would be that small, i never would have gone on the trail. i would not have put myself and my paris in that danger. you caught in the middle for that he was lead, who love on central hudson, one the liberty and the give them i had a serious problems on a personal level and i was unable to live there, but it went to go to that you want to know their story info, migrant clarified and reliable information for my grants ah, where would we be without biodiversity? probably extinct without bio diversity, the entire support system for all living things would completely collapse. that's

why we must do all we can to protect hits. welcome to a co 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 sandra to william and here is what else we have coming up. home. plastic trash is helping people get healthcare in nigeria. how hungry our forms are ensuring closing costs and how a water 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. if also 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 porches, we have, i'm a poaching. sometimes people come in and to to go to the and was that they want.

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 back up to over 5000 animals. thanks to the range, a stylish efforts and dedication. but a fight is not over. in 2019, the authorities, their record amount of ivory. we gain attitudes 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 thing involved in the french offensive, including who had left trafficking, poaching, illegal entry into the park, and others. the ranges off to keep pressure and poachers by maintaining umd mucho's

across the national parks. you going to has an ambitious goal to re introduce a herd of white trainers to the wired. 40 as of to purchase, wiped them out. the sea was sanctuary in censure. uganda is the proud home of the only wilds. so them white trainers in the country. the $33.00 animals, i get it by ranges around the clock. we have increased our foot in numbers and we're still increasing. we have people who are trading right now near to 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. our 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 breeders face, at least as they commit offenses. the criminals know what is coming for them. if we happen to get them, you're going to know has a special court dedicated to cases involving poachers and a legal trafficking of protected animals and animal products. and the punishments a severe until just recently an ivory trigger was given a life sentence. for me, that'd be gave me because all of us as a chain contributed to that we have a court which was designated to handle wildlife related cases that have it a big achievement for me, professor will use it to grapple competing with other cases in court. other very

important cases of mud freezes or whatever. you can imagine a treason case, competing with a wildlife case, which one will be given proto to be had. margaret customer sees that she and her colleagues from the wife authority, i know 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 cindy elephant population gradually recovering. at the same time, there's also been a slight increase in the number of endangered mountain gorillas. my brit costume is now looking forward to the endangered white train. no, sir, no sir, reappearing where it belongs. but kinda wired from one strong woman to the next from my good cause. so bar elizabeth was born in france on yes, she is the executive secretary of the un convention on biological diversity and how

to repeatedly pointed onto the impact of biodiversity laws on economies. on societies over 50 percent of global economic output depends on in talk ecosystem for africa, thought done because recently, ah, made it in the b would do that own in the sense that this is the foundation of life is foundation because our life is dependent on biodiversity we depend on my vest there for the food we eat there. why don't we drink the sequestration of cub on 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 may divest is reached unprecedented level in the history of humankind. 75 percent of the land globally, the degraded 66 percent of their marine environment is degraded. 8 to 5 percent of white lands degraded or disappeared. 50 percent of koreans 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 the loss of my 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 a 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 under reports that were indicated that 75 percent of all imaging infectious disease as in humans, as though not deep in nature. though. now, 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 david's. that is caused by human beings, our actions and you've called it named in has not taught us a less because we're also species. if we are not car carefully,

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 act now, not if he's tomorrow, the tipping points will live reached. we are in a late settings now and today. 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 does right sondra in france for example. owens, come on, fish is disappearing 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 droughts, 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, their transfer 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 bit, tell us about it, visit our website, or send us a tweet. 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 found almost everywhere in the world. i integral to agriculture and therefore essential to our so bible. our school in berlin is making sure it's 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 ribbon as well. right. wrigley and slimy earthworms aren't the type of animals humans typically enjoy getting close to. but these children know it's worth taking a closer look. to as that list is in has 1st i thought they probably really boring and stupid. they're probably like a snail really slow,

but now i find that really cool. this is our quick as ition 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 plants. how much wednesday rate make her plants don't go back without them. birds wouldn't have anything to eat. kind of football school. i love teacher paula. this has handed out work sheets about the nutrients cycle is 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 more livable environment. in 1st, at this research facility near the german city of haller, scientists of studying the damage done by modern day intensive farming practices over sprawling area. they're looking at how social 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 us. well, numbers across all lungess types. by now, we have some very many. yes. 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, and 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 are and that, and taylor high diversity that have many different grasses, many different tabs, different leg you 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 woodall 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 startup called social care. i did not come with a cobol budget and 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 check up. and you can see they gave me the drugs union, so i am very happy for them. well, social care has been around since the end of 2019. it was founded by non so upper room that he was troubled by the widespread 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 how can we use one problem which is blasting w the environment to solve the problem which is asked frontier okay. then we could, this is okay. i said we're formulas or pupils of another healthcare, whether they have cash on it or half cash. that way they can bring it. recycling

the system is pretty straightforward. people with no money, collect recyclable waste. file kilograms of plastic. can anew health insurance for a month? one car butree, we get to a years cover. and what has gotten around about this kim, when they introduce the assess to me, i speaking truth, i 5 intel is our friends. and i big and the hotel at banks in the back. i long the street the make the street in i have on i linear school broke and as they brought i measured, i bid them also, they don't to hospital me. i think in my gut battle, i've been taught bits of the collected worst is sold to recycling companies. that's how fossil care finances. the insurance company has around 7 and a half 1000 customers, but in the next 5 years, non 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

chin to public behavior under cyclic, as well as public behavior. i'm viewed entrust on the shots burden. in any case, jerome, good toll 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. a learning how to use our limited resources more efficiently, will make our problems worse. so shall crease. just consider water which is essential 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 position for people here to access enough water for themselves and their lifestyle. and the precious little that's available is not clean. yeah, marcia hung out to him or not, it's difficult to find water in this area. 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 draco. i wonder has been had hit by climate change while it would be did heavy rainfalls in some parts is causing it. ocean the south and east of the country are suffering from drought into gallop. these growing on sun about the situation, it effects of good shade towards that is that the prolonged draughts barone, dro space,

dead drives up that he was drove up to where he drove up to the springs that were on that one comes a she children's, 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 is to well, every 100 meters to so and out the conditions. a team of experts examines destroying here income gale in east and run that they need to decide and that out. blessed carbohol's. not everywhere has water available. food on the board though that double area is the lot right now we are really we are 150 meters there

for the order. devote most of the 1st of all, he bought another nico georgia. not little that your the budgets with this time the tim is lucky and fans groundwater local residence and north solid there. what is about what i will be over. once the ball is ready, it will sum up to $500.00 families and it's saved 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 but to the core my south of the capital here and you will is it eddie in use solar panels, the power, the pump a saving money and easing the bad in on the environment. when

a new ball is that it is then to receive instructions on how to maintain it, as well as on 7 water groundwater results. and not unless you run that population is growing and the dry season are getting longer. more balls, mean more grandpa will be used as some way is shatka explains he heads up nearly formed a water saving club in gor komatt. i'm a for only our we had i'm if in love with gabriella nuclear we are, we must protect the site. how's the eval going? got that firstly and every one is responsible for protecting it is crucial 1000 what 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. it's free and we should always use it efficiently to preserve what's left in the ground. need to know if, if that would 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 hold and they put on weight, which is really nice having us on is the you and sees only 57 percent of one does around population has access to a want to supply that 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 been used efficiently? right. tell us about it. we'll look forward to receiving your comments. i'm chris alam, simon, off from oregon state nigeria. bye for now. chris. see you next week, and that goes for you of you as to in the meantime,

don't forget to chicken with us on all our social media platforms. it's been nice to have you with us today. i am sandra reno video saying good bye from counselor here in uganda scenic streak. a a ah, ah, with

who will i be harvested by rollbacks like leave in surely not with researchers all over the world are trying to see the bees. after all, is it even possible to have a world without bees?

in 15 minutes on d, w, more aside, ukraine's technology sector continues to boom, with growth of 23 percent last year alone. ah, natalie, is it alma in her company or what part of the success story? how is this even possible under conditions like these? ah, me, injury with on that he w. o a. what our sport all about in winning fighting scoring. we say

they were about never giving up the most exciting sport stories about people, their passion and their dr. sports life every weekend on d. w for they brief oh, they have body and soul. the houses that daniel lee bisk and construct for more than just building. ah, you have to be radical. that's a radical me go back to the roof. he is the son of jewish holocaust survivors. how lucky that i was able to build to just present berlin is architecture, is a celebration. democracy? 0, one building. the biggest thing in the world is this spiritual freedom and

architect motions. she starts december 25th on d w. ah, this is d w. news line from berlin with the world cup argentina at beacon felicia 3 neil in the semi finals. thanks. detecting problem of leno, messy and julian alvarez. they will face either france or morocco in the final and a 1000000000 euros for ukraine. international donors.