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all. gov region. the answer to that question at others is coming up in the next 30 minutes. welcome to echo africa. i am chris, the lamps, report in from lagos, nigeria, and sandra, when you hello from compiler, here in uganda. hi there creek. i can name at least one thing, the police, both issues together. they all are related to dramatic ways. our environment is changing. also only show this week, i want the democratic republic of congo is doing to them live up pollution and how the countries environment minister trying to protect the country for it. once symptom of climate change is that drought are becoming longer and more frequent. according to the word metro, logical organisation drought has claimed over 650000 lives worldwide in the last 50 years. life store keepers, i especially frightened by drought,

goats cows and camels can survive without water and somalia, some common herders have found success by book in tradition. the eaters breakfast time it the bed coming farm on the outskirts of the somali capital morgan issue one or 2 animals have found something to chew on, but they're all pretty hungry. all eyes on the activity in the age of the enclosure, in the heaps of freshly cut grass, lead into just 2 modules for the english, but also vital to their health. these nothing to grieve on the sandy ground as sun . how did our man so be? it is the fund manager. ahead as typically is more room to room. but space year is limited. there are a lot of them are going all your

a couple are you face so many challenges when you bring candles to the city general order and also has the animals need to be trained to leave on the small area your cobra? so that requires a lot of patience and experience the all the other challenges are finding enough food for the camels in the city in ensuring the are provided, the things build geared from the dealers see the nerve who were all high. finally, the gate is opened. year in the enclosure that is more than enough for every one that wasn't always the case when they had had to scrounge for food out on the open plain, just as camels here have done for centuries. or what duncan good already, my dear, when the draught struck the countryside, where camels traditionally leave, there was nothing to graze on and a short fall offering. it forced us to move our animals here to the city on sir

luxury? no, actually. so malia is one of the countries heat, particularly hot by climate change. persistent drought is slowly destroying the traditional grazing length. the vegetation is dying back in water, holes are drying out even camels, which can survive long stretches on very little a dying from thirst or hunger. the despair felt by whose st ibrahim was seen in other head as is going by the day their flocks are shrinking. become old simply cannot find enough to eat in the bushland of the lowest billy region in eastern somalia, running february we had us talk a lot about how to get our camels away from here and find new grazing areas because it hasn't rained in so long drought is everywhere, if it gets worse and we can't feed our camels, would have to abandon them and go to the city to civil children and i was sells selena milan. many somalis are moving to the capital to escape the effects of climate change. mogadishu population has doubled,

2400000 people over the last 20 years. it was in that growing market that her son abdulla months, abriya recognized in opportunity soft alcala, in then cool, nautica. another reason we brought our candles to the c t is to provide fresh milk to the people who live in mogadishu and its surrounding areas. in the past, people have to go to law areas to get it. oh, so now we can deliver it freshly, milt. right here in the ne boards, oliver is our little bombay, and on his looking is done every day in the better camel from much to the displeasure of the young calls. but business takes precedence was, is i ari, our little logo holligan, alamo dollar? we sell one liter of all come milk for $2.00 in cost. so how do a lot my head also i, we normally produced 900 to 1000 liters of camel milk every day of school,

the 9 unclean on by the lawyer. uneasy. normally, if demand is high, we increase all no production to meet the needs of our customers and clean unless are come later said alcohol, the order. the fresh milk, if immediately loaded up and taken to the city, restaurants in hotels are important. customers come milk is very nutritious impact would be to means making popular not just in somalia with business to me. the better camel from can afford to buy concentrate feeds for the animals. it's an important way of making up for drought related food shortages being the camels to the city. his tend out to be a good move, but not everyone can afford to do the same. so instead was seen, abraham was seen plastered on with his camels in the hope of finding enough food and water elsewhere. ah, what

a so precious resource. it's a censure for survival. so why do we wish so much of it? now think about the mighty congo river in the democratic republic of the congo. it's one of the words, deepest rivers. millions of people depend on it for their livelihoods, but it's been polluted at an alarming rate due to paul waste disposal. as we'll see in the capital kinshasa more rubbish than water. that's the state of almost all of the con goes tributaries in kinshasa. and every they, the mountains of waste continue to grow. because almost every one disposes of their rubbish. along the small rivers and drainage canals that crisscross the city, organic waste and plastic bottles suffocate life in and around the water and plug the waterways cause in severe, flooded during the rain season. it's the situation that horrifies the lane,

said bella, i said, learning about the damage caused by plastic waste. in his meteorological science course, he founded an environmental and g o. 2 classic teacher, so on up. but with the, the rivers in kinshasa are polluted with run off from industries with plastic ways to share plastic. we plan to clean up the rivers by collecting plastics which are then turned into our object. i intend to start a business that will help to protect the rivers. so me, i business will put this in there and he's using a lot of imagination to do it. elaine sir, baylor knows his initiative, can't solve kinshasa, his overwhelming waste problem. but he sees the decorative optics made from the plastic waste as a step towards raising awareness of environmental probably decades

of conflicts, rapidly growing population, and the lack of investment of all contributed to the cities failure to develop a function in water and sanitation system voice 15000000 inhabitants in 2019, the government launched the kin better projects aimed at making kinshasa cleaner and greener. on the last saturday of every month, can shots as citizens are encouraged to clean up their neighborhoods. $300.00 trucks are deployed to collect garbage and transport it to landfills on the outskirts of the city where it's burned. still, the project only scratches the surface. according to official figures, the city produces 7000 tons of plastic waste every day. but environmental

activists like a lame cibola on the 3rd by the task ahead of them, even if it has to be removed. one sack at a time on that report also comes from the democratic republic of the congo, which is home to the 2nd largest room forest in the world after the brazilian amazin last tropical forest covers about 60 percent of the r c. for now, that is white crease. it is a disappearing. fust, over 15000000 hits is have been cleared in the last 20 years money due to the dubious license agreements. but these forests valuable cub one since one doable. not only for the year, a see bond with a global climate equal africa spoke to the countries environment minister to find out what is being done to talk with his problem and others.

with a pool. let me democrats here in the democratic republic of congo. the best way to protect forests would be to provide more people access to electricity, not just private household. second communities on the whole need alternatives to burning wood for energy going broke. and that would include was mall and midsize businesses. now with the yeah, the pretty them why and i could print things. juniper poly was will did. i'm like home simply go back to the village where i was born and tell folks they stopped chopping down trees. it stopped burning wood, charged. they must be given an alternative that that's your given we're waiting on funding to implement the change that will allow us to develop land for large scale, productive agriculture. he knows a lot at the moment. just 14 percent of the congolese population have electricity

lately that we can increase that to 70 percent 3 solar power generated by the sun that shines above us slowly, but also from bio mass and wind power is energy acted and i think going to be all that should go a long way towards protecting the forest or to just if his or my life what a all of our preferred christiane. i left 43 . live your new land. my we here in the d. r. z. sacrifice ourselves if and refrain from exploiting our oil reserves, while the good of the environment you want more, what do we get in return? because if we choose to protect the environment, that's not only good for the d. r. c, it's good for the whole world. since forests store c o 2 emissions and help preserve biodiversity, who, you know, if someone makes us an offer, we can weigh up our options. if the deals right, we can say ok oil stay in the ground, we don't need to exploit you. we have other funds, other means of survival,

mathee or profit, but without an alternative, we can't afford to pretend we don't know it's there. on back one you think the law on c ascii diversion. we must quite simply act in good conscience nor that what we know there is the problem with pollution and we know that for us is can absorb those carbon emissions up. would you say that's reason enough to preserve and protect them? is invasive. would marcia the global north, the well, the industrialized countries, the g 20 as well as the newly rich possessor, 80 percent of the world's d. d. p. i assume is, are couple of they have the means to do something with what is on him. why? yeah, it requires a willingness to comprehend, to realize that if we don't take care of our forest, the spirit or the industrialization in the world will lead us in no way that is earnings because of temperatures rise by 3 full 5 degrees celsius. will all cease to exist? existing systems are not in this rad anthem. in

portugal was all god region researchers. i'm 1st to get in house, see gross meadows camper protected, and the benefit that could have in terms of reducing the fact of climate change. oh, conservationists sea grass. meadows are heroes of the ecosystem. home to many different species. they grow in shallow coastal waters and harbor. huge benefits for life under water and on land. that's why team of scientists is studying the matters of portugal, southern algarve coast to day. the team is preparing to dive down to the sea grass beds of 30 a formosa lagoon to collect sediment samples in

a time of climate crisis. carmen santos research is more crucial than ever for months to come, she and her team will be coming back to the lagoon. each trip usually spends several days the field work in close mapping the approximately 10 percent of wetland that's covered by c cross, which is one of the lagoons most valuable assets. they are very efficient carville things, which means that they can sequester and they store a huge amount of carbons in their biomass and in the saving them behind where they roll. and this is very important because when sequestering their seal to on the carbone that is store in their settlement, they are helping us to mitigate the climate change. scientists estimate that coastal ecosystems like c grocery store 3 times more c o 2 than forests at no cost . ready ready charlotte

santos. and the team from y'all golf, sent off maureen sciences. want to find out exactly how much of those blue carbon is stored? india formosa. they've taken about 80 sediment samples over the past 3 years. they slice up the samples and then analyze them. by burning them, the scientists can calculate the amount of carbon they store the team. hope that their research will convince policymakers at sea crosses meet more protection because of the potential to absorb you too. there in science could also help on the local level, in coastal development planning. and on the global stage, the findings could aid efforts to reach climate neutrality goals. see grass meadows world wide on the threat from the incessant traffic of boats and damage caused by

angus in europe. the scene said since it sixty's we have lost one 3rd of the secret meals that we have. one of the major threats to see grasses is dead day amount of for of bolt that we have because go it 1st the it travel very fast with just create said big waves. that he, it's the margins of channels and day it roads there because fella there while the city man was their son, large and the secrets are growing. water pollution also threatens see growth species around the globe. stricter legislation has served to improve water quality . andrea formosa, which in turn, has helped to see grass bates to recover. and that's benefited one of the lagoons, most iconic inhabitants the see horse. their numbers have dropped by more than

90 percent and recent years, primarily due to illegal fishing and the destruction of the habitats protective zones and artificial structures like these has been set up to help see horses need something to cling on to josh panama is the driving force behind the c horse project, he's studying the relationship between the animals and see grass as well. those areas are highly productive in terms of food and as a, as an abby thought. and even if the sources don't use it directly to lose it or indirectly, as it produced the food that later on day will fuel. on the small tramp, the small a f he puts in all of the food that is also provided by the ponds at the research station where george palmer works

it's feeding time for the c horses that the team breed here. palmer has been studying them since 2007. some of them will be released into the waters of re a formosa. it's a start o fully. it won't be a futile measure to support what's left of the current population of carbon santos and her team planted secrets in the summer. now they're trying to track it down to see if the plans survived. though cameras can't capture them, divers can spot them within naked ice. he will vase in the 8th and it's great to see that they it works. so we'll see how it happens in the winter and health lead, sir. it goes well and we can see plaza growing and his grading from

across the globe a conservationist sa, focusing on replanting c crosses. like here near the spanish island of my georgia. it's tedious work. the young plans are sensitive and the growth is slow. but recent studies point to a reversal of the decline of secrecy and europe assigned that protection and restoration efforts can make a difference according to a recent study by the aid organization unit one wife. more than 1400000000 people live in areas with the high water insecurity. among them are 450000000 children. that is one reason why an initiative here in uganda is making those as available in schools. and that was private households to bring water closer. this is the knock a volley refugee settlement in western uganda,

130000 people live here. 6 years ago dina been to fled the democratic republic of congo after rebels killed her husband. in ocoee valley, the lake is the source of water also for drinking for livestock as well. but the water is full of germs every year, 20000 children under the age of 5 die in uganda of diarrhea disease. one major reason is that they have no choice but to drink dirty water, heat kills germs. so dina been to boils, the water she fetches from the lake. she has 5 children. and i think we will drinking water using charcoal, and if we don't have it, we use firewood. otherwise we would be drinking very dirty water that comes at a cost to the environment to make charcoal trees are cut down. forest also had to be clear to make space for the settlement, but there's another way to provide safe,

clean drinking water. south be woochie and henry of vienna run to sir fisher, a social enterprise that makes automated low cost filters. this set up cost $1200.00. the money was donated by somebody in the united states. it supplies enough water for about 900 people out of 830000 in the settlement. but it's still a start. there was a that passes through our field that is the water from the lake. you can see this is that the original water from the lake and then after 8 buses through the filter . this is, there is out that we get out of the wounds you lost a brother to colorado. he drank contaminated water, access to clean water is a human right to sir fisher aims to deliver what the state fails to provide. it also developed a small water filter for home use to use is grenade to,

to purify their water. we have 2 buckets lit doped bucket contains the granite and then below bucket is there is above for this if water. so they power dow and it took bucket, and then they all filtration happens in the grenade. only water and air gun is skip through the grenade and only safe water goes into the reserves. opposite of yena shows people how to put together their own water filter. the granite needs to be cleaned every few months, then it can be reused. remember, we didn't have been to is intrigued if you feel to water this way. you no longer have to boil it or buy charcoal, which means lower emissions and costs. and there's another advantage every time we is told any station filter, we train that women around our community to make sure that they have access to safe

drinking water in their homes. and they can also go and train either people or, or so mecca these, what a fuel does, then sell them an extra income for themselves. so to be room g and henry of piano installed the 1st large filtering system using granite in central uganda. in a school near the capital kampala, several 100 pupils now have access to clean water and fall sick. less often. utilities safe hasn't have anything so has helped me a lot cause i'm no longer suffering will take for you and even i was suff, only pay for it. and i was like, i don't even go to school tooth. the fisher has quantify the impact that use of its filters has on the environment in terms of trees protected and c, o 2 emissions. here we save the atmosphere of at least $240.00 tons of carbon dioxide for each filter at marine. godfrey's federal gland whenever

to sufficient installs a large filter system in a school. the teen plants. marina trees with the pupils about a 1000 in all over the past 2 years. oh, at nike valley, dina, and i've been to, had since acquired and started using a water filter. she put it together herself. my g in the water from the filter is clean and usable me. oh, i'm very surprised that this is the same or 2. it was originally dirty after cows and people had contaminated it now. yeah, my thanks to the to sufficient filter. she and her family stand a better chance of staying healthy with less effort and at lower cost. however dirty, the water in the lake continues to be. bats eat from us to day. we hope you enjoyed this with sure. if you've got any thoughts or ideas about environmental protection that you'd like to share with us, please do get in touch while social media platforms will meet sun between you. it

is a good buy from compiler. here in uganda. see you soon, sandra. it's good bye for me to wish you all a wonderful press. the sea said, take care and stay safe. i am pers the lamps signing off from lagos, nigeria, ah, with

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