what secrets lie behind the swap. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. w world heritage $360.00 get to happen now. hello and welcome to this new edition of eco offered your weekly environment magazine co-produced in generally algeria. i don't curse the loaves and i'm looking forward to presenting to the show would be a wonderful colleague in kampala. greece nice to see you again i am sundra to be no deal and a big kilo to all of us out there thank you for joining us again in the next half

hour we'll be showing you some amazing environment ideas from europe and africa here is what is shortly. in kenya tourists maybe some. of the totals are. planting trees can be done as well as an eco friendly mission. i need to wear a helmet to fungus. with reporters about electric cars on the reduced impact on the environment it is certainly better to drive electric than the few apart of baked goods about what happens to the electric batteries once they used to simply throwing them away isn't a sustainable 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 to.

driving a 3 wheeled electric honda 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 rents out the many electric transporters for a reasonable price. but you environmentally friendly it's doesn't pollute the air no noise pollution as it's me. if it doesn't have those exhaust and those 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.

or very happy that you mobility is finally taking off but if you know carefully regenerator the next problem in a couple of years from now millions of loose use batteries will come on the market was no we said can we find a way to give this better is 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 i know who dick has years of experience in the automobile and airline industries so if 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 ever run 70 percent of their initial storage capacity so they are way to where they are but to store them away we actually can do this better a perk where we have $48.00 modules can build 6 of our bed repacks each of an e-card 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 i am not the difference. this electronics controls the safety of the bedroom pack and make sure that we can handle slight differences this in the aging and 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 on 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 no it needs a bit of repair or maintenance so we build more than the 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 used packs to prevent them from landing in electronic waste down in africa or ensure they are properly recycled. for we work with partners resulting specialist logistic specialist we have regional operational centers to make sure we can guarantee the brought but it's hoped the experiences gained and zimbabwe will transfer to other economically weaker regions in africa asia and latin america is one use case but the main other use cases replacing small generators is pick up power for recruits or as primary power for.

is no great sort of classic off grid. situation the battery packs are getting their 1st road tests in zimbabwe driving license are booked out and mobility for africa plans to expand. very useful to the service providers in this area. because for example the police needed. to gymnastics violence issues on site. operational. after launching in zimbabwe better he wants to go. to have 300000 units like 2030. reusing items like but one thing but wouldn't it be even better if there were more projects and processes in the 1st place in

a team of young technologists. some really interesting stuff. at 1st glance the helmet by a technologist fast and schubert is wearing might look normal but he's hoping that it could spare had a green revolution. the entire interior of this bike helmet consists of fungus mycelium an agricultural waste their foods extremely sustainable at the very go to nativity the plastic interior of conventional helmets. a helmet made out of might sound bizarre but for 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 a perfect snack for the fungus within some 10 days its roots my cv are solid defy

the contents of the pack. 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 cans such as e.p.a.'s foam expended polished tyrion that's the material that we're replacing in this helmet. makes up 30 percent of plastic waste in landfills worldwide that's a lot of. before think of. 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 technologist at the technical university of berlin discovered the novel uses for fun be cheering a citizen science project that he led. these fascinating organisms on the the 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 celio piece 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 at home schmitt and to steam discovered that the local tinder fungus works best for their big plants for the fungus compas it. after the initial growth face it can be broken up into recrown and molds to create different forms and sizes. but also create the money for 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 before. 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 my psyllium is halted the brakes could replace polystyrene for example providing a much greener form of insulation. this compas it is also very flexible. at times 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. it wasn't by talk licensed ones on their part 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 which includes my parents and bush 2. 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 we in many countries including king. turris impost declined sharply. indeed as has sandra usually the beaches there ought to tar east but now tattoos have the sound almost of themselves and they've come to nest that's prompted locals to pitch in to protect the hush lanes. 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 king and south cost. solaire my company is one of them they need is dedicated to protecting the green sea turtle which is on the red list of and they just precious he's happy that numbers are about. this is. all used to it there were. a few months ago a few matata went ashore near here and laid eggs now as the animals are hutchings so limit can be is worried because the more sluggish than usual and all the all 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 will 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 digital. 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 the last request although the members are all volunteers they're going ization has been helping them during the pandemic . and they tout our program is helping us and we're getting some money but 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 and i do like a few people but i think butter to feed them but 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 not 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 up well outside the body. only a few meters separate the baby turtles from the south those who make will travel thousands of kilometers across the oceans and the families are likely to return in a few years too late eggs of the. it's off to

russia now which has the largest not or a forest in the world but increasingly those would love destroyed by white fires and deforestation in the 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 monty are no explains how it's done. it's very simple you place the sampling in the hole then fill that with earth and ship the saplings firmly better then. check once more that it can't be pulled out yet. 8000

saplings are due to be planted today here on the outskirts of moscow marianna monty on to ask for help online and an army of volunteers has responded she regularly invites members of the public to help air. rushes 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 montana 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. was 7 years ago marianna maggio 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 spent the summers with my grandmother in the village and. the code that's her house right next to the forest we would go out several times a week picking berries or mushrooms. are back in her moscow apartment she's able to relax after all the hard work but she never loses sight of her goal. is to change 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 playing it looked at odds good afternoon my name is mario. and i'm president of the russian climate fund. was the good. work has long since expanded beyond planting trees together with other environmental activists she puts out her own podcast 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 app goes to plant new saplings. new plenty more on the game or 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 3 forestation. 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 she 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 common room in central africa here you'll find the evil forest which has also been threatened by deforestation that is right create after a lot of protest both in and out they become tree the government house bought it plant it but for how long the him before it 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 to

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. news there is that some of that was just said about address 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 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 evil 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 it really an outstanding place we have a whole wide range of m 50 ants but biodiversity is not the only factor that gives this forest global significance. as far as extends for more than $1000.00 limit that's where it is made up of. 2 of the pool graffy wish macy's has all these vegetation classes and. it's really important in terms of the fact that these forests things are life to the mill 35000000 tons 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 on government and especially to the prison and of the ability to

take the necessary action comes. amok does to some 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 fall into the stories inspiring if you're doing something to protect the environment would love to hear about it you can get in touch with us through also should be the channels i'm chris elects signing off from bagels larger thank you crease and do join us again for another edition of a coffee can next week from a sunday at 3 no good income for the uganda it is

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