everyday life, so maybe we all because like instead of the ultimate is changing primarily due to the branding and of course it feels like cool orland glossed here. now free car. we're already seeing an increase in each weighs heavy, rain flooding and drought. welcome to a new patient of eco africa on this week. so we will the looking at ways we can best respond to extreme web conditions. i'm crystal lambs illegals. the idea that

i'm being joined by my colleague, my local candidate who's been sucker. thank you, chris and i hello from me to now let's take a look at what's coming up on today's show. keeping up with canals in my lead to reduce blood damage. plastic waste collection as a business opportunity for refugees in uganda and an early warning system for forest fires in tunisia to let's see of a country that has been battling drought for yes, the desperate, the dry conditions of let an increase in bush fires which have a devastating impact on the environment. the damage is also financial because farmers in for. 2 his areas lose their livelihood, so what can be done to protect them against the threats of fire? it looks like a hidden camera for i'm serving wild life, but it's actually much more sophisticated. nod here,

softly and his team are hanging up 10 devices with cameras that can detect fires early on. over 300, hector is a forest, are being monitored and tenicia is northern ross general area. in this today, we're using artificial intelligence as a sensor. it can detect active sources of fire and predict future ones too. and then i was built in a function that is similar to the human eye. it continuously monitors the area and as soon as a detect the source of fire, the system alerts the relevant authorities directly devoss a shot and the select the most possible minute. but right now, it's still in the test space. so the information is only sent to the start out with special ed, i have only so the sensors enable us to monitor the condition of the forest and track its development throughout the year ended on the hub of the key and the american. this means we can create an intelligence map of the forest,

showing which areas have a high fire risk where plants and trees are especially dry. sam, what's the audi mean and just said tanisha is getting less rain overall and longer periods of drought in the last decade, the amount of land scorched by fire was nearly 20 times higher than normal around a 3rd of the country is still forested. and about a 1000000 people live in the forest right now. they and local foresters are just left to fight fires as they occur volt, volt officials with the ministry of agriculture, hope the i fire protection system can provide more protection in the future, especially as the forest are of major importance to tanisha. however, this, when the fellow with the forest is a real, a asset for us, of the both nationally and economically, but also socially and environmental terms. with

a 1000000 people living in this eco system, it's our responsibility to guarantee them a safe place to live, which are very noisy on the front, on the little fly. some more that most of the data from the cameras is analyzed at the startups office in missouri to the company is also working on the next step. a system to quickly inform foresters of any fires or by the in photo. those are that were currently in the process of developing a mobile app to simplify the work of the foresters at our head office. we'll put the latest information directly into the app, which the foresters can then access either on their computer or cell phone. okay, so with stuff on what's going on on lines and the big some will be small, the work to protect the remaining forest. others are focused on replacing what's been lost since 2017. the association lisa need to capt. has been planting trees and the northern regions of calf is that glen engine. tuba, where there have been many fires. the volunteers plant care of trees as they are

resilience and require little water for a street research are um done. how need kazi is urging the authorities to support these initiatives? that's cool. the way that we are encouraging the forestry administration to plant more care of trees to re forest these areas. these trees are important for the environment. they're heating, resistance and good for the economy to them a lot that should be look at the much. but right now the forestry department is more focused on the new a i project. it's not just about reacting to fires more quickly, but also identifying potential sources of fire before they start to do this, it incorporates media, logical data, and then calculates which areas are especially at risk. so either the teen, my son in areas where you have the strong winds that see it on,

we also look at how dry inflammable the conditions are that you media days isn't necessarily. but i mean, we then analyze these parameters to determine whether it's a risk area or not. see this go somebody's on edy's kid is, or is it the kind of the money i had the the pilot project, but the forestry department is still in its infancy. if it's successful, the authorities hope to equip larger forest areas with the sensors. this would make the ranges work easier and protect the forest in the long term. so, i'm next to politics all still molly, which was hot feet. bone usually heavy rainfall in late 2024. in the capital by marco, a group of young active is mobilized to cope with the fact of the extreme weather on the board. sucks. devastation a game time for this weeks doing your bit it's

hot. it's things and the task feels almost impossible. for hours on end, these 15 young people has been toiling away to help clean up. got to some drains and telephone call right. a district on the outskirts of pharma co located on the new shy river. the philosophy of n g o, the african initiative, the integrated development is the actions speak louder than what we believe. as others followed our example, we would have fall fewer problems associated with the climate change including level flood think it was without campaign. we also want to prevent the use of plastic bags that come on, which must safely pollute the environment. we look forward to seeing the the team is highly motivated and determined this, this will look like had just a few months previously. finally come experience the west flooding it has seen in

decades will do 70. people died around a 150 were injured more than 250000 people of the higher thousands of likelihoods with the stories more a color pipe was among those affected yes. or, and yet that you, the situation was terrible and it still is either i can see the state of my house within the time. i used to live here with my family, the house cologne's, an apple that i didn't know where to go to look was still suffering badly. oh, clearing away the dots cloaking up the sewage. there's one thing, but it's not what the young. this said the gulf coast would slosik on the soonest. the next rain came. they used to collect trash and take it to the cities, not just rubbish that night, and help to separate that one. if any of them, i'm wondering what we're doing is turning the trash into cash. we can use it to

invest in something for the neighborhood. i'd like to get the to the community for the, for your defense, for example, we can buy pump a. well, if the money to a community from which we can then use to help tackle problems in the neighborhood with them filled out for me to hold. plastic waste is a huge problem across the continent and especially in low income communities. one solution is to see the plastic plague, also source of income on extra full. it takes us to a refugee camp. in uganda. we have people, are tenants, fresh into cash. i'm proven that collecting waste can be a part of life. you know, there could you come to you gun is anything but easy, but don't risk of you does not fall in the way on money collecting plastic bottles . the company is lead touch with them, including the small patch of land where she grows her vegetables. she sells the

plastic west to a recycling company, who was immortal. on this topic, about $24.00 euros a month. a cool me 5 by a ways to stick bag sima. you sent me one. i think i get 24. you are letting me. but it has to be heavy duty is covered up flood war to not keep a provenance in democratic republic of congo. about 8 years ago. she's one of the about 1700000 refugees living in uganda. most come from neighboring thoughts, done. the democratic republic of congo, and ruined the country that i've suffered under conflict and civil war. as a result you've done that is home to the largest surfing the population in africa. anything that they need seems like a huge challenge. no duties of you guys starting over in the to young body. if you do, you settlement in west a new gun the there is the west collection point close to her from her garden. the

payment arrives. those points on her mobile account. she can use them to make purchases and shops or get a cash disbursement. i did come out, but i see that these people bring more plastics. it helps the environment, you know, the plastic chunk, the environment, and the plastic. this was the sort of fatality, the so it loses its flexibility. if we continue to collect and elastic decided we gain it's fraternity, no. normally with a problem was already turning plastic recycling into a business. that was the idea of when to put in your front can you shop. he and his team also developed the of which went online a year ago in 2 locations in the city of dean j and he's done. you've done the on here either. if you do come east west of the country and for equal plus time, this is just the beginning. we think it's possible to to how about this more than a 1000000 refugees engage in recycling as a business. and i need

a smaller door law in the uh, from plastic recycling by putting the environment. if we can do that, then we assure that that we are hating the triple bottom line, which is the people climate, and enforced by the doors. plastic has been brought from the come to the company's factory via come products. this is where the plastic is shredded and melted and then turned into roofing tiles las the company recycled more than half a medium killingsworth of plastic bottles. that's a lot for a small company, but it's very mex, a dentist the roughly 220000 tons of plastic with that's produced every in the country. so far the gun and government hasn't come up with a plan to reduce plastic use. and there is no national recycling system to the dismay of environmental experts. you'll do that on searching. i think it is

around less than 3 percent of the plastics are being recycled and the rest is being displayed. the is being thrown into the environment as a result, plastic waste is a problem across the country. it's mainly local organizations that are trying to stem the tide of this young, bloody lessons. you come to the n g, okay? international brooks echo plus tile on board to help with the plastic recycling. what is getting rounding the comp and no more than 1000 refugees. i've taken part in the trash for caution program. the ends you as also noticed that the program is making a difference. we have to do with the nearest ups when such intense or plastic corrected or by the video over the last 3 months. that is a lot in terms of therefore, you know, toner, plastic and being corrected in terms of removing it from the environment. but you're looking out to and every time that we have you visited for their critics. as

for the, i'm going to get as for the plastic recycle, as for those who are picking press because the source of income with the us any incentive, more plus request is now being collected for recycling. if you don't have upfront can we do shop, pays a visit to, to young lady is asked to show how the up was on for many refugees here. the ability to on a small income mix like huge difference. and of course the, in this kind of, most of us, the single mothers we no longer with a whole bunch of them. it's like they abandoned us with the children's does yet. but this business has helped us stuff because we have something to do every morning with trunk can. we'll get shot. and doty is viewed, i have both inbox and a new pot and it's paying off the entropy and you guys know, getting in touch with other organizations so that he can launch is program even more if he comes we're heading along great enough now to sweden. it's capital stucco belongs to a series of islands,

so the water waste ever weighing the cd. but the canals built in the course of his fee for the benefits of the population, prevented the fish in the water from being able to move freely. now the city has a new infrastructure feature, but these a lot more fish, frankly, of the stockholders transport system now has a roof reserved. so it's a fish. lots of cities have lanes, but bicycles or taxi's for the purpose built fish tunnel that could be assessed. it's designed to allow, we could swim, is like 11 touch to migrate freely from the baltic sea coast to the east of stuck home on lake nailer. and then the west a system of locks in the city center is being completely over hold. the old network kept town many fish the seats, not anymore. no more. you cannot talk that fish that com jump haven't been able to

get through the system as a result or a fish life in like manner and was pretty one sided, but with new fish. now being brought in to biological diversity has increased, so we can insure the regrade. so if the fish don't cost of x and it's automatically is going to have think of what was not possible for almost 400 years due to the expansion of the lock system. is now possible again, fish, b, c's that don't co well with strong currents. can navigate the north river completely stress free to none. the tunnel is lit up by day to mimic natural conditions up to the face and would mean side quite a bit to spend a little bit further and then swim on. the other side got it. we're going to see more of a camera monitors which species passed by. this also has been an unexpected visitor . on the total is popular that are truly, there's been an incredible amount of fish on the off to that of swamp consoles. we

think it's the same alter that, keeps returning. think of that, maybe it's like a smorgasbord, so they also offering delicious fish to eat gorky scope apple phones protect the fish tunnel from the hunters like seals. so the combs aquarian, commuters can now navigate the city without native disaster of the worst thing in europe fall next to 4th. if animals could talk, what would they say? and if you could have a chat with any creature in the world, even one that no longer exist, which would it be? i bet i would love to talk to a whale or a cow. well, a reason it was a vision in cambridge, england allowed visitors to do exactly just that a mamma exchange for about 4000 years. the quota, a zebra relative, also long gone. and is this the tasmanian wolf? where do they live and above all?

why did these species die out at the zoology museum in cambridge recently? you could just ask them in person like this, pointless, don't over it, and you're guaranteed an answer scottish i was wondering if you could tell us how you became extinct the world we knew with that specific ecosystem is no longer the sea life on bodies just was i didn't come to the late 15 hundreds when humans arrived with settlers and sailors. the conversations were made possible with the help of a honey visit was received the right answers to their questions by an app. imagine this in this way, they can ask whatever they like and, and that's really, really valuable. things like they can have an actual conversation with the animal with the specimen. and i think brings it to life in a really different way than i normally them use index it it my silent skeletons, finding voice, closeness, and emotions instead of cold,

dry facts that must be an idea behind this experiment. as well as a bit of humor. could you tell us what your favorite piece of music music in my day we guns to the rhythm of the rustling leaves the gentlest way of the bomb phones and the distance calls a fellow visitors were able to interview a total of 13 different species and the museum, including some that are not get extinct. a fin? well, for example, or a cockroach, the animals could even adapt to the questionnaires, individual background. people can people tell them, tell the animal age, they also speak sites in a kind of age, age appropriate level. it speaks isn't in 20 different languages, so you can yeah, whoever you are, you can come and ask you a question. you can type in your questions or you can use voice. so it's yeah, sorry, english. the experiment lasted

a month and it's now being evaluated. but one thing already seems clear a i can make an important contribution to better understanding animals and their habitats. so now to gone to making space full, farmland is a key drive all the deforestation. but it's not the only one illegal sales of protect the tim, but can be a community to sole source of income. once a pioneer in far as conservation government has lost most of its woodlands. now sustainable forestry advocates for raising local peoples awareness about the natural result. this scene of the crime with a patriot test because secretly chopping down trees. but with thank just are we giving any inquiry and frank company wants to protect a gun. it's 1st and they've succeeded here in the restaurant to region. people came to mind illegal. and it's

a report from one of the monitors that i truly sports about. we stopping them for mining, and we realized that these mining activities let me know i was commission, knew nothing about it. so when we got to the north commission involved the actually did, they needed a spot from them and this came to a halt. so we could see that it's only a portion that's what destroyed and they have remains as through this. so at least, oh, the lights are very, very useful. frank and i do live close by boxes, in curious, be alone or an up on the cell phone. let seen report illegal logging in for as far as the report is sent directly to the headquarters of civic responses, gonna be and you started the money dream program which and then informs the authorities so that they can respond to direct to me is this all this in 2 pieces already that we can definitely see. so we have the web and stuff isn't that of the

move out into the mobile interface is basically for reporting for as, as the boxes and that is used as a one to community. i'm one of those use jo, a 60 also lives in the restaurant to region in dev. wildwood. yeah. community not far from the come. yeah. for raised, grew up here, and he and his family from the forest, where they also grew up vegetables and pump oil trees. about how long you run for it's more familiar to me. you know, we used to be able to hunt and gather under my products and what we saw, the destruction of a forest has deprived as of all of these things. these have had and it gets even effect when a livelihood your rain doesn't used to be a problem either. but it's now there is hardly enough rain for across the bill, but people are cutting the trees with chainsaw. so i'll let you know the bending them to make chunk home. yeah. so we are really suffering. will you think?

i might, you know, problem will help i want to be always on them on he has joined deforest conservation is to try to put a stop to read the, i think the civic response, guidance, monthly meetings. and i mean, the group is not active throughout the country. it's for risk conservation area is given qui, in front of id, i always joining the new comments who lives near the woods, the explain how the up wakes and talk about what those each person can do to protect it. therefore reyes a as a young with a, a cartoon or a normal bible study as how to report these incidents. there was a significant reduction in some of these and they get different human activities in this community. it would say you're bored to turn off work on such measures along or if i do, you as gunner continues to lose for us car if wouldn't agricultural, organization f e o estimates the west african country has the most around 20 percent of its forest areas in the last 20 years,

when we talk about the regulatory agencies like the 1st the commission, you know, they have some limitations. for example, in terms of logistics, to even be able to monita what they were on in the forest. the 1st is that some areas have to be close to, i says, so the for as gods ring supervisors and other offices of the 1st the commission. you have these telling use of movement. the non governmental organizations could become key to protecting the 4 raised the rich patch, which these things used or key reduce. and then the test also increased co minutes. his interest or willingness to protect for us is a cause to displeases communities, attendance and that would be drawn to serious of benefits. that's the defense of i mean, d yeah, i see. well, definitely keep campaigning to save the trees. after all,

he and his family only have these one forest from which to feed themselves. as for everyone who lives near a gun is woodlands, protecting the forest also secures the own lives in that state for today. so what did you think of aids? we love hearing from you, you can write to us at eco, a, d, w dot com. and you can find more reports about sustainability on that content and beyond. by searching for eco africa online. i've curriculums, illegals, nigeria, bye for now. thanks chris, of good bye for me to move one day in lou saca bags for watching. i hope we've given you something to think about and that you will join us here again on echo africa for more inspiring environment stories next week. so you then, the,

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