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why we must do all we can to protect hits. welcome to echo africa. i'm chris elapse . well, chris, your point is well taken. there is still a lot we can do to improve the situation. now that is something we'll be looking into on today's program. welcome and thank you for joining us. i am sunday twin of you and here is what else we have coming up. home. plastic trash is helping people get healthcare in nigeria. how hungry all forms are ensuring kelsey. and how of what time management program is stuck in the effects of drugs in london. we start the shore writer in uganda, which is home to an abundance of wildlife, from communions, aunt of bunches, to cheaters. and of course, a famous mountain guerrillas, by the wont being of many of the animal populations depends on the palace efforts

of people who have dedicated their lives, protecting them, like they going to wildlife authorities, head of law enforcement. margaret costume by miss how crucial motivation is for her and her team of rangers working for the going to what life authority this is a real moment of relaxation. they frequently put their lives on the line in order to protect the countries wide life. margaret cassandra is a to the vanguard of the fight against butchers in uganda. national parks had you're busy, highly dangerous one. sometimes we are confronted with people who are equally armed . blake, us like the porch us. we have. 1 amid porchie, sometimes people come in and to,

to get to the and was that they once. so we have also to be armed and, and, and ready to counter to counter what they come to do. you can this elephant population is no buck up to over 5000 animals. thanks to the range, a stylist efforts and dedication, but a fight is not over. in 2019, the authorities seized the record amount of ivory winging at a touch of over 3 tons of tasks. a whole that cost the lives of over $350.00 elephants at the hands of poachers. on average, every year we persecute a boat for hundreds of thick involved in the french offensive, including who had left trafficking, poaching, illegal entry into the park, and others the ridges of to keep pressure and poachers by maintaining armed mucho's

across the national parks. you can, the has an ambitious goal to re introduce a had of why trainers to the wired, 40 as of to purchase, wiped them out, visit sanctuary in central. uganda is the proud home of the only wilds. so them white trainers in the country. the $33.00 animals, i get it by range. as i round the clock, we have increases our foot in numbers and we're still increasing. we have people who are trading great long nearer training. they will be passing out soon. they will come to reinforce the already existing render force to protect their resources . we have also improved on our wow. oh detection mechanisms. how investigations unit has acquired equipment to detect. we left crime unintelligence, they cannot detect under prevent. it's also vital. she sees that the pushes are

coat and convicted in 2019. the government drastically increased the penalties for poaching or trading protected animals. this particular law has given us breathing space, at least as they commit offenses that criminals know what is coming for them. if we happen to get them, you going to know has a special court dedicated to cases involving poachers and a legal trafficking of protected animals and animal products and punishments a severe until just recently an ivory trader was given a life sentence. for me, that is a big issue of me because all of us as a chain contributor to that we have a court which was designated to handle wildlife related cases that even a big achievement for me, previous hello use it to grapple,

competing with other cases in court, i very important cases of mud up trees or whatever. you can imagine a treason case competing with the weight life case, which one will be given priority to be had? margaret customer sees that she and her colleagues from the wife authority and now being listened to and both the politicians and the courts know that their commitment to their crunch is wildlife has benefits for the entire country. recent years of seen, the elephant population gradually recovering. at the same time, there's also been a slight increase in the number of endangered mountain gorilla's margaret costume is now looking forward to the endangered white trainer. so no sir, reappearing where it belongs. but kinda wired from one strong woman to the next from margaret, because tomorrow elizabeth was born in from vanya. she's the executive secretary of the un convention on biological diversity on how to repeat the viewpoint, adult,

the impact of biodiversity laws on economies, on societies, over 50 percent of the global economy depends on impact equal to civil offer goes down. we talked recently ah, made it in the b would do that own in the sense that c, d is the foundation of life, is foundation because our life is dependent on biodiversity. we the bend on by their vest there for their food, we eat there. why don't we drink their sequestration of carbon? but this foundation is under threat, says elizabeth rema. she's hoping for a paris moment for the protection of biodiversity, a reference to the global climate goals agreed in paris in 2015. by the end of the

century, around a 1000000 species could be extinct. the loss of my invest is reached. 8 unprecedented level in the history of humankind. 75 percent of the land globally is degraded. 66 percent of their marine environment is degraded. 8 to 5 percent of white lands be granted or disappeared. 50 percent of glories have disappeared. and all these degradation pollution here, not even mentioning the plastic how we chalk the ocean with plastics is all as the result of human action. the effects of climate change can now be seen in floods, drought forest fires, and heat waves, disasters them. rema says, are the main driver of biodiversity loss for many years. they will head focus on

climate change, and focused on climate change completely independent from their loss of buy it a visit. but now, or in the recent years, the world has realized that you cannot deal with climate change without looking at loss of my diversity. around 50 percent of global g d p is dependent on nature. so if we don't protect bio diversity, we're putting our own livelihoods, and lives at risk, and who reports that were indicated that 75 percent of all imaging infectious disease as in humans. as though not dig in nature. though not dick, in the sense that they are closely connected or linked with the health of the ecosystem in 97 percent of the loss of bio davis. that is caused by human beings, our actions and you've called, named in has not taught us a less because we're also species. if we are not car careful,

we will live all perished with their coverage. grandma says she's frustrated to see how ecosystems have been destroyed during years of an action and slow decision making. and we need to add now, not if it's tomorrow, that tipping points will have reached we are in a late sightings now in to date. it's really shocking to see how much via diversity can be lost in just a few decades even years. the forty's almost all of us play some putting that either directly or indirectly, whether we are aware of it or not. those right sondra in france for example. i was come on fish as disappear in due to human activities. now it's getting help from a local business can to help preserve the regions fragile ecosystems ha

. now across france, it was a summer of unprecedented drought weeks with no rain. and in many places, massive forest fires animals suffered to as streams and ponds dried up that's having long term consequences for the countries waterways. in the jack's region, fishermen are concerned about the state of their local trout stocks. so they've launched a program to breed child insecure pools, where there's always enough fresh water and nets to protect the fish from predators . when the child reach a certain size, they're transferred to streams that have enough water all year round. the fish can

follow their usual migration patterns and hopefully breed in the wild. ready to see if all the ideal conditions were fulfilled for the fish to reproduce naturally in the river. we'd be delighted and we'd be the 1st to let nature have its way to fill in this year. they are releasing a ton of trout into the wild, but everyone here hopes that one day the breeding program will no longer be necessary. 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. all next, reports also comes from europe pastime gemini. but it also concerns the on intended side effect off upsetting the balance of naturally occurring processes. earth

warms which are fouled almost everywhere in the world. i integral to agriculture, and therefore says sure to ask the bible. our school and berlin is making sure students understand the importance of these humboldt and often overlooked creature . a special lesson is getting underway at this fell in primary school. and it's one where spades come in handy. this class learning about an animal, most of us rarely see that which is critical for our survival. yeah. ribbon as well. right. rigley and slimy earthworms aren't the type of animals humans typically enjoy getting close to that these children know it's worth taking a closer look to as that list is in that 1st i thought they probably really boring and stupid. they're probably like a snail really slow,

but now i find that really cool in zaccheus as issued as anxious counselors. i find them really funny because, for example, when they're on your hand, some move really quickly and others slowly and absolutely got earthworms are industrious, invertebrates they play a key role in many of the mostly unseen processes that go on in the ground beneath our feet. in places where there are native species like syrup, the vital for soil and plant wednesday re make our plant stronger as own without them. birds wouldn't have anything to eat kind of football school. i'm not home class teacher paula. this has handed out your work sheets about the nutrients cycle. it explains howard worms eat up dead plants and animals and convert them into theses called casts, which are rich in the nutrients that plants need to thrive. glitter hopes her pupils will learn to appreciate the tiny creatures in suzanne mom, in my opinion,

they should understand the big picture that everything is interconnected. and if i behave well here and mindful and respectful to living beings implants, and of course i also have a much better, more livable environment in 1st, at this research facility near the german city of haller fine, just studying the damage done by modern day intensive farming practices over spooling area, they're looking at houses, oil life says when land is managed in other ways, both in today's climate and the predicted, warmer world of the future. this cropland creates very unfair work conditions for them because it's fertilized regularly, which is what i don't like that very delicate skin. and if the hotel is ation last the page, the value of the soil gets it gets more acidic and also it's, it's a monoculture, right? so that's just one type of plan that they eat. and yet it creates a very,

very static environment. ecologist, mary's intimate is taking a coil sample to check for life. the ongoing drought in the region has pushed down as well numbers across all lungess types. i now we haven't found very many years. one very, very small one that we found for now. in recent years, the intensively farmed plots have been all but earth when free. that's a bad sign because that presence is widely seen as an indicator of soil fertility in grassland plots like this pasture that's grazed twice a year by sheep, as well as organically farmed plots, earthworm numbers a higher. so metals that and that, and taylor high diversity that have many different grasses, many different tabs, different legumes back at the school garden. the children are putting into practice exactly that. looking after the soil means looking after the earth worms and the

rest of the soil organisms that turn seats into sustenance. almost everything can be recycled. when we put our minds to it, what create an incentive for getting everyone to participate? it's important if we hope to see a real progress. well, right. j nigeria, a program has been set up that encourages people to recycle in exchange for something that's often on affordable for many medical care. at last jerome little can share his concerns with the doctor. for a long time now he has been suffering from abdominal pain. now the long awaited consultation is finally happening. like many poor nigerians, he can't really afford to see a doctor. he's never had health insurance because it was too expensive for him. he

then had of a way that he could still get insurance without paying anything. thanks to a status called social care. i did not come with a cobo but it, it's the old motor battery and the plastic waste that i donated to them today. and they gave me the form to come here and do the checkup and you can see they gave me the drugs union, so i am very happy for them. my social care has been around since the end of 2019. it was founded by non so upper room that he was troubled by the white spread plastic pollution in nigeria and was also looking for a way of giving people access to medical care. just 3 percent of nigerians have health insurance. so we did a how can we use one problem which is plastic the food environment to solve the problem, which is asked frontier. okay. then we could, this is okay. i said we're for millions of people to fernanda healthcare, whether they have cash on an or huff cash that way they can bring it. recycling the

system is pretty straightforward. people with no money, collect recyclable waste file kilograms of plastic. come on, you health insurance for a month. one car battery. we'll get to a years cover. and what has gotten around about this kim, when they introduce the assess to me, i think road 5, it is our friends. and i big andy, although i painful their back, i love the streets the make the street in i have and i live in your school broke and as they brought i measured, i bid them also they dental hospital and we are thinking my god about lobby doors bits of the collected worst is sold to recycling companies. that's how social care finances. the insurance company has around 7 and a half 1000 customers, but in the next 5 years, months. so oper room wants to offer insurance to around a 100000000 people. half of the country's population. one thing we want to do is to

change public behavior under cyclic, as well as public behavior. i'm viewed entrust on the shots, but in any case, jerome goodwill is happy that he now has a health insurance examination revealed that he has gus treaties. now he can even afford the medication. what a terrific program it can be said often enough without recycle or reuse in what we already have and learning how to use our limited resources more efficiently will make our problems worse. so shall crease. just consider water, which is, is sasha or life. but of course, africa, the rains have become unpredictable. they may come as heavy dung paws to lead on not at all up to 90 percent of households in southern london are affected by drought pushing the government to take action. it's been a long time since that is

a white glove. commer had enough water. this community just over a 100 kilometers south of land, a capital kigali is desperate for rain. it's a major punishment for people here. talks has enough water for themselves and their lifestyle. and their precious little that's available is not clean. yeah, marcia hunger turn up. it's difficult to find water in this area. me dummy underneath this water from the marsh is like gold for my animals, even though it's too dirty and the other farmers take their animals 15 kilometers from here to drill. a much wonder has been had hit by climate change while repeated heavy rainfalls in some parts is causing it. ocean the south and east of the country are suffering from drought, empty gallop. these growing grandson about the situation it effects of grim would say toward that is that the prolonged draughts barone,

dro space or drives up the reverse dress up to where they drove up to the springs that were there. and in that one comes the she chose in an effort to provide clean drinking water. during the frequent dry spells, the government has launch a comprehensive program to dig new boards the you and international find affordably . cultural development is boiling around a tin. mindy and you as dollars into the project, it's a huge undertaking. depending on whether you have mcclay, bent soil or rock, it can take a long time to heat brown water. so the engineers drill at as to will every 100 meters to so and out the conditions. a team of experts examines the soil here, inca gail, in east and run that they need to decide on the route. blessed carbohol's, not everywhere, has water available. the food on board, the water dable area is right now we are really we are $150.00 because

there are the order devil. most of the are ipad on other meters. george is not good with him. the dog about it. this time, the tim is lucky and a faint ground water local residence, no solid there wide, is about what i will be over. once the ball is ready, it will sum up to $500.00 families and it saves them a lot of time. often we leave our houses at midnight to fetch water and walk for more than 2 hours to get there. so you can understand how precious water is to us. i'm happy we have water nearby. we'll be able to drink whenever we went and wash ourselves. i thank god and that to the core, my south of the capital here. and you will, is already in use solar panels of power, the pump, a saving money,

and easing the bad in on the environment. when a new ball is done, it is then to receive instructions on how to maintain it, as well as on 7 water groundwater results and not and less random population is growing and the dry season are getting longer. more balls, mean more grandpa will be used at somewhere is shatka explains he heads up nearly formed to $1.00 to $7.00 club in gor, komatt. i'm a friend our we had here. hm. if in law we just got a yoga nuclear. we are, we must protect the site howls. you haven't got that firstly and every one is responsible for protecting it was crucial 1000. what would you know? we should protect it as i would protect our own eyes, really just secondly, but what we have to know how to use the water without wasting it is free and we should always use it efficiently to preserve what's left on the ground, need to know your fist fresh water is now available, what for the people and their livestock? in the past, many animals died because of drought or from drinking their polluted water in pools

and streams. article. there's a remarkable change in the health of our animal and huffy, they can drink the water at any time more whole. and they put on weight, which is really nice and having a lesson is the you and sees only 57 percent of one does around population, has access to a water supply that's within 30 minutes of their home, a number of new bottles and now planned but there will need to be a lot more if all residents and their lives looks at again, easy access to clean water. what's the situation like where you leave? are they effective recycling programs? is water being used efficiently? right? tell us about it. we'll look forward to receiving your comments. i am crystal m, simon, off from oregon state nigeria. bye for now, chris. see you next week and that goes for you of us 2. in the meantime,

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