ah, yes, to be radical said so radical me go back to the room. he is the son of jewish holocaust survivors. lucky that i was able to bill to just present berlin is architecture, is a celebration of democracy and one building. the biggest thing in the world is the spirit of freedom and architect of emotions. his head starts december 25th on d w. ah, with 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 echo africa. i have 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. twin of you, 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 healthy and how a water management program is stuck in the effects of drugs. in london. we start at the shore writer in uganda, which is home to an abundance of wide life, from convenience, aren't of bunches to cheaters. and of course, a famous mountain guerrillas by the won't being of many of these animal populations

depends on the tireless efforts of people who have dedicated their lives to protecting them, like legal wildlife authorities, head of law enforcement. margaret costume by miss how crucial motivation is for her and her team of ranges working for the weekend or whatnot for authority. this is a real moment of relax issue. they frequently put their lives on the line in order to protect the countries wide life. margaret cassandra, is that the vanguard of the fight against butcher's? and you can, does 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 amend porchie. 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 buck up to over $5000.00 animals funks to the range of stylus efforts and dedication. but the fight is not over. in 2019, the authorities, their record amount of ivory. we gain a total of over 3 tons of tasks a whole that costs the lives of over $350.00 elephants at the hands of poachers. on average, every year we persecute a boat for 100 suspect involved in the french offensive, including who had left trafficking, poaching, illegal entry into the park, and others the ranges of to keep pressure and poachers by maintaining umd mucho's

across the national parks. you can, the has an ambitious goal to re introduce a herd of white trainers to the wild. 40 as of to purchase, wiped them out. the sea was sanctuary in censure. uganda is the proud home of the only wild. so them white trainers in the country. the $33.00 animals, i get it by ranges around the clock. we have increased our force in numbers and we're still increasing. we have people who are trading right now near her 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 mechanism. our discussions units has acquired equipment to detect. we left crime unintelligence, they cannot detect and to prevent it's also vital. she says that the poachers 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. the criminals know what is coming for them. if we happen to get them, you're going to now has a special court dedicated to cases involving poachers and a legal trafficking of protected animals and animal products and punishments. a severe, just recently an ivory trigger was given a life sentence. for me, that is, if he got you me, because all of us as a child contributed to that we have a court which was designated to handle wildlife related cases that even a big achievement for me. professor lou use it to grapple,

competing with other cases in court, other very important cases of mud up phrases or whatever. you can imagine a treason case competing with the way life case. which one be given priority to be had? margaret customer sees that she and her colleagues from the one for 30, i know big listen 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 i've seen the 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 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 france on yes, she's the executive secretary of the un convention on biological diversity. and how

to repeat your point adult to via dave us, the laws on economies, on societies, over 50 percent of the global economy, all depends on in talk ecosystem for africa. thought done. we talked recently ah, may be, what is that own in the sense that the 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. what are we drink there? sequestration of carbon but this foundation is under threat, says elizabeth remo she's hoping for a paras 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 main events is reached unprecedented level in the history of humankind. 75 percent of the land globally is degraded. 66 percent of the 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 there is act of human action. the effects of climate change can now be seen in floods, drought, forest fires, and heat waves. disasters. the rema says are the main driver of biodiversity loss

for many years. they will head focused on climate change and focused on climate change completely independent from the loss of my and i 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, indicated that 75 percent of all imaging infectious disease as in humans. as though not dick in nature. zonati in the sense that they are closely connected or linked with the health of the ecosystem in 97 percent of the loss of biodiversity that is caused by human beings, our actions and you've called it named in has not taught us a lesson because we're also species, if we are not car carefully,

we will live all perished with their poverty. 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 the late so it is now in 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. thus, right, sondra in france, for example. owens, come on, fish is disappear in due to human activities. now it's getting help from a local business. king 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 reach and 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 . with 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 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're 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 tweet. past ag doing your bit. we share your stories. all next, reports also comes from europe pastime gemini. but it's also concerns the awning tended side effect of upsetting the balance of naturally occurring processes.

earth warms, which are found almost everywhere in the world, i integral to agriculture. and therefore he says, sure to ask a bible. our school in berlin is making sure students understand the importance of these humboldt and often overlooked creature. a special lesson is getting underway at this bell 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 actually. yeah. ribbon, as of right wiggly 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 has 1st i thought they're probably really boring and stupid. they're probably like a snail really slow, but now i find

a really cool coin position as anxious counselors. i find them really funny because, for example, when they were in your hand, some move really quickly and others slowly to 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 and syrup, the vital for soil and plants help wednesday rate and make our plants don't go without them. birds wouldn't have anything to eat kind of football school . i'm not home class teacher. paula lisa has handed out work sheets about the nutrients cycle, and she explains howard worms, eat up dead plants and animals and convert them into theses called casts, which are rich and the nutrients that plants need to thrive. glitter hopes her pupils will learn to appreciate the tiny creatures and i design improve them. 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 this research facility near the german city of halla find just a 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 crop land 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 loss, the page value of the soil 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 earth when numbers across all lunges types. i now we haven't found very many years one very, very small one phone 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, righty a 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 cobo voted, 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 checkout. and you can see they gave me the drugs union, so i am very happy for them. 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 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 familiar. so pupils of another healthcare whether they have cash on it or half cash, that when they come,

bring it recycling. the system is pretty straightforward. people with no money, collect recyclable waste. file kilograms of plastic cont, anew 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 picking trends. i love it. that is our friends. and i big in the hotel at banks in the back of our longest streets, the meg, the street in i have one island new 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 fossil care finances. the insurance company has around 7 and a half 1000 customers, but in the next 5 years, it's 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

change public behavior under cyclic, as well as public behavior i'm viewed entrust on the shots burden. 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 say, shot 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 her on a cook. it's difficult to find water in this area. don't. we aren't in 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 ramos 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, empty gallop. these growing gland sun about the situation. it effects of good st. towards that is that a prolonged drugs pool dro space or drives up the reverse drove up to where it

is drove up to the springs that were there. and in that one becomes 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 a probably 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 on out the conditions. a team of experts examines destroying here income, gay, or in eastern run, that they need to decide on that out. bless. carbohol's not everywhere has what the available for you don't like the way that double area is the lot right now we had room. we are 150 because there are the order of of most of the dresser.

i got another meter. georgie, lot little the daughter buddy. this time the team is lucky and finds groundwater local residence and no solid there. what is about what i will be over. once the ball is ready, it will sum up to 500 families and as sent 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, i meant to call myself of the capital here, and you will is already in use solar panels. the power, the pump,

a saving money and easing the bad in on the environment. when a new ball is deb alicia dental received instructions on how to maintain it, as well as on 7 water groundwater results and not endless. render 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 serving club in ga komatt. i'm a foot and we had he had within his law, we can get a good idea of of the queen we are, we must protect this site howls here we'll go on that firstly and every one is responsible for protecting it was crucial with what we, 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 in the ground. mid to late . this of 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 inputs

and streams article. there's a remarkable change in the health of our animals have he, they can drink the water at any time more hold and they put on weight, which is really nice. living wilson is the you and sees only 57 percent of one. does a rural 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? rights 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. please see you next week and that

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