Hello welcome to our new eco at africa then vitamins magazine brought to you by d w k t m and toddles t v im sad im a man you from my role because and with me is my colleague and to you from nigeria hollandse im however going on the other side of the continent everything fine on this side of the continent so on the hello everyone and welcome to the show i mean those. In nigeria and we do have some exciting news stories on the environment from africa and europe for you heres how we have them all lined up. We get close to lions in uganda and find out the best ways to protect them. Into michaud we visit companies i want to reduce the Overall Energy consumption in the country. And in kenya we meet people making charcoal from human waste. We begin this Weeks Program in north africa industry into me. One of them a flood of the countrys entire energy supply. Is logically coming from fossil fuels such as oil and liquefied Petroleum Gas now companies in the country implementing measures to become what Energy Efficient in order to reduce Greenhouse Gases at the same time this process is supposed to create new jobs report i had a look to see what is possible. This Industrial Zone in tunis is home to a number of innovative companies. Since twenty fifteen the tunisian government has been expanding its commitment to environmental technology. Is just a year and a half old and already has a workforce of thirty the Company Makes every day dumps which are cleaner and more efficient than the older incandescent light bulbs. Twenty four year old many ben has is the daughter of the companys founder and is set to take the reins. Theres the government is calling on young people to get involved. It offers funds for developing new projects i qualified for a subsidy. Vocalize and i also try to encourage other young people to invest in this new technology. The conversion engine. Energy costs are high in tunisia the country imports most of its electricity mainly from algeria an industry consumes a large part of that supply. The onus is therefore on companies to reduce their energy use. The biggest brewery in the country is bt and make soft drinks as well as beer. German Development Aid agency g. I. Zed is advising the company on ways of saving energy. On changes already underway. The company has now installed bio gas plants for example. The booming process generates a lot of heat. In the past this went to waste but not any longer. But. This boiler behind me has been fitted with an Energy Saving system it uses the heat of the thermal energy escaping from the chimney its basically a heat recovery system. Unemployment is rife among many band hoskins generation over half the population of tunisia is under thirty many people she went to college with have yet to find work but Environmental Engineering is a growth industry. Our generation is the most affected by Environmental Issues and so now theyve started to become a big part of our thinking. This is them going on with. Environmental protection and Energy Efficiency new technologies that could give the tunisian economy a major boost and the countrys Younger Generation new opportunities. You probably know that germany is famous for its cars but people there are also crazy about bikes not just ordinary bikes but bike taxes that can feed up to we people yes you had it right in berlin munich and other cities like bike taxes Country Place cars but it seems that it would be a lot of work for the drivers i think n. T. Can tell us more you know what shall i ask myself the same question when i heard about these bikes but compared to classification rickshaws you dont have to struggle to drive a bike taxi they have high take a quick mint and the Climate Friendly eco motu maybe in germany everything lets take a look at how these sophisticated wonders on three wheels work. Its morning time in the heart of the german capital. Here at the brandenburg ace bike talk to that doing Good Business there especially popular with tourists who avail of the city towards the drivers offered. To local mall has been operating a bike tuffy for thirteen years. This is a super job for me ive always loved cycling and i like to get moving and i get paid for it im never bored with it and i get to show people the city and theyre usually really impressed with not every job is like that its an. Dozens. He charges forty five euros for a tour of the city. Or you want to write are we to happy or now you know youre not a life youre as light as a feather. Flock together the driver passengers and bike weigh about three hundred fifty kilos. If an extra boost is required theres a manually operated electric motor. That relies to walmart to save his breath for all the talking he does during the tour. So its coming here from here you can get a good view of the front of the right star its lit up nicely in the evening on. The bike taxi enables passengers to access places close off to conventional taxis and tour buses like just park for example the driver covers a distance of between thirty and one hundred kilometers a day that its when you spend the whole summer cycling you dont get x. And pains and as long as you take in all brakes eat something a few bananas then its fine. The bikes are pretty high tech they were designed and built in the southern german state of bavaria by a Company Called by. Cycle rickshaws average in a suit in japan by has given them a modern twist it takes two hours to charge up the battery for the most. Considering it can ferry three people two in the back plus the driver and has a range of sixty kilometers it could replace a car. Bike employs six people. Guys or should we test the motor and generic stefan cush was designed the bike taxi a quick check to make sure everythings in order. It took over eight years to develop the prototype. It doesnt have a combustion engine. It has to driving forces the person himself produces a bit of c o two but thats allowed. And the electric motor produces no c o two so its an eco friendly beer called. A bike taxi will set you back ten thousand euros. To sweeten the deal the engineer has designed a vehicle to accommodate. Bike gets a small part of the cost most of the admission you goes to the driver it takes about five months to pay back the value of the bike taxi. Stefan cush began building bike taxi seventeen years ago hes even designed a solar powered version. Bike taxis can be found in one hundred twenty cities around the world including new tokyo. Bike taxis are also attracting interest in the ethiopian capital addis ababa. And africa. Beginning in addis ababa. We hope we can establish ourselves well there. Our partners are certainly coming to us for environmental reasons. Theyre happy to have found a Business Model that can also support eco friendly games. Some two hundred by taxis are already on the street. Has just completed his first bite of the day. It was really great and everything was well explained im sure well do it again sometime. Before till its time to find his next passenger. Inside nigeria one monkey is now more threatened than any other in africa according to conservation experts there are only a few thousand real monkeys left in the wild the habitats in nigerias forests have been largely destroyed leaving the monkeys with nowhere to go and adding to their plight of. Being poached however a Nature Preserve in the mountains is providing them sanctuary and in the last few years a Breeding Program is helping the species to recover. Gabble is not just any primate hes a clan chief and by now good friends with innocence attacking this war just as rescued over six hundred drill monkeys and brought them to this center in southern nigeria many of them were previously held captive respects others as all fronts whose parents were hunted for bushmeat it tackle is the terminal to stop them from dying you know what i love is. That they are you and they are found only here and if we dont walk passionate me with this animal then the extent and the possibility of this animal is to go extant i think i would prefer to die than seeing these animals going. To happen to other drills as shrinking their only theyll eat anything including fruits like papaya for example. Keeping them in food is hard work and costly the pond religious foundation that runs the drill ranch has to purchase tons of vegetables and fruits per week with luck funding and we have more than. Six hundred. Sixty thousand or. Sixty thousand thats almost one hundred ninety year old rescue center staff food in a nearby village in part to help boost the villagers income that way theres less likelihood they will resort to illegally hunting the animals in the wild for the meat the ranch couldnt survive without outside help volunteers come here from. New primates can only be integrated in the drill enclosures once they have been tested for disease here in the veterinary station the ranch manager trained volunteers how to use tranquilizer darts in case they have to rescue a drill in the wild. Now its time for him to briefly stop and volunteers. Most of the local staff are used to hunt drills themselves now they carry out poaching patrols in the tackle dreams of being able to release the animals into the wilds someday soon. Very successful. Very strong and they are ready to go so once we have supports. They belong to the wild and the home but chief and his clan wouldnt really be safe there are only three thousand left in the wound and they are still being hunted so for the moment at least they seemed better of all the drill ranch under the watchful eye of. Us and now we have a new recycling idea for you pillows made out of Plastic Waste here in tanzania young people are collecting plastic mainly plastic bottles and turning them into designer sofas on tools and if youre wondering yes the soap was comfy and clean. In many african countries litter is a huge problem. This plastic takes hundreds of years to biodegrade. The pollution can cause cancer and it affects tourism and wildlife. The Tanzanian Company dounia designs wants to change that. Its designs furniture made up cycled Plastic Waste. The raw material comes from bin liners and plastic bags. After being cleaned theyre cut into pieces to create stuffing for the cushions. Thats how the plastic bags get a second life vest comfy couches chairs or footstools. The plastic can also be molded into playing says durable as wood these can be made into garden furniture. All the. Items are sustainable and eco friendly. Do you like that. If you are also doing your bit tell us about it. Visit our website for send us a tweet. Hash tag doing your bit we share your stories. The lions are monks the most awesome species on the planet and among the most endangered over the last three generations lion numbers have plummeted by over forty percent stoppard uganda is Queen ElizabethNational Park are doing all they can to protect the majestic king of beasts what do they do precisely so on. They carry out Scientific Research and also try to get the locals to protect the animals but this is no easy task lie of course then just to the peoples lives in the surrounding villages are reported joined a group of specialists all that they leave. The mighty lion. Around ninety of them live and you can just Queen ElizabethNational Park. Even though its home to a wide range of species there isnt sufficient prey for the large carnivores. So sometimes the lions venture into neighboring villages where they prey on the cattle. And that is crazy to the lions came at night they frightened the camels out of their enclosure when the cows ran out the two lions chased them and grabbed one of them. They tackled the cow and devoured it. At the end. It was a big healthy cal that had recently given birth they just devoured it. To safeguard that cattle herdsman have been accused of poisoning the big cats with pesticides. Dr ludwig c. Fat a german conservationist who came here in the one nine hundred seventy s. Wants to keep the conflict with the lions from escalating he works for an Organization Called the uganda Carnival Programme aware of the dangers posed by the predatory caps he sends out scouts to inform him whenever theres a lion attack. Weve got a distress call by a scout that there is another lifestyle. So we came immediately. She showed us the carcass. Of approximately a quarter was. Real its a look at the way it is you know leopards feed in a different way. Compared to the lions and to us. There are eleven villages within the National Park and many more located just outside it people have lived to since before the park was opened growing. Makes regular visits to schools in the area has a mr spock the childrens curiosity and teach them why lions are important both for the environment and also for the People Living here. So when you are young youre a lot more flexible. So from that point of view we expect that. The young people can embrace. Any new idea especially scientific fact the other very important aspect in cons of a for us it is a long term investment. One potential benefit for the locals theres money to be and from lying conservation. Regularly takes tourists out into the wild to experience the lions at close range. Besides paying a fee to the ugandan wildlife or thirty tourists also donate ten u. S. Dollars to see fit lion program the money goes to reimburse farmers whose livestock have been killed by the lions this compensation has changed the locals attitude towards the predators and. We cannot fully compensate the other one hundred percent but the. Resource flow increases with more tourists we can also afford to pay instead of fifty percent seventy percent and the change for the seasons then before we would have between five and twelve lines poison in one year just. And nowadays for then say the last five six years we lost knowingly to lions due to poisoning. The leopard Village Center that he founded villages and money entertaining the visitors. Over there. At least we have been if we did something from from the park when the visitors are going to need to come we. Are members get some money so send it. By supporting the local communities types that animals and humans will be able to coexist peacefully in the future. And finally did you know about going to the toilets come help them vironment yes you have right here always can be good for the climate here in kenya a group of entrepreneurs is planning this waste product into a chuckle which in time helps reduce the amount of firewood needed other less would records you the better for the climate but the idea of charcoal made from sound a bit disgusting well if like me youre probably wondering is it smelly or dotty surprisingly its not. The content of this container truck is nauseating and a source of clean energy. Human excrement its collected around naku a town in kenyas rift valley where waste often ends up in your my lake. And you know the human waste is converted into charcoal briquettes used for cooking the idea may sound disgusting but its not the resulting protests have gone through a remarkable transfer. Mation. Heres how it works at the local Wastewater Treatment plant the sludge is left out to dry for up to three weeks. The dried remnants are than heated to a temperature of seven hundred degrees celsius which instigates a process of carbon is ation. Then materials such as banana stop fiber and sawdust are at it. You are able to eliminate or the volatile. And it is at this point that to ensure that you doesnt smell it for hardly being you are cutting out the other processes which is merely and now because production. The pulverized mixture is then ready to be formed into charcoal briquettes. To bind the precancer and give them a pleasant fragrance ingredient such as molasses are added. At first people resisted the poop briquettes due to the taboo surrounding the use of human waste but now more and more locals are seeing the benefits like grace waka who uses them to cook the snack she sells. It doesnt have any odor it cooks well and the fire burns evenly youre able to cook quickly and her cats burn for a long time. For example if youre cooking one hundred two parties the fire is still going when you get to fifty. And like with charcoal where you have to keep adding more after cooking only thirty. The poop charcoal is now even firing up the local economy a kilo of briquettes sells for about fifty u. S. Cents. And since its attracted attention in other regions of kenya as well as neighboring countries such as rwanda the producers are looking to ramp up output. Current production is too tense. Then you want to produce ten tons per month twenty seven thousand eventually move to ten times but once we have the right equipment in place. Only a third of the who is residents are connected to the town sewage system that means theres still plenty of untapped waste to be turned into environmentally friendly charcoal. The creative possibilities to help the planet never seem to end but thats it for this edition of the environment magazine. Thanks again next week. And to find out more about. 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