affordable housing news, whether the harsh desert climate, a eco africa on dw, we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah mantic corner, check hot spot for food, and some great cultural memorials to brood. d, w, travel off, we go a hello and welcome to the new edition of equal africa, the environment program, a co production of china, stevie in nigeria, germans dw,

and mtv right here in uganda. i and sandra twin over here and read me, of course, is my colleague, chris. hey, this sandra, all is nice to see you. we got a lot of inspiring stories on per rums about people who are committed to making a difference to the health and well being of our planet. 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, better super food in his creations and an architect in egypt who was devoted, a courier to sustainable development was start 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 he manually so a fit in name for this wetland park in south africa. it's rich. biodiversity entered a spot at unesco world heritage list. but it has another crucial role as south africa. last remaining nesting side to 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 research, this is trying to find out why the research that we've done so far is indicated that the nice thing beach is here 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 70 let 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 sample. 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 the threats such as fisheries, or whether she ends up an apartment from 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 can rupture. organs are cause blockage, resulting is daveille and in order to protect the leather back seat turtles on land . the authorities also a boy turtle monitors from the local community. they patrol the beaches during nesting season, mark the nests and measure the turtles. when gannon luly explains how this also benefits the local communities, mar them stop by to check to the turtles, their nest, and hatchlings, taurus we'll keep coming to see them looking after these creatures could help ensure my community and future generations who have

a chance to earn an income from the industry that much more scientists have been fitting leather back to satellite tax over 20 years. but the new tags allow the researchers to monitor their movements along south africa's 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 national government is to coordinate the efforts that work towards conservation 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 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 researchers 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 i'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 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're 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. dance 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 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 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 goal, different places their place. if, if they're not, she's intermittent, we teach people. if we go, we've lunches, if we go as well, these keys, 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. and how about you? if you are also doing your bid, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweak hash tag doing your bit. we

share your stories. just hearing about the long walks, guess me the arch it 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. tottle aids that include a very heated, unexpected ingredients. this bakery in southern germany, crates, pastries with an unconventional filling boot of example and decided to devise climate frenzy treats. so he's using algae as an ingredient in japan, the aquatic plant as commonly used in snacks or served with fish. so how if the pastry has 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 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 good. it stopped being a problem and then she knew quite the opposite. in fact, then the spectrum programs and again, 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 aga with ugly valgy is the new super food because it absorbs c o 2 while growing and has a positive impact on the climate. it's about a synthetic 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 algy products helps the environment of of the pima. woodson in the back portal to this. pastry chef loop of example on 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 wanting. a line in the grass in a national park may be exciting for their tourists by and the farmers tend to view them as a threat to their livelihood. often for good reason, sandra, but not all white life 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 night with 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 with us and 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 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 been this a lot of social going on days, a lot of time spent with a cups 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. ah, 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 farming. ah. but

their reputation as predators means they're mercilessly hunted. oh, oh, people would quit out toys and fool lions for liquor to cheat us. i mean the hyena suite b by catch of that, just people are afraid of fighting. i. so people don't appreciate the value of brown. i know us and they skate of 9 or 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 gallery, rob, who are now losing more and more livestock to predators. today that is

again, 2 places. i look up, the ego couldn't reach it. last week went to lions june sixty's goals 8 and she deal going to farmer emmanuel korea as a result of the lion attack guru 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 club, the elephants causes a lot of problems. 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. go more. hord, mark r 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, imo brown. hyenas don't hunt goats,

but the tracks could have been made by spotted hyenas, through a more aggressive species, globally liquid conagra. where 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 mazda. ah, when he was a cattle, her phineas casa owner, also killed hyenas in lions. today, he protects them. he's a ranger and 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. you're like, oh you know that didn't things have changed book. i'm been on my you and your she yet for back in the day. if a hyena took one of your animals out, you 100 and down and killed it all, been going yet. bowman, the air or the today we live in a new world. i'm with laws that protect wild animals and we're going do you, how can we do it? we're more with envy. and if we take care of them, we can even live from them. so we should try to live together, work in no bible got to hoop it, but we do better then we come back to local you one then ohio farmers have agreed on limiting livestock so that both wild and farm animals can coexist. since analog populations increased attacks by wild predators have gone down on a bed, earned income from tourism, and was able to install electricity and water connections and rebuild a preschool aah! back on the skeleton coast, a ranger informs fair bay than 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, hero, hyenas and other animals might 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 i oh, us 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 to finding ways to make new aunt existing buildings green m. o. next report texas to egypt while we meet an award winning architect, we've a lot of experience in sustainable development. oh, good. ah. we have explained the strength of egypt, we are facing livelihoods that are being affected. why are there nope, in 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,

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 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 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 camomile field. they worked for a large organic tea and herb company. in the summer temperatures here frequently saw above 45 degrees celsius while in winter, the climate is relatively cold. far manager ought of as asi says, that many workers quit due to the unbearable living conditions dunlab and give la la sham which to learn from again what ann louise would come to work here for the 2nd. we had problems with our accommodation. i would the done up 2nd book. levy is 2nd buckley look at. first of all we had conventional accommodations and alberta, her pavilion, which was unsuitable for the hot weather or the cold. secondly, dark boys. 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 sheets. the dark color on the walls absorbs the heat. when the wind comes through these areas, or believe the compulsive fun 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. but i from the masula, good. in the, in oh the, and gives extra thermal comfort to those living in the rooms or using the facility . so for a long spelling temperatures in 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. well, hot water is of 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 recon save the water up to 60 percent and recon sip, a lot of materials or what are the above the improvement of the indoor environmental quality. and the old board in vitamin 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 benefit 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 up 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 glean 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 and do be sure to tune in again and next time i am thunder tween audio signing up from capella. here in uganda. see you next week,

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