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a show. i am on the tween over here in compiler. uganda. hey, how are you doing today? just fine, sandra, it's good to be here again. and as always, we've put together a great program with interest and report on preserving nature of protecting the environment. here's the bridge. look at what's in store ah, giving old clothes a fresh start off and start off or doesn't support wildlife conservation and environmental protection school subjects. i'm gonna use counter solve that was an immortal for king as part of fish wildlife census, in unexplained seems of a or any move the dwell in the country on land and in water. the aim was to collect data that would help conservationists resolve and also protect the wildlife better . and that means all white life. no, just the hunt for of

a good look. take creatures. many tours and dream of being on safari. ah. a pack of african wild dogs. it's a rare sighting, wildlife conservationist, poor like a humble and her crew spotted the typically shy creatures in lake happier. where conservation efforts have seen their numbers grow from 2 to 40. while dogs are under grave threat because they're very sensitive to diseases that are carried by domestic dogs, they also are been targeted by communities because of human wildlife conflict. so wild dogs sometimes attack livestock and the communities retaliate fewer than 1000 of these endangered species remain in kenya. 3 years ago, co humble launched a t v series to help such species it draws attention to

how communities and individuals can aid conservation efforts the wildlife series that i produce wildlife where he is, ends to excite people about nature, educate them, and inspire them to care and to act, to save them, we want to see people going to the national parks participating in clean up, doing tree planting. a protesting when these wildlife are in trouble. and ryan knows and wild dogs are not the only wild life in trouble in kenya. certain species of giraffes are also endangered, and a lot of animals are lose inhabited through human activities and climate change. at the same time, wildlife tourism is an important source of income accounting for about 70 percent of kenya's gdp. conservation efforts tend to focus on kenya's iconic,

big 5 lions elephants, buffaloes, rhinos, and lemons. but they alone don't hold the fragile ecosystems together to get a better sense of the overall picture. last year, the canyon government undertook the biggest wildlife sensors ever conducted in africa. the effort collected data in over 50 percent of the countries land mass, which included national parks reserves and consequences. we found them as positive results, particularly for spaces like plants we, they're supposed to grow up. we are able to grow up population from 24000 to that to 6280 that i know population was also doing very well, but didn't add up front some ups when it got at a very low number. this finding lead to a recommendation to step up to care for him didn't get ruminant species. but

because the vision is costly and all too often donations are funneled to a special project like protect and the last to survive in northern quite rhinos. in jetta, a private kinds of mc the regents popular with stories are also where the money tends to flow. representative of one comes the vision organization believes this practice is short sighted for the parks and what was that a lot as frequently visited by. what is a more very important follicle system science the absorb will couple than it at the for an area in the world. although the main aim of the senses was to collect data on animal populations, it also revealed information about the habitat and the need for more protected areas. it gives us a status of the health of our ecosystems and by adversity. in reality,

we only really looked at mammal lodge mammals in particular. but the truth is, most of all by diversities and forests, it's in rivers, it's under the ground in the soil. so those results will tell us something about the health of all of all ecosystems because all those animals eat the vegetation or drink the water, the color of conservation india any on can you saw the coast, protects wildlife at the same time as support in bow diversity cheer they have managed to stabilize the color bus population with relatively simple measures. becky stolen monkey bridges by connecting different parts of the forest. the primate can move freely while avoid in dangers posed by traffic. and the conservationists here have started a cheap planting campaign. watrice will provide food and shelter while maintaining

the soils humidity. to nearly michelle marie, we teach people how important is indigenous trees are her and tell them which of the trees are animals like calibus and other monkeys, species prefer new and offend as ab. in the mean time predator free zones have also been introduced for some antello species. mountain bungles were also transferred from one cons of ancy to another, from where they will slowly be re introduced into the wild and unexpected result of the sensors was discovering herds in areas that were previously unexplored. there were areas we have never had before. we found as significant numbers of europe that we have never known data also base a population of elephants, but to recounted between kit depot in in kathleen, uganda can a boat 1821 elephants. if we did not cover the entire country, we never knew those. well, what's, what?

the final report recommends publishing and national wildlife sensors every 3 years and also allocated more resources for monitoring and supporting rare and endemic species. sounds like a good thing, especially if it helps people and the animals co exist more peacefully in south africa are started has also come up with a clever way of supporting the walk of a nation of pox. but their method relies and high tech. now, what could that have to do with nature conservation crease? more than you might think, sandra, this particular tree of entrepreneurs. i've started a crypto platform, which enables users to treat unique animal cards and supports conservation at the same time. let's take a closer look at how it's really works. happy lions with nothing to worry about. these big cats or the fin,

the game reserve in south africa are protected. but conservation initiatives like these cost money and drumming up donations requires a lot of time and effort. together with due friends and fellow nature lovers from jason simps came up with an idea to make donating to animal conservation more attractive with the aid of modern technology. all of us have experienced the bush and i love those experiences as, as children and growing up. we want to preserve that, and we've all been following block, take block chain technology for a while and to be able to put that together and merge those 2 passions was, was really special for us. the 3 friends leaving cape town and work a software developers every transaction and their digital block chain can be carried out safely and transparently. most importantly, it is recorded. so what is their idea exactly?

all of our different conservation partners on the wild card platform. these conservation have certain types of animals and species that they look after. and for every animal that they have, we represent that as a unique digital artwork on the block chain. only one person can have and if you own this wild card, you essentially pay a monthly amount to actually support that organisation. his team on the wall cards, digital platform of my book and buy and sell rare animal cards. using crypt, occurrence ear. with each card, there is a back story, details of its purchase history and even a photo of the animal in some cases. and every month, 20 percent of each cards asking price is donated by its owner to a conservation organization of their choice. one of the 1st organizations to benefit is the while to morrow funds and american eng. geo. that wants to open up a corridor for wildlife migration and south africa. the corridor will reconnect

animal populations and in the pin the reserve and the ease among elissa wetlands. greg canning is the general manager of baltimore refunded south africa. the conservation organization has received more than 45000 euros and funding through wild cards. the money went toward covering the cost of transfer me what was once a pineapple form into a wilderness area. how it works. i do not know unfortunately, and what i do know is that we are able to find a lot of our conservation work directly through crypto currency and and 3 organizations such as wild cards. wall cards make supporting conservation simpler and more direct because it takes away a lot of bureaucracy and purify the, to what people really care about, which is protecting the environment, the wildlife in the pin. the game reserve will certainly benefit if more funds are generated. but walcott founders are also aware of a less attractive aspect of their scheme, maybe uses a lot of electricity. and,

and this is concerning, and i actually don't believe that sustainable. but also taking a step, a step back. if we were to use the traditional financial system, we had be paying, you know, all of the resources of the bank employees driving to and from work and all the construction of those big buildings. but it's a huge concern, and we are going to reduce that as much as we can over time, as, as new technologies come out, we'll move to those technologies that are more efficient. so while cars has a di, lemme get to solve, find in a modern and efficient way to help protect critically endangered animals without adversely contributing to the already critical climate crisis. that looks like an interesting project and certainly make support in wide life fun by the environmental cost of digital transactions. i still owe a huge issue and it's something i wouldn't need to keep in mind as crypt

occurrences, game wider, acceptance. when you consider that a single bitcoin transaction has a coupling impact or several 100 kilograms of c o 2. it makes you wonder if crypt occurrences can ever surely be sustainable. and our next report looks into just that crypto currencies are disrupting the financial world as we know it. and many newcomer investors have made a lot of cash on this hype. but it's not all champagne and super yachts are mining new crypto currency and particularly bitcoin is actually kind of an environmental nightmare using up huge amounts of electricity and generating thousands of tons of electronic trash in the process. but some new players in the crypto community are trying to change that in 2021. bitcoin mining

guzzles, more electricity than the whole country of thailand uses each year. and much of that power came from burning cheap fossil fuels. definitely not green or clean. right now you would relieve more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, making one pick one transaction. then you would taking a 6 hour flight from new york to amsterdam. that's around $2000000.00 times more carbon emissions than a single visa payment. then as the e waste, the mining computers burn out or need to be upgraded roughly every 12 to 18 months, there will be a limit to how much government will accept from this type of system. this is the dutch economist alex to freeze. he set up the coin, energy consumption index back in 2014 to track the situation. we already saw china

bending basically mining. we're seeing this type of options being raised in europe at the moment. everyone's trying to realize their climates, ambitious. all the digital currency is out that bit coin is by far the worst offender. when it comes to the environment, the clock seems to be ticking for criptos. most famous post a child to clean up its act. but how could that work? what about using green power sources to mind bitcoin? texas is the chief oil and gas capital of the us. but it also has huge untucked potential for green energy development. there is more wind and solar in texas and then we can ever harvest. jesse pelton is the c t o a puddle ranch, a bit coin mining company. the only use is renewable power. and we see a huge opportunity for quite mining to be mutually beneficial for the grid. they can act as a buffer in times of power surge and use energy that would otherwise go to waste.

but what if international power grids can't, or won't incentivize the downtime for the green energy powered miners? they will be inevitably losing the competition to the rest of the network. and the ones that will survive will be the ones with the most stable power sources. and those unfortunately, typically happen to be fossil fuel based power sources. as renewable energy becomes cheaper, a hybrid power model is becoming more popular with bitcoin minors. in 2020, 39 percent of bitcoin, global power usage came from renewable sources. if you still want to stick with bitcoin, but concerned about the carbon emissions, the underlying block chain technology can potentially help with that. you can now offset your footprint by purchasing carbon credit tokens that are block chain verified. the money you invest, travels directly by

a block chain to fund conservation effort. a brazilian environmental tech company called mosque dot earth is becoming a popular option for climate conscious crypto fans. and what we have done, you know, to turn crypt investments into you know, when investment lose a, jamie is the founder of more stop us. anyone can buy their verified carbon credits at the click of a button. they're called n c o 2 tokens. you can calculate your pollution from, you know, driving cars using electricity of home, that kind of stuff. and you can buy the equivalent carbon credit using block chain tokens, provides a clear record of everyone's green investment transactions. and supposedly the money travels directly to forest conservation project in the amazon. the company says the sale of m c o 2 tokens has compensated forest projects with over $15000000.00 us dollars and helped preserve around $500000000.00 trees. so they're

all pioneers trying to clean up criptos act. but right now they're still few and far between bitcoin and digital currencies a here to stay. and if we want to make them sustainable players, investors, companies and governments will have to start changing the rules of the game from the voucher to the best. what do we really need to get by food? what clothing? we know, the fashion industry is not really sustainable and buying. second, honda helps bought people, so you'd like to feel special every now and then. well, it is possible to pack up the wardrobe without buying new, as we'll see in these weeks doing a bit. ah, this is what con at albano, the oldest functioning market in cairo. today it's known for clothing and textiles,

and is a favorite with thrift shoppers, artist, n g. a. bill huck started coming here a few months ago before that she'd never considered buying secondhand clothes. bought something changed her mind. i've been the one not on an artist, made me aware that we need to stop over consuming. we buy without any real need or awareness and most fabrics these days aren't even natural. i. now when she finds an item she likes, she takes a photo and sends it to note on alba, none. albano and visits were college of bella regularly. it troubles her that clothes are bought and discarded so quickly. shopping at the market gave her an idea. a lot of used clothing is still in good condition, often just a bit dirty or worn. but with a little creativity items can be transformed into something new and unique. she

posted videos of some of her creations on line to show what can be done with old clothes. the response surprised her. i look at what if i made a video of myself paintings secondhand clothes and it went down? well, once i saw how interested people were and i got more followers, i decided to show more of what i do. that's how it all started. when we'll go over that note on how bonnen pulse began, borkin izing workshops on altering youth trousers jackets, and dresses is willis painting and decorating them to order to create new one of a kind pieces, thereby eliminating the need to buy new things. ah, then how about you? if you are also doing your best, tell us about it, visit our website, or centers or tweet hash tag doing your bit.

we share your stories. other starts over sure, we highlighted what can be done or must be done to preserve wildlife populations here in africa, but we won't succeed if people aren't institutions. i'm not aware of how important these what is you are absolutely right, sandra. and one way to do that is to engage our children and grandchildren an environmental awareness at an early age. dana has already recognized the need for that unmade environment, unofficial school subject echo africa, took a look at how it has been received. a class is in session at the t i off medea senior high school in kumasi, gonna 2nd biggest city. the theme of today's lesson is vital to the future of these students, climate change and how to tackle it. classes in environmental protection have been

taught here for about a year. now. sustainable business ideas are also on the curriculum. the ads are become warm, so it is true, he wanted to reduce that i'd live to damage restoration. so yeah, to students. what them much want to know, what, what's the holdup walk them that it'll get a chance to didn't mount. so i did do the deviates from day a bad i to reduce that i was pointed with did to the global warming for most of these students. it's the 1st time they've heard of the climate crisis and the subject has really caught their attention. we encourage our period, how carlise to i'm involved in a. we are for use the same unit issue repair and plants cheese to that it's who hope to reduce the will that will mean if it's i think it's would really change the

attitude towards the environment. all supports and the protection of the environments from the teachers are being taught to raise awareness about environmental protection. over $600.00 have been trained so far over half of gone as schools are already integrating the subject into their curriculum with more to follow. gone as education ministry sees environmental education as high priority. it's a will training the kids or the learners to own the environment. their varman belongs to the the other future leaders. a level we need to incorporated them a better understanding and appreciation of the task ahead of them. so the curriculum have that aspect in their the teaching models focus heavily on the climate crisis. the students learn that the emission of greenhouse gases leads to heat, wakes and drowns. in addition, sea levels are rising,

which is why some villages on the coast will have to be abandoned. some lessons also deal with a plastic waist that clogs many sewers and drainage canals in ghana and makes flooding more likely. the students also learn how planning trash impacts the environment and health. many people in ghana are already feeling the consequences of environmental destruction 1st hand. the climate changes am in des, environment is causing so many problems in houses. lacey, you know, they suffered or food and you know, at times there's flood in and all this news in order to raise awareness of these problems. more and more schools are also organizing. so called green clubs, outside of class, the children go on excursions, connect rubbish, and plum trees. the green clubs often lead by environmental protection activists is

much easier to groom the younger ones who become people were more responsible instead of possibly focusing on the adult. we for the younger ones, are, there was no glory. now, you freak on shipped the future. you such a way that they are more suited to was good is wishes. it is better for the climate and also for the future. environmental education in schools is the stars, the coming years will show whether the seat that was planted here has terminated. so we learned 2 important things today, which it counts our animals in order to comes of them. and with a little creativity, we can make something use into something new. i'm chris a lamp. bit in you farewell from lagos, nigeria. important lessons indeed, crease. i think initiatives like those are seen today can really have a big impact if you want to learn more about environmental protection for the also

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