cities who really should be picking them up luckily there are always a few people who are willing to either volunteer or do something for their communities so let's have a look. well that's impressive skyline on expensive yachts the.

picture of luxury but only. reviews the darker sides the lagoon is a cesspool of plastic waste. mental activists called eco proves fighting against it even collecting trash cans since 21000 to protect the environment and the people. the fish or the water that we need to be on the ground we are looking at how well we are looking pretty good. at the end of our trip with the flooding. there with. the activists go out once a week to clean up the lab it's estimated that $12000.00 metric tons of waste out here every day and you were to speak to rent a booth with your own money but the owners give them the marguerites to help. those who receives help from the private schools or the company which clears waste from the log. and for free plastic easy recyclable material much of it still ends

up in landfill recycling is toxic system but it's rudimentary. it's really just a dump like what we do have we have pickers who go to the dump site and they then individually take out the things which have they have a lot of value i mean we are going away money they have little value so they pick them out take them they sell them off to the different people who are doing the recycling. up to $800.00 workers help with a clean ops on a regular basis the activist want to foster more public awareness about the environment to help change people's behavior. if only people can inveigle culture where by drinking you play on your back that way you can find the tribes that are. equal pro has also started to connect to god beach on beaches sometimes the monies to recruit extra for the n.t.s.b. spontaneously. and about just about. all the costs

of. my factory smaller run because much money it's just like so. while the volunteers continued you know work they would like to see a reduction in waste and the like to see the government in lagos step in then and also doing its bit. ok i've got a question for you what's your country doing about plastic waste you know we love hearing from you and you can always send us your comments by a social media but we already actually had some from the facebook page and martin chipman from nigeria wrote climate change scares me and banning plastic will help us i think i have to agree with you martin and was owned or from ghana wrote deforestation damaging of what

a body is due to illegal mining activities lack of sufficient training for sudden floods are just a few of the issues we face with our environment and changing climate in my area well as usual thank you so much for those comments this show is really about all of us and our next report actually comes from ghana where our team met another person protecting their environment that's the up and coming musician miriam giallo you may know how bae has stage name a.j. so let's take a look. mary j. has just started making a name for herself on ghana's music cd. the young musician who has spent her life both in sierra leone and ghana is passionate about music but you also have strong opinions about how we're treating our environment. green in our environment is just full of positive but when you cut it down it leads to pollution of air that enters directly to the soil water we drink we use the air we breathe. air pollution

everywhere so i believe if we keep our environment green. we're safe the greenery is the backdrop for the music videos and it's something she believes everybody should appreciate more. of my videos that i've been using green in my. video beautiful expensive. chore you know. armstrong. yes gone. well that's all we have for you today we do hope you enjoyed our special show right here from lake bulgaria to get in touch with us and send us an e-mail at 77 d w dot com and connect with us on social media as usual we leave you with big to thank you for watching. sure listen to.

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