an expedition. looking to decipher the secret language of whales the exciting part of underwater listening is here. we know him so there is no life that members never see. me a company of research team to the pacific to. the language of males starts june 4th on t w. hello and welcome to this new edition of eco offered your weekly environment magazine co-produced and generally large area. i don't curse the loaves and i'm looking forward to presenting to the show would be

a wonderful colleagues in kampala high the grease and nice to see you again i am sundered and a big candle to all of us out there thank you for joining us again in the next hour we'll be showing you some amazing environment ideas from europe and africa here is what is going shortly. in kenya tories are we. aren't. planting trees can be fun as well as an eco friendly nation. what do you wear a helmet to fungus. with reporters a lot about electric cars on the reduced impact on the environment it is certainly far better to drive electric than the also fuel part of because what happens to the electric batteries once they used simply throwing them away isn't a sustainable option now a german company has found a way of giving the batteries

a 2nd means of life and some of which will be used by projects in africa taken that . are going to. be. driving a 3 wheeled electric komba is a major step towards independence for these women and wanda in zimbabwe. it allows them to take their vegetables to the market on their own. start up the mobility for africa and rents out the many electric transporters for a reasonable price. but is environmentally friendly it's doesn't pollute the air nor noise pollution as it's. if he doesn't have those exhaust and does fossil fuel engine at the moment the homo's are outfitted with standard lithium ion batteries which are often discarded when they run out of power

the same holds true for those in the around 4000000 electric vehicles worldwide. we are all very happy that you mobility is finally taking off but if you know carefully regenerator the next problem in a couple of years from the millions of loose use batteries will come on the market was no home we said can we find a way to give these batteries a 2nd life it's at that point that to start ups came together simple ways mobility for africa and batteries in berlin its founder heino who has years of experience in the automobile and airline industries says that he wants to see discharge batteries return to service for another 7 to 10 years wherever power supplies are patchy. these batteries when they come to us have around 70 percent of the initial storage capacity so they are way to where they are but to store them away we actually can out of this better perk where we have $48.00 modules can build 6 of our bedroom

packs each of an hour is $48.00 battery modules is tested for capacity and then 6 or bundled together to create a battery brand battery pack the modules may not all be in the same condition but the berlin based company has come up with the technology for ironing out the differences. these are electronics controls the safety of the bedroom pack and make sure that we can handle slight differences this in the aging and in quality of the modules it's taken 2 years to develop better is blue and gray casing the new battery packs are watertight and thus proof and user simply have to remove the old power pack and plug in the new one which can be charged with solar generated. energy. is ready to roll on simple boys roads to boost the women security and prevent theft the recycled packs are fitted with smart technology that allows mobility for africa to track them anywhere

and battery gets real time data on the state of their power packs as well. we can see what the battery in zimbabwe dust so we can manage it we can all or at the customer say now it needs a bit of repair or maintenance so we build more than a battery ecosystem around the battery to optimize its usage and make it is easy for the customer as possible the goal is to go into mass production and to take back use packs to prevent them from landing in electronic waste dump in africa or ensure they are properly recycled. for we work with partners residing specialist logistics specialist we have regional operational centers to make sure we can guarantee the brought but it's hoped the experiences gained in zimbabwe will transfer to other economically weaker regions in africa asia and latin america the

humber is one use case but the main other use cases replacing small generators as backup power for recruits or as primary power for areas where there is no great sort of classic off grid. situation the battery packs are getting their 1st road tests in zimbabwe driving lessons are booked out and mobility for africa plans to expand. their isa for the service providers in this area. because for example the police needed to right. and seems to domestic violence issues on site. and you have. operational. after launching in zimbabwe better wants to go global. to have 300000 units like 2030. reusing items like but one thing but wouldn't it be even

better if they were more eco friendly a project on process is all the fuss place in a team of young technologists have come up with some really interesting stuff. at 1st glance the helmet that biotechnology is fast and schubert is wearing might look normal but he is hoping that it could spare had a green revolution. the entire interior of his bike helmet consists of fungus my silly i'm an agricultural waste there for it's extremely sustainable and a very good or tentative to the plastic interior of conventional helmets. a helmet made out of might sound bizarre but for boston schubert and his 2 colleagues it makes perfect sense back at the lab in the technical university in berlin all they need to do is to take the cells of the tinder fungus and mix them into a granular culture.

this is then added to have voiced a perfect snack for the fungus within some 10 days its roots my syria so they defy the contents of the back. it's a shock absorbing material that can compete with petroleum based materials in many ways that was our main motivation there are so many products materials that end up in the trash can such as e.p.a.'s foam expended polish tyrion that's the material that we're replacing in this helmet polish taryn makes up 30 percent of plastic waste in landfills worldwide that's a lot of. of. course from before from her. first tests have shown that the helmet can even outperform conventional ones in safety terms. the team still needs to come up with

a sustainable outer shell and to ensure that the product is long lasting once they've soft those problems they want to go into business almost one in 4 cyclists in germany wear a helmet. that time schmidt another by a technologist at the technical university of berlin discovered the novel he uses for found the cheeriness citizen science project that he led to these fascinating organisms on the other animal planet they come in many shapes and sizes. they love rainy days like this one and they have lived on this planet for millions of years. a fungus may well be the biggest living organism on earth. when they stick their heads out that's not even the tip of the iceberg but only a very small part you don't see the main body it penetrates the entire forest floor everything here is creating a communication network with other organisms that is constantly in operation the

organisms don't always like each other there is fierce competition. generally this contest for nutrients and territory completely passes a spy except when it's obvious for all to see as on the street trunk that's covered with a tinder fungus. for trees this means a slow and there are also some of the tufts feeding on the organic material here. the more my sealy of these 2 species meet inside the trunk it would be interesting to see how they interact with each other their competitors after all both want to decompose would. their ability to break down organic material is what gives them the energy to grow other materials that will smith tend to steam discovered that the local tinder fungus works best for their big plants for the fungus compas it. after the initial growth phase it can be broken up into rico nin molds to

create different forms and sizes. but also put them up before i could certainly imagine that you could build a whole walls from funky and the supporting frames from other components like wood if you wanted to remain recyclable i can certainly imagine that you could build a large house with it on board. although the lightweight funky bricks are not a load bearing they could replace many of the building materials once they're dried and the growth of the mycelium is halted the brakes could replace polish styrene for example providing a much greener form of insulation. this compas it is also very flexible. that time schmidt and his colleagues are planning to scale up the work working together with architects and engineers to see where the material can still be optimized. to voicing by talk licensed ones on the earth and we want to make

a contribution towards solving global problems of where do we get our resources from how can we switch to a circular economy and how can we recycle used products and i think that funky material covers all those bases with working pretty much hands on bush be. grown in a controlled environment funky could just be the stuff to help build the houses of the future. we are all having a tough time doing this pandemic but when nature it hard actually brought some bit of relief in many countries including kenya tourism part declined sharply. indeed as has sandra usually the bitches there ot's heaving with tar wrists but not have the sun almost to themselves and they've come to next that's prompted locals to pitch in to protect the harshly. making

a break for the ocean i newly hatched green sea turtle leaves its nest on to the beach its journey monitored by volunteers from a local organization the t.v. tuttle police on kenyan south coast. come day is one of them they need is dedicated to protecting the green sea turtle which is on the red list or when they just pressures he's happy that numbers are rebounding. this is. all used to it there are. a few months ago a female tuttle went ashore near here and laid eggs now as the animals are hutchings so lame a company is worried because they're more sluggish than usual and on the all way into the sea they face many dangers crabs siegel's beach dogs but also humans.

what. people pose the biggest threat to the tuttles because they used to eat them but it got mobilized terry and turtles and turtle eggs are no longer being eaten but i'll say the biggest danger to tuttles still comes from humans. i would love to . deteriorate tuttle police was founded by the owner of a small beach or turned. in cooperation with the king a wildlife service and the local fishing community they patrol some 12 kilometers off course like monitor nast's and pick up plastic west although the members are all volunteers they're going ization has been helping them during the pandemic. they get out of program is helping us and we're getting some money when we're on duty even even go out to sea for 2 days we know that we'll receive some income we

can then at least use that to. take care of our children if you like a few people but at the butler to feed them the no. thanks to the partridge the tiny reptiles have a greater chance of survival and more our hearts in than before the members of the team we talk to police receive training in total ecology and pass on their knowledge to the community. of sin was their project since 10900 with not heard of any reports of anyone consuming tattoos or anyone killing or injuring tuttle's so the number of tattoos that are dying has gone down and people have begun to understand that even out of the water. what woman's upwell a bucket outside the body. only a few meters separate the baby turtles from the south those who make it we've traveled thousands of kilometers across the oceans and the families are likely to

return in a few years too late eggs. it's off to russia now which has the largest dr of forest in the world but increasingly those would love to be destroyed by white fires and deforestation in our next report would introduce you to a woman who took it upon herself to launch a campaign to replant cheese she says many others to do this say. what looks like random bunches of greenery are in fact pine tree saplings thousands of them already for planting marianna munteanu explains how it's done it's very simple you place the sampling in the hole then fill that with earth and shake the sand firmly better than. check

once more that it can't be pulled out yet 38000 saplings are due to be planted today here on the outskirts of moscow marianna munteanu asked for help online and an army of volunteers has responded she regularly invites members of the public to help or. russia's forests of taking quite a beating in recent years huge areas have been devastated by wildfires pests like bark beetles pose a further challenge russia has more forest than any other country trees cover nearly half of this vast land. i think doing this since 2010 there were terrible wildfires back then throughout the whole of russia i saw a picture of huge well established trees being blown across the fields by the wind

they were breaking off like matchsticks. marianna studied economics and initially worked in finance but she quit her job to devote all her attention to reforestation you can change the world one small step at a time and people will pull together for a good cause. everybody here wants to help people become more aware of nature again and to encourage them to do their bit to protect the environment. i want our planet to be as intact as possible so that we have healthy air to breathe and leave our children and grandchildren an environment in which they can live well our environment is sick i don't want to inflict further injuries on the natural world. 7 years ago marianna munteanu moved to moscow to build up her own environmental organization but she's

still not a lover of the city her childhood of the countryside very much shaped to she is. but i love nature i love the forest as a child i always spend the summers with my grandmother in the village. that's her house right next to the forest we would go out several times a week picking berries or mushrooms. back in her moscow apartment she was able to relax after all the hard work but she never loses sight of her goal i didn't see a change in my earth and this is my mission in life i want to achieve great things for the benefit of society of the planet and nature a planet like that holds good afternoon my name is mario. and i am president of the russian climate fund. has long since expanded beyond planting trees together with other environmental activists she puts out her

own podcast big to get the message out to more people but she's also developed a mobile game app called plant the forest the aim is to promote interest in the well being of trees income from the op goes to plant new saplings. i knew plenty more on the gamer has to collect points which then allow him to plant trees the idea is to inspire users so that they stop being indifferent towards our trees and so that they want to help with resource station. with nothing. back to the forest on the outskirts of moscow it's time for lunch in the past 10 years marianna and her helpers have planted more than a 1000000 trees that's the equivalent of around 1300 soccer fields a large number of volunteers of all ages have helped to make it possible last year she was selected by the united nations for the young champion of the earth award

right nearby shows us some other young trees from her project that have had a chance to get established. this tree was planted just 7 years ago and as you can see it's already bigger than me soon this area should once again be a strong healthy forest hopefully strong enough to withstand all the challenges of the future. on the report is also about wooded areas but this time in the western part of calmer road in central africa here you'll find that you both forest which has also been threatened by deforestation that is right create after a lot of protests both in and out through the country the government health board its plants but for how long it will forest is home to quite

a few species that aren't found anywhere else. in this huge forest hold special significance for the local community some 40 villages lined the edge of the wood dick come was in grew up in one of them and is committed to preserving this natural habitat. in the forest area where the gorillas chimpanzees and elephants are our ancestors lie buried we only came here because of the war during the struggle for independence we have our secret spots and places for rituals in the forest when there is an issue in the community we go there to pray so if the trees are removed without our consent that's not good. is that some of the police departments the evil forest is about a 6 hour drive from cameron's most populous city to allah the vast amount of wood here has drawn the attention of logging companies valuable tropical woods make it

especially attractive last year part of the forest was due to be cut down but after protests by local residents and many organizations cameroon's president paul vi suspended the plans. dick now lives in de waal but meets regularly with the village elders today he is visiting believe well the village elders are furious the government never consulted them about the forest. we are the keepers of the forest and we are against the law but people in your own day and might decide to take it but we are not happy at all. the forest is not only prized by local residents it also has huge ecological significance biologist way has been studying the eagle forest for more than 15 years he says the rich biodiversity here is unique. camera traps

revealed footage of rare primates including a species of gorilla only found here funding for research even comes from the us all of this makes it really really diverse in terms of primates but also how forests elephants which makes really an outstanding place we have a whole wide range of. but biodiversity is not the only factor that gives this forest global significance. as far as extends for more than 1000 kilometer square it's made up of montane 2 of the program which means it has all these vegetation classes and. it's really important in terms of the pride that these forests things are like 3w3x5w tonnes of carbon which is really important globally for. environmental organization greenpeace is

seeking to exert pressure on the cameroon government they say suspending plans to destroy part of the forest is not enough we continue to call on to come more on government and especially to the prison and of the ability to take the necessary action comes. a project and not just to some source of funding to create but to cancel the decree decision we contacted cameron's ministry for forestry and wildlife but they were unable to grant us an interview environmentalist's and locals are urging the government to let communities manage the forests natural resources in a sustainable way not only for the sake of wildlife and places of spiritual significance but also for the entire valuable rain forest. that's it for today we hope you found today stories inspiring if you're doing something to protect the environment would love to hear a ball to it you can get in touch with us for also should media channels i'm chris elects signing off from bagels larger thank you crease and do join us again for

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