and we say they're never giving up every weekend on d w the how can we improve life in our cities with more and more people across africa and around the globe moving to other areas. this question has never been more important . i am sandra co homes, a 3 know do a writing comp. hello. welcome to yet another exciting edition of equal africa. and i, chris who lives in lake goes by to area on the show today. we'll look at how we could clean up la cities, making life better for ourselves and our environment. peers was coming up.

volunteer divers, retrieving fresh from lake lake. toria, uganda. fight in pollution. the french city that skipped in front of gold above katya the mission and protective shocks. we look at conservation efforts in south africa. we're talking about the quality of life is it is there is for nothing more important that the air will breeze compulsion of cause and trucks and noon to pump all emissions that palm rolls the environment and public health. so active is the experts in i will be gathering hard and fast data on a pollution for paul or the citizens to become chain because this is the device that's good health transform every day. life in a row, be a small since i'm measuring air pollution in the city center,

mainly to blame for the quality of the pixel to as motorcycles and diesel tall. i mean he finds going asthma touches for the kids up and planning advocates, humphrey, or html. as close, they will be home, you walk right, joins projects between the city, government and the un exploding ways to make 10 skeptical. rena. he's particularly concerned about them attacked his shots in the copy those streets. uh they are coming from different thoughts, lots of different tools. they are it's, i mean it's into this evening. so they, it's, i mean it's, i'm ending the seats, which is what i'm listening. so this has brought out most of the formulas shown into the seats. now that would of your day to see surveys conducted by he's organizational phones, higher incidence rates of bronchitis in places where my touch is flight, etc. but on the delta legged ends like these can only go so

fun driving big policy changes, go up on a city wide level. you take, how does that to the tenants. government does not have yet this is way offensive. africa comes in the organization develops and assembles devices for environmental monitoring, unemployment action, africa, cities in africa in general, does not have data on the equity to levels. and because of that, we have increasing terrible air pollution levels, right? so it's important for us to begin collecting this data to be able to compare it and see whether there's any health impacts. but since those are expensive, that is a problem that's alicia. a lot of those engineering team is working hard to solve

the record, this low cost, the a quality monita. and the reason being is that it's relatively cheap up frontier to date expense, great money tests, we cost, you know, dance of tens of thousands of yesterday the kids to components of 3 d printed on the team. she has the blueprints for the modified design, freely on line citizens have just anyway in the world, can legally rip to get the device without charge, bringing the costs down to under $300.00 euros. commercially available, referring to read models, can cost me only 100 times as much on the team frequently head out to inspect and inventing that senses they've installed in different parts of the road . the and moines most city dwellers are requesting the devices people it gives you malware. the shopkeeper has us the model number of the restaurant above these

premises to host a sense of 1414 . yeah. most of the time i get our stuff i just just paid is that little feeding every now and then we must go to hospital or to come now able to present to the doctor today. i thought it too, so that you have to be able to prove. all right. what so many dogs to the come to oppose the most felicia and how about the money, but uh no action has to be taken. so you healthy? uh difficult action. maybe you have something to prove to them. a sense of like these can a give a clear picked general air quality in specific locations. but what would help the truck look the air pollution in the city?

the united nations electric mobility program advocates for a shift to electric vehicles. alex co not saves, transitioning away from conventional combustion engines, needs to be incentivized economically and that targeting to will transport is a good place to start or 20 years ago, the almost new motorcycles in kenya. now we have about $2000000.00 motorcycles to in the $50000.00, so we ended those motorcycles added for you and if you would like to fight them, this has a definite and significant impact on greenhouse gas emission reductions. progress is being mit couldn't and i'll post on electric motorcycle, toxic fleet. and the government has on bushes targets within 5 years. 100000. the most of bikes, us set to roll onto kenya's treats. so more and more people we'd be able to hold on to clean up transport. like i've been planning on the book, i'm for your channel and who knows this much needed air pollution sensors might be redundant, so we all need to be able to get around every day in the company which way.

but usually it's realistic for everyone in the city to have. yeah. reform of motorized transport, providing defense and reliable public false quotation is showing me the way, ford. this is now head to europe. a french cd is giving residents a big incentive to stop using that cause. and as you will see, the more people are wise to the challenge. the great to the benefits. monday morning in moon, peggy and something from the city with its half a 1000000 inhabitants is waking up and the i in chubby is on her way to work. last december, she stopped teasing her parents call to make the 7 columbus to join the free public transport is a really good idea, especially for people like myself, i think twice before spending 50 euros on a monthly subscription. i. i only in 1950 euros gross per month. similar to my

sister who's also switched to public transport. hey ma, it's me taking me 26 minutes to get to 10 minutes less than by coffee or was it? i like the stress free way of traveling less on protecting the environment. i think the longest pest services report is always on the travel is financed by a tax paid by companies with at least 11 employees such as the one in which my in should be works. as a manager, as personal assistant, i think those who know company used to be in an area with pull access to public transport. and so that's why we moved to this location, which is only a 3 minute walk away from the tram. actually do that in the top for once. the text is repaid, being used for something beneficial to society. welcome to so this is a really good measure. the height of us both people suddenly stick with the medium

sized companies, provides easy to use with no codes management software for businesses operating in an environment to the sustainable way is crucial to them all thought and as a software developer, we only use service that are exclusively wrong with renewable energy, we have planted free trees on our grounds. we are very careful with the amount of electricity we use for lighting and air conditioning. last year, we reviewed on common footprint. we have reduced plastic usage, but there is still a way to go with that. in such efforts to the delight of the socialist lead city government it through a big party to celebrate the introduction of free public transport. and will peggy last december, the september, the 4th, the heed free public transport gives citizens some of that purchasing power about

your illogical and social measure. so shall it helps as if i global warming. that's but it doesn't. i punish people. and it gets everyone on board me that the fuel costs the wrong about the clean of the uh we breeze. don't know if you me yeah, he left for his po and the measure seems to be getting down well with more pen. he's young inhabitants. walk you through to judge and it helps a lot not to have to spend money on transport moltin. so this encourages people to say fuel and take public transport instead the but it's easy to evaluate as possible. but part of this plan is the construction of a new tram line. the 5th and peggy, it will be completed like next year and connect the university port valerie, when more than $20000.00 students assigned up, it always seems that the universe, the entrance is why you then you can see there is very important construction welcome to way and you will have to problem solve this right here,

additional bike lanes thing. i'm some parking for cars as it, but less than in the past with i'm, we also transforming this square which was useful parking into a pedestrian area. the university has created a lot of extra bike parking to the research was hoping this one to be used by students as security is about 40 percent of our teaching stuff currently come by call. what you some might take the time in the future. now this option exists what a good public transport network is crucial for free public transport or to make a difference. but getting around by public transport is not as easy in place as further from the center. central to v dot is an adjacent satellite town and part of more pelias metropolitan area with about 12000 inhabitants and counting google daniel works and the sub but lives in the city center. he's part of a lovely group calling for the money spent funding free public transport to be invested in extending the network instead, as well. yeah. okay. it's about so

a pm says i'm there is only one from every 15 minutes. even though it's going home, time of transport link so, so pool local townhome is even set up a shut that box on, on the street that you have to pay for. because it, if you want free public transport, you need to consider that the city is growing. yeah. otherwise you just please people in the 60 cents of with a good transport network and forget those on the outskirts of that. i mean, we all fit so today's, on chevy this on the new trim line is also going to run through central to the di da. you always hoping it's just the start. if the network is extended, the company's the max hoops that even more of its employees will take public transport. the c o also wants to make an even greenow. let's say we're going to construct a couple of bikes should read. it took where, in store solar panels on our review in the past,

so we can become even more sustainable and reduce energy costs. you know, prices of reasoning by significantly more than i knew is here. this could include in, now it isn't easy to it's one big step forward has already been achieved. thanks to the new scheme, transport no longer makes up the light and share of the company's comp and the footprint it will be in 1st thing to see is that strategy actually walks out and maybe even inspires other cities as well. so now tell me how many of you, lots of coffee, if you do, you're definitely not alone. it is false, becoming the walls most popular beverage. for many of us grabbing a take a coffee is a daily routine. well, often the note is, comes in a disposable cap which ends up in the trunk, but not in one that is sweet songs to a new initiative or

it's like a vending machine in with this re usable coffee cups and not issued to you, returned customers and then refunded a $67.00 us and deposits denmark 2nd largest city or who's introduced the scheme to reduce waste from single use comes last year. we did a cleaning of the river that runs through the city and we picked up 100000 losses. so it is an issue and all this stuff ends out in the nature, we get the micro plastic. we get cups all over the place, saturday morning the cd looks like fresh. so this will be a significant impact on, on i'm micro plastic, but also the general picture of how the city looks. 25 machines scheduled throughout the city sentence. now take back the custom made cups for reuse that then transported to this cleaning facility. about $40003.00 usable takeaway cups a currently in circulation. officials say it will take time for the system to pay

for itself. but the benefits of west city council hopes to scaly top significantly . basically those can be expanded to all kind of of take away. this can be the piece of box. this can be the, the box. you have your car in. it can be the beer bottles, it can be pretty much anything that will go into a trash can. the scheme is set to run for 3 years before undergoing a review. more than 40 cafe, some balls have already signed up building on other return schemes. we've done it with with plastic bottles and that works a superbly and you never see a plastic bubble are lying around because you know, people have incentive in, in taking it and, and getting whatever amount of money you can get from it. and but creating that and, and creating a new habit for people in terms of to go cups. and i think that's going to be challenging. but so many introducing another deposit system is not

a problem. on the contrary, the things that the people should get used to that we have to take care and we'd have to move out. so to, to these machines, especially in a good plan, and if everyone plays the apart, it's sure to be successful. that's also the message over the next report from right to in uganda. as we know, the was oceans of choking on plastic, but looks like even more polluted, less. victoria is a serious risk of degrading partly due to pull west management, bought lots of people walking hard to turn things around once a month or something that takes it die to such a waste to disability and doherty's low. yeah, and these critics don't tough to dave to deep plastic flux to us this office of like victoria of because we guess fresh with a leak is kind of crush. don't they?

oh, and when i days and they don't do the some plastics on this fishing, it's which are no longer being used by the fish. i mean how something relieves and that you can't insure for like victoria. so he is most of you, somebody from what's to us for almost 3 years now. he's been driving for a local, been a vision that seems to clean up the leak. they pulled out a bundle and fishing 8 or goes to minutes, which had been yours for the day as the project is a day when i enter the i don't. and there was web me with a fishing net. yeah, that's the worst thing that i used in my life, which i'm over with. and i tried to cut over the of the clean up the water. they also retrieve waste from the show that's covered in this the condition. the 9 men to most of them gets help from volume t as each month. they get tons of plastic. i'm going to land face over to him,

but started the initiative. he's been organizing originally cleanups here for, for yes. he's program you can, the junior ranges seems to be time the like. it's not just state the plastic and other what's the leg? victoria mainly comes from the canals. hope you're going to copy to accomplish that is which should have been much of it will come out. the team of the junior ranges, lexia 3 times a week. we do what do i say? it picks it up and make. we do uh, what about the channels that you get to them is that they're on the lake and nicholas go ahead. he has a lot of the show as of late victorian, for because of it it was the we have the able to connect to about $10.00 or less these uh, within the least amount of, uh, what does it, but we the big got you we, we we can, we are able to, we can afford it as of as much as $50.00 in less than plastic. the team also tries to cover these as many residents as possible to take to the clean up on the

canal. so we try to be able to do a cheap of the community by you mean what we are trying to do uh, through these community activities, clean up activities and whenever you're going to commit to re engage with the community, do so try to get them involved and then uh, educate them about the negative impact it has to their communities and their neighborhood, or those leaving the as it can now, starting to realize that details here and we to, for the environment. let's just to waste, think to the water. if you solve the for the site, which meant for that for the free and convenient for a family on the, for fish, the, or, and the for all of activity to exactly what the text was already so far know it's enough. people have to convince us to help protect lake victoria. clean water is critical for the survival. those are leave on the lake. i sent in your comes from if for me to fishes and those 1st time. how important this ease. i don't have

a lot from daisy, but the way i knew i loved this, you'll and just to up so that i've heard of other people's life. and his group wants to continue the project. that will continue to catching young people in the process, which will allow the diving team to keep growing. i know for a story from south africa, the mind to recoil a change of thinking shocks are often vilified and feed. but they actually play a key role in the ocean ecosystem. those rights sandra, south africa's long coast line, is home to 100. so shock species. the country has been a thrill blaze when it comes to studying and protecting these. and dentists creatures and next reports will take a deep dive into the topic of shock conservation. migrating blue socks

of frequent visitors to the coast of south africa. poseida shy shops and gully shocks on native to its calc forest. these brown seaweeds are home to more than 200 shocks. bc's. the shock expos, ryan daily, regularly monitors their activities, the to conserve shocks. we need to know where they go, where they spend time. so we are tagging the shock to god's where they go and identify critical habitat for them so that we can improve protection for these critical areas. he and his team fit the shots with acoustic transmitters, so they can track them. a procedure or the shocks barely noticed to double once they've been tagged. the transmitter in midland, ultrasonic pulse for 6 years. and the last couple of years of

tags over a 100 trucks representing about 10 or 12 different species. many of the shocks off endangered. and we hope to find out more about the way that guy, specifically of the multiple years, we have to identify critical areas for them over a $150.00 receivers on mood along the sea budget to detect the signals from the tech shocks. whenever one of them swims by the receiver records, the id number, the signal ranges up to one kilometer. the acoustic receivers are regularly brought onto dry land, so the doctor, they've loved, can be evaluated. we have to work with a big network of collaborators to share data on a receive is so all of the day, so we collect on these receive is it said within a network and then we able to pick out the way the trucks have been where they're

standing the time so that we can prioritize the conservation the program can only work so long as there's broad support for shock conservation efforts. from an early age, humans are afraid of these ocean printed to is no shock. populations can only survive if public attitudes to them change and that requires raising awareness by changing the mind states, i believe that i am changing the world one step at a time, a one kid at a time. for me, 5, a group of 14 is and i'm changing the minds. it's one child even if it's going to be families and teaching them why. shock saying fulton, we already um, making such a big difference the media tends to report on shocks, mainly when they have been attacks on humans. at the shock education center in cape town, children can learn about the valuable role they play in marine ecosystems and get

up close with shock, eggs, and even teeth. those extra time of this big stuff on how they actually know and that they're not actually thing just to us that we actually endangered them by polluting and by gushing. conservationists have also equipped an underwater camera with bait. so they can also observe smaller shy of sharks that look into killed forest, off the coast line it to lose the amount of hiding, allowing the researches to gain useful insights into ocean by diversity. the collected data is analyzed using a program the team developed to help them assess their findings. we've taken some open source machine learning software and trained it on hundreds of images and sharks and fish and all of the species that we come across here and

phosphate um so that we can use it for detecting these bases in videos in the future. their research has already proved highly constructive. these already mold public acceptance of shock, conservation, and conservation areas. now make up 5 percent of south africa's oceans. environmental is would like to see that area increase further in order to protect marine ecosystems. what majestic creative. and that brings us to the end of today's too great to have you along. i'm curriculums in late goes. see you next time by piece on to all of you. if you've got any idea about how we can all look upto environment, do get in touch with love to hear from you. and don't forget to check us out on all those social media platforms to. i am sandra holmes that we know do funding go from

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