you see double use crime fighters are back africa. the most successful radio drama theories continues. all episodes are available online course you can share and discuss on d. w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now. the me the news. hello and welcome to echo africa. whitley environmental magazine produce illegal. come paula berlin. i am christa lens and legal. i'm being joined by my colleague, sondra. hello please, and 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 here. how months the spring is hoping that almost inputs and outputs 60 lives will also see the house of african land on it. come get a tough break, vibrate this in the environment, and find out why you got to form a budget indigenous we thought the show in the democratic republic of congo, i country often modern conflict. as a result for a long time, little titian has been to the environment, but that is starting to change. we went, took a whole bigger 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 widely to which includes go realize

the this family of gorillas lives in a tropical forest. they don't get nervous when people are nearby. if 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 bon. any monsieur bonner, ne, members of this fam pointed game, we tend to be who's a, be a national park as a national conservation area. and the democratic republic of congo grows all eastern lo land guerrillas having a major tourist attraction for decades. the main source of income for the park are the admission fees for visitors pay $400.00 us dollars each because of the pandemic . there's 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 vs device for each family of gorillas, canada, and point one 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 to dismantle them and coordinate, and i said that you'll probably call this is be used for scientific research. the number of low land guerrillas here has declined by hoff over the past 3 decades. so just a few 1000 researches estimates the ranges with comments ologist august impossible say. he has promised expertise is a non profit dedicated to promote research and conservation. he says poachers in

their traps on a continuing threat. this guerrilla is lucky to be alive. here we see the silver back mcgrew bucket. 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, he might good. busy the rages not only petrol the park to collect data, but they're also on the look out for coaches. 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 unit school world heritage site. but this part of eastern d. c is densely populated,

and there's no buffer zone between the park avenue by villages. people live in the beated facility. some work can see plantations or in the park, but most are small hold of farmers. promise expertise not only seeks to show conservation of the guerrillas, but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. he says, 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 environments as much as they respect will group. i will go to the place for some time now look at who has been seen much more often at the edge of the park. consider what pleases us. as scientists, conservationist 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 paddling from their field at around 100 villages opposite basing and the reforestation project. a project that will help preserve the floors for the good of the guerrillas and the local population. let us know upon from preserving weighed life on the forest to creating good, sustainable housing. africa's big cities are crowded, some overcrowded weekly series, doing a 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, somebody who came up with the idea he construct ounces and made

entirely a bamboo which grows naturally in the area. the most like this last longer than a house built with ordinary wood. sam bu is better when it comes to withstand clubs and erosion. you and your family can live in a house like this for a very long time without having to worry. that is my last. yeah. and then i went to them and then boom, which is actually a woody grass, is from 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, ibrahim still 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 with hash tag doing your bit. we share your story. hours a note to one of the one key environmental troublemakers slattich every year. around point 25000000 pounds. the read ends up in ocean truck road every single minutes you for plot the consumption continues to live on, the present rate will be discarding to truckloads a few 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 recite code. 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 plastic and soft 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, nowhere and the south nights have come to do some fishing, but not the usual kind. it's trash. they're fishing for, plays, listen everywhere they look. and there's plenty of plastic. 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 recall the pieces of trash they recovered from the rivers. and rather that scientists and q use the data to generate

a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the see the teat is a happy to do they punch. we 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 a project aimed at tracking down the trench. it's called plastic origins and goes a step further, using artificial intelligence and an app. we want to move as much as grown kids and citizens, as we can to go on the reverse. so you can create,

they've got actual getting working on the bank. and using those data, using the video to take the advantage of the real bank, we are, we'd be able to analyze video, detect lisa items, and use the data to map preview 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, but most probably did the 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 munich stows up cold. echo florio 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 in this idyllic location, they found more trash than they can even carry. now we had to solve africa to find out how the tax break helps to promote conservation. the country is famous for its wide life and vast areas of almost on talk to land, and then 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 look, 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's going size,

what you're doing here is looking off to some african, 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 count, those 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, we standing around about in the, 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 hookup provincial nature. and you know, you can see the proposed colorado linking the to protect the davis and 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 conservation with climate change, threatening biodiversity, 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 province in order to protect

the land. locals introduced a herd of cattle the animals serve an important function. keeping the ground shored helps prevent wildfires in the dry season. but it's just the start. we'll slowly introduce game, starting with the planes game, which will be zebra spring book element b, s, and those type of animals. 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 the way you are 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 the livestock 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. moreover, in wide life, so dangerous species such as pizza, rosa protected, it looks like a win win situation. from us in western was one, have to be vigilant and cheated would be lacking somewhere in the grass. every year, families like different more who's around 2 percent of their lives. stokes predators for small head is who can afford security fencing? the figure is even higher than i thought it was. i last around 50 sunday. of course the key not only

11 time it only provides you does it, but it can kill 7. it only one just kill it. to protect the livestock. many good, hard is short on poison predators. but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their hearts to keep the big cuts away. they farmers keep a local mixed re dog, which is well suited to the hash environment. and i still got in good program is supported by the environment organization shita conservation fund, who are training facility. connie, more decent looks after puppies and raises them to become part of the heart. the dogs then stay with livestock, day and night to protect them against 31650

dog so far in this area. we intend to please more dogs and turn to help from us can live their livelihoods and in their hands. on the other hand, brought it to me. she doesn't was 13 or 4 trained dogs protect her flock. their presence and backing alone is often enough to keep prejudiced at the initiative like this part of alicia strategy to keep livestock from being harmed 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 1000 spots of africa. these skills predators can reach speeds of a 100 kilometers by our making them the fastest land animals in the world. and 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 teeter, there form a couple of the ecosystem. nicky, metro pray, uncontrolled and metro praise chorus also keeps the vegetation on the control. since the guiding doug program was launched in 2015, many farmers house talk to kill him. cheated for jeffrey 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 coal 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 the allies to the dogs that watch over the floor in the gallery. from but saw that to sandra's home. uganda. it since farmers, they're upset asleep bank. can you tell us more about that, sandra? yes, a concrete. when bunks are unimportant resort for preserving the different strings and for breeding new ones that are better suited to the change conditions. this climate change, we're going to pay a visit to project run and stopped by a women joy movie show is explaining how to catch banana weevils.

she's giving a training session to women farmers in western uganda. this is that so this one over what death is sort of stand, what the key if the banana was 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 for muslim to use chemicals. because if the destroy was so years, you know, that said or has the micro organism that can quinn to use breaking cause. so if keels micro organism, which is too bad to our, our environment. joy makisha has been trained by the organization alliance, bio versity. the in g o supports food security projects with evidence based research, especially for crops like bananas and beans. some traditional bien 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 planting season. or farmers have an opportunity to access from here the, the, the if you for from a he or she thinks you one kilogram. he has to have to have this t, he or she has to be 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'll find the beans leaking. z means we can cause them. these may be

that origin selenium. read us 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, then you will have who have nothing because we will not be able to use that materials to engage the challenges that you have in the production systems. if you can't do it, you're going to look off gaps. the resources. he's a country that he's 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 receives she's employed a number of women to help with a seed selection process. she not only pays them, but also passes on her bean growing knowledge, the get money from this community. the land from this community and gandhi beach, the farm mugs, the idea of starting up community feed bank is catching on a total of a cooperative and you've got to 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 live findings from lagos, nigeria. thank you. please good changes again for another edition of africa next

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