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and mtv right here in uganda. i and sandra twin over here and with me of course is my colleague, chris. hey there, sandra, all is nice to see you. we got a lot of inspiring stories on programs about people who are committed to making a difference to the health and well being of our plot. it. here is a quick look at what's coming up. a conservationist and the media who is pointing to say fine us up history, sharing germany using an honest, better super food. in his creations and an architect in egypt was devoted, a courier to sustainable development. was thought the show with wonderful creatures, sea turtles. but these animals faced numerous threat include in plastic, pollution,

poaching and loss of habitat. now in south africa, researchers are working hard to understand what can be done to improve the chances for the leather back sea turtle, which has the word small as breeding population of large sea churches species. ah, the word for something wondrous in the zulu language is, is the man galle. so a fitting name for this wetland arc in south africa. it's rich. biodiversity ended a sponsor, genus goals, world heritage list. but it has another crucial role. as south africa's last remaining nesting site of the world's largest sea turtle, the leather back, the native species has been protected for decades, yet the population is stagnating. a team of researchers is trying to find out why the research that we've done so far is indicated that the nice thing beach is hair

are incredibly well protected and that the habitat is very good. we get very high hatching success. so i would suggest to us that it's not on the beach us where the problems are every year in early november, some 17, the backs come to the beach to nest. after sunset, ronald nel and her team seek them out to take a variety of measurements and biological samples. the reptiles can weigh over 600 kilograms. some have to me to long shells. biologists also fit them with a satellite tag, which allows them to learn more about their lives. it will tell us whether she's going to a good foraging ground or whether she's actually interacting with threats such as fisheries, or whether she ends up in a part of the ocean, which is a huge amount of pollution. so we will know in real time way, she is what condition she is at how she behaves and what the threats are that she's

facing. in addition to bocce and habitat destruction, other less direct threats continue to post problems. turtles easily becoming tangled and goes ness. and if they're unable to free themselves, they drowned another problem. as plastic waste see turtles feed on crabs, alkie and jellyfish, and plastic bags and floating macro plastics look a lot like food. once ingested, the plastic and rupture organs are caused, blockage resulting is daveille. and in order to protect the leather back, c turtles on land. the authorities also a boy turtle monitors from the local community. they patrol the beaches during nest . in season mac, the nests and measure the turtles, mcdaniel luly explains how this also benefits the local communities. marvin clark by protect to the turtles, their nest, and hatchlings. the tories will keep coming to see them. looking after these sea creatures horn could help in shore. my community and future generations who have

a chance to earn an income from the industries that are much of our problem. sciences have been fitting leather back to satellite tax over 20 years. but the new tags allow the researchers to monitor the movement along south africa's coast. far more accurately, the data indicates that the turtles cover distances of up to 7000 kilometers, traveling as far north, the central angola, which makes protecting them even more challenging. as a species is extremely migratory, our sponsibility national government is to coordinate the efforts that work towards kind of asian management and protection that can facilitate consistent protection of the species across national borders. and within the context of this project, we are trying to establish that the best possible science is being used to identify both critical sites for the species, whether it's barging nesting or migration,

but also to assist our regional partner in identifying these areas. in addition to the large animals, the research is collect blood samples to help better understand their genetics one year. this will help provide a clear picture of the general health of the population. the research is hope that the combination of the different data will show where protection measures can be improved every time that i see a leather back, it is like looking back into evolutionary time. i mean the last 65000000 years old and they've been doing this ritual ever since. and the realities that they are so, or now they all critically endangered species. so my hope for the mystery actually that we can make a difference in the conservation that these numbers would recover and that we actually have a much larger population and that everybody should be experiencing this wonderful event. the teams research is already paid off in 2019 the government designated

several new marine conservation areas and greatly expanded these in my gasoline. so wetland park and the marine protected area thanks to the information collected by the new tags, the scientists were able to prove that the leather bags don't just remain near the coast line. they also travel great distances off shore. sea turtles have powerful from flippers to propel them through the water. it's easy to see how they are capable of covering long distances. but many other species spend a lot of time on the move to. one of the most impressive is the arctic turn. every year the birds fly on outstanding, 90000 kilometers, back and forth between the poles. bounce really ease amazing. we humans may not manage quite so much over the course of the year. bond for the right reason. we can

go pretty far. and for next report we got is in baldwin, where a group of people prove that they know how to put a lot of tea into the activism. ah, this group of environmental activists has a long road ahead of them. they planned to walk 142 kilometers across in bob way in 3 days. but it's not just for fun or exercise in zimbabwe. more than $262000.00 hectares of forest land is lost every year. much of the wood is used or sold as firewood. the friends of the environment initiative wants to raise awareness about the damage caused by deforestation. to support that message, the activists to plant trees and share information along the way.

the gold different places their places, if they're not, she's intermittent. we teach people. if we go we've lunches. if we go over all these keys or our future reneged them she's, i, life the walkers have finally reached their destination. but that's just one reason to celebrate. the activists managed to plant around $1000.00 saplings and thanks to commitments from participating tree nurseries, a lot more will follow the walk upon campaigns have been taking place for more than 10 years. so far friends of the environment has helped plant around $35000000.00 trees. oh man, how about you? if you are also doing your bit, tell us about it. visit our website, or send us or tweet hash tag doing your bit.

we share your stories. just hearing about the long walks gives me the i'd sure to have a cup of tea and perhaps something sweet to go with it in germany for many families as sunday afternoons are filled with baked goods, coffee and a kick. now, with a mind to the environment, one pastry chef has formed a way to make testy, tough leads, but include a very heated, unexpected ingredients. this bakery in southern germany creeds pastries with an unconventional filling boot of exam, bland, to devise climate frenzy treats. so he's using algae as an ingredient in japan. the aquatic plant has commonly used in snacks or served with fish. so how if the pastries been faring in bavaria with its own culinary traditions,

as i was going by your people at 1st said, what's that? i don't like bish law, so it wasn't easy done. but thanks to our social media posts with more people started trying it and realized it was pretty nice of us when they found out it didn't taste like bish but quite nutty. i was good. it stop being a problem and then she knew quite the opposite. in fact, that on the spectrum program there was any given time. he grows his ality at the technical university of munich, so far under lap conditions. thomas book has spent years researching how the organisms essential nutrients can benefit our food supply. aga was ugly, but algae is the new super food because it absorb c o 2 while growing and has a positive impact on the climate. it's photosynthetic efficiency is $3.00 to $4.00 times higher than any land plant. and it grows 10 times faster, while actively removing c o 2 on so eating algae products helps the environment of a t p. my medicine,

and they've got the portal to this. pastry chef lute of exact blunt now has a whole range of different snacks made from algy. and in many cases, their green credentials are clearly visible in their natural color. and with flavors also including chalk, carmel, raspberry, and white chocolate. no sweet tooth goes unsatisfied. people who leave in rural areas and know how difficult it can be to co exist with predatory animals spotting a line in the grass in a national park may be exciting for the tourists vantage. the farmers tend to view them as a threat to their livelihood. often for good reason, sandra, but not all wide live behave the same way. conservationist an amoeba are trying to get more people to recognize some of the differences in order to protect both wild and domesticated animals. the skeleton coast and

northwestern namibia is home to brown hyenas, also known as strand wolves. i know is a very important in the ecosystem, and i've got a very important role to play at lakewood jade as the bad guys. and that's what people think about i enough in general, who if we're coming over, which is always a cut over and we can do nothing about it. but even if i must come of lindsey, we are killing though we have been green though. owens, an assembly of hulu, field we listen. we are now living in a nature reserve among side wild animals. we can earn as much with them now as we do with goats and sheep, so i no longer shoot them immediately. the hyenas are perfectly adapted to the extreme desert conditions, an icy cold ben gala ocean current biologist mc favey has been studying the animals here for 7 years,

and it's still fascinated by them. she's the science coordinator for a tourism company that supports conservation projects in the region. i've got a lot of respect why not squished to survive as a large scavenger in the days it it's, it's no mean feat m and it was a re social. when the out the they sonnet g. so you see the single are you not out there but when they back at the dean when they are and cups at the been this a lot of social going on these a lot of time spent with the guts playing with a cups grooming the cups fairville he discovered a network of dens off the coast, where packs of sand wolves gather to socialize and share their catch. they carry carcasses dozens of kilometers through the desert to fi to their comes in the dance . oh, scavenger animals like these prevent diseases from spreading, making them important for livestock for me. ah. but

their reputation as predators means they're mercilessly hunted. oh, oh people would put out poison food, lions for liquor to cheat us. i mean the hyena suite b by catch of that just people are afraid of fighting are. so people don't appreciate the value of brown. i know us and they skate of 9. i so people would, would throw stones at them. they would, j seamless goss. ah, 7 years of drought have ravaged the region, the animals here have to travel ever greater distances in search of food. this means they cross paths with farmers like a manual glory rob, who are now losing more and more livestock to predators. this

again, so please if you're caught the ear canal to reach it last week went to lions june sixty's goals, 8 in ship deal going to farmer in i looked it up as a result of the lion attack. gary rob, last half of his heard a sizable financial loss for the farmer. the government compensates farmers after such incidents, but at a rate around half of market value went through i bought the wild animals from the desert. the lions, the elephants causes a lot of problems and we'll get graded. our quits are one t, excuse me, we don't gain anything from having wild animals here and they bring us nothing. number hord, mark t went to a hole in our livestock, our, our income. how we earn our living, the old work with our whole near his stall. gary rob has discovered fresh hyena

tracks. eleanor brown hyenas don't hunt goats, but the tracks could have been made by spotted hyenas to a more aggressive species, globally. liquid come over it. if the government doesn't take care of the hyenas, again, we have no choice or google play the dumb, cuz i mean, we have to shoot them. that's the plan on the maza. ah, when he was a cattle, her phineas casa owner, also killed hyenas in lions. to day, he protects them. he's a ranger, a member of the unable community reserve. since the ninety's farmers like casa owner, have joined neighbors to create their own nature reserves, which now cover about one 5th of namibia land mass. last night, elephants rated neighbors vegetable patch. so for the next few nights casa, ona will stand guard. despite the problems they cause the farmers still want to

protect the animals under bowling lumen or you know, that didn't things have changed to program. been on my younger she yet for back in the day. if i, ina, took one of your animals out, you hunted it down and killed it open wound yet pulling the air or the kid a we live in a new world. i'm with laws that protect wild animals and we're going do you, how can we do well with envy? and if we take care of them, we can even live from them. so we should try to live together, can know by well, got to hoop it, but we do better then we come back to local you one. whoa, whoa. farmers have agreed on limiting livestock so that both wild and farm animals can co exist. since antelope populations increased attacks by wild predators have gone down one ton of ab earned income from tourism and was able to install electricity and water connections and rebuild a preschool. ah, back on the skeleton coast arranger informs fair bay that an elephant calf is

missing. the biologist fears the worst, she finds the cap half way to a watering hole due to the ongoing drought. the mother couldn't lactate. there is no hope for the young elephant. long periods of drought have made the fight for survival, even harder. hearing hyenas and other animals much searched for new living environments. but with the help of researchers like mc fair bay and community based conservation efforts, there still a chance in namibia for people and animals to re adapt and for july, out of the desert. ah, oh. as temperature rises, it's becoming even more crucial to find ways of keeping cool without putting unable britain burden on the environment. air conditioners may seem like a wonderful invention, but they are bad for the planet. and i've actually been

a major contributor to the problem of global warming. this is why a lot of thought is now going into finding ways to make new and existing building screener. our next report takes us to egypt while we meet on award winning architect. we've a lot of experience in sustainable development dot o and i we have extreme stress just we are facing livelihoods that are being affected. why are there no buildings in egypt? and if not, why are there so few? i really believe that if you tap into the indigenous knowledge, you will get the benefit of an f of an existing technology that you didn't even

realize was there. it's this knowledge that cairo architect, sana, alba, tutti wants to harness and implement in contemporary architecture. her team designs buildings that have a positive environmental and social impact. summer temperatures here can reach 50 degrees celsius and the sea of concrete buildings causes stifling heat. residents who can afford it, rely on air conditioning to cool their apartments with 30 percent of people's household income is going into cooling. so why should we not have bill things that provides cooling from the onset as opposed to just reaching out to conventional solutions. the air conditioners also contribute to global warming. as many of the power plants in egypt are fueled by oil and gas. one of the architects projects is located 450 kilometers west of the egyptian capital. here and the battery oasis.

farm workers are busy weeding a cam, a mile field. they worked for a large organic tea and her company. in the summer temperatures here frequently sore above 45 degrees celsius while in winter. the climate is relatively cold. farm manager ought of as asi says, that many workers quit due to the unbearable living conditions done, la moving, good play, menache on which to learn from wicker one. louise would come to work here for the 2nd. we had problems with our accommodation. old, the gun ups like i'm but gleaton is like on a buckley like at 1st, but we had conventional accommodations and ill read her pavilion, which was unsuitable for the hot weather or the cold. like a me duck or use. the company was looking for sustainable solutions and asked sada albert, today's company to design new accommodation options with natural cooling for 140

workers. the architects examined the air passages and sunlight in order to control the air flow and shade more than they then built the residential structures using recycled gravel and limestone breaks from a nearby quarry. she, the dark color on the walls, absorbs the heat. when the wind comes through these areas, or believe the impulsive fun oh that, and the walls are insulated, fan the go, go, have to come a little by them. this combination helps cool the air flow. but i from the masula of it in the, in, oh the, and gives extra thermal comfort to those living in the rooms or using the facilities, wilfred enough and arguable on distilling temperatures and the rooms are now maintained at a constant level of about $19.00 to $26.00 degrees celsius throughout the year, solar panels power fans indoors, while hot water is obtained from solar water heaters. the project has been awarded the golden pyramid eco label. the government commission sola on how god to develop

the national rating system in response to its growing population. each, it wants to reduce buildings, energy consumption. i think architecture design should be converted totally into sustainable architectural design. to save our resources. now with the green buildings, i think we can see of the energy up to 50 percent. we can save the water up to 60 percent and recon sip a lot of materials or what are the above the improvement, all the indoor environmental quality. and the old board environment that quantity, the inspiration comes from traditional homes found in rural communities that are designed in harmony with nature and the environment. the aim is to positively impact those who will be using the buildings in the long term, which will be of the city's current $20000000.00 residents. and experts believe rural to urban migration will see cairo's population double by 2050. we've reached

10 degree cooling and some of our projects without any mechanical assistance. and it's this is the reason why we think we can pursue better solutions for rural communities, especially and low income housing. so that people are not continuously trying to correct what we did not address in the 1st place. sada alba tutti was recently appointed ambassador for the presidential initiative, decent life. her role will be to draw green guidelines and promote climate change awareness. egypt is not alone in its need to adapt large parts of its infrastructure to a warming planet. it's a global issue. and green architecture plays a crucial role. very interesting indeed. well, i'm scared. we've run out of time for this week. thank you so much for joining us today. aren't due. be sure to tuning again next time. i am sandra tree, nobody signing from capella here in uganda. see you next week, chris. bye bye,

sandra. before i say good bye. i just wanted to remind you the you can find the program and all our reports online, and please share your thoughts about the show with us on our social media platforms . for now, i'm chris alone in lagos. see you again soon. ah ah with ah ah, with

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