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and mtv right here in uganda. i and sandra, twin audio, and with me of course, is my colleague, chris. hey there, sandra. all those nice to see you. we got a lot of us barry 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 namibia who is pointing to save ins. up history, sharing germany using an honest spector, 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 backseat. chateau, which has the word smallest breeding population of large sea churches species. ah, the word for something wondrous in the zulu language is, is it manually? so a fitting name for this weapon are in south africa. it's rich biodiversity under the spot that you now schools, world heritage list, but it has another crucial role. as south africa's last remaining nesting side to the world's largest sea turtle, the leatherback, 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 problem fall. 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 ocean which has got a huge amount of pollution. so we will know in real time where she is, what condition she is at how she behaves and what the threats are that she's facing . in addition to poaching in 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 drown. another problem is plastic waste. sea 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 diversion in order to protect the leather back. see turtles on land authorities. also, a boy turtle monitors from the local community. they patrol the beaches during lesson season mark the nests and measure the turtles. when gannon luly explains how this also benefits the local communities. marvin clark, i protect to the turtles, their nest, and hatchlings, the tories. we'll keep coming to see them richer looking after these sea creatures, all could help in shore, my community and future generations who have

a chance to earn an income from the industries that are much upon all sciences. here i've been fitting leather back to satellite tax over 20 years by the new tags allow the researchers to monitor their movements along south african coast. far more accurately, the data indicates that the turtles clever 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, a national government is to coordinate the efforts that work towards kinds 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 sciences being used to identify both critical sites for the species, whether it's barging, nesting or migration,

but also to assist our original 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, they are 65000000 years old and they've been doing this ritual ever since. and the realities that they are so, or now they are critically endangered species. so my hope for they mr. 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 magazines. 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. dancer really is 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 to zimbabwe, 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 plan 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 hecht hairs of forest land is lost every year. much of the wood is used or sold as firewood. the friends of the environment initiatives 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.

we go different places that places if they're not, she's intermittent. we teach people. if we go we've lunches. if we go as well, these keys are our future. we need 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're also doing your bid, 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 that include a very heated, unexpected ingredients. this bakery in southern germany crates, pastries, with an unconventional feeling, ludovic sublime, decided to devise climate frenzy treats. so he's using algae as an ingredient in japan, the aquatic plants as commonly used in snacks or served with fish. so how of the pastry he's been faring in bavaria with its own cullen airy 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 what 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, the spectrum program goes on again. time he grows his ality at the technical university of munich. so far under lab conditions, thomas book has spent years researching how the organisms essential nutrients can benefit our food supply. olga with irish valgy is the new super food because it absorbs 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 big kima, woodson in the back portal to this. pastry chef ludovic jack black. now has

a whole range of different snacks made from algae. 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 wanting. a line in the grass in the national park may be exciting for the tourists . 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. ah, the skeleton coast and northwestern namibia is home to brown hyenas,

also known as strand wolves. why knows 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 were killing or roach, is always a cut over and we can do nothing about it. but even if almost come up, lindsey we are killing though we are being reno owens. i understand with feel we listen, we are now living in a nature reserve among shiny 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 a science coordinator for a tourism company that supports conservation projects in the region. i've got a lot of respect. toy nash was 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 just see the single, are you not out there, but when they back at the dean when they are and cups at the din, this a lot of social going on these a lot of time spent with the cups playing with grooming the guts. fairville, he discovered a network of dens off the coast where packs of sand, wolves gather to socialize and share their catch. ringback they carry carcasses dozens of kilometers through the desert to fi to their comes in the dens. oh scavenger animals like these prevent diseases from spreading, making them important for livestock farming.

but their reputation as predators means they're mercilessly hunted. oh oh people we could have poison food, lions for liquor to cheat us. i mean the hyena suite b by catch of that just people are afraid of fine. i said, people don't appreciate the value of brown. i know us and they skate of thine eye. so people would, would throw stones at them, they would, j, seamless gauze, 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 emanuel glory, rob, who are now losing more and more livestock to predators. today,

that is the dental place. it and you caught the internet and wait, it last week went to light and students exclusive goals. $810.00 sheep deal going to farmer in laguna as a result of the lion attack, gary rob lost half of his herd a sizable financial loss for the farmer. the government compensates farmers after such incidents, but at a rate around half of market value went toward bull the wild animals from the desert. the lions from the elephants causes a lot of problems into gear grease. it are quits, are one t, it's getting well, we don't gain anything from having wild animals here while they bring us nothing. gumble hoard mock. ah, he went through a hole in our livestock, our, our income. how we earn our living, the whole drug with our hole near his stall. gary rob has discovered fresh hyena tracks on brown. hyenas don't hunt goats,

but the tracks could have been made by spotted hyenas through a more aggressive species. lou liquid come grandma, if, 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. when the mother ah, when he was a cattle herder, 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 ana, 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 both the lumen or you know,

that didn't things have changed book. i'm been, i'm a younger she yet for back in the day. if a hyena took one of your animals out, you hunted it down and killed it open, going 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 a worm with envy? and if we take care of them, we can even live from them. so we should try to live together in no bible got to hoop it, but we do better then you will 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 animal populations increased attacks by wild predators have gone down on a bed, earns its income from tourism, and was able to install electricity and water connections and we build a preschool ah, back on the skeleton coast, a ranger informs fair bay that an elephant calf is missing the biologist fears the

worst, she finds the cat 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 search 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. as temperature rises, it's becoming even more crucial to find ways of keeping cool without putting unable to britta burden on the environment. air conditioners may seem like a wonderful invention, but they're 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 aunt existing building screen them. our next report at texas to egypt, while we meet an award winning architect, we've a lot of experience in sustainable development. oh, good, good. good. ah, we have extreme distress be just we are facing livelihoods that are being affected . why are there? nope, in buildings in egypt, and if there are, why are there so few? i really believe that if you tap into the indigenous knowledge, you will get the benefit of an,

of an existing technology that you didn't even realize was there. it's this knowledge that cairo architect, sauna, 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 cause a 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 quoting 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 herb company. in the summer temperatures here frequently, sore above 45 degrees celsius fallen winter. the climate is relatively cold. farm manager ought of a sassy says that many workers quit due to the unbearable living conditions. good, lumbering, give me a shout, which to learn from again when louise would come to work here for the 2nd, we had problems with our accommodation. i would the darn up 2nd book lady a 2nd at the cleveland look at. first of all, we had conventional accommodation, ill read her pavilion, which was unsuitable for the hot weather or the cold. secondly, dark boyce the company was looking for sustainable solutions and asked sorrow 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 sheets. the dark color on the walls absorbs the heat. when the wind comes through these areas who are believe the compulsive fell oh, good. and the walls are insulated on the go go have to come a little by them. this combination helps cool the air flow. obadiah masula good in the in hello the and gives extra thermal comfort to those living in the rooms or using the facility as well for the methodology long stalling 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, all hot water is obtained from solar water heaters. the project has been awarded the golden pyramid eco label the government commission salon and how god to develop

the national rating system in response to its growing relation 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 save the energy up to 50 percent. we can save the water up to 60 percent and we can ship a lot of materials over and above the improvement of the indoor environment, that quality and the outdoor 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 and the long term, which will benefit the cities current. 20000000 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 onto do be sure to tune in again. next time i and sandra to we know video signing from capella here in uganda. see you next week, crease. bye bye,

sandra. before i said, 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, a a ah, with

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