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tv   Eco Africa  Deutsche Welle  December 25, 2023 7:30am-8:00am CET

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in 45 minutes on d. w. what secrets lie behind be discovered new adventures in 360 degrees and explore fascinating boats. heritage sewing, dw world heritage 360. now all the strength of germany is set to go. then how a phone go. we point should 5 in the cyclone, inc. ping a pulse for full take cells throughout because west coast sine to save every gotten a generates a star green $1100000.00 tons of plastic waste, but only 5 percent of that is collected and recycled. that's a pretty shocking fee go. well, there is hope, a number of grassroots organizations coming together to see how they can make
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a difference. let's take a look of the beach clean up is going to be back breaking work similarly and listened future. well, this is a mission with a difference. these volunteers on from, from beach, east of gunners competent across, and not just collecting old waste. this group called plastic punch have a plan the salting, measuring and cancelling all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups often with volunteers from nearby communities. so when volunteers come around, community members speak to shoes if you have any issues. if applicant plastics expect quality plastics. if you are picking up to face you frequently to face this, we are able to separate the reset cloud both from the non reset. so that was because we want to the most states and they'll come in and see that they can be some value from these things. what i've done, finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as
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a cross call. a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps with only a tiny fraction of the city's trash being properly collected and recycled. besides, poisoning the land, the deputies flushed into the ocean, breaking down into micro plastics, getting into the food chain and destroying the classic echo systems. and it's from places like corner like drilled, that a big deal of the trash washes down to from, from beach, with plastic punches working as they see the data collection a form of citizen science as a way out of the mess we uh, when docs in between us hello not not the solution for the plastic pollution minutes because just finding this high side they'll be more trust coming in. higher buy stuff. that's a very good activity to call it to really funds visa. and once we have close to trace it onto the, is to understand what the police on what this for you thing,
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and also which brian this which company itself. what do you think by collecting the fees that we are able to understand by analyzing what this office of this $0.40 would be, where we understand where the surface will be. and that is where we have one of our top core direct. how wow, awareness access and also solution finding efforts and with the dates that i chose team can begin to crucial next phase, helping the local authorities to understand the waste flows and figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we are able to tell where the waste is coming from and the type of ways that is coming into the show and then the ones that i really say couple and then the ones that i normally say couple. so this informed as, as the assembly, how to plan for the management of the waste issue. the citizen science is also a key part of a much bigger puzzle. ocean conservation is one of the united nations,
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17 sustainable development goals. but efforts a combat marine plastic pollution had been held back by lack of reliable data from from beach and gunners. microcosm of world wide problem. it's been estimated that we have dumped up to 200000000 tons of trash into the sea. most of its indestructible plastic, as some estimates, say, the rate of increase the triple in the coming decades. then you went environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic of the things to groups like plastic bunch done. i became the 1st country to monitor a plastic devry density, according to us guidelines. the data loaded onto a un platform containing the world's largest citizen science dentist at unmarried let's a officials of gunners, the technical service study effort. this very useful that when you came in to the
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beach, they also compiling data that would let policy make us appreciate the value of the activity one. to also appreciate what we are doing to ourselves in terms of nick for him to be just to, to extend that one. it doesn't then coverage, taught isn't to it affects our project. life being able to present 15 beaches is of course also find tools have gone to a $1000000000.00 tory sector to quote, meanwhile, full citizens. scientists like richmond kennedy choir group, the hardware because only just begun once to see the data turns into the meaningful change. now that we understand the problem to solve it, so we need so new stance, we need political will. we need investments. it's a waste management system, is what they need to package and we need. and also when this we are listening to the science, we are listening to the same and what the results i've given us when we make sense
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. and we need to talk to now and fast. and the citizen sciences of clean the stretches from from beach and the trash date. so it has been long. their hope is that if we overly understand what happens to the plastic, we use a discount that we can truly begin to free the oceans of our trash again. well, it seems pretty clear that shifting to clean the fuel is key to toppling pollution . what, how easy, easy to make the 61 liberal, who in london, i've demonstrated that a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right. the trees no local residents proved that we've vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources and in a way that benefits a lot of households wants the new solar panels. the printer is yeah,
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receiving the streets will be producing its very own power. residents in east london lin much road spends more than 2 years working for this moment and convincing the neighbors to get on board to day. that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something's going to happen and having light power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing a come to reality is, is kind of a relief. it's joyful. we wanted the whole street to basically get the solar panels . that was the goal. we soon realized that wasn't going to happen. like it's going to be really difficult, actually to, to even persuade any one of autism. henry pollen done. the 8 olsteen came up with the idea originally they'd hope to get the entire street linked into a grid, but some of the roofs are suited to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households on lynn miss road are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve
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and put money into the climate crisis. you can offer at the direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here. then it kind of floats quite well with the general public. given me economic crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 artists launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds split. ready and spent several weeks during the winter living on their roof and found it as a crowd fund wanted to make the streets as the low cost of a story. but it also is a kind of experiment, prototype test pilot thing that could help other streets kind of move quickly to act. and that's taken lots of, you know, ideas and failed attempts to find the model that would work. the activists say that government should support innovative ecological projects. mike says to help
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tackle the climate crisis and we need lots pulse of money which make it really upset the easy for people to get much funding or to get properly subsidized to, to ton that buildings the houses or the businesses into power stations. when the home is at the moment, by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll sting off, filming the installation of the solar panels. the 1st step from the pump to us. so low road, the neva engine hoops the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the panels sunroof, it's going to be much better for the panels if we can, if they keep going and achieve. and once people say to something, you know, it's on the star to they were, it is really on the stocks and of course, cheaper bills. so now the solar powered homes on the rarity
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here that partner a major british energy company says that pioneer is here in the u. k. we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated good systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so it pink time, so it's like 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to put that in is there's about a few 100 different generate to is that are required by the great, the toilet that demand. what that does is it creates this horrible kind of pollution. and of course it's really expensive on sunny days. and so the pioneers couldn't even produce it, plus energy that can be fed into the grid. instead of, sorry for that fossil fuel network, which i'm thinking is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves control the grade. and create
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that flexibility. levy from now on meals like this will be caulked with power that comes straight from the roof. so when the rest of the street see this last 1020 houses getting the solar panels and the see the, you know that it's, it's a viable idea and that it's not have, right. and then just a couple of off this coming up with a totally pine. this guy did, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing volt buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hilary pile and down 8 of the hope this will be just the beginning. the dream is howard to the people everywhere in the city. watts on is perry initiative for our next report. we have thing in you bought, heading over to germany with online shopping is a blooming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bought in munich more and more parcels and now being
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delivered by a bike. this is why the city has set up a logistics hub because of bikes on this week's doing a beat. we find out how it is going. the electric to go bike can transport as much as a small truck. then not only is flexible and admission free means of transport. they're often actually faster than the delivery trucks that's woke up many streets in downtown munich, put them in. so the ones that can see that the on the amount of commercial traffic and the fact that we see a lot of potential in a switch to sustainable electric cargo bikes. we're making this a key factor in our overall mobility strategy. because i'm 5 companies of warehouses and the call gigabytes, it just takes hubs. they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses
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. one of the companies into cat provides law, small delivery. it says the call gigabytes. what as well. yeah, how much is it that is the subsystem minute we have so 2 stops that's manageable, it's all default. our drivers are paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies when they're a 120 parcels and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day in our korea is kind of actually enjoyed the journey. what kind of file homebound, sort of thing is replacing trucks with huge cargo bikes, has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest find delivery companies alone could save 6 tons of c o 2 per year. and this is just the 1st step of an initiative that goes beyond manic costs at the cities have similar projects. we're all still figuring it out. i think it's important that we share our experience and learn the right lessons from it. so we're in discussion with other cities. we'll
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also work together to consolidate our projects. i look forward on climbing back to us. we can now and very different topic until all too often, chemicals are used to get the range of diseases and improve use both these kind of loudly damage the environment. the alternatives on the age of kenya's only surviving tropical rainforest, a fung, but we phone a guest, we is being developed in us type of the laboratory. take a look at these flowers grow well in kenya too. well, in fact, strike go purple, which we might be pretty, but it's devastating to crumbs it viruses and dry soil and poses a serious threat to harvests as agronomist adults can boil, explain if that part of c take with. ringback and it's kind of caused some damage to a planted pass then in the fall, as you can see this move,
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it is tented by the time you have seen, i've tried the m, i z, the destruction, it's already done because the say the feed is on the ground the parasitic plant attaches itself to the roots of crops, and then extracts nutrients from them at their expense. they start to wield while the we'd flourishes, or margaret key, so knows the problem all to well, which we regularly decimate. so mace and milledgeville where you all hi, ongoing measure to some, well we've been struggling with the problem of which weed for many years so we cannot crops but the yield, the no good school follow when we trying to stop it spreading by sweeping. i'm dep range and the animal waste equipment and distributing it in the field, but it doesn't make any difference with google mouth and sees and i've gone to the whole lake open. i will go forward to that from that's. i only harvested one bag of ways that can in the but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebut him.
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doesn't make the money or what do you, michael know? but to us and kenyon, scientists have identified a fungus that kills the parasite. it's highly effective, even in tiny amounts, such as might fit on a tooth pick. this discovery lead to the toothpick of project dorcas kimball. he manages the projects tooth pick company. for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills to strike a plot. i don't see where the research on the bile controls and started going into say i'm looks as far as this phone goes as isolated from my wilton's trego lead, and h was growing to make them bound control. so initial non is contrary to what we do in this knob is multiply the fung us as much as we can. so that is can quantity if i to a must, that's can solve this almost in great capacity is for the last 5 years. can boy has
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traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product. it costs about 30 year rose to treat a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to prevent its seats from spreading further. because once they're in the soil, they stay there for years. chemical pesticides haven't proved effective and farmers are left with field harvests. that's why the tooth pick project is supported by a number of n g o's focused on food security. batteries, brittany effect of climate change. the i've is one me before it was a warming and we a seems dried, got also moving into some width as owns into also some for the region is that these experienced in the high production areas since means the food insecurity also is except it becomes much more kenya isn't the only country with a strike, a problem. according to the u. n, a 14 african nations are infested with the weed. this makes the project all the
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more important is successful. it could be introduced in other countries to. so dorcas can, boy, is working with 85 most to help produce more fund going up to them. they can show acute that's can be produced. that's our laboratory, you know, to now, to solve from mazda elk grove, this event, counties, we all find anything in. so that is the reason why we were in gauging village, you know, clump produced stuff and they really never opened had class pretty put the final product production itself is relatively straightforward. the phone goes just needs to grow. 20 key, those of rice are cooked, and a small amount of fungus is added. then left for $3.00 to $5.00 days to incubate the resulting 40 kilos. a fungus enriched rice are enough for one, a couple of crop land. the researches found at that farm as needed to treat the fields for 2 years. that's full crops, owings that was enough to banish the strike. and restore crop yields for small hold
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is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves. and we end the program, well we begun the west coast of africa and we took migratory bods folk to send a go and movie tanya on the areas where they clicked on. el protected were visited the lagoon they simona and set a goal, an area of natural beauty, a new birth conservation area. to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far. the bank growth part of the simone nature reserve or i haven't touch for foster rate of species. the lagoons. mix of fresh and salt water creates a breakfast environment and a rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's homer and ad birds of prey. it's a natural paradise but low fishermen on not
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to have negative effect in the leg into that. but if we're not allowed to fish in the lagoon, then we don't really have any of the options available. coming in, some fishermen have decided to go out to sea instead of i thought, i think i'm bothering it and the good because i didn't, i think i didn't want to be a lot of times they kept something, but there is no in yes, any fish or as in the nature religion, thank you. so it's hard for us now. a plastic like a new model for getting you brian fi lives in one of the 3 villages on the age of the nature. reserve it during october and november. they're not allowed to fish here. so the face on the lagoon kind recover. so cold eco got make sure the rules are obeyed. they also ensure they are enough of resting places for the areas main bird species such as purchase. but last spring,
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a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the luxury that they play the probably 2 lagoon used to have a lot of manual for us. so, but mangrove would isn't huge to bond, but it's often thought of as probably what it was, but the people here mainly use it as a full construction of what because they know it's much more terabyte or is this. and then in other words, so there is a lot of do far as a somewhat over is typical piece of data mit. so that example i can, the way it is, and as the man grows disappeared, the fish populations decline to be. the largest bodies shown they put the e called costs have been working here for 10 years. they were employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a live, a lot of a growing number of the shipment have started finding voices to compensate for the period when they're not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the spect,
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texting of bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists or lucky enough, the spots and a sprain, a. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every month and locals with a guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income or not miserable if i'm clear to open them. you know, 20 percent of the revenue goes to the women who do reforestation work for me. dot com and then the 2 communities that live around the lagoon get 10 percent each. another 20 percent goes to the eco gasket. are they all 13 of them? they come from the villages to help us if you don't remember that this is all vapor song organizations such as bird life international are also active in the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges
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a lot profoundly menache repair. she lives on the banks of the lagoon. the main threats which i'll climate change related are erosion and suiting the locals can see what's happening. they, we conducted studies in aust, them what they've up to the data at time. it on pause. you own it. the specially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger that they consistently presented your call. you may say they've noticed before, it has become sandia and has the highest self conscious setting easy results. i believe the organization studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost of these problems push down. load id, guess go see when we ask them what, what solutions they would recommend? what practices they've noticed that seem to accelerate the problems and that should therefore be stopped. they themselves said that it's due to intensive fishing and harvesting, show fish in ways that damage the bankruptcy of the for they did. i thought in them
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for school one is actually no cold, traditionally of harvested mussels, and oysters from the show lines and bankrupt, damaging them in the process to date, the oysters are cultivated just above the water line, so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the symbol of hu, but with these positive developments to continue its vital that the remains of protect area for the time is flown by. i'm afraid we've come to the end of the show for this week. we hope you enjoyed the program before i say good bye. i like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you agrees, merry christmas and a puffy 22 people. thank you so much for the opposite engagements with the problem . we hope to see you soon for now, do take care and see you soon. bye. the. the
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