on the world, the we're all about the stories that matter to the whatever it take least month for the fire made for mines. ah the me the hello and welcome to echo africa or weekly environmental magazine produce the legal paula on berlin. i am privileged, the legal being joined by my colleague sandra. hello, please 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. one here, how months this spring is open, almost inputs on a particular life will also see the house of african land owners can get a tough break by predicting the environment. and find out why use gun and form of indigenous 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, took a who is a bigger national park, where people i know devoting time and effort to protecting the nature. bear not only is the good for the tropical forests, but the local people and the waitlist to which includes guerrillas,

the this family of gorillas lives in a tropical forest. they don't get nervous when people are nearby. so not interested back in us, 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 bonner, ne, members of his fam, pointed day weekend to be who's a be a national park as a national conservation area, and the democratic republic of congo. the gross or eastern no land gorilla is having a major trade 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 rangers still go out on patrol. they want to keep track of several gorilla

truce and usually know where to find them. even though the pump is huge. it covers 6000 square kilometers. so vs device for each family of gorillas, canada appointment i wanted a far as to check on them. we also collect data, and if we find chimpanzee tracks, we report back to on, on trying to find evidence of illegal activities, such as trap, we dismantle them and no record. and i said that you're probably going to, the data 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 researches estimate. the ranges with common colleges agustin by the birthday 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 re, just not only patrol the park to collect data, but they're also on the look up the 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 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, they be the facility, some work and plantation, so in the park. but most are small hold of farmers. premise, expertise not only seeks to ensure conservation of the guerrillas, but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. he says also launched a project replant areas of forest that have been cleared illegally august in battle, both se 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. we will go to the plaza 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 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 the 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 weighed life on the forest to creating good, sustainable housing. africa was 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, the nigerian population is rapidly growing. and with the need for affordable housing. deborah, him somebody who came up with an idea he construct houses in car due to made

entirely of bamboo which grows naturally in the area. the man is last longer than a house built with ordinary wood. sam bu is better when it comes to withstand clubs 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 them and then boom, which is actually a woody grass is 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, abraham still says a sizable house can be built in less than 20 days. and how about you?

if you are also doing your best, tell us about it, visit our website, sports and us or tweak hash tag doing your bit. we share your stories. here's a note to one of the one key environmental troublemakers slattich every year around point 25000000 pounds. the read ends up in ocean, the full truckload every single minutes you've all plastic consumption continues to live up to the present rate will be discarding. so 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 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 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 river in west, in germany, bus take a closer look. and it's not as beautiful kevin noah and they 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. 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 rebec scientists in 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 happy to do they punch, inspire the budding scientists. yeah. it's something i care about myself, they've 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 re, beth, so you can create,

they've got actual getting working on the bank. and using the data, using the video footage of the real bank, we will be able to analyze video detect liter 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 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 alone, 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 saria 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 south africa to find out how a tax break helps to promote conservation. the country is famous for its wide life and vast areas of almost on tossed 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 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 yes, i think that's what you're doing

here is looking off to some africa, his 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 has 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 . to be standing year round about in the on the northern border of it get to the, to the waste and east south stretching down. macklin national park and then to the

north east look 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 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 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 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 the livestock and but so on. the conservation n g o trains dogs to golf 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 cheated would be lacking somewhere in the grass. every year, families like different moral news around 2 percent of their lives. stokes predators was $100.00 is who can't afford security fencing? the figure is even higher than i thought was i lost that on 50 on of course the key,

not only $101.00 time it only per budget or the dealer, but again kill 7. it only one does kill you to pretend to their livestock. many good. how does short on poison predators, but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their hard to keep the big cuts away. they farmers give a local mixed re dog, which is well suited to the hash environment. then i stoke god in the program is supported by the environment organization shita conservation fund, who are training facility, pony monte say look stuff to poppies and raises them to become part of the heart. the dogs then stay with livestock day and night to protect them against 3 ways around 6050 dog. so far in this

area we intend to please more dogs intend to help from us because of their livelihoods and in their hands. on the other hand, protecting our 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 into trots 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 land animals in the world. this days, the 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 at the top of the ecosystem, nikki natural, prey, uncontrolled, and metro praise course. also, chips dissertation on the control. since the guiding the program was launched in 2015, many farmers have stopped 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 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 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 balls that sandra? use a concrete. ben bunks are unimportant resource for preserving the different string and for breathing new ones that are better suited to the change conditions. this is climate change. you're going to pay a visit to a project run and stop 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 docile. this and what is sort of t and what the q 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 are for muslim to use chemicals because if the destroy was so years, you know, that said or has the micro organism now can when you spray can cause. so if it kills michael organism, which is too bad to our, our environment. joy geisha has been trained by the organisation 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 using the planting season. or farmers have an opportunity to access seed from here. the the if from if a from a he or she takes one kilogram. he has to 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 a being re, kinsey,

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 you trisha. so those traditional varieties hold a lot of traits and genetic diversity that we need for for breeding. the national feed bank estimates that every year uganda is losing around 10 percent of its bio diversity implants that are important for agriculture, 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 will not be able to use that materials to engage the challenges that you have in the production systems. if you can do it, you're going to look after these resources in countries actually been 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 receive. 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 the money from this community. the land from this community. and gandhi, each of the other far mug. the idea of starting up community feed bank is catching on. a total of a cooperative gander have now joined the initiative that's offered l. 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 nigeria. thank you. please do join us again for another edition of africa next week. for me,

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