the van line, the we will not say it away starts february 14th on dw, the a lot of them said that nature knows best we're about to hear from a range of people who are figure that out and they're turning to nature. well, solutions not in the process that transforming problems into opportunities. well, welcome to echo africa. i muller mama coordinate in lieu soc, has them the most cost, lagos, nigeria, what my colleague chris ellen gives us a low down into west to come in today's show. hi, chris. hi. well, i'm a great to see you again. oh, well,

welcome from me to coming up on today's show. that you done done from a great, a natural or content to you to plastic about the environment, the least in south africa, ensure both the nations bird life when father goes right and planting trees to come back to rise in temperatures and a lot of rain for in the germans capital but 1st the forest they shut it off with kaiser car in at twice the average global rate. so we know what we'd need to do. that is right, plant a tree. we stopped the showing molly where would meet all your old on top of your will put this principles are the heart of a business. she has come back in environmental degradation in the region that's as green risk of turn into deserts. and then par and communities are the same type. one woman, one tree, one goal direct here to show what do we just planting maureen,

does a money in one of the world's most? i read in valuable regions. this i help the young body and trip and know his of the shows plants the field. my biggest goal is to get to new young trees planted in the sy hill in mullins. what i love most is working with the women and young people in the joy on their faces. when we go to bite, the maureen goes off, well i still am waiting guy. that goes, my motivation is getting up every day in knowing that everything we do contribute to creating a positive economy, environmental, and social impact. in this i hear you all excited rookie out to try. who are it leaves nothing to chance, especially choosing the right support for this something that matters to say. the 1st thing we do is to prepare the ground and make sure it's no truck key because maureen goods reach deep into the soil in drugs would stop them with

growing or anything. not a lot of crap for launching the maureen does, is only to start. the next step is making sure they grow and flourish. so rookie, i to trouble re only use is natural food places and mix sure that each little tree is planted in a place with these award to source nearby. so because to be easy gated during the dry season trawler is in m b a in management. but for the project to work, she needs help she and least the support of women's groups explaining to them that maureen guy has come home, excited that she has managed to mobilize local communities and to stop these inefficient production chain. to i i think what i put a laptop as 3 to face months of to plenty we we tend to the women to help them have system moving us needs flowers in seats for the god, the trees sometimes with the men in children and pete the leaves washed them and

dried them if possible, then the sale as i the fresh needs land or dried leaves, sylvia and bundle. se fashion, see she a little money is roughly half does it? it is 112 classified forest covering almost 1350000 hector. that's less than one percent of the country's area. even this forest disappearing mainly because of pus. toro, nobody's him, and logging to meet the energy needs of the growing population. rookie, i to show is tied into a key, and it was the day that she 1st discovered the potential of moving the trains back home. she began exploring ways to find the effects of specific location and climate change. that's would also give people economic benefits. realizing that to maureen go was a promising solution. she developed a business idea rookie child who was able to grab a valuable experience in, i know,

platform for women. entropy noise in the company told them, i call you said i as well. that was all the products that i've come to, the trade for you to see was for you to share knowledge with the putting those in entropy knows and to find out more about people working in the environmental sick to connect it safety found on them such as marketing production and packaging specialist brokerage salary has 510 minute employees working for her. it has small factory using the machinery. she invested in the process of moving the leads into powder and into a range of products. maureen, that is in high demand, is a debt we supplement that helps regulate blood sugar levels. condis true in blood pressure. the final step is distribution. no, i found it on the for the to make all products available. if we molly, and beyond. we work with several distribution and these distributions take also our

cheese power to soft oil, antony's and market them on the right bank of the new chevy button. but my quotes so that our products are available all over the scene for a miracle of the young entropy no, has made a name for herself be on monday, she's received a number of awards for her with combating deforestation. but these one, she's particularly proud of. she proudly presents it to a 5 the so this i think that the city can lose that lose this mackey said that to clinicians. the one that meant most to us was the united nations recognition of a fight against the certification is a lend you. we received this distinction at the united nations headquarters in born . when is your own home? why does your uh, born oh, see as dude and as soon as you need such bonus,

what you've dates are key. i to trial worry to pass on. it includes, he hasn't been expertise to as many women as possible with the aim of to me. the threat of to certification facing my lead into an opportunity to and post during hope and resilience in the process. what an inspirational woman. we wish, so all the best, but we stay on the subject of trees, but now we crossed through europe. i'm the german capital berlin. it's actually one of your dream is cities, but even the rising temperatures reduce rain full and more and more new buildings means that the trees to, to cover is disappearing. so let's see what a floor it is and the public doing about it. this field maple tree at the finishing touch to would have been huff scott, which is abundant with insect tow a seas and retreats for the you in spend out on the west and that you funded

the fields maple was a gift from little a little slower cheese as part of its up in climate trees campaign. hey, i'm good afternoon gotten. we felt the good you could do with another tree, make it even greener, and we'd like to the idea of an oven climate tree that it would have a new home here in the past. and so we decided to apply because we, so we'd love to have one of those trees in all garden and gather some bomb items. i'm gotten home the oven climate trees campaign is now entering. it's the ga, over a 3 day period. it's drive a distribute service 70 specimens around spend though it's how drug applications were open to all those who owned property here and who were committed to looking off to the tree from private individuals to schools. sports clubs and building management companies to campaign was the idea of horticultural engineer. but

typically this month, she was concerned about temperatures in berlin, having whizzing by one full degree celsius over the past. 150 is school is that there is reached the staff leaves on seeing new trees is vital, bad by a mass means that they also improve quality of life, especially in cities on experience. they offer shades and have a cooling effect. um, they provide a habitat to bugs an insect to approve it on one die. yeah, the really, really important that we should be, especially in central areas when it comes to preventing cities from teaching up step of i have nothing to feed themselves. heights worldwide, cities makeup, just 2 percent of the planets land surface. and yet that home to some 10000000000 trees. one in 6 trees species are found in oven areas where the subject to damage from drought, stress, and vandalism. others have failed to make way for roads and apartment brooks. here on the northern outskirts of berlin, volunteers from

a tree planting association regularly attempt to be impossible for 10 years now. they've been planting trees. informa sewage fields. some important for mike cox is the local forest world, and he's a frankly visit tough copy to share his expertise on issues like soil degradation. in the late 19th century, the area became a dumping ground for sewage from across the north of berlin, and remain safe over a 100 years young emanuel. there's still a certain amount of contamination from cadmium labs and compa ends english. so if you walk through these old sewage fields, you'll see completely barriers where there's not even gras square like them. but i think that's due to excessive sewage. although the most serious problem is water retention. capacity to say i'm so the trees and shrubs being planted here today need to be hard to go willows, european white homes, and check a trees, manage with relatively little water. some of them are treated to

a quick boss before hand in a nutrient rich out the solution of the best in itself. so would not be enough to ensure a healthy stop for the saplings. difficult to the bottom of the why are we monitor our trees for 3 years? sometimes the gras squared is really high in the summer savannah style, putting the set things in the shade and also competing for the same move to the shop. so we cut that down on the far as to helps by bringing in huge tanks of hoops to other people. come on. we then set the house into the woods in teams which can look pretty funny us with watering cans in the forest. but it's really what's the effect of the fog and who to burn huff scott in the fields. maple tree takes pride of place. it survived its toughest re is so it should now be after the woods and it can hopefully forward to another $200.00. sometimes the color, bosh,

all bolts of gold has many uses. it's still really eaten but, but more often used to make musical instruments, even hots and the storage containers. not one pharma and you can to realize this traditional crop could also help solve a modem problem. and his idea is got, you don't have the 6 doing your bits a call a bunch garden south, west of compiler. the atmosphere here is almost magical. farmer, godfrey, k, gloria fills the gourds as a natural alternative to plastic containers and bottles. the release the river is just one example of how plastic pollutes the environment and threatens bio diversity. more and more people are realizing the plastic waste is a huge problem. a. this is now i know, but unity. this is

a new market. these something new on market. this one has added on our income. after harvesting, the gourds are dried and then hollowed out. it's important to farmer t gloria that nothing goes to waste. what comes out as a waste through the seeds that comes from insight? no, that's fee before the peaks that's kind of produced, some of would do a, a buzz on some of the v time in for the peaks. so they kind of still get something that's not what you say you couldn't deal with. so you see now there is nothing we kind of waste color bus are traditionally used as a vessel for storing dairy products and other things. street vendor, christine, i'm hung a, has seen an increase in sales data. and believe me that, that there's a lot of demand for these natural products. and so i've started growing the myself

. that was the color bush fan, martine oguao says the best thing is that these containers are biodegradable. it does not say, do you fix on the environment where you dispose it does a minute. but compared to the bottles they with plastic, but those that will pick what and use out of it. you will through the to become problem to, to invite them and you going to still produces some 600 tons of plastic waste every day. and just 6 percent of it is collected. godfrey kegal. yeah. hopes his calabash can be part of a much needed change for you of a, which one over there to be spit, go you get is all going. you get is. it's bev up to scan. we've found in many parts of africa so many they have a deep spiritual significance, so they often are focal point for gatherings. they have fruits, seeds, and leaves also serve as a source of healthy food. but tragically, climate change is having a devastating impact on bell labs,

and that's not the only threat they face. we have to kenya. now we're environmental is a working to rescue this beautiful tree. a ball bub tree can store what's up from allowing you to survive long periods of ground. for centuries, the so called cheese will for life, have played a key role with the village communities along the canyon coast. now to the a fretting by kindly change and also the last year, each valve up to full several centuries. we're exporting to georgia for planting the pump butte by former georgia and prime minister. this led to public outcry in can you how new come to upload something, but there's more than 20300. yes, i'm ticket that way. what are you actually saying to us? you do? well, harry, q rada grew up here on the coast. you can least decode too much in your life without bo bugs, all the trees in particular, the weight, i mean,

fortune to rule for the music in the community to this stream is several 100 years old. it has spiritual significance for local people. if we have this out, if we have a lot of it, these will come on the mic guess on the above up see as big as this one. it is one very important element. as i said, symbol a place where we we communicate to environmental activist l. fig. chelsea is on the mission to protect bob up trees. for years he's been fighting to ensure the survive of that. got this, call it the 2 of life because one the back of the tree. if maybe see not the lives i usually for the fall and that is used to put everything on that tree is useful on something else. it has lived it just on ages. hopefully,

tulsa is sure that the a be exported. well, he says the real problem is farmers and investors send involved, but cheese along the coast to make room for culture and construction. depending on the size, if sales tree can fetch between the equivalent of 502-1100 euro's good money for a local phone, but a living tree can on the form of formal it's which contains a large range of vitamins and minerals in powder form it's in high demand international, the super from the food cell. so popular game, can you, betsy cuts. so can you meet the teacher and sells them on the side that funds, how an equivalent of $69.00 euros per month, a considerable boost to have a teacher's salary of $200.00. you lose a little cooler level by the food and also opportunity as for earning money to me.

i mean, if you don't budget the base, i don't think the little money that we are given for cutting down a tree cut in any way compared to the benefits we gain from it. you know, the left for you done was the to the, to the whole ethic to see also visit schools and can be fee to raise awareness of all the trees. i'm only hearing people. he tells them about the significance with a new quote. the close the statement on choose how to present them correctly. yeah, forecasting, planting. wasn't been done for trees and funded schools and can we pick county what a future that? oh schools in the clinic, county have foot or cherry, or it's a non business brand, which the activities is pursuing with determination. together with students, he's planted more than $200000.00 trees. so far. have you ever heard of the green, green di lemme well here as an example, south africa has been struggling with the energy crisis for decades and reducing is

reliance on fossil fuels and that's a good thing for wind farms can impacts wild life. so how can we resolve the conflict? winter park east climate friendly bleeds can be deadly to birds, such as the cape culture and the black harriet, south of because rarest endemic bird of pre it's small risha motus job to protect. and the former teaching assistant has retrained on his now employed at excel c o wind farm, located about 100 kilometers east of cape town. the 32.5 mega watts wind projects generates enough electricity to power about 16000 households. as one of 9 by a diversity money to is marcia marching scans the landscape for birds. if one approaches, she makes a phone call to get the nearby turbine to shut down. the timing depends

on the species. for the black a o is my eyes, be talking to my desk before we go in, must be talking to meet those for us to do or do so they don't by that can be on stand by when it's coming near the deadline on killing me that we put the over 80 percent of south africa's electricity still comes from coal fired stations. much of this infrastructure is dilapidated. a frequent power outages with a stream on the economy and make every day life more difficult. south africa now has about $1000.00 wind turbines intended to provide more and cleaner energy, but that comes at the price. this squared, which presumably flew into a turbine tower, is one casualty bird. last, alaska has been collecting data on the of the, the surveys for fatalities of every single wind farm. and there's about 32

operational wind farms as we speaking 2024 into 2024 now. and we know that they kill a lot of the uh, the, the average is about $4.00 to $5.00 birds per turbine per year across all of those $32.00 uh wind farms. back to maricia ma, 2 issues sounds the alarm, the turbine easily switched over briefly. once the board has passed, operations then resumed again, as this shuts down on the month program has been running for 5 years with almost no loss in energy production. no one else has really done anything like this before. so we faxed in high, quite a high percentage and we've been very pleasantly surprised at how this will affect that affects the bottom line. essentially there's less than one percent revenue loss as a result of running this program. today, new wind farms have to meet the strict environmental standards, the excel. so when farm is near black, how are we a breeding sites today,

getting it built would be challenging due to the mitigation measures that have to be put in place. conservationist. odette smith welcomes efforts to reduce bird fatalities. what says more needs to be done? the wind farm has and started with a fantastic program called shut down on demand, which they are implementing. and they are probably implementing it better than any other wind farm in the country. but the spot that's because heavy is relatively small bit and, and the system relies on human beings who do make mistakes. and do it overlooks things. sometimes the beds heavy as are still getting killed for and you has equipped approximately 20 birds with gps truck has allowing them to follow the birds route and locate nesting sites the end you hope it's findings and recommendations can play a role in decisions about where new wind farms built at the moment when,

where we have trucks, but it's, it's been incredibly useful already where there is a wind farm application or an approval for a wind farm for us to show our way. they may be high risk because of just the pest fires and packing of the bits that are coming out of this particular colony demoya . and did you wind from 120 kilometers no of cape towns is traveling a different approach to bird protection on each of the following turbines, where the most broad collisions occur. red stripes have been added to one router bleak. this was done at the cost of $120000.00 bird experts, rob simmons set up the pilot project. it takes into account the unusual vision of birds of pre staple, very low contrast ability is 10 times pour the new and i. so if you may,

if you make it color the raptors are going to see it from a long way off. and if you make it to a high contrast, also they going to see it. and it does seem to be working here. 5 days a week. teams visit the turbines to look for carcasses. bills with red bleats, they don't find any casualties. the really good news is from this hope field, when from that in 19 months post treatment we have managed to reach use to pay, tell it to you right to 0. so the no more, no more wrapped us and it was 7 before we started in 2 years and 0 cents despite the fact they're still wrapped as around back of the excel. so when from one but species is benefiting, especially from the monitoring. so we see it as highly effective. so the program essentially initially was designed primarily for k fulcher. and we've seen a 100 percent effective in. in other words, we have had no cape fault if it shows he's scared to excel. so you as

a result of implementing the program, you might stop by us for more. we sure martin, she says that nature didn't use to mean so much to her, but watching the birds has told her to appreciate the painting as that's the most important point. we can all learn to appreciate they to stop and look enough to beautiful planet is up to say good bye. now, ive chris that lives illegals by jerry. yeah. if you'd like to watch more live 10 stories, they'll search for eco offer go online. you'll find all posts of content for buffers and the does good buy from me mama, one day in the soccer. we hope you have enjoyed the show and if anything has inspired you to let us know. 2 at echo at dw dot com, we love hearing from you. so i'll see you next time the

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