often go astray the when the game, diplomatic poker power plays and the lines is behind the climate summit on d. w. me hello and welcome to echo africa. weekly environmental magazine introduce the leg, kampala on berlin. i'm chris lindsey, legal. i'm being joined by my colleague sandra, hello piece on the pillows, everyone out there. very glad to help you with us. again. i am sandra to no view

coming to you from compiler. here in uganda. today we'll be looking innovative bumble houses in the area and plenty of other interesting stories here. how months this spring is open, almost inputs, now protect their life. will also see the house of african land owners. come get a break by protecting the environment and find out why you've done and foremost we thought we show in the democratic republic of congo, a country often modern conflict as a result for a long time, little attention as the to the environment. but that is starting to change. we went to a who is a big national park where people i know devoting time and effort to protecting the nature there. not only is the good for the tropical forest, but the local people and the waitlist to which includes

the this family of gorillas lives in a tropical forest. they don't get nervous when people are nearby. and so i'm not interested, but we are now in co who's the be a good national park. and right now we're in the presence of monsieur bone. any monsieur bon, any members of his fam, pointed day weekend to be who's a be a good national park is a national conservation area. democratic republic of congo. the grows all eastern lowland guerrillas having a major tourist attraction for decades. the main source of income for the park are the admission fees for him. visitors pay $400.00 us dollars each because of the panoramic. there's no visitors right now, but the ranges still go out on patrol. they want to keep track of several gorilla

trees. and usually know where to find them, even though the part is huge. it covers 6000 square kilometers, short vs device for each family of gorillas, canada. and when we go into the forest to check on them, we also collect the data. and if we find chimpanzee tracks, we record back to if we find evidence of illegal activities, such as travel, so we dismantle them and coordinate. and i said that you're probably going to days is be used for scientific research. the number of low land guerrillas here has declined by half over the past 3 decades. so just a few 1000 researches estimate the ranges with comments ologist or gotten back to see he has promised expertise. a non profit dedicated to promote research and conservation. he says, poachers and that traps on

a continuing threat. this guerrilla is lucky to be alive. here we see the silver back mcgrew about when he was 4 years old. he was caught in a snare, and unfortunately he lost his right hand. but despite that hearing is and he's with his family, my good, the right, just not only patrol the park to collect data, but they're also on the look out for poachers. that's why they're armed. that's what it is that we have security issues in some parts of the park. there are poachers out there every day. and the rangers tried to track them down. people from the surrounding communities also sometimes damage the park. they cut down trees or bamboo. what you'll find in the park is a unesco world heritage site. but this part of the eastern d r c is densely populated and there's no buffer zone between the park avenue by

villages. people live with the be the facility, some work and see plantations or in the park, but most are small, hold farmers from its expertise, not only seeks to show conservation of the guerrillas, but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. he says also launched the projects, replant areas of forest that have been cleared illegally over the best of both. se, says, working closely with local people is very important. he hopes they will come to care for the environments as much as they respect will. group will go to the place for some time now, and we'll get who has been seen much more often at the edge of the foreign commercial. consider what pleases us as scientists conservationist sticks is that the communities respect me, go to like nobody has been throwing stones at him or threatening him,

even though we often see him passing from their field at around 100 villages opposite basing and the reforestation project. a project that will help preserve the forest for the good of the guerrillas and the local population. let us know a ton from preserving weighed life on the forest to creating good, sustainable housing. africa's big cities are crowded, some overcrowded weekly series, doing your beat. we meet on a jury an entropy new inc and do know who built houses for material phones in abundance. the nigerian population is rapidly growing and with the need for affordable housing, deborah, him something came up with the idea. he construct counters and cardona made

entirely of bamboo which grows naturally in the area the most like this last longer than a house built with ordinary wood. van bu is better when it comes to withstand clubs and erosion that you and your family can live in a house like this for a very long time without having to worry that is my last and then i went to them and then boom, which is actually a woody grass, this strong, light and environmentally friendly. it grows incredibly quickly without having to be planted after harvest. is much cheaper than most other construction materials, but it should be treated or leached to eliminate the ability to insect attacks and whether where not all bamboo varieties have the same quality. but if a suitable variety is used, deborah haines to lisa says, a sizable house can be built in less than 20 days. and how about you?

if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweak with hash tag doing your bit. we share your stores a note to one of the one key environmental troublemaker slattich every year around point 25000000 pounds. the read ends up in ocean for gold, every single minutes you've all plastic consumption continues to live up to the present rate will be discarding. so truckloads, minutes within the next 10 years and 4 percent by 2050. why is this happening? one reason is that only a small proportion of plastic with this recycled another is that around half of all, plus the goes the product that i use just once. and the answer in the weight. now

some young german activist cleaning the local rivers and working with scientists to calculate how much plus the ends up in the sea. an idyllic location on the who river in west in germany, but take a closer look and it's not as beautiful kevin noah and the exhaust nights have come to do some fishing, but not the usual kind. it's trash. they're fishing for plays lizza everywhere they look. and there's plenty of plastic, oak, quite a few glass bottles to the students attend to local high school and 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 counts and record the pieces of trash. they recovered from the rivers and river that scientists in queue 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 they punch when spy of the budding scientists. you know, it's something i care about myself. it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind, especially 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 meters of river bank in germany . france also has a project aimed at tracking down the trench. it's called plastic origins and goes a step further using artificial intelligence and, and we want to move as much as grown and citizen, as we can to go on the rebus. so you can create a thought actually getting,

what can you read a bank and using those data using the video footage of the real banks, we will be able to analyze video, detect lisa items and use a data to my pre the plastic pollution. the aim of plastic origins is to get strict legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers. vacovich map is intended to identify especially polluted areas. we, we know that most of the pollution we find in the ocean is transported by rigorous . but right now we don't know which read us the most probably to put it pretty one . but the app contract micro plastics in germany and own full 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 plans to filter out the tiny particles, but a munich stove up called echo fauria 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 vertex is generated in the pipe, putting the water containing most of the micro plastics to the top. the company says 95 percent of micro plastics for municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. the young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic solution after just 2 hours and this idyllic location, they found more trash than they can even carry. now we had to solve africa to find out how with tax break helps to promote conservation. the country is famous for its wide life and vast areas of almost on pause to land and n g o. they're come up with

a way to encourage people to set up your reserves on the property. 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture. it's too rugged to dry and chew uneven. but everywhere you live, 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. me. that's where candice stevens comes in. she's a tech specialist at 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. to see what

you're doing here is looking off to some africa, his natural wealth in the public good. and so it is this unique tax incentive to benefit that by diversity. this man is already converted his land into a protected area. he can right off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period photographer, cause funder lender purchase the land 5 years ago. and it's 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, standing round about and on the northern border of it, get to the, to the waste and east south stretching down from the national park. and then to the

north east. look up provincial nigeria. and you know, you can see the proposed colorado linking the to protect 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 farmed land due to global warming and the rifle diminished quite a bit. and it just became impossible for these people to, to make a living with kettle and agriculture and eventually there to sell. and that's why we bought into folks for a conservation with climate change threatening bio diversity. kansas stevens has not found it difficult to persuade other landowners to follow suit doesn't have signed up to the scheme. her 1st experience of implementing the program was in the

quad zulu 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 and the dry season, but it's just the start will slowly introduce game starting with the planes game which will be zebra, spring book and b s and those type of animals. and then once they all establish to slowly, the capital will be removed, the animals will be free to run on the whole nature reserve, the tax rebates that can, to stevens has been promoting, have gone some way towards addressing the shortage of funding for environmental protection in south africa where you've got and in the future, she's hopeful of further progress in this development.

it's an old problem. farmers, especially in africa are all too familiar with predictors attack in their livestock and but so on. the conservation n g o trains dogs to god farm animals, they can be very good at it. and that means farmers are less reason to hunt and kill moreover in wide life. so a dangerous species such as chita, are also protected. it looks like a win win situation from us in western was one, have to be vigilant and, and cheated would be lacking somewhere in the grass. every year. farmers like different moral news around 2 percent of their lives soaked predators was 100 is who can't afford security fencing? the figure is even higher. you got us boy was i lost our own fifty's and of course the key not only

11 time it only provides the dealer but it can kill 7. it only does kill it to protect their livestock, many good heart as short on poison 20 says, but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their hard to keep the because the way they farmers give a local mix free dog, which is well suited to the hash environment when i stoke garden good program is supported by the environment organization, sheeter conservation, the fun. who are training facility, pony more, do you say look stuff to poppies and raises them to become part of the hot dogs. then stay with livestock day and night to protect them against 36050 dog so far

in this area. we intend to please more dogs intend to help farmers conserve their livelihoods and in the hands, on the other hand, brought him to no. she doesn't, was 13 or 4 trained dogs protect a flock. the presence and backing alone is often enough to keep prejudiced at the initiative like these are part of alicia strategy to keep livestock from being hummed by wild animals. the conservation organization also conducts research mission crime is the coordinator. she uses come in a traps to learn more about cheaters and develop solutions for human when they've conflict. the greatest numbers of cheaters can be found in southern spots of africa

. these skills predators can reach speeds of 100 kilometers by our making them the fastest and animals in the world. this days, the natural range is severely reduced. the destruction of the habitat, targeted killings by farmers and the hand from the far has brought them to the brink of extinction. creditors such as tita their farm, the top of the ecosystem, nikki natural, prey, uncontrolled, and metro. praise course also keeps dissertation on the control. since the guiding the program was launched in 2015, many farmers house talk to killing cheated for jeffery moore on the program has been a success things to his dogs. he hasn't lost a single god in the last 5 years. many species in africa still survive and

co exist in then protected wildlife areas, ensuring humans and animals can leave side by side remains, challenge things to conservation efforts. researches estimate that today. there are some 7000 cheaters living in the wild and some of them all of the allies to the dogs that watch over the floor in the gallery. from but saw that to sandra's, whom you gander. it, since farmers, they're upset to us. the bank. can you tell us more about that, sandra? yes, a concrete sin bunks are unimportant resource for preserving the different string. and for breeding new ones that are better suited to the change conditions. he's a climate change. you're going to pay a visit to project, run and south by women. joy makisha is explaining how to catch banana weevils. she's giving

a training session to women farmers in western uganda. this is the so listen over water. it's sort of and water to keep the banana walls. here, she demonstrates another method, put part of a dead banana tree stump in front of the tree you're trying to protect and the wheels will be drawn to that. instead, we usually offer muslim to use chemicals because it to destroy was so years you know, that said or has the micro organism that can when you spray can cause. so it, it kills micro organism which is too bad through our, our environment. joy geisha has been trained by the organization alliance, bio versity. the n g o supports food security projects with evidence based research, especially for crops like bananas and beans. some traditional being varieties can no longer grow here. the farmers say it's because of climate change. the n g o has

helped them to set up their own cooperative and develop a seed bank, which now has more than 60 varieties of being in stock during the planting season. farmers have an opportunity to access from here the the do the if come in from a he or she thinks you want to go, but he has to have to have this team. he or she has to paid back twice as much. the national seed bank of uganda provided the initial investment of seeds. scientists made them available to the n g o. the researchers have given the farmers improved seeds of been varieties. the cross breeding to create these new strands can take several years. a scientist gloria aquino, explains so we find means we can z means we can cause him means maybe that origin

selenium read us, can access those materials and improve on them in terms of yield or disease management or even nutrition. so those traditional varieties hold a lot of traits and genetic diversity that we need for for breeding. the national seed bank estimates that every year uganda is losing around 10 percent of its bio diversity implants that are important for agriculture and nutrition. like beans, peanuts and wild rice. so if we lose that variation within each of those crops, then we'll have, we have nothing because we'll not be able to use that materials to engage with challenges that you have in the production systems. the country we are going to look after these resources is he's a country that is in trouble for the future. joy makisha has in the meantime,

set up her own seed bank. for 4 years she'd been setting aside part of her harvest, proceed. she's employed a number of women to help with the seed selection process. she not only paid them, but also passes on her, been growing knowledge, the get money from this community. the lawn from this community and gandhi each other far mugs. the idea of starting up community seed banks is catching on a total of a cooperative and you've got have now joined the initiative that's all fidel. we hope you found to be still resist fiery. if you do something to protect the environment, i would love to hear about it. you can get in touch with us on our social media channel on crystal and finding of from legal nigeria. thank you. please do join us again for another edition of africa next week. for me,

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