a touring model, last styles submitted to a name where you left this tree, meeting people victory. we dw the hello everybody, and welcome to a new edition of a co africa. the environment show brought to you by a tv in uganda, gymnast dw, and charles, tv, rock ca, nigeria. i am curriculums. and here's my co host son drive in uganda. hi, crease. hello. everybody is good to have you back with gold. some exciting reports about environmental protection and sustainability coming up here is

a quick look at some of the topics that will be exploring today. what met this someone in the good incentive goals such a unique bias, l. y the number of cobble a bikes, all the strength of germany is set to grow. then how of phone go we point should 5, even the simplest inc king a false for full, takes us through africa's west coast. funding to save that every year gotten a generates a sad green $1100000.00 tons of plastic waste book, 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 a difference. let's take a look of the beach cleaned 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 gun capital across and not just collecting old ways. this group called plastic punch have a plan, this sorting, measuring and cancelling all the items as a weapon to find back against the scourge. richmond kennedy kwaku organizes these cleanups, helping with volunteers from nearby communities. so when volunteers come around, the community members speak to shoes. if the applicant shoes if applicant, plastics, fit 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. that was because we want to the most states and they'll put me through that. they can be some value from these things while they're done. finding them, you know what that weighs, what it weighs, such as a cross call a lagoon had been turned into aquatic waste dumps. we'd only

a tiny fraction of the cities 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 problem problem beach red plastic punches working as they see the data collection a form of citizen scions. as a way out of the mess we. uh, when does between us hello not not the solution for the plastic pollution minutes because this i funding this high side, they'll be much less coming to a higher buy stuff. that's a very good activity to collect a relevance visa. then once we have close to trace it onto the, is to one the sound, what the police on what this polluted. and also which brian, this which campaign yourself, what you would say by collecting these dates,

that we are able to understand by analyzing what this office of this $0.40 would be . where are we on the cell where the surface would be? and that is where we have what i thought called direct our awareness access, and also solution finding efforts. and with the data quite whose team can begin to crucial next phase. helping the local authorities to understand the ways flows and figure out how to stop it ending up in the ocean. so with that data, we're able to tell where the waste is coming from and the type of ways that is coming into the show. and then the one is that there is a couple and then the ones that i know we 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, 17 sustainable development goals. but efforts

a come back moraine 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, some estimates say the rate of increase, good, triple in the coming decades. the human environment programs as the only solution is to fundamentally change how we use plastic. the thanks 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. thank us. and let's a officials of gunners, the testicle service said again, if at this very useful then when you came in to the beach, they also compiling data that would lift 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 the extent that one it doesn't think coverage taught isn't to um, it's affects aquatic life being able to present for steam beaches is of course also find sold to gun a $1000000000.00 tory sector. meanwhile, full citizens, scientists like richmond and kennedy, quite group. the hard work is only just begun once to see that data turns into meaningful change. no, no, we understand the problem to solve it. so we need so new things we need political will. we need investments. it's a waste management system, it's what they need to package and we need lots of how when this we are listening to the science, we are listening to the same and what the results uh given us when we make sense and we need to act now and for us, of the citizen sciences of clean,

the stretches from from beach and the trash data, it has been load. 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, a demonstrative a solely dose of community series. really health. that is right trees. no local residents proved lost with vision on determination. it is possible to move away from traditional energy sources. and you know, way that benefits a lot of households wants the, the new solar panels off the printer is yeah, i'm assuming the streets will be producing its very own power residents in east

london's learn. much road spends more than 2 years working for this moment. and convincing the neighbors to get on board today, that dream is becoming reality. the pressure of saying something's going to happen and having that power station post is up in windows. so this 1st moment of seeing it 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 go. 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 the artist henry pollen done. 8 olsteen came up with the idea. originally they'd hoped to get the entire street blinked into a grid, but some of the roofs on thing tipped to solar panels. and some neighbors haven't yet wound up to the idea. 25 households online with road are on board. however, i think across britain there are millions and millions of people who want to solve and put money into the climate crisis. if you can offer a direct action solution for it, which is what we've kind of created here,

then it kinda floats quite well with the general public. given the ican nomic crisis in the country, not everyone could afford to sign up. that's why the 2 octaves launched a fundraising campaign that raised over a 100000 pounds the. ready and spend several weeks during the winter and living on the 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 put 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 invitations, ecological projects. mike says to help 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 they went home, is that the, by the way, when i hillary power and then it'll stain off, filming the installation of the solar panels. the 1st step from the pump to us. so low road, the neva angela hoops, the solar panels will help slusher energy bills. the 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 this happened, you know, it's on the star to they were, it is really all new stuff. and of course, cheaper bills. so now these solar powered homes on the rarity

here that partner a major british energy company, says that pioneer is us here in the okay, we've got pretty much like the one of my site dated going systems. so it's really reliant on fossil fuels. so with pink time, so let's say 6 o'clock when people come home and they want to cook, that then is there's about a few 100 different generates 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 grades. instead of paying for that fossil fuel network, which i'm getting, is decentralizing that great. and instead having 5 thousands of different renewable energy assets that themselves controls agreed and create 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 i do, hopefully more people want to do it. and then we're also hoping that we can save money overall by doing both buying and stuff like that. so the other streets can also get involved. hillary pile and down 8 of dean holmes. this will be just the beginning. the dream is how it to the people. everywhere in the city, watts on is power initiative for a next revolt. we as thing in europe bought, heading over to germany with online shopping is a booming market. that means a lot of delivery traffic bought in munich more and more parcels and now being 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 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 cloak up many streets in downtown munich, 40 minutes, or one can see the, 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, logistics hub. they transport deliveries to private individuals and businesses. one of the companies into can,

provides law small delivering. it says the call gigabytes. what as well. now, how much is it that is the subsystem minute? we have 30 stops that's manageable. it's all the fault drive is a paid by the hour. it's not like other large delivery companies, whether a $120.00 parcels, and it's almost impossible to get it all done in a day in our country is kind of actually enjoyed the journey. a kind of 5 homebound sort of thing is replacing the trucks with huge cargo bikes has major environmental benefits. initial estimates suggest fine 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 munich cost 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 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 i used to get the range of diseases and improve views. but these kind of bodily damage, the environment, the alternatives on the age of kenya's only surviving. so people read for us a phone, 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 to 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 an agronomist adult as can boy explained if that part of c take with. ringback and it's kind of caused some damage to a plan to pass in, in the fall, as you can see, this move if this tented, by the time you're seeing the trade, the m i z, the destruction you've already done. because the say the cd on the ground,

the parasitic plot attaches itself to the roots of crops and then extracts nutrients from them at their expense. they start to wield while the wheat flourishes, or margaret key so knows the problem all to well, which we'd regularly decimate her mace and milledgeville for y'all's high ongoing measure to some well we've been struggling with the problem of which we for many years we cannot crops but the yield was a no good school follow. well, we trying to stop it spreading by sweeping. i'm dead brain and the animal waste human and distributing it in the field, but it doesn't make any difference with google mouth and sees. and i've gone through the whole length of the older folk that from that i only harvested one bag of ways that came to me. but that doesn't even leave enough for me to rebut them. doesn't mean the money. i would be michael now. 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 tooth pick project door. because kimball, he manages the projects tooth pick company for a team of scientists produce the fungus that kills, to strike a plot, a lindsey with the research on the bell control. so let's try going using say, i'm looks this far on this. find us as isolated from my wilton's trego it, and each was drawn 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 25 to a must that's can solve the sum of in great capacities for the last 5 years. ken boy has traveled to villages in western kenya to introduce farmers to the product it costs about. so to year rose to treat

a one acre field until now farmers have been uprooting the destructive plot to prevent its seeds 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 database. the effect of climate change. the app is warming, the soils warming, and we have seen dry got also moving even to some width as owns and to also some uh for the region. if that is experienced in the high production, 80 ascending means the food in security also is accept. 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 more important it's successful. it could be introduced in other countries to. so

don't because can boy is working with ag farm us to help produce more fund going up to them. they could show a cube that's going to be produced to add our laboratory is not enough to solve from us that close this of in cohen, c. c. o budgeting, 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 for to 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 is especially, it's a relatively easy remedy that the farmers can apply for themselves.

and we and the program where we've begun the west coast of africa and we to migratory bots, folk to send a go and a movie, tanya, on the areas where they clicked on l. protected were visited the lagoon. they simone there and set a goal, an area of natural beauty and the birth conservation area. to see what the protection meshes i've achieved so far. the macro forest of the simone nature reserve, or i haven't touch for a foster ray of species. the lagoons mix of fresh and salt water creates a branch environment and a rich ecosystem that's helped to herron's home or it's and birds of prey. it's a natural paradise but the local fisherman on not

to have negative effect in the like in be 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 and stay as i thought, i think i'm buying it and the good be sent back. i think i didn't want them. sometimes they kept something, but there is no in yes, i need patient as in the nature of living. thank you. so it's hard for us now. plus i go like and do more up again. 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 year, so the face on the lagoon kind of 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 bar. awesome, great. a major problem is that more and more people have settled around the

luxury that they play, the probably to zillow who used to have a lot of 9 golf course. so, but when grove 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 to invite or is this and then any other woods. so there is a lot of do far as a, somewhat over is typical piece of data made. so that example like a little way to please. and as the ben grows disappeared, the fish populations decline to be the largest bodies showing they put the audio. the eco gusts have been working here for 10 years. they are employed by the municipality, which manages the boot. it provides locals with a lively lot of a growing number of fishermen have started farming voices to compensate for the period when they're not allowed to fish. tourism has also developed with more and more visitors discovering the inspect technically the bio diversity. it's especially popular with bird watching these tourists are lucky enough. the spots in

our spring. ready around $2500.00 tourists visit every month and the locals with the guide. the visitors helped fund the nature reserve and also boost the locals income. the or not the problem. you have to open up the 20 percent of the revenue, goes to the women who do reforestation work for me to lock them 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 and they come from the villages to help us? so remember that this is all vapors on organizations such as bird life international are also active and the nature of the lagoon is facing a range of environmental challenges a lot. plus, i mean menache repair, she lives on the banks of the lagoon. the main threats which i'll climate change

related are erosion. and suiting locals can see what's happening. they, we conducted studies in aust, them what they've observed soon. the data at time it on pause unity especially the older people who can compare with what it was like when they were younger that they consistently presided. because they say they've noticed the sort of has become sandia and has the highest salt con, selling, easy results. fabulous. the organization. studies also made it clear that the locals will well aware what cost of these problems push down the d. 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 fuzzy that i taught in them for school. one is actually no cause traditionally

a harvested muscles and oysters from the shoreline, st. bankruptcy, damaging them in the process to date, the oysters are cultivated just about the water line, and so the backgrounds remain intact. wildlife is flourishing in the someone who but with these positive developments to continue, it's vital that the remains a protect area. what 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 by. i'd like to wish you all a happy only day. enjoy the time with family and friends. see you next time. same you three's merry christmas and puffy 22 people. thank you so much for the opposite engagement 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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