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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 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 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 small as breathing population of large c 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, and it a spot that ye yes, goals, world heritage list. but it has another crucial role as south africa. last remaining nesting sight 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 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 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 the threats such as fisheries, or whether she ends up an apartment from ocean, which is got 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 drown. 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 debating 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 mahogany mal luly explains how this also benefits the local communities. marvin planned by protect to the turtles, their nest and hatchlings, the tories. we'll keep coming to see them grow richer. 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 above 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 it is extremely migratory. our sponsibility national government is to coordinate the efforts that work to what 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 farting, nesting or migration,

but also to assist our regional partners and 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, there they are 65000000 years old and they've been doing this ritual ever since. and the reality is that they are so or now they are critically endangered species. so my hope for them is to 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 guest. and he still 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 lying. they also travel great distances off shore suture tubes 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 polls. dancer really is amazing, we humans may not manage quite so much over the course of a 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 r t into the activism. this group of environmental activists has a long road ahead of them. they plan to walk 142 kilometers across in broadway 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 plant trees and share information along the way.

we go different places. there places in that not she's and to me to re teach people . if we go, we've lunches, if we go as well, these keys are our future, we need them. she, the 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 best, tell us about it. visit our website, or send us a tweet. patch tag doing your bit. we

share your stories. just hearing about the long walks gives me the arch it to have a capital t and perhaps a something sweet to go. we late 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 creates pastries with an unconventional filling loot, of example on to, to devise climate frenzy treats. so he's using algae as an ingredient in japan. the aquatic plant is 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, on the spectrum programs and again, 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 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 algy products helps the environment of

a claim on woodson in the back portal to this. pastry chef loot of example on 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 top 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 nation of pot may be exciting for their tourists bond to. the farmers tend to view them as a threat to their livelihood. often for good reason, sandra, but not all wide live behaved the same way. conservationist an amoeba. i'll try 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. wine 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 cargo van who can do nothing about it. but if, if i must come of lindsey, we are killing though we are being reno owens, an assembly with felicity. 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 put 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 dinner, this a lot of social going on days, a lot of time spent with a cups playing with cups grooming the cuffs, fairville he discovered a network of dens off the coast, where packs of sand, wolves gather to social eyes and share their catch. blue 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. but

their reputation as predators means they're mercilessly hunted. oh oh be. but we could have poison food, lions for liquor to cheat us. and in the hyena suite b by catch of that, just people are afraid of fighting. i said 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 chase them with goss 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 life stock to predators. today did the

dental plays a family of the internet and wait. it last week went to lions, june 6th received gold, tin ship deal. going to farmer in laguna 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. when to our goal, the wild animals from the desert, the lions, the elephants cost us a lot of problems. we'll get graded. our quits our quan t. it's getting well we don't gain anything from having wild animals here. they bring us nothing, no more hoard more. ah, he went to a hole in our livestock, our, our income, how we earn our living, the whole drug at our ho 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. to a more aggressive species, lou liquid come a gun. 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 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, 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 level. despite the problems they cause the farmers still want

to protect the animals on your boat. like oh, you know that didn't things have changed to programming in on my younger she yet back in the day. if a hyena took one of your animals out, you hunted it 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? well, 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 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 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 arranger 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 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, as temperature rises, it's becoming even more crucial to find ways of keeping cool without putting unable britta 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 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. ah. we have explained strength injured, we are facing livelihoods that are being affected. why are there? nope, in buildings in egypt. and if there are, while there, so few i really believe that if you tap into the indigenous knowledge, new will get the benefit over at of an existing technology that you didn't even

realize was there. it's this knowledge that cairo architect, sada 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 buildings 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. far manager ought of as asi says, that many workers quit due to the unbearable living conditions. dental, i'm gonna give you my law firm which stolen from wicker louise would come to work here for the 2nd. we had problems with our accommodation. old, the gun ups like m gleaton is stuck on it, buckley the mac. at 1st we had conventional accommodation and it read her pavilion, which was unsuitable for the hot weather or the cold. secondly, dark boys. the company was looking for sustainable solutions and asked sata albert, today's company to design new accommodation options with natural cooling for 140

workers. the architects examined the air passage 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. shaving the dark color on the walls absorbs the heat. when the wind comes through these areas, or believe the impossible for oh that and the walls are insulated, found in the go go hot become a little by them. this combination helps cool the air flow. but i can the masula good in the in hello or the, and gives extra thermal comfort to those living in the rooms or using the facilities. so for the methodology, the longest 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. all hot water is obtained from solar water heaters. the project has been awarded the golden pyramid eco label. the government commissioned 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 we consume a lot of materials over on the above the improvement of the indoor environmental 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 on 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 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 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. a good. a for with

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