ah, it's waters connects people of many cultures. seen it almost rock enter far into kareem drift along with exploring modern lifestyles and mediterranean youth. where has history left its traces meeting people hearing their dreams. a mediterranean journey in tenant starts august 14th on the w. oh hello and welcome to africa, the environment magazine corporate used by mtv in uganda channels t v in nigeria and dw in germany. i am sandra tree. nobody and with me today as

always is michael present a crease. hey chris, how are you today? just fine, sandra, thank you so very much on the one. welcome to all our viewers out there. we have a lot in store for you on today's program. so let's take a quick look at what we have coming up in. i, jerry, i will meet a young activist campaign in for the environment. any rhonda will learn how to felicia, from land can be restored. according to a recent you and report climate change is having a growing impact on the african continent. heating the most vulnerable of the hottest science base climate information can help build resilience, a cornerstone of climate change adaptation. what enables people in the villages and communities to understand what climate changes and at the same time to do something about it. the gambia environmental monitoring system science project in west africa

is also tried to involve the local population in the process with one way to increase every change as carefully noted m u h week cardiac to clarity and, and to see not david davis collect environmental data from the aquatic on terrestrial echo systems in 6 locations along the gambia river right now and record in the parameters we have here, which is their temperature humidity, the wind speed, the wind chill, the air pressure, altitude, do point, and of in direction. the effects of climate change are causing hardship for many who lived near the river. for centuries, they help subsisted on small scale fishing and farming man groups, which will to salt out of the water made that possible,

but duty to rise and sea level and extensive droughts. the revised salt content got so high, it's killed many cheese. that's been disastrous for famous like fat to mutter barrow ha, car or data. we used to harvest rice here down, but now the yield is low am will went among gross, we're healthy, big nowhere, no problem. so wondering why they are now dead. and our crops are not doing well when they, when enrolled on it. not a lot of research has been done on bio diversity, india environments in the gum. yeah. so that makes predict the impact climate change might have on local ecosystems more difficult. that inspired 10 young scientists to launch the gems initiative. yes is alex learning program, the environmental measurement systems project, and it is a research project whereby we're collecting environmental data along the river. gamez understand this is not an yellow fluctuations happening. but what's away is

almost 1200 kilometers long. so the institute to rely on the support of community based groups and locals like c double a journalist by trade double works as a citizen scientist, 20 kilometers from the capital bank jewel. my role as it citizen and the other collector is to collect data and then send to them every week and also to in some students along with me to also be gone, know how to collect data i decide to participate in this program because if you look at this area, you will see that it's already dead. here in the lower river division, the die back is extensive. mangrove stamps thought an otherwise empty landscape. live in the coastline exposed. it's no longer possible to maintain fills through title irrigation from the river. the loss of the mangroves also means a loss of habitat and beating ground for fish and other aquatic life. the fresh

water fish have moved further upstream with the help of international n g use and volunteers. and so mana double pops to restore the mongol forest. but with a different, more robust variety thanks for the did as required. regressing should re, i been able to know the salinity level of, of the water and secondary. i've been able to identify a dispute this of mangrove re half within our echo system. they observe a lot of sort a lag before wendy. i was not 3 sort in tucson is that we're now housed among. those are sort of tolerable the absolve or lot or so that has made a decrease in salinity level. returned the woman rising for too much a barrel, who has been gwyn rice here for 20 years. halston newly planted red mangroves will

give her crops a fighting chance. jo. well, we thank god, what a new man gross along the river. asked a grueling less salt. we'll get through coney island while wound since august 2021 more than 850000 mongrels having planted in the gum down river delta in order to conserve the eco system. the symbiosis of scientific knowledge and local engagement is barren fruit. why do we actually need climate activist? what can they do better van politicians and scientist for one thing, they speak for the our own generation. our generation that has to cope with the world will leave them, but more importantly, the money to motivate other young people. and my compatriots, adena k or ludvigsen says, but what lies the head offers in terms of environmental protection. cannot be done

by the few echo africa visited her. oh my name is al i the sardine k. i'm an equal feminist climate, justice activist, and an equal reporter using a video blog as her fighting to orlando. so i didn't care is one of africa's most vocal environmental activists having studied agriculture. the 27 year old has always had a love for the environments, but it was after meeting great. i tune berg at the 2019 cop conference in madrid, that she was inspired to take further action. standing alone, she sat at the friday for future movement inland. jerry, all was the one is to have climbed justice is where we are going. the might as the most, irrespective of the call to where we have from all the oh i read. we are all

in the same the one year into protesting every friday and giving talks, allowed us to realize that there was a lack of knowledge about climate change on the continent. so she started her own pan african climate just this movement. and website where she writes about how africa specifically, is affected, just like the classes between the for my son, it's min to survival issue for full resource calling to the strength they had. and every other crisis up. and then within africa i goes on hot. let people get in this turn that we have a problem in our society. we need to solve this problem right now. as an echo feminists, orlando, sue's work also focuses on how environmental rights are connected with women's rights. she regularly visits female farmers to teach them how to care for their

environment and adapt bitter to the changes. her greatest passion is inspiring children and getting them involved in climate activism. life at schools, she teaches about recycling and planting trees at valley santo i and i know the importance of platinum of trees i lecture is bernie. to stop cutting down g iron plant food. see when i go about plant trees in my house for me to stop arrows for allowed to su climate education is the only way to secure their future in thickets, to call it they'll be in this family that there will be the one at the forefront of the climate and justice movements, we advocate feeling deb different perspective, orlando, so beneath that everyone, regardless of age can and should do something to protect a planet. oh,

good. so why not stop right now? climate change is needed to set the necessary changes in motion. only a combination of all of them can slow down the increase in global temperature bit by bit. but crease even if we stoped and meet in greenhouse gases to day. the rise in global temperatures would only begin to flatten after a few years. there is a time long between what we do and when we feel the results. this is why it is i jumps up now and why other plan is a walking the new mobility concept that can be implemented quickly and sustainably . this animation shows what the host clots in hamburg would look like if all the cars and traffic signs were gone. making room for trees and graph. it could be a square paradise for cyclists and pedestrians. but it actually looks like this,

much to the displeasure of hamburg graphic designer, yan kaminsky. he would like to see fundamental changes, which is why he began making animations of how he believed streets should be been on from that point. so again, the project got started with the beginning of the coven pandemic mer to mission. i looked around and thought of, i don't want to just sit and wait for the changes we need, like i want to contribute. read august i. and as a visual designer, i can change urban spaces up or before and on. yon kaminsky thinks great streets and dreary squares should be transformed around the world for at least in animations to start like here in new york city. and in belgium's capital, brussels and germany's capital berlin, the graphic designer, launched social media accounts under the name utopia for bicyclist. as paul may up

transfers, father, we need more space for bikes and more bicycles so that their genius can take effect . for some toggle, they are low emissions, the some i didn't take up little space compared to other modes of transportation plots and fog light and can be used for many things on us as fuse audio ions at spot. young kaminsky fission is already reality in terms neighbor, the netherlands, for example, in the countries port largest city attract where a $125000.00 people cycle daily, whatever the whether that's more than a 3rd of the city's population. communication expert chris franklin works for the dutch cycling empathy, a network that advocates for greater use, a bicycle he spent much of his time on the bradenberg, the most heavily traveled bicycle path in the netherlands. a good 33000 by craters

used it every day. but before it used to be a multi lane road with heavy traffic, like the one found in all cities. unfortunately, a lot of cities cycling is still just for the fit and the brave and the really risks taller and people that are willing to rub shoulders with motor vehicles. but that's not the vast majority of people that live in that city. they want to be able to tune out and just enjoy their commute. and when you provide safe 2nd separated space for cycling, you're going to track more of those, those casual users. a lot of women, a lot of children, a lot of the elderly people with physical disabilities. in 2019 the world's biggest parking garage for both cars opened and tracked, displays tell cyclists if any spaces are freed up to 12500 bike riders can park here. right next to the main station. chris brantley says the garage is another reason why the netherlands can be described as bike friendly. in fact,

the country has become known for its bike friendly and to please his solutions such as the darcy shippers bridge which passes over the roof of his school and connects to neighborhoods for many new tract cycling. it's more convenient than shore is just so much more convenient to travel around the city on a bike and so much quicker and more. fund hamburg is still far from being cyclists, paradise. but young minsky hopes to at least bring attention to urban mobility question nearly till the father of africa is a working population are employed in farming. so the 5th, as economic importers can't be overstated. it also provides food for millions of fundies, of course. but climate change pauses a growing threat to agriculture, drought streak and soil that has been leached or it's nutrients cannot produce a decent harvest. so how can food security be maintained?

here is one answer from render. coaxing a decent harvest out of the soil is tough here and the mountainous chicken b district of north and rwanda. eugene hi. dina manor and his wife worked from dan till dusk. their field are on steep slopes, so when it rains, the water flushes the soil down into the valley. if things don't change the farm of fears, his family could face starvation. since this is their sole source of income, the only thing he thought you look at these bananas liked watching and we used to harvest banana bunches weighing over 50 kilos insulation. so looking at this one, you can see we have a problem. you can them a situation made less by climate change. heavy rainfall alternating with extreme dry period has rendered entire slopes baron, meaning then along

a suitable for forming your mother. it's difficult to farm in these mountainous areas with such excessive rainfall. if it causes land, crops, and fields to be frequently washed away, not to mention the loss of life among local people. no, no. under these conditions, farmers cannot hope to produce harvests without a sustainable solution to all these problems that she knew you wouldn't it. this is where the green to can be. program comes in agriculture experts, visit farmers to show them how to respond to the changing weather conditions and how to protect their soil soon. this it's hope the project will benefit are on half a 1000000 people that cross the 800 square kilometers that the jacoby district covers. it has the budget of nearly 30000000 euros and it's funded by the u. n's green climate fund. with no time to waste everyone pitches in to put the expert insights into practice tools or hunger, learning the end up with

a it increases our awareness of climate change and how to adapt our farming methods to thomas. we taught how to restore our abandoned learning, how to fight erosion during the rainy season, and how to store rainwater for irrigation during the dry season. yamazik to let you know it's very useful up. mm hm. one key is the build terraces on the slopes. this allows more rainfall to seep into the soil and slows down the water flow into the valley. plus the terraces the easier to plant crops on or is until trolls also been created to slow down and divert fast flowing run off water. that water can then be collected and stored in underground tanks to be used later. fabrication, there are the thought that us is, has a double impact, has impact to reduce the soil erosion daughter tain, in the side,

contribute to doctor the productivity. and the also the physician, a applicant, all different sizes going where do to did establish those benches terraces out on the terraces. the farmers also plant additional trees. their roots will over time protect the soil from erosion while their leaves will provide shade during dry season. for the soul, steam, mice for longer, mays, beans and potatoes go far better, and the farmer's can improve their yields many tracts of land. they used to lie fallow and now flourishing again. the variety of vegetables leading to improve nutrition amongst the local population. in salisbury cover, the harvest that we're expecting this season is a miracle for me. for this land was no longer usable. but since the arrival of

green to cumby climate change is no longer stopping us from growing crops, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha! just look at what we have in these fields shown in the further boost to the farmer's livelihood. new t plantations are being used up on that land that had long ceased to be fertile. and there are more wide years in the pipeline. we can recommend any area in the throb which is appropriate, appropriate for protein before it's free. appropriate for such a for a 3 appropriate for conservation and look across the valley and beyond reveals the dividends of the green to can be project. the arid brown of depleted slopes is gradually disappearing, replaced by lush greenery and farm land. with some depend on healthy soil. others depend on an intern marine ecosystem,

but there is only a limited amount of fish in our oceans. and those resources are being depleted quickly. does right sandra, according to the w. w. f says tomatti over fishing, an illegal fission of valuable fish stalks is to blame for the destruction of many marin echo systems. with the help of digital technology, a project on south africa's cape wants to end the suffering of local fishermen there. 5 30 in the morning at the port of cape town, while most of the city still sleeves skipper jeffrey fraser and his crew prepared to put out to see the 10 member crew are going, handling fishing for kate green. they're hoping for a good catch today. they did this with also the patience of whiskey. if you ever have a good skip but you can get loving there might be some truth in that, but it's

a little fishy to lay all the blame on the skipper. conditions for art isn't all commercial fishing on the cape, have grown tougher over the years. possibly climate change over fishing of the basic change of current plenty reasons i can give you they also struggle with fishing quotas and market access. jeffrey fraser wants to improve conditions for his crew and has found the solution in the upper lobby app up a lobby, which means someone who fishes in a local language connect small sell fishes directly with consumers. daniel smith helped found the act and the n g o of the same name, which began as a university of cape town research project in 2017 karen from africa under on the world's small scale fishes have been excluded and struggle for access to market

a below be came about recognizing that there was the need and there's an opportunity to then connect these small scale fishes digitally to markets and for them to be able to access and, and own their own data. in practice, this means jeffrey fraser and his crew consolidate. daily cats to restaurants, private directly through the upper lower be cutting out the middleman level of is quite good, but that we know what we going for and what we catch in, in the price is much greater than we get from the local buyers. so for us, it's a big deal room in the reggie shang says, middleman only pay fish is roughly a euro kilo fouquet. bring worth on of a low be the crew can next over 3 times faster. that means they can generate the same revenue with a smaller catch up a little b as finance,

through donations and outside funding. the n t o. behind the app helps the fishes with infrastructure and logistics catches go by refrigerated truck to decentralized refridgerated storage facilities. short holes help reduce the carbon footprint of a little bit employee. hon goliath confirms the ways of the catch. he comes from a fishing family and wants to help his community. i'm sure, and i want to remain the future. so he respect or what part of fishing i do, i think for is the only time accepting the fishing in the city. what i will do is to just assist us with the process between after we get to the fish in the end consumer, which is a challenge for generations. and that's exactly what happens the catches from geoffrey phrases, boat and other absolutely,

fishes go online and become available to customers on the apps market place. page chef neal swat is co owner of the restaurant in cape town. he is one of over 400 ships and 8000 private customers registered as buyers on upper luby. last night, the ship placed an order on the this morning hung alive, delivers it 5 killers of cape breed. the proof is in the pudding or the fish fish for that matter, like the, the quality of the fish we got is just something we haven't worked with before with the apps, q r code, the restaurant. and his guests can trace exactly where a fish comes from. the fishes name, the species, and where it was coped with jeffrey, i love knowing where the money is going. so i love knowing that the money is going to the fisherman and not some massive companies just amusing the sea.

and the customers also enjoy hearing that the money they've been there by us goes directly to the fisherman. and we can see exactly how much like it since it's debut . applebee has put more than 500000 euros directly into the pockets of struggling fishes. similar projects are already up and running in other countries, all aimed at preserving fish stocks and ensuring local fish as get a living wage. arming ourselves against climate change and its consequences as well as gain in new knowledge to educate local populations and apply new ideas and methods. i hope visitation of the show convinced you how important karen for environment is for now. good. by for me personally, amps in lagos, nigeria, we hope you enjoyed a great mix of topics coming through from africa and europe. and of course we look forward to causing your company once again. next week. i am sandra,

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