weakened germany to hold elections next month after the previous 3 party government collapsed. meanwhile, both countries have seen a significant rise in support for fire right parties as of several older nations. 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'm, i'm, i'm gonna 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 love. oh,

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 use to plastic bunch of environment the least to south africa and show of both the nations bird life. a wind farms 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 need to do. that is right, plant a tree. we stopped the showing molly where we meet all your old on top of your will put this principles, are the hawk of a business. she's come vaccine, 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 use planting maureen, does a money in one of the wells most read invaluable regions? this to help the young by the end trip and know his of the shows plants the for my biggest goal is to get to new young trees planted in the sy hill in modeling. 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 impacts. and in this i hear you on the side rookie out to try. who are it leads? nothing to chance, especially choosing the right support for this something that that matters who's

say the 1st thing we do is to prepare the ground and make sure it's not true or key . because maureen goods reached deep into the soil in drugs which stockton was growing or anything or that across all launching the maureen does is only this time . the next step is making sure they grow and flourish. so rookie, i to chat already on the use is a natural fit places and mix sure that each little trees 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. no, i'm excited that she has managed to mobilize local communities, can just stop these and efficient 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 them in insured. china and pete the leaves, washed them and dried them if possible. then the seal as i the fresh needs land or dried leaves. sylvia and bundle of feet high school. 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 the test tour. oh no. my diesel and logging to meet the energy needs of the growing population. rookie, i took showers, typed it in turkey, and it was the day that she 1st discovered the potential of moving the trees back home. she began exploring ways to find the effects of specific ation and climate change. that's what also gives people economic benefits realizing that's maureen go

was a promising solution. she developed a business idea brokerage. i 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 partners in entropy knows and to find out more about people working in the environmental sick to connect it safety. so non ecosystem such as marketing, production and packaging, specialist groups, yogic 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 the range of products. maureen, that is in high demand is a detritus 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,

at this to make all the products available. if, when 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 version. but my quotes, so that a product of valuable all over the scene for i'm apple 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 us either 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 on this, what you've dates, rookie, i to trial worry to pass on. it includes the argument, expertise, to as many women as possible with the aim of to meet the threat of to certification facing money 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 cluster of the german capital berlin. it's actually one of your dream is cities, but even the rising temperatures, reduce rainfall 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 and the finishing touch to which had been huff scott, which is abundant with insects a seas and retreats for the inch bound out on the west. and that you fun in

the fields maple was a gift from little a little slower cheese as part of its up in climate trees campaign. without any guidance, we felt the guardian 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 thought we'd love to have one of those trees in all god. and again, as one of my tenants, i'm gotten home the oven climate trees campaign is now entering. it's the ga, over a 3 day period. it strive to 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 engineering. 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 motives on seeing new trees. it's vital that by a mass means that they also improve quality of life, especially in cities on experience. they offer shades and have a cooling effect, and they provide a habitat to bugs an insect to approve it. on one guy. 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 speak to miss l type. 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 on funds and lives and 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 business for mike cox is the local forest world and he's a frequent visit tests happy 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, but there's not even gras square like them, but i think that's due to excessive sewage of the most serious problem is water retention capacity. so the trees and shrubs being planted here today need to be hard to go willows, european white homes, and check her trees,

manage with relatively little water. some of them are treated to a quick boss before hand in a nutrient rich out of the solution. that's in itself, so would not be enough to ensure a healthy stopped for the saplings. glad will 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, the far as to helps by bringing in huge tanks of food to other people. come 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 whole fucking and who took the in house scott in the fields maple tree takes pride of place. it survived its tough uh, 3 years. so it should now be out of the woods. and it can hopefully forward to

another 200, sometimes the color bosch of 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 the realize this traditional crop could also help solve a modem problem. and is the idea is got, you don't have the 6 doing your bits. a calabash garden, south, west of kampala, 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. this is now i know, fortunately this is a new market. there's something new on market. this one has added on our income. after harvesting, the guards are dried and then hollowed out. it's important to farmer t gloria that nothing goes to waste. what comes out as the weights due to that, the seeds that comes from insight? no, that's fee before the peaks that's kind of produced. some of would do uh, a buzz on some of the re tell me where the peaks, so they kind of still get something that's not what you say you put in there with. so you see now there is nothing we can do with color, bosh, or traditionally used as a vessel for storing dairy products and other things. st. vendor christine, among a, has seen an increase in sales data and really me that, that there's

a lot of demand for these natural products. and so i've started growing to myself. that was the, the color bush fan, martine oguao says the best thing is that these containers are biodegradable. it does not say defects on the environment where you dispose of the menu, but compared to the bottles they would plastic. but those that we pick, what i'm used to feed your through, i'm the to become problem to, to invite them in uganda 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 event, which one over there to be split. categories. oh boy, you get is. it's bev up to can be 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 of ball bub tree. you can store water from allowing it to survive long periods of ground. for centuries, the so called cheese will for life play the key role with a new village communities along the canyon coast. now the, the, affecting by kindly change, and also the last year, each valve up to full several centuries who were exported to georgia for planting the pop built by former georgia prime minister. this led to public outcry in kenya . how'd you come to abroad? something that there's more than $2300.00. yes, i'm ticket that way. what are you up to on the 2nd to us? you do well. harry, q rada grew up here on the coast. you can leave,

because too much into life without bo bonds. all the trees in particular that lee, i mean, fortune to rule for them and you can the community to this tree is several 100 years old. it has the spiritual significance for local people. if we have drought, if we have a lot of it, these will come on the mac address on the above up see as big as this one is one very important element as a faith symbol, a place where we communicate to environmental activist ethic, tulsa is on the mission to protect bob up trees. for years he's been fighting to ensure the survive. i'm not gonna just call it the 2 of life because one, the back of the 3 is maybe see not the lives i usually for the fall. and that is just to put everything on that tree is useful on something else. it has named it

just on ages. hopefully policy is show that the a be exported. well, he says the real problem is form is an invest us sending bob up cheese along the coast to make room for culture and construction. depending on the size, if sales tree comes such between the equivalent or 502-1100 euro's good money for a local phone, but a living tree can and the form of formal it's which contains a large range of vitamins and minerals in powder full, it's in high demand, international, the super from the, from itself. so population. can you, betsy cods, what can you, me as a teacher, i'm sells them on the side that burns how an equivalent of $69.00 euros per month. a considerable boost to have a teaches salary of 200. you lose a little cooler level by food and also opportunity is for earning money to me.

i need to get the electrical outlet the face. 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, if i had done was, it's not part of the whole ethic toasty also visit schools into the fee to raise awareness about the trees, i'm only giving people, he tells them about the significance with a new coat ecosystem on choose how to plant them corrected b, a forecasting, planting one minute on for trees and funded schools, and can you pick county what a future that uh schools in the county have foot or cherry. so it's a non business plan which the actually this is pursuing with determination. together with students. he's planted more than 200000 trees so far. have you ever heard of the green, green di, lima?

well, here as an example, south africa has been struggling with the energy crisis for via caves 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? when depa east climate friendly bleeds can be deadly to birds, such as the cape culture on the block, harriett selves have because rarest endemic bird of pre it's small racial mazda is 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 megawatts wind projects generates enough electricity to power about 16000 households. as one of 9 biodiversity money to is maricia 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 is must be talking to my desk before we go in, must be talking to me. those for us to do or do so they don't by that can be on stand by when it's coming near the domain on killing me though, we put all of that the over 80 percent of south africa's electricity still comes from coal fired stations. much of this infrastructure is dilapidated. the frequent power outages split the stream on the economy and make everyday life more difficult . south africa now has about 1000 wing turbines intended to provide more and cleaner energy. but that comes at the price described, which presumably flew into a turbine tower, is $1.00 casualty. but most of us go have been collecting data on each of the,

the surveys full fatalities of every single wind problem. and there's about 32 operational wind farms. as we speak in 2024 and a 2024 now, and we know that they kill a lot of but the, the average is about $4.00 to $5.00 birds per turbine per year across all of those 32 wind farms. back to more we should want to issue sounds, the alarm the turbine easily switched over briefly. once the bread 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 had 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 to the new wind farms have to meet the strict

environmental standards themselves. 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 brag fatalities. the book 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. so as 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 prey . staples very low contrast ability is 10 times poor,

then then you and i. so if you may, if you make it color the raptor is 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 they was 7 before we started in 2 years and 0 cents despite the fact they're still right to is around back of the excel. so when from one breath 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 care takes also as a result of implementing the program. you might stop by mistakes us for more we sure modern. 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 looking off to beautiful planet, is up to say good bye. now i've chris eliza liggins by jerry a. if you'd like to watch more lifting stories, just search for eco offer go online, you'll find all posts of contents for buffers. and the just good buy from me while i'm with 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 d w dot com, we love hearing from you. so i'll see you next time

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