and on demand. language courses. videos and more you know. any type. w. media center. hello and welcome to eco offered what live by racial magazine produced in lagos. earlier in person lives in lagos nigeria i've been joined by my colleague sandra hello crease and hello to everyone out there very glad to have you with us again i am sundra to no deal coming to you from kampala in uganda today we'll be looking

out innovative bubble houses in nigeria and plenty of other interesting stories. one hear how monstrous bank is helping the far muslim but saw no particular lifestyle. we'll also see how some african land owners can get a tax break by protecting the environment. and find out why ugandan farmers but indigenous thinks. we thought of the show in the democratic republic of congo a country often modern conflict as a result of a long time little attention is paid to the environment but that is starting to change we want to call the begun a park where people are now devoting time and effort to protecting the nature of it not only is that good for the tropical forest bot the local people and the way to which includes.

the sis family of gorillas lives in the tropical sorts. from the nearby. to some other good arguments we are now in cousy be a good national harmful and right now we're in the presence of miss you and me miss you point to me and to many members of this family you know. we think it's so who says yes the national park is a national conservation area so the. a consequence public of congo of the ground is all eastern no land guerrillas have been a major tourist attraction for decades the main source of income for the park are the admission fees foreign visitors pay 402 was still is each because of the pandemic there's no business right now but the rangers still go out on patrol. they

want to keep track of several the us troops and usually know where to find them even though the park is heaved it covers 6000 square kilometers per person g.p.s. device for each family of gorillas. one when i went to the forest to check on them we also collect data and if we find chimpanzee tracks we record back to on them see if they find evidence of illegal activities such as trash and we just manto them and know the coordinates and underscored on a few dates is very useful scientific research the number of lowland gorillas here has declined by hoff over the past 3 decades to just a few 1000 researches estimates of the ranges wealth with permits colleges of boston bus a bossy he had its problems experts is a nonprofit study because it's a public research and conservation. he says poaches and their traps are

a continuing threat of this gorilla is lucky to be alive. here we see the silverback move when he was 4 years old he was caught in a snare and unfortunately he lost his right hand but despite that here 8 years and he's with his family. the range is not only patrolled the park to collect data but also on the lookout for poachers that's why there aren't. any clues over the security we have security issues in some parts of the park there are a poachers out there every day and the rangers try to track them down people from the surrounding communities also sometimes damage the park they cut down trees or bamboo. to come to the park is a unesco world heritage site but this part of eastern d.r.s. sea is densely populated and there's no buffer zone between the park and the nearby

villages people live in the beaded facility some welcomes he plantations all in the park but most smallholder farmers. promise experts his not only seeks would show conservation of the gorillas but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. he has also launched a project to replant areas of forests that have been cleared illegally well that's impossible since says working closely with local people is very important he hopes they will come to care for the environment as much as they respect the good. will go to good the plan is just an appeal for some time now i'm going to cry that's been seen much more often at the edge of the park and feel. what pleases us as scientists and conservationists is that the communities respect. nobody has been throwing stones at him or threatening him even though we often see him passing

through their fields. or shots around $100.00 villages. in the reforestation projects a project that will help preserve the forests for the good of the gorillas and. let us now come from preserving life and forests to creating good sustainable housing up because a big city is a crowded. overcrowded you know witness that we are doing debate when we need to on the jury and entropy. who builds houses for material in abundance. nigeria's population is rapidly growing and with the need for affordable housing. to bring him some peace who came up with that idea. he constructs houses and car do

not made entirely of bamboo which grows metrolink in the area. man i love my sometimes like this lasts longer than a house built with ordinary would buy bamboo is better when it comes to withstand like floods and garage and that you and your family can live in a house like this. or a very long time without having to worry that it might collapse and then consulate nominee. which is actually a would be grass is strong right and environmentally friendly it grows incredibly quickly without having to be replanted after harvest. it's much cheaper than most other construction materials but it should be treated or leeched to eliminate its susceptibility to insect attacks and weather where not all bamboo varieties have the same quality but if a suitable variety you see used to buy him some lisa says a sizeable house can be built in less than 20 days. then how about you

if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send this a tweet. hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. a note to one of the wall of embarrassment to troublemakers plus that every year around $25000000.00 tons of wheat ends up in our ocean that's a truck rolled every single minute of all plastic oh something continues to live on the present rate over discarding 2 truckloads a single minute within the next 10 years and 4 percent by $20.00 to $30.00 why is this happening one reason is that only a small proportion of plastic waste this recycled another is that a run off of all plastic goes to product that i use just once and then thrown away

now some young german activist ah cleaning up local rivers and working with scientists to calculate i'll watch a plastic and suck in the sea. and i delete location on the who're river in western germany but take a closer look and it's not as beautiful. as. kevin nowhere and their classmates have come to do some fishing but not the usual kind it's trash their fishing for those lists are everywhere they look and there's plenty of plastic. and quite a few glass bottles to. the students attend a local high school and are taking part in an initiative called plastic pirates it's a research project where young students get to do the work of real scientists. they take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash they recovered from the rivers and river that. scientists in kew use the data to generate

a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea. the teachers are happy to do their part to inspire the budding scientists. out there. it's something i care about myself it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind his specially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. the work of the plastic pirates shows that on average one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square metres of riverbank in germany. france also has a project aimed at tracking down the trash it's called plastic origins and goes a step further using artificial intelligence and an app we want to move. as much as brought us and citizens as we can to go on the reverse or.

using those data using the video that. we will be able to as we do. early to items and use as they go to my previous question regime the aim of plastic origins is to get straight to legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers their garbage map is intended to identify especially polluted areas we know that most of the crew should be friends the ocean is transported by rigorous right now we don't know which groups are the most polluted . but the app contract micro plastics in germany and down fall kilos of micro plastics per person per year end up in the environment the main sources particles from vehicle tires industrial waste and household garbage

it's difficult for waste water treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles but a munich startup called eco faria is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method this is how it works the waste water is pumped into the filter a powerful voice x. is generated in the pipe pushing the water containing most of the micro plastics to the top of the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. the young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours in this idyllic location they found more trash than they can even carry. now we had to solve africa to find out how a tax break helps to promote conservation the country's fables for its wide life and vast areas of almost torched land and then go there come up with

a way to encourage people to set up nature reserves on the property. 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too one even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stevens comes in she's a tech specialist that the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers a tax incentive to do so. what

you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the public good and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that bind of this city this man is already converted his land into a protected area he can write off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period photographer cost fund of endor purchased the land 5 years ago and has taken countless pictures of the area since then it rarely rains here but when it does the landscape is transformed into a pageant of color. another special feature about this area of land is that it could act as a corridor for wild animals since it's located between 2 different protected areas . we standing here on about in the on the northern border of it. to the west than you thought south stretching down national park and then to the

north east look up. and you can see the proposed corridor linking the 2 protected. the crew region of south africa is home to more than $5000.00 species of plants and some 40 percent of them can only be found here. once upon a time this area was farmland due to global warming and the rainfall diminished quite a bit and it just became impossible for these people to to make a living with cattle and agriculture and eventually there to sell and that's why we fought in the fall for conservation. with climate change threatening biodiversity candace stephens has not found it difficult to persuade other landowners to follow suit. dozens have signed up to the scheme her 1st experience of implementing the program was in the kwazulu-natal province in order to protect the

land locals introduced a herd of cattle. the animals serve an important function keeping the grass short helps prevent wildfires in the dry season but it's just the start will slowly introduce game starting with the plains game which will be spring book. called abuse and those type of animals and then once they are established slowly the cattle will be removed the animals will be free to run on the whole nature reserve . the tax rebates that candor stevens has been promoting. i have gone some way towards addressing the shortage of funding for environmental protection in south africa. and in the future she's hopeful of further progress in this development.

it's an old problem farmers especially here in africa are all too familiar with predictors attack in their life stock. conservation and trends dogs to guard farm animals they can be very good at it and that means pharmacies are less reason to hunt and kill more road in wildlife so a danger to species such as cheetah are also protected it looks like a win win situation. farmers in the west and was fun to have to be vigilant could be lacking somewhere in the grass every year families like to use around 2 percent of their livestock to predators. security fencing the figure is even higher. than was i know said on fifty's and. of course the.

paranoid term if you know the dealer but it can kill several. just kill. to protect of their livestock a many a good heart is short of poison pride he says but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their hearts to keep the big cats away. and the family is given local mixed breed dog which is well suited to the hash environment. close to god in good program is supported by the environmental going station cheetah conservation of santa as a rural planing facility pony more disabled looks after parties and raises them to become part of the hard the dogs then stay within livestock day and night to protect them against threats. around. 60 to

60 dogs so far in this area. we intend to. lose more dogs and turn to help. foremost because of their livelihoods and in their hands on the other hand. she tarzan was 13 or 4 trained dogs protect a flock the prisons and backing alone is often enough to keep predators at bay. initiative like this part of a leisure strategy to keep livestock from being harmed by wild animals the conservation organization also conducts research mishal crile is the coordinator she uses come into traps to learn more about cheaters and develop solutions for human when they have conflict. the greatest numbers of cheaters can be found in

soudan spots of africa these skilled predators can reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour making them the fastest land animals in the world. but these days their natural range is severely reduced the destruction of their habitat targeted killings by farmers and the hunt for their fire has brought them to the brink of extinction predators suggest their top of the ecosystem make a connector of prey and control. prey of course also gives us education under control. since the guiding dog program was launched in 2015 many families have stalked killing cheaters for jeff and all the program has been a sense says thangs to his dogs he hasn't lost a single gorge in the last 5 years many species in africa still survive and

coexist in the unprotected wildlife areas ensuring humans and animals can live side by side remains a challenge. things to conservation efforts researches estimated that today there are some 7000 cheetahs living in the wild and some of them all their lives to the dogs but watch over the floats in the can have. from but sought out to sound rose 'd you've got into it since farmers there have set up a sit back can you tell us more about that sandra. here's a concrete when banks are an important resource for preserving the different strains and graded new ones that are better suited to the changed conditions due to climate change we're going to pay a visit to a project run and stopped by a woman. joy mugisha is explaining how to catch banana weevils.

she's giving a training session to women farmers in western uganda. here she demonstrates another method put parts of a dead banana tree stump in front of the tree you're trying to protect and the weevils will be drawn to that instead. because it could destroy. the spring. so. my organism. joy has been trained by the organisation alliance biodiversity. the n.g.o.s supports food security projects with evidence based research especially for crops like bananas and beans some traditional bean varieties can no longer grow here the

farmers say it's because of climate change the ngo has helped them to set up their own cooperative and develop a seed bank which now has more than 60 varieties of bean in stock. from here they. usually farm he or she. has. to have he or she has. the national seed bank of uganda provided the initial investment of seeds scientists made them available to the ngo. the researchers have given the farmers improved seeds of being varieties. the cross-breeding to create these new strands can take several years as scientists gloria tino explains so you find.

these maybe the. readers can access those materials and improve on them. or even so those traditional hold a lot of traits. that we need for. the national seed bank estimates that every year uganda is losing around 10 percent of its biodiversity in plants that are important for agriculture and nutrition like beans peanuts and wild rice. so if it is very year should we be kewl whose crops. have would have nothing because we won't be able to use that materials to engage in the challenges that you have in the production systems in the country we're going to look after disease resources is is a country that is in trouble for the future for joining has in the meantime set up

our own seed bank for 4 years she's been setting aside part of her harvest proceeds she's employed a number of women to help with the seed selection process she not only pays them but also passes on her beam growing knowledge they get money from these community. from this community. the farm oz. the idea of starting up community seed banks is catching on a total of 8 cooperatives in uganda have now joined the initiative. that's all for though we hope you fall into these stories just barry if you do something to protect the environment would love to hear about it you can get in touch with us on our social media channels on personal lives signing off from lagos nigeria. thank you chremes china's again for another edition of africa next trick for me

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