story people for information. want to express g.w. on facebook twitter today in touch. hello to all planet facing presidential right to buy diversity that was the chilling completion of the un report only environment so if we carry all this way well ultimately destroyed the foundations of our real life. welcome to our special edition of eco africa about species extinction reverse and biodiversity loss i am

personal loans coming to you from lagos nigeria. thank you crease and the recent no 2 ways about it this is indeed a mix chimney graft problem bought here on equal africa we also want to show you that there's some great projects under ideas out there on how to stop the decline in species i am sunda to nogay here in company uganda and here's a quick loop to some of the stories that will be looking not in today's special edition. we go to kenya well a species of until nobody is on the brink of extinction bought a breeding program is trying to send them. sea grass baits a marine corps house box they have seen huge losses in recent decades german scientists of my time and now saddam. and finally in them 6 species of animals and plants are causing cavalcade many parts of the one banks people in the museum of

finding solutions. every day we lose more species of plants and animals pollution the forestation pole change and other human activities at the straw in our planet's reach higher diversity species extinction is chairing the whole into sophisticated well sensitive network of who systems plants go and pollinated while extreme weather events leave entire habitats devastated including the coral reefs the vital for many fish the changes brought about by humans are depriving a growing bring joy of war and for their of them not your own homes. yeah there are few facts and figures on these warring developments you know. the list of animals and plants that have become extinct is already desperately long

and over 12 percent of remaining species are on the brink of extinction according to the intergovernmental science policy platform on biodiversity. extinction means gone forever wildlife populations have collapsed by more than 2 thirds in less than half a century. over that same period the human population has grown considerably. the global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystems says pressure on the environment is growing and so is global g.d.p. consumers are buying more and industries consuming more natural resources especially in developing nations plus urban populations have more than doubled in the last 3 decades the loss of habitat is the greatest driver of species extinction particularly in rural areas slash and burn methods are used to clear land for

agricultural and livestock farming the direct exploitation of natural resources such as deforestation and overfishing in the world's oceans are the number 2 cause and the climate crisis is changing many ecosystems just such an extent that some species can no longer find food finally there's environmental pollution caused by industry traffic and by us individuals to plastic waste alone has increased 10 fold since 1980 but some action is being taken to a network of countermeasures is gradually developing more than 1. 130 countries are part of the latest global efforts to protect biodiversity some countries are now building up databases with d.n.a. samples of endangered animal and plant species. and to be jordan is asians like the united nations in the world bank have pledged more than

$200000000000.00 in order to further environmental goals. well we are off to kenya the seawall of the rarest issues of artillery in africa the mountain won't go there critically endangered with fuel that already still leaves the wild and to make things even one trees they are of the last porches project has this is only going to the kenyan government is a land and has no implemented a plan to send the species on to boost its numbers animal keep us women more ruthie has come to check on his charges he looks up to mountain vamos of the mount kenya wildlife can someone see he feeds them twice a day and makes sure the had of rare antelopes is intact i like it i love the job

and i'm proud you know having that. that was no more there but now it's here so it's made me do it with with me not with me a lot so i like walking here i love it and my aim is to have as many as i can. here in captivity the animals don't have access to all the vegetation that would find in the wild that's why they're giving me titian all supplements known as winter kids these special pellets i reach in protein and pride which boost the antelopes immune system. the effort seems to be paying more into the kenyan wildlife conservancy. the mountain was nearly extinct in the wilds in kenya and so are a few born and taken to the us is breeding and in pools of and 4 we received. from different groups in the us and for those 18 we started the breeding program

here on sunday and the. 77. last youngest boy was born on the 7th of july and it is the 7th the sort of the bungle. with the increase in numbers to conservancy plans to release 25 into the mt forest where kenya 4 is sadly it's ok if it has. $800.00 acres for a protected century. this enclosed area as the foretold mount kenya is not just a sanctuary for mountain bungalows knows the rare white zebras and halves of buffalo also find protection here from porches and pretend we divide these bongos into different products because of the species challenge that we have a moment. in the near future when we put them in the sanctuary this is problem

would be so they don't completely so what you can see here is one of the breeding hunts. it's not just poaching the threatens their reaction to lopes they also have to contend with a variety of diseases and the loss of natural habitat. everything and i have animal keep looking forward to the coming weeks soon 5 new mountain bone will be born increasing the species chance of survival. but i you see and great list is the most important and most. interview of plants animals and a fun guy certain with extinction the international union for conservation of nature he's responsible for maintaining the database it contains more than $100000.00 species in categories ranging from the least cost to the extant we settled to. exploit how badly africa is affected by the disappearance

of species and how important the red mist is for the protection on the most and plants. by loss of. life. of diversity and when the species is lost it's. that balance. i think it's so important for us because normally. on. almost. species our food. our environment and so on that's very important for human being to put it would have species is morally unacceptable that destroying what it's not. because you

know that the extension of species is an irreversible phenomena. under species. in the domain of conservation but however. you know some law we consider some are more important some are like we're in it all was a commission insect but even bots really because the bit in the process of the position of or the species but at the same time to produce good food or order of our species. i think in my opinion do most important cause of tension of specie is their loss.

because most of this this you live on. that for example when you do for us is petition you then to transform the primary for us in the country for it in that case the birds that used to nest on top of very big trees no more reproduce and that then. the population and finally lead to big loss of species in order to hunt down lot of lands that that fits the resource extension as well. i think it's. probably one child to 4 decision making. because you know it's just an open source of information but why it is

lot of work done behind. it has. more for decision making or bust this year making. it has a very use. thank you to. us you had the start of the program it's not just on e-mails that are dying out in fact plant species even off but up to the point just for equal systems till tends to be overlooked did you know for instance why sea grass is so vital to a scene and why we can preserve it here comes these weeks doing a bait we have some says. they're known as ocean rain forests large beds of sea grass provide a home and food for countless species they also produce oxygen and sequester carbon

dioxide for a long time. but scientists are warning that sea grass is under threat global warming is causing massive algal blooms that cut off the necessary light for sea grass to grow and that's not the only problem. important so much to get this diffusing there's lots of sea grass in the tropics but it's disappearing because dynamite is often used in fishing because trenches are being cut to lay pipelines that creates corridors through the beds in the sequence can't repopulate those areas. artificial sea grass could help provide a solution universities and industry have been working together for 2 years on the sea otter project. just like its natural counterpart artificial sea grass would help dampen why even edgy and prevent seabed erosion providing the right conditions for natural sea grass to grow back. and

a recent study highlights another desperately needed service that sea grass provides it appears to continuously filter plastic debris out of the ocean. 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. in the what's. on the marine species also suffering from an increase in the same species that have no natural previous in the new environment we'll see how to new trying to get one such problem back under control. and we all seen the same sort of things happening in many of the places sundra there when the weather or ships and planes can

transport floor and fall into eco systems where they don't belong awful think you're in a fight for survival between species the impact and the devastating. fisherman out before dawn carrying their trade in the gulf of goddess. the bay on tunisia's east coast is around 100 kilometers long in recent times the fishermen have had to stray even further from the coast to catch fish period about darkness i've been a fisherman for 38 years a lot has changed in that time of the call for 20 years ago we used to catch loads of prawns but in recent years there have been repeated events that have reduced our catch the latest problem was the blue crab they wiped out everything with that but of course. the 1st blue crabs was spotted here at the end of

2014 it's a species that was previously unknown in tunisia their numbers increased rapidly and within 8 months the crabs had become of you menace they would cut the fishing nets eat the fish and divonne anything else they could find they became such a problem that the fisherman nicknamed them di ash after the notorious militant group islamic state the blue crab is native to the into a pacifist region they came here via the red sea and the suez canal like most of the roughly $1000.00 non-native species that have rich the mediterranean ats tunisia's national institutes of marine sciences and technology also ben abdallah and her team is studying the blue crabs. the scientists akiane to learn more about this destructive species how fast to the crabs grow how quickly do they

reproduce and how do they impact other species when they arrive in a new area to help answer these questions they're analyzing the contents of the crab still much. time on. blue crab is an extremely verey show species. and even the crabs are basically insatiable yourself feed on all kinds of prairie. prawns for example also eat several of pads like squid on the fish and they prey on the fish that live in the gulf of course for the fishing industry. but the blue crab could also pose a threat to another much larger marine animal the sea turtle the mediterranean is home to 3 species of turtle all of which are endangered they got her in the gulf of gabbers to feed and to spend the winter to the north island is an

important nesting ground for the log ahead turtle which lays its eggs at just a few sites on the island. just a few kilometers away on the mainland hatem is currently being cared for the adult female is more than 30 years old she's mount norrish and has a large fishing hook inside her fate suffered by many sea turtles the scientists here say injuries from boat propellers are also common they found these species of plastic in hatem species the pollution of the seas is another huge threat so the turtles around 2 thirds of the animals examined here have plastic inside their bodies the scientists record and keep everything they find. if you must be in the

sea turtles are very important for the marine ecosystem that will they maintain the balance in the food chain human emotion and the loggerhead turtle for example it's everything and it will eat crabs and mollusks fish jellyfish here but make sure no individual species can take over if things start to tip out of balance the sea turtle helps to get things back into equilibrium apparently even. in the capital soonest we visit another la bora tree this one focuses on developing aquatic bio pro dots the research is here to study marine organisms to identify natural substances that could be used in cosmetics and other applications they found that the meat of the blue crab is rich in various proteins by turning the crab meats into a powder they've developed

a protein rich food supplement so now the blue crab has an appeal for the domestic market to the blue crab allport destroyed the livelihoods of many fishermen but now it's become a source of income allow in the fishing industry to survive and by catching the news in the crabs this invasive species is being kept on the control of tunisia's coast. children to come to terms. one giant problem and relive it in no need to see the 1st serious. little creatures in. the time period. how will climate change affect us and our children.

at e.w. dot com slash water. anyone who's ever been to south africa will of the it is the thousands of kilometers a friend sent that cost across the learned usually decide to keep the lifestyle in place now faces also have destructive consequences for the local environments in addition to being what life here also proving animals from roaming freely which leads to overgraze in land degradation and biodiversity loss now some herders know reversing the strain. and b.s. on ika logical revolution. livestock wanted a great place of the card room in central south africa the unemotional aren't allowed to linger about. 2 percent of the detail from the reason they have to be kept on the move so they can only eat a typical diplomat's head shepherd mix in the house yes experience and i've seen

hard landscape has changed since has been grazing is i most hear. it is. that. pitches in the grass grow to work not that much but now since we have got it you see process ok if 2 we claim that nor is it good now changing even or increasing a bit. more quote that you. are part of the simpleton biodiversity project that supports commissioner lifestyle keep in while boosting lunch to ration on this 24000 hectare fund. the car also wants much green on home to millions of until up and buffalo loose in the topsoil and get droppings fertilized it. in a bid to recreate degrade migrations of the past the project employs shepherds to lead lives talk to smocks is a project beat out he's confident that headis can help revive to. do this right

from the. we fundamentally believe that this method or farming give space for wildlife to co-exist with production agriculture so that's really simple vision is to find a mechanism by which we can. foster by diversity on production farms. the thousands of kilometers of fences needed for intensive livestock i would call one of the main reasons why wildlife has disappeared fences prevent the most from roaming free as they search for grazing land and water they often end up tangled up. with you know how to study the effects of defenseless famine method and environment ecologist are monitoring the project over the past 2 years research. and a group of students have recorded the number of months species in selected study

sites. the group evaluates the air for you next the index is the term in by the amount of being seen on the ground by satellites and allows researchers to compare plant growth in different regions over time. and you can already start picking up changes in trains within way the herd has been grazing especially over a longer recent period in parts of the farm and the green index shows up quite pronounced and we compared it to traditional farms where it isn't quite as pronounced and they seem to be quite a significant color it's just looking at the pixels i learned you know in taking the green out of pixelization but from that you can really start seeing a difference there are many positive signs areas that have been grazed by to have seen the cut plant grew slowly wild animals are returning to the farm more than $500.00 until have been counted and even a lip was recently cited. the broken been found as

russia but however this u.s. number in season turned out to be very successful. 800 sheep to the herd slowly but surely the project is 10 into a profitable venture. there. by destroying the plants and animals and i call systems without destroying the basis of foreign aid systems hopefully you found the special insights will the site did time for me to say goodbye from the show decks garden in lagos i'm priscilla thanks for watching i'll see you next time. by case that all you all of us remember to try and do you have need of conservation you might even want to join one of the many initiatives helping to god away environment do join us next on you can i am sent out to you know just saying goodbye from campolo here in uganda.

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