i even got white hairs out of. learning benjamin language and not all of this gets me and clinical but maybe to instruct let's say you want to know their story gets her fighting and reliable information for margaret. hello everybody and welcome to a cool africa it's great to have you with us i'm krista lem's in lagos nigeria always we have a lot of interesting news stories all the apartment. and offer that is great piece and i am so proud to be no video coming to you from kampala. a big hello to everybody today will be taking you on

a trip all over you to for continent as we investigate some of the many environmental problems that we face here among the topics on the show. how hygiene is what to use. just. how many to grow we know. and the house of africa's press. and people's lives we proved this time. last we had to is sweating what is that you may be asking not everybody knows that is what is the name of swaziland adopted in 2018 the small landlocked country lies between south africa and once and the less than. most of its clinics did not have access to clean water when the corner virus seemed to become more than ever before to remedy the situation thanks to an international initiative things are suddenly a note that.

anyone wanting to enter. must 1st. put a purpose only a recent development. in the hundreds. the water is heated. both for the patients and stuff. they found with. microbes from. so it's spent they washed and so. they eliminate most of the bacteria and. in the southern african country. the average life expectancy is slowly around 59 yes that's among the lowest in the well a lack of clean water it's part of the problem livestock agriculture and see which contaminate the water making it's unsafe to drink until now.

and this family only had this water to depend on it comes straight from the river and now he's heard that a clinic's is safe alternative for now when we need water very clean water and courts water for free we go down to the hospital long queues form outside the clinics each person is allowed one cholesterol clean water a day to make the water have been heated to 90 degrees celsius enough to kill most jams and bacteria. is also here to receive the brush. is becoming an increasing problem because of climate change the water level in the reserve was dropped and groundwater has also been affected the station has been set up to monitor the water table we need to understand what to present to our water

table. with new changes in terms of food a pittance and are introduced with the bits ashore where it's still safe to extract ground water so far 10 such observation sites have been set up across the country a central 7 trucks the status of each in real time south africa's water management institute is part of the project and keeps a close eye on what the security in the region groundwater. pollution and once you pollute and what it is not. easy to. compute a fight there too easily state so that is be considered so we had to flee have to put in place mechanisms to assess and protect the groundwater is well is also money to suction the water hits in project was financed by germany's

development bank k f w. prime minister. says improving public health is a major part for his government he believes it's key to the country's development when we put health. we had to build the clinics we had to build infrastructure and in that process all apartments were tapped into that relationship and they said we can come and help you and that is the essence of. development corp the clinic project was implemented by a german australian company 10000 people already have access to safe water every day and soon schools will also be provided with hot water to accompany its construct and a large solar plant in is what. you can do a naturalistic days by alternately not directly but indirectly you can get

a final commercial grind out of that that's good business good sense but also it's being a good corporate citizen as well. meanwhile the i mean he says the clean water makes the job easier in the pandemic thanks to the new hike in measures it's also much safer for head and the hot water last arrived just in time last winter it's now approaching in the swat team. but is great. report what to cut to see over the sun its energy is just one of the many natural resources we kind of news will use y.c. to make the better on our lives that. all next story is of all protecting the lives of wild animals every year 25000 elephants full preach approaches in africa most isn't by way in kenya i know that god is it really considered

a hot spot for poaching there were times people felt they had no other way to make you leave it. it's just a thing you know used to come to the forest of joe face to kill animals now he comes to protect them parts of the forest became a refuge and the poacher has become a ranger he and his colleagues are documenting the traces wildlife leave behind and any destructive human activities now that poachers traps like this one are being removed there are more and loads here again. as is the feeling that. when i see them they look nice to me the. skin in them it's like that i've been through with the good as well as he did if they thought of the ice when i put it on them. thanks. to the nathan is who. he said no to going down with.

the documentation he works on enables inferences about which species live in the only pony endangered species refuge. for once a month he replaces the batteries in the camera traps. the photos will help with the creation of a more detailed census of the forest inhabitants. the total slippery frog which only lived in this region is one of several species here that are critically endangered but its population is growing much to the delight of the ngos founder when we talk about just this collie like where you live when your neighbor would be destroyed you cannot survive another common if you were going to this for so this is how we resolved that one would become pains to reduce the consumption of this frog us food and the 2nd thing that we've done so very well one

will supervise boreholes sources of water for their people so that they don't need to come in bath and wash a used this stream in a month destroy the harbor thought of. the endangered species refuge has recently been expanded by an area the size of $16000.00 soccer fields thanks to neighboring landowners and churches a significant achievement considering that ghana has lost 20 percent of its forest cover over the past 2 decades. thank you so we've already heard the vaults using energy from the sun to prove. our next report is about harnessing the winds to generate electricity. the country is the tell me to leave that's a cool. nuclear reactors behind and produce energy in a clean way that is quite a challenge as a fly a lot and lots of energy hungry factories are part of the answer is to build

ever big and tall vines this huge ring of concrete is just one small part of an incredibly our that's going up near munster in western germany. it will support a wind turbine. the segments are so big they have to be put together on site. we're going to. begin with the 1st prototype in 2010 since then we've built in erected more than 2000 wind turbines we even built the world's tallest in 2017 with a hub height of 178 meters. at the moment 13 wind turbines are being built here the energy they'll deliver will be needed especially once germany's last coal power plant shuts down in 2038 but the expansion of wind energy is not going fast enough in many parts of the country says. he's managing director of the company

that operates this wind farm which faced pushback from locals that's part of why it can take 10 years for a project to be approved banners like these are one sign of local resistance some people in the region complain that wind turbines are a blot on the landscape. this village is home to an active citizens initiative makes chilled awning is already annoyed that her house is surrounded by wind turbines now they'll be joined by more less than a kilometer away from her farm. you have who i don't talk you can hear the wind turbines from a kilometer and a half away you hear them turning it's annoying and i thought. other residents feel less disturbed. as a minister they don't bother me i don't have any nearby only see them in the distance. that i work in a green job myself so i can relate. it's good that we're working toward renewable

energy. and bidding good bye to fossil fuels and i can foresee also vital for absolute there are ways to get communities on board beat on each get talk to residents before hand and had a good experience on this project he offered them a share in the wind farms profits. last year my home is this because i get we do is raise the capital for the project from local residents essential to give us a loan and we give them back interest at a fixed rate i'm dolly and we've reviewed that could be 5 percent maybe 6 percent of money for food with that much money that's quite a lot compared to the interest rates of banks offer nowadays and there are few. and experts say the environmental impacts especially on animals are less than many assume. if it was like a bird strikes are not such a big problem compared to the number of birds killed on highways or killed by cats . if we really wanted to do something for birds we should consider the

impact of domestic cats or the speed limits on the highway that would probably make a much bigger difference for movies if. nevertheless the industry is working to improve the turbines so they're more environmentally friendly even with blades over 80 metres in length as a valid one and that's on just to make the turbines quieter we use flats that help reduce turbulence and reduce noise to help protect the environment we have sensors that register any bats flying nearby. then the turbines shut down automatically. if all the older when parks in germany were replaced with more efficient ones like these the country could meet all its current electricity needs but not for long because these needs might soon double with more electric vehicles on the road and further digitalisation of the economy would have. been called wind along with solar

and by a mass of the renewable energy sources of the future. but every winter by it is an intrusion into nature so this electricity comes at a cost. and that cost is much more than a certain number of cents per kilowatt hour. so this power must be used sparingly. electric cars shouldn't consume 20 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers if we can get that number down below 10 and we can. it's technically entirely possible. of course it should be standard practice to use energy wisely and without waste in industry on the roads and at home soon this winter park will deliver green power 240000 households. white sun the beaches are beautiful. always us clean to look a study found that many bitches for us are highly contaminated with micro plus they

also juice of the side to take action against states for the sake of the future. and paragon of. cyprus is a jewel in the eastern mediterranean boasting greek and roman ruins dating back to intimidating. useful beaches and a lot of trash where it doesn't belong in the natural surroundings and intransigence of cleaning up after him looks at the inspirational initiative say feel good cleaning up beaches and neighborhoods. this am check here he wasn't left by the residents it's amazing all the rubbish that can be found in the natural area. to volunteer garbage here is pick up the waste that others have left behind

a good deed that's lots of fun and will hopefully inspire others to follow suit. organize events every weekend for those who wish to join us with the cleanup and help achieve our goals. cans for kids recycling for a good cause. and a mini and it is a valuable tool material volunteers are collecting drink cans and selling them in the form of crest and the mini and loves the proceeds go to buy medical equipment for a children's ward at a local hospital. so far we've given them very close to 300000 euros recycling argument thank you we always say to feed thank you thank you let us. refill cypress reduce plastic pollution. the idea is simple people can fill up

their own bottles from public water taps financed by donations rather than buying daughter in plastic bottles 3 ideas one goal getting garbage under control through proper disposal recycling or just avoiding it completely to ensure cyprus remains what it is and it did a mediterranean island. let's get some women here in nigeria who are following a very useful practical way to harness nature for a good cause they help indeed crease what they're doing is good for public health good for the soil and a way to save money it looks like a real win win win situation. the. chemical pesticides are still machine main weapon for many farmers in nigeria

. they may be affordable and fast acting but they're harmful for the soil in the long run. there are alternatives. and. one solution that uses the seams and leaves. everywhere would. help. very health risks. pounded and soaked in hot water for 24 hours and then strained. the resulting brew provides nutrients for the plants and helps to keep parasites away. when dry the scenes turn wind and can also be pressed to produce. and explains how to apply the name extracts by mixing them with water or applying them

directly to the meat. products need more time to react. but they're more sustainable. if you. visit our website. south africa is home to an incredible range of animal and the plant species its biodiversity is amazing but a trees it is a big country and has very different landscapes they too are on trees too boring degrees in the last grasslands in the east of the country are threatened by mining erosion and grazing and that means the lively who over the people there also in jeopardy bought some great projects to help the people and the landscape for that.

is happy she just sold 3 of her cars for the equivalent of over 1000 euros she's a single mother and the most cattle auction is organized by environmental and rural solutions are a godsend the options are very good for us and very vital for us because we don't have transport to take at the dock to the site for selling they come to us and some sometimes we do negotiated the price if one looks at this fight in the past small holders in south africa's grasslands could only buy from and sell to their neighbors the big cattle auctions were held much too far away. for many around here the mobile auctions have been the only source of income during the pandemic for the guardian or whatever. people are organizing the most brazen associations 'd and we offer the auctions as one of the incentives to belong to the association you get a far reduced rate and the people also want to make cash from the cattle their

source of the bank or the cash cow the local economy or the local trading widget so people people love coming to these auctions the environmental and rural solutions ers organization launched the auctions in 2014 since then $3800.00 cattle have gone under the hammer for a total of $1700000.00 euros that's benefited more than $500.00. good families. the cattle bred here on the grasslands are renowned for their excellent quality. we commercial farmers. but unity for us and for them to get the cattle sold for us to good careful and to make some money. environmental scientist nicky mcleod and soil scientist to see martella founded a.r.s 20 years ago. and how the cattle auctions are just one part of a wider scheme to promote sustainable practices in rural areas. much of the

grasslands has been badly degraded. the fragile ecosystem has been jeopardized by overgrazing and mismanagement. and. the grasslands cover 10 percent of south africa but supply 60 percent of the drought stricken countries water needs. against a backdrop of global warming and climate change problems such as overgrazing soil erosion and water security have become more urgent than ever for keeping this beautiful grassland intact as a water that's basically the skin on the ground the skin on the giving is grass then attacked is so important for a punishing a water source in. tackling the issue of over grazing in a region that depends on livestock farming is a challenge. one solution involves reviving an age old herding tradition.

started long time ago with our forefathers. the way they used to do it was to pile up some stones and paint them. that way the community knew which side was follow and which side was for grazing it would have been recorded. this traditional system of land rotation had been used for a very long time but as more and more people left the area to find work in the cities the practice died out. a lot of fat the younger people didn't and best tended but if they talked to the address of the community then he trusts easy to have the system more accepted that the challenge that we have that is major around here isn't livestock theft. here in the grasslands 47 percent of young people are

unemployed and crime rates are soaring. but e.r.'s has found a solution to that problem as well. in the village of sheep are being to toot so it's clear who they belong to that makes stealing them pointless. the branding is done by eco chaps young people trained by the ers team as veteran repairing medics. they work by themselves distributing medicine and vaccinating livestock on remote farm. they don't really want to drink or use it's a very successful project. i used to have 12 cattle 5 sheep but now drew to this are so serious in helping us with. fox news you know and other media says well i may have been now.

sheep i'm having going to get drawn to this. and make a macleod have convinced many people here in eastern cape province that living in harmony with nature benefits them to help secure their livelihoods. we've come to the end of this week's episode of equal africa i hope you've enjoyed our reports on what we should teves big project and david people thank you so much for joining us and will be looking forward to seeing it again next week i am standards we no go here in kampala so long by by. by sandra and good bye everybody out there i hope to see you all next week in the meantime you can always visit our website as social media channels i am chris elapse signing off from take

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bush to be carted off under terrible conditions to german cattle and into animal transport horses for days at a time without food and water to eat meat. and a team of reporters follows the trucks to russia sinfully asia or north africa they want to find out who is responsible for this animal cruelty. in city 5 minutes on d w. oh. boy. are we alone it's a fundamental question of humanity trying to figure out whether or not. life existed on mars pretty clear water was there quite abundance while that would be interesting so on mars the atmosphere is 100 of what we have here on earth it's

very very cold and at the past it's like antarctica you could imagine bringing some supplies and you know you do then to build a little self-contained pressured vehicle or vessel which would be on the surface there are things like oxygen that you can harvest from the atmosphere to help make living possible. if you want to think of humanity if we really want to survive forever we're going to have through off the earth eventual am i know that seems a little crazy but you've got to start somewhere.

this is news coming to light from a major surge in fighting between israeli and palestinian militants. israeli forces targets in gaza from the air. outside the territory of hamas launches rockets far into israel the death toll is already top $100.00. another 10 as jews and arabs within israel turning against each other on the streets israeli prime minister condemns what he calls.