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please and hello everyone out there. very glad to help you with us again. i am sandra 2 of you 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. one here, how months this spring is helping the almost inputs on that particular life. we'll see the house of africa, land on it can get a tough break by protecting the environment and find out why you've done inform us . but, you know, we thought we show in the democratic republic of congo, a country often modern conflict as a result for a long time, little attention to speak 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 there. not only is the good for the tropical forest, but the local people and the widely to which includes good news. this family of gorillas lives in a tropical forest. they don't get nervous when people are nearby. so not interested, but you know, we are now in co who's the be a good national park. and right now we're in the presence of miss you, bone, monsieur. bon, any members of this family, good day weekend to be who's a be a national park is a national conservation area that democratic republic of congo, the gravest or eastern lo land guerrillas having a major choice 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

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 when we go into the forest to check on them, we also collect the data. and if we find chimpanzee tracks, we record that to see if we find evidence of illegal activities, such as travel when we dismantle them and coordinate. and i said that you're probably going to the data is being used for scientific research. the number of low land guerrillas here has declined by half over the past 3 decades to just a few 1000 researches. estimates the ranges well with comments ologist or gotten

back to both see he has premise experts is a nonprofit dedicated diploma 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 funny, 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 they 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 communities 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 with me to facilitate 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. it is also launched a project replant areas of forest that have been cleared illegally, almost impossible. se says working closely with local people is very important. he hopes they will come to cancel the environment as much as they respect. we will go to the plaza for some time now. look at who has been seen much more often at the edge of the park. consider what pleases us as scientific conservationist is that

the communities respect mean? 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 the pacing and the reforestation project. a project that will help reserve the floors for the good of the guerrillas. and the local population let us know upon from preserving weighed life on the forests to creating good, sustainable housing. africa's big cities are crowded, some overcrowded weekly series, doing your beat. we meet on a jury and entropy. new inc and do know who built houses for material phones in abundance. huh. the nigerian population is rapidly growing. and with the need for

affordable housing. deborah, him, somebody who came up with the idea he constructs houses in kaduna made entirely a bamboo which group naturally in the area the most like this last longer than a house built with ordinary wood. fam 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 exam. and then, boom, 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 stability to insect attacks and weather where not all bamboo

varieties have the same quality. but it's a suitable variety is used. ibrahim still needs to 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 stores a note to one of the one key environmental troublemaker slattich every year. around point 25000000 pounds. the read ends up in ocean truck every single minute. you've all plastic consumption continues to live on. the present rate will be discarding to truckloads, minutes within the next 10 years, and hope i sent 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 to product that's i use just once and the answer in the weight. now some young german activists are cleaning up local rivers and working with scientists to calculate how much a 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, nowhere and the housemates have come to do some fishing, but not the usual kind. it's trash, they're fishing for. please listen everywhere they look. and there's plenty of plastic. quite a few glass puzzles to the students attend to local high school and are 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 recover 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 pause 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 riverbank 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 an app. we want to move as much as grown

and citizens as we can to go on the reverse so you can create data collecting. what can you read a bank? and using those data, using the video footage that are being 2 of the real banks, we will be able to analyze those video, detect little items and use the data to map prevail, 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. vacovich. math is intended to identify especially polluted areas. we, we know that most of the pollution we find in the ocean is transported by a rigorous right now. we don't know which read us the most probably to the 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 stones have called 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 pollution. 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 post land. and then you 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 yes, i think it's going what you're doing here is looking off to some african natural wealth in the public. good. and so there 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 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 hook up provincial nature. and you know, you can see that 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. one of the animals serve an important function, keeping the grass short 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, eland and 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 de 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 god farm animals, they can be very good at it. and that means farmers are less reason to hunt and kill more road 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 cheated would be lacking somewhere in the grass every year . families like different more news around 2 percent of their lives soaked predators for small head is who can't afford security fencing the figure even

higher you as soon as boy was i lost our own 50000 force. the key not only 11 time. it only provides he does it, but it can kill 7. it only one just to you to pretend to the livestock. many good, hard as short on poison. prentice says, but now some of them have started keeping dogs. we've been hard to keep the big cuts away. they farmers keep a local mixed breed dog, which is well suited to the hash environment. when i stoke garden good program is supported by the environmental getting fish and cheater conservation fun . who are training facility, connie? 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 36050 dog so far in this area. we intend to please more dogs in time 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 flocks. their presence and backing alone is often enough to keep fridges 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 have 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 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, nikki metro pray and controls, and nitro pray. of course also keeps us education on the control. since the guiding the program was launched in 2015, many farmers house talk to killing cheated for jeffery moore. 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 wild life areas. ensuring humans and animals can live side by side remains, challenge things to conservation efforts. researches estimate that today. there are some 7000 keeter's 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, whom you gander, it, since farmers, they're upset of us. the bank. can you tell us more about that? sandra? use a concrete when bunks are unimportant resource for resolving the different strings and for breeding new ones that are better suited to the change conditions. this is climate change. we're going to pay a visit to project, run and soft 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 is sort of t and water to keep that, but i know it 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 are for muslim to use chemicals because it to destroy was so years you know, that said or has the micro organism that can quinn to use breaking cause. so it, it kills micro organism which is too bad through 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 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 using the parenting season. or farmers have an opportunity to access it from here. the d. d e 's come in from a he or she thinks one kilogram. he has to have to have this team. he or she has to pay back the price of 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. a scientist gloria aquino, explains so we find means we can z means we can cause him means maybe that we can finance 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 bank estimates that every year uganda is losing around 10 percent of its bio diversity implants that are important for agriculture and nutrition. like beams peanuts and wild rice. so if we lose that variation within each of those crops, then you will have will have nothing because we will not be able to use their materials to engage the challenges that you have in the production systems. the

country which we are going to look after these resources is 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's been setting aside part of her harvest, received. 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. and gandhi peach farm mug. the idea of starting up community feedback is catching on a total of a cooperative uganda has 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, would love to hear about it. you can get in touch with us on our social media

channel. crystal lead finding of from lagos, nigeria. thank you. please do change us again for another edition of africa next week. for me, sandra to interview here in compiler. uganda. it is goodbye. oh, the me, the me, the the the me the news,

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