Hello and welcome to the latest edition of eco africa the environment magazine. Were coming to you from show in austin state southwest nigeria i mean to bring you new and Inspiring Stories on Environmental Issues from all over africa and europe but im not alone with me its my calling from kenya shout thanks. And a very warm welcome to you this is what we have lined up on the show today. We join scientists or travel through the democratic republic of congo to find out more about if you meet. With a market that tries to reduce food waste by acknowledging so by. We find out how a bunch of fans in south africa can help people from a bubble. Its no longer news that nigeria generates a lot of waste and the country in the challenge with how to manage this waste where they are recycling or reusing. Challenge of managing the waste is there now across the country and across the world weve had that waste can be turned to well weve also heard that waste can be turned to beautiful things but is it possible to sit in your house in one place and make the wealth or make the beautiful things yes it is thanks to this for students of the Government Girls College and duty who have come up with an app that can link those turning the waste to these beautiful things are paying money for waste and those generating the waste lets go see how their work. Wastes over three Million Tonnes are generated annually in nigeria its an environmental disaster and a Health Hazard only twenty to thirty percent of the waste is collected for recycling and reuse. These teenage girls from a budget want to change that police lois and justin are have created an app that they hope will make a difference in the way people deal with their garbage. Its called the green world tech up in new york as who told you when you know. We want to make life easier. Because people always go in the street. And first if there is you know when. To help to leak by also there has to do is. And this is how the app works. A form is sent to an administrator who responds via email the prospective buyer then goes to pick up the refuse or instructs the seller where to deliver the packaged waste. The app is still in the test phase so far only friends and neighbors can use it. Different types of recyclable waste are rewarded with a system of credit points credits can be redeemed for instance for drinking water. I brought betsy. Plastics for plastics and my god each plastic is one point. Two ten so at least five thirty by three hundred is good to go. Stella was a child who has founded an ngo where girls can go after school to improve their math and Technical Skills here they also learn to program the gap and create a Business Plan for the system. Most of the student actually have been the one who got. The bias because they actually went online and sexed with. Environment to see who and who uses plastic. And so they did it themselves i do think it will help them do. The girls who want to clean up nigerias waste hope to go public with their up soon their goal is to sign up at least two thousand users in the First Quarter of twenty eight. People on a surprisingly very important for the ecosystem and the people and in the democratic republic of congo are one of the Worlds Largest tropical people land areas but they are not being protected like they should be shot. Thats right but now its about to change thanks to the help of scientists from england together with greenpeace they go on an expedition to raise the level of environmental awareness off the local population. The start of a new day in the democratic republic of congo. Behind the village is done swamp land satellite images have revealed the existence of a peat bog here in the forest. Biologists say its one of the most important ever discovered thats why a team of british and congolese scientists have invoked on a joint Research Project getting to the peak both involves an arduous hours long hike through the swamp everything is soaking what english geography simon lewis has been surveying here for years trying to better understand the development of the ball which began forming tens of thousands of years ago made up of decomposed plant material the piece held some surprises for the researcher is that this is. What he said this is the partially decomposed plant matter that in a store of carbon. Needs is now sampled every fifty centimeters and this is three metres two three and into deep water the surprise is that we thought the peat here would be maybe fifty centimeters maybe one metre maximum and actually weve got much deeper so that suggests that potentially we havent done all the work yet but potentially theres even more carbon stored on this side of the congo river. The scientists now calculate that the bulk is far deeper than they originally estimated the peak is up to six meters thick in places and covers an area about the size of Great Britain and thats why maintaining the area is so important for the environment as you see there is the seas rounding the forest to the forest is also spreading the carbon stroking the cardboard so its a double stroke in cupboards above ground by almost turning it to carbon and also the underlying deposit and if you want this forest thats we are double times releasing the cob one more card one india. The forests of the congo basin around the ever increasing pressure. Similar primeval woodlands and asia have already disappeared and deforestation is now also a threat in this part of africa. Illegal loggers taking down more and more trees meanwhile the government is granting licenses some according to environmental groups and to g. B. s circumstances but as local populations grow so does the need for a ripple land to plant to solve for instance farmers like valentina gobo say they have no choice to acquire new fields they say they have to drain at least some of the most. Already and we have to maintain a balance between preserving nature and survival yes we need alternatives to deforestation but its not that easy at. The scene there are no projects in place to help people pursue other livelihoods thats why the Environmental Organization greenpeace has stepped in to support the scientists financially and logistically and to teach the villagers more about why Environmental Protection is vital a Government Official explains the difficulties the country is facing. Duplicated if we would have to provide aid to the people here is so they dont take resources from the forest but such projects cost money money the government doesnt have. And thats why we need the Financial Support of the International Community the community at the local not the activists say its imperative to develop a strategy that provides Financial Support for the entire region otherwise the congolese authorities will continue to permit which will eventually lead to the release of vast amounts of sequestered c o two. Internazionale we need to find International Solution is not only to help these countries protect these primeval forests. The scientists have finished for the day but it will take months to record an analyzer all the data theyve collected providing more insight into one of the largest carbon reservoirs on the planet. In east africa there are many healthy native vegetables such as and the african eggplant however they have had to compete with supposedly what im quote modern visitor bowls like the tomatoes now scientists from kenya and germany have teamed up and realize that this is a big mistake because the traditional visitable varieties are rich in vitamins and minerals the researchers wanted to explore the cultivating methods for native vegetable varieties and they are making them easier to grow theyre now hoping for a revival of the traditional vegetables. Santillan from germany and google from kenya share a passion for indigenous african leafy vegetables. This up with our plans are very interesting because of the whole new treaty while you look for example for the african koolhaas called going to the wood course in the us we can say i will go back to the body and also like quest to. Become educated and also with good in love with me and i am going to. And then as amaranth the seeds in the leaves are edible and theyre also rich in protein and ion the plants can survive with very little as after dealing has proven in this greenhouse in berlin she grows various types of m. R. And here in conditions that simulate the african environment. Does india not understand these are the emirates plant im testing i keep them at fifteen to twenty five percent of their Water Holding capacity and you can see how well the leaves develop even with a minimal water intake. Because you want down here theyre a bit dry but at the top the plants work amazingly healthy things like this wouldnt be possible at all with Something Like corn which needs a lot more water kinds. Of fish but. In many regions corn and other foreign plants have taken the place of indigenous vegetables. Together scientists in germany kenya and tanzania researching ways to change that as a horticulture expert elicia google has already been helping farmers in his home country of kenya he realized one of the main problems is the loss of plants after harvest and hes looking for solutions here at the university of berlin the problem here is that they slums are packaging all of this with little balls and they wont buy the stuff if we get them all so it needs a very sparing so dont hear what is happening at the bottom is theres a lot of especially at this because all the conditions they use of what will to do with us this when it was most of the war in the west hes testing alternative packaging in this Environmental Chamber at the university he can regulate the temperature and humidity. Together with handling he then investigates in the lab how the different climate conditions affect the vegetables they dissolve the leaves to see how much of the nutritious content is left after theyve been harvested transported and stored which packaging best protects the flavonoids and nutrients. The results from the amaranth plant are plain to see when you. Butted in for example use of packaging like these are supposed to be a big big about that i should do the gottlieb bugs this kind of packaging material will help in the preserving the nutrient conses elicia gogos Research Also shows that exposing the vegetables to additional u. V. Light after harvesting increases the shelf life he wants to research this point further humbled universities expertise and technical equipment help him in his Research Like this High Performance liquid chromatography machine. Or its very sophisticated that really really expensive and that is why i had to learn how to extract and use it for analysis of gravity time definitely questions. The international Research Project has given the plants a new lease of life their reputation has been changing in africa for some years once considered food for the poor than our fashionable super food. Why why for. So long to get over there africa. And with. More now. Because well because im around the least of it and it was delicious its similar to spinach if you just put a little bit of melted butter in a bit of salt and its just have a. Healthy tasty and easy to grow researches are nam and with these african vegetables and want to spread the word to the masses. Trust is a huge topic here in nairobi theres hardly any form of recycling at all eco hero of this week wants to tears that he set up a company that separates. And recycle them its a good way to protect the environment and money lets have an. Employees from attack attack a solutions collect triste twice a week in kind gave me a poor schooling neighborhood on the outskirts of nairobi so isnt caring i decided to use tack attack a service she likes the fact the company recycles the trash it collects now and then the customers really because im old im ok with the way they work. But i really like this initiative. And the saudis are also better. In their cleaner than. The market does attack attack a solution serve six thousand households in gamey and now by. Several firms have realized the commercial potential of collecting try shit in poor neighborhoods the trouble is most of the garbage and on illegal dumps back attack is the only company here but also recycles its trucks take twelve tons of trash every. Day to the sorting center and game pack attack up by the way is a swahili word for trash donald pattern holds who is swiss founded the company in twenty eleven he lived in nairobi as a teenager and knew about its garbage problem a startup is backed by a number of International Development aid organizations it is now starting to break even pattern house wants to expand its operations we would want to become like a wholesale waste manager so we want other companies to come to us but now in order for joint center vies them we need to be able to accept their waste at a very low fee and so we need to become more and more efficient each sort of processes four hundred kilograms of trash a day if they manage more they get a bonus there are one hundred people on the payroll roof when you have arm accounts based pay is the equivalent of only one hundred euros a month still she likes a hard job and that she is doing something for the environment the past three years of being here at. To. Look like they were decent. Because there was at least adoptee and at the moment. The company now has clients across the city including shopping malls and hotels it is looking for move firms to take the materials it recycles in our country like in kenya people of not embrace so much there is taking part of it so its making sure people understand what what we do and making sure people embrace using more recyclables creativity and flexibility i needed to make a recycling operation like this work in nairobi. Usually track poor residential customers the prizes for collection i staggered as a company would always like to charge more if possible but that doesnt work like its especially in low income areas you need to be able to charge very little otherwise people just dont have the ability to sign up that attack a solution. Comes to an International School in nairobi to talk to the kids about the importance of recycling and Environmental Protection bread go in schools separate. Not many schools of school households do that in kenya parents love the fact that we have. That we do this and that when we say with hoping that children will be responsible citizens responsible global citizens and we are actually doing this certainly not showing parents around before we knew to the school and theyve been very impressing the babies and in fact somebody said to me once i chose your school because i saw the parents. The company also holds workshops at regular king and schools to raise awareness of these issues but so far few of them have chosen to separate their triage recycle. Its not a short term approach but over time they will be the ones who will hopefully you know push things towards recycling on a larger level so if you create that awareness early on i think thats helpful Going Forward happen hold social enterprises taking root attack attack a solutions for minds work and have stem vironment its helping to solve very material problems and also to change attitudes in society. And not lets look at one of the wost forms of waste in europe tons of perfectly good food one away every day much of it lands in the bin the simply because the what on court used by date has passed which isnt always the best way of telling if something is spoiled or not but there is one shop that wants to change this trend mt knows well yes indeed the shop is located in the heart of the german capital burley what their Business Concept is serving food past sell by date and preventing food waste is a way of doing their bit for the environment. Theres a supermarket in germany that doesnt care about sell by dates one point three billion tons of food are wasted every year thats about a third of all that is produced a startup in berlin wants to see that change rafael film or has established his enterprise together with friends his supermarket surplus sells leftover products in produce that is past the Expiration Date but is otherwise perfectly edible and even deliver. The owners want to attract customers with low prices and while the selection is still currently limited to the start of popes to have more suppliers onboard soon. Because if theres one thing they dont like its seeing good food go to waste. Like that. If you are also doing your bit tell us about it. Visit our website or send us a tweet. As tag doing your bit we shared your story. So imagine that you come home from work and when you go into the kitchen you find a huge babu and completely trashing the place this is what frequently happens to residents of south africas Cape Peninsula local baboons break into the homes searching for food but a new noninvasive method of deterring the im most known as bet your friends is hoping to solve the problem once and for all. Its an almost daily occurrence for many residents leavin on and around south africas cape and in the boons from Table MountainNational Park venturing into the city and surrounding suburbs and in search for food pats riley has seen her fashion the monkey busy. Yes there are a lot of women character and they come into your house and they make an awful mess and you just gotta live with it but not too bad they have been in my house quite often. Theyre not aggressive are their father aggressive and theyre not really interested in you they were looking for food thats what theyre looking for. To keep the primates out of Areas Conservation is from the Human Wildlife Solutions organisation have been tested a new strategy g. P. S. Collars used to track the movements once the monkeys get close to town the team place high part speakers in strategic positions they play sounds of animals and predator sound you play calls pertaining to or predators the long course on the prison sounds of being killed theyre scared to go. At a few bangs from a bear. Reinforces the scariness and the void. The sounds include could you answer those and basses in distress but also predators such as lions leopards and hyenas the aim is to create what is known as a landscape of fear an imaginary boundary that the monk used to not get across in the village of her minus the system seems to do the job weve heard just in the last two weeks since the team arrived with what they call the virtual fence weve had like literally never been for the last two weeks so we will be saying is there are magination where they certainly never varies but there are certainly and i would vary and. The new method is an improvement on Previous Solutions until recently the pesky primates would have been shot and this new system however can be just one tool among others says biologist and baboon specialist justin orion nonlethal methods include been through fencing and they have had some success. Field rangers you know herding the bins away from the urban space that includes bearings with people includes nonvertical fences but whats common to all of these is that there is no one of them thats ever proven to be one hundred percent successful. Beings are so adaptable to the wildlife or so and predictable that all of them have weaknesses and its about having a toolbox approach following be a positive initial results Human Wildlife Solutions plan throughout the system in other kip town suburbs in this way they want to achieve that fewer and fewer animals shot dead. Well thats all the time we have for todays program we hope you y. Inspired to help protect our environment in your own way to find out more about visit our website my name is sarah and its goodbye from Nairobi Kenya and indeed if youre involved in environmental projects and want to share your story get in touch with us email all social media platforms thank you for watching look forward to seeing you next. Weve. 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