for me to come to germany, oh, my god, i license to work as this instructor. and now i teach children. don't worry. what's your story? take part serious on info migrant dot net. ah, me the me the hello and welcome to echo africa. weekly environmental magazine produce illegal. come paula berlin. i am privileged, the legal being joined by my colleague sondra. hello, please on the hello, 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. i won't hear how months this is hoping to almost inputs and outputs. they're like, we'll see house of african learn on it. can get a tough break by protecting the environment and find out why you've done and from us. but, you know, we thought we show in the democratic republic of congo. i country often modern conflict as a result for a long time, little additional fee to the environment. but that is starting to change. we went, took a whole big national park where people i know devoting time and effort to protecting the nature of their not only is the good for the tropical forest, but the local people and the weight loss to which includes

the this family of guerrillas lives in a tropical forest they don't get nervous when people are nearby. so not entered the parking lot. we are now in co who's the be a good national park. and right now we're in the presence of monsieur bone, monsieur bon, any members of his family day weekend. so who's a, be a good national park is a nation conservation area, democratic republic of congo. the grounds all eastern low land guerrillas having a major choice attraction for decades. the main source of income for the park are the admission fees for him visit his pay. $400.00 us dollars each because of the pandemic says no visitors right now, but the ranges still go out on patrol. they want to keep track of several gorilla

truce. and usually know where to find them, even though the park is huge. it covers 6000 square kilometers. so vs device for each family of gorillas, canada, and point me to the forest to check on them. we also collect the data, and if we find chimpanzee tracks, we report back to on it. if we find evidence of illegal activities such as travel, so we just mantle 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 hoff over the past 3 decades to just a few 1000 research as estimates the ranges with comments ologist or gotten possible say he has promised expertise, a non profit, dedicated diploma research and conservation. he says poachers and their trumps 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 rages not only patrol the park to collect data, but they're also on the look out for poachers. that's why there aren't lose 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 community also sometimes damage the park. they cut down trees or bamboo. what you'll find in the park is the 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 in the middle facility, some work and plantations or in the park, but most are small hold of farmers from its expertise, not only seeks to show conservation of the guerrillas, but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. it is also launched a project to replant areas of forest that have been cleared illegally, almost impossible, say, says working closely with local people, it's very important. he hopes they will come to care for the environment as much as they respect will group. they will go to the same for some time now who has been seen much more often at the edge of the foreign commercial. consider what pleases us as scientists and conservationists 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 pacing and the reforestation projects. a project that will help preserve the floors for the good of the guerrillas and the local population. let us know a ton from preserving wavelength on the forests to creating good, sustainable housing. africa's big cities are crowded, some overcrowded in a weekly series, doing your beat. we meet on a jury and entropy, new ink, and do not build houses for material phones in abundance. the nigerian population is rapidly growing and with the need for affordable housing, ibrahim something came up with an idea. he construct houses and cardona

made entirely a bamboo, which group naturally in the area like this last longer than a house built with ordinary wood. sam booth is better when it comes to withstand like floods and erosion. and 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 down to which is actually a woody grass from light and environmentally friendly. 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 some ability to insect attacks and whether where not all bamboo varieties have the same quality. but if a suitable variety is used for him to lease it 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 tweet. hash tag doing your bit we share your stores. here's a note to one of the one key environmental troublemakers slattich every year or on the 25000000 pounds. the read ends up in ocean truck every single minutes you for 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 then through the weight. now

some young german activist cleaning up local rivers and working with scientists to calculate how much of plastic and stop 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 housemaids 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 riverbank 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 their part to inspire the budding scientists. yeah. 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 the 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 it as much as grown tips and cities as we can to go on the reverse. so you can create,

they've got actually getting working with the bank and using the data using the video to take advantage of the real banks. we will be able to analyze video detect liter items and use the data to map freed up plastic pollution. the aim of plastic origins is to get stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits for the amount of plastic in european rivers take off at math 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 just pretty pretty ones. 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 munich stows are called echo farrier 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 then geo. 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. ah, me. that's where kansas 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 this, 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 year round about 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 hook up provincial nitrate. and you know, you can see the proposed cargo linking the, to protect the crew region of south africa is home to more than 5000 species of plants. and some 40 percent of them can only be found here. once upon a time, this area was farmland 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. candice 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 problems in order to protect the land. locals introduced a herd of cattle the animals serve an important function. keeping the ground short helps prevent wildfires in 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 animal. and then once they are established 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 life stalk and but so on. the concentration n g o trains dogs to got farm animals. they can be very good at it, and that means farmers are less reason to hunt and kill more roading wildlife. so dangerous species such as teeter, rosa protected, it looks like a win win situation from us in west and was gonna have to be vigilant and, and she tank would be lacking somewhere in the grass. every year. farmers like jeff and more lose around 2 percent of their lives. stokes predators was, will head is who can afford security defense thing. the figure is even higher as if it was, i lost that on 50 on of course the key,

not only $101.00 time it only provided are the dealer but again kill 7. it only one does kill you to pretend to the livestock. many good. how does short on poison pretty says, but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their hard to keep the big cuts away. they farmers keep a local mixed re dog, which is well suited to the hash environment. then i stoke garden going program is supported by the environment organization, sheeter conservation, fun road training facility. pony more decent looks after parties and raises them to become part of the heart. the dogs then stay with livestock day and night to protect them against 360. if the

dog so far in this area, we intend to please more dogs intend to help farmers conserve their livelihoods and in their hands. on the other hand, protecting our she doesn't was 13 or 4 trained dogs protect a flock. their presence and backing alone is often enough to keep prejudice 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 into traps to learn more about cheaters and develop solutions for human when they have conflict. the greatest numbers of cheaters can be found in southern spots of africa. these skills

predators can reach speed, so 400 kilometers per hour, making them the fastest land animals in the world. this days then natural range is severe. reduce 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 teeter, there form a couple of the ecosystem, nikki natural prey controls, and nitro pray. of course, also chief sophistication on the control since the guiding building program was launched in 2015, many farmers house to talk to killing cheated for jeffery moore. or the program has been a foot says things to his dogs. he hasn't lost a single god in the last 5 years. many species in africa are still survive and

co existing, then protected wildlife areas, ensuring humans and animals can live side by side remains, challenge things to conservation efforts. researches estimates that today. there are some 7000 cheaters living in the wild and some of them all the allies to the dogs that watch over the floor in the front, but saw that 2 sandra's whom you gander it, since farmers. they're upset to us. the bank. can you tell us more about that, sandra? yes, i can piece. when bunks are unimportant, recall resolving the different string and for breathing new ones that are better suited to the change conditions due to climate change, we're going to pay a visit to project run and stopped by a women. joined makisha is explaining how to catch banana weevils.

she's giving a training session to women farmers in western uganda. this is the service and what it sort of stand 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 pito our farmers not to use chemicals because it, the destroy was so years you know, said or has the micro organism now can quin use breaking cause? so it, it kills micro organism which is too bad through our, our environment. joy geisha had been trained by the organisation alliance, bio versity. the in g o supports food security projects with evidence based research, especially for crops like bananas and beans. some traditional beam 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 using the parenting season. or farmers have an opportunity to access seed from here. the d d e from you for from a he or she thinks one kilogram. 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 variety. the cross breeding to create these new strands can take several years. as scientists gloria tino explains. we find means we can,

we can cause them. these may be that are written for linear readers can access those materials and improve on them in terms of yield or disease management or even you trisha. 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, they will have we have nothing because we will not be able to use their materials to engage the challenges that you have in the production systems come to it. they're going to look after the resources in the country that is in trouble for the future. joy mokesha has in the meantime,

set up her own seed bank for 4 years. she's been setting aside. part of her harvest proceed. she's employed a number of women to help with the seats election process. she not only paid them, but also passes on her been growing knowledge, the get money from this community. the non, from this community on gandhi beach, other farm mugs. the idea of starting up community seed banks is catching on. a total of a cooperative gander 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 lead finding of from legal like jerry a. thank you, please do join us again for another edition of africa next week for me,

sandra to interview here in compiler. uganda. it is good bye and take care. oh, the mm mm ah, excuse me.

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