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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 per rums 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 wanting 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 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 fitting name for this wetland park in south africa. it's rich biodiversity under the spotted unesco world heretic 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 needed 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 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. wrapped out can way 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 an apartment for 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 drown. another problem as plastic waste see turtles feed on crabs, alkie and jellyfish, and plastic bags and floating macro plastic. look a lot like food. once ingested, the plastic can rupture. organs are cause blockage resulting is daveille sion in order to protect the leather back seat turtles on land authorities. also a boy turtle monitors from the local community. they patrol the beaches during nest in season mark the nests and measure the turtles. when gannon 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 much of our point would be. 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 coast. far more accurately, the data indicates that the turtles cover distances of up to 7000 kilometers, traveling as far north, a central angola which makes protected them even more challenging. as it 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 scientists 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 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 lying. they also travel great distances off shore suits her toes half powerful from slippers 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 current. 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 a year. bond for the right reason. we can go pretty far and at,

for next report we've got t as in baldwin, where a group of people prove that they know how to put a lot of tea into the activism. 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 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 places, if they're not, she's intuitive. we teach people. if we go we've lunches, if been cool and for all these keys are our future, we need them. she's. i like the walkers have finally reached their destination. but that's just one reason to celebrate the activists man 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 best, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweet. past ag doing your bit. we

share your stories. just hearing about the long walks gives me the i'd 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 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 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 plant is commonly used in snacks or served with fish. so how of 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 the whole not. but thanks to our social media posts what more people started trying it up and realized it was pretty nice of us when they found out it didn't taste like bish but quite nutty evans. good, it stop being a problem and then she knew quite the opposite. in fact. busy on 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 was idly valgy is the new super food because it absorbs c o 2 while growing early 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 big prima woodson in the portal to this. pastry chef ludovic jack black, now has

a whole range of different snacks made from algae. and in many cases, they're 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 the tourists bonnet. 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 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 were killing or roach, is always a cut over and we can do nothing about it. but even if i must come of lindsey, we are killing no real big 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 is 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 boy, nice quiz 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 singer i enough out they but when they back at the dean when they are and cups at the been there is a lot of social going on these a lot of time spent with the cups playing with the 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 dens . 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 we could have poison full lions full like that said she does. and in the hyenas would be by catch of that, just people are afraid of i and i. so 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 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. that is the dental place. it i'm

a you caught the ear canal to reach it last week went to light duty cruces goals. 8 and sheep deal going to firmer in my little korea as a result of the lion attack gallery. 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 go to the wild animals from the desert, the lions, the elephants, consis, a lot of problems. we'll get graded are quits, are one t, it's getting well, we don't gained 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 that our whole 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, globally, 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. 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 level. despite the problems they cause the farmers still want

to protect the animals about like, oh, you know that didn't things have changed to program been i'm a younger she had to back in the day. if i even took one of your animals out, you 100 and down and killed it all, been 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 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 when whoa, whoa. farmers have agreed on limiting livestock so that both wild and farm animals can coexist. since animal 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. 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. ah, 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 m. o. 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. ah, we have explained the strength in egypt. we are facing livelihoods that are being affected. why are there no 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 of an,

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 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 body oasis. farm

workers are busy weeding a camel mile field. they worked for a large organic tea and her company. in the summer temperatures here frequently soar 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, give a young man awesome, which to learn from again, louise would come to work here for the 2nd. we had problems with our accommodation . lowered the gun of silicon, but gleaton is stuck on it. buckley look at 1st, we had conventional accommodation and it read her pavilion, which was unsuitable for the hot weather or the cold. like a me duck voice. 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 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. she the, the dark color on the walls, absorbs the heat. when the wind comes through these areas, or believe the compulsive shuttle, but oh that and the walls are insulated in the go go, hot become a little by them. this combination helps cool the air flow. obadiah masula good. in the in hello or the and gives extra thermal comfort to those living in the rooms or using the facilities. wilfred, methodological almost done with the 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 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 i would bought environment that quantity. the inspiration comes from traditional homes found and 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 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, aren't due, be sure to tune in again next time. i and sandra to nobody you signing up from compiler. here in uganda. see you next week,

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