mine because no one should have to make up your own mind dw, may for mine's the house, you climbed the monkey one step by the time making a well, the better place might seem like a huge task. while we're about to see how ordinary people can make a difference, others by others to join in. welcome to eco africa. i'm present lives in lagos, nigeria, and with me from the such as of the, as my wonderful colleagues, beloved because hello everyone and welcome is great to have you.

here's what we've got coming up on today's show women and goes unite to tackle the climate crisis. and you've gone to the fisherman in egypt to a casting the nets, wida and the amazing power of something called a pocket forest. we not had to uganda with climate as off those like floods and slides that are happening more and more often who is affected. 2 women so often then not involved in decision making. and so the needs are not considered. a group of women in uganda decided it's high time for change. they're making sure the next generation is better equipped to tackle the climate graces. the.

these young women of training to become experts and the just in climate resilience and the environmental protection trainer to a need to. but very i knows that as the climate crisis continues, people will need to adapt. a new policies will have to be put in place. 7 the so as that that he had to do we, i really just creating strategies to be included in this policy. so every time they exclude the argument and go every time to exclude, we mean it means we are not getting the real people that need to be at the center of the table. because everyone's using energy. we cannot invite men to discuss energy because uh, we meant other ones using energy every day. they know the entire jenny or them collect the fire, which to making food and all the different natural cities that come with me. here

is it's education hop outside ginger goes for climate action, teaches women and marginalized groups, practical skills for climate resilience. shanina teasing, learned how to make an eco friendly stove from natural materials. now she policies on her knowledge. she means it joined the program at 16 after she became pregnant and had to leave school as well as the stove. she also learned to make pre kits from biodegradable waste as an alternative to firewood. she ends in additional income selling them. so now i'm one young man, 0 me cuz i have benefits. it does an individual that doesn't cost me any money to make them work at any time when you're welcome. now the brick happens. so for the equivalent of 3 euro cents each. okay, so i sell 10 briquettes besetti euro cents. i benefits a low mile from them. i also billed the stoves for people and they give me money. so the people out there shouldn't think that it's wes, this for me,

i make money and i'm doing well. well, the thing is in, you'll get a mass in places where it's coming to cook on an open fire. people suffer from significantly more spirit tree and the to old problems. un estimates that toxic fumes from traditional cooking staves are responsible for more than $3000000.00 premature deaths each year. mostly women and children. the briquettes used in this stove a safer to use because they don't produce as much smoke and no trees the chopped down for firewood elsewhere. a member of the team shows how to produce bio gas, which can also be used to cooking live stuck menu or food waste is fed into a bio desta, an underground container. when micro organisms break down the organic matter and produce gas, smuggle the kettle should gas from the buyer digest. it can then find a hub with a clean slate with no smoke or set. so when they come home to me,

i looked at the solid remains left in the buyers, i guess to convey to be used to specialize a seedlings and cups on the field. that's a good yield. also requires efficient irrigation and enough rain which has become an increasing the unpredictable fact to in recent years. that's why goes full climate action also teaches people how to construct a route to harvesting pants. which can offer a lifeline in times of droughts, or lorayne or some established rules. associates in the area can be a health hazard because some fact trees close to ginger discharge does he will to, into the environments this water source a little further down the valley is probably affected by the pollution. still local people drove water from it because it's that right and the source goes to climb. attraction and other civil rights groups, joint forces cooling for the companies responsible to be held accountable. we've

had demonstrations, we've written a petition to the problem. and if you've done to, and this has now been walk soon, re sent you the minutes that came on close to the companies that way of releasing micro plastics in the, in the water. so it's a success is that to the quote, the company's the company heads of come to have a meeting with the communities and the have already committed themselves to building the trenches and also retain some of the ways towards the underside group as well as success that can also be traced back to the organizations empowering programs. do i need to be the a wants to expand and reach even more goals and women, the opportunity my, the center, the reality, the young human and goes the, the realities of the women in differential areas. we had the state, different diversity, can shift the different solutions to us, clement, a deposition, and we believe that the women in the areas can give us some should, can have all the solutions. and that's why we're investing in different knowledge sharing way,

investing in creating the next generation of young people sending this work claim if need us to pick up the sheets and forward those decision makers accountable every other day. the, a lot of us love all cell phones and spend hours and social media. so how about a, using that to benefits environment? that's the idea behind an initiative in senegal, this inspiring people to clean up their neighborhoods and make them and nice a place to live when it comes to waste management set. a goal is they had a many countries in the region, but there's still room for improvement and the residents are rising to the challenge. this residential is, you're just east of the con incentive goal that's become famous joe. cool,

and your end is one of the cleanest neighborhoods in the country. it has been awarded, run up, and a nation wide point is to cut it out online. uninstalled about the your findings and a buzz of laptops to keep the streets and all these a fast flipped. they will be the only people we didn't think we would. we in the so what, what we knew alkali on there, leah, her name was you know, how it's 1st and foremost the community airport removed. you know, i think it was good. what do you want to put in your face, but it's really much of it. the residence people now called me for all over the surrounding neighborhoods to get plans and make their living environment better to the you are the boss nipple. what is fred fussed about? the cleaning competition in teeth community up to be shipped to gianni falls has been reaching out and encouraging residents to refund the neighborhoods. in many places, the seeds potential for more growth and more reading, read the nature,

love a must know on he's to arrest in the law mean a before of he is around 6 take you told me to the west of the car. he walked his over the prize waiting for it, so he's labeled he to, you know, team and fought with several of these neighbors as given the area up for up on a cold, but which one them a lot for the cleanest new buffalo didn't cynical phonetic we need to make it simpler, is the ticket or you want me to meet you guys think that we went to nestle reason a tree funds to buy plants as we watch 150 plants and with the help of a garden. uh, we plotted them once the work was done possible as well amazed by the change and begun taking photos on tape to kind of shut videos on social media and let me pretty me fussing. i've had to be a lawsuit in the run up to the competition local. so don't we placed a written reading plant has they also repainted faucets and improve the waste money . the residents are happy with the results and one to skip. it's like that. you go

to the ballot getting it, but then we do our best to keep the streets clean and take care of the flow as we see. but this is not enough that we have committed to maintaining a good quality of life on the clean environment. you know, unable who somebody knew by the be before, you know, the only right. yes, i left the good get a little bit easier. what you in the get an important book. last what we did, i think we should focus on planting fruit trees and continued to raise awareness. i got the flu, they fix it, and that made the task to see that was agreed to. that's how people can learn the importance of a clean and healthy environment. suffice for the sites that's that we'd also like to understand that there is no life without going to be no liability. so if you want, i mean, i mean the changes had a positive impact on the residents, quality of life and mental well be which the map of these as also ne,

is proud of the impact that the competition has had on several areas across the c t views during the preparations for the final, the neighborhood. so us post up, but in many cases there was no real photo op. in the mean neighborhood, a web is of the consistency under we did not need to use the idea that really stands out. i've us through the, on my way to walk every morning. it makes me very happy because the painted the whole street. all the houses are the same color this shit on the pavement. a really pretty. it's ex truck old and that way. across the country, thousands of people to class in the clean up competition and also the 2nd clean is neighborhood, improve residents will come the results and other thinking about the next step. when you're going to stop seeing on the slide, it feels good to stay here until the evening to breathe. a good. yeah. but

unfortunately the vehicles that drive down the street, we thought because it would be even better. so i knew if you'd already contacted somebody there who must do your regular, the post clips and social media to inspire others to follow these example. he's determined to keep these things before true and beautiful and we will watch in the future. bringing back more green spaces to our neighborhoods. not only makes them more pleasant. it also helps control temperatures as they've got by diversity. and every little bit of green re helps as we see the next story from one of offered those most beautiful cities, cape town, south africa, a lush green, small and dense. this 200 square meter, verdant patch,

outside of cape town, is a pocket forest. and a waist, as in the midst of a built environment, serving a purpose for both nature and humans. we planted 3 threes per square meter over here. this is what we would find, you know, photos of the 2000 years, you know. so we trying to really speed up the process cuz this would take thousands of years to naturally phone using the milwaukee method to plant puckered for us. it's a great way to boost biodiversity and restore ecosystems and urban areas. the milwaukee method, it started in the 19 seventy's in japan at yokohama university by doctor kit. i'm a walkie and he came up with this method with you. so in japan, rapid open a zation taking place in the green spaces, disappearing strongly foster planting native trees and the most diverse species possible in the tiny forest can help build climate resilience and create community

wellbeing and urbanized areas. the sites for pocket forests are chosen carefully, their social and historical significance are also taken into account. this forest is being that quick nation of 1st nations people. because this is, besides the way the 1st nations people used to live freely before they meeting with the portuguese. and with a dutch set list, a one time jo, dean, has team dump with assume the project, a group that helps to plan pocket forest all over the world and bring nature back to where it's missing. so many people, it's very hard to access. the naturally invited ones of the mountains may take them one hour to 2 hours just to reach. they said we bring this forest closer to people and it's really become a space to boost mental health and mental wellbeing. and very rough fabrics, so society, the suki project has helped plant more than $200.00 pockets for us and 50 cities

around the world. and keep till now has 5 of them day by day, the more by the city that you're seeing it according to the photos and the most stories we are getting from community members. it's really bothering us to keep going forward with calories and creating profit for us in south africa. a glance in mold trees on cleaning up us cities helps wild life to flowers, but mold in live impacts wide life in other ways to noises. see these bright lights on airplane spa lines. do all post problems for birds and animals. requested all to spring, europe's largest wildlife clinic seas many casualties. and they do more than just the streets, the outpatient. and all those feathery friend rescued tanks, the natural o tanner denies the capital bank to help in a spanish want line clinic. the voted prey had flown into

a fence and injured its leg off to being tact. it'll be released to be on michael. need that guy you that the list was not even releasing them into the wildest, the most beautiful, along with that just gets along some fall by the way, side of the all of us here do our best to, to ensure as many animals as possible, combined survive but uh, but uh, if they, if they present the whole meant the we in my honda on the, on the outskirts of madrid, visiting your laundry is wildlife patch and right clinic in just one year. $6500.00 native animals were treated and brought in by hikers all foresters, mainly funds, but also rep titles and be on queen king model this baby while all was found roaming around her low now after a hunt, most likely its mother was shot while the bose not protected. in fact,

several places have problems with population control. still, they will treat the little squeak. there's been a lot of the time we might release this animal in a hunting reserved word might migrate to an area where hunting is allowed, but it can survive as long as we don't decide which animals can be shocked and which cannot. but in this facility and every one gets a chance, that's what the outcome in total sentence defends a little bit of seagulls. another team examines an eagle out the bed with shots. one of its eyes had to be removed but vent fernando gonzales is confident that it can be released back into the wild. after all hours on the tunnel and rely mainly on that hearing. conflict. on 1st examination,

we discovered that he had been hit several times. once in the, i totally forgot that unfortunately we see quite a lot of this here take on that myself too many protected animals being shut out because of the heaters in case one of the like a whole bunch of price, eco owls, unprotected in spain and must be hunted out of it's an environmental crime and that's how we deal with it. perform autopsies and report to the authorities. so defense can be legally pursued. good thing is how do you estimate how these prison voucher didn't make it? so it did have power, line your hand, the lopez finds the via buttons on it. we even electrocution like this are treated as criminal offenses known as accidents. energy companies must take action for the okay. you see unfortunately this happens quite often in the although we

actively search for dangerous spots as being energy companies to better insulate their power lines that will see birds keep dying different when that especially the big ones outside of the scale of some animals have to stay here a good with severe injuries, they wouldn't stand a chance in the wild on like nachos castro, which is ready to leave the clinic and show off its abilities in the wild will they say you don't see anything. it can fly over a 100 kilometers per hour, but it's had stay steady. if it didn't say it wouldn't be able to handle the fatal look, it's had all witnessed a still sick day. most of the time has almost come. a thrill that never gets old for nacho and he's connie's no soon, but it's almost like touches you how to get onto mine. no matter the animal,

it might be an inconspicuous or even majestic there. it's always something special to some of you. i'm finally the moment to truth, the effects of the castro. so once again, the now it's not just wildlife one line that's suffering plastic waste. it's a huge problem all over the world. i live on the ocean south field with its the mediterranean is especially bad with an estimated 2800000 tons of plastic waste, tiny pots, it goes and up in fish and ultimately enough to we had now to egypt, which was the med so radiant a social enterprise is driving a clean up there with the help of some on like lights of how many moods a k, a newly set itself on his fishing boat from the egyptian port city of alexandria.

at the end of the day, his net swept before with fish, though his catch of the day will be garbage. which has an eye benefit. my son is fish and i clean the sea for them. the. those who heads out tough to me will find more fish. it's about why that sounds like his father literally is a fisherman and he's being costing his nets off the coast here for over 25 years. the huge amount of waste accumulating in the sea. he calls how prompted to lead to take action over the country looks at me and we used to make more money on the fishing grounds. the case fine, we'd sailed for half an hour to find fish. now it takes 5 to 7 hours, which costs us money on the floating rubbish. she's threatening maureen life and the livelihoods. the fisherman marine waste is a problem in old 22 mediterranean countries. every day 30 to 40 truckloads of plastic waste dumped into that see the egypt he's one

of the major pollutants of the mediterranean, said the problem is particularly bad here. in lowering the fishermen used to dispose of that trash by throwing it into the sea. now we collect to use nets from them when they see the project and how it's implemented they're excited and want to contribute because. busy the original project mediterranean clean up started here in greece, and was noticed by the social enterprise and a la its mission is to promote sustainable fishing methods and to reduce marine pollution. we work in greece with more than 1200. and one of them, a 100, those people from me to and they were telling me over that list here it is. we really need to dispose of things. so like why does it have yellow physically and the la extended its mission for a clean mediterranean to egypt. with the project in alexandria,

overseen by magazine, convincing the fisherman to catch waste instead of fish was anything but easy. it had the cypress of the ottoman the knock. the challenges included the fisherman themselves, which gave literally a key role that with united keeper, since a loony in less than an hour, he understands the issue and is well aware of the community. he started to talk to them in a different way and the mom was 2nd of november. now around a 100 fishermen are involved and that number's a growing since the project started in may 2023. they've collected more than a 100 tons of waste off the coast of alexandria for some dealing with marine waste has become a full time commitment for service. oh awesome. it is productive to what with the fishermen, i collect the ghost nets for recycling and at the same time i presented the wealth of marine life. both of these ghosts nets and deb reconnected from the c a transformed into something new and resign king facilities that processed and turned

into rule material. so plastic products, ropes, an interlocking tiles shut off the machine that's of course have the property of sticking to say, which makes the treatment from recycling expense while it was still able to make an excellent and viewable final product. we're a strong competitor in the market and we can cover up production costs. so that the office of maya and the last says that 58 percent of the wasted collect is recycled to impound the facilities that doesn't tend up in the city again. still a lot needs to be done to prevent waste from ending up in the sea in the 1st place . until then, the fisherman, like literally, will have to continue trolling for garbage and that efforts have inspired them to make their own waste fishing net. the new show us the

special, much like to net. so we not competing with other fishermen, franklin southern, but that's 3 times a week. luly set sail not to catch fish, but to collect up to 300 kilos of golf age, hoping to inspire others to keep the sea clean. what a great job they're doing that it's time to say good bye. now we really hope you have been inspired to change your world to get others involved too. if you have do, let us know at echo dw dot com, we love hearing from you. i'm on mac one day in the sock a. see you next time. and i am chris the lens in lagos, nigeria, if you'd like to watch both clifton stories, just search for eco offer got online, you'll find lots of contents, join us again. next time. the

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