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and for our planet. global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how to make city street. how can we protect our tests. we can make a difference to. the ideas the environmental series in 2000 on t.w. and on. the race to vaccinate nations against covert is well underway. have delivered 447000000 doses to date every 4th to the u.s. many other countries are still waiting and the global figure is not that good on the 1.3 percent of the world population has been fully immunized.

israel was the country that was vaccinating the quickest we've been reporting on them quite a bit now chill. as a percentage of the population. is their numbers have gone through the roof or talk to a doctor about that in a moment report. the 6 plane from china carrying 2000000 doses of sign of act vaccinations against covert 19 taxis on the runway in chile's capital santiago every 3rd chilean has had their 1st job already that's the kind of vaccination rate that other countries can only dream of. we are very happy not only because we fulfill the needs of the country but because we cannot continue with a higher objective to have vaccines for 15000000 people during the 1st semester of this year. chile is the world's kovac 19 vaccination champion while the e.u. makes sluggish progress on inoculation the country of 19000000 on south america's

pacific coast has already caught up with overtaken vaccine heavyweights like the u.s. and britain chile was quick to get its orders for vaccines in early from astra zeneca johnson and johnson and pfizer biotech but also from sign of attack on the sputnik vaccine presidents have been yet overseas the vaccination campaign personally vaccination centers are everywhere from parking lots to football stadiums nobody has to make an appointment and anyone who's up for the 2nd shot is also free to walk in and get it officials want 80 percent of the country fully vaccinated by june that means herd immunity however the successful vaccination campaign has yet to translate into a reduction in numbers infected daily infections are reaching record highs health officials fear the campaign may have inadvertently encouraged people to become complacent about prevention measures and take increased risks. alexis college's is director of the millennium institute on immunology and immunotherapy and joins us

from the catholic university of chile how has chile managed to get so quick and facts and i. thank you for that interview. my question is. really great connection between. reading and we think on women in the private sector of well off. to get a little with a 5 but you know long history a long probation of. nations so we have a very well organized for several decades to nation program here for all the poverty. so what is going to reach all the way from the north of the country to the south to if it was town so we have a very strong network of health care systems can provide support for the commission complaining so you reckon that's one of the reasons behind this is that

having regular vaccine campaigns for other diseases. is behind this success it is something is missing in some countries and is said to have led to so much public skepticism about vaccines in general. right so that's one reason and also. in another many recent based on this size the research we do here we're aiming to have a scottish. collaboration scientific and clinical collaborations with some of the devil a person of our community back say we one of them especially were able to starvation supply agreement that was transfer from the academia from the couple of university to the government so they almost able to secure a sufficient in boxing those of us to get this strong and massive campaign lalan that together with a very active on

a fishing network of about the nation the country i think has allowed to move for a very efficiently time sulfide but in aden but i think the most important point is that the jury society is very willing to. talk sense. so they have been very and their mission there in the cooperation from the people to talk to complainants in great we have already sort of their population back today what about the fact that case numbers are still rising despite the axing dr being so successful. well they kind of overlap so the vaccine companies started really massively. early february and the numbers were rising for any paper ie this is also a holiday effect but it was seen also europe and the us. we have our summer

break from january and february early march so derives the numbers. probably due to the holy period the same the holy see some kind of the same situation there was a spring of syrup in europe i mean in the us. let me start by that have anything to do with reports that the chinese vaccine is less effective. well there is data from our survey the studies showing that this final are like saying 5 patients see. harry a percent for their. c b my own cases and i are one percent for the severe case of some 50 percent for kerry my case and so with respect to the fact since 1st to

start showing the facts on their hospitalization rates and their rates. both in turkey and nature the efficacy data showed $91.00 salient 65 percent. because of the vaccine based on the clinical studies between 50 and 100 percent depending on the time of the case so it was back to see that they merely. say they were to keep the cease fire very rarely used an hour when doing also here vandyke to the study just to check the docs fail and we have observed so far that about 90 percent of people show the bodies after 2 weeks after the 2nd dose so to mix up a 2nd those we had we should be to about 90 percent of them for them tears they were all antibodies and those aren't life in the slightest ok we'll have to leave

it there lexis callahan just director of the millennium institute on immunology and you know therapy thank you very much for being on the show today and i think you're going to you. well the question of vaccine advocacy is a hot button issue right now chile was part of a large trial of astra zeneca is vaccine along with peru and the united states astra zeneca says its vaccine is 79 percent effective on the trial of 30000 people which look to clear the way for the jap to get u.s. approval but american health officials now say they're worried astra zeneca may have used outdated information in the trial and may have provided an incomplete view of the efficacy data the fama firm is still crunching the latest numbers and says it intends to issue. and it's that part of the sure way derek williams and says your questions on the coronavirus. to the different vaccines protect people from the long term effects of covert 19. many patients who

contract code at 19 become what are known as the long haul ers or people who have long kovar that there's currently no way to predict who that might affect although there isn't really an accepted definition for it having long cove it basically means you don't return to your previous levels of health even months after sars topi to falls below detectable levels in your body it's affected millions of people who have a wide spectrum of longer term symptoms with with chronic fatigue for example a really regular complaint there are 2 big theories for for what might be causing it one is that long coded happens when the body can't clear out all of the virus or viral fragments left after infection that basically the virus is able to hide in

some people somehow and then the body goes into a kind of of of trench warfare mode the 2nd hypothesis is that. long tube it is an unchecked auto immune response so so an off the rails immune system in some patients experts say it could be a combination of both but there's no doubt that for people suffering long coated symptoms the prospect of getting vaccinated must be pretty terrifying i mean could getting the shot actually make you feel morse well although i emphasize that we still can't say anything for certain there are a growing number of anecdotal reports that getting vaccinated appears to be actually helping at least some people with long overdue we don't know why. one small study and peer review also at least indicates that more long haul worse

feel better then feel worse after being vaccinated the problem is to find out more we would have to conduct trials where some long haul worst get tobit 19 vaccines and and others get placebos masquerading as covert 19 back since i don't think that's going to happen to be honest in the current climate right now i can only say that the general consensus seems to be that long haul ors should also be vaccinated and some anecdotal reports say it might help with sometimes. and because we're all in this for the long haul and not just humans scientists are racing to protect the animals from the coronavirus they often use the same playbook as for people like social distancing and health checks and now back say it's this month the san diego zoo you know they had several apes with an experimental coated

vaccine intended for pets in the animals the 1st non-human primates to be vaccinated. the veterinary pharmaceutical company so weight is develops the vaccine at the a good 0 awestruck hope and vaccinating other apes off for a trip of corellas tested positive in january the zoo has gorillas but no bows adarand it's a slightly indoors which leaves them most vulnerable to the spread of infection. and for watching safe and sea we're going to. come from an. eco africa. animal conservation by a long chain of young software developers in south africa are making it possible takes away a lot of the bureaucracy and and surefire the 2 walks people really care about which is protecting the environment. and your able to find

a lot of our conservation work for ricky through currency. for go. on t.w. . appearance of the s. and. germany's reputation in the global classroom always top of the challenge. as a reality check reveals some subjects aligning the high. in environmental sustainability . social justice and. listen to terrain wouldn't go in the. made in germany. in 60 minutes w. . look closely. to see carefully you don't know this soon to be nice to do good.

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with me already is michael hi chris how are you today very well sondra thanks a lot and a warm welcome to all you view also out there from a to we have a lot in store for you on today's program so let's quickly take a look at what we have coming up. we investigate plus to go on lake victoria. see how on the entrepreneur in cameroon is recycling banana trunks. and learn how women in the gambia talk to the country's huge plastic waste problem . what does change have to do with nature conservation. more than you might think now 3 young startup entrepreneurs in south africa have founded a crypto platform it allows users to trade did you to animals that helps the environment at the same time let's take a closer look at how it works. how

the lions with nothing to worry about these big cats fin the game reserve in south africa are protected but conservation initiatives like these cost money and drumming up the nation's requires a lot of time and effort together with 2 friends and fellow nature lovers jason sims came up with an idea to make donating to animal conservation more attractive with the aid of modern technology. all of us grew up in south africa and. all of us. expands the book. love those experiences us as children and growing up we want to preserve that and we've all been following block take block and technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was was

really special for us the 3 friends live in cape town and work as software developers every transaction in their digital block chain can be carried out 60 entrants parent lee most importantly it is recorded so what is their idea exactly all of our different conservation partners on the wild cards platform these conservations have certain types of animals and species that they look after and for every animal that they have we represent that is a unique digital artwork on the block chain that only one person can have and if you are in this wild card you essentially pay a monthly amount to actually support that organization and you can see that money essential flying directly through to that organization is from team on the wild cards digital clock well more people can buy and sell rare animal cards using crypto currency with each card there's

a back story details of its purchase history and even the photo of the animal in some cases and every month dredging percent of each card asking price is donated by its owner to a conservation organization of their choice $1.00 of the 1st organizations to benefit is that while tomorrow fund an american ngo that wants to open up a corridor for wildlife migration and south africa the corridor will reconnect animal populations and in the pin the reserve and the east among the least a wetlands park which are still divided by fencing. before the fencing can come down the corridor needs to be cleared of invasive vegetation. than ellen and the green members and all female landscape restoration crews are seeing so that. let the cat. out it's really important that we remove these plants. otherwise the animals eat them and could die. and they also get skin disease and sometimes.

great canning is the general manager of baltimore a funded south africa the conservation organization who received more than 45000 euros in funding through wild cards the money went toward training to remembers and covering the costs of transforming what was once a pineapple farm into a wilderness area how it works do you not know unfortunately and what i do know is you know that we are able to fund a lot of our conservation work directly through cryptocurrency and and through organizations such as wild cards. while cards make supporting conservation simpler and more direct. because it takes away a lot of the bureaucracy and purifies a to what people really care about which is protecting the environment the wildlife in the pin the game reserve will certainly benefit if more funds are generated. founders are also aware of it this attractive aspect of this game. block change

exactions consume large amounts of energy and have a huge c o 2 footprint around 30 kilos of carbon transaction you can uses a lot of electricity and this is concerning and i actually don't believe that sustainable but also taking a step a step back if we were to use the traditional financial system we would be paying you know all of the resources of the bank employees driving to and from work and all the construction of those big buildings but it's a huge concern and we are going to reduce that as much as we can over time as as new technologies come out we'll move to those technologies that are more efficient so while cars has a dynamo i get to solve for me doing a modern and efficient way to help protect critically endangered animals without adversely contributing to the already critical climate crisis. from south africa to germany more precisely to the former borders so about once separated east and west

germany today march of this strip of land is a thriving nature reserve they help in even some sightings of links some dry can you tell us more well during the communist era this was a well guarded sparsely populated stretch of months but in the last 3 decades it's been reclaimed by nature we escorted a byword just on a trip to what used to be but humid summer boarder and is now an extraordinary biotope. this was once a heavily fortified border dividing east and west germany today it's the hearts national park one of germany's largest nature reserves the park has been overseen by biologist going to costa ever since its creation 30 years ago. the unique thing about this national park is that we're giving nature nearly 25000

hectares of space to do what it wants. it's rare to have such a large forest area with no connection to the timber industry. where nature is free reign to show what it can do. back when the national park was created staff had to start from scratch a stretch of no man's land 100 meters wide was known as the death strip because the communist border guards were under orders to shoot anyone trying to cross in 1989 soldiers were still patrolling the border the barbed wire and concrete fortifications were practically insurmountable. 3 decades later nature has filled the death strip with new life. the birch trees have managed to prevail so many herbicides and pesticides were used here that hardly anything would

grow and yet so much has happened here in the past 30 years as a few. and it's not just the plants that are making a comeback several rare animal species are also reclaiming their natural habitats a hidden camera has captured the latest arrivals. a leaks the predatory wild cat died out in this region around 200 years ago but today more than 100 animals have settled in the area thanks to the intervention of staff. there were links in the hearts region for a long time. until they were killed off by us. they deserved to be back in the hearts and so we started reintroducing them in 199495. it was a successful undertaking which took a lot of hard work the biologist has spent thousands of hours in the woods carefully documenting nature's campaign to recapture its territory along the former

border. but staff at the national park are now facing their biggest challenge to date entry as far as the eye can see. there used to be a huge spruces here by prolonging drought and rising temperatures weakened the trees and bark beetles finish them off our journey continues on words to the national parks the highest point. at 1100 meters above sea level we reached our destination the park and. this listening post which used to be sealed off was used by east german and soviet secret services to intercept communications in the west. today it's right next door to the botanists hyatt enjoy a garden with hundreds of plants. this means that at least in part the park has returned to its original state over the past 30 years and that makes us really happy. but he's not done yet going to cost him plans to

carry on until one day east and west have fully grown together again for good. if he is a sailing board member from 100 percent recycled plastic were 1st reported on when it was still under construction now he is going on in a way to own the watches of like taria where they're. from a distance it looks like a typical sailing boat but it's not it's actually made of recycled plastic objects and covered in repurposed flip flops inspired by the traditional dow trading vessels it was built on the kenyan coast and is now plying the waters of lake victoria. what's particularly unique about this one is that it is the world's 1st recycled plastic sailing down our hope over time is to create a sector industry where people are able to build small boats traditional boats

canoes. jobs etc also from recycled waste so it's just showing you that you can push the boundaries of what is possible with ways to materials. the idea was born on the island of lama virtually car free the people here rely on donkeys carts and of course boats to get around. for centuries local fishermen have built their own wooden douse a craft handed down from generation to generation. boat builder ali skandha and his team wanted to see if they could construct one of the traditional boats out of plastic. substituting wood with plastic posed a challenge. but it also has benefits. we save trees when we use this because every part of our anybody's one piece of the tree so you're going to have a lot of trees. the islands coastline like coastlines all over the world is increasingly littered with plastic waste only part of which is generated by the islanders even

more washes up on its shores. the boat builders and the community regularly collect plastic on the beaches and take it to a recycling plant on the mainland to be processed. after being shredded the plastic is melted at a high temperature and molded in the shape of the boat frames. it's a great circulate color me to the waist we can here we process that separate the different kinds of plastic non-usable stuff. and ali and his team doing a fantastic job putting together. the crew have already sailed from kenya designs a bar in their plastic down and are now touring like victoria they hope their project will raise awareness of marine plastic pollution and inspire others to take

action. staying with the topic of recycling over to come. down to well. let's see. what environments. but not as grow fast but each tree only flowers and best fruit once. trees being harvested it's cut down on. it's trunk and leaves are left to decompose . cameroon produces about $4000000.00 tonnes of bananas a year. entrepreneur a man c.j. realized that banana trunks don't have to end up as waste but are a valuable role material every month she buys some $300.00 banana tree trunks from local farmers that start up is based in the capital. she and her team peel

fibers off the trunks. and then similar the strands of fiber for several hours. the brew is then dried in the sun and processed into paper. for the walls i care about environmental work and doing something about the nation as i say plastic bags littering the streets and blocking drains it's time to look for an alternative to plastic that's what motivates me only more secretly and 50 the company produces $100.00 eco friendly pieces of packaging per day and sells them to retailers for between $1.00 and $3.00 euro's the product is 100 percent handmade and biodegradable. and how about you if you are also doing your bit tell us about it visit our websites oh send us

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