in the middle of. the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding their surging its status and position in the world. china's gateway to europe. starts feb 19th. hello and welcome to another edition of africa i am sandra 3 nobody coming to you from kampala here in uganda well it has we nearly 5 years since this show focusing on environmental issues foster went on air and we're looking forward to reporting on more and more amazing projects and great ideas for protecting and improving the

walls we all need it as well as drawing attention to the problems that i gently need solving well here are some of the topics coming up on the program. because for new transportation to plan the g 8 made to africa an example dumping. popcorn and why it's not just for eating as scientists knew germany will demonstrate it's been. until nature conservation in south africa is sparing young people to protect white life. but post a week head to namibia more than 20 percent of the country is on the course of a shin management it is home to incredible variety over a rare and in danger of species of animal including the cheetahs the superfast cards need a very specific kind of environment to breed can't unmaintained be aborted temperature when it gets a very. ct the trouble is that they often live near

a rural communities and cause problems for people and their livestock now resorted a way for farmers to drastically of course reduce their livestock losses without killing the beautiful be caught. a rare sight of wild chicest in namibia. the country has the largest free range in population of cheetahs in the world but according to recent research still the numbers are little. you know the population is threatens because it doesn't occur inside of national parks but on commercially used farmland there's obviously leads to conflict as the truth ok finally prey on livestock of the farms. teeters population numbers across africa have dropped to less than $7000.00 worldwide as the a habitat it's lost to farmland and how some core structure portion and illegal trading

caps pause a federal challenge and because she test livestock they also get killed by farmers . scientists from germany's like nets institute have found a way to reduce that conflict to spend more than a decade studying she test in namibia part of their study involves putting radio collars on the animals and monitor indian movements that seem not to study the cheetahs always return to 7 areas of practice passed on from one generation to the next they visit these territory's and mark read in the territory so we call this centers of the territories not the marquis trees are we call the communication hops because territorial males they used these trees and also the oldest in the region around so these territories albury. stable they are always there and

even if the territory hold us disappear die then the new territory hold us up all day exactly the same place this allows a scientist to identify areas where cheetahs congregate the den advice to farmers not to put a life stock in those places it's about 10 percent of the area that is highly dangerous because concentrations of the cheetos is very high and about 90 percent that is much less risky for the harmless and that. the farm is that i've moved out of harm's way now there was far fewer i knew most to debate cuts. this simple adjustment reduced the livestock losses by more than 80 percent and that's all of the conflict for the farmers and for the truth is in many cases. reducing the conflict between humans

and money mouse means more cheaters survive and that other benefits to these powerful pre-dates has helped keep the populations of grass and most under control thus preserve in a mental pain india political balance of disadvantage. in what incredible creators and what a great idea to promote a peaceful coexistence between the wild animals and the humans on its report is about a really interesting bit in south africa it aims to help communities live alongside animals in the wild as well as a professional opportunities it is called the truck academy and as the name suggests it trains disadvantaged the rural people in the traditional skills of way of life trucking. is if you sunny and. a looking for this special friends in the dense bushland of the. north of

johannesburg. a group of rhinos is hidden somewhere here. this is the front 2 pair. of them with spurs on the ground twisted twigs and droppings lead them to the animals. they're professional truckers. they were doing this tracking for a living for meat for hunting they do it they did they through they started we were just getting on when they offered but in a different way because then they would be we need for food we need for the for the well not to not not to kill but the quartet. track is play

a critical role in keeping the animals in the reserves safe. so that freke as nearly 80 percent of the world's rhino population and has been hardest hit by poaching but since 2014 thanks to strict security measures reserves have half dry and a killings from 1200 animals to about 600 in 29000 to cape is animal safe conservation manager had money does not only rely on devices. but then we do a lot of monitoring work especially on. conservation important species like. some of the big some so on we were utilized various forms of technology to try and track these animals and keep tabs on these animals but technology fell on you from time to time. and then we have to revert back to the basic tracking skills. this tamara reserve is part of the great career a semi desert region with characteristic wildlife vegetation soil and climate

conditions the reserve is also one of 3 training grounds for a very unusual tracker cademy today is examination day little has to show his instructors he can track an antelope in the semi arrid career by a. different one because even when richard is in front of a big plant. that could track reads the environment and develops an intuitive feeling for the ways and habits of animals droppings are just one of many signs they read. just finally label hung metal finds his target hidden in the bushes. grew up in the area that night and my long. hours see in the most annoyed to smallest ones who and then you know that the biggest in the moniker i know everything the inside of a so i was getting that motivation of i want to go to the to to learn about those

in the moment everything the academy is an injury that office free training to $24.00 young rural people from various african countries each year realizing that only a few traditional trackers remained in southern africa onyx when you 1st started the school 10 years ago with the help of a private sponsor meanwhile the academy gets thousands of applications paid here. because to do for the benefit of conservation and for the benefit of an ancient culture and to improve the lives of the students that come through our program think it's a new and it is proving successful reign was 94 percent of all graduates are employed and the trackers are needed many iconic animals like crocodiles leopards and cheetahs we main critically endangered. after a long day of working and learning in the felt the pupils returned to the boarding house was tough for many of them heard of the track record to me through people

from their villages who went through the program and subsequently found work in the reserves they hope that they too will one day be a role model for their peers back home. the ones who'll be on the vonage boom in solar energy in 2018 accounted for 2 percent of one white and the 50 use it and its share is growing fast experts say solar and wind are said to be the most sustainable sources of renewable energy in the solvent hemisphere the international renewable energy agency sees that over the past decade it costs for solar have dropped by 80 percent let us now go visit an energy provider that is building the biggest solar park in germany. these panels are pretty easy to install but there are thousands of them still to go

. in the countryside near berlin germany's biggest solar park is taking shape. half a 1000000 modules built on metal frame. 100. posts . 250 kilometers of cable. 150 finishers working on behalf of one of germany's biggest energy companies. we definitely have the potential to complete projects of this scale but rather than size it's the viability of the project that counts. this solar park is the size of $225.00 soccer pitches facilities in europe tend to be smaller because they compete with agriculture for the land but solar parts alone aren't enough here in germany there are 19000000 apartment buildings and houses

a lot of roof space. and an ideal place for solar panels. an entire industry has been built around installing. now adays the systems are very affordable and economical to run since you basically don't have any maintenance costs. have become so affordable to install that they quickly pay for themselves. out. mux owns a house with their roof tops solar system in many cases the system actually produces more energy than a household needs. as one of the things that makes it financially worthwhile is that the costs of heating your house or heating your water are pretty low.

the equipment paid for itself in just a few years. after that the electricity produced is essentially free. this energy needs do exceed what he produces though that is because his family have 2 electric cars that need to be recharged. solar energy is expected to see significant growth in germany. by the time the last coal fired power station is switched off and 2038 there would have to be 5 times as many rooftop solar systems and parks as there are now to cover energy needs. solar energy would then account for a quarter of the country's power output. back to germany's biggest solar park

project 10 years ago the operating company was one of the biggest nuclear power producers in the country. they still run several coal fired plants but that will soon be a thing of the past. these new energy sources will have to fill the gap they've become a central pillar in our portfolio. 2012 we've seen growth. all new and renewable segments including wind both offshore and onshore as well as solar. and these technologies will account for about half of our output by 2025 i need. the solar panels just keep on coming day in and day as. talk so sustainable model needs to focus on the big cities on ways to reduce

traffic congestion and pollution and of course make life better on you give me basis on protecting you and what if you get off because well it's not something new on the optical you know a since it was developed you take. place time cops often lie several 100 kilos and here in kenya's capital nairobi exhausted noise are not a problem for day laborers. kind of quantize invention could make life easier it's an electric powered cox that goes faster and can carry more event than a system that. is because it could be charged where he was to kill it and that's it if you're looking to get more people there or is it with each other

just so. you know isn't useful it doesn't but you. see it is the people. in addition to sparing the environment the new vehicle can move it up to 7 kilometers an hour without using much manpower its ability to power itself is kinetic energy at its best and a big help for uses. this on the ground by you are working you know and everything is quiet then vital meant to be thought out. cream to achieve this quanta i developed electric rickshaw unlike noisy diesel took this version rode through nairobi almost silently and without emissions it also carries 5 instead of 3 people and you want to diversify to. utilize what they cannot and emit it in the wilds meet it and be in buses while we will be able now one of the more beautiful company. on top of that it's produced sustainably since

components of electric vehicles come from the region. and how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website oh send us a tweet. hash tag doing your best. we share your story. a lot of the things we use in our day to day life on live from oil wealth and you will cause you feel was modelled and this is one of the empire exhaust fumes from the cars of plastic frost in the real sense all piling high none of those are just examples he's a terrible problem scientists are looking for alternatives and sometimes come up with great ideas. there is a professor at mit was doing. multiple things we call.

this building is getting added thermal insulation and done printing from polystyrene for every year over 10000000 tons of the synthetic material are turned into everything from facade clothing to disposable bowls and cups and packaging. but one extremely useful the downside of the material is that it is essentially non-biodegradable and takes centuries to break down. and as it does it releases miniscule particles into the ground and our water supplies. this man has a plan to replace the plastic polluted since 2008. poor and his team have been looking into an environmentally friendly alternative pop corn. similar to polystyrene phone. consists of a mass of cavities filled with air. i can see them when you dissect

a piece of popcorn and examine it under the microscope that's what makes it so light. like the market researcher and his team have already used popcorn to create kitchen furniture they are showing manufacturers the range of potential applications for popcorn the 1st step is to turn it into a massive granules all the same size the original maize is grown in germany well that is land intensive on the plus side the material will help to reduce fossil fuel consumption. and you can read it it tastes a lot like popcorn except there's no sugar or salt or chop wood of course so the taste is a bit boring. the granules have been pressed together to form sheets or panels with plant proceeding providing the bonding agent as opposed to synthetic chemicals this makes the material compostable and even

suitable as animal fodder. the team are pioneers in the field. but they also used a horse egg on to compare the thermal conductivity of polystyrene foam to that of popcorn and then measure the heat that penetrates through to the back in the case of polystyrene foam the sensor reads $28.00 degrees celsius while the popcorn board is even better at absorbing the heat here the reading is under $25.00 degrees. you can creep wouldn't houses with the panels in the walls or on the facades also or you can also use them as insulation for solids building. to mark. the popcorn material also performs better in the flammability test the polystyrene burns up at a frightening speed immediately beginning to melt and release toxic gases.

subjected to the same flame the panel of popcorn barely catches fire. only reason the poor is happy to pass on the fruits of years of research on the material. he hopes to see environmentally friendly products made from popcorn replacing polystyrene foam on a large scale and the sooner the better. the 1st popcorn packaging is due to go on the market in the fall of 2021 and will hopefully help to reduce the world's growing mountains of plastic waste. and new technologies can certainly make our lives easier when the internal combustion engine was developed in the 19th century no one to market the air pollution on

serious health issues it will be later that his white many you know they just call me to the finding it will be a waste of pouring machines. when these innovations help to counteract claim a change in wait to see for yourself. we that corn husks aren't uncommon in ground up these days the current drought has lasted months and they increasingly extreme weather threatens the libel hood's of local farmers especially those in the eastern part of the country or not quote capitulated it's apparent that climate change is real and increasingly dangerous the farming seasons that people are used to are not longer predictable at times it trains we're one expected drought well brought out instead of rain i'm saying it's confusing you can just farm and have hope over having harvest i would live over an issue and when you aren't paying a couple. is one family who has been fortunate during these hard times have filled me

a roof so she's been able to pump sufficient water to her crops. but they do so you needed to power the pumps is expensive and the exhaust that is a meter to sends out contributes to a greenhouse effect the researchers and technology experts from a random start up developed a solar powered irrigation system that they had to project was financed by a us aid organization and they run the government they knew irrigation plants came at just the right time for 40 families from a pirate in the district that god made agricultural more difficult and the cost of renting the diesel pumps nearly consumed the needs. to go sciences we ended up spending much of what awnings on buying fuel while using the fuel pump into narrators ira to those little left for our livelihood now we have gotten great of all those expenses we only need to deplete someone to water

the plants. of the kurdish just. due to the more affordable. edition promised cannot attend a larger areas of land and keep farming they yield a much higher a series of. what. i did call a hole i was only have a sting 50 kilograms of. it sees on now with solar irrigation the yield volume has multiplied by 3 when i am considering expanding my farming even though not one of them a focus on the solar powered irrigation system should be up and running in all of the party districts in the country by the end over. this tucked up that builds the sauna irrigation system has also developed a system to make sure the temperature and moisture of the site so says calculate the exact amount of water needed by the plants. farmers i've been

notified by and up about when and how much they should water their crops the plants need to get the optimal or what's being and that's why we believe when they use this new technology to improve their production. and it does been tested to be a success in the play which has robin doing. these pilot system is powered by solar energy a swim now the farmers know exactly which plants need water and how much they need for the time being they improvising with plastic bottles which will soon be replaced by what to horses. it looks like technological advances will be key to all future that is all for today's show thank you all for being with us hope to see you again i think we'll be back with more exciting stories about the nature and of course of a ship i understand at the nokia signing off the compiler get a new gun. down.

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